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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1882)
r Sg " " C & rV a w - f V pR Jf - 4 f THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. Wl. L. THOMAS, Publlshor RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. THE NEW YE All. Ilnrk to theltclli! There's prlef nwl joy borne on the midnight nir. The hearts IkiwuI down ly weight of years a Holemn stillness wear: Hut thfwe just comiiuron the field, what glories meet the view! How triad they bid theOId fnrcwellaud hall with smiles the New! The nire.1. lost amid the scenes that Memory's wand recall. Their steps in silent padness, licnd through Time'h deserted halls. Their livs an Mretehel alon? the plain where inoss and ivy jrrow, And trembliiiir lips in secret dwell on songs of long-ago. They kneel again at childhood's shrines the jiriiyers of old an; said; They feel love" toueh upon the brow they inouni lKide their dead; Ttutali! no more -hull Hoje revive, or Glory tin the breast They know but fewtho morns thatrisecro they are laid at rest. Vet think not they are wholly left to Memory's cll"erles va'le. When -.(minis of Ijirth grow dull and far, her light." burn dim and p:de. "Tis then they hear theMn-tcr's voice, they feel UN guiding hand. And, through the fading views of Time, ln.-hoId the I'romised Land. Hut O what throng of happy dreamthevouth- ful virion tills! The Future's path is rotted In flowers light -hiiies on all her hills: Hut passing brief the gaze that turn-" toTimo's receding shore The glittering prize forever lies in golden yea w Itclore. HopeiliiigM hereery banner out to kissing airs on high. And Fume's emblazoned temple towers far up the Hearing sky; Ambition tiuts to proud renown on coming Held- to gain. And Wealth invites aspiring feet to pa laced, broad domain. And so the Hookof Lire 1111s up with pages dark and fair I'temity alone cm tniee the changes written then-. Hut, if enough shall mortal learn to reach the ii-cful plane. And live the ISmtlicrhoodof Man, thoyear-iire not in vain. Though each .-uccecdinir year unfolds new gleams of brighter time. And Man keeps rising in the light that reaches the I)iviu The world is yet with orrow filled no song in many a home And myriad erring sons of men in friendless misery roam. And now. what are our duties hero on this auspicious morn? Have we no hand toaid the poor, the uiteast and forlorn? Know that on I!arth'swidcIalor-tlcld 'tis find's unvaried plan. They only win life's highest prize who do the most for man. f'hicayi Tribune. AHOUT PRACTICAL JOhTS. Some. IZcccnt Iliiiiiorous and Heartless Occurrences, and the laiv Concerning Tbcm. Not the least curious thing about the at tnictive .subject of practical joking is that whenever, through the stupidity or brutality of a humorous rufiiaii, a per MHi is killed or di-giircd for life, the newspapers chronicle the occurrence iintler the heading: "A Warning to Practical Jokers." If the wag had been maiuied or slain, or if the neighbors had flowed him or lynched him, then there Mould have been pome excuse for the head line. The practical joker s doings take a wide ratine, and are performed at the expene of all classes of the commu nity. An industrious New York newspaper man has collated the following- quite re cent illustrations: In January lat Mr. AY. T. Timinons, of South Carolina, having been rejected by his .sensible sweetheart, undertook to move her heart by writing a letter to the press in another person's name, an nouncing that his lifeless body had been found at Adams'' Kim. The only per son seriously affected was his brother, who instantly bought a colli n at Charles ton anil traveleil to the spot to discover the hoax. At Jefferson City, Mo., a stranger put tip at the Monroe House and sold the landlord a pair of new boots for three dollars. The landlord's intimate and waggish friend induced a humorous .shoemaker, named Joseph Flick, to go and claim the boots, as having been Molen from him, and the hotel-keeper gave them up, and when subsequently he encountered his guet, had him ar rested and summoned Mr. Flick as a witness. Then the joke came out. and Mr. Flick had to pay twelve dollars costs, while the guest has an action pending for damages for false imprison ment. In Chicago the other day a somewhat similar but less serious comedy was enacted. A merry lawyer gave a saloon-keeper, who prided' himself on his exactness in financial aflairs. a two-dollar bill, received a one-dollar bill in change, then showed the artist another two-dollar greenback, ami went off feigning exultation. All went well till on his next visit he gave the saloon keeper a live-dollar bill, ami the saloon keeper kept the dollar out of it. In New Yirk City, on election night, a jovial politician desirous of amusing himself at the expense of a saloon keeper that claims to rival any bank cashier In the detection of counterfeits, undertook, for the delectation of a party of friends, to " ring in a bail V on the. busy Honiface. and was horrified when!! ere the bill had fairly touched the coun ter, the barkeeper caught it up. saying he " wanted change for a ten." and paid it out to a fourth party. The pre cipe liability in this case offers an inter esting theme for discussion. The late Count Hellavitis. an eminent mathematician of Padua, some time he ft ire his death prepared a letter to a friend at Koine, informing this friend that the writer had just 'died. Count Ik-Havitis left a space in this strange epistle for the date to be inserted, and had instructions prepared for his execu tors that when he died the day was to be tilled in and the letter sent to its des tination. The instructions were faith fully obeyed and the grim joke was complete!, and the first intimation the lloman friend had of the death of Count liojlavitis was the receipt of a letter from him stating the fact. The grim pleas antry was not original, as in the last cen turv a Frenchman wrote on his dying beil a letter to a friend dated ayear ahead and describing his experience in Hell, and left it to his executors to be mailed at the expiration of a twelve month. August 19, 1SS0, a number of New Yorkers were hoaxed by a communica tion to a morning paper announcing the writer's intention of shooting himself at three p. m. on the rock in the lake in Central Park opposite the Mall. Unfor tunately he failed to keep faith with the public. Mr. Fairfax "Williamson, whose perse cutions of the Rev. Morgan Dix will be remembered, and the unknown man who sent Mr. R. P. Brooks, ticket agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in this city, wagon after wagon loaded with meat, fruit and vegetables, C. 0. D.. were commonplace imitators of Theo dore Hook, and much less able than the facetious young lady of Philadelphia who several years ago issued a hundred or more invitations to dinner in the name of one of Mr. Child's near neigh borsskillfully arranging the list of In vitations so as' to include fifty assorted pairs of mortal enemies and