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LONIO alono nt tho
tnUrnlKht hour sit
ting, my soul nnd
I,
Harking (round of
tho wind's c o m
plalnt, listing tho
tlmo go ly.
aTrontlng each to tho other's thought, with
tho moon'n tnee, sweot nnd thin,
A-watoh nt tho space of the window place,
waiting tho yenr begin
Waiting tit usher the Old Year out and wel-
oomo tho Now Year In.
Heavy my noul with grief nnd pain heavy,
and bowed with tenrs,
Worn with tho weight of Sorrow's hand,
not with tho wolght of years;
And 'twlxt us many a thing of woe, many
a thought of sin,
"While tho moon outHldc, llko a puro-cyed
brldo, wnfl waiting tho year begin
"Waiting us usher tho Old Year out and
wclcomo tho Now Year In.
My soul It spoko In the stilly darlt spoke,
and1 I shrank and hoard,
'The chorda of my being pulsed nnd leaped,
affrlKhtcd Llko captlvo bird;
I heard, and I knew that such words wcro
truo while tho new moon, sweet and
thin,
WU' sad siirprlno In her tender eyes' was
waltlnjr tho yoar begin
"Waltlnjr u ushsr tho Old Year out and
welcome tho Now Year In.
And I plend with my soul: "Judge not
Judgonotl" nnd I prnyed: "NowYwr,
bring graco."
X foil on my knees In tho hush and dark I
wept and hid my faco;
For out of tho llnlto bounds of Time, from
tho realms of "tho mlRht havo boon,"
"To scpulchor -of tho lnllnlto past boarlng
mistakes and sin,
Tho Old Year stolo ns tho church holla
chimed and tho Now Year entered In.
Mary Clnrko Huntington, in Oood Housekeeping.
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tlic city, nnd all the shops were aflame
with llht nnd brightness. Annie gazed
wistfully nt the pretty things in the
grcnt windows; hIic wis but a little
maid, and could not help wishing for
pretty thingM for herself and for her
mother and Teddy.
Dtit the wine she must not linger;
she would only look in one 7nore shop
and then then she would seek the
great shop where wine was sold in bot
tles; surely the big, rosy-faced man
whom she had often noticed standing
In the doorway of his shop would listen
to her wlory of poor Teddy and give her
the wine.
So tihv stood before this last store it
wns a jcjwolry store nnd, oh, how
beautiful the jewels looked sapphires
and rubles and diamonds how they
glittered. The sight was enough to
fascinate older eyes than Annie's.
Presently something in one corner
of tho window caught her gaze it
wasn't a Jewel, it was a switch of love
ly hair; not one, but several, and be
low them in pretty, shallow, satin
lined boxen, were clusters of curls. A
sudden thought came to Annie; she
pressed her little hands together and
held her breath, then paused a mo
ment to gain courage, nnd passed reso
lutely into the grent store. A kind
looking man came forwnrd to meet her
and said: "What can I do for you, lit
tle ladyV"
"Do you buy hairV" she nsked.
"Sometimes, little one; why do you
ask?" '
"Will you buy mine? Sec, I have
plenty!" Bhc answered, taking off her
lint nnd shaking her curls down over
her shoulders, and looking up with
anxious eyes.
"Hut, my little girl, are your curls
yours to sell?"
"Oh, yes, sir; if you only knew wliy
I must sell them, I nm sure you would
buy them. Teddy is so ill that he needs
things, and mother " nnd here she
choked up so she could sny no more,
"And you want to sell your beautiful
fllftCUR
ffifcta
1 vngfiQrjAR
wXx.vwz.'txxXNuwf ?. -o-
II, if my darling
could ouly hnvc
the wine! How
hard it Is to be
so poor, so poor."
'Annie heard her mother's woifd, al
though they were not intended for her
to henr. She saw her brush nway the
-team from her eyes and then go back
fto Teddy's room.
' "What did the doctor sny, mother?"
asked Teddy, in a weak voice; "did he
say I will get well?"
Amiio heard the reply: "lie snyB tlint
the fever is broken, nnd thnt nil you
Miavo to do now is to got well."
p Teddy's voice trembled as ho replied:
"Oh, mother, I was afraid ho woultt
say I might die, nnd I wondered who
would take care of you and Httlo An-
nlej I nm glnd God 1h going to let mo
Mivo to do it. Now I must begin to get
Btroug! Can't you give me lots to cnt?"
Annie saw her mother's lips quiver
ns she- turned her face from Teddy."
"Yes, my son, but not too much at
vonce, you' know," she snid.
Teddy looked very thoughtful.
'"But is thcro anything In tho house,
mother? I have been sick a good while,
nnd my Inst wnges must bo nenrly
.gone, nnd you haven't had time to color
many photos lately, hnvc you?"
The boy'B mother answered, brave
ily: "Sick folks mustn't bother about
thesd things, you know." Then she
'left'the room, nnd Annie saw thnt she
did -bo to hide the tears which were
streaming down her worn face.
"I must do something; I wonder
Ayhnt it will be?" murmured Annie to
herself, nnd, crushing her hat down
over her curls, she slipped into the
street.'
Annie thought constantly of wjnc for
.poor Teddy, and wondered if she sum
moned courage to beg a bottle whether
anyone would be kind enough to give
it to' her for a poor sink boy, her only
brother. She knew that sometimes
grocers kept wine, especially around
holiday time, nnd felt sure if they only
knew how very, very much it wns
needed at homo by her poor sick Ted
dy thnt some one of them would sure
ly give her a bottle. Then there were
other plnccs where they sold nothing
but wine and such stuff, for she had
seen big window full of the bottles,
with pictures of great bunches of beau-
allul grapes standing behind them.
