North Carolina Newspapers

When Christmas Comes on Sunday! T By LOUIS E. THAYER Copyright. 1904, by Louis H. Thayar. 0 us little fellas Sunday's mighty different From all the other days that's in the week, 'Cause you're kind o' got to creep around on tiptoe And you've sort o' got to whisper when job speak; - - It you don't, your pa or ma is sure to scold yon And call you bad and sacrilegious boys, For Sunday days were made for thought and worship, But they wasn't made for romping and for noise. AND to think that Christmas day's to come on Sundayl Why, somehow, seems it hadn't oxter be, -V Cause 'Where's the good when you can't laugh and holler? ' '.'-'" - : Say, it's pretty hard on little chaps like me, And if a feller jes' forgets the quiet, And bubbles out alittle.wno'sto y'J.:' ijfj in. w. blame? feElfflB U's pretty hard when Christ mas comes on Suaday, For 1 know the day will nevei seem the same, 1 KNOW jes' how 'twill be when, in the morning, I fcnd my stock ing filled brim ful of toys. I seem to hear my father say, "Well, John ny, You may look at them, but don't make any noise." . And ma, perhaps, will bring me out a trumpet ' And say, "Well, Johnny, it is Sunday now. you know." ' ; " Say, it's pretty hard a-waiting for tomorrow. What good's a trumpet that you dassen't blow? i - ... T WISH they'd print the calendars all over I And make our Christmas come some othes day' " ": ...:'V: Jes' so us little chaps can have some freedom And romp and shout and whistle at our play. There's lots of things that ain't jes' as they should be, And 'cause they ain't it seems to me a shame. It's pretty hard when Christmas comes on Sun day, .;'." 'y: For I know the day will never seem Jhe same, j T TELL you what, the day will jes' blow over, I 1 And we won't hardly know that It's bees here. , . ";'"' "'' Christmas eve will be about the only Christmai That we will have a chance to know this year. Another thing that makes the whole thing hardej Is that we have a Sunday every week, While we have to go and have our only Christmai When we almost have to whisper speak. mere axe also two "New Year's na vs Since the influx of missionaries the iocks Dy Night,' Isaac Watts queen issued an edict that the Chris- "Joy t0 the World, the Lord Is-Come," tian year should be followed. But In Charles Wesley's : "Hark, . the Herald commencing the year the date of the nSels Sing" and Phillips Brooks W nrst day was set some tlm in nnho A" u vi ueinienera." jr aa- or November. Since the natives have been converted to the Christian reli gion they observe Christmas on the 23th of their own December, but also, have made a holiday out of the day in ihelr year which corresponds to our Christmas. IS . The -Christmas Carol TTHE Christmas carol as a feature n of the holiday observances Is an . English rather ; than ; an American custom, and the "waits" who sing , them" under the windows of English houses or on street corners are quite unknown with us. Yet the Yule tide carol, plays some part in the Christmas exercises of almost all our churches, one in particular, the favor ite. "God , Rest . You, Merry Gentle men, - being used in all Episcopal churches. It Is included in the hymnal, but lest any one may have forgotten It we give it here: - other age are these Christinas' versea of Robert Herrlck, the quaint old En lish poet: , ' Tell us, thou clear and heavenly toasnV Where is the Bab that lately sprunst ) " Lies he the Illy., banks -among? r " Or say If this new Birth of ours -- '- k Sleeps, laid within some ark of flowers Spangled with dew light? .Thou canst clear - - - . - . All doubts and manifest the where. Declare to ua, bright star, if we-shall cede Him In the morning's blushing eheek " Or search the beds of spices through To tnd him out? "God rest you, merry gentlemen; Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, -Was bora jipon this day : To save us all from Satan's power When we are gone astray. Oh, tidings of comfort and Joy, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas day. : Curiously enough, carol singing at Christmas time came in part from heathendom. The Anglo-Saxon Gule, or Yule, was an ancient pagan festival which in the wisdom of the early mis sionaries was retained with a new sig nificance when Britain was Christian ized. The season's merrymaking then had , its influence upon the carols, which developed Into two classes, one of joyous expressions of the Saviour's birth and the other singing of wassail. Though carols are said to have been sung in the primitive