Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1890, Page 10

- e 10 , THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1890—TWELVE PAGES. Mow tne Genes haps Be tenet winy| AUNT AGG'S LEGACY. Years Hence. REV. DR. WEEMS. TWO NOTED CHURCHES}, wo emnestWatingon me sive» CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS, [n,m Stanemestse Pohick Church a prominent place in the his- ‘The hich-shee lords of Cromwell's making tory of the churches of this vicinity, there is oe s Were net fot shinticn, rossting, baking: not in honor give up my promised wife to please you and I would a thonsand times re- fuse if Leven could. Margaret is a good & and I will bear ber no grudge if you make her your heiress.” “You are a fool—a fool, Harry,” shricked my RAILROADS. & NEWSPAPER REPORT OF AN INTERCOLLEGIATE From The Queen. conresr—sivoarxe Ix tux muse Live, ciuns | [TE GUESTS had all said good-bye. The last | aunt. "I won't! Fl leave it al wo Dicky Col, FOR THE QUARTER BACKS, Dow! KNIVES FoR| ~ C#fTinge had rolled from the door, and | ston, vour consin. Hell jmp. at Nageie, HALF BACKS AXD BEVOLVERS TO KEEP Goat. | Tiet was settling down over Mayfair. Aunt | thouch she, poor goose, would have given her ae Agg, Maggie Mackintosh and I were left in the | ¢¥es for you.” “Good-bye, Aunt Agg.” I + ESTERDAY'S GAME | great drawing room together, where my aunt's | tterrupted Pc BI. es I phone Of foot ball . between | old butler was putting out the many wax can- | Feirvating with all the horecof wae, Eee Yale and Princeton was | dies in the big glass chandeliers—for Mra. Up-| closed the door a scornfal grant or. two perhaps the most su-|cher wasa seving old lady, in spite of her | annoyed my ears v4th the bi(ter taunt: “Ho! So perb exhibition ever | wealth. “Stay afew minutes and have a chat Levee dag our high horse: bat just wait six Witnessed of skill and | with me, Harry,” commanded my aunt—she | "ort wee om Sune man, and wee if you daring in this manliest | could not heip her least request sounding im- | yas married and on my way out toInsia, having of sports. The evolution | perative—‘and Maggie, my dear, you can go to | the staff of a friendiy | which this sort of con-| your bed. Good-night.” Maggie submissively Thad been in our last Expres 1 test has gone through | obeyed, though I fancied she gave me her hand ere ends fytte the first, as during the last fifty | in parting with » wistful look, as if she would > _ . years is wonderfal. Per- | gladly have stayed too. Thad hardly found a} Ring up the curtain now, on an Indian sons now living can | minute, somehow, to speak to her during the | Chiristmasdinter sic sears Inter, Toand ee member when the | evening, being called upon to do the honors to ly, think of that, are gathered round the game was, compara-| my aunt's guests as her recognized heir; still, | table. It is « small round table.chosen tonight tively speaking, a mere | Maggie and I had been good friends from child- ager prcad w 1 ere ve ind | rand ou Jd heir sits be pastime for babes, hav- | hood. She was an orphan whom my aunt bad | tween us, with bi a gi . bes hich } E ec Opposite him sits Tho- r _ 8 rold, a true and tried frend to us both, and id_cnemies. Poor Maggie! what | comrade of Maude is more lovely than . FROM STATION PoLtows Was rusty vacon and baw Old Building at Pohick. attended the church Rev. Mason L.~ Weis tide 0 ' OPPOSITION TO MINCE PME. aie ton. Soon after Washington's death he pub- position to mince or Christmas pie. The through some forty editions. It still finds a land began to think that clergymen should al ‘chietest foo. ‘They found snow ‘food in Ghrist Church in Alexandria and the | mei famous At the tine Washington | Pagan Origin of Many of Our Yule-| &ivasriasevitiacs’m ousetais suacttnd’s ereeh Gaetnee of Wemtogt ar eke ee ee WASHINGTON WORSHIPED | ivved, torte cotenelt” yopaie” famng |THE MYSTIC MISTLETOR. | ren many good people ot te Charest Bee In Both These Historic Edifices—He Drew the = aay eel ene sited withthe fe Some of the Christinas Superstitions—The Suite thee pg Plans for the One at Pohick—Rev. Dr. ved by a mix: Weems was Rector of That and He Aftor- |) for 9 Loeerer a ward Became a Book Agent. M08 THAN A CENTURY and » quarter YE ago Christ Church in Alexandria was ee Dany Dr is, in its own nature, a kind of consecrated #, abandoned preac weatan ae ikeyelired Pfal Haw. | cake or badge of distinction, and yet it i= often forbidden the druid of the family. Strange thorn Tree—Dr. Parr and Mince Pie. that a sirloin of beef, whether boiled or roasted, s when entire is exposed to the ntmost depreda- i tions and invasions, but if minced into small Written for the Evening Star. pieces and tossed up with plums and sugar it a aictaehn ane Ladies VER SINCE the eastern and western | changes the, property, and forsooth is mest for organized and seven years later the edifice was | He also sold other \rorks, among which were ee ee aren ca | | Soldees Cia akticguaey, Welln wp Cini Ohrid completed which is so familiar to the modern | those of his own writing. In addressing crowds | 9 the date of our Savior’ birth Christmas hae | sy. nies’ were’ formecig’ Vaked fhe oat sightseer. for this venerable chureh building | he interspersed his remarks with anecdotes | been kept as » joyous festival as well as a religi- | shaped crust to represent the cratch or manger has an historic interest which ix not due cn-| and humorous descriptions. It is said that he | US anniversary. When it is considered that | in which our Saviour was laid. tirely to its ancient origin. What gives to | sola the Bible and Painc’s Age of Reason, alleg- | the rairthful, sportive features of it permitted PLUM PUDDING OF OLD ENGLAND. Christ Church its prominence ax one of the | ing as the reason that he always carried the an- | bY the early fathers were intended to replice| A great deal has been said, written and sung = objects of interest in the ancient town of Alex- | tidote with his works, be- | thove of the old Roman Saturnalia or feast of | about the plum pudding of Old England, but a Seean ie andria is the fact that Gen. George Washington | fides the life sbington and one alao of | Saturn and those of the winter solstice feasts of | centuries ngo it had a formidable rival for "Century ago, im 1820, ‘owned