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city, The main business gabo is ; young men were keeping the saile,
that which lead: out behind tho boy company.
Tower of David towards Jaffa, l The chorus grow and grew in
through which the Bethlehem girls j volume until three-fourths of the
bring their vogotablee each morning ! occupants of the car wore joining
to oath, and•through which all of the in. Suddenly the eviler boy got
imports whicll come by ,sea aro tired of 'Razzle Dazzle' and began
brought in. This gate lies at my 'Whore ltd yon get that Trot ?' 'Clio
feet and I can sec the curious throng chorus wont him, too ; and thou Wachs rin;(a were used by the
which passes through it day in and the sailor bay, elato+l with bis due- ancients, and put upon the third
day out. There aro donkeys and °esti, swung out into 'Johnny Get finger, because of a supposed eon.
camel(' with great loads on their Yonr Gun,' Tho fun wa8 sudden- neetion of a vein to that member
beaks. There aro pilgrim' by the ly ended, however, by the lady and with the heart.
thousands and all of the various
characters whi°h make up this cur-
ious people.
There is a market inside the Jaffa
gate and I can see it just under mo
as I write. Groat piles of oranges
and Lemons lie upon the flag side•
walk, and there are sooroe of women
with baskets. of vegetables before
them. Many of these are from
Bethlehem and the Bethlehem girls
aro the prettiest to see in Jerusalem.
They have straight, well-rounded
forms, which they clothe in a long
linen dress of white, beautifully ern
broidered in Bilk, so that e, single
gown requires many months of work.
This dress is much like an 4meri•
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LITTLE CIILlaD1tEN S\VIAliTLY
SING.
Little children sweetly sing
Carole to the new born Bing ;
Lortl of life and love is Ile,
Conte on earth to make us free ;
Frog front sin of every kind,
In our hearts e0 intertwined,
Guiding ns in paths of right,
..Malting all our bunions light.
Chorus—
Little ohildron sweetly sing,
Let your carols boav'nward ring.
Glorify Him, sound His praise.
Christ was born this Day of Days.
Angels sang when Christ was born,
On that radiant Christmas morn ;
Shepherds watobing on the plain,
Heard with awe the heav'nly strain.
"Glory be to God on high,"
Pleated downward from the sky,
"Peace on earth, good will to men,"
Echoed lar and wide again.
Wise mon three, from lands afar,
Following the guiding star,
Journeyed swift by night and day,
Towards the place where Jesus lay.
Gifts and spices rare they brought,
For the little Bing they sought,
Pound Him in a hanger low,
Round His head the aura glow.
Can we not some token lay
At the feet of Christ to.day ?
All aur loving hearts we'll bring.
To our Savior, Lord and Bing.
Let ns sweetly chant lits praise,
Hail with joy this Day of Days,
Josue Christ, the Lord of Love,
Reigns foro'or with God above.
visit' TO TUIi HOLY C1rm
athtf's•r;yc vets Emu a 000000000 an
Mount Zion.
I write this letter on the house-
top of a bishop's residence on the
top of Mount Zion, in the centre of
Jerusalem, My American type-
writer etands within thirty fent of
the great square Tower of David,
the baso of which was undoubtedly
built before Christ. At my left, sur-
rounded by the yellow stone walls of
honees,is the dark -green pool which
Hezekiah mads to supply rho holy
city with water 10 case of a siege,
and beyond it, out of the honey-
comb of buildings, shines the great
bronze dome which Maude over the
spot on which Christ was crucified,
and in which last now are worship-
ping pilgrims from every quarter of
the Chrretian world. In front .of
me, not half a mile away, ou a great
plateau coverts; thirtyfive acres, is
a big cctagoninl tower with a bulbous
dome. It is the Mosque of Omar,
and it stands on the very side of
Solomon's Temple, while at its left
is the ohuroh bout on tho Romttu
mosaic floor of the house of Pontius
Pilate. Tho horizon on all sides is
bounded by hills. Jerusalem lies in
a neat in the mountains. It is built
ou an irregular plateau, with valleys
about it, and steep hills runniug
straight up from those to the city
and to the higher Mlle on tho op
peeit° aides. Around the edge of
this plateau runs a wall about thirty
fent high, and within this is the
Jerusalem of to -day. It Boos not
cover, alt told, much more than the
area of a three -hundred -acre farm,
and a good walker can make the oir-
cnit of its walls in an hour.
