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X . S9 Main Strert,
UKOWNVILLE, NEBR VSKA.
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CAKE & BAKIN3 PAN,
POLISHER AND STAND,
AND THE
KITCHEN GEM.
Household Duties a Pleasure,
INSTEAD OF A
DREADED NECESSITY",
The Patent Centennial Cake and Bread
Pan, made of Russia iron, Is so constructed
thut you can remove your cake when baked
instantly from the pan. without breaking or
lnjurlng'il, and you can remove the tubes
and convert it into a plain bottom pan, for
baking jelly or plain cakes, bread, etc.
The Kitchen Gem, a plated wire boiler or
steamer, to hang inside of an ordinary iron
pot. for lulling or steaming vegetables, etc.,
which, when done, can be removed perfectly
dry, without lilting the heavy, sooty iron
po"t oft" of the stove, avoiding the danger of
burning tho hands with the steam In pour
ing oir the hot water, and tho vegetables can
not possibly burn if the pot bolls dry, as the
steamer docs not touch tho bottom of the
pot.
The Flat-Iron Polisher and Stand Is an ar
ticle long needed by every housekeeper. It
cleans oir the starch which is so liable to
stick to the iron and soil the clothes by
simply rubbing it through tho emery polish
er occasionally while ironing; also cleans
off any rust that may adhere to the iron, en
abling you to iron your shirt-bosoms and
most delicate fabrics with the greatest ease,
giving them a glossy finish equal to tho
fine-st Laundry work. It Is also an excellent
rest or stand for your irons, by placing them
across the top.
These goods are sold exclusively through
agents, and I have secured tho agency for
Nemaha and Richardson counties, and will
canvass for orders, believing I have three of
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VEGETIHE
WILL OUEE RHEUMATISM.
MR. ALBERT CROCKER, the well-known
drugglit and apothecary, of Sprlngvale. Me., al
ways advisee everyone troubled ivith Reinatm
to try VECiETINE.
Head His Statement.
Sprikgvale, Me., Oct. 12, 187G.
Mn. R. IT.STKvnNs:
Dear Sir: Fifteen years ago last fall I was taken
sick with rheumatism, was unable to move until
theuext April. From that time until three ycara
ago this fall I suffered everything with rheuma
tism. Sometimes there would be weeks at n time
that I could not step one step: these attacks wero
quite often. I suffered everything that a man
could. Over three years ago last spring I com
menced taking Vkoktink and followed It up until
I had taken swen bottles: have had no rheuma
tism since that time. I always advise every one
that Is troubled with rheumatism to try "VoTtNK
and not suffer for years as I have done. This
statement is gratuitous as far as Mr. Stevens Is
concerned. Yours, .
ALBERT CROCKER,
FIrmofA.CrockerCo.,DrugglstsApotnecaries
VEGETINE
HAS -NT-RELY C5JIlEi ME.
Bostok, Oct., 1S70
Mn. n. R. Stkvkxs:
Dear Sir; ily daughter, after having a severe
attack of Whooping Cough, was left in a feeble
state of health. Jleiug advised by a friend she tried
the VEGETiyE.nnd after using a lew bottles was
fully restored to health.
I have been u great 6ufierer from Rheumatism.
I have taken several bottlesof theVEGKTiyEfor
this complaint, und am happy to say it hasentlrely
cured me. I have recommonded tho VEGETIXE
to others with the same good results. It Is a great
cleanser and purifier of the blood; It Is pleasant to
take, and I can cheerfully recommend it.
JAMES MORSE, 304 Athens street.
HESUMATISil is a DIS3AS3 of the SLOOD.
The blood In thi disease Is found to contain an
e.Tces of Hbrin. VEGETINE nets by converting
the blood irom Its diseased condition to : heuUhy'
circulation. VEGETINE regulates the bowels,
which la very lniportant In this complaint. One
bottle of VEGETINE will give relief, but to effect
a permanent cure It must be takrn regularly, and
mav takeseveral bottles, especially In caseiof long
Ftandlng. VEGETINE is sold by all druggists.