and occupied a pew there, which is still | Marion, was called “The Drunkard’s Looking | the ancient Germanic and Celtic races it is cer- | epicurean favor known as plum pottage or por- | approach the condition of development which © ly through set with great sac at 3,009 copies of a hizh-pricl ro hardly begu: taken into her house yenrs xg0 out | above the t= -~- es of charity, enid friends: ‘as © a souffre- . jonlenr, llustrated by cuts showing the pro ridge. It consisted of beet or mutton made | likens it now to the tou ta of Ashby-de-| her plain, honest face and reddish hair sioe | Ter guy eFee. Juste winningand laagh- crete Now Nort daly ence ‘i " illustrated | by - °- | tainly not a matter fo r J nsiste t rnaments of er plain, honest face an idivd ‘ir since | ing, but crious 2 stead of a | rr - q ee ne thee chert cd te nota nete tan | restive stages of the drunkard. With this | ‘nly not a matter for surprise thas the hoathea | ini0's broth, thickened with brown’ breed, la-Zouche, or to the gladiatorial shows of | that evening, years ago, though I hope torbake | chavming gic. che locks eepeecaily beantfal | Fer Siw Ssrk only, Limited Paxpwem wth tte Oany ancient as this church and in some cases their | book he entered taverns and, addressing the | o8verts, to whose dispositions and prejudices | which was then thoroughly boiled after raising, ancient times, The first t step taken in| B#nds once more with her some d tonight iti new ball gown, a triumph of ex-| > 82-™-datls organization going back to an eazlier date are | Crowd, he would mimic the extravagances of | these concessions were made, should have re- | currants, prunes, cloves, mace and ginger had | °° 2 Seid estamos gy | Stow there is no ill-will between us. quisitely fittin, a spank antes cna a PHILADELPHIA ONLY. the Episcopal churches of Rock creck, Falls | the drunkard and then call attention to his | tained many of their ancient customs and su- been added. his ish is now entirely obso- this ee gs the adoption of the new; | How did the party go off, do you thin! Dewild vonphangeapetierfer acre “ray wahoo rote Church and Pohick Church. The latter wag | Pk. In spite of his eccentr tions, several of which, becoming chris. | lete, thongh “Poor Richard's” almanac men- | regulations which permitted the use on Aunt Agg, sinking into a capa ; many thought lowered his dignity, he was a also Washington's charch. It is located some | tran of uiuch benevolence and great wit. When seven miles from Mount Vernon, and prior to | traveling about the country he —— the revolation Washington was a constant at- | tations to preach. On one oceasion at tendant there. He, however, gave liberally to | ¢ricksburg he preached from the text “We a1 y n one arm | snowy d, have survived till now. The large | #ns it as Inte as 1750, and a Mrs. Frazer, who | weapons in foot ball. It had become realized .. and motioning me to be seated also. “It | ae oe . 2 published a cook book in Edinburgh in 1791, by that time that the means supplied by nature | was given in your honor, Harry, because Iam 5 - Yew trees, which the ancient Germans lighted | announcing herrelf on its title page as the only | for maiming an opponout in the contest. were | eo pleased thy have’ passa’ your staff ex. | cain © take pattorn by and decorated dui their great winter solstice cher of the great art of cookery in that city, | not sufficient. Cases occurred where @ man, inations in such a distinguished manner. I hed fr at feast of Jul or Yul, still blossom annually in onr | sivesa recipe for Taking it, chile Brand, the | carried off the (ground on a stretelier, was /am proud of ott my dest boy.” (And my ; Wel Saetie cad wena saa” Yeo 4 popular antiquary, tells how he partook of {i | nevertheless able to participate in the’ next | aunt nodded ber head, its ‘wonderful ¢: the support of the Alexandria church, and in| cin ged his sermon abruptly by eaying, “I must So Sede nein: | sis Christies dinner in tho ‘mansion of an |game, a few weeks Sater Tintern of being ach as to say that for | then,”” Tremerked. ailocting m crntical tir nae ae ee on einatiatia he arse 8 | stop, for should I go. on some of the young Christian fale thet the Hate Chee Cental | old English gentleman in 1801, but it has long | knocked out for the secon or finally Mrs. Upcher to be satistied with any one was | juwardly ¢ erie asi auccunah tan aiee well as his liberal contributions he was hon-! tadies would not sleep a wink tonight.” He | ‘ rier east nr lage a blac ee te hae one | since been wholly supplemented by plum pud- | _ An assemblage of not less than 200,000 peopte | such an honor as the recipient might exult over appe ° going to a dance at Go ered by an election to the first vestry that wus | 2. uiways a welcome visitor to Mount Vernon hantemiale. PU Nlil aul Kindness | 278. ‘The origin of the lutier is veiled in | witnessed the Yale-Princeton gaine yesterday, | in hie heart with never-ending joy.) crument House afterward’ Itwas to be the organized. and had the friendship of Gen. Washington. ; hands the fruit of love, good will and kindness | obscurity. ‘The earliest cook book which | exhibiting at critical momenen ety ia “You are very kind to aay so. Aunt Agg,” I . 4 | that bangs upon that tree. The great oaks | Osu feta A can a nd to i thing of the » a ry. borotielo oe eon el aires: which, a ing tie festive season, they lighted | Mtkes shy reference to itis the one by Mrs. | enthusiasm. It is difficult to say which of the | cheerily replied. “I think the party went off “If Thad f - Frazer already referred to as containing a re- | two rush lines presented the more formidable | famously. and nobody looked half #o splendid | India.” laagh r | upon their hearthstones were transplanted to ¥ z % ither si al * 6 soem Wages ME. BOWSER'S MISTAKE. for centuries blazed_ brightly on Christmas eve QUAINT CUSTOMS ORSERVED. facing eae aes tees ene ia | eeeinone ~ we . bi in English barenial halls under the name of | Many quaint customs are oberved at Christ- | [n¢ing each other in. pug: ark ims ct |e ee ne He Thought He Could Munage Housekeep- | Yule sor Christmas blocks. Even the | mas time in various English country parishes, heavy sluggers were the quarter backs with | noticing ies reanatel anging lights of yours ing Better Than His Better