then kind ly ordered a magnificent dinner from a restaurant for the occasion. A decidedly sensational practical joke was perpetrated in Brazil on the occa sion of the introduction of a new safetv brake, Dom Pedro, who was on the train, being an accomplice. At one part of the line, where it passes through a cutting bounded by rocks, a gigantic construe- Don of lif n onI ftom.o? .:..a.1 .. resent a mass of fallen rock, was placed 1 on the rails so that tuo pvvr would catch sight of it as he rounded a curve. He did, and stopped the train in a hurry, so that both the joke and the trial weie successful. But suppose he had jumped off? When the steamer Potosi left Ply mouth recently for Australia a practical joker cried out: "Man overboard!" A life-boat was lowered, but the falls be came entangled and live men were plunged into the water, two being drowned. At Linthwaite, England. John I)i-kin, a bov of sixteen, thought it would be -great fun to scare his mate, a lad of fif teen, by throwing a rope around his neck and putting the end of it round the ma chine shaft. The object of the joke wa.s d:ihcd to pieces. At .Sixty-fourth .street, in New York City, in August hist, l'jetro Franchi's males undertook to wake him from his nap by wheeling a truck with a man on it against him. It struck him on the head and killed him. At Chicago. Mr. M. B. Could, a prom inent !m:ines man. resolved to scare the janitor by overtuniiHg thing- in hi- room and hilling in the clo.-ct. While he w:f chuckling with a companion over the success of their stratagem, the janitor, having vainly .summoned the alleged burglar to .surrender, tired through the door and killed him. There died at the Indiantown (X. B.) Asylum. Ia-t winter. Mi-- Clam Bagnall. :i jiouiig lady upon nhom a waggi.-h caller potmee'd one evening arracd "en diable." She fell in a lit and be came a raving maniac. In Robe-on County. X. C.. recently, little James Phillip- xoimg friend-undertook to cure him of being -ear by isjting the house during hi- parent-" absence, tning the door-, etc. TIpj fright killed him. At Ueuiii-on, ).. an American humor-i-t gac a little girl two ndlroad-torpe-doc-, telling her lhe. wen camh package-, to be opened with a hammer. .hc lost both ee- in opening them. At liombay, in October, a .-ehoolboy came behind a young companion, put his hands over his friend's ee- and bade him " gue-s who it wa-." The boy .struggled toe.-eape. the joker tight ened his grasp, and the ietiin wa- fair ly "gouged, the crystalline lens being broken. In Brookhn. K. 1)., the favorite joke is stretching a line aero-s the street to catch pas-en- in the evening under the chin. After a girl had been thrown down and had suffered a fracture of the skull the authorities took action and the next offender was lined live dollar.-. In St. Louis it costs one dollar to place a .split cork on the nose of a .-leeper, ornament it with matches and light them. Jame- Stewart, a saloon-keeper in Xew York City, kept a galvanic battery which the unwary were encouraged to believe was a lifting-machine. It proved a great attraction until one of the sub jects -ueil for damage- and got two hun dred dollars, with one hundred and fifty dollars cu-ts. The Court at West Xewbury. Mass., rendered recently a curious decision in the law of practical joking. I.-aae Ilibbs and sundry of his companions plotted to amuse an old gentleman by heaving a rock through his window. He overheard them, hid in the shrubbery in his tiudcr.-hirt, and pounced on them. All ran away but Ilibbs, who knocked the old man down several times. The old man brought action, but Ilibbs pleaded that he "thought it was a ghost, and he wasn't going to run from no gho-t,'' and the Court ruled that if he was possessed of the idea that it was a ghost there was no as.-ault. L will .-hoot you. I believe. Hani." said a playful young lady of Matagorda Coilnty, Texas", t Mi-. Hamilton Bug ley, pointing a pi.-tol at him. The ball .struck him in the throat and killed him. (P. S. She did not know it wa- loaded.) At Peru, X. J., hist mouth. Mr. John II. Wolfe called on Miss Mclinda T. Jacobus, intending to take her out for a walk. While she was preparing he playfully pointed a gun at her and threatened to shoot her. It went oil and inflicted a fatal wound. In Xew Jersey, the carele-s handling of fire arms, where it results in death, i- an of fense subjecting the offender to trial for manslaughter. In the case of the State again.-t llardie, the defendant was held guilt v of man-laughter for killing a woman in attempting to frighten her with a pi-tol which he supposed to be unloaded. In Virginia (Daingerlield against Thompson), where some sportive youths pounded at a saloon-door and "gave a salute" with a pistol, when the propri -tor opened it, shooting him in the font, the Court gave .?S.(X HJ damages, wilful firing of a pistol in a city street, even without malice, being unlawful. The mulcted defendant was the person who had urged the pistol bearer to "salute." The cases of Fenton. Powell. Hoane. Martin. Waters, Conrahy and others might be quoted, but that of Ewington will suffice, where certain mad wags banked a drunken man up with straw and threw hot coals on it. burning him to death. The verdict was manslaugh ter, the Court charging that if they real ly intended any serious injury, though not to kill the deceased, it wa- murder, but if the intention was onlv to fright en him in sport, it was manslaughter. The last "warning to practical jokers" to be quoted is a warning of the right sort." At Aosta a conscript who was go ing on guard was entertained by a pre decessor with a story of the wehr-'volf bea-t that had , appeared to himself. Then the jester put on a blanket and crept up to the post, growling in omin ous fashion. The unfortunate coin 'rijit was so terrified that he presented his rille and blcwoff the humorist's head. A Hen that San":. A novel case was heard before 'Squire Wilson, of East Nottingham Township. Chester County, Pa., recently. J.a-t spring a farmer of East Nottingham had thirty chickens stolen. Summer wore away, but no traces of the lost fowl. A few days ago the chicken-owner visited a fanner in the same town-hip. and while looking at the fowls on the premises saw a lien which he thought resembled one of the number -to.en from him. He inquired how the fanner obtained it, when a conversation fol lowed, and concluded bv the poult rv- owner saying: "if that chicken comes to me when 1 call her b name she is mine." This was agreed to. Annie. Annie.' called the owner, anil sure enough the hen came to him. "Jump upon'mv hand.' Ui jumped Annie. Now sing for a grain of com. Annie.' called the owner." The pretty little hen immediately began to sing in her fowl ish style a solo which fully convinced the two men to whom she rightfully belonged. The thief and pet chicken were brought before the 'Squire, who heard the story and Annie's solo and sentenced the thief. Heading Fa ) Xctcs. m Numerically correct: The fair Kuphcmia Drown is 1. And (prickly - the church she hies, Wi 3 son for the hasty act lie 4 her anient lover's eyes; " If 5 to meet your irate pa. I fear 'twill make me 6," said he, Unless this" ly plan of ours Should culmin S auspiciousl v. Oh, Fate, be but in this l9. 