Try It. and your verdict will be the same as that of
thousands before you, who say, "I never found so
much relief as from the use of VEQETINE."
which is composed exclusively of Harks, Hoots and
Jferbs.
"VEGETINE," says a Boston physician, "has no
equal as a blood puriller. Hearing of its many
wonderful cures, after all other remedies had failed
I visited the laboratoryund convinced myself of its
genuine merit. It is prepared from barks, roots
and herbs, each of which Is highly effective and
they are compounded in such a manner as to pro
duce astonishing results."
YEGETINE.
KOTHIKG EqUA TO IT.
South Salkji, Mass., Nov. 1 1, 1376.
Mr. II. R. Stkvkxs:
Dear Sir: I have been troubled with Scrofula,
Canker and Liver Complaint for three years:
nothing ever did me any good until I commenced
using the VEGETINE. I am now getting along
lirst-rate.aud still usiug the VEGETINE I con
sider there is nothing equal to it for such com
plaints. Can heartily recommend it to everybody.
Yours truly,
MRS. LIZZIE M. PACKARD.
No. 10 Lagrange street, South Salem, Mass.
JJZEGETINE
PREPARED BY
H.E.STEVENS,BOSTOK:lMASS.
Yegetine is Sold liy all Druggists.
AUTHORIZED BY THE U. S. GOYEKNJiENT.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
O F
BROTVNVILLE.
Paid-iij) Caii Hal, $50,000
Authorized " o003000
IS PREPARED TO TRANSACT A
General Banking Business
BUY AND SELL
COIN & CUEEENOY DEAPTS
on all the principal cities of the
United States and Surope
MONEY LOANED
On approved security only. Time Drafts discount
ed. and special accommodations granted to deposit
ors. Dealers In GOVERNMENT BONDS,
STATE, COUNTY & CITY SECURITIES
DEPOSITS
Received payable on demand, and INTEREST al
lowed on time certificates p' deposit.
DIRECTORS. Wm.T. Den, B. M. Bailey. M.A.
Hundley. Frank E. Johuson, Luther Hoadlej
Wm. Fraisher.
JOHN L. CARSON,
A . R. DAVISON. Cashier.' President.
I. CMcNAUGIITON.As.st. Cashier.
ORGANIZED, 1S70.
AT SROWSVILLE.
CAPITAL, $100,000.
Transacts a goncralb ii King business, sells
Drafts on all the princ" lcltles of the
UNITED STATES AND EUEOPE
3 Special
dei)osltors.
accommodations graaited te
STATE, COUKTY & CITY
SECURITIES,
330XJGHET A3SDD SOJLD.
OFFICERS.
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: : President.
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DIRECTORS.
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.vHv1100 VER - M- KAUFFMAN,
W. W. HACKNEY. H. C. LETT,
W.H. ilcOREERY,
mil llmmUm
BE0WNVILLE, NEBRASKA,
2fcTY Year's Eyc
Tlie dear Old Year Is drifting
Into tho silent past;
The New Year we have longed for,
Is coming now at last.
And wo look sadly backward.
And sigh with vain regret ;
"We do not know what blessings
May wait to crown us yet.
"Wo know not now what sorrow
The Infant year may bring ;
Nor do wo know what gladness
It bears upon Its wing.
Oh ! why, then, should the shadow
Of evil that may come,
Darken tho cloudless present,
Or east upon It gloom ?
The dear Old Year Is fleeting,
And what brlngeth tho Now ?
Oh ! loved friends of tho Old Year,
Oh! faithful ones nndtrue!
Will Old Year's happy mem'rles,
That cling to us to-night,
Vanish like fitful shadows,
At the first dawn of light ?