Half. name of that famous old Germanic fenst is «| In that of Cumnor, in Berkshire, of which the | their’ nau’ clubs, instramecte of a primitive | all the evening.” My aunt bridled and tonched ‘Prom the Detroit Free Press. familiar word today at our firesides, where we | living in a vicarege and the churcia beautiful | character by derivation, but eminently effect- | the riviere of lustrous stones she wore round “OME GROCERIES which I ordered the | *P¢** of Yuletide and the Yule season as specimen of un old English parochial editice, | ive for service in this position. ‘The half backs | her neck as she somewhat solemnly waid TY cetaw atl failed to ‘come up in time | °2 20828 for Christinaa, i who pay tithes repair, after evening service | held their bowie knives ready for use, the| “They aball be 3 ~ . sn = CHRISTMAS GAMES OF HEATHEN ORIGIN. on Christmas day, to the vicarage, where the } blades gleaming in the afternoon sia, while the | your future wife.” Tl and at supper we had bread in place of bis-/ stony of our most familiar Christmas games | Vicar is held in duty bound, bya usage centuries | full backs, each man with a navy revolver in | never take back my word. e upon j cuits, have a heathen origin and some of their re-| 014, to regale them with four bushels of malt | each hand, stood ready to blaze away in defense | the subject of marriage I want to speak to vou “Cook run away?" queried Mr. Bowser as he | guirements once plared i tant part | DTeWed into ale or beer, two bushels of wheat | of the goais they guarded. about it serious! A | noticed the change. papain seis) coubearcerdans steed ad Het tnt Hees eu Balt enaeoal veka Gt ‘4 GoopLy siGnT. “In for it now,” was my rueful reflection, | 4 . 4 sae’ ” in heathen ‘6 and mysteries. Every one} cheese. Any remnants of the feast are dis- thers geling to pluc! rage, cor ‘The baking powder didn't come up,” I re-| juows how, wien playing the ‘popular, Chri |triimtca “among this poor” of the par-| It was a goodly sight to behold the first shock retry tas ded gine wane iar an an plied mas game of “snap dragon,” ail other lights in | ish after morning prayer the next day. of the fray between the opposing rush | vet, it you please, Iwasa capinin iu the queens d you order i the room are catinguichod while we try to) The noblest observances of Christmas are its | lines. Modern foot ball is certainly a great | Sn hyonbe mcd t hed ein it the queen's fes, at 2 o'clock snatch raisins from blazing brandy. but prob-| charities, In all ages and among all peoples | improvement over the old stele, in respect | medal, besides a certain small iron cross in | te the ef akih te sew G4 Mca ewnee: there meant jfeware aware that the ancient British | the pour have always been bountifully remem-| merely to the abandonment af kicking, save | African battle fields, i War aih say echaitests _— oe . i -Were accustomed to worship, ina temple | ered on that day, and in many parts of Eng-| for the purpose of disabling an adversary. | “itis time for you to think of gatting mar-| May they bod be something very wrong with your system of | otherwice dark. » flame of burning spirits into | land and Seotland even the lower animals ase | £2 —alug! ‘The game had begun anda roar | ried." intimated my aunt, xettling down with | Mazes bot trading. If I were ordering groce: d like | which they cast and out of which they plucked | given an extra feeding that they, too, may have | of sfelightod appreciation went up from the | an absolutely unnecessary thump in her ch: Pate ietnk. thie | foass ‘enn fey ony ouch gun on mun?” certain sacred objects and that they ‘thus per- | Suse for rejox ne ond bovem ri veiling accessories tha mee, SO aan. week adage, > <i ThA trains commeet at I ‘With bosts of Brookivm Anme Short. t might a yy as trimming toa spirit | robe. “Ab! it ixa pity you have not got Aunt Age's | diamond necklace {o wear tonight. You would all the other women faint with envy ar Bone 2 Cree a.m. and 430 p.m. daily, For Anuapoits, 720end 9:00 a.m. daily, except Sunday Sunday" our aunt did with them—and she is What is the atory? Tell us all about % put in Thorok ‘Was that the old lady k who cut you off with, I suppose, the pro- | p¥eci days 745 a.m. Sumiays verbial shilling for marrying’ mine hodwese pig tom tg ley | | here, lucky man?” “My Washinston t ig e off with « plum pud- is pinined. “The very pud- pout to be regaled with. you know, that I was ting to’ marry Miss oh, whom my aunt wished | bess to perts, so to speak. Anda | CHAS. EPL onths after we were ‘olson, was wedded and came in ‘tane four years ago. appy ever after.” Butmy ve had a yearning for me old heart, for before her death ta, slation for Quantico, 7 4a.m. and 4 said Miss cuntsr catEC This was in nt must still in ber | thos when wl mankind are glad. | vast crowds beyond the barriers, the thousands | and shutting her teeth together with aap. ve =“ duck It) “We can get along for on farmed some of the most awful solemnities of | Many readers will remember Burns’ address of | On the grand stands. co ating their opera | “Don't you agres?” . Pid Fn ee ee mee | —o—— aoe “That im't the quest: You order gro-| 20H Fetision. the auld farmer to his mare when ptesenting | glasses upon the focus of struggling players in| “I hummed, pulled my mustacke thought |". He You know I was always a hed in ee a - gr SOMF. SUPERSTITIONS, her with an extra feed of corn on New Year's | midst of the arena. fully. then observed with suspicious willing- | wom, " MNtower. It! ceries at 2o'elock. They are not here at 6. *, | Inall ages and countries of the world Christ-| ay, 0 , Suddenly the umpire yelled “F | maw cients have abounded. One of the | 4,4 £0 New Year I wish thee, Moggie. Hae, | thero wai a. brief pane’ white a care for your trade or else he is a liar in| oe 4 of th is th ere's a ripp to thy auld baggie.’ Princeton was carried off the field. It was] “You have thought about it?” demanded our ing to send them up. Tam afraid (oey (eee a ntonbart ALben ie en a ear ree | The Puritans who came over in the Mayflower | swaggler of Yalo who was responsibie for the | family tyrant. ou a very casy marh.” | Peay Glastonbury Abbey in Somersetshire, Eng- | and landed on Plymouth Rock, like their ances- | incident, and, ax a matter of fact, he ought to | “I have theaght abont it,” was my brief, de- you could do better,” I re-/ lant. Tt is siid that Joseph of Arimathes | tors, looked frowningly. upon any. special ob- | have been Gisqualified on the spot, this being } cided reply, given gravely.” My manner ought | C | 4uded in Britain not far from Glastonbury. | servance of Christmas, and the effects of that | the third time ‘during the present season thet | to have pamed her that ates, nanos gen perhaps, bny | He and b rejadice were felt in Ne gland for many | he has violated the strict rule of the game, | era!ly confess to having thought seriously on 5 ears. Happily they have long since passed aw: which forbids any player to jump upon en ad-} marriage without having ae especial reavon age than a ‘man, | lon: “ r it comes down to solids sie can’t be , WE at | and it aay now be truly said that the celebra- | versary's stomach with spiked boote. Poopkins | therefor in his own mi But, unheeding | ha of | tion of Christmas is unive o it will be no surprise to y fortune to your cousin | that you i ‘This shows cither that the grocer doesn’ Yos—T agree. fe pretty young wor that is | 4 fea‘her in sour cap, Mand, isn't it?) T wend | youty forgiveness, And you will receive, | Forther, a ndding, prepared by my own | 1 ire you will have served up | f Christmas day whenever | Y rt that likewise freely | forgive the memory of your aunt. torted. hy rtainly. gimeracks to better acy but whe trusted. fines for Into the side in all parts of the | may récover, however, these, the old lady ced. in. much the Aearm . ; , : , : ; | arma Urcuen, a coatean wore pos |; you buy the groceries for the | this hill Joseph thrust his hawthorn staff,which | world where has been told the glad dtore of the é same way ashe would have called attention | «ps F ices to their ha record of tho | next ceek The soak al ee, Sor the | instantly beewme a living, thriving tree. It | Holy Babe, who was born upon. that day and MAREOWLY ESCAPING DEATH. = P.8.-The doctors tell me I may get better | 3) ie'in the vestry book. | nested = boomed on the following Christmas day, and | cradled in'a manger. ApalC. NonTumocn. No sooner had play recommenced than Hicccecamern WEL eiernchai aes Spy Bee Bet Gages ot Miah erase | i + | wanted. ei 4 3 Z : i = be : ards, for Is ot. "8 SALARY IN Tomacco. | ,.°£do it, and I'M show you that we will | contin {ee Mopps, the heavy weight Princeton slugger, mg Fe LITTLE BELLE'S CHRISTMAS. te stations, *7 p. on on § at 115 ‘Very well. then! Iam glad to hear it. pe Ye Sag old lady. » di The rector’s salary was paid im tobacco and | live a great deal better and yet save #4 or $5 7 got the ball and made a marvelous run toward | now I wiil tell you what is my wish on the sub- | ott ng ed ara op wate gery | the first minister received a stipend of 17.250. &,¥eek. They can't play ‘any roots on me, | Gt the Yale goal line, evading the clubs of the | ject—that you shall marry Margaret Mack- | fer will cre esi ay given ay w Bowser.” Fi E A Holiday Romance From the Heart of the | quarter backs and only being cut down at last Antosh.’ . és | diamond necklace to Henry Upche ane caicialade ae een ce ae, — ee me hE toes © Gs ace eedd Moms or eee, Legon by Half Back Snaggles, who fell, but eucceeded | | pant SS ee ae who will receive it saiely, Itrast, | chirch was formally turned |°""E Tend. up the meat for dinner, That | Greatly t theiz disappotatment AC failed toto { "0m the New York Teraid, on ” ae pee a cestode Sa; re fs z ee Ry try ton of the pews were offered | all, I sappose?” - so, but on the fifth uf the following Jenuary, | Every one who knew “Little Texas” agreed | passed over his prostrate form, ‘This method ¢ ohipesstt ana Ann) Upekare aon, T masan, bas hunted for for sale and Gen. Washington became the put- |" “We Wint a few things besides, siz. Put | new style, waich woaid have been December 25, | that she was the most amiable and altogether —— ay scatter sen tl ——— = 3 | sxcn tack a lighs Ba ed riaing anger. "azn | (at Beckince where—though che has cone fords poate 10 wiliags. the | down silt, soup, pepper, tea, clunamon, starch, | 014 syle it bloomed as usual, aud itis said 16 | the eweetgst and most lovable ebiid to be found effectivencet, But for Suaggies and bis bovis | fond of Maggio, though you may uot know it, | Soules welding ws the Made of tacos Gb This pew. like alt the | sgo. potatoes, vinegar- wer Pyece ee no, eatery mabesa nant itt of | anywhere. knife Princeton would have had an excellent | and I wish fo provide for her asadaughter. Ai | nocklace was nowhere to be found after my econ Dome te P seypinen oye a is nna we ant @ Sleemd thing in| ‘powers in the healing of disease and the |. A Pretty child, too, was “Little Texas,” with | chance of securing a touch down at. this Sce wee ne ee gor engine {wo |aunt'sdeath. It is clean goue-—vanished. No {Osco anything in the church except the walls | “Lowe” things, sir, but there's something | bringing of good fortune’ are ascribed to the | her wealth of golden curls, blue eyesand sunny | point. ATE ecg Seige ee eng Ncw erect icine fomapmeney Unto gad cciliags. and the minister presehed bigh in | wanting every day. You can add a washboard, | flowers borne by this tree on Christmas day, | features. : their sluggers carrying the ball back into | leaving money away from one's relations or Sccrouay = ter Sapoteien erect. bee wes eet meen een) Sa ak mntahee | ena a ane Lo May eared ed aa Princeton territory, where the quarter backs | splitting fortunes, it is my intention to leave | ssstolen "remarked ‘Thorold drsiy. “And no CS ee cure them. ‘This tree greatly excited the wrath | woo, one ver seemed to know who her parents | on ‘hotli widen were vigorously engaged for the | very penny I postess to you! You knew this | broken up before your venerable rela- ‘Thig, clyle of pew modern writers oll That will do!” interrupted Mr. Bowser. “I | mes Bibby sea Fg Were nor what was her real name nor how or | space of two or three minutes with their clubs. | vaguely before, I fancy. Now you have the | tive was even bugied, But how dna tt cae leet pe mehts | saneee that there hasbeen the grossest mis- | Of the Puritans in the time of Cromwell, and a | where she lived.” That she was poor wae evi. | SP f Princeton. distinguished. himeelf | matter in