Sitting, as I am, upon the site of
King David's pahtee I see the whole
city spread out below me. What a
curious city it is 1 In my tour of the
world I have found no place so full
of strange sights, of picturesque
character and ao different in every
particular from every other part of
the world. Aside from its wonder-
fully historical associations, Jerusa-
lem to -day is a city of itself, Forty
thousand people are packed within
its narrow walls and it looks more
like a great honeycomb than a city,
There are no wells in the city of
Jerusalem. All of the water Domes
down in rain, and the trues and
gardens of the town can be number.
ad on your fingers., The hills about
the city are almost as barren as
those of New England, and the only
foliage visible in the dark silvery
green of the olive orchards on the
Mount of Olives and along tho hills
between. Jaffa and Bethlehem. The
only green to bo seen is an sore or
so of common inside the walls of
the temple plateau, and here and
there a housetop which, by age, has
gathered a coating of dirb from the
dust of the oity, and on which the.
green grass has sprouted. Here and
there you Hee ruined °heave, which
are too dangerous to be inhabited by
the bees of this human hive, and on
these the moss and grass grow.
There is ono gram bushy tree at the
base. of Mount Calvary, and a soli-
tary palm looks out over the city be-
side the business street named after
]ling David. It is not an attractive
looking town, and its glaring cream
wbite malt's sora the eyes tinder the
rays of this tropical sun.
The walls of Jerusalem aro clean
and well cut, and they have not rho
dilapidated condition of those of the
cities of China, They are entered by
gates, which aro closed at night, and
at each of thea° ,.gates Mahomoban
soldiers stand and cadet a tax on all
of tlleprodttee whieh eemos into the
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St, Cods has no Ices then seves - I . ,est rice, a is
t '.el ht Chinese laln
undries, and ,' j
out over $100,000 annually to Mon.
sonans to have its washing done.
Eight of the twelve native clergy- 1
men now connected with the Pannell 1
aliesionary sneiety in the Punjab '
were formerly Mohammedans,
the sailor boy leaving the oar at
Fourteenth street.—Now York Star•
ClI tilS'l'Ah1. 8.1'Ii)fs'.
The birth of Christ is the central
point in the history of God's . deal-
ings with humanity. All that pre.
ceded it after the redemption of the
race had been premixed, was a pre-
paration for his coming The 'fnl-
nese of time' was vot measured by
a cyclo of years, but by a progression
of events under divine guidances,
preparing the way for the manifeeta-
tion of God in the flesh. We are
not able to trace every step la this
plan, but the movement is ovidenb,
can woman's nightgown without the and finds its culminatiou in the song
frill and lases. It falls from the of the angels, wbiob we all repeat
neck to the feet and is open at the with joyful hearts : "Glory to God
in the highest ;- and on earth peaoo
among men in whom ho is well
pleased." It has not been all peace
and sunshine singe, but the increas-
ing brightness of the'reigu of love
and rigbt0ousuess which Christ in-
stituted assures us that God is fut.
filing his promise that "in him shall
all the various of the earth bo
blessed."
The Christmas festival is one of
joy. The humiliation and discom-
fort of the stable and the manger
are forgotten iu the gladness that
Messiah bas come. The happy
mother did not know what sorrow
was to pierce her child ; nor do we
on the anniversary of his birth strive
to know what may come upon us as
life wears on. On Christmas we do
not let the future overshadow tho
present. God, who has douo so
much for us, will not desert no,
through whatever trial he may oall
us to pass. He mike present trust
and en1oyment, treat and conviotlou
of his faithfulnous for the intim.