The hopes that we have cherished,
Tho joys that we have known,
The friends who shared our pleasures,
The love that was our own
Their memory shall linger.
It cannot pass away ;
Only new hopes new pleasures,
Shall rise up day by day.
The good Old Year Is dying
What care we? Let him die !
For with him will not perish
Aught that is worth a sigh.
The Now Year only meaneth
New time for labor given ;
We'vegained anothor mlle-stono
Upon tho road to Heaven.
And yet we fain would linger.
To look tack o'er the past ;
Oh! happy days of childhood,
Too bright, too fair to last!
Tho New Year that is coming
What will it bring Instead
Of pleasures that have faded,
01 hopes and joys long dead?
Oh, list! the bells aro ringing
To welcome New Year lu ;
Rut the old year Is dying.
As New Year doth bogln;
The sound of that gay chiming,
Makes us both hope and fear;
With mingled Joy and sorrow,
We hall tho glad New Year.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.
A Christmas Story.
"But remember, Ruth," said my
graudmother, who confined to her
room by a touch of rheumatism in her
right foot, had been carefully impress
ing upon ni3' mind the ueoessity of
keeping a vigilant eye on her posses
sions, as, at her.death, I would inher
it them a'l. Gradma. by the way. ;sa
tall, &trong, keen-eyed old lady of
seventy, bidding fair to live at least
another twenty years "remember,
not a cent of my mone3T, no! not a
dollar or rag of my furniture, or a
drop of anything belonging to me"
grandma is rather erratic in her mode
of speech "do you get if you marry
withiu five years, not if I die a dozen
times. Ours has been a family of
early cares, early miseries, early ev
erythings that had much better not
have been, in consequence of early
marriages.
"There's your Aunt Sarah "
"Yes, grandmamma," said I, meek
ly, intending the monosyllable as a
gentle reminder that I had heard all
about Aunt Sarah a hundred times be
fore. "Don't interrupt me," said grand
mother glaring at me and I must
say, as a glarer, grandma is not to be
surpassed. "There's your Aunt Sa
rah. Martied at sixteen hud a son
at seventeen found out her husband
was a scamp at eighteen was desert
ed by him at nineteen, and now, at
thirty-five, has taken another hus
band, not knowing whether the first
is dead or alive, but most likely alive
and liable to turn up any day, like
that man in the poetry what's-his-name
wrote, though he wouldn't be
so obliging as to go away quietly and
die by himself I know "
I felt a laugh coming, for I never
could hear AuntSarah's history with
out straightway thinking of some
thing very similar I had read in Mo
ther Goose ; but I succeeded in strang
ling it.
"And there's your own mother
married, positively married at fifteen
with her hair in two long braids, ami
her dresses only to her ankles. I gave
the minister that performed that cere
mony a piece of m.3' mind. He said
he didn't meau to, but I told him that
was no excuse.
"Started for school ono day met
your father, who was ten years older,
and ought to have known butter, and
broke my heart."
"It must have been pretty well
mended since then," I thought, as I
looked at the stalwart old woman,
sitting firm and erect, her big, black
eyes that bad never known spectacles,
shining as bright andclear as they did
in the days of her girlhood.
"To be sure sho went on, "your fa
ther wasn't worse than most men,
and she was very fond of him, but
that didn't prevent him dying at
thirty, and leaving her a young and
helpless widow with three girl-babies
younger and helpleeser than herself.
Yes, '" said my grandmother emphati
cally, dwelling on this not at all
strange fact, as though it were quite
surprising, "much youngerand much
helplesser than herself, and a year af
ter she died."
"Yes, grandma," said I again, as
tho old lady paused with a tear in
her eye, which she winked away In a
second, however, as she continued,
"And your sister Mary Ann, where is
sho? Where are they both, I say?"
"I'm sure I don't know exactly,
grandma," replied I. "I suppose
they are at home, or perhaps staying
with friends for the holidays, or Mary
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1877.
