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!szszas2szszsö2ss2s^^ * J. IHERWOOO Pitt I H. HAZA 0. Cubili The Young Housekeeper IT is invited to come here for her house furnishing goods and household hardware. W e con fine the invitation to beginners, because experienced house keepers do not have to be in vited. They come anyway be cause they have learned that what we sell is always just right in quality as well as price. 0. C SANFORD, Ant. Ctthlti FIR ST N A T IO N A L B A N K o p O O g U l l i b l , O R IO O fl. T ra n s a c t * a G eneral B a n k in g R uainea* Board t f ilractort. C srrsspssiosts R .O . Dement, A . J. Sherwood, ' National Bank o Commerce. New York Ot L . Rarloeker, L . H . Hazard, I Oroeker W oolworth N ’ lBank, San Franc! Isaiah Hacker R . K . Shine. ! First N a t' I Hank o f Portland, Portland. R. 8. K n o w i t o n , President G e o . A. R o b in s o n , Vice-Pres. R . I I . M a s t , Cashier, H. O. ÄNDERSON CUT STO RY THAT Ancestry of Santa NEVER G R O W S O LD. Like the songs that are sung In the twilight. Like all tales that are tenderly told, Like the memories of loved ones that hallow our hearts, There's a story that never grows old. "IX/E are over-stocked with Fine Cut Glass and not wishing to carry a large stock over, we will offer T O M O R R O W every article in the line at a reduction of O N E -T H IR D in price. Remember, these are goods of the very best quality. Nothing can be more appropriate and pleasing as a Christmas gift than a piece of this Fine Cut Glass. I f too late for this season, yon can afford to buy now for next Christmas. W H. SCHROEDER CHRISTMAS I Opened for Busines March. 1 8 9 0 CORKKSPONDENTS : 4 I I H A T is Santa Claus’ age? The Jolly, roistering, pot 4 1 4- j bellied, ever young old fel Hr 1 low that we know has made his appearance on earth in so many • ► Lo! The angels first sing It in guises that the secret o f his first com chorus. ing threatens to remain forever veiled And the watchers with wonder in the midst of antiquity. No one can behold. • * They’ feel the first thrill o f the say with any certainty just when he beautiful truth first made his appearance among pre In the story that never grows old. historic men, for merry old Snnta in Round the Christ Child of Bethle one form or another delighted chi I hem's cradle drens hearts In many a pagan house ] ’t Are clusters of apples of gold. hold centuries before the commence , ► And pictures of silver adorn every ment o f the Christian era and prior to page Of the story that never grows old. any recorded history. The name of Santa Claus, by which , , It gladdens the hearts of all chil he is known in America, is the Dutch dren, pet name for St. Nicholas. The name • * And millions o f manlier mold Are happier, holler, better by far, Krfss Krlngle, by which be Is known For the story that never grows in England, is a corruption of Christ old Kindlein or the Christ Child. But tlie —Franklin Trusdell. festivities that distinguish Christmas existed long before Christianity, and a jolly god of good cheer appears as the T h e C h r is t m a s G uest. personification of the period from the Whoso shall come any way this night, earlier pagan times. Now the Santa By moor or hill or shore, Claus of today Is simply that old Jolly For him the blessed candles' light. god sobered up. washed nnd purified. For him tho open door. The Dionysin of the Greeks. the Sat (Oh, Mary, this for thy Son’s sake, Though mine comes in no more!) urnalia of the Romans, the Twelve Nights of the old Norsemen nnd of the My hearth is swept, my Yule logs burn, Teutons all celebrated the coming of My board is decked and spread; the winter solstice. People then gave For any who may seein in turn themselves up to all sorts of revelry Are warmth and wine and bread. (Oh, Mary, grant my son this night and excess. In the Dionysin the repre Be housed and comforted!) sentative figure was not the young Bid, banned or beggared come for guest. Dionysus or Bacchus, but the aged cheery nnd disreputable Silenus. the My heart shall share his woes, And on his head my hand shall rest chief o f the Satyrs and the god of To bless him ere he goes. drunkards. In the Saturnalia it war (Oh, Mary, grant my son this night Saturn; in the Germanic feasts it was That blesslhg and repose!) Thor, both long bearded nnd whit«, haired gods like Silenus. This night, for thy one Son’s dear sake, Wait light and warmth and wine. Now', although the central figure of Oh, Mary, we be mothers both! the Christian festival is the child God Take these my tears for sign, the Christ Kindlein. the influence of And this I do for thy sweet Son. long pagan custom was too strong W ilt thou not do for mine? —Theodosia Garrison. within the breasts o f the early Chris tians to be easily superseded. The t.rn dition of hoary age ns the true repre sentatlve of the dying year and Its