Christmas calls for more than mere
thanksgiving for what we have re-
ceived. Christ is the Saviour of
men. The feeble infant of .Gethlo
bom is to hear away the sins of the
world, and in his lite aro wo to have
Tun eternal. By him we oro made
children of the Highest, and put in
possese.ion of all things which can
contribute to our happiness. It is
the feat that Goll mune down to us
in Christ that inspires the soul with
confidence; for Ile who spared not
his own Son, but delivered hien up
freely for ns all, will oleo with )rim
give us all things. - - -
Ib was rico custom of the early
Christians to greet each other on
Christmas by saying "Christ the
Lord is born to day," No higher
or happier thought can take poosos•
sin of the human heart. IIe is
Gocl's gilt to men ; and we exchange
gifts of affection ou Christmas. Let
the heart have full sway .and make
it a holy day by proving to tbo world
that we have imbided the spirit of
()lariat , The children are not to bo
forgotten. Christmas has been ap•
propriately called Cho . children's
holiday, and we are to make them
happy iu a wise way, teaching them
its highest meaning. And the poor
and unfortunate demand, for Christ's
sake, our Dare and blessing, 'They
ought not to hunger and shiver in
the cold while we are warm and well
fed, ()bristles made us almoners
of his bounty, and we must not
prove unfaithful. Let Cbristmas bo
a day of Christian gladness, unde-
filed by anything that Christ would
not approve. It is hie day, in his
boner, and he asks the devotion of
pure and loving hearts.
front of the neck in a narrow slit its
far down as a modest decolletto
fashionable dress. Over this they
have sleovelese cloaks of dark red
stripes, and their heads are covered
with long shawls of linen beautifully
embroidered. Jnet above her fore
head each girl carries her dowery in
the shape of a wroath -like, strip (if
silver coins, which stand on end,
fastened to a string, and crown the
forehead with money. Some of the
girls have several rows of these
coins and some have crowns of gold.
Nob a few have coins of silver and
gold the size of our twenty -dollar
gold pieces hung to strings about
their necks, and none of the women
hide their pretty faces, as do those
Mabometan girls near by, who, in
shapeless white gowns with flowery
white and red veils covering their
faces, look like girls playing ghosts
in white sheets. Beside those are
Russian girls in the peasant oos-
tames of modern Europe, and low-
ish 'nektons in gowns and flowered
shawls. There are Greek priests,
with high, black caps, and mocks of
all
kinds, such as you see under the
black Cowls of Europe. The Syrian,
the Turk, tho Bedouin, the African,
the Armenian and the Greek are all
in tint oroad below me, and among
them alt is rho form of the ubiquit-
ous American traveller, who, in pith
helmet hat and green 500 umbrella,
has conquered the East as well as
the West.
The stroete of the oily are so nee -
row that no wheeled vehicle can go
through them, and Jerusalem is
more like a vast cotaoomb than a
town. Many of the streets aro vault-
ed over and you will often pass for
half -°•mild through what might be
called a subterranean cavern lighted
by openings from the top and pierced
at the sides with cave -like stores.
Tho smallest business shops In rho
world aro iu Jerusalem, and a great
many of the storea aro no bigger
than au ordinary dry -goods box,
They have no windows, and the
only light that they get comes in
from the front. I stopped this
afternoon before a shoe shop, and,
out of curiosity, took its measure-
ments. It was a hole in the wall
cut out, with a base four feet above
the cobble -stone street. A rude
stone two feet high was the step by
which the' shoemaker Drawled into
it, and it was just three feet wide,
five feet high and eight feet deep.
Tt was as dark as a pocket, and , the
shoemaker, squatted in the entrance
with a board on lie lap,. filled it
completely. He was working at a
pair of rough Bedouin shoes and the
owner of these squatted cross-legged
in his bare feet while fhb cobbler
waxed his thread, and'iu pulling it
he was careful to move his hands to•
wards the street and back into the
shop. The placewass0 small that
had he pulled histhreads in the
ordinary way ho would have barked has Dommeneed preparations for
his elbows against the walls. There p p
celebrating its centenary in 1892.
An inmate .of the penitentiary at
Salem, Ore., recently cut off hie
hand in order to get a spell of idle.
nese,
Moro oranges, lemons, bananas,
figs and raisins are consumed in the
'United Status titan in nuy other
country in the world.
