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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1895)
mmiuimmi mmimmum. "3 iwtMniwuiiu'w. w&2,ms e Vlo. mJV JtfyT2S. - J. 'M'. 9fi ' -T . k .1.. ..I . In rones oi IIU..IIUB whlleiiOHU; And IpwpIpiI npnivs r nst niul ilinu To foroMt IiciiikMm nti- cIIiibIiik: .A ml hwmi tin- anilii-m niul milillmo Tho Chtlntmits nullum u iIiikIiik. ,lt wnltrw old memories imalm Tho vanished past In nlgli us; U tVi'l anew "lil IiIIhi. old pain, And loan-lout ft ifinlH tit" ly iim Ktlcndw wliii hitvii reached the better tund, Krli'tidH who have tn-vcr faltered .vin friendship o'un in omul uh ulmiil Willi JilendH L-HttniiKCil and tillered. Ami voIppk silent low? we liear Hwoot voids oT pardon npeiiklnrr; .Afi1 oilier voices renrh our ear, Our womIh of piudon kcpIiIiik: Tho wioncH we met loo Ulvlal seem To merit uiiKry fcelliu;: "Tile wroiiKH we did we Kienter deem While Christmas Iil-IIhiiiu pcullntf. Ami wo forget to nchenie and plan Wllllo Clll iHtmiiH hells III o tcllliu; Of lilm who i mm' In milne of man On earth to elalm a dwelling The mveet hell:i hoiiikIIiik near and far Calm, holy thoughts atn hi ImjIliK, jftml lleiiven and eai th the neatei aru While Christiana hellH inu rhuslm?- ChamhciH Joiirnul. i.7- i Vfc '. , "..." ' .. ri . ' ES '.' jy e mr-mu Kt ii r.Hii i mil h mi llat rtii .. it.. ..IV my mind ft r .....i l ' Vfl rt llliwiiii-i ji-m. f Air, March gave an iuipa- tltfiit. little (line; to this Inst sheet in use rieaof letters he hud been writing. Short .him! Klevwotypcd they were nil miming .i;iui:Ji (iko this: "Dkaii : Inclosed find a trifle In re- cucmhruueu of thu day, with Kood wishes ftirull. Affectionately, "John AIaucii." "It's a kind of nuisance," went on Air. .March, as he guzed at (he checks w hieh J;jy on Jiis desk with the letters, eaeli tine thinned olV and left to dry w hilu tlut others were written. "1 don't know " -ii grumbling coining into his tone "really, 1 don't why I should keep it j year after year. There are some tlilngr. wliieh might he eonsidered out j'rmvii xls time goes on, and this is ono jf them." Slill Mr. Alareh had a feeling that it -would not he discontinued, this eery 'Cliristmas oll'eriug of a small sum of money to each one of his kindred; it vhh too firmly based on old associa tion. With this passage of the years Sic had grown apart Irom them; his in terests and theirs had become wide ly sejiarated, and yet he could not well iisLVis pevsuadel himself to sever this jilmoHl unly link wiiieli bound him to M)n iiicmbers of his own family. rit. liad begun soon after he had left Iftouiu jind come up to the great city in r.erircli of the fortune which hud fiu.'illy erowned'his ell'orts. lie had done well from the first; and,eeu now, jis ne gnzoil u)on the live cheeks, he re vralled with a slight warmth at his heart the. first time he had sent home giftsof money. They had been smaller then; m dollar each to three cousins, live dol i&u'K each to his brother and sister. Wlm-t a. stir they had made in thu fain fly. John could easily realize the l'eel ling' oT opulence whiuh it spread oer his :tmme roof niul that of his uncle lhing :xiear. I.uter he had enlarged the gift, .llrother, sister and cousins had married mud et up homes of their own. None ot them had, like himself, prospered .tibuttdaiitly; and when first John JMarcli hail written out three eheeks for Uen dollars and two for twenty-live, Sic Htill knew the rejoicing they would -:arry into families in which money xva KiMirce. Ke had rejoiced In doing it, all thu iniore that a little eliort and self-denial 2iail been necessary accompaniments of the gifts. That was many years ago. Time and circumstances had built up -walls between him and his relatives, mtul the old lKiirtiness of good will was -wanting. "It is really time I was letting itgo." .&. thought crossed him of how good the itiit. of money still came to its recipients. -"Hut I'm under no obligations to keep ill up. 1 have made my money they iiail the same chance. Their lives aro 'uhiit they liuvu made them, just as iiuine is what I have made it. They ex fiect help from me, and they have no .right to." He fretfully recalled the time when 'it had been represented to him that tin Jens the brother who still held the old iUonteislead had a lift of a few hundred vIoII.