Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 18, 1912, Page 10

LAKLLAND, FLLA, DEC, 18, 1912, 'HE EVEXNING TELEGRAM, PAGE TEN. THE EVEXN here § @ StangC naw wonacr whisper in the night wing, Ffl,h,” a song of laughser on the lip of mom ; Oh, can you hear lum wingung. tuwmmwfiosmgmg Who holds the wonaur of the worls w1 fus palc arms, naw bom 7 Sing wazgmonyouwmhupmmm. For great good and s he; He hils the aucsome aaw of the only wunr mormung When Sul and hate ana sovow are Lost in chanty. Ha can make t!::mw hr:'m:::. 'He can makc soraud §, a Then whale yer hus Spell s Oer us. he wall march along before us. Right out UUD the slence of the shadows on away. Owistmas unto Owustmas. We Won’t Sacrifice Quality but we are always studying how to Increase The Quantity We give the “most now but we are anxious to givc more. Phone us and prove it. You can bank by mail, if you wish, just as easily and safely as you can in person Even a dollar will open an account. Write 1§ 1l particulars. sg us today for full p Best Butter, Per POUBd ... e eemmeres cavene anrennn... 40 f ] Sugar, 16 pounds ...........c;ceiimeniimmureeannin... 100 i oo ond Cottolene, 10 pound pails. .......c.eeervereererimencm.. 18§ ‘-‘;‘, Cottolene, 4-pound pails. ........;c..cmmeieuereem. .. &0 Y Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails ....e....;meccuiiiiiimem.... 118 §2 3 cans family size Cream..... sl LRY ! of Lakeland e msnt s sy e UL BRI ... == . 8 I “. b .. . COEB L ees st et ceem s i 1::..tf“.-:,‘:h'“.',“,:.,'.’.'.'fi.’?':"}'i':,.'.:v“s..fi. Picnio Hamd, por pond ..........ccmeeeee.ourmm... 1814 i of the feast and decreed that “holly |} (Cudahy’s Uncanvassed HARS. ... .cmeomevveeeernnim... 18 i y ition,” en- to labor on Christmas day and inflict- Gronndcolu,perpond ..... B R B R MAPS, BLUE PRINTS |l o v AR Iy 3 g o~ [] Before Time of Columbus. feast. It was not until 1681—moro Room 213-210 Drane Building 2 SOTOPOPOFOLOMOO Among the Reliable Com panies we represent, we write for the Fidelity Undewriters with assets of $41.000,000 Y- l. MANN LAKELAND, rent; Phone 309. Mape of any deacription complied on short given to compiling city, display and advertising mape. maps kept on hand. Chemically prepared, non-fadiug biue prints s\ res woable rates. Special rates for prints in lsrge quantities. Phone 267-Graen. SQUARE DEAL If you wish to rent 3 house or If you have a house to scll or wisy to pur hase one; If, in fact, you desire t., buy or seil anything real estate, this 18 my specialty. Full information given checrfy N KLEWIS ootice. Special attemtie: County aad Stat Prompt attention given mail orders. South Florida Map and Blueprint Co. LAKELAXD, FLA SOBGLOLOIDIOIOLOLOOHOIEHOHD fIRSI QUESTION AT EVERY FIRE-- How Did It Start? Second_Qdestion: tow About The Insurance? : To the first question the answer varies. The answer to the¢ second is always either ¢ **None At AlL” "Justé' Expired” or I"Fullyg Covered.” Whatwould 3 be theanswer werelthe e- fire at your house? ‘3' 0 IOy Successor to the Johnson \gomvfi' Room 7, Ravmondo Bldg. l'lmno.»OQ .‘- POV IQIO IO QPQTOIC QI VTO 1O POIOTOPOIOP R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furmish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. SUNGLLOWR A SPECIALTY. Let me oaow you dome Lakelond homes 1 have built, FLORIDA tave a house you wish to in the line of before you close a deal. 1I¥ anq freely See me Room 1, Raymondo Bldg. EDEAL ] | 3 | i 30404 030OLOF0OTIIOL05 OSH 1040 s than 20 years after the passing of the Cromwell regime and the restoration of the Stuart dynasty to the throne— that this law, abolishing personal free- The Christian Norsemen Undoubtedly Observed the Occasion on the New England Coast—In Early Colonial Days. HILE the settle ment of the Amer- | fcan continent is modern and its history clearly de- fined, probably there were Christ- mas celebrations in what is now the United States several centuries before the first voyage of Colum- bus. The chron- icles of Iceland tell the story of the visit made to Greenland by Lief, son of Eric the Red, of Norway, and describe the southward voyage of his little vessel past the snow-clad moun- tains of Labrador and the wooded shores of Newfoundland, until Vine- land, an