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Remembered Herself,
It is a wise and kindly plan, at Christmas,
to remember those who will ,probably b.
forgotten by others, or who have no earthly
ties left to be drawn closer at that loving
time.
An incident, as pathetic as it is absurd,
which happened within the knowledge of a
minister, made him, as lie says, resolved to
carry, at•every holiday time, some Sunshine
to hearths that had grown cold and lone.
ly.
It was before his ordination, when ho was
turning a penny by teaching school in a
country district, and "boarding round.'
On Christmas week of that year he stayed
at the house of a middle-aged widow, a
cneery uncomplaining matron, who always
insisted on her share of the teacher, "for
company."
When Christmas Bye came, they went
together to the town hall, where there was
CA be an entertainment, to see the gifts
taken from the tree. Just as they were
about to enter the door, the good lady turn
ed to the teacher and said, with a quizzical
look and a comfortable laugh,—
"I'm going to tell you something, but
don't you laugh at me."
"Indeed, I won't !"
You see there's nobody left to give me
2hristmaii presents, and it makes me ,...el
sort of blue not to have any—so guess went
ve done I"
"I can't possibly."
"I've bought a pair of gloves. and sent
'em to be hung on the tree, marked with
my name. Now when you hear me called
you'll laugh, I'll be bound 1 But I sha'n't
care ; it makes me fuel more like Christmas
to have something, if I do give It to my•
self."
She evidently regarded the little affair
ra an excellent joke, and when her gloves
wore taken from the tree, nodded and
smiled at the minister, in high good. humor,
and with a pretence that. elm knew who hail
given than to her. Ilut upon the young
man the effect was lint qui to the name.
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• May your day be
bright with
the joys of
Christmas,
glory
shone in
the heavens.
May great joy be yours.
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Because this is our last issue before our Centennial year
arrives, we decided to combine our Christmas greeting to
all our readers with an additional wish that the year of
Canada's 100th birthday will not only bestow upon you all
the blessings possible, but that it will also be filled with
merriment and reward. The items appearing on this page,
with the exception of Randy Jones' annual contribution
and the advertisements, were photographed from papers
dating back to 1887. As you can see, things have changed
in newspapers but not the wish that its publishers, staff
and contributors extend •— that this Christmas and the
New Year will be the best our readers have had in the
past 100 years.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF
CHRISTMAS.
After nineteen centuries of Christianity
it may .still be doubted if the treesignifie-
ance of Christmas Day has passed into the
common intelligence. The very slowness
with which the day came into observance
proves the difficulty of grasping the deep-
eat meaning of the festival. Of all the.
festivals of Christendom, Christmas was
the latest to b recognized. Easter and
Good Friday date from the very events
which theycommemorate. Pentecost and
Ascention Day were adopted into the
calendar while yet the Church was a
suffering and persecuted body; the death-
days of martyrs and of saints were cele-
brated from the earliest times. But it
was not until the Roman Empire had
embraced Christianity, not until the
victorious Church had sent its missionar-
ies to subdue the Northern barbarians to
its sway, and the necessity of giving to
the populance a Christian festival in place
of suppressed heathen observances had
become apparent, that the Roman Satur-
nalia and the Scandinavian Yule became
Christmas, and the commemoration of the
birth of the world's Redeemer took the
place of that celebration of the cessation
of the year's toil— that hailing of the birth
of the powers of nature—which to the
Southern and the Northern mind respect-
ively seemed the tit occasion of fullest joy.
Very little did rude Viking or over refined
Italian realize of the deepest significance
of the change. Few among them could
have seen the promise of Winter solstice
fulfilled in the birth of the Lordand Giver
of Life, or the Saturnalian leveling of
ranks made permanent in the equal
brotherhood of men in Christ : none the
less is Christmas Day the fulfillmentof the
prophecy of both. And that it is only
within the memory of men now living
that the celebration of the birth of Christ
has become universal proves only how
tremenduousare the truths which it brought
to light, and which the human mind finds
so hard to grasp.
