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.. .E. J. Mack
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.. .. Dr. O. E. Fort
.W. W. Page
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011 Y OF O'NEILL.
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Kin'inm J. P. U’Donnell; C'onstatiies, John
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■’ivnsiuvr, David Adams: City Engineer,
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ciiict of Police, John L>i|ipan; Attorney,
Thus. Cnrlun; Welsfbmaster, Ed. Mollride:
street Commissioner, O. E. Davidson. _
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chief Justice.Atnosa Cobb
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■1 ■ Hive.M. P Kinkaid, of O’Neill
Kcuorter.A. L. Warrick, ot' Ainsworth
Jn l 'c .A. W. Crites, of Clnulran
'porter.H. L. Lttivd^of Chadron
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he reiver.W. B. Lambert
SOLD ns MT RELIEF C0MNISS10N.
Regular mooting first Monday in Febru
ary of each year, and at such other times as
id deemed necessary. Robt. Gallagher, Pago,
chairman; Win, Bowen, Atkinson, secretary;
A. K. Buskins, Cleveland.
UT. PAT KICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH.
kj Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o'clock.
Very Rev. Cassidy, 1‘ostor. Sabbath school
immedlately following services.
IV IT ETII ODIST CIIUKCII. Preaching
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Sunday school at 12 m. Class Meeting at 10:30
a. rn. Tuesday—Young people’s meeting, 8
p. m. Wednesday—Children’s meeting, 4 p
sn. Prayer meeting, 8 p. m. Thursday—La
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PUESBYTEKIAN CIIUKCH Sendees
every Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Rev. N. S. Lovmus, Pastor.
d. A. R. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John
VJ* O'Neill Post, No. 80, Department of Ne
JiruskaG. A. U., will meet the first and third
Saturday evening ol’ each month in Masonic
hall O’Neill. S. J. Smii h. Com.
Meeta every Wednesday evening’in
Odd Fellows’ ball,
invited to attend.
0. H. Milts, feec.
visiting brothers cordially
J. F. Pfcin’dek, N.G.
fYNEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 30.1.
y. 0.0. F. meets every second and fourth
i rmnysoi' each month in Odd Fellows’ Hall.
G. M.Cleveland, :
S. Wolf, C. P.
pl»KN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS
r-* Ofc UKHiiKAH, meets every 1st and lid
bnduy of each month in Odd Fellows’ llall.
Alice Adams, M. O.
■oLLA Dark, Secretary.
(iAliriELU LODGE,NO,95,F.dfcA.M.
va iteguiar communications Thursday uight3
SiSrw?0Jore the lull of the moon.
LA». 1. Evans, Sec. A. L. Towle, W. M.
CIIAPTKIt, K. A. M.
s* “t'Cts on livst and tlilrd Thursday of each
U',tv 'll Masonic hull.
I’omis, See. J. C. HAiunsn, H, 1
K ?Pi>-—11ELMET LODGE, U. I).
o. !’.n.v.cntlon every Monday at 8 o'clock p.
.“'J!1 .Pdd Fellows’ nail. Visiting bretheru
'-cranilly invited.
W-J. Dobbs, IC. It. of S
S. J. Wekkes, C. C.
(iJJATTAN ALLIANCE NO. 4117.
i-„„„?,rr;.ltr3 Allluuco moots every second and
iiivit.,rt i^',*r<1“V at 3 p. in. Visiting members
m,AH good farmers urged to become
'’n;1'?' J no. Fallon, l*rest.
^eilA!., iNCiEBSOLL, Seo.
D*;i«WK ALLIANCE, NO. 003,
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S 11 ,m,intil at L’riah Fellows'.
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W. T. EVANS, Prop.
A SHAKER CHRISTMAS!
HOW THE FESTIVAL IS KEPT BY
THESE RELIGIOUS CELIBATES.
The Day la One of Great Significance to
Them and la Obaerved with Great
Solemnity—Their Songs, Marchea and
Shaking—The Chrlatmaa Dinner.