et tendaut Jollifications still remainc- smoldering under the ashes of th< past. It burst into new flame whei the past was too far back to be lookei upon with the fear and antagonism o the church and there seemed no longc any danger of a relapse Into pugnnism A t first, however, the more dignified representative was chosen as more in W IN E the bittersweet and holly keeping with the occasion. Snturi Arched above the hearthstone’s was unconsciously rebaptized as St. Nicholas, the name of the saint whose glow. festival occurs in December and W’ho Joy, not melancholy, Come, indrifting with the snow. as the patron of young people is espe In each face the frost’s a-tingle, daily fitted for the patronage of tin And afar on flying wing festival which has come to be looked Comes the alelghbell’s rhythmic Jingle upon as especially that of the young Through December Journeying. At first St. Nicholas did not supersede Bet the board and ask the blessing the Christ Child, but accompanied him For the bounty amply spread, In his Christmas travels, as. indeed, he In the simplest wfords expressing still does in certain rural neighbor What a loving Father said— “ Peace on earth” —for this is nearest hoods of Europe where the modern When the snows with us abide spirit has been least fe lt And the winter air is clearest St. Nicholas, according to the hagi- In the hush of Christmastide. ologist, was a bishop of Myra, who flourished early in the fourth century lie is the patron of children and schoolboys. It is strange that everywhere St. Nicholas is most honored and his feast day most observed the most pious and instructed among the common people know little of the legend of the saint. He is treated with that mixture of se riousness and frivolity which becomes a dying myth. In southern Germany and Austria a youth garbed as St. Nicholas and ac companied by two angels nnd a whole troop of devils in hideous masquerade, with blackened faces nnd clanking chains, on Dec. 5 (St. Nicholas’ festal day) makes a round of certain houses where the little ones of the village have been collected. To the good chil dren he brings gifts of nuts and ap ples, while the naughty ones are left to the devices of the satanic followers in his train. In many places the bugbear over shadows in importance both the Christ Child nnd St. Nicholas. He appears under different names and in different guises. In Lower Austria he is the frightful Krnmpus. with his clanking chains nnd horrible devil’s mask, who. notwithstanding his gilded nuts nnd MIS R E IN D E E R STEEDS A R E PR A N C IN G . apples, gingerbread and toys, which Bring the old musician’s fiddle. he carries in his basket, is the terror Relic of the bygone days. of the nursery. In Hanover. Holstein •end the fairest down the middle nnd Mecklenburg be is known as Clas While the llUing music sways. Ught of foot and quick of laughter. In Silesia his name is Joseph. Swing the dancers, toe and heel, Sometimes the bugbear was a female As they pass or follow after In Lower Austria she was called tli * In the quaint Virginia reel. Budelfrnu. In Sunbin it wns th* ^fake a welcome for the stranger Berchtel who chastised children, tho •benid bis footstep cross the door. did nqt spin diligently, with rods, hr,* 4y the memory of the manger rewarded the industrious with drie 1 And the Christ that was of yore pears, apples nnd nuts. Gather children’s faces round you. As he gathered them long syne, The female bogy survives espeelnll I f it be the years have crowned you in Russia and In Italy. In the forme* With their radiance divine. place she is known ns the Rnboushkr Deck the tree and light the candles, In the latter as the Befana. Befann I « Let the stockings all be hung. n corruption of Kpiphnnin or Epiph? For a saint with furry sandals ny. for It Is on Epiphany. Jon fl. th; O’er the housetops high has swung, the Italians make presents to the And his reindeer steeds are prancing Through the star bespangled rime. children In commemoration of the gif And the moonbeams pale arc glancing given by the three wise men to Chrb In the merry Christmas time. on that date -E rn e st M cGaffey f Ladd & Tilton Bank, Portland National Park, New York W cited ns reason for disbelieving the whole narration. The people of 2,000 years ago attached little Importance U dates, except current ones, and it may he remembered that the destruction of Jerusalem occurred between the time of the Nativity and the writing ot the gospels, at least In the shape In which It has come down to us. R e d F la n n e l. Red flannel as a cure for rheuma tism has ninny adherents. No doubt the fianuel keeps warm and protects the stiff Jolut nnd sore muscles, but ns far ns the color goes any other in the spectrum would be fully as effective. Like iiiuny of our hoy nnd girl super stitions, the notion has become so deeply grounded as to have an un doubtedly favorable mental effect. Per ish the iconoclast who would destroy it!