1 0 nothing more from thee!" m m .. Here we have a Joke and a Man. The Joke is very Old. It is Bald and Toothless. It must Be about 1.000 years Old. The Man wears a Big Diamond and a Shim plug Hat. He is a Negro Minstrel. Go and give the Old, Old Joke to him and he will Take care of it very Tenderly. It is his Business. He gets 10 a week for U, Denver Tribum Primer. i ScISMIH There is perhaps no one object in na ture which brings to woman so much trouble and vexation as her scissors. Five per cent, of married women quar rel with their husbands and thirteen per cent- of all women quarrel with their best female friends over the question: Is the word scissors singular or plural? When the hurried husband, anxious U) cut the ragged edges of his wristband before going to hi- business, cries out to his wife: (limine that scissors." and she calmly replie-: " You should say 'those sei-sors, my dear," tin peace of the household is threatened: and when the wife"-' mo-t intimate friend .a s to her: " I notice you always say those ceis-ors' but Charles jell- me "that you should ay 'that sci-.-or-." " the reply cuts a-under the friendship of many years. The chief trouble caused by scissors is not. however, due to their d'-puted grammatical rank. It ari-es from the frequency with which they are lo-t. There is no dome-tie article not een the tack-hammer, the bed-wrench or the cork-screw which dl-appears i constantly :ls does the sei-sors. Not a dav pas--.- in any industrious house hold without at lea-t one prolonged search for the scis-or-'. Curiously enough, it is always di-eoered by the one who wants the -ci ors that -ome one else has wickedly or carelessly mis laid them. "Mary, you had my -ci sors last: now where are they?' or. "Su-aii. you didn't give me back my wissors this morning: what did you do with them?" are remarks which in sub stance are heard in nine houses wit f ten every day in the year. Ofthe-hy and vicious ways of .-ei. ors and their pronencss to conceal them-ehes little note i- taked by the searcher, and her first and uniform iinpul-e i- to a-suine that herehildren. her mother, her s'ter or her visiting friend ha- wantonly lo-t the scissors. It is, nevertheless, well known that mm ors lo-ethoin-elvc-purposely, either through unconquerable shyness or in eradicable viciou-nc -. Many women, taking pattern by the habit which some men have of labeling their dog- with en graved collars, try to in-ure the -afely of their -ciors bv attaching to them long red or blue ribbons. The plan i- a usele-s one, eeu in the ease of the dogs. It is assumed that when a dog litis wan dered from home and forgotten both hi-ma-ter'- name and residence, he will twist his head over his shoulders and re fresh his memory by reading the inscrip tion on his collar, afler which he will gladlv seek his home. I" veil were it possible for a dog to so twist hi-head as to read what is engraved on his collar -a feat which am auaiomi-t will declare to be impossible it does not follow that the dog would in-tanth be smitten with a desire to go home. Facts prove that dogs with engraved collars lo-e them selves at least as frequently as other dogs, and that the collar i- of no -ort of u-e except as an ornament. Equally useless is the custom of tying a piece of ribbon to a pair of -ci-sors. Were the ribbon attached to a ring in the wall, it would, of course, keep the soi ors in confinement that is. if it were -Irong enough but as it is. the scinrs simply carry the ribbon with them into hiding. Cases have been known of -ciors which have concealed I hem-el ve- in hole-', into which they have carefullv drawn every inch of their accompanying ribbons, and it is simply wonderful that women nhould still ding to the delusion that ribbon prevents the lossof scissors in the face of the countless demonstrations that it does nothing of the kind. It is the belief of the be-t scientific men that scissors find the light very painful, and bury t hem-elves under beds and behind articles of furniture in order to avoid the light. The justly famous Prof. Xasmythe. of Chicago, asserts that on one occasion he sur prised a whole school of scissors in the :i't of concealing themselves. The scissors in question, of which there were six-, iielongod to Mrs. Xasmythe, and had been left by her, on retiring to bed. in her work-basket in the back parlor on the first tloor of the house. The Professor, on the evening in ques tion, had been attending the meeting of a scientific club. and. returning home late at night, discovered the six scissors stealthily ascending the third-story stairs on their way to the attic. They moed silently on their points and with their handles in the air. and when he aught them and placed them for safe keeping in his bureau drawer they re mained perfectly motionless. They were found in the drawer the next morning, and Mrs. Nasmvthe docs not yet know how they came there. Having thus discovered that scissors move bv alternately advancing their points, tlie Professor has invented a va riety of scissors which he claims cannot move. The two blades are made pre cisely alike, each having a double edge, and re put together with a: spring clasp. When not in u-e, the blades are sepa rated, and astieither blade can move by itself auv more than a one-legged man can walk neither can runaway. Three months ago he pr r.ded Mrs. Xasmythe with twelve interchangeable blades, not one of which has ever been missed so long as the blades were separated when laid in the workbasket. One pair of blades was, however, eareles.-ly laid down while fa-tened together, and dis appeared in the course of the day so completely that not a trace of either of the blades has ever since been found. The security against loss which the new style of scissors thus gives will neces sarily make them very popular, and Prof. Nasmvthe. who has patented his invention, will grow rich in money and in the gratitude of countless thankful women. A". Y. Times. Sellinsr a Watch. "Yes," said the auctioneer, "stand ing up here and selling goods hour aft er hour and day after day as I do. a fellow gets so that he can tell whether a man wants to buy anything, or wheth er he merely comes in to 'gawp' around the show cases. Now there's a man coming in to whom you couldn't sell silver dollars at fifty cents apiece.' The stranger carried a black leather valise with the glazing worn oft" at the corners, and, though respectably dressed, there Avas a shiny appearance to the sleeves of his coat that indicated a long forgotten tailor. He looked longingly at the yellow watches, but finally, and with evident reluctance, moved along down the show-case, past the hunting cased silver watches to where the cheap open faced ones were displayed. Here he paused, and commenced scrutinizing them as if