church, the ear liest" one extant Is of the thirteenth century. -Its manuscript-is now in the Milton's "Hymn on the Nativity" must, of course, be ranked among the best of Christmas songs, while the "Gloria In Excelsls" of . the King Jaines Bible will jil ways be sung wherever the English language makes Its way, : -'r:y MARION B. BRADLEY, b Christmas; V Luck TILL there be any Christmas -W forme?" ; The man who spoke these words was plodding along over a coun try highway, and he shivered as the icy blast whirled the snowflakes about his head. ' : ' ' "Shall I hang , up my stocking on Christmas eve as In the days of yore," he mused as he bent his head to the blast, "or shall I. try to fbrget that 1 was ever rich and happy and had a loving family about me? . Tens of thou sands of stockings will hang in the chimney " corners, and! tens of thou sands of people .will be made ; happy; but as for me" thought! The only thing that savors "of it I the pines,and then again .a silvery gray- "iiy. dear man. are yon expectm I a "valler doe named Roosevelt. And I with touches of -palest - green, and azain ' anything for Christma 'r tho' from his wise look, we know that he I bhe wears a robe of many colors; and alwajs - Aot a thlngl was r W'. S Bad ana I . . opinions on the 'race Question" she is so 8eet and Drettv. o merrr and o ; henUI haV nm tirprtse for you and other 'i!S8aes pf the he DCVer dis &aJ ! too, and look down in- . l am going to He yor months la rarbshe peace of the cabin by giving exr to lit precipices without iear, and up at the Jail, wK 'if tliat d u,e " yur jrre88,ODS lo inera Are you uuiu ajdu isi ;-spoi to wnicn you are going ana are sorry . I cough VM make it -t next tlre,. Be- t'tun and Jroiicyou are atier :".xou want i . that U is getting so near, that it is taking on ' iaovo vue prisoner and see Hzixt r gets the stars to play - with,, the moon to .run i dehmte form and outline.- , - - plenty of ice water to drink," ' j awly withy They are at yonr service,- for I Another abrupt turn in the road and 'the ; And the man who thought llie world VOure in The Land of the"Skv.w and these I mile dies on vonr lins. von hir tha snnnd was against Mm did not get left after t.riohi oaiuroa -0" vn,:r unMrpBt ,5ffK. nf to k.. i 1 . .k alL . , . .:c , r ..-A. ,B LEWIS, - .t , , - .- . . 1 - -; as easy as to gather a handfal oi. chestnuts bright and silvery ' shower slipping softlyj and everybody up here knows how easy that down the great-rocky-face of the mountain. ' is. ' r ' 7 " : . - - " There are many kinds of grief in this world, , A re yon young and sentimental, and would land many kinds ofv weeping. This soft cry , Shepnerda Im Modcrik Betl&lli 'From the greatest height In Bethle h(;m.a distant! glimpse of - even the Mediterranean iBea may- be percelTed on : a "clear, bright day. - The strange you like a man to 'keep company w with in I og of .-Nature is like that of the little child iuei -. - " ; - - - .... . - ' beauty of the ; surroundings of Bethle hem, viewed fhm the town Itself, aa well as f yom all the rleighboring heights, ; may : have inspired In the young shepherd; King David some of those ' inspiring! psalms which have been : . the cojnfort of - the A afflicted throughout all eges. . . In a beautiful valley near Bethle hem are the "fields of the shepherds" of sacred memory. These fields are still used as pasture lands, and many a young David may be seen tending his . flock with ! the same care as the shepherds of ylore. When he rests In a shady place during the sultry hours of the day the sheep gather around him arid chew thejcud. If there ; happens to be a wounded one or a little weak one lie carries'; It. on his shoulder or In the wide bosotn of his long white shirt OG CABIN Inn Situated on Spring Mountain Hear Tryon. BUILTIAROUND PINES. I Ha pcpmnaq aa tYiPv An Hnwn lliprn in o...,..; 4U. yet knows not why he does. The sadness. oeu,eu,euMH ucrva t.. uiau-m-vue- the hness, the tenderness of it, makes your radon, the safest and the W in the world heart tender. You long to put your face as "every mother knows. He is in the "trust against that rocky, tear wet face, and whis- business," too has had a monopoly of soft 1 Know ail atwut it, lor 1 have wept. speaking and love-making ever, since there was one to make love to. For what is love but moonshine, anyhow, just as soft and just as bright and just as lasting! - There is one thing troubling the moun tain. Not. long ago - when Uncle Sam was viewing his possessions thro' the big glass in Washington