—Boston Uernid. T h e M a g n e t. Magnet is derived from the name of the city of Magnesia. In Asia Minor, where the properties o f the lodestoue are said to have been discovered. It has, however, been asserted that the name comes from Mngncs. the name of a shepherd who discovered magnetic power h.v being held on Mount Ida. In Greece, by its attraction for the nails 111 Ills shoes. M o d e rn iz e d C o m p a ris o n . "The pen," remarked the rendy made philosopher, “ is mightier than the sword." “ Yes,” replied the man who writes able articles on universal peace, “ blit I ’m not sure that the typewriter is mightier than the battleship."—Wash ington Star. T h e B e n ig h t e d P a re n t. Little Girl—Why did your mamma spank you? Boston Child — Because she Is too untutored and Ignorant to devise a more modern reformatory method of punishment.—Life. U s e s o f F a ilu r s . I thank God that I was not made n j dextrous manipulator, for the most im portant o f my discoveries have been suggested to me by failure.—Sir ! Humphry Davy. The angry man should never do to day what he can put off until tomor row. First National Rank, San Francisco First Trust & Savings, Coos Bay C K fr «»» i C N S S -=.>■!_*x.x. a-s-so OLD R E L IA B L E — EQ U IPPE D W IT H W IR E LESS j; STEAMER BREAKWATER A L W A Y S ON T IM E Sail» from Portland at 8 P. 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Another theory about the star of T often lias been stated that the Bethlehem which has been advnnced birth of Christ must have occur Is that the star seen by the magi Is red four years before the date Splca, the leudlng brilliant In the con fixed on for tho current chronolo stellation of Virgo, the Virgin. For py and that it is probable the evcut be many years before and after the fell at some other time in the year Christian era the star was changing than a few days after the winter sol Its place until it was then literally a stice. The renson for the confident as "star in the east,” nnd Its movement sertion is the ascertaining of the fact that Herod died about four years B. C. The basis of this supposition Is the report that at the time of the birth of Christ “ there were shepherds nbldlug In the field, watching their flocks by night," a circumstance not natural in the latitude of Bethlehem near the shortest day. That Is the height of the rainy season in Judea, and the date does not appear to have been oh served generally before the fifth cen tury. Many students of Biblical history have argued thut the story about the star of Bethlehem points to a date for the Nativity not later than May 8, B. O. 0. On that date the planets Venus nnd Jupiter were so closely in conjunction as seen from the earth that tho apparent distance between them was equal only lo the breadth of the full moon. These “ lands were then visible in the east a couple of honrs before sunrise uud must have produced a strikingly beautiful appear ance nnd hnve been spoken of us one object. That wag about fifty days less than two years liefore the death of ; Herod, a fuct which hnrmonlr.es well with other conditions of the narrative, for It Is probable that the mandate for the slaughter o f all the children T H E S T A B O F BET11I.EUEU. two years old nnd under wns Issued aonie months before his decease, and In that direction may have been the the limit o f two years would leave an very fact noticed by the wise men of ample margin for uny uncertainty ns some centuries preceding who expect to the time of the appearance of the ed that the prophecy about the Virgin star, as related by the magi; also there would be fulfilled when Its principal were no paschal full moons on n l-'ri star readied the position noted, i f day between the years II. O. Ü and this were no the visit of the magi from A. D. 33 and no other following that Bactrla. In the far east, is easily ex till A. D. 00. plained. and the chief difficult; attend From this It would seein to follow ing the explanation lies in the fact that Christ was thirty-eight years old that such an important search ns they at the time o f the crucifixion, nnd tills undertook Is noticed by only one out would vindicate the sagacity of the of the four evangelists. Jewish doctors who nlilrmcd that he The uncertainty o f the centuriea In was not yet fifty (forty?) years old. It regard lo the date of the Nativity In Is remarked, too, that In the sitting of year nnd month may never he cleared the same year there wna a triple con up. Its existence has. been unfairly Farmers Make reservations in a«ivance at Ow l Drug Store, Marshfield. Carrying Baggage and United Stales Mail J. L. LA IR D , Proprietor T Office at L a ir d ’ s L iv e ry Barn, M y rile P oin t, Both Pboncs Try a Herald Ad Subscribe For The Heralc1 . 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