For what dues the Advent signify,
indeed, but the revelation of a new life,
the eternal, by which anew light is thrown
upon the relations between man and man,
between the human and the divine, be-
tween the present and the future, between
the things that are seen and the things
that do remain, the transitory and the
permanent? Say what we will of civiliz-
ations in which Christianity has had no
part—of China, and of India, and of
ancient Greece and Rome—their intelli-
gence, their culture. their respect for law,
the consistency of their institutions—
taking them at their best, and owning, as
we must the shortcomings of Christendom
its Philistinism, its berbarity its failure
everywhere to roach its own standard—
this, at least, must always be confessed:
that its civilization is formed by an idea
entirely undreamed of before; an idea
whose inspiration is boundless, whose
promise is not limited to the boldest
conception of the human mind, whose
standard is not a conceivable perfection,
but a grand consistency with eternal beauty.
The birth of Christ flung wide the gates
of the inFnite, the eternal, and by that
one act gave boundless possibilities to
human endeavor. This is not a mere
matter of creed, Skeptic, agnostic. pos-
itivist, no less than the most literal
believer in revealed religion, hold the
great truth of solidarity which makes all
human endeavor, past, present and to
conic, but parts oeone colossal act— the
uplifting of the nice to ideal perfection--
and gives to every mortal span, however
brief, the power of an endless life. That
there are these who do not recognize the
source from which the truth is drawn
shows only what may be the limitations of
even the noblest minds, Thisis the great
truth revealed at the birth of Christ—the
oneness of humanity in him who was the
Son of Man. By this fact both life and
immortality are brought to light. No life
is bounded by its birth and death; no work
is incomplete which is so begun =hat
another may go on to build upon its
foundation; no pain or pang of human
soul but is felt through all humanity ; no
victory of human endeavor that does not
uplift the whele human race. Thus be-
lieving is to live indeed— thus living is to
enter ins, the tIcaLee of Christmas
Day.
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His Christmas Gift.
It seems like a hundred years ago,
That we travelled once through the drifted
snow
To meet round the Christmas tree.
You were a child, with a fair, round face.
And you hung on the tree with a shy, sweet
graoe
Your Christmas present for me.
'Twas a scarlet beaded pincushion heart,
Brilliant and shiny—a triumph of art—
With a bead bird on it—a dove,
'Twas bought of a "squaw's (who spoke
with a brogue),
And you said in your note—dear little
rogue —
That you gave it me with your love.
Well, that little red heart has been with me
Through distant countries far over the sea,
Crossed river, mountain and lake ;
Though never a pin have its tough sides
known,
For the heart was hard as Pharaoh's own,
But I love it for your sake.
We're very much older and wiser now,
We meet with a formal word and bow,
And many snore things we know;
We don't hang our hearts on trees, I'believe,
Nor wear them either upon our sleeve;
Ti it better, I wonder, so?
The tree is laden with gifts to-night,
And the colored tapers are gleaming bright,
And the Chriet-Child floats above;
Bit my hoped for gift Isn't ou the tree,
I want a heart—will you give it me,
As yen did before, "with your love?"
RIRS VIA S
On Tuesday next we will reach the
greatest season of the year for which
the young can, hardly wait and which.
speaks to the old with a power that
the lessening years alter but can never
obliterate. The spirit of the day is
young enough after 1000 years to
completely conquer its foes. The fes-
tival had consecrated to itself, the
the holly, the mistletoe and evergreen.
The puritan. spirit which ruled old
England for nine years and founded
New Fd ttgland, hated (and it could hate
wen) with deepest intensity this festi-
val which had for many years, been
the greatest observer of the church
and pegple. When they landed on
shore the Journal of the Mayflower
contained an item for December 25th,
1(114, stating that upon this day they
went on shore and all hands labored,
no man resting on that day. Could
the old and grim sectarian with his
bell shaped hat and queer garments,
return to the land in which he was
then making his home he would find
that the spirits of Christmas had been
too strong for him and had conquered
his posterity in the face of all his hate
and measure of stern repression. He
would find the emblems of Xmas. deck-
ing hall, cottage and church and all
his efforts to obliterate then in vain.
In order to banish them he had banish-
ed himself from England and now they
are living where his history is unread
or forgotten page, Christmas has
grown to be the great re-union day.