he spied this mountain, and on one pretext and another he U sending men ud here. The truth is that Uncle Sam ha so many men that,the question of employ- u nd comfort you thank God who put ment is oecommi? such a nice one that the " 1DW.in8 neari 01 man 10 DUJ lQI8 moua employment itselft cannot always keep pace with it. -. --i.';'-." -There is a man up here with a Bearch warrant after the bugs. They are being ar rested for killing the trees trees that aie older than Uncle Sam can ever hope to t (though they show a modest ret'eeoce ' Oi the subject which some people, women espe cially, would do well to follow), and whicli as yet manifest no symptoms of decay. Gen erations and generations of bugs have turn ed their fiddles and danced right merrily in The soft sobbing follows you for many a mile as you go up and up, but it is a sooth ing sound as if the very weepinghad brought comfort to the heart that wept. c It is not long now before you are really up andean look down on the world at your feet. As you rejoice in the ' beauty, ? the purity, the simplicity of the Log Cabin which crowns the mountain with its home- ' lain and let others enjoy it with him. It would be a great pleasure to go into details of his work here, to tell of the fine roads he has built,of industries begun by him, and best of all the great work of education which he has inaugurated for the benefit of the children of these mountains the splendid ' school house, with its complete equipments in Columbus, the little tovrn at the foot of the mountain. But to do this one. would ..f Wave to write up the mountain, the Log Cab n, the school and the man who is at the A lump gathered In his throat and Qnlv One SuffffeStion of PoliticS--ars in his eyes, and the toes peeping j . , :.f . .. . , a "Yallow dog" Named "what good s atbuk- PKT THAT TOU DAS- SKN'T BIiOW?" tears in his eyes, and the toes peeping out of one of his shoes took on a deep er red. It was only r three days to Cbristmas. The farmers were mark ing down the . fattest turkeys, geese and pigs to be killed for the festive occasion, and farmers' . wives v.were making pumpkin pies and cranberry sauce and smiling as they thought of the gifts they had bidden away. not for me," sighed the man as he turned his back to the storm for a miK ment to get his breath. 4Tt is my busi ness to feel bad and suffer, to be hun gry; and rageed, to remember all the Joys of the past and not to thlnkof .the future, with Its sorrows, and I will be brave to the end. Perhaps when they find my stiffly froten body on the high way and observe the pitiful expression on tne aeaa race mey may smooui - . j Roosevelt. 'Log Cabin l Inn." Wonlswhich fasci nate you by reason of their suggestiveness; they smell of the primeval forest; they are, vibrant with the ringing blows of tne sturdy woodman's axf; they are full of the vigor ol their green branches, and there was never a j bottom of it all, and this might not be agree- com plaint until Uncle ham made it. j We saw one of his then the other da v. He came riding right up to the door of the Log Cabin, careless and easy like. His har 1 was red, his skin was white, his eyes were blue as far as color went, he "qualified all right," as Mr. Dooley would say, but not as to clothes. Be was nut in full dress a we would expect one of Uncle Sam's niei l be, but then he didu't : know that anybody ible to the mountain, the inn , or the man. Once when the school was being built some ne said to him, "You will get no thanks for this.". "I do not wOrk for thanks," aid he, "I wo "k for the children." If vou want to know aHout the m ountain u muni ciinie up to it, there is no other hance of finding out. .No newspaper 'men 1 a strong, young life, untouched by the weak ening finger of civilization. There" are : log I I verJ tueuiseivcs, uciug umajra nei -t, . i. - ' . 1 hriin.ifui Ann wen mm ixn inpv flnn t rnri h . ; j 1 ir . bi m cr rir wi a - cnoins aiiu iug caDin, some 01 me iu,uw, nut whether you are. I or $20,000 adrtirs-hollow imitations, sham He rode risrht around our lovelv semen thing;, make-believes, that fool no one and I tine drive, watered his horse at our trough otease no onell' - I without as mucb as saying "by your leave' was Up here but the squirrels, and tho' the J with ready pen have ever invaded is peace ful glens (heaven grant they never may)! No , tourist's guide describes it, the iron grip of ' - Here on the top of Spring mountain, nine miles from Tryon, the little station at its J'. an ugly way Uncle Sam has gotten