-uH tiie place would pass out of his hands. It had been given, and that wjia the end of nny trouble from David. Willi his sister it had been worse. She liad made an unfortunate marriage, .and then been widowed, Aleck and mild in her disposition, she liad never .'iirectly implied to him except wlien i w ' M Jl 1 91 w a 'filll'IU, r'TrW'1 Hi: midoU'Iit stars I ROT J AMb h''1"" "vi-iiii-itti J!rfLMH7 -i in- IiiHh aii-i vulluyn i M ?y ' tit nniiyil &&1 1$ vv T'mu-M d in extremities, but was glen to keep ing Iiit burdens and struggles before him in a way which he sometimes found exasperating. Cousin Tom had been a M-npegrnoc nlwnyn in trouble, always looking for some one to help him out and set him going again on the basis of many prom ines of better things. Cousin Harvey was the possessor of a large family and small everything else. It was not so 'vy longsinee Mr. March had helped him out west, finishing his assistance with flu- suggestion that in future it would be agreeable that lie should keep his (lilllcultieH to himself. Cousin .Ma tilda had a sickly family; a wail from her on the subject of pressing doctor's bills was freipieiilly heard. "No," resumed Mr. Alurcli, as he fold ed one of the cheeks, "people have no right to inllict their misfortunes on some one else just because he has achieved success where they have failed. That you. Mike V" "It's inesilf, nor. Heady to shut up when you say the worrud." "I'll take the key myself. I'm not pilte done yet, but you needn't wait." Alike, however, showed no hurry to leave, but busied himself about the room with occasional glances at Air. March. "That'll do, Mike," at length said tho gentleman, somewhat annoyed by the rattle of shovel and tongs, which seemed to show unusual excitement in Mike. He; came slowly toward Mr. Alareh an undersized llguru of an oldish man with u painful limp. "If I might bo tiirubblin' ye jlut a minnit, sur." "tioon, Alike; no more law-suits, hey V" "No more o' thim. it's the funny mail ye arc, sor." Mike shook his head, his whole insignillcant face beaming with delight. "It's only that bein' it's the blessed sayson com in' so near Christinas eve to-morrow, glory be to (iodl that I'm axin' a bit o' help o' ye, Must her March, tosind a bit of a prisint to me two lirothers, l'at an' Dinnis." "Oh I So you hae relatives too, have you 7" "Thanks to the blissid saints I have, nor. An' so I'm coniin' to ye to fix up the bits o' paper that'll carry some .. . D - JLs-ArJ) ; :0, vr lir i mioiit in: Titouiu.i.N' money o thim two the lcetle mite of a sciap that manes so much." Mike laughed aloud as if in great relish of the subeet. "Cheek, hey? Well, here," Air. Alareh again opened his cheek-book and again began rapidly tilling a blank. "To the order of what's the naineV" "l'at rick OToole," Alike paused a moment as the name was written, then proceeded "live hun'erd dollars." "Hey V" Air. Alareh gave his chair a little jerk and mred into the thin, freckled face surrounded with its fringe of ill-kept red hair streaked with gray. "Five hun'erd dollars to I'atriek O'Toole," repeated Alike in the del'b- erate tone of one taking special pains to make himself understood. "What do you mean, Alike'.'" ".list phut I'm aft her sayin, sur. Five hun'erd dollars to I'atriek O'Toole, an' live hun'erd dollars to Dennis O'Toole." "Out of your damage money 7" Air. Alnreh asked, bcfteen two hliort breaths of astonishment. "That'll lie it, sur. Where else would tho likes o' mo be gettin' the hun'erd dollurs7" "Where, sure enough! Why " .Mr. Alareh gazed at tho old janitor witli a comical mixture of amaumeut and friendly contempt. "Why you old tool!" Alike stood quietly with a brond grin on his face. "Do you mean to say," went on the gentleman, "that you're going to give such amounts out of the two thousand ''A'v I . ' 7 ','. x ; W ' - ffWfi .' ffto w fmM ft .... ,i - yT dollars you got ns damages from the i trcet railway for injuries which have made you a cripple for life7" "Such amounts" seemed a little be