All the absent ones come home for
Christmas. Sad is the one who can-
not come; sad is the one that misses
him. It is the children's day and a
page of coining hopes that are vanish-
ed is turned when the stocking hangs
no more in its accustomed place. How
pretty are the legends of the day. On
Christmas the aspen leaves are still
and tremble not, the wood is forgiven
its sin when out of it was made the
cross for which it was condemned to
tremble for ever. Pilate rests till the
dawn and then again begins to wash
his bloody hands. The wandering
Jew sinks into slumber and until the
sunrise his black hair is as white as
his pillow of snow. The Germans say
that if you sleep in a manger on that
night all your future \;,-.7111 be opened
and told. Th-e-boarAsc--too, they say,
Kneel wh'2.Whe planets se to
and pray for men. Our Danish ances-
tors say the Saviour's crown was made
of holly and when its berries which
once were white became stained with
his blood they turned scarlet and so
have since remained. The mince pie
once contained mutton for its meat in
memory of the shepherds who watch-
ed their flocks by night and its fruit
and spices are a symbol of the gifts
brought by the wise men from the
East, who came to worship the Baby
born King of the Jews. How the
beauty of the day touches with its
own beauty every symbol and hour
connected with it. So in the best
spirit of the day we wish all our read-
ers a happy and merry Christmas.
hbleguy of Um Old Bow.
They are • k.ving it good time in the home,
to day. My !limiter hitohed n u, lip yeeter
day and look me to the city, bringing back it
load of goo I things for the eeloymont of
every rournl”r of the family except
me. I don't understand why I'm not entitl-
ed to a little share of the (livid+ rid that the
farm has this year declared. What eou1d
have been done without me, I wonder? I
have plowed the ground, pulverized the soil,
planted the grain, cultivated the oorn, reap-
ed the wheat, gathered in the harvest, and
done odd chores around the farm, and what
have I got to show for my work ? I don't
want any fancy togg'try for my head, nor
any gimcracks about my body. I'd like a
good warm blanket to keep me from taking
cold after I've been so over-worked that
I'm reeking with perspiration, bat I take
notioe I haven't got it.
I wish my master would pay &little more
attention to my stall and keep it in better
condition. I like to breath swe:,t, fresh air
just as well as he does. Sometimes I get a
little too manila it, thought, Those wide
cracks and that broken window make it nn•
comfortably cold sometimea. My master
growls 4ecause it takes AO much corn to keep
me in flesh, but how can he expect me to
put flesh on my bones and warm up all out
doors besides ?
Just listen to the uproar and the shouts of
merriment over the Christmas cheer to
which I was the largest contributor. Yet I
am standing here suffering for s drink of
water. My master allowed one of his young
cube to hitch me to the sleigh this morning,
and I was whipped, yanked and yelled at
until excitement, over-exertion and labour
threw me into a profuse perspiration. But
here comes my master with some water and
s good feed of oats, I Suppose. Another
disapointment, for he is getting the harness
down, and I suppose somebody has been
promised a sleigh.ride. Well, there is noth•
ing far me bta to submit. If I isboilld at•
tempt to make any kind of a protest, I
should teet the worst of it. If I should ven-
ture to kink or balk even when goaded to it
by hunger, thirst-and fatigue, I should get
a heating that would make my bones ache
for many a day.
One day the minister was riding with my
master and I heard him say "Come unto me
all yye that labor and are heavy Wee and I
will give you rest." I -think he said this
was an invitation extended by some great.
AI aster. 11 iiw I wish I could find him, or
that my musler would adopt some of his me•
thods, "Merry Christmas 1" shout the boys
and girls, and 1, wish I had (Anse for whin.
nering a joyful response.
Hints for the Preparation of Christmas et
New Year's Dinner.
We assume that some Canadian house—
holds will this year be keeping their &et
Christmee. To the young housewife, ancl.
even to some of greater experience, the fol-
lowing hints will be valuable :
To Clean Turkey or Chicken.—When 1701
picked tinge by removing the stove cover
and putting some paper io, pass the bird
over the fl time, taking care not to blacker
it or burn the skin.
Cut the neck off as near the body as plea
sible, pushing the skin down before you elte
it, so us to leave enough skin to cover the
place where the reek has been cut ; cut off
the feet below the joint ; with your foreciln
ger loosen the crop and take it out without-
breaking or emptying it. Neat cub a slit
right under the rump large enough to run
two fingers if a chicken or a duck, your
hand if a turkey or goose, into the body.