Annie wasn't a bold, forwnrd child;
she wns timid, but brave nnd resolute;
her love for her brother, ntlenst.mndo
her brnve for the time; so she resolved
Mn her heart to beg for the wine which
'the doctor snid would bring bnck
iBtrcngth to Teddy. Christmas had
co mo and gone, but Teddy wns so ill
with tho fever that Annie thought
nothing about the absence of the gifts
usual to thnt happy day; but now Ted
dy was to grow better, and she did long
to be nble to make his Now Year's and
her mother's brighter than Christ ma3
had been, As Bhe wandered down the
(Streets revolving these thoughts in her
nnind and wondering how she might get
the necessary wine she passed many a
.gay 'scene.
.Early evening had closed down on
dnys to see her curls in their pretty
natin-lincd case. After they had both
kissed her nnd thanked her over nnd
over ngnin she crept away.
"I'm glad I did it; but how lone
some my pretty curls will be!" said
the child.
Hut the curls were not nt all lone
Bomc. The kind man was looking at
them when one of the boys showed a
gentleman in. The visitor was a big
man and he had gentle eyes, though his
face was somewhat rough to look at.
"I'm quite out of heart, Alfred; Icnn
get no clew; but what's that you have
there? Pretty, 'aren't they?"
"Yc, beautiful!"
Then the kind man told all about the
little girl who sold the curls to him, so
she could hnve money to buy things for
the sick brother.
"Alfred, this hnlr Is just the color of
Elite's; could It be? Could it be Ellic's
child's hair?"
"She's coming here day after to-morrow
to see her curls In their satin-lined
box; then if you will be here you enn
find out who she is," nnnwered the
jeweler.
Sure enough, Annie cn'mc to see her
curls ns they looked ready for sale; she
wanted to sec the box. While she was
admiring it and telling nbout Teddy,
and how the wine was doing him good,
the stranger with the gentle eyes ar
rived. He talked to the little girl for
awhile, then surprised the jeweler and
little Annie by bursting Into tears.
"They've told you about Uncle Luke,
haven't they?" he asked.
"Oh, yew, often," replied Annie. "He
Is In Australia, where the bark falls oil
the trees and the leaves stay on, and
where the birds have no wings, nnd ev
erything is so queer I"
"But what if he came home?"
"Oh, he won't," she said; "mother
hns lost him completely."
"Hut he hns come home. I nm he."
Then there wns what Annie called "a
time."
That was how It happened that just
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"DO YOU BUY HAII17" SI11B ASKED,
hair to buy things for your sick broth
er; is that it, little one?"
"Yes, sir."
"I wouldn't take it, but "
"Please don't refuse me, sir; my hair
will grow in again; it grows awful
fast; sec, it is below my waist!"
"It Is beautiful, a very rare color, and
so curly," said the man, stroking the
rippling mass of shining hnlr.
"Mother's is just like mine, only it
is n little fady here and there. You
will take my hair, won't you? Plense
do; it will) surely grow ngnin, nnd my
brother needs things so very, very
much; the doctor says so!"
The man led her into a bnck room
nnd himself cut the glossy locks, lay
ing each curl carefully down. Then
he called a man who wore a white
apron nnd gave the little shorn head
Into IiIb charge.
"I believe that you are prettier than
before," tho kind man snid, when the
hairdresser hnd finished. Then he lnld
a little roll of bills in the child's hand
and bade her be careful not to lose it
on 'her way home.
Annie hurried home. When she ar
rived mother was reading -to Teddy,
and Annlo crept in like n little mouse.
She removed her lint carefully, so as"
not to spoil tho hairdresser's work,
then dropped the bills in her mother's
lap, with a "Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Yenr, mnmmnl"
"Oh!" screamed Teddy.
"Oh!" creamed mother, as they both
saw and knew all.
"How could you, Annie?" they both
cried nt once; but the child looked as
pretty ns ever.
"How enme you to think of it, my
poor baby?" asked the mother.
"It's for wine wino is better thnn
curls any tiny," answered Annie; then,
turning to Teddy, she hugged him In
joy nnd snid, softly: "Clet well, Ted
dy, nnd pay me bnck some day!"
Then she told how it nil hnppened,
and how she was going In a couple of
n the doctor was praising Teddy's pa
tience, and saying how the wine had
helped him, there was a. great flutter
in the hall, and Annie bounced In, drag
ging a big man with kind eyes in a
rough fnce by the hand.
"My curls found him. It is Uncle
Luke, mother, nnd ho hns money
enough to bujf my curls back two or
three times. I know, because he
said so."
And then there was much more of "a
time." And the doctor held Teddy's
hand while Uncle Luke told about his
long search for his sister, and mother
explained about father's death ahdher
removal to the city, and how she lost
Uncle Luke's address nnd could not
get a letter to rench him. Then they
talked about Annie's curls, nnd the
doctor blew his nose furiously and dug
at his eyes, and Annie heard him say:
"Old idiot that I am! I guess I'll try
to see about n wny of getting wine
when I prescribe it ngain for a boy
whose mother has that frightened look
in her eyes."
Annie tucked her little shorn head
under tho doctor's arm and whispered:
"But you see how it was best, don't
you? My curls found so much for us
they brought us an uncle. Just look nt
mother; don't she look happy? Isn't
a good uncle the best New Year's pres
ent in nil this world?"
Wine is a good medicine when one
needs It, and Teddy improved rapidly
so rapidly that he wns almost ready
to try the new Bled that Uncle Luke
brought home to him on New Year's
eve. A for To Uly's mother, the roses
began to tint her cheeks again, and
Annie was sure she was the prettiest
and best mother in all the world. La
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