Ann may be at Katherine's, or Kath-
erine at "
"Stuff!" interrupted my grand
mother .with more force than polite
ness, "they're married. That's where
they are. One barely nineteen and
the otlierscarcely twenty in spite of
the warning letters I wrote them, one
a month for years, and they're out of
my books, torn out and thrown away
and Ruth "
. "Yes, grandmamma."
"You are the only one left to cheer
my passage to the tomb, and mind
you do it. And to tell the honest
truth I don't think the others would
have got married, for, although Ihave
never had a favorite, if I had ever had
one you would have been that one.
"I've thought more of you than of
any one else in this thundering old
world, ever since I carried you
around for a whole 3'ear after 3'our
mother died 3-011 were a sickly little
thing like a dog never forget that."
Another laugh came near greeting
this remarkable statement, but met
the fate of its predecessor, this time,
happily, without changing a muscle
of in 3' face.
"And you have my big, black eyc3,
Ruth; your mother had her father's
blue oues, and you favor me in many
ways whioh is to your credit, m3'
dear," taking a small toilet-glass from
a table near her 'and surveying her
self in it, which, by tho by, was a fa
vorite amusement of 013 grandmoth
er's, for in me 3'ou see the remains of
a re-mark-a-bl3' fine woman. And
so, don'i 3ou disappoint me, and send
me flying iuto my grave with any
early marriage.
"If you do I'll never speak to you
agalu while I live, and when I die I'll
leave everything I own in the world
to found a homo for friendless old
maids. They deserve a home,
I'm
sure, if an3'hody did. And now 3'ou
may tell Jane to come and hang the
Christmas greens over my mirror the
idea of not being able to be about my
self the day before Christmas! I've
no patience with it and see that the
cranberr3' jell is made this instant,
and as for the turke3 let it be the fin
est Mrs. McNamara has got, and don't
forget to bring the bill or I'll send
3'ou and the turkey both back again."
"Yes, that is, no, grandma," and,
thankful that the leoture was over, I
hastened from the room.
I, Ruth Martin, seventeen 3ears of
ago, was the youngest of tho three
4aLcu;.4iV:i!fLCEj!iaaBJiy isy. moth
er's death, some fifteen 3'ears before.
Ever since that time I had lived with
m3T maternal grandmother, and my
sisters, until they married and moved
to neighboring oities, had resided
near me under the guardianship of
m3r father's oldest brother.
And grandmamn, notwithstanding
her queer talk and arbitrary ways,
wa3 extremel3' good-hearted.
The poor found her a ready friend
and her servants a kind and just, if
not a ver3' indulgent mistress.
To me sho had been most generous,
sparing nothing but carresses and pet
names, and this only makes the "m3T
dear she vouchsafed to no one else,
and onl3 to me at rare intervals, and
the threo or four kisses I recoived
during the 3'ear, more precious than
if they had been bestowed upon, me
daily.
In only one particular did she exer
cis what I thought undue strictness.
Never was I allowed to attend 3113 en
tertaintment where 3'oung men were
expected. Never was I permitted to
visit girls who had brothers. To aud
from school Jane, tho servant-maid,
accompanied me. To and from church
grandma guarded me herself.
In fact, m3' grandmother sanction
ed only one intimate friendship, aud
that wa with Hattie Bruuton (the
daughter of a French lad3', who, be
ing a great invalid, scarcely ever left
her own room), a girl U13' own age,
brotuerless, and, as grandma had con
trived in some m3'sterious way, even
raale-cousinless.
It was to protect me from becoming
entangled in any- "silly love affair"
that I was so carefully watched and
so fenced about with rules and regu
lations, for of all things in the world
grandma had a horror of early mar
riages, and had never ceased to in
veigh against them since her first leo
ture on the subject which I heard on
my fourteenth birthday, and "to these
same dreadful early marriages" she
said "siily young love-affairs often
led."
