Clinton New Era, 1909-12-16, Page 8VOL 0 NO, 25 b CLINTON, ONTARIO THURSDAY DECEMBER 23, 1909 W, H. Kerr & 'Son, Editors and Publishers.
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L'v WHAT WOULD C„RiSTMGtS BE WM16uT HE
RUBBING -IT IN
Hello, of turkey gobbler]
I see you're rfght'oli deck
ti But 'twon't be long, you be before,
You'll git' it it in the neck !
You're -feeling mighty- uppish..;
You use such lofty tones
But pretty .soon I'll have a' chance °
To help to pick; your bones.
Well, gobble if you want to, ;
And strut and' :swell and pyance
It's just as well to do it'now.
While you have got the chance
For most before you know . it,
You're .goin” to lose your head
You won't feel quite so funny when .
till
this department and carry one of 1 tins (,ough . R&aedy have been thor• general causes of Consumption. Cure the
the largest assortments to be could have prohibition of thebar trade , first s nl )toms of I3'ronchltls b-the'use
g - ! nughly tested during epidemics of fn Y X Y
with rifest. Although they are dead,
matter.
And it gladdened her to isea the 'way he
m9PW restrictions in regardf to locorn0-
smiled
titlpa. I
Lusiness would boom and no mistake. I• we have not heard of a single case of I '
DIAMONDS °PEARLS RUBIES ♦• + }-4-�#4 }+ bliss Martha Bour-
pneumonia, by alldealet�s.
S'
ro at come to us when we bid them,
•.„,, .'sold + -+l•• get, Little. Patios,
aaae growth and. .+- $Conchitis ,♦ Que.,wrltes: "Last
EMERALDS SAPPIIRII?S eV spring I
O� The story of C,day � � Cured. •}•
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silent shapes that
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was veryPAL$
I prosporlty is pretty ,we .}
ll set forth in I `
in the r + ♦poorly, lead a bad
and vanish politely when we are weary
IN
Fhis
a�•ay,
upper and nether
The values run from 75d for . in the chartered 'banks, The iignres . ' ' "R" sc ki c, could not
-a, Ilaby's rirg to a h'gh priced are worthy of study; ;s, r,1t'rt), and was tired all the tune. I con -
of their presence,
- Bret Harte never made a secret of
t
Diamond.'' ., i > ,,heti two doctors, anti froth told ailc I
duly Total deposits .,� had bronchitis, and advised me to give. rip
To giiveetheir darling glee on Christmas ;
t Christnt�n t n 10
Lady's and Gentlemans • Iu(30 •. ° • • ° ° • • ° • • • • $39,418,2.111 t.eac11iz. I trial almost everything lett
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admiration for the creator of Little,
°
Nell and Tom Pinch. Like Paul at
•^---'-r
the feet of .Gamallel, he was content to
By GEORGE H. !PICARD
receive his lesson from the man be
Ila U100 r at rho workq. lrn(-xllurgated,
acknowledged to be his waster. Not
f4upyright, 1909, by American Press Asso•
aation,i
until after• Dickens had On his
OT until the first
work dict the young literary light, who
stood revealed in the far western firma-
half of the last
went learn that his model rad Seen;
century was well
that exquisite elegy "Dickens In,
spent did the spe-
Camp" and bad been heard'to express
cies of literature
fits admiration of it in tke most gen-
which hascome to
be known asChrist•
Brous terms, The dying • povelist de -
In 010 suds of the met•1•V Il,nrnina, r 'wiine when you ask for it.
Glared that the wogk of the new Amer -
was fiction effect a
�I
lean writer contained such, subtle
permanent . o d g-
strokes of workmanship as no other
went in the beasts
writer in the language had yet ex -
of r,,ngllsh speak-
hibited. And then he' asked, with ' a
lug mankind. The
humorous gleam In his weary eyes,
Ancient p a r a lr 1 e .