wildering to Alike. "Would ye be thlnkin' I ought to lie dividin' tiiqull wld 'cm, bein' they're me own brothers, sur7" he began. "Oo long with you!" said Air. Alareh, with a laugh and a stamp of his foot. "Mike," he continued, seriously ,"if you do mean such u crazy thing, I hope you will hear me when I advise you against it. Why, man, you are gettipg old. Your two thousand dollars isalinostall your dependence for your old age for you and your wife." "It's tlie ould wife and mesilf 'II be alriiin' this many a jcar yit, sur, plase I he 1ird." "Hut, Alike, think of the difference this money wili make in your comfort. With your simple ways it will make years of ease in your life. You can sit by your fire in your own snug hired room, instead of working hard you with your crippled limb." The old man set his lips slightly to gether as he gaed at his employer. Air. Alareh had once or twice noticed the mildness of the insignificant gray eyes looking out from under lids reddened by exposure; now the mildness was in tensified by a smile of rare sweetness. "Musther Alareh," he said, "I know It all. none betther nor mesilf. 1 know jist how much aisier it is to sit by the fire nor to go out in the perishin' cold wld thu ache in me ould bones. Hut ye see, sur, they're me own flesh an' blood l'at and Dennis. 'I'heyfeel tho pinch and Uic hardness jist like mesilf. Would it be mesilf 'u'd sit by me lire takiu' me aise know-in' things was harder for thim nor for me? lie me now 1 1 Alusther .March, I'm thinkin' it's the stingy ould rascal I'm bein' not to give thim more." "Mike, you're a fool!" repeated Air. Alarth, but more quietly than before, and simply to till in the pause. "It'll be raichin' 'cm the inornin' of the blissid Christmas day." Alike took a few limping steps in growing excite ment. "Think of it, sur! It'll bo makin' 'em feel rich! It'll bring the slnnile to their faces, and the laugh to ry . V O ,,, S . . j. yu jist a mix nit, sun. 'em, Cod bless 'em! on His own birth day! It'll aiso the ache that no one but the blissid Lord an thimsilves knows of." Yes, there was a radiance added to the gentleness in the faded eyes a radiance written by a joy of which few in this self-seeking world know tho taste. Without saying more Air. Alareh wrote the cheeks, to which the old man added his tremulous signature. As the sound of the limping footsteps died away in the hall, Air. Alareh turned again to the lle checks on his desk. "They look small es, they do." Alechanically ho added a cipher to the one nearest him. 'That looks better." A cipher was added to each check. "One hundred. Two hundred mid fifty. They'll all have to be written oer." Air. Alareh leaned his head on his hands, less in a hurry to get home than he had thought. The glorified face of the old servitor was still before his mind's eye. Air. Alareh doubted if ever in hu life ho had looked into a happier one. "Cutting down his bit of n nest-egg ho the poor old simpleton! Likely enough to end his days in the poorhou.su jut." Hut it was with a softened smile that the rich merchant thought it. Then his mind ran over his own affairs. Prospered from his first beginnings he hud, during these few later years, taken huge strides towards a colossal fortune. Seven figurca it would take, he well knew, to express what ho wan worth, and the initial lijjtire would not be- one of the smaller ones, either. Jiis own family llw-d well, but not extravagant ly; his yearly expenses were but a small proportion of his rapidly increasing yearly income "And I've never made anyone feci rich. Old Alike's ahead of me there." With a shrug of his shoulders he drew towards him one of thu checks and added to it another cipher. Hieh? There was not one of theso families to whom such a cheek would not come as an angel's gift, with stares mil catches of breath, tears of joy from care-burdened elder ones, shouts of de light from youngsters, He knew it all, lor he hud been poor himself, long ago. "One thousand dollars. Twenty-five hundred dollars." There was a little excitement about it. Air. Alareh left his chair and walked up and down the floor. How had it been that he had never before realized