a nutehell.” four to feast os was fof the purpose of preventing the thoughts | Sanogement in this house, Ite Swonler Wat | a told of how one, who was very promi- | dent, ae she earned daily a small pittance by | [Unter Of Princeton distinguished peed [rsriss ‘But oh! how to crack that nut <5 feos gens Ukeoue sist eheke- Sa ponmasnation from Gelding ow spring or | we are not on the way to the poor house.” |__| neut in the councils of the round-hesd leadcr, | selling flowers, mostly to the occupants of one | Particularly in this ot, who. will’ of ‘cocree, be | Satisfactorily? I took some moments to collect | St Sends ue sega” beamed fall bonnets When they should be engaged in| | ~-Well, if vou don’t get "cm we won't have | male an effort to chop itdown. but his ax | of the large office buildings on lower Broad- | {i¢ Place of Mopps, who wil cular feat wae a | My thoughts with bent head. My choler rose: | {hwuch ina ticing tone Wek, seeinning, devout worship or following the words of the | "em,” said the cook, and with that bit of nat- | ‘lipped and cut him severely, while at the same | way. rlovtr fracturing of the skhll ef Quarser Theet | my blood almost boiled af being dictated to ix | wpteh in a faltering ine sulle one aauaaae minister. It las, however. been pointed oui | ural philosophy she turned away to wash her | time a large chip flew up and struck his right |"'She had a smile and a good word for every- Smiley of Yale with Smiley's own club. ‘This | this calmly calculating manner. What? Was | fuzcss J in ices te Gany Se cee Icarnediy by writers on this eubject that those | dishes fap, which was regenied Sua preeiiential tag. | Bods, but was very reticent as to her ante | Scraconed another pausc, while, Smiley and [ME whole happiness was my fuiure life tobe |SCMEE © Rlaze the ugly truth. | ~Lecause 1 high pews a‘orded fine opportunity to those | Some meat came up and was prepared for ae eet ued cea proridential pun- | codente. Bolle, she said, was her name and abe | at geo pees gin Pectehr ti ey nd | saorihioed to the whim cf an old Indy the hen ald bring myself 20 fully ond freely tone, inclined. to sleep rather thon to listen to in- | diumer. When Mr. Bowser came hume he in- | lment. effectualiy deterred the Puritaun from | fire so sie victels wits “ene oe eed the the ground. Potts hada. broken jaw, ocea- | never brooked interference with her own | Could pring mysit to fulls and freely forgive dulge themselves. So it would seem that the | quired: meking any further sacrilegious attempts to r the big bridge. But whether it was | tinea he a upper ey ili the Mel ef teres wishes, but had always domineered over her | sore. ufter heving been ent out of my youmiasll Bish pew wus not am mumixed blessing. | They | ‘What have you been paying for roast beef?” destroy basses ne Belle Smith or Belle Jones the child would | pie; ho sinly cannot be charged with uny a a ae fortune. The second, one, this litte roman were « lone away with in Chris arch, vat 13 cents.’ C 3 unfair play in this instance. ness? here, there: r all. | here was ill, because not en able to Loehrer ayon a = — Kot the | en BH Cpanpempet = be ae ‘The ancient British Druids attached much | | ““M. ‘Then followed some rather uneventfal play— tin her imperious fashion to be kind | aforda change up to the hills for both of us, part of the congregation to see what their | acted. He y | ry ¥ aint does not wish me to tell my name,” im;o tance to the plants, trees and vines which | he Would answer when questioned on the sub- br inte pointe betwee, Baltimore, an i . Shay Geb yno| Cede a only one leg being broken—during the mext | 0, both, Maggio and meself. “And Twas her | and: she gallant refased to leave we. The see adic sted om, Oe = Reighbors were doing or the intention o Of 6 cents per poun eo : ; Cato, tk cir, as a tre “consideration to | Aeewes ppen that third Christnes, | " Stsinetenve Bow Bock ter =790,111 ieetc io patastopio nodding in church ' oe they employed a3 Christmas decorations for |""‘Little Belle, then—she was only ten years ola | *hrce minutes, at the end of which the umpire | heir which Tare tremendous, consideration to | third one, what did happen - Rea S00 pean 1 A a not known. In 1816 some of the eld aquare ‘act. Isent upa piece at 6 cents which The mistletoe, expecially, they | —visited the various oitices in the big Broad- | (Meved that the change in the length of innings | marriage. Lastly, I cannot by aing okd | for ing could not be found,” bi ty hallowed and mystic laughing. “It turned up at last itavan emblem of tepitied the benef, kind. y building each morning and the kind. bought her little bunches of vio- 4, often paving many times what ; were worth, for litile Belle had sucha sweet association of | smile of thanks for those who purchased her ove tut the English custom, | wares. pews were divided. Five years later the rest | beats any you have had for a month.” of the pews suffered the sume tite, W: ton’s pew being inetwted in the laste about and remarked that the cook had forgot- ‘Th however, restored to its former | ten to put on the potatocs. cent feelings of their gods to and was again altered, tuough “You didu’t send up a " I replied. is doubtless to this old Draidi ‘What? the mistletoe d time restored. ‘* ne ‘ BE CHUE: . thing came but the meat Secetase rie By the great two-humped camel, but \r from fifteen to ten minutes is a good thing, it | people; they have such a short time left and so being desirable to keep the mortality within | few pleasures. So that at the end of ider- | inside a bonnet box, where it was making itself reasonable limite. able silence I drew nearer 2: ygently, (useful as a stand for my best hat. Ob, the ‘THE SECOND HALF. =o with my hand, for she iiked | strange adventures of that pudding. It has th Yale opened the second half with a V rush | “sum very, very sorry if Tshonld disappoint | yd sll over tndia with us in ite tin case, which will cbtuias, of enforcing the forfeit of «| | From {lay to day the child sold her flowers, | which earried the ball through the opposing | yor any way, my dear old aunt. You are “ i ‘ PORTE Te kiss from imy female who ix caught under a although daily questioned, she would | sug line. Support was given to the attack by | ways been more than good to me re eee