computing their probable values, and how much his pocketbook would have to shrink to effect a pur chase. " Hanged if I don't think the snoozer wants, a white super!" exclaimed the auctioneer in a low tone as he darted around behind the counter and assumed his professional smile and voice. " Wish to bttv a watch this morning, sir?" " I would if I could afford it."' "Anybody can afford to buy these watches. It is actually cheaper for a man to buy one of them than to go without. You don't believe it? 1 11 iirove it to you. The other day a fel low who was going out into the countrv for a few days came in here ami bought one of these solid filled hunting-cased, stem-winding and stem-pushing, thir-teen-jeweled, Howard movement watches of me for fourteen dollars" "Fourteen dollars!' exclaimed the stranger, in a tone of surprise, now re garding the yellow fraud with new in terest. " Yes, fourteen dollars. That's all they cost. He was only gone three days, during which time he became en gaged to marry a girl worth forty thou sand dollars, and when he came back he had swapped that watch off for a four-year-old colt that he sold for eighty five dollars. He came "right in here and got three more of the watches, and h: gone out into the country to swap them off with an old farmer for a pair of bay marcs, six years old, that can trot better than 2:10 "in double hanie-s. Expect him back to-day." "He did very wrong.' aid the stranger, .-ententioti-lv. "Eh! Oh. of course"! Certainly. I told him so. Told him he ought to tell th" farmers that they could gel the wa'.che here of me for fourteen dollars, but he is one of tho-e wild, speculating fellows, and I couldn't control him. Will you have one of them, sir?" The t ranger- right hand started toward hi- pocket, hesitated a moment, an 1 then drew forth a well-worn but very corpulent wallet. "Yes, I'll take one," said he. hesitatingly. "You see. I am going up into the Lake Superior country to preach among the lumber camps'this winter, and a watch will be a good deal of company for me." a he laid down his mosey on the counter. " Are you a preacher." inquired the auctioneer, with a look of surpri-e on his face. " A very unworthy one," was the meek reply. " Why in blazes didn't you .-ay .-o. then! i always -ell cheaper to preach ers. That watch only co.-l me .1 l.-J.. and you can have it at eo-t. Ye-, con found it! for ?.. and here- a chain into the bargain. Now git out:" a-the stranger began uttering thank-. After he was well out-ide the d.or. the auctioneer explained: "I'd rather a-given IU than have that fellow buy that watch. I never cheated a par-on before. Confound it! I won't be aid" to sleep all night. How he did take me in Who'd a thought h" wa- a par-on? Hanged if I didn't think he was either an out-and-out -ceil or a green police man playing detective. Well!" with a little nervous laugh, "if he picaeho- by that watch, he'll be tried for hetero doxy within a month. -IhtrvU Free y'rtoo'. I'nshinu Noles. Bodices grow longer and longer. Short i-ites are by no mean-out of vogue. Cheviot dre es look be.-t when tailor made. Flanuel-fini.-hed cloths are much in demand. Xone but aesthetics wear short wai-ts ju-t now. Tortoise-shell ornaments are never out of vogue. The eagles" claw is again a fa-hionablo ornament. Short vvai.-ts will remain perdu until next spring. Curly plu-h is one of the prettiest trimming material-. Eight-colored heavy wraps are much worn this winter. Black remains the favorite dre. of American women. Pluh ba-ques with moire collars and cuff- are much admired. The tailor-cut jacket retains its place among fashionable winter wraps. Large pokes with .-ugar-loaf crowns take precedence of all other bonnet-. Plu-h i- the pretlie-t trimming for a cheviot dre when it i- trimmed at all. Satin and plu-h muff- lake the place of fnroiie-.ii: all but the-evi re-t weather. The fa-hionahlc brocade- of ihi- win ter are very magnificent, but very ex pensive. Frog buttons a'nl parallel row-of Titan braid trim cloth dre---.'-. very elegantly. Plush is the favorite material for inde pendent basques, to be worn with a va rielv of -kirts. For all eloth-lini-hed fabrics -elf trim- miii"-- and machine stitching should be r i preterred. l'hinc cry-tal lace pins, combs ami bracelets retain their place among fash ionable ornament-. Although great length i- the feature of the winter wraps, it is permi-.-iblc to wear short ones. Immense felt hats, with plu-hliku edges to the brim, are worn side by side with small capotes of velvet. Combination costume- of new .-lulls should not be so gay as tho-e where one or the other material i- old. Dark all-wool cheviot- of pure wind and good colors .-ell in large quantities for bu-ine. and fatigue co-tumes. Fancv pearl r silver button-, not f the largest .-i.e. adorn many of the plu-h and velvet ba-ques now -o fa-hionahlc. Dark bronze and olive greet: are very fashionable, especially when relieved with a dash of bright red. pah-blue, or velvet yellow. Imitation jewel embroideries of white, cream and pale tinted -alius appear on the costliest and mo-t elegant evening dre es. -A". 1. S. Simon Canieron- First ('cegr.iphy. Ye-torday an old gentleman who know- much of his early hi-lory gave me one incident as a specimen of how he began life, ('ncral Caniepui's mother," -aid the old fridud. " wa.- a great woman. She labored for her children with a zeal and energy of which few being- were capable, and it wa- her teaching and example, as well as native mental force, which marked the life of her boys uith tho-e strong eharacteri-tic- which have enabled them to make their mark in life." The old store-keeper in May town, the little hamlet in Lauca-ter County where Cen cral Cameron wa- born, -aid my inform ant, often told of hi- struggle for his first book in geography. He w a-only ei,rht or nine year- old when he became far enough advanced in elementary ed ucation to study geography, and he ap proached the teacher with the de-ire of his heart. The teacher promi-ed if he could get a book to put him in the class, but how to get thi- book wa- the ques tion. It cost one dollar, and even pen nies were scarce in his home. He con stilted his mother, and they together planned for the geography. She en tered heartily into her -on"-ambition. After three" month- of effort, enough of the odd.- and ends of the economy left from the daily demand for bread was saved up. The-e were carried to the country store by th" 1kv who ha- since written -o strongly upon the page- of his country.- hi-tory. When they were weighed and counted the merchant shook his head and -aid: "There is only seventy-three cent- worth. Simon, anil the liook costs one dollar." A- the boy thought of the struggle he had made to accumulate what he had bnnight. and still the prize was far away, the tears sprang to his eyes. Thy merchant re lented, and. taking him by the shoulder-, said: " Simon, you are agood boy : you can have the book, and you can pay me the other twenty -seven cents when you get it He not only lived long enough, said his friend, to pay the twenty-seven cents, but to do the man who thin served his childish ambition many kind nesses. Philadi Ipfiia Prcs. It has come out. In the cour-e of an examination of the county books of Bergen County. X. J., since 1S75, that, under the. head of "expenses." the board of nine freeholders have consum ed, in four years. 