An orange. grove of 80,000 trees
is to bo planted in Pomona valley,
Cal„ by a syndicate of Illinois and
Iowa capitalists. It will be the
largest iu the world.
A South Africa chief sold a gold
mine to an English speculator for a
hand organ .dud a rug. It was e,
pretty near approach to "a kingdom
for a horse,"
Over in England a gas motor has
been invented whereby you drop a
coin in the slot and got as mush gas
song. A. broad and over mermen* as you pay for, A-pennybuys the
grin spread over the car, and it few ' light of an ordinary burner for silt
seconds Tatar half a aozda boys and i house,
STRAY B118.
In 1851 the native converts to
Christianity iu India numbered 14,•
661, in 1881, 113,325.
The Baptist, Missionary unioft.
are hundreds of such shops in Jeru-
splem, and the average businose
place is more like a bank vault than
anything else.
t 'type of Young Amer tut.
A lady entered a Sixth avenue
elevated at Chacibers street, the
other afternoon,accompanied by a
5.year-old boy dreseod itt a jaunty
sailor suit. Tho oar was nrowded,
bat the lady was haudeome and well
dressed and secured a seat at once.
The sailor boy climbed upon the seat
behind the lady, " evidently hie
mother, and gazed abstractedly out
of the window for a few anoments.
Then suddenly, without a mnment's.
warning, lie began singing in a
volts° that could bo llearcl all over
the oar, the familiar 'Reale Dazzle'
A bk. Louis tazidermist, who re•
Gently presorved a large bald eagle,
says the muscles of the breast were
of great size, and formed nearly ono -
fourth the weight of the entire bird•
Sharks have become so plenty in
the harbor of Havana that a sailor's
boot thrown overboard will bring
Isalf a dozen of tho hungry mon•
stern to the surface to inquire what.
time the sailor himself expects to
tumble in.
Tiro greatest depth of the ocean
of which soundings have been taken
is off the coast of Japan. The
water at that point is five miles
deep, and on the bottom, even at
that enormous depth, traces of ani-
mal life have hien found.
The only populous center of the
world's populatiou that remains shut
up from travel is Lbassa, the capital
of Thibet. Only six or 'sveu
Europeans ever set foot in the city,
and none of there aro alive. Pre•
jevalsky,• a Russian traveler, has
mado throe attempts to enter the
city.
A man end his dog were walling
on the railroad track near Spring•
vale, Me., and when a train ap•
preached the men stepped from the
track, hat the dog did not. The
engine struck the dol; and knocked
him against the man with such
force as to render hitn insensible for
a time.
Here is a now word. The Now
York Sun notes it as follows : "In
the Asbury park directory occurs
this nano : 'J. R. Dorden, motor
neer.' Thus a now word has been
coined for the language. A mister --
neer is the man who rides on the
front of nu electric oar. and 1landles
the trolly, which runs on the wire
overhead and conveY•l the electricity
from the wires to the motor tinder
the oto'."
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Coming
Is determined to give his Customers some Cheap Goods
d wring the Iloliclay Season.
OUR GROCERY STOCK
Is now very Complete. We are giving 10 to, of Nice
Light Sugar for $1; 5 lbs. Prunes for 25c. Our 25c. Japan
Tea we guarantee is better than any can be bought in town
for 35c., and our 40c. Young Hyson is really delicious. Al]
those wishing a sup of Good. Tea should try it. Everytliin.g
in the Grocery Line we have Reduced down to the
Very Lowest Living Profit.
Our Dress Goods Department
Being very large, we have decided to sell them for the
Next 30 Days, previous to taking Steck, at COST PRICE,
We have a lot of Melton Cloths at 18 Cents, which we have
Reduced to 12. Cents. We want the Casio, and must
have it, and no Reasonable Offer will be refused for
anything in the Dry Goods line.
Now is the Time to get Bargains, ;
We have a Lot of Fancy Goods, suitable for Xinas Presents, which
we will be pleased to show, /70 matter If you don't Buy,
Give us a Call and we will give you the Best Value for
the Money ever shown in Brussels.