"Don't you think that his manner la
plays and the
r h y m e d holidayI.I,:
v ery like. my own?"
,. e Dickens, Harte hada ^enufnP
legends of the mid. 1
fondness' for the doings of Yuletide.
IhVING. file ages are still in
One who knew film best says that up
age on the continent, but the more
speular minded English bail only tits
„ a
to the list day of his life �' he thou -ht
rude Yuletide jingles and'tbe
d g quaint
much of the Christmas season and to
c r bee, eating antiquity,
the last kept up the fond and foolish
Contrary ilgnocustom
Contrary to. the prevailing notion, the
of sending generous presents
Inventor of the tale with'a dlstinctive-
; to his friends." Better appreciated in,
ly Christmas flavor was an American,
England than in hisnative country,
'
It t ie i that would to Pew
IT:trte spent the later years of his Ilfe
eanscely
lmerieans and' to no Ianalishmnlr to
t glisb
abroad, but his stories ,were to the last
dissent if it were asserted to their
pisthictively Ameriean. In.. that ad -
'
presence that Charles Dickens origi•
ntirable performance entitled. "How
na'ted the Christmas story. Ilis name
;Huta Claus Came to Simpson's liar'•
•
ii so inseprYrably connected with 'so
there is no flavor .of the old world
In u('h. of the holiday, literature en-
Christmas, and Johngy, clothed in the
�hrined in the popular• heart that it Is •
~tars and stripes; is,a young American.
anuli wonder the mention of Christ-
of the most nnmistatiabie sort.'
suggests him. The credit of lite
"Ilt su,
Two of the most strikingly dissiml-
tInd,
"literary find;' however, must be given,
lar Christmas Stories ever written are
to anotber, a :man who was at the end'
H a w.t it o r n e's
`Christmas Ban -
of his .thirties: when Dickens was barn,
quet". and, Miss
who had been at Malta when Nelson's
(feet Sailed away to Trafalgar, who lead
11litford's "Christ -
visited Sir Walter at Abbotsford and I
� - was Party. ,"
had captivated him and who.was aft
.
. There is little of
er%yard seeretary.to the United States
t X Christmas in
legation in 10nglaild. That, of course,
° H a w t h o r n e's
means Washington Irving.
grewsome' t a l e.
frying s first tool., '"lhe Sketch -Book
' s . The joyous' festi-
of Geoffrep,:Crayon, Gent.," had pleased .
f' vat• Is only a lit -
everybody, so thuch so, that It •
erary makeshift
,indeed
w;ts republished by John Murray in
around which is
n1elnvs. woven a weird*
Condon and,translated into several con-
tinental, languages. ,Both the publish-
psychological study that drives' all .re; .
ers and the public were urging him to
nrembranee of the blessed season from
do something equally meritorious. ho-
, the, mind. ' Its ghosts are not the so -
body realized more keenly than did the
ciable .and easily; banished spooks of
author of the exquisite. work the difli•
Dickens, They are. formless and
Gutty of producing its mate;. and he
creepy and all' pervading.•• They are the
Was riot a man to be driven.into, menti-
fearsome specters that rise.in'the frig-
oerity. 'Three years'later.he published .
id vapors of Germ mysticism, atid
"B.racebridAe Ball," and the chapter of
they. are made icier still with, a strong
that masterplpce of literary workman-
admixture o, Now Hnbfand tlauscen=
ship entitled,44hristmas at•Bracebrid-.
dentalism. It is .tt masterpiece in'con
[fall" .iN;as the pioneer holiday tale of
ception an'd in tiieatment-no question
English literature and- has •turnisbed a'
:at all ahont that' -,but it does not make
model for,subsequeut Hetionists which
the Yule log glory more brightly or ..
has seldom. been 'equaled and never.
lend' a ..better flat or' to the steapain,-
excelled. Its easy grace and felicity of,
bowl
expression were a revelation -to every.