No one probably celebrates the glad
Christinas holiday in a more peculiar
way than do the Shakers, those strange
yet industrious celibates who were
brought over from Englnnd considerably
over a century ago by the good old
“Mother Aun Lee.” There are several
colonies of theso queer people in the
United States, and all enjoy the same
pleasures, if there can be such a thing in
their lives, and all believe in the same
doctrines. Years ago these honest but
misguided peoplo discovered that the
Scriptures directed all men and women
to live apart. They believe that be
cause the Messiah did not marry it is a
sin for thorn to do so, and consequently
there is but one love in their lives, and
that a love of religion.
The Shakers have u manner and style
peculiarly their own and worship G-od
in every breath. Believing as they do
in the Messiah, they think it a duty to
celebrate the birth of the Saviour, and
their servico on Christmas day is most
beautiful and impressive.
The remark “still as a Shaker meet
ing” has often been heard, and those who
have attended a meeting of these devout
people know that a word is never spoken
until the “spirit moves,” and so it goes
from Sunday to Sunday until Christmas
comes, which with them means a day of
the greatest devotion. The day to them
does not bring the joys, pleasures and
dissipations of the world, there is no giv
ing of gifts, no belief in St. Nicholas, no
Christmas tree and no pleasures, in fact
nothing but prayer. No preparations
are muuo lor me giau iesuvai.
Tlio morning before Christmas tha
celibates move toward the little church
in couples. The men go by themselves
and dress in the conventional black, with
broad brimmed hats and gaze straight
before them. They never smile, for to
smile is a sin in their belief. The wom
en follow the men, and wear Shaker bon
nets of yellow straw and gray gowns,
and look prim and quaint. A large
white handkerchief covers the chest in
primitive simplicity. Quietness reigns
throughout the day, never a word being
spoken. In fact the spirit does not
move, and the people stand there for
hours like statues. At sundown they
go to the dormitories and retire.
Christmas morning they go to the
church again and pass the holiday in
prayer, song and religious glorification.
They stand perfectly quiet and mute un
til the “spirit moves,” when each one
gives his or her experience, for on this
day above all they delight in testifying
to their great and complete happiness.
A Shaker church is entirely different
from the “world’s people’s” church. In
stead of seats or pews, as are usually
seen in churches, there is a big open
space, and the men and women range
themselves on opposite sides of the room.
One of the elders makes a short address.
Then all is quietness. After about half
an hour a dozen or so of the younger
people, either male or female, or perhaps
both, enter the center of the space and
begin a solemn march.
The Shakers sing beautifully and their
tunes are remarkably pretty, sprightly
and quick in character, and have a won
derfully fascinating air. The rich, deep
bass voices harmonize perfectly with the
clear, sweet and high tenors and so
pranos. Almost irresistibly the feet and
hands of all commence keeping time
with rythmical beats. Soon the entire
body of Shakers are moving around the
singers. As the music increases the
men and women circling around be
come so imbued with the beating of the
notes that their bodies swing and rock,
their feet danee and shuffle, their hands
and arm3 swing and beat the air, all in
perfect keeping with the music. This
grows more intense until they all drop
from sheer fatigue. Quietness again
reigns for nearly an hour, when the
same performance is gone over, and then
over again, until sundown, when all re
pair to the dormitories to enjoy the only
meal in the year in each other’s com
pany, for on every other day the men
and women eat by themselves.
The Christmas dinner of the Shakers
is not like the Christmas dinner of the
world’s people. There are no wines, fruits
nor delicacies. They have turkeys,
ducks, chickens and plain bread and
butter and vegetables of every kind,
well cooked and in the greatest abun
dance. The women occupy one side of
the table, the men the other. The elder
sits at the head and invokes divine bless
ing, then each man and woman rises al
ternately and lifting their right hand
say, “God is love.” They then begin
eating, and during the meal not a word
is spoken, each one helping himself or
herself to what they desire. They drink
an enormous quantity of milk during
the meal. At .the conclusion of the
Christmas dinner all rise and sing. Tiie
clear voices of the celibates make the
banquet room ring with a soft and
charming melody. The hands and feet
of all keep time.