haem manne 8 SE ts waxteady tis ta Ris vost por there | branch « “hristmas time is traceable r reveal her full name nor say where she | ho quarter brake ant inumedistels the shoe | x [have hitherto proved that my of the chureh since Washington's time. | was the list of groceries! With that he took up| In the old vian imythology there lived. It was finally accepted as a matter of | 0° is tes P eat d wishes to please you are sincere. ‘The chancel railing is the same and so are the | the carving knife and fork and begun to carve | told a characteristic fable of this famous Christ. jcourme. Little Belle was a mystery. . ee t cong ee ean, . tablets containing the Lord's prayer aml the | the meat. Itdidn’t cazve. He bure down and | toe. Balder, the god of | _ In one of the large ofices of the great build- ia eo. oe ee commandments on the walls on each side of | sewed away, and finally laid the knife down | nd the son of Odin and | ing one morning last week « mi una egtbogre opted ant ay , | | When we got seated at the table he looked | ch: | away noone knew where, because little Jim | was’ il 1d my hands were full with him. ‘Then, when our bungalow at Simla took fire, aust have got some cooking. And once, ty what you mean | crossing a riv-:. some of our was up- “No fine phrases, Harr and don’t let us have any Juminery. | the poo peddh bat washed maak. "She Gane oe adtatoedey ancacas fea’ case pfoapalores with « full brown beard atd a slouch hat, eure: “Well, then, Aunt Agg, a€ a fair-minded | {erate Poor Pudding was all bat washed | axing and an odd feature was tho em-j ‘Mrs. Bowser, is this a piece of rhinoceros or h ed bim he should abe Cores a his m: ners, pot wet dressed women ks 4 = Me “A = a = 7 serions | knew I had a sentimental fondness for that tin | Cook. who served from 1810 to 1821, is remem- | I buy ‘em for m [boil the meat about | bered to have had a rather military air as she two days You sent it fora roast and the cook | a buta man who has had some years’ experience in | Quy idea of the old. lady's that her pudding life. How many hundred wretched marriages | should be a sign of mutual good will), so be have J not seen: how fow really happy. | Ehave | dived and brought it back with some trouble.” very seldom myself believed Feould ever care | You gave him more rupers than even his greed enough for any woman to wish for heras a life- | expected. No matier. “1 was. glad. too, not to long companion; but—but lately — ists say Segety,” ms chair “Aki base a Vjaurmured my aunt, in a helf-| comes. Look atthe flames, Jim, look!” “Boo » coldly peering at me from under | hazes!” ejaculated my son and leir, clapping 3 cut and thrust contestants on both Such a nseen at a “Yes,” said the strange hriztmas comes | in the melee, and the: "| but once a year, as you saz, but that is just | ad snickersnce, th once too often for me.” At this there was a aoe cone acy a erat oes Tr ae ene re | pecan ot tock Mell tx tala city for Tal "a dear Tt ida aad story and one that had its be- | Years. ‘Two or three ladies in the grand stends ginning on Christmas day six years ago. I had | fe said to have fainted at the sight of so muc ig hita- | one of the prettiest homes dowa in ‘Texas ther | Sore. A cry of foal puta stop to the exercise marched up the aisle and when she had tshered | has roasted it.” f the people im their pews she locked the pew | fle turned very white and kicked the cat doors. ‘During the long period in the lite of | from under the ‘able and our dinner, wos h many able men have served as «iin and unpleasant one. After geting on | his hat and overcoat he went out to see th seus tue oF snevene: cook, and as he appeared in the kitchen door place among the gods mbats fought unharmed ainid Bat he had a bitter enemy god called Lok, who, con- vinced that Balder's life was protected by se arm, resolved to fathom it. Disgui “it bei down-dropped, aged eyelids. | “Are you going | his soft ans and chuckling with delight. Vestitvule ; . : aid “lt Ad wonian es valted Wek ifs, sie’ for a space, it being claimed that one of the f bd, seen 3 x 1 deli inn rai Wansutcto The list i a long one, and includes such |r «no putter for eupper and I want {ign ty Skt Roman,he visited Prin and arid the. iwtekert olla | Yale halt Decks had wsod s razor’ to carve one Ce see ee pecans tae, pekting, aut so 0 wee eek) hes ne aoe er. Rames as Bishop Meade, who wrote a valuable | yon to send up rome tomatoes for ony, two | it wos th golden-brown hair and blue | OF two of his opponents. | Wiggling was the i wee rhea book ou the old churches and furniture of | iron spoons, a package of stove polish. ‘some for Lypchvure, Avision seemed torise at hor words and | Reore 3 esue nar ats Heelan, Ute | pag ue abn Ca, a unseath ts waa har soci player charged wish the offense, and, inasmuch 0 io) ws look at me from behind my aunt's shoulder. | giving the frat cut, “Now, here ia to my Aunt | and Cattiormia. ‘arton to Virginia. Dr. Ruel Keith, who was a professor | silver soap, allspice, oyster crackers and bluing. e had wach a hi » t00. And that | #8 there isno doubt whatever that: he commit-| sucha lovely vision, with Huffy golden hair, | {ving the frat in all peace and goodwill.” | em Orci vin Atte und Slontowery. Palin iu the theological seminary located near Alex- | Here's a fist.” re Christmas day. 4 MT remember it | ted the faulé, he will not be a, 8p | sweetest laughing mouth, but wistful eyes— promptly murmured Maude in echo, | pul conta Paste Resear wat” eatin aan audria; Kev. Dr. Dana, Bishop Randolph and! Do you pretend to say we want all those | that she had neglec now. ‘The child had a nurse whom she used to | Pear on the fleld again this season in all prob- | thot gaid mutely, * ethers. While the name of Gen. Washington is | things? he demanded. | led xa too insij call Auntie. Somehow I never trusi woman much. Well, there's no nse i I have waited—I_ will wait Washineton to Ashevilie ant’ Hot Spruce x Crees Hallo!” came in an exclamation of s d that | ability. still. Bugit ie hard work smiling when one’s | perplexity, as, digging deep into the tooth- | Sabesury: closely associated with the’ traditions which} “Yes, ud many more. I never worked in a | Leaving her, Lok str: . going KILLED AND WOUNDED. heart is tired. Have courage for tay sake.” prin dagen. 