indefinite region on the New Eugland coast, was reached. Here Lief, who was a Christlan, and the members of his little band of dar- ing adventurers spent the winter of 1002 and no doubt on the bleak New England shore the beautiful feast, whose God-like spirit has softened and conquered the world, was celebrated. The Norwesian visits to Vineland were continued by Thorwald and Thor- stein, brothers of Lief, who had suec- | ceeded to the patriarchal office and possessions of his father; and on the deaths In quick succession of both Thorwald and Thorstein the wife of the latter, Gudrida, married a rich Nor- wegian named Thorfin and accompa. nied him and a company of his follow. ers to Vineland, where they lived| three years. Gudrida was a pious soul. When her second husband died | she visited Rome, narrat Renedict an account of her :ul\'--nmros! in this far western world and with the | papal blessing returned to leeland, where she founded a convent, of which | she became abbess. i There are no records bearing on the | Christmas days spent by these hardy Norwegians in New England, but ixn-! agination can well picture the renewy! day was observed in the new world History, and tradition as well silent after this on new world until the coming of the Spanis % lowed by the Portugnese, French and English. By them the feast of the Na- tivity was celebrated, Plymouth Rock was discovered, to h.- | made the cornerstone of a new ecivil- | ization, hardy fishermen from France chanted the hymns of the Catholic church in the waters of Maine. An | old French chart gives to certain is. lands near the Machias river, east of Penobscot, the names of Isles des Rois Mages and Havre Mage—Isles of the Magian kines, ar Magian harbor— in memory of the three wise men, \\'!m fonm\ed the mysterious star, to lay | their offerings of gold, of frankincense " and of myrrh before the Babe of Beth lehem. In stern and puritan New England | C hristmas was placed under ban. The Plymouth colony, indeed, did not pass prohibitive laws, but in 1622 Gov. Brad- | ford pliced all Christmas games under | Inte those who afterward ols { the day did so secretly. But nd to Po[vel 3 in this strange land of the Cliristmas | customs of Scandinavia. And thus it is entirely legitimate 1o assume that | | by them the first celebration of the .| by, and long before | dom and liberty of worship, was re- pealed; and several years after this the spirit of New England was reflect- ed In a letter written by Rev. Joshua Moody to Rev. Increase Mather, in which the observance of Christmas was thus rcferred to: “And the shut- ting up of shops on Christmas day and driving the master out of school or Xmas holydales are very grevous.” Elsewhere throughout the colonles the feast of Christmas was observed. Both New Amsterdam and New York maintained the old-world customs as- sociated with the day and in the south the beautiful festival never lost its hold upon the hearts of the English settlers. Today there is no north, no south, no east, no west, to Christmas cele- bration in the United States. The story of the Babe of Bethlehem |is written on every heart and every tongue on Christmas morning repeats the song the angels sang over the Judean hills: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will." Atlas was holding up the world. At this juncture Sanuta Claus drove “Hello, Atlaz” =ail Santa. “Still holding it up, I s« “Yes,” woophed Atlas “Well, get busy with it,” Santa ad- | vised. “After I make my trip this year fihor« won't be .m\lhn 1z left for an ev- eryday hold-up man.” Had Something in Him. Rev. Hudson Robert Jones had | preached what he thought was a great Christmas sermon. On the way home from church he came upon a youth sitting ‘doubled up on the steps of a domicile. Wishing to admonish | this young person for what he took to be laziness, he stepped up to him and said:— “Don’t sit there like that, my boy: this is Christmas. vourself; you certainly something in you.” must have “I've got a big Christmas dinner in | “and 1} me,” was the forced reply, can't move.” Get up and stir | E. G. Tweedell Cigars For Christmas make a splendid gift for men if they are the right kind of cigars. 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