what a small scratch of his pen ootild ill.? They were his own ilesh and blood. They were in ono way and an other enduring the hardness, the daily md nightly wear of mind, the pitiful, gnawing solicitude which belongs with small means. Soul, mind and body, the hardness touched them all, binding them down with its iron touch, narrow ing them with its cruel limitations. His own llesh and blood. They had stood to him as of far less value than this money he had been accumulating --money which could never bringtohim tin re than food, clothing' and lodging. Yes, it could. It could bring to him, to his very self, his very heart, the hap piness of live families this rare privi lege which ho thanked Cod could come with an easy scratch of his pen. As he still crossed and recrosscd his oliico floor his movements became quicker, a glow spread over his face, and a new light shono in his eye. At length lie sat down and slowty wrote again the checks, lingering over them as over an enjoyable task; and when all were finished each showed still ono more cipher. Sydney Dayre, in Dem orest's Alagazine. (ii'iio-rntii I.lttlo rreilily. "Freddy," said Airs. (Jazzam to her little boy, about eleven o'clock on Christmas morning, "you ought to be a very happy boy with all these presents that have been sent you." "Yes'ni," replied Freddy, as he pound ed his new drum with heavy whacks. "There are a great many little boys who haven't even a single present to day." "Is that so7" asked Freddy. And ho gave his watchman's rattle an excruciating- twist. "In the hospital on the next street, Freddy, there are lots of children poor, sick children, too who haven't any cousins and uncles and aunts and grandparents to send them nice things." "I'm sorry for them," said Freddy. And he blew n blast on a shrill horn to display the extent of his sorrow. "So am J sorry for them, Freddy. Now, would you like to send them some tliing to show what a generous, dear little fellow mamma's boy is7" "I s'pose so," replied Freddy, in a hesitating tone. "I thought in' little mnn would want to. He'll feel so glad that he has given pleasure to the poor, sick little boys and girls. Shall 1 make up a bundle? You really have a great many more toys than you want." "Yes, mamma." "Very well. I'll send that big tin horn that your Uncle Tom brought you this morning, and that drum that grandpa told Santa Clans to put in your stock ing, and the watchman's rattle thnt Aunt Sue sent from Oshkosh, and tho mouth-organ that you found In your stocking, and that accordion that enmo from the Wigginses, and the kazoo that Uncle William bought for you." Freddy demurred a little, but his gen erosity was at stake. Hit noise-makers were bundled off to the hospital, and then Freddy's mamma lay down to take a little nap and get out of her ears the din that had been gathering there since daybreak. Wil liam Henry Siviter, in Puck. iu,i:ssi:i ib-vz. .lackson, dr. Whiid is 1 gwine t' git on Chris'inus, nuidder? Airs. .lackson (ominously) Nuflln, of y'o' behabes yo'se'f. Judge. Nolhini: Left for lilm, "How are you going to upend tho holi days, old fellow?" "Not at all. Aly wife does nil tho ppomling for thu fiuuly."Atlniitu Constitution. in: notiiino. wmmmm, m. 07 1 ST. Loris AVON. Sho Socuros tho Nntional Repub lican Convontion. I'lie Contest In the Committee Decided on the I'lfth HnlJiit Tlio Convention Will lie Held .June 1(1 Com mittee rroi'itcdliiKi. Washixoto.v, Dec. 11. Tho repub lican national convention will bo leld at St. Louis on .June Hi next. That was the decision reached by tho re publican national committee yester day sifter spirited balloting lasting two hours. The successive ballots were as follows: St Louis HI, 11, 18, '1, 'J!); San Francisco UO, 10, 1!, 19, Hi; Pittsburgh!),",!;, 1, x; Chicago s, 8, I), !), 0; New York 1, x. x, x, x. Tho morning was spent in hearing speeches in behalf of tho contending cities, the doors being open to the various con testing delegations. This concluded, tlio committee began its afternoon session behind closed doors. An eager crowd choked up the corridors leading to tlio committee room and awaited tho announcement of results. The first important