172 gallons " apple jack." and 4..300 cigarsTwhicli they have charged off as uppues for the.poor. Mother " There. Mary, do not in terrupt me. Please wait till I have got through." Mary But you never do get through, mamma." Baton Tran script. When is 3 girl like a music book? WhwLfhe is full of alr-. NEW YKAKS ITK.MS. Swear not at all. but if vou must swear, -wear off HoctoAcr lUrn-'l. - There are some sad things about Christmas, but they don't appear un'.il the day after. Be wary Jatiu-wary how vou make pruni-e- f-r the New Year. As- t ton Triiuwnjt. j - A good tir-t entry for your new J diary: Ifeo'.ved to make this a happy ; Xew Year to -otnebody. ! A word to the w i-e - If the swearing I off i-done at once it will save much headache. Elmirn Fr. - Press. " This world i- hollow." gloomilv reinnrk.'J J. llnmVr. " Yes. and the hollow-ilavs are coming." gleefully re- , plied Mr. Smiley. I Our Xew Year's resolution: We'll have just a- much fun. during the com jingyear. asyve possibly can. We --hall 1 keep thi- res'dution.- .' W. I If you have any intention of swear- ' iih' otl'nt the new e:ir. swear off now. r- - i:n I let the old year carry your good res olution with it in the better land. Poor man: And -o vou didn't tret I anv thin" for vour Chri-lma-? Well. '... ...:...!. :.. . :. I I j iicht Illioo. jo-i ii a hi', .wii ...ii bill- will come swarming in. leull get something then. -Ihttckje. --The obtu-e caller who -aid to the old maid aunt: "A happy New Year, and may you live to -ee a- many more as you have -een," then felt -uddenly ill and pale from a revul-ion of idea.-. J-'ne 'n.a. Those who will remember Xew Year.-Day : The awkward young man who bumped his head again-t the Iiandeher. and carried the chair-tidy off oil his back and knocked down a pJa-ter-pari- image which ornamented the hall, be-ide- doubling up a new comer a-he bowed hi.- way out. The absent-minded young man who put p. p per in hi- coffee and -ugar in hi- oy ..t and -aid: "I wish you a merry Chri-t-mas." and left hi-tailor- card iu-te.id of his own. and walked oil' with a -ilk umbrella of the hostess instead of his own cane, and wt- plunged in de-pair to find he had made'all hi- calls without removing a inutile r he wore to protect his throat from neuralgia. -A". Y. (irujihiv. Men ami Women's Clothe. Now, if 1 amanything. I am a sticker tip for my own sex. Xo downtrodden woman for me; but justice demands a reply to a quotation in last Sunday's fVi.m.' It'o .1 r-illier fttnliiif ifnTisli headed extract from a "New i ork let . i ter," and gave the co-t of a man's get up; the whole sum (including a watch, which is a life-time pos-e. ion . amounts to .?.' li; and this letter-writer thinks it an awful showing up of the extrava gance of man. She don't stop to reck on in the fact that one biisme-s-siiit and one dress--uit and another suit for between occasions, the same old watch, the one ring, the one cane, ami a counlu of hats make up the poor man's ward robe. What woman is there running herself on two hat-and three suits ot clothes, a dozen collars and live or six neckties? J u.-t as an experiment I asked of my morning callers to give me an invento ry of the dry -go id- they stood in. The lirst lady wa- a lieighWir; her hu-band is a prosperous, iiriinracturcr of fringes and trimmings. She had on her "sec ond best." For Ill's winter she has a. fur-lined, fur trimmed s Ik dolman cost ing .."in, and thecal sack she wore cost last fall ..' U; her hat was a . plush beaver with feathers, ami she has tour others ranging from .1." to.o; her dress cost her l'-'"i just a street co-tume of plush and cashmere; hus band made the fringe and pa-semen-terie, or it would lrive been .i0 more; boots (made to order) .0. gloves ?:.', underclothes ."'.. She has of course a dozen changes, the ?'." lot beingainong the cheapest. Her earrings were (;)", two rings . 10' 1. bracelets ?.0O. watch, and chain .2.V bar pin with eight d'a nionds ."i): she has five times as much at home in the way of jewelry, and she has eertamly a dozen dres-es. some of them costing as much as .'0 and .?::' 10. The next female friend was a nice old ladv. sixty vcais of aze, not rich, but 1 we'il-to-do. She had on a camel's hair j shawl that she paid Pa Hilton ?f'0 for; 1 she had an embossed velvet and satin costume that she paid the firm of M01 ) komt. vV Taylor.!')) for; she had a sa ' ble muff that cost'tJ0; her boots, gloves ' and underclothes certainly were worth iW more: her hat she paid Prince $Xi j for. and her jevvelrv was cheap at i.?I.(-0,. j This old lady can go out every day in the week dressed as richly and not I wear the same things twice (outside of jewelry) ! 1 began by this time to think theo0 I man a very "cheap institution, when in dropj ed a'business-woman as a stand off for the bu-ines man. She came to 1 collect a bill; -he keeps a prosperous I stationery-shop, ami had on the clothes she wears for common. I got out of her a very particular account of her ! fittings; fiat (made it herself), had two I ."510 leathers on it: she thought thi oth ' er materials were about .. S hat $i'.'; two braids hair. t) apiece, and a ' pair of car-rings she paid '-'0) for three small diamonds in each. My ata ; tioncrs head cost her $2C:. I lor seal 'sack was ? ''); her muff. ?2."; her 1 dress, ..'iO; her watch 100: her other i jewelry 1!(): her gloves, boots, under clothes, . 5 1'); a hue lie. '1); her um ; brella and a handsome sachel 610 1 more. I Here were three representative worn 1 en. ami their outfits ' re none of them the Sunday-go to-meeting best of either ! one and the manufacturer's wife cost j $2,0W". the nice old lady .52.1. '". and my enterprising young business woman ? 1.200. Of cour-e there are plenty of , women who have nt J'J.'i worth of j clotlrng on them, and there are ju-t as ; many men who. with a $15 suit of I clothes and .5 shoes and a $2 hat, : thinK they are dressed to death. I The lady whogro.ined in a letter from Xew York about mtn's expensive be- longinirs took up a well-to-do business 1 man as her example. I give the wife I of one, the mother of one and a busi- ness-weman as a reply, assuring my i friend that the women of Xew York arc ( away ahead of the men in extrava gance of wardrobe, that matinee tick ets, the everlasting lunches, new things I for the complexion and the confounded ' doctors that seem indispensable attach ! ments to nine women out of ten. more than balance the cigars anil d?;nk- of j the weaker sex. J. . K.inX. Y. Let j tcr to Curnjo Tribune. 