And yet, in spite of all her precau
tions, I had fallen in love.
Hattie Brunton, although brother
less and male-cousinless, had an un
cle, her father's 3'oungest brother, on
I3' a few 3'ears older than herself. He
was a bright, olever, blue-e3ed, fair
haired young fellow, not exactty
handsome, but with very winning
manners and wonderful vitality,
which b3' some subtle magnetic influ
ence seemed to communicate itself to
those with whom he came in contact.
I know I was influenced by this
power in tho mostextraordinar3 wa3',
and used to laugh, joke and sparkle
in his presence in a manner that
would have made grandma open her
big, black eyes to an alarming extent
and wonder if this merry, impetuous,
mischievous girl could be her shy, de
mure, little Ruth.
Ralph Brunton had told me on my
last birthday, which was also Christ
mas Day, that beloved me, and when
I gave him back tho kiss with which
he told me so, he placed a plain gold
ring on my finger and whispered,
"Now you are my own little betroth
ed." The ring I had been obliged to take
off when I returned home, and bury
in a jar of pomade, which stood on
my dressing table, that being the on
I3' place I could think of where it
would be safe from grandma's pierc
ing e3'es.
Ralph and I had mot since then, ev
ery Saturday afternoon at Hattie'sthe
place of business where ho was em
ployed closing at three o'clock that
day, and grandma granting me a half
holidays to be Bpent as sho solemnly
enjoined at Mrs. Brunton's so that
she might be left alone and undisturb
ed to wrestle with her weekly ac
counts. .
At our last meeting Ralph had told
me half-joyfully, half-sadly that he
expected to be sent abroad for some
years, by the firm whose confidence
he possessed, and with whom he had
been since his bo3'hood.
HaIf-jo3'full3 because his position
would be a much better oue than that
he had occupied with a proportionate
increase of salary half-sadty, because
of the parting from "his little Ruth,"
and at the very moment grandma was
holding forth on the evils of early
marriage he was impatiently awaiting
me at Mrs. Brunton's to bid me good-
I didn't knew at the time that the
final arrangements for his departure
had been made, but I had reason to
believe although it wasn't Saturda3',
that if Istoppod at m3 friend's house I
should find him there, so I said to
grandma, whom I found still look
ing at herself in the toilet-glass when
I re-entered the room, "Grandma,
may I stop a few moments at Hattie's
on my way back ?"
"I shall expect you home in exact
ly ono hour and a half," said tho old
lady looking from the glass to the
old clock whose hands marked three.
As this was the onl3' sort of permis
sion lever obtained. from grandma, I
said no moro but hastily donned my
hat and jacket, aud sped away toward
the pretty staud of stout Mrs. McNa
mara. But when I arrived at the market I
began to think, with tears of vexation
in my ey-es, that 013- errand would
never be dispatched. Such a crowd
as I was surrounded b3 ! It seemed as
though ever3' man, woman and child
for miles around, had gone turke3'
mad and determined.to possess turkey
or die.
At last Mrs.McNamara'se3'es light
ed on me struggling in tho distance.
I gave her an imploring look. "What
is it m3' dear?" she shouted. I point
ed frantica!l3' at tire arra3' of barn
yard fowls. She took one down, ex
amined it critical-, pronounced it
good and placed it in a basket by her
side. "The bill," I gasped aB by a
great exertion I nearl3' reached tho
stand. "Grandmother "
"Yes, my dear, I know 3'our grand
ma's way," said she, with a smile on
her broad face, and giving a few di
rections to the tall son at her side ho
hastil3' made out tho required docu
ment. I thrust it in my pocket and fled, a
precious half hour having gone since
I started from home.
Ralph was watching for me at the
window, and opened the dooras I ran
quick' up the steps. "My darling!
m3' darling' he said, "I am so glad
3-0U have come."