After the song the elder raises his eyes
heavenward and chants a prayer in
which all join, after which they march
from the room in couples, the men to
gether and the women by themselves,
and go to their dormitories. The re
mainder of the night, while the world
outside is enjoying itself in every con
ceivable dissipation, is given up to song
and prayer, and all night long the voices
of the Shaker sisters and brothers are
heard through the halls.
The Shakers are kind hearted and gen
erous. They are very hospitable, and it
is one of their principles to entertain and
honor all who come into their little
world. For days before Christmas they
find great pleasure in sending good
things to the poor in the neighborhood,
and no matter how poor a man may be,
he is sure of a good Christmas dinner if
he lives in the neighborhood of a colony
of Shakers.—Buffalo Express.
WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS.
Celebrated ft Holy Dny Hinee tit* Tew
of Our lord 08.
At midnight on tho 25th of this month
the birthday of the Saviour of mankind'
will have been celebrated for the seven
teen hundred and ninety-second time,
for Christmas was first kept as a holy
day A. D. 08. Wo have no means of de
termining the exact date of the Saviour’s
nativity.
As to the year, preponderance of opin
ion and of such evidence os we have
seems to favor that of 4 or 5 B. C. As
to the month, December is the height of
the rainy season in Judea, and, there
fore, tho fact, as stated by the New Tes
tament, that shepherds were watching
their flocks on its plains while stars were
shining in the heavens on the night of
the Saviour's birth, makes it extremely
unlikely that it could huve occurred in
that month. Many learned treatises
have been written and plausible argu
ments advanced to prove that it must
have taken place in October, but tho
question will ever remnin in abeyance.
For tho first three centuries Christmas
was ono of the most movable of all re
ligions festivals. The Eastern church
observed Jan. 6 as the anniversary both
of Christ’s birth and circumcision. But
in the Fourth century Pope Julius I or
dered an investigation of tho matter,
and after long deliberation the theolo
gians of both the east and the west
united in appointing Deo. 25 to be kept
ns Christ’s birthday. It seems not im
probable that in selecting Dec. 25 ns tho
date of tho greatest event save one—tho
crucifixion—in the world’s history tho
worthy fathers were influenced by n de
sire to supplant the many heathen fes
tivals of the winter solstice, such as tho
Saturnalia, or great festival of Saturn
and Ops, which began on Dec. 10 (or
after Cmsar’a reformation of the calen
dar on the 17th) and continued for seven
days.
I 11119 presumption Is made more prob
able from the fact that for many centu
ries the festivities of Christinas were
prolonged until “Twelfth night,” Jan. 0,
and even till Candlemas day, 'Feb. 2,
while they usually began as early us the
night before All Saints’ Day, or Hal
loween, thus showing the desire of the
early fathers of tho church to make the
heathen converts to Christianity feel
that they had lost nothing in harmless
pleasure and enjoyment by the substi
tution of the Christian festival for the
heathen one.
Not only did the Romans observe this
period of the year as a time for mirth
and rejoicing, but many of our most
familiar Christmas usages are derived
from the old heathen festivals which
Christmas replaced. Tho custom of
giving Christmas presents, now so uni
versally observed, was derived from the
old Roman Saturnalia or Feast of Saturn,
above mentioned, at which it was cus
tomary for all tho members of a house
hold to offer gifts to one another.
The Yule clog, or log—the great stick
of timber placed in olden tiine3 upon the
Christmas tire—was derived from the
Saxon fsast of Jul or Yul, at which a
similar piece of timber gave .the princi
pal tiro and the principal light. The
Yule clog and the superstitions con
nected with it are among the most ven
erable of Christmas associations. The
Yule clogs that blazed fn the vast halls
of the old English feudal barons of the
Middle Ages were huge trees, and we are
told that even just before the close of
the last century the mansion of an Eng
lish gentleman residing near Shrews
bury was totally destroyed by fire in
consequence of too large a Yule log hav
ing been lighted on his hearthstone.