into of late, they s:iy. - The vehicle in which he drove was full of curious instruments. v It is he Southern railway has never been laid upon it, it is still in the hands of its friends, and there let us leave it. 1. : - - Minnik Macfjeat; back my grizzled locks and wish they feet, can be found the real thing, a genuine rlimored about that has mission here is not had - been kind to me, and perbaps they may only use me for a Yule log In the fireplace and Joke about me as they sit around toasting their feet. It can make no difference to me, howev- DON'T MAKE ANY NOISBl" NOW, if a little feller don't remember And laughs out loud and hollers jes' a bit, And if his feet get running as they oughtn't, e i 1 1 j 1 j 1 tv-Mton Wm for it? I TVova -1rne va ' comvn to uajj WUW N1U1UU KU1U UU uuwiivu I a, w, w r TSK "WArrS, BNOIilSH CABOI SINQBBS. British museum. It Is written in Anglo-Norman, and the first stanza, freeiy translated, Is as follows:" Now, lording, listen to our ditty. Strangen coming" from afar, -Let poor minstrels move your pity; - Give us welcome, soothe our care; , In thla mansion, as they tell us, . - Christmas wassail keeps today - And, aa the king of all good fellows, . , Reigns with uncontrolled sway. . - - - - CHORUS. Hall, Father Christmas, hall to thee; . -Honord ever shalt thou be! A the sweets that love bestows, ' Endless pleasures wait-on those ' Who, like vassals brave and true, v Give to Christmas homage due. A modernized form of tbeir carol was used at Oxford up to a recent time. Another carol which was sung at the beginning of tbe sixteenth century and which shows a true religious feeling Is this; . . V . . When Chryst was born of Mary fre, In'Bedlem, in that fayre cyte, AngeUls song ther with myrth and gle, - In Excelsls Gloria, - ' - Herdmen beheld thes angelles bright. To hem apperyd with grei ligni. And seyd Goddys sone ... is born night" - - ' - In Excelsls Gloria, a 1 old log cabin, built by a real mountaineer, I to elevate, but rather to debase" They say and of good solid logs which have rolled de hat he actually trying to cut down some fiance at tirofor no one knows how long. of these mountains. ' . One day 10 or 15 years ago a western man Tt is whispered that he has already taken with the western spirit oi investigation and a great slice off Saluda mountain, and now pocketful of western money, lonnd the he is at work on Tryon peak, one of our cabin and bought it and the whole mountain neighbors. Three thousand five hundred on which t stood. " It Js .called Spring feet it has always: measured with its boots mountain, because from every crevice clear, off. Ever since Skynka, the great Indian cold water gushes out . 5 -ry chief, : disdaining ' the use "of instruments The man rho bought the mountain loved measured it with his lofty eye, it has stood every green and growing tiling, and would 3,500 feet and we have no reason for belie v- CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS RATES Via - SOUTHERil RAILWAY. " . 1904-1905. have nothing ! destroyed. On Account Christmas and New Year Holidays, Southern Railway will 'sell tickets at extremely low rates. . . Dates of sale of tickets lo the general public, December 23, 24, 25, and 31 1904 and January 1, 1905, with final limit Jan It became neces- J ing thai it has shrunk anyv since then; 3,500 J uary 4, 1905. sary to enlarge in the way. k "Cut them down," said the Southern railway, in the tourist's guide, and and teachers, upon presentation of Cer- builder. tet them be," said the master; in all the literature which was for its lofty tificate signed by the Superintendent, "build a round them sonie way," and so they subject, the "Land of the 8ky;" 3,500 feet,, , Principal or President of Schools and did, and today the piazza of the" new part and every school boy knows that "figures Colleges, December 17 to 24, inclusive, puts its anna around the trees and they re- never lie," and if Uncle Same says it is not with finaLreturn limit January 8, 1905. pay the friendly embrace by spreading a 3,500 feet, why Uncle Sam is . mistaken. For information as to Bates, Sched- green roof oyer it, wluch'is very picturesque (Used that word out of respect for the flag.) ules, Sleeping Car Accommodations and sweet ahdj delightful in every way. j If you want, to be convinced of the heigtu 1 etc., ask Any Agent, or If you are Aired oi a strenuous life of buy- of Spring mountain just come tip. - The ing, of selling, ; of teaching, of preaching ruad is a lovely one, Nature's royal high come to