"Yes," joined in Hattie, as between
them they hurried me into the sitting
room, "we've suoh a scheme, hurry
and listen,'
"Hurry and listen," repeated I. "I
think 3'ou had better huny aud tell,
grandma expects me home in less
than an hour."
"The old " began Ralph, but I
put 1113- hand over his mouth and got
it well kissed for my pains. "Well,"
he began again, "you see, my black
e3'ed darling, I am to go sooner than
I thought, in a few days in fact.'
"And that is the reason you're so
joNy,' interrupted I, with a tear and a
pant.
"Oh ! no, Diamond," one of his ab
surd pet names for me, "but I'm so
jolly because 3'ou aro going to marr3'
me right away."
"Oh ! do," entreated nattio, clasp
ing her hands, "I've longed all m3?
life to be mixed up in some way with
a secret wedding."
"Marry you !" said I as soon as I
got m3' breath again, for the audaoit3'
of the assertion had quite taken it
away. "Grandma won't let me. You
ought to have heard her just before I
came out.
"Glad I didn't," said Ralph; but
love, 3-0U will consent, won't 3'ou?
Think how much happier I would be
during our five 3'ears' separation."
"Oh ! dear, oh ! dear, is it to be five
3'ears?" I said, buying m3' face in
my hands, and trying to keep back
the tears.
"Yes, five years," my darling, and
think how very much happier I
would be in that foreign' land if I
know I had a dear little wife praying
for me at homo, and particularly
waitiug for the time when I could
proudly claim her before the whole
world. Why, it would make two
times the man of me I shall be if you
force me to go away still a baohelor.
"No one but Hattie and tho minis
ter, aud he is a friend of mine bound
to secresy, need know of our marri
age, and when I return your grand
mother can haver no excuse for being
displeased with us, for the five years
she restricted 3'ou to single life will
have expired."
"But if grandma does find it out,"
said I, "she'll leave all her fortune to
found a home for friendless old maids.
She said so this morning.1'
"Let her," laughed my loverT "I
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don't want her fortune; I want her
granddaughter." And, as usual, his
vitality and magnetism carried the
day.
I suffered Hattie to wrap me in a
large cloak and muffle me in a thick
veil, and in a few moments we were
in a carriage that had been waiting
around the corner, aud in ten min
utes more at the minister's door.
In another ten minutes the words
were spoken that made us man and
wife.
"Isn't it romantic?" whispered Hat
tie, as we entered the carriage again,
but I was so completely dazed I could
not speak a word.
Once more in Mrs. Brunton's sitting-room,
I thought Ralph would
never let me go. He held mo tight
in his arms aud kissed me again and
again.
At last Hattie interposed and, with
a molo-dramatio gesture exclaimed,
"Time's up!"
"Good-b3'e, good-l-e, my own,"
cried my 3'ouug husband, his e3es
sparkling. "Be strong, be patient;
live 3'ears will soon pass," and a 103
sobs burst forth, in spite of me, he ad
ded, "And God grant little wife, 3'ou
ma3 never live to regret this da3'."
At half-past fourl entered my grand
mother's room.
She looked at me keenly as I came
in. "Is it so very cold out?" she ask
ed noticing my red nose and e3'elids.
"Yes, grandma," said I, my heart
sinking within me, beneath thesteady
stare of her big, black e3Tes.
Christmas morning dawned bright
and clear.
I found grandma alread3 up and
dressed when I opened her door, aud
sitting before tho grate fire with a
crimson velvet jewel case in her
baud.
"A Meny Chrismas, my dear," she
said, with a smile. "I'm a little bet
ter to-doy, and have managed to dress
myself," and she handed me the jew
el case. I raised the lid, aud there ro
posiug on a bed of 8now3'-white cot
ton lay what I had been wishing for
for many months a pair of lovel3
coral ear-rings.
What a guilty wretch I felt! But I
returned grandmama's "Merr3' Christ
mas" with a kiss, and laid my own
offering aprettil3T-embroidered neck
erchief on her knee. "Ver3' pretty,
indeed my dear," said grandma, "und
now we'll have breakfast."