When the Yule clog was not all con
sumed before dawn and burned on into
the light of Christmas day, its ashes were
carefully preserved until the next Christ
ir as eve.
The custom of decorating churches,
dwellings and places of business with
evergreen, holly, laurel, bays and mis
tletoe at the Christmas season has also a
heathen origin, being a perpetuation of
an observance of tiie old British Druids,
whose belief it was that kindly sylvan
spirits sought these ornaments of living
green and hovered near them, untouched
and unharmed by nipping frost, until
the death of winter.
Those same old Druids attached much
importance to the mistletoe, investing it
with a peculiarly hallowed and mystic
character. They regarded it as an em
blem of love and believed that it typi
fied the beneficent feelings of their gods
toward mankind. It is doubtless to this
old Druidical association of the mistle
toe with love that the English custom,
which still obtains, of enforcing the for
feit of a kiss from any female who is
caught under a branch of it at Christmas
time is traceable.
13y the celebration of Christmas, with
its grand liturgy, its magnificent music
and its pictorial and dramatic repre
sentations of the principal events in the
life of him whose birth it commem
orated, the church sought to replace
these heathen festivities and to lift up
the minds of the people to something
higher and holier, though from the first
the day was regarded both as a holy
commemoration of a most sacred event
and as a mirthful, joyous festival. In
the Middle Ages the festive observances
of the day often so far overtopped its
more sacred features that the clergy
were frequently compelled to check the
unseemly merriment of their flocks.
The name of Christmas assigned to
the festival was derived from Christ and
the Saxon maesse or mass, and the two
words were combined to denote a special
service in honor of the birth of the Son
( of God.
Probably one of the most generally
known of the old Christmas observances,
; next to the giving of presents, is the
singing of Christinas carols. These were
pious canticles designed to replace the
ribald songs of the old heathen festivals,
and the cqstom of children and even
grown people going about from house
to house singing them at the door on
Christmas eve and being rewarded with
Christmas cheer and Christmas spend
ing money is maintained in many parts
of England even at the present day.—
New York World.
7-:
CHRISTMAS CAROL
The earth has grown old with ita harden at
' oe.ro,
llut nt Christinas It always la young.
Tho lioart of the Jewel burnt lustrous and fair.
And Its soul full of muslo breaks forth on the
• air.
When tho song of tho angola Is sung.
It Is coining, old earth, It Is coming tonlghtl
On thu snowflakes which cover tny sod
The foot of tho Christ child fall gentle and
white,
And tho voice of the Christ ehtld tells out with
delight
That mankind are the children of Ood, -
On tho sad and the lonely, the wretched and
poor,
Tho voice of the Christ child shall fall;
And lo every blind wanderer open the door
Of n hope that he darod not todroamof before,
With a sunshine of weloomo for all.
The foot of tho humblest may walk In the field
Where tho feet of tho Holiest have trod,
This, this Is the marvel to mortals revealed
When the silvery trumpets of Christmas have
pealed,
That mankind are the children of God.
—Phillips llrooks In Youth's Companion.
BABY'S CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Little Margarita Hail Her Own View*
About Making Presents,
We were talking over Christmas gifts
at luncheou, when Margarita said:
“Want to buy Kis'mas p'esents tool
Want to buy Kis’mas p’esents tool”
At once Uncle Jim exclaimed:
“So Margurita shall buy Christmas
presen tsl”
Upon which Margarita rewarded him
with a smile enchanting enough to have
made a far poorer man than Uncle Jim
do exactly what Uncle Jim did. He
pulled a big roll of bank bills from his
pocket and put them in the little one's
tiny hand.
“That is all nonsense, Jim! Don't you
do it I” said papa.