1 A Hure Ketiirn- to III- Karlr Homo. A horse nti-ed in Norwich. Vt.. but ii-ed for faimlv purpo-e- in this citv for i several var-. was p'ccntlv -old to a t partv in Orford. X. II. In taking him from the wagon one evening he slipp-d away from his owner and disappeared, going at a high rate of speed. A dili gent search in the morning on all roadi for a circuit of several miles failed tc reveal any trace of the animal. A dis patch was received during the day by liis fonaer master in this city, asking if the horse had made his appearance here, in reply to which the owner was directed to inquire at Norwich. The horse was found there, and the owner was told that the animal made his ap earance in the place at three o'clock in the morning, after his escape from Orford. having in six hours crossed the Connecticut Rjver and traveled twenty seven miles in the darkness over a road he had not seen since he was a three-year-old colt. To make this distance in the time mentioned he must have avoided all cross-roads, and without de lav gone bv the regular vo-'.z. Ifan- Chester fX. U.) Mirror. rEKS0"AI. AM I.ITKKAKY. The gos-ip- -ay that (.illrrt and SulTlvan are t( wnte an (jH'ntfn on an Ameri'-an -ubjvt. The Itndon Tnn t' memoir f Pp's ident Cartield ha- ln-en reprinted and sells for an Kngli.-h jtomiy . Senator Hill. of ("corgia. now pnk witha oen-eotible lisp, lmt his tdiy-H-inn- a ure iiim that it w ill w ear off. and that ' the cancer on his tongue may be coiisid- j ered cured. ; - Mr. Oscar Wilde will xrrhe in this eoimtrv next utoiith. and will imtnedi-, ' atelv begin to give lecture- oil art -ul- j i.wi. Itcfore Ifsivinv London he w:ll bring out an original play. j Mr-, ("nrlield has Urn el--ted th" lir-t lniiorary iiiemU'r of the New i Shakespeare Society of Imidon. "as a -light tribute of admiration for the lov- ( ing deoiin shown by her during the ! long and painful illuess of the lale Pre. idem. ; Mr. A. B. Alcott is .-aid to seldom ' pa a day without composing a -otinei or stanza! He i- eighty -two year- old. , Hi- daughter !.ui-a i- forty -nine. Mi Alcott i- alxut to bring otU a new and I altered edition of her lir-t novel, j "Moods." - The quarrel between Anna Diekin-' son and lanny Daveiqxirt ha- re-ulled . in a suit brought in Philadelphia by the former Jo compel a return by the laltet ( of the manu-eript of "An American dirl," the play whose failure cau-ed the di-agreemetit." The author .-av- that tin act n-v- ruined the piiiv by making in-arti-tic interjKilation-. and the aetre-s lei le- that -lie tint so in ontcr to aroii-e the audience.- to some faint interest in the perfonname. The late eccentric Kugli-h writer, f'corge I'orrow. -uffered from what he called " the horrors." which w a-nothing more than ucrvoii-ne which ac companies an over wrought mind brought mi by too much nietaphy ic-, that led him into the origin of nature and of hi- own being, but when he found him-clf approaching the vanishing point of rea-011 hi- remedy via- at hand. "What do vou think I do." hw -aid. ...1 1 ..... i..:,,;i.i....i ..o.... ti.; f...t,;..3 .WHO A L, . I in 11 (. II U . I llli ii.-iiM'ii I go out to Hie stv ami Ii-teii to the I grunting of the pig- till mvself." I get back to j nr.MOKors. A book with a loose leaf should bi bound over to keep the piece. A, d. Pieitiittne. -Pconle who inhabit skv parlors and climl b four or live (lights f stair-, arc aiit to li. troubled with rooin-attie pains. l-trmt Fr.cPr.ss. The rubber -lings used by the little boy- are getting to be a- dangerous as the gin sling handled bv their daddie.-. UnlltiifT' F.err'i S'lturdnff. An old poker-play er out in North Park ride- a blind mule as a matter of choice. He -ay- it i-a pleasure to strad dle the blind. --l.arumit Hwniientny. Although there an scattered throughout the laud many per-on-. I am sorry to -ay. unable to pay for a news j aper. I have never yet heard of any body unable lo edit one. ClutrUs Pud It ij Wurif-r. --" Whv were you not at church last Sunday, riant?" a-ked A lia. Claia " I couldn't: didn't have anything to wear. I shall go net Sunday if my new sack is done." Ann lia "Oh. you sack-religion- thing!" lt-n Post. -- Willie ha- Found -ome Hor-e Kad ish. It is in a .far labeled .Iain. He has ju-t Taken a J'ig .Mouthful of the Hor.-c Iladi-h. There are Tear- in hi-Kyc.-. Perhaps he is Crying becau-e he Love- in Vain. ) ;; r Trilmir Primer. A man got into one of the Main street car.- this morning, having a large Mpiare of glass done up in brown paper under hi- arm. When he laid it care fully upon a -eat. went to the bo and deposited hi-fare and then went back and -at dwu upon il. sma-hiug it to piece-, the other pa eiigers laugltcd. Hurt fhrd Ft. - Sam .lohn-ing felt very much ag grieved becaue an Au-tiri.fu-tiee of tin' Peace fined him live dollar- for disturb ing the peace. "Mr. John-ing," said the .Justice, "you can take an appeal, vou have a legal reined v." " I knows all aliout item remedies, -an. iey am werrv mueii liKe Hem miner renieuo-. . i you gets at ile drug .-tore. Do more oh em ycr take-, de sicker yer git.-." - It happened on a railroad train which was going - well, il wasn't exactly a lightning epre-s. The engineer whi-tled "down bnikev." "What's the trouble, conductor?" excitedly asked a pa. eager. "Cow on the track." coolly rc-ponded the conductor. The man wa- -ati-iieu. Miortiv aiUTwaru down bnike.s" was --. again whi-tb-d. J low!" cried the , " hat - the trouiile now same ja enger. "Cow on the track." was the reply. " ("n'at Heaven-!" crieI the man, " haven't we caught up with that cow v et ?"' Oil i 'id I), rrirk. A Deserted liahe i'inil - a WHIint, Pro- tictor. Mr. (Jeorge Cotliarn. f'niham. Piiiladelphia. of ("otham ez i ha- ju-t ln-en convinced that old tricks have heroine new. even though new trick- may not have become old. Mr. ('otham arrived in thi- citv v teniay. in iMte ion ma , in iw.s h-oid. bov about eight month-old. Mr.(ioth am came down from Fort Smith. At (old ("reek. Faulkner County, a wom an, carrying in her arms a child, board ed the train. Shortly afterward- dn approached Mr. (iotham. and .-aid: Will you plea.-- hold my child for a moment?'' "('otham took the child, held it for a moment, as roque-tcd. and then began to look around for the woman. Ju-t about thi- time the train -topped at Pal arm, and the woman, unobserved bv the man who held her child, got off. After the tmin pa-sed thi- jKijnt. ('otham'- search Ifcame more eteiiiv and when he found that the woman had. by desertion, made him the protector of the child, he recognized himself as it lawful guardian. When aked in thw city yesterday, what he intended to do with hi- charge, he replied: " I am going to take him to Phila delphia, where 1 have a wife who will be more than willing to be hi mother, and in mv opinion, a beermother than lie would nave n:w: wiin tnc aciuat au- ( mor oi ni- inig. i was coniu-ei ai . lir-t. but now I am more than -ati!ied, in fact highly plea-t." ' 1 -uppo-e then." -aid a bystander, i " mat vou woiini not nave oioecie.i h die had left two children itstcad of oner "Xo. one will answer. One. you know, is much of a good thing, but "an other would be too much of a good thing.' I.ittit Urrk Ark.) fjozUc. A Sorrowful Picture. lhe well-known correspondent. F1- j wanl King, writing farn Paris tells of i the riH-ent visit to that gay capital of the t e-r.mpres- fcugenie. It is a sorrow tul , rval ; The and j.ii.ui-. au.i liiv (.Jiii.ss j -ui:;evi have a uxiching patao-j. lie.