Before rettemptine to draw out the entrails,
loosen with your finger all the tiny strings;
that attach them to the body—be sure that
your fingers can pass between the oontentee
of the stomach and the body in every direr
tion without obstruction ; then bend your
hand or fingers round the mass and draw it
forward. This will briug the whole out ir,
a ball ; by no means drag it by any par-
ticular part or you will break the entrails or
gall bladder, and the whole process, in the-
former case, be an unclean one ; in the lat-
ter, the bird may be spoiled, for it is impo:a•
Bible to wash away the bitter of the gall if
broken. Cut off the vent which will free the
main entrail. If properly managed the bird.
will he quite clean inside, and need only
wiping with a wet cloth ; if not clean, pour
lukewarm water through the bird, wipe in
side and out with a towel, but do not wash
the outside unless necessary from accidental
soiling. With care a chicken or turkey
may be emptied without any uncleanliness ;
lay the bird aside,
The gall, a small dark green7blailder, is
attached to the liver ; cut it off, leaving e
bit of the liver with it to avoid breaking.
Throw the liver into cold water ; by cutting;
the gizzard very carefully at the wide side
without penetrating the inner skin, it can
be peeled off, leaving the inside whole, thus
avoiding the usual mess made by inexperi-
enced hands. Scald and skin the feet ; put
liver, gizzard, heart, feet and neck on in a
pint of water if chicken, a quart if turkey,
with a slice of onion and piece of carrot if at
hand, and let them stew slowly down to
the quantity, when they will be a stif.
jelly.
TIIE STCFFINO.
To Truss and Stuff ,'Chicken or Turhsy.e...
For roasting, twist the pinions under the:
wing ro the back, push up the legs until
they lie Het against the side of the lerd aril
the lower joints are even with the rump;
pees a skewer through the centre of the
thighs, bringing it out opposite ; fasten
them in that position, with a cord ; fasten
the ends of the legs close to the vent ; press:
on the breast bone hard with the palm of.
the hand. If the bird is to be stuffed,,
loosen the skin of the breast and put the
forcemeat (see recipe) where the crop was
turn the neck skin over to the back and sew.
it.
To Roast Chicken or Turkey.—Flour it.;.
put it in a dripping pan with a few slices
'fat pork, or if you prefer it put a good
piece of butter in a, wooden spoon, pressed
to make it stick ; to baste, rub the butter-
over the bird ; keep the spoon in a cool spota
when not in use.
A chicken takes one hour or less to cook,
according to size ; a ,turkey three to four-
hours.
If you uee'pork, whenithe bird is brown-'
edall over (for which purpose it must ho:
turned over and round) pour off the fat very-
carefully and-remove the pork. Have the.
gizzard ready chopped, the liver mashed fine
and a teaspoonful of flour mixed with it,
Pour the broth from the giblets to it, stir
well and boil in the pan on top of the etuve
a few seconds.
Remove strings and skewers, set the laird
in a dish, and if turkey garnish with a feve
sausages or fried oysters.
The English and Continental journals
continue to publish articles varying in
ength from a column to a page dis-
cussing the chances of an almost immedi-
ate European war. Military circles in
Berlin are imbued with the conviction
that war is imminent, but there is a sus-
picion that in this case the wish is father
to the thought. One high official in the
German military service is quoted as
saying that the situation has assumed a
phase mlking it possible that war may
come over night. The Berlin Post is
also a firm believer in the nearness of
war and goes to the length of fixing the
time during the month of February. The
Loudon Observer; on the other hand,
while deprecating hostilities as the result
of any of the existing differences between
the European powers; believes that there
will be no war. "Everyone," it says,
"inclines to the belief that a war precipi-
tated by Russia is inevitable ; but this is
hardily possible, Whether Russia wants
to fight or not, and is doubtful if she
does, there Call be no war without the
consent of Germany, and thus far there
is no reason for assuming that she enter-
tains a wish for war."
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Happy
Holiday
Warm wishes and sin-
cere thanks to our loyal
friends and patrons,
Sander's Grocery
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