F, Ct ROGERS,
The
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GRAND OnnrsTa.50 D01713011 Neaman 00
The New York Fashion Bazar.
Price 00 Cents..
nr sunsenrcT19'* 8040 Asn YOAD,
The Christmas Number contains a 116.001-
acoit Chrome Supplement of Moleoouier's
great. Painting 'Prom 0AnD : 1807," repre-
seutiug Napoleon at the zenith of his glory
nalpieture t the new i Friedland.
the Metroprontolitan Tiueeum
of Arts, Now York, for wllloh 0011,000 were
paid a0 the famous for
sale.
"It is the loading fashion publication on
this continent, and to no doubt the cheap-
est," --Truro Stn.
Moot of the Fashion Plates 111 the Bazar
aro issued simultaneously in Now York aril
Paris.
It is the most complete po•iodioat for
Dprpusl.amFasrhs
on magazinelforaniothee
e uitud
t
heads of tomtit's.
The Christmas Number is Superbly Illus-
trated. A nsattlfal Colored Winter Fashion
Elate, A Brilliant Cover Plato of Children's
Winter Suits, The Plates and 7inggravings
contained in this Number embrace Wetting
and Nall Costumes, Winter Overgarments,
Visiting an,iReoopption Gowns, Winter non -
note and Mata Suits for .Boys and Girls,
Capes, Coats, Cloake, Wraps, Saoltets, Muffs,
and 0ostumo8 for all anomalous, Embroidery
Patterns, etc.
Now Stories by Mrs. Alexander, Sohn
Strange Winter, W. 17. Kerrie, Llrakmann-.
Ohatriau, a now Continued Story bypp the
author
illlustrntedoOl ietmnso'Story, untitled
"Jim.ei.the•Whim."
The Baaar llditorial Department is full of
bright articles by various oo"tri1butore,
Mrs. Stowell has an. interesting artiole on
Novelties for Christmas, Atro. Bryan has an
article 011 Elisabeth Barratt Browning. ;All
Olio regular departments aro replete with
eholoo and seasonable reading matter,
Airs, Alice Welhor writes:—"r am a dress -
Maker ,
tress -maker, and I have bought The Now .York
Fashion Baser every month for the mast
four years. 5could tot do without it. The
fashions aro the very latest"
NOW is rig Tuns ao S13i10011 s 1
1 "Any parson sanding e3 fora. year's sub.
seription will roeetvo the bountiful Oltrdetmes
Chrome Supplement of ilelssonlor's great
painting, "Friedland :1807."
The following Tramlines ,nOA0u willbo giyou
to parties sending ns onbsaripttona:
,For Live subso'1Uors, one yotr, at 83.007f
a year, we will give
For iron Snbsoribers, 010 Soar i7 00
'twenty'
• Thirty 00 BO
+ Forty07 r0
• 0tY 75 00
,r „ • 1,000 700 00
And for lassie unmUatis in proportion.
Rod vomit tahceObyS000ta1 Money 'Order,t
itogistorod hotter, or Monk, and
Atlantis— na lnits
Aurzie Henan,
p. tr, Itor "7M, 17 to 071''hdo7•atnr;itt„ N. Y, I
1,040:
oted Cheap Store.
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_he Brussels Woolen Mill
wants to get
LBS. OF WOOL
50x_ 0
either for CASH or in exchange
for Goods.
The Highest Market Price Paid. in Casio
and a Few Cents Iore in Trade.
We have a Fine Assort -
,
sent of Tweeds, Cottons,
:Flannels, Blankets, Sheet-
ing, Lnitted Goods,
Yarns, &c.
ernum®o¢.
All Wool left With us for manufacturing, whether rolls or other-
wise, will have our prompt attention.
SATISFACTION GUARANT'D
We wish to remind the Farmers that the Brussels
Woolen Mill is the place to Save Money in the purchase of
all Goods in mut Line, Si, trial will convince the most
doubtful.
OUR 013EDTENT SERVANTS,
GEO. HOWE Se Co,
1372 USr5E.L`iS.