-avs: white-hairel ohl ladv. wrinkled worn, whom the pa-ers in the Rue Vir- ienne -tareil at the other day. waa the i e-Eciprc-ffl Eugenie. Mo-t ParL-Lini ' who -aw her thought there was -ome- thing familiar in fier appearance, but . could not reraeml-r who -he waa. She ! visiteil a jhop in which a great number ; t-angtlon, a fairy -like hule creatr, of valuable objirts of art which one. J "i"h j"01 .Wu f J- and golden etirb graced theimpvrial palaces were stored; cla-ping tightly in her tiny arm aa ira he went through the gard-nof the Tuil-: tueas waxen doll a pr-mt 'aat Tery' enes, aca out to roauuncoieau. wnerc j -he delicrhted to live with her son. i 'lhose wh"o conversed with her sav thaJ she is comDle.elv broken in spirit, and that her life neini a burden to her."' Our Yoiins: Headers. mi ;.'orr;vs t inn?cr. )tHKT lnii.1 from t.V north tin- wiM wjfxl l"t. l ,-.-.s hf !! -' Hwf. .t-l irt. iubhI tb- .lrfuiwr . rtiTU"f h" "r. Tin cli'l "" Year tbl l .r rwrJ -s. muiiv t.ruht. .'.diirbirwl t. i;i ho.ljo itrvJ Wf-rrj r.''1' w Wlnr w ! fnti ir fnrwW A ltIl'' ""'' Ymr" Jet H. A itt Veeplt "h.irj tilt it l llrtrj"i,','r kr ! Wnat '. tf chtWrra I--. K IT. I jft rnir. whn n tteln- $ wrl-, j M.,sl to trri l h4- fc mte. .nl mrllNH- ml ery V"V. !irk l..Vl-11- tteui4rrjd; iltlt.cvrnlNnirfc'xMi) J, I nw ltllt ke Mlttl : lVr. nil tin- iwr. 1 ttwrtB t lt. brtsht .il ctH-vrtwl t com t-. M IHV t.Hst rear, th- rtlttlnc Jtlr8tjr Whs . - Hr iv v I ; I Iik.o! mi - f wl tn4w -. Utit ohhM net lirn to mlt !"". v.... 1 muit ctwMW mv ii ti r 1 hH sMevK h Utxv Thi ifln.l .V Voir tt l-to Mu-t lTie hm wt-r ! "U l"tA JIOIH IjitvirtM tewi r v.os -..wk'V, Mi nnrv rr mm tint t tkirv, Ah.1 l.n.ih-r rM t l wM n4 -IrtVo Wl.-n We .1-1 xhHt I lHt lV. 1 m o kt ' lev Vc4 Atv ."pi'Iit tbiin tfj- "t Wr4; Awl. nil th- loir. I mm tti -- It I a iconic ihlM wh l-r. l.t- (F"r r m4rc I TTi 't 1- jiC: tin- imr wr: W.. villi lw JMtlfllt. iMtlle mwI trn: Vht-H v Atv lil.l'l .juw-V toMlHil: l"Helah. euro-ii itii-! Vin-l. vwl tr int-nri l t - W&Ht ,r.l. it ftill-lrcH e - '"'" .11 iruin Vt. A HAPPY Nt:V YKAK'S UAY. ! It wa thne weeks lefio t 'hrif4miv-. I ,,., ,y Vievted. sul. -U'. ti 1 but the Widow Hert nun's little i-itUiBe j .j ,f tlw "nwM hoi- ami lrm hi I j on the edge of a lonely fore-l. in iHHM n,l. Uwri ctu h'tb- Irft t ; t -t ; northern part of Mniiie. wa- fmgraut j ,.,1, ,1 vhr- m.lhT' I..-1 n i i wiih the -pi. y It i( pine. h.Jlv iuhI ( j,,.a,lt.r thmt ovr. tm4 Jim l i j hemlmk. gn-.U bramln-of which weiv , whitj u, j., Mp hit m'- I .heaped upon the tl.M.r d the -nwll ,.j,wj HWat tU the wikJ . to. Kiiciieu, ii one .miii - ioi- hh,i i - ..-. tired enough of br.-akii.g off the prickly twig-, and making them ,...(.. Uinch I .... ... .... .... . . ( deftly twined (hem int gnu-eful gar- i lands, wreathe- and f.'-tiHu-; for -vn nr u'r imillier rim I lirotiliT .11111. n no , there would Im a call from the great ; . citie- for t'hri-tma.s gn'eii-. with whkh to deck their home- and clmrvhe-: hih! I the pMTlrams hoped, bv supplying the ' i need, (o earn enough money t keep j them comfortable thnnigli the long, cold , j w inter, for they were very Mr. audi sometime- had "ban! work to drive the "olf from the door; and dork lro-t come- 'any aim i.i:m- m uwn "; .. , - ... . .. , m ,w .1 I .Mirinerii ri.ue. . .-i-k-mi -.mi , Mllly hail to help all -he could, ami her hand were very -killful. and her bright eye- very ipiick" in picking out ju-t (he right sprav. or hunch of lierrie-. and -he worked away stenddv. only stop ping occa-ionalJv to hug Mi-s Ammintn Cleopatm Fit7.-.lauies - a curious little specimen of a doll, made of a corn-cob, and dressed in a bit of faded eulieo. to which Milly had given - high-sounding a name a- -ome compctt-alioii for other delicieiicie-, and which !ie lonnl with all her affectionate little heart. "There, mother, i-ti't that alenutv?" -aid .Mm. holding up a wreath he had ju-t tiui-lied of rich, lutivv evergreens, dotted with the bright scarlet ludly Iht ries. "The prettie-t oneof all." ttsl Millr. "1 wonder who will buy if" " It don't matter, -o long is we get the money." -aid .Mr-, l'ertnun. sigh ing. "I luol hoped to give m chil dren a little ta-teof Chri-tiiins thhyear. but it has been -mil a bad sr.i-ii. itin afniid there won't be any thing for toys or candy, even if we can pay the rent "Oh. never mind us. mother." said dim. cheerilv. "1'eihaps gi-Ml Iwk will come with the Xew Year: and an wav. vie've all we want, only I wih .Mlllv could have a real nice doll in stead of that -eare-epiw yonder." "Iioift nail my deare-t. -weetest Animiuta CleojNitnt ntiiih's.'' cried Milly . catching up the corn-cob. and showering kies upon its rather scrubby head. Vou ought jll-t to see the dolls I saw in the toy -tore at T ." coiiiinned .liin. "with real hair, and cried when they were pinched as natural ns Mrs. Kattle's babv. I tell vou. they'd make you open your eye-! You'd never look at Antminta Cleopatm Iil .'alio again. " Yes. I -hoiild said Mtllv. lovallv. "though I would like to ha'. a nal dolly.; but I've nei.-r even -ecu mo-" Air-, iwn mm signer again, ami -oil- Iy wiped away a tear; but .inn ex claimed: "Io thought of a -ilein!il an! "Oh! what?" n-ked Milly. You -co this .stunner of a wreath. I've just made?" "Yes." "Well! I think I d-crvo Miuiethlng for the extra write a note. pain s I've taken. -. I'll telling h'Ihm'V'T Ihivs U aixMit yon. arnl a.-kiiig tJo'iu to semi v'ihi a doll: and we'll tie ; in aiiHmg th greens, and who know- lmt soum kiifl- hearted person mnv find it and "hi a w a-k. Uouldut it Im jolly if th'V i should?" i "'X lc!v !or anvthintr"" et- claimed Mill v. and she cajvr.sl raiiNl ' the pmitii. at" the wrr 'L-s. etHlintr her ' ininrotuMK ilain-e lv i .'ntinw-m An. t ininta ( l-palni. and declarimr rw should never hue ln-r anv h - v?m if -lie had a hundred china lUie that ! cried ju-t like Mr-. Kittle Torninv i So that evening, when the pirn knts that er,.( l,oth for fie-J awl lights ww blazing merrily in the t'n lireplace. Jim hunted up an old ink-tand and j"-n. that had not .-een the light for many a ; dav. earned a -h-K of pajH-r fnan a neighlror by bringing her a jwil of water, and together he arid Milly com-1 H--d the letter, badlv writteti and' ix-irly -j'Hed. but tlHsjf w ith a -ori of i pat ho that mu-t finl its way to any ' heart at the holy Chri-tmHi--tu!: Wi th" kh- irhn st th r yt nr n iti t rr tt-r mlllr. Hm- nvr "(lt ammtnf-r VeiMtr-r a ik- who t. rynthln" Nit n eor-"l tt. r .r?l r Mrl male Hp trren n .. m'tty lnva- ! ni'ithcr nrft I tie W ha a.t hn4 a (ttH or Sr Y-' pr-Tit lw n u- f II i ' f atb-r jokJ kiU-l blm Am tr.. u, 'ttM u cn-l th.m it wxA'- autk - srhwl. tttiUf "fa a't t am i-a. Vtir. trMlj". JM rirMTHt". TJir I asrR. IJ l-'.nnf-y. MUv. Ihi-ej,itl.. .IiiM r,,J n&l wUh a great i-ai f j.rxl-. a.Tl tbn b and .miiy ii"i k -miroiv in ajnoagth- gra-- fill h-niln-k branch- h hih thu mnthrr k-.u-le-d ni th-ir i-4i-hjw- . ct..,, OK-igh -he hojl and praysl that tnnr nv'Hl ihi ci-antMn:i: ami two ilnvs bar th " i-tinan H.