the' Log Cabin, If you are weary way, aad a yery highway it is, demonsirat- of 'culture,that is of the modern, "up-to-1 ing ever that those who would gain anything,' date," boastful kind, come to .'the mountain, even pure air and echaniing views, must where true ciUure like true charity, ."vaunt, climb to utt the n Higher and higher the eth not jtsejlf,", and 'doth not behave itself roa J - climbs up. You ask the driver, uuseemingly!.M- Criticism, 'high .. or : low,'' who has eyes tor n othing but tbe has never lifted up its voice on " this moun- road and no .words except exhortations to lain to find fault with the symmetry of the the horses, how much higher you have, tp trees, the curve of the vines or the color go, and he points with his whip to a white scheme of the flowers. Nature has had Iter spot outlined against the blue sky, and you own way, and a very sweet way it is, though are so lost in wonder at the apparently unat- often a wild, ;one '- tainableness of the goal that you, too, are If you ar tired of books the mountain is silent. ;..'. ; . . ." ':- . '. --", - the place you are after. It is true that there I Once upon a time, in your brst primer R. L. Vernon. T.P.. J. H. Wood, DP Charlotte, N. C. - Aehevllle, N. C. S. H, HardXmicK, XU. If. GayU: Pass. Trafflo Manager, ;;- Gen'l Pass. Agent. - WASHINGTON, D. C: , morniDg The Wrong Way. -v "You are an hour late this Sam." 7:. "Yea, sat;-1 knowed it4ah." L Welf, what excuse have your'.. fi was kicked by a mule pa mail way heresahn . . - - . 7 "IS TOUB XtAlfS "WTLTjIB ?" - There Is no fat goose with" sage dressing for -me, no pumpkin pie and. er. this " That ought not to have, detained you are a few volumes of natural history, lying J days, you used to pronounce with ecstasy the I ;rr. -- - here and there on thv rocks and cliffy, and I then the equally fascinating and emphatic I had ouly kicked me iqjdis direction, but ne i l ... J r..l -v4 . " I uxmnnuo Wo rfn nm IIm dm) nnv vntl I kinlrl m. I. nthnf r. -KT 1 fried cakes, no Santa. Claus to . drop a j pleted butUinequaHed sV far as it goes, lies j fathom the depths of meaning which lie hid i gold watch in my stock'V-vv j ever'openTi But you don't have to read uq. J den in these meagre words. You know now "Is : your name WUlieT . asked a less y()U to. ftaiure doe not believe that some such rich and rare experience as voice at his elbow. ' ' jn compulsory education forces no one"; to you are passing through found expression in nraWi nnd saw a r man with a silver master her vocabulary, oompels no one to j them. And then yon gaze into a precipice, HUB SHOES save .- (man) Jes' make believe that you are young and little Say, have you got me heart for words of blame? It's pretty hard when Christmas comes em Sunday, For I know the day will never seem the same. Christmas Twlee Year. , Madagascar . Is probably the -only place in the world where Christmas Is celebrated iwice a year ' and T what , kvnde. As yn Scriptures we f ynde, ' . Therefore this songr have we. In mynae, -In Excelsls Gloria. . Then. Iord. for thy arret grace Graunt us the blys to se thy face, Where we may syngr tb thy solas In Excelsls uioria. star on bis breast and a club In his hand. - r. : '':r---.t .'. : ' "Weary WlUle r ; : . i .y i ''fhz : : " "Then come .with me, ; Santa Claus has got something Xor you after all." '; silver star to them at your fct, little caring ; that vou per- W. W. followed the the pillage and was loagea in a nou kn;)W not ne ..art from another, glad where all the ; aows chance that you do not analyze in cold in, and the doors locked to keep burglars ,. . tt . ' scientific research in her laboratories. Her so deep, dark and gruesome that you shot proposition is. "My son give' me thy heart' your eyes and pray that you may always "go The'queston 6heasksis not "understandest up," and never 'down," : " ; -thou mel but 'lovi8t thou meA- 601 now as always nature is ynur friends If vou ll)ve the sweet faces of her floWers' She has many .sweet surprises for you that their fragrance and their bloom, she scatters you lose all fear and surrender uncondit ion- -V : -Vi'iii .' L ' '"- ll 1a t Ua nliavma A r Atin1 C art A t tin PfirffA ally lo her charms. 'Around & sudden curve in tha road you come upon hr go wned in royal purple and sparkffng with yellow jewels of the goldenrod Again she wears the frich,: dark color, of ' This Brand on" a 8hoe means ome thlngl If you want the BEST for your money, call for VTHE BUR" fCata!s 45Vblle fibeohero .Watched ' maa. whe benlsnlz axied;