“She will bankrupt you in an hour,
said Inez.
“I wouldn’t, Jim,” said mamma gen
tly. “She knows no more about the
worth of money than any other little
two-year-old girl, if she is my baby and
your niece.”
“You were two and a half years old
last month, woren’t you, pet?" cried her
uncle, catching her in his arms. “And
you shall buy some Christmas presents
if you want to. We don’t care what
they say. We will show them that Mar
garita has as much wisdom as some older
people in selecting gifts. We know,
don’t we, pet?”
And of course Margarita said yes.
So it came about that aB the others
were engaged I accompanied Margarita
that afternoon on her first round of
Christmas shopping. I had my strict in
junctions from Uncle Jim not to urge
any purchase upon the child, but to al
low her to have her own choice in every
thing, provided prices did not excoed a
certain stun.
When Margarita’s nurse brought hor
down to the carriage she did look sweet
and wise enough to almost win me over
to Uncle Jim’s opinion,
i Thinking that books would please the
little one as much as anything, we drove
to a book storo and made our way from
counter to counter. At first nothing
seemed to interest Margarita so much os
the gay crowds of people. Finally, she
looked up from a picture book, in reply
to my question, “What do you want to
buy for Maurice?” she said, “Want to
buy tandy lelephant.”
At the confectioner's there was a
grand array of sugar animals, and Mar
garita seized upon a white elephant, and
was perfectly satisfied.
“Will tie little lady have anything
else?” asked the saleswoman politely.
“Do you want to buy anything here
for Inez or Uncle Jim or nurse?” I asked.
But the yellow curls shook decidedly
as she answered:
“Noffln now.”
Our next stop was at a large fancy
goods store, and I thought thnt here the
l little girl would certainly suo something
; to strike her fancy. But the beautiful
j things were passed unheeded. At last
she said: ,
“Want to buy mamma a tandy titten!”
As Tony, the coachman, said that
there was a confectioner's near by, we
drove there inst ead of to the place where
we bought the elephant.
A saleswoman informed me that I
would find the animals at the lower end
of the store, whereupon Margarita said:
“Don’t want to buy animals! Want
to buy a tandy titten!”
! Of’ course everybody within hearing
I laughed, and I hurried Margarita along
j toward the counter where kittens were
kept.
The purchase made, other stores were
visited, but all to no purpose. Five
times we returned to one or the other of
, the two large candy stores for a “tandy
i wabbit” for nurse, a “tandy piggy” for
Inez, a “tandy but’fly” for Nannie, a
“tandy mousey” for papa, and, to cap
all, which was, like the others, her own
choice, a “tandy monkey” for Uncle
Jim.
--Aren t you going to ouy me any
thing?” I asked.
“No,” said Margarita, rather wearily,
“I loves ’ou!” as if love were enough, and
I felt that it was.
Contrary to my expectations, the lit
tle ono was silent in regard to her shop
ping, und even Uncle Jim asked no
questions.
On Christmas eve I went to the drawer
where I had put the gifts that Margarita
had bought, but not a package was there.
I felt almost certain that Margarita had
not touched them, for she was not a med
dlesome child. But if she had not been
asleep I would have.questioned her. As
it was I searched everywhere, but could
find no trace of them.
The next morning I asked Margarita
about it.
She looked up innocently and said,
with the sweetest smile in the world,
“Oh, I eated up thum all!”—Toronto
Empire.
Mrs. Snowden—I hear that Jimmy
I Jenkins, the coachman, has eloped with
j old Moneybag's daughter. Mr. Snow
den—That will tickle the old man im
mensely. Mrs. Snowden—How so? Mr.
Snowden—Why, the old skinflint will
j get out of giving her a Christmas pres
ent.—Kearney Enterprise.
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Bugar-oured Ham, Broakfaat Baaotv
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Fined turnout* In the city. Good, care
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Wagon'and Carriage Repair
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Hand-Made Shoes Made to ant Order
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