-vjiiL. a- tin'rhiMrfii ! called it. w. ,Kwk! Wlth hnn.Irr.i- of . other- and -bipiK-d to :..-w York. wImtp- .. ".- i-rajni .., ,JW Hj,WAn ii-aer ami .' t.m.9 1... .. ...... I 1 . - I iW to an obi gentbfinan vehn i-rriil it ; She ani: Uar. I wjmu ' horn to hi- daughter, and -he. jw-j rae that wW,.' I rT4. I xw ' nouncing it "ex-rmVite." g,v u tiKoaTonrJiart I Snf '- m CfJn'l,v:xi'M3 l" "" Frkir ; anI u: rv fcVrr nU b- .-cipcwa. will. wntbt. however. Ii-T-riri' K ' .l r.. i.ii.i . i. .i .k. "' xm-trf -o -migly hKlJH away. J- 'a-- Chri?itma.s night, and ' Mr. I-angdon"s siku-kh Ivi- ra, brilliant n nre anu ga-ugnt. ma; -none T-- -"plead-nt and lit up th; garland.- and wreaths thai Mnlert-l Ue roatlj jwin mg and d-kd th frt-cl wall-: -'.----m ... uy while ramie .fund's! thrwigh th- atmrt-! nirnt. and in carol, ilance and ganv? children and granl-Iiil,lreH joined t clebrato the happy total lay . lUu in a 1 chair by th tire sat the votjagtt-t darling and pet of the hou-enoid. GrM-- "-. " w hi4v,ku. She at very still, and .-lowly her Wne r her U4ne natil they eJ traveled around the rooaj "" faU? rai-ejl to a pjcaire of the Maiocoa and CbiM above the maauH. over which hung the "t-"ir..W irrr-ifh mad" bv th" little chiMr-n - i.xr awiy m their 1 wlv home Oh. grand pi. iinw hrr""" et!. (nw-i -'i.l l.nly "What u. Pu-'-i ' ak.-il Mr Ijngl.H. ippnw h:r th tuiT r"-kinjr- hair rhT I WittJtbinff wIim t-fc II, ol fnm tfcu -.T tiwlfc." a. t ("nwH. jHwoling with hr hw fWr ttagiT. S4 thcr . Hrr. YmL am an I -ec what Ihi ilanrty bly fca 4 erei. At ihr ammM a th!Mrt yw. fcw kft th.' jfTHip JWi4Uir M HftfHftKietHtl. It WM U& thr r Mutant ir him t take .Jowo " hind. lillg thr pmfrt fnm i iWc. nl htuad i. Hitk s, V " Why. it lrtir"" h -. Xw n-otl tt. jriJ&." l"brHb.Je riHt hl " .-.? .-'! thI r-HMid. MnU pltiHt ; ' j:la''f. j;rn(ifi rrl lMtt Jim . hmU lw ttnihrtl. rl!Mon . .. W iMitl pitv iilsl U !' Whut a Kinwii- h ttd-r Ux I rhiUn-n -rthJic C '' i.n f.r Ihew." hil till" lir'r. ?h ' hig evrs fillet Hh tfs. ran t h- . jcralMliiahr. Miic "Oh. frvip t km -rn fr MilH !k. !. n-v new fch Jl rtt.l il hrr &. Yiiw'- arifi." T.. I ! I wtll." M tf r tkMt.rwtehiifr th jemm Bti'--iit hi arm l i mg hr rwhx i. t hear1- hg." whiN' Jr , hi ;U-m-- ibil mt rf v- utial- U wn thr fir-t U tf JwtiM x er and W; b Vrd' t Ww VeHir in lh Brrtrtto I 1. I ae -. L J.1 t..r tho tf-It-n-. ht 1 ' I nfI frrU a ,.- una mfnr n .1 W. ika ., L making " j'r-hl'V h Ub a h' m Ill th" lltN-K int Wiltrfl vwiee ... covered . tl imhi. whit At m i Cte..jira hkel tur frtrlnm 'fcvi ever. per'hel th iH hv hr 1 With her eye-1 f !" " r""i' h(des." .Mill -aw a xjhT" stiw 'tuo In-nng .slowly np the nnl nasi tin gnte. i.'l a iwhh's h ar ! witfemt impuriMg if " M 'Tk M.riiam lived ther,"" iul iniWiwI-'' :ilter the iUkHT wan imrsl ! al " .,'.,(... . ...it.l -. . ! . t. ,., , i....,!.!. u.ik..iii.... ' Jli-llT-ll lff, l.'lll,vs. ..... .. .. .w ( l..-.l follow c. I bv a nrij'hlMirtup tau. e j bearing k larxe bm j TlH-ir. Mis .Milly." b at.t. I foHtid that th.wn at th Crr' I- r !iu. s I thought I'd bnif it atbNt (;ih -oih'ImhIv;- been ItafC ? New Vear'i. lint I can't U !'. ftir im horses won't s!.l thw safMo weather. ;-sl nimlni;' . and mhi happy relnrM.s of th day "'("he saMM ( t." rrirtl MMt " and thank y mi m "moeh fkr bfiaytn this up Ohi.Hin. do kwrr b"Ih the )" lint her Imrfher wat alewdji ai "li w ith his h.-hfU iuhI th 'itmmr m pilcVlv retiurtisl. aidrwfall th t tiful n'.ix itnairr. the h ttr-t thtn "( . h.nl riT Iwhel'l "tili!h il .ilii?"' ih aiAvl oi aw e-trin-k tMH'.riwttn hrr hat i I il w some litiK' bf hm tetettw ' t.Hich th- dainlv ihtlt. livl H '" and la.e. wnAnl ; bHkt r i iH'H-d and hut. erl 4 waJ jfi - I hair, and when a riif wna u K. t rri.'l l:t pa. tna hk" Utswh a lift b--inanner Indeed. b coulil hazily ,-l-r-iial(sl thai it mas not a rai Mi'.. child. l'intHsl to her skirls wita a Wfr ..n which was written. "A NVw Yarrtf' br MHly I'ertratu. fntn twr new M. little firrwH- lagdm lbr mw -HI.io.-We Lillian Witt." "Oh. the dear, darting ftit nl' cried Mill. " Hut h)k' &r a Ba things ut lh" In And. indeed. th-r" wr Aal a-iMK-kage after lNokngt. hiu draw a frwtii j ami tli-4'o-el dre anl kwU l-f j XnAh Milly and ht M4hr. ekUM, an t 1 hii eh'gHMt pair of club itliaA latw1 ' for " .biMies Ifa-rtram. who tjnaajftn ani nf ,, ,h. Hknwr." uml. UUr. a, Mtr wen nihil w-ttn xn ani sir. m anl eewinens of thf ehiWron . ImhiihI. h hih th ihoUht wept Ifmt ' . "LmIii. j That hk in.U"s. a hay NVw Y-ar )n . juel HheH in th ef-mntf ! l)a . anl when hi th ef-nitf tjfeov ' Indore the tin of te kn4.s. Ih- m4Je ' w minted in h.-r ww .haHi. al wrthtl old cnr'-w.rn lMk ipiile haaatk4 fr.r.. hT fne-, .Iiim HILhioe; his mkal m which h had ej.rts a nn rac the aflriiMin. atol .Milly witk l(tan ' Lillian While awl Animintii CMtair l-i!y.-.Fain-s .!. lr !! in h-r lat. Ji" ' remnrkl it IIIMst If mh V Riai- ' lher jeol' happy . ami wl CWiB. j '.no-H' loglHi ahall ha ta -' haalsiiH-st l- of vergn-rnfl that g i inU N"W Vrl itt. in return Un Mdlv New Year's srift ' I'hrxMutn ''" ('mill's Southwestern Si-tern. Iiiiinn hxtr nfni tulim ali -'' railral n-n a to hw ntf' miles of rvl ar nnbr U mrnnms- ttK-nt of what i know a a th tm 1 SnthHtrM Sysw. A Si. Iwo tjt.J.I), ttvtrr.tf rejrtT ewllxl 4 Hr il C. Smith. pnHl s?rrUi7 fc t! -nir V i-I'rstb'ii ni th wy im. an I w a. f irni-his'l with th- it0tr-i IW sMMrt-rKt Mfrwonrl 'rr i ' nlnsi Itrna'-a Vnm I'xari tr M'ntHo Teiii .1 1'artftr lni-nwl l A Jrst '."orjtwm I mil, A. Hwt, Kwt Uiw axi iar . .rOtt"l. A"UH - T rsr,a ewscrxUCxr'A-'. Ml orl ! . 'itrl Hnutek MlnMMrl. Kmhw 4 Tiji Irnm ttmtnin IaraaUMMl A '.fal NvrlMra fU-t Ur k HM m-r. m its Mktaz inn4 tntal af In tK mh f..r l,k. hrojcbt by Xtm Hlaanu. u' I'trr Ttt againt Mr. Mr. of Kirkaaovl. .Wra-Unt UM br hr "prf-s th' nnin ' m ( tral Pal W . cmtw mtrftl in mir-et " m4 th' ; hail a tfiaaaoA-l m; which hwl tatrn imm hr mm? I ; j :. rf,-. brk . hVr Anr fm. a -ih. awl akl )rr o( u. J" ! nn frttm Im fimm anhl s mkjrt Itfl::. rjt bjaal y,,.r b&l -''nn-' n tbum.- ,. j, j "Harrr. ki itf ! ami votj rst oa nT'sfcrjoiirr ' H" j i-ow-d ih m,jka Vthvt iahv vm ; &Mm'Jr b-tntr infri thai - U-i 'miU-wn rauwi. ' with,!r-w nad J1 , Finding la-t mtgnh. in rjajrland. it name " Mfc-baH Sir Sbnnri ' '- : registrT of riVar. th rf---r x-k-! f . that km errect " Yt. lja t " wx- cbrstssl Uie efirrginan Xaiae this raihl.' The pjt? wre! ' JlK-h.v-1. sir. ami ily-kl ' it wi." Thi recall the L-sfnnz p-' sr. who replied t the -ook sWatas t aboot a KUIe girl. Loth v. - tb WbifepoB th; orridl nariaw. noratiee of the babvs -x. root Z noawA -' -Lccifer: HomUef Jon I luntt thee." vtc., aiid bontizod Jote ii y - sMri -sar o