1 Heywee iene Boer og siaseg.abontun oll charel, it senct forgotten | place hefore where 1 ad w litle todo wit, | mistlete bot which Balder | into particulars, Little Belle and her nurse | When play was resumed more than half of | Whereupon I said desperately: “There is | aang Que. someting hard and, metal Gen. Robert E. Lee, who lived at Arimg-| If you'll send up a man and an ax I'll have that | was elain by a blind god called Hecla. went out fora walk on that Christmas morn- ton, was an attendant at the charch. There is) beef cut up cold for supper even a tradition that Gen. Was frst { {could hear Mr. Bowser breathing thirty feet a pat the’} distant, and one of his shoe strings broke with clove of church one Sunday his. intention to | a loud snap, but he went out of the house with- enlist his services on the side of the colonists itr | out exploding. In the afternoon the. thit the war of the revolution, and thafin later years | came up—all but the tea and butter. At supper | Gen. Lee tirst informed hig neighbors as they | time the cook made coffee. Mr. Bowser noticed i i ing | some else who has captured not only my fancy, | Sry ding: ther the woman wor the chil has been | the men an both sides wore substitutes, having |Put my wholo htarr—ell the best of me. if | arpa gen spoon and ‘ seen since. My poor wife dicd—it broke her | replaced those who were ready hors de com- | Gniy you once saw her, my dear aunt, 1 know urged on by the wondering cnriosty of ing up stockings on! heart. And I, well 1-—" bat. The brief affray above described bad cost | you could not help loving her tov. it would Ie ei geen nde beer ffeat hon that of preparing the Christ- || -Want any ‘flowers today, sirs?” came from | three lives—Swaggler and Smiley of Yale and | be impossible, I verily believe, not’ to. admire the heart of the plum pudding. It was tied ved from the Germans, who | the voice of a little child who had just entered | Punker of Princeton being the victims, and five | her and grow fond of her. If you will just let | the heart of the plum pudding. was fastened while the stoc the office. : others were chopped up and otherwise | me bring her—if yon will just éee her——” in a dozen places by of sealii m are filled with toys and sweet “My God! Whose child is that? What's | rounded. Every one regretted the mortality, | “Never!” Mrs. Upeher banged the table be- impreseed with the Rat Upeber Forms. Begered in the church yard that he would go | it as we sat down, and snuffing the aroma, he | Chris Kingle— corruption of Christ Kindlin or | your name, girl? Who ave you?” came from | but it was wonderfal sport. After the killed | twoen us hard with her flat hand: her withered Harry, it be?” 1 With bis state in the contest which had then | remarked: Christ Child—those of bad ones receive nothing | the Texan in excited tones. and maimed had been carried off, the former Te iat ca gelminating point in, the eed war event your girl know the difference be- | butasmall rod or switch, which is placed in them | _ Little Bolle, the flower girl, for it was rhe, | to the hearses wuiting in line at the south end | elittersd. \*How dare you tlie tence or gral Iu 1870 twin tabets to the memory of George |4ween breakfast and supper? And where on HANGING UP THE STOCKING. =e by another keno’ Lsnichol— | stood irresolute for a moment, eveing the | of the field und the latter to. the hospical close | tude? A fine way you have of showing your affoc- ‘open’ this, Washington and Gen. Lee were inserted in the | earth is the butter?” Mlcrally Bistioles will ton missticg Betis: | seecger exoplciocaly Suddenly her basket | by—Gripes of Princeton, substitute for | tion, indeed! Have I not paid for you school > se ‘You didn’t send up either tea or butier.’ las dressed in for. It is a rare sight. o dropped and the ligh: of recognition shone in | Punker, made the great run of the game. ing ‘at Eaton, and given you an allowance in { fron o ‘What! Mrs. Bowser, do you imagine I've | mas morning in a German household to her eves. “Why, you're my papa,” she said, | hall being cleverly ‘paaved to him by slugger | your crack cavalry regiment, and made you idea hud we crazy? expression of abject misery ar simply. | Zoodlcs he dashed through the opposing rush | the promise of being my heir? What right It was done. In “Well, they didn’t come up.” edness on the face of some poor little wight, ‘Tears streamed down the Texan's face as he | line like an eel, notwithstanding the fact that | have you to cross my wishes?” open, and with “They didwt, ch? Let me get to that tele-| who, having been disobedient or otherwise | Clasped the child in his arms. * two or three Yale men came w'+hinanace of | “The right of every individual man or and delight phone and I'll give that infernal grocery store | naaghty on Christmas eve, Yinds in his stock. | | ‘Thank God!” said he, “I have found her at| stopping his career by the well-cnown, “say- | woman,” came from me in as stilled a tone, for ek unk aon | something to think of for the next hundred | ing only a'small birch rod, while the hosiery of | last, and so near Christmas, too. This is in- | atte” method, pluny ging on their hands and | we were not of the same stock for nothing and years! his brothers and sisters is filled with Lon bona | deed a’ Christmas blessing!” launching backward ‘kicks at his head as he | my temper had risen to no less # height than Tdon't know what the grocer mid to him, | and playthings. ‘Tho dread of getting the rod | _ Father and danghler left the office together, | pased. ‘Evading the club of the quarter back j that of my opponent. “You did not buy me put Mr. Bowser danced up and down and :ent | from old Helwnichol_on Christmas kecps many | It was afterward learned that Velle’s supposed | With consummate skill in dodging the Prince- | body and eoul, even with all these benefits. Did aire. wnat tes Aersey City and lots of other | a German child in order throughout the entire | tnt was the nurse who had kidnapped her and | ton boy received but a scratch or two from the | not win prizes at school and pass third with | Places, and wound up Ly saying that he'd go to | year. brought her io this city six years since. The | bowie knives of the half backs and found him- | some honor at my examination for the