Maty•Tlussell AIitford does not dealµ
body in those- days, and the wonder
'in ghosts. All of.her Christmas char-
acteis are flesh and •blond people and
You're plucked and picked and dead ! y and the c . Ain ate potents , .
. 1VilliamDlilliepeace Thaekeray, was• theY'are not of the sort that. "willnot
ter,'of a realism that is the wonder and xray dead when they die." Her."Christ-
• The Rouse of Lcirds is no made up '• Lot the glory of the day ; 1t'tile ilargaiti Ebititter , K , was fart •° .1. its .dliinty in its wark:.
1 m log in flow to eat'y oil " Then.we bear a.fttful, rushing.of-Lite
hftae �t hu have'.Lollu cd J
g. y •Y as. follows: bim�`n )e e d e d. no a rlianship as anything which eveh.came
Just wi;4houtupou the stair,
I like .your wins an! breast. Peers of the ro al blood.:.:...,. 3 r } from her careful pen, and that Is say
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I " Sett two white: laantoms. coming,.. + . '.,' : tnodet sad chose,? 4
2 ren Christmas* ers, standing in. ,::r<;Yf,�, : in' ,mac It is as.restfnl°ztad non-
The s.uffln that .tae ut in. ou Arehbisho a .... ;., p p n -o n f.. Itis.•" Mrs. `>�#sfn t
p a y , p Catch the gleam of sunny hair. g.
Dukes= :... .., .+....:: ...:: 22 aline ; ... Perkins' 13a1i" re- . { :., suggestive as a'pasto;al, and its influ
The gizzard and the rest;, Are they -Christmas fairies stealing - One got elbowed out,.. then there were a once is aS 'soothin as the d.
just
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• , Marquises . , • • � Rows of little socks to fill ?' nine. seinbles n o t h 1 n a x:•. ;°.„.:r g
JUSt Walt till you are 'lain n : ever corfeeived' iu. ` savor which escapes when the cover
L isle .:.., , , y..... 13 Are they angels $oating hither
Right•on the platter there, Viscounts ,, 42 - With their message, of good will i' Nine'Christmm. shoppers. shopping the 'mind• of any of "a:potpourri jar is lifted or .the
What -sweet spell are, these elves very late ; . ' other; n>an: The • ti rawer. of au old time cabinet is open -
And ev'rybodv.looks at yo -u, Bishops...:.:.::... l.. .. weaving, One fell. asleep; and there ' were
gf public was .pleased ed -the faint . pervasive odor of crash-
And waits to et their share'•! Bar.ona ..::::....:...:. 385 'As likelarks they
'chirp and sing?• eight. '
g g with its but never. ed rose leaves and dried lavender: .
Scottish representative peers G Are these. palms of -peace from Reaveu i
That these lovely spirits bring r Fight Christmas'shoppers, shopping .so to u c.h,. as was
Oh, you can strut and gobble, Irish representative peers::....... 28 till eleven 1 • rhaekeray himself. sawxaoR2M. ».
g Ifos feet,up�n the threshold, u� RATIONAL
r yy One fainted ,dead. away and then 113ost. amazing of all, the author. of the
If that will help you some, :Total... (i�8 Ea erfaoespeeping6hrout;h,1' RATIONAL
' •' . ` • • r there was seven, tate professed to believo that, it: was
' _Leaving.out he peers .,of the bicod •With the first.red ray of sunshine, : - - -
You're nice and plump and tender, too �. I (lhanting cherubs come' in view ; ; t11rs, Perkins'` Ball that • had made - - -
• royal.who do not take part in party, 1. -Seven Christmas shoppers, cross as ti
But you .must v�alt,' .b um ! . Mistletoe and gleaming holly, reputation -that, too; in the face of MAS(
> , y g divisbons,there are 016 ears left. :.Of . two sticks ; ++ C H RI.ST
• is .
Your days of boy.,are numbered' p + S mbols of- a blessed da the ;fact that."Vanity anity rain hadjust
f these;