Breakfast over I descended to the
kitchen with a Christmas box for Jen
nie. She welcomed me, with a mys
terious expression on her pretty face,
which did not wholly disappear when
she opened her box and a bonnie blue
ribbon and daiut3'laco collar greeted
her delighted ej-es.
''A Mil Tl,o enninMtini, fn t.nii After.
Ruth," she said, going to the kitchen
mantel and taking something from
beneath the cloak, first glancing
carefully all around, though as wo
were the only peoplo in tho house
beside grandma, and the old lady was
safe in her own room, there was real
I3' no need of such extreme caution.
"He said I was to put it in 3'our
own nands a lovely young man,
with e3'ea that made 3-ou ready to
smile at him the moment he looked at
you, and hair like an angel's, and he
gave me two silver half-dollars, in
deed ho did, miss."
I snatched tho note sho held out
and hastily tore off tho envelope,
when I heard graudma's voice call
ing, "Ruth, Ruth, come here this mo
ment." Iutom3 pocket went the precious
missive and I ran up-stairs, inwardly
pra3'ing that grandma was not in a
lecturing humor.
"Ruth." said 033' grandmother, who
stood painfully supporting herself on
one foot at tho window, "a strange
oung man has been prowling around
the house, and walking up and down
just opposite for the last half an
hour."
"I haven't been gone half an hour,
grandma," said I.
"For the last half an hour," repeat
ed my grandmother, who hated any
thing In tho form of contradiction.
"Tell Jane to keep the basement door
locked, aud to inform all tramps
through the window that we've got a
dog, and he's got the hydrophobia."
My Ralph a tramp! for I was sure
it was he.
"Look out, Ruth," continued m3
grandmother, who had hobbled back
to her seat before the fire, "and see if
that suspicious looking fellow is there
now."
I wont to the window and? gaz
ed at the roof of the house across the
wa3 and said, "No, ma'am."
"And Ruth," said the'old lady, "I
knew there was something else I
wanted to say to 3ou whero'a tho
bill for that turkey? You didn't
come home, I hope, without it, for If
3-ou did, not one cent doe3 Mrs. Mc
Namara get for that bird, knowing as
she does '
"I have it, grandma-," I heartil3' In
terrupted, and pulling it from my
pooket I placed it in her hand.
For fully five minute3 did the old
lady sit staring at that piece of paper,
and then she remarked, with unnatur
al calmness aud a strongly placid ex
pression, "A slight mistake."
"Why grandma ' I began.
"Listen," said my granrdmother'to
what the wretch dares to a3k for a tur
k3 weighing, I'm sure, not more
than fifteen pounds," and with great
deliberation she proceeded to read
aloud Ralph's note I
"My Own Darling, Wee Wife: My
departure Is postponed until next
weak. I mustsee 3ou again, Diamond,
before I go. I love you a thousand
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times better, it seems, since-tbe words
were spoken that made you 'Mrs.
Ralph Brunton-.' Slip away from the
old Iad3' some-time to-day (don't sho
take a nap or something?) and come
to my sister-in-law's. I shall wait for
you there until night. A merry
Christmas, my blessed Ruthy and &
thousand kisses from
Your Happy Hgsband
My very blood ran cold. I trem
bled from head to foot, and as the old1
lady concluded, I fell on my knees be
fore her.
"Go to your room," she said, "IMP
speak to you by and b3'."
I went, and a few moments after
hearing the front door close with a
bang, I looked from my window and'
beheld my grandmother wrapped in
her fur-clock, and leaning. onJTane'e
shoulder, limping down the street.
"She has gone to Hattie's," I cried.
"Poor Ralph ; how I pity him !"