army? P “5 | the Cape of Good Hoye before he d ever buy PETS TT op) pat Sle men about the big bu ard of itand as | self infront of the Yale goal. Bopper and | Have 1 not distinguished myself since in active to lock’ att her in another thing there. That night I found the 3 little Velle had gone to her Texan home the | Fliske, the Yele fall 3; discharged their | service, and even done so again lately, as you list of articles in his pocket. He had checked | Though Christmas seems to gain rather than | day following a purse was made up among | navy revolvers at him point blank, but Gripes | said yourself not ten minutes ago?” off as he ordered and had left the tea and batter | lose in popular favor as the years roll by, yet it | thera and one of their number with it pur- | secured a touch down and inafew moments Vell, sir?” Neat morning before be went down town | is worthy of nowe that the Christmas season has | chased a hundsome silver cup, which is now on | the ball sailed high up between the posts and | “Well! Aunt Agg, I may be poor, but I can to the cook been much curtailed from what it originally | its way south. the game was woa just as Gripes fell a corpse | claim to be no beggar. money 'you spent YouIcg CHURCH. “Ll send upachicken to be baked and prey cesrge earime ah th the | -q Little Texas, from many feiends. Merry | and the umpire shouted “Time!” on meI have used well. Please “recognize During the earlier years of his married life | stuffed. oa a red. AIL seduee as ox “Hallow ane” Ceaoiie r | Christmas, 1890!" was the inscription on the | _ = te —— here, by ths wae, — Shak Thave aor a in life; Gen. Washington attended Pohick Church,near | At 11 o'clock, no chicken having appeared, | “9 i = cup. in future players who succumb to wl irs. }even in the army I and wo sup- ‘nat Vecues, ace frequently than any other. | she fried some bacon for dim itt Downer 3 ond cocina Sore scepaent nee | eaaees oan =. Battle calls the “rigor of the game’ will be con- | port myself on my pay and by the sbilities it damaal Ms e build. | didn't know it until he set down. Then he took r Star. veyes cemetery by the west gate, 60 jewsed me, ‘® neces- ‘The first church of that name wasa frame build- Bear athe Rng et rel mented bere give ; nee pny Shr le weap pote K | Christmas eve to “Twelfth night,” January 6, cuca Ph fg and stoud on the south side of Poliick creck, | one look a = and arose and walked ow i. -| throng of joyfal spectator. Of co “ies! You bave made uso of my money,”" rspersing her words et MAC RIVER BOATS. plum puddin’.” ' | “sunaay ad Tyursiay at 4 a. ‘axzten about two miles from the present edifice. Abont | inte hen and asked: ee ee ia practically unde on Chri : arse, the RARBG = oe : “Is this my hou ure?” mas eve and practically ends on Christmas whole town belonged to the college boys last | the old lady screamed, inte ie cib the year TG became x9 dilptated an to be | He P* answeremive cock. pl cco Se Viger Abpea hipaa mets cece eek pecans night, but they did nothing more harmful than | with sudden pevses and snorts of wrath. “You fork ave. er celled Ge cance cane ca eee wee cataart L ony Fd cowd op chicken?” Septentie;" trom the mange of an antheus praia tha Soper loot a few houses, burn m stable or two and | ownit! It has got you on; has. placed you soften aa building. “Washington attended the meeti ‘You did.” Guinn Rivet —— bropcagt aiid ins take forcible possession of what liquor was to | where you are. And now you dare turn against 2 When the question of location of the new ehurch | ‘And it was to be staffed?” pagans feces Christ the Lord has come again. be found in saloons, the keepers of which did | me and bite me in the heel like a serpent. You amas, these une a didnonee of gpiaiea, Wael a YULETIDE FARE AND GOOD CHEER. pas not have the gumption to put up their iron | would crow over me—would you?” : Ever since long before that famous hero of shutters before the coliegians began to paint| “I am neither crowing nor biting. Only i= © a song and story, Little Jack Horner, sat in a cor- Uterine mane the town red. =" oan Pg Ae. ner eating a Chrixtmas pie, the subject of Yule- Claw aiciee, _ ‘ - tide fare and good cheer has engrossed a large it didn’t come. . r rs It didn't?” Let me get to that telephone! | *hre of the attention of mankind. ‘The mince, ‘Telling now the wondrous story, Earth and heaven in music blending,— This was conclusive and the present |No! Ill go down and wipe the face of the | OF Christmas pie: has always beon a staple arti- arck. site was thereupon selected. The new building was not completed until 1773, which was the | earth with that butcher's carcass!" T tried to hold him, but he broke away and | went off. “He came back in about an hour with St eae this season. The ‘Never ending tho completion of the new edifice of Chureh in Alexandria. the back, his skin: These” st ign yen his coat torn up the back, his nose med, & 6. my f ‘Giuanadad wiat nae ae bump on his forehead and one eye shut up. Pig, not mince pic; mince ple 4 final smack, which made me long to shout: Fahington drew the ground plan and the | that the butcher got ihe better of ‘bum, ite | i Feuarding the term mince pie thing I | doing thet” Tastead of which Tremaied | anted ‘at the cemetery upon tatlprermresise li podiatry | vost hopeneior grip tg er that the Puritans of Cromwell's’ Goe Sh rt they. Sak, | vttain ten cuaneling Alte eetaiea ese aon | phe eg ery ey FE | ‘After tae serene snanare stil Wi er yos band the toled place oh ened $yisst npeser ened er aston yat as above.) vor?” Mr. Stan ip ike demons in ny 2 erring ont aunt. For 's long {imme pressure hee been ton attended Christ Church instead of on bis eye and had glycorined his nose for the | Cevoted ®.gtast deal, of ousray pe He looked ques- was «tyrant; that ‘bear upon man to induce : i: * ” she had on the hopes and Ibi $0 consent to the removal of his son Soha | Meat far enn | genange el apcd eS gh pd fe ge SSeea Ess ss | Tr ten np me |r ep Sante pe et Leia: | Fema tee gate enced See eee a used: - was Gre of the events ofthe ants asctise’ tks | Sette aot too mee aay ind tis end aes ae aes te Romer 6 aoa at RR Tegents of Mount Vernon is their attendance ahead with your extravagant — ‘upon divine service at the Pebick Chacch | Sissirots career” See H i in | f Te