question of the afternoon was the fixing of thu date of the convention. Tho executive committee reported a resolution favor ing .luno 10. This was amended by Committeeman Leiinun, of Utah, in favor of August 18. There was a sharp debute, and Air. De Young, of Califor nia, finally proposed a compromise be tween .luno and August, viz., .Inly. The Do Young and Launan amend ments were both defeated, and then by a practically unanimous vote the ditto was fixed at .luno 10. Then came the main contest between the cities. There was much excite ment as the ballots proceeded, the com mitteemen from the interested sections hurrying and seeking to effect combi nations. At the outset San Francisco secured one more than tlio nineteen claimed from the first. The announce ment of her lead was greeted with en thusiasm when it reached the outer corridors. Tho (strength of SL Louis was somewhat greater than had been expected, while neither Pittsburgh nor Chicago made the showing anticipated. St. Louis gained steadily on each ballot. San Francisco sought to meet this by draw itig the votes of Chicago, but without avail. Tho first serious break occurred when David Alartin, of Pennsylvania, led tho Pittsburgh forces toward St. Louis. On the fourth and last formal ballot San Francisco broke for the first time, Alichigan, Wyoming and Connecticut going to St. Louis. That settled it, and gave St. Louis the con vention. The choice was made unani mous on motion of Air. De Young, of San Francisco. After concluding the ballot, the com mittee took up the question of terri torial delegates, and recommended that New Alexico, Arizona, Utah and Oklahoma each select four delegates in addition to the two heretofore chos en. A hearing was accorded Airs. .1. Ellon Foster, who spoke of woman's influence in behalf of the party. At (I o'clock the committee had com pleted its labors and adjourned. The executive committee then held a brief session to arrange tho details of the convention in accordance with tho de termination of the full committee. L ABOR MATTER S. l)olii', of the l.nlioi- Cniu-riMH Itixolu timis Adopted. Nr.w YoitK, Dec. 11. At yesterday's session of tho American Federation of Labor President John AIcHride was ex onerated of the charges that during a strike in Pennsylvania he had accept ed a bribe. It became evident early in the day that any attempt on the part of the socialists to run the con vention would be nipped in the bud. In fiiet,tlicotherdelogitteselaimed that any interference whatever on the part of the socialists would be promptly "squelched." A part of the report of the executive council, which is likely to cause a breeze in tho convention, refers to the request of tho Trade and Labor as sembly of St. Louis that tho charter of the .Musicians' Mutual Honefit associa tion No. .1,.r7." be revoked, because the latter organization refused to strike to support the theatrical stage employes. Tho council refused to revoke the char ter and presented this resolution for adoption in its report: liesolvoil, Tlmt no eontrul body or stato fod Piuiion iinlllnted with tlio American Fuilum tion of Labor shall h.ivu the rlulit to expel or suspend dolPK.ues of nny local or imtlniml unlcin for refusing to violate a contract eiist ini; with tlio employes. A resolution was agreed to authoriz ing the executive council to formulate charges against the secretary of thu treasury for permitting a violation of tlio eight-hour law. To Protect 1'rnslonern. Wasuinoton, Doc. 11. Judge 11 rod -eriek put in another bill on the pen sion question yesterday, which is far reaching nud intended to meet recent conditions arising in tlio pension busi ness. His bill is to prohibit thu ma licious intermeddling with pensions mid in claims for pensions. It is pro vided that it shall bo unlawful for any officer of tho pension bureau or any officer connected with it to insti tute any official action to affect or suspend any pension, claim on any letter, statement or report from any person regarding a pen sion or an application for pension, uti les", the same is in writing and signed by tlio person making such stntuinunta and giving post office address. T x A