The sleighs went dashing ly there
had been a heavy fall of snow the pre
vious night their bellajingled cheer
fully, and the noisy children in tho
street were shouting "Merry Christ
mas," to ever3' ono who passed.
"Merry Christmas," I repeated, "a
very merry Christmas for 013' darling
aud me, for wo shall be separated, not
for five 3'ears, but forever," for I had'
n't the slightest doubt that grandma
could break the marriaga if she choose,
and that she would choose I was sure.
A long, long hour passed another
and another; and, at last, utterly ex
hausted by weeping and nervoua ex
citement, I flung m3self on my bed
aud fell asleep, to be awakened by
Jane's touch on 1U3' shoulder "Your
grandmother wants 3'ou, Miss Ruth,"
she said in a gentle voico, looking at
mo with pitying eyes. "She's in tho
front parlor-"
I bathed my face.smoothed my hair,
and went down.
Roses and wreaths of Christmas
greens hung on the wall. Above the
mantel in bright green letters I had
placed them there myself was tho
sentence, "When they saw the star
they rejoiced with exceeding great
joy." M3 inothere.pietura smilled at
me from boueath a cluster of immor
telles, aud involuntarilyI olasped my
hands toward it. And there sat 013'
graudmother looking as stern and in
flexible as ever.
"It is 3'our birthday, and Christmas
Day,"
"Yes grandma," sard I, ii a voice I
scarcely recognized as 033- own.it was
so despairing.
"A day above all others," said my
grandmother, "when peace and good
wiH are enjoined upon all men, and
women too, for that matter. Ruth,!
forgive you."
"But, grandma, my dear, dear
grandmamma, Ralph I can't you
won't."
"And," continued my grandmoth
er, paying no attention to my inco
herent appeal, "there's a Christmas
present for you in the back parlor,
which you may be just silly enough
to think more valuablo than the ear
rings I gave you this morning," and
she looked at me with tho kindest
smile on her lips, and a tender light
in her dear, black e3'es. I flew to her
and clasping her in my arras gave more
kisses thau I had ever givett her in all
my life before.
"Did he send It?" Iasked eagerly.
"What is it, dear grandmamma?"
"Go and look," she said, giving mcr
a loving little push.
But the "present" didn't wait.
Baok went tho sliding doors with a
rush, and with a rush my j'oung hus
band held me to-his heart.
God bless him ! He had with tho
help of tbe.magnetlo influence, and a
few words from his brother and broth
er's wife, and a few more from his em
ployer, completely won over ray
grandmother.
But he didn't go abroad, but staid afi
home and became junior partner hi
tho firm, and sent somer one else in
his place, and we three, grandmam
ma, Ralph and I, are all living togeth
er In grandma's comfortable, old-fashioned
house aa happy as btippy can be.
ITargaret Eylings, in Detroit Free,
Press.
Why He Wept.
A man about twenty-five yrsof
age, and a stranger in tho city, yes
terday sat in the doorway of a t&Hat
less house on Elm street and wept. A
pedestrian, astonished at the si-ht of
a man in tears, halted and inquired :
'What'rj the matter why do 3-01
weep?'
"They bst me out of all my money
In a saloon down here a pteee,' was
the reply. 'A policeman told me not
to go in there, but I would go.'
Would, eh?'
'Yes; bof.r haint cr3'ing 'cause I
lost m3' money, for I cam foot rhome.r
What Is it, then?'
'You've read how a fellow named
Samson slayed the Philistines with
the jawbone of an 3e, have't 3'ou?
'Yes.'
'Must have been u purty big ass,
mustn't it?'
I guess it was.'
'Well, what I am crying about is to
think that perhaps I hain't tha biggest
ass that ever lived I It hurts me to
come almost to it and fail !'
The gentleman tried to convince
him that he was the biggest ass known
to sacred or secular histor3' of the
world, but the young man leaned
against the door and continued to
weep. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Beautiful Circassian girls cannow
be bought in Constantinople for,$O0
each.
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