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11'11.1:DAY. DECEMBER 27. 1889,
4. NEW ymtuva S TORT,
!RR, ollIVALItetuS »Brims OF A nun.
lititatto Witt., A -so wrIAT 0.t1ttu
Or IT.
Gomo,. uncle, apin us a yarn,„
Wbat kind of o, yan
A New Year's yarn, 1 course. You
owlet expect us to be itithed with
wattling else on New 'Y ars eve.
She':L spin 'enNew Yeer's yarns
auntie/ asked the old gentleman of a
white hatred lady who was batting
hy the light on the centre tabieeat the
oleo time giv mg her a knowing
leok,
(...)f ogre° new she replied, half
frowning null half smiling..
There's only one thing ever hap
•31/ petted to ree on New Year's eve, atid
I've remembered that alwaye.
13 it e lova story? asked one of
the girls.
Well, it kind of one. Bring out
scum nuts owl apples, and give us
another etielt of toed for the fire, and
so what I Call make of what hap.
ponflii to in on NOW Year'a eve, 1935.
it seemed to me that there was ono
visiihle thing present, and that was
Iteddie's.lead.
I limped ttway from Dick and the
circle, inwardly planning revenge on
Dick McLean before tars end of the
term, Indeed, 1 at once told my
father I desired to take boxing lessons,
and receiving his assent, after three
months' secret practice, went up be -
Lona my enemy with a lighted match
and burned his back hair off up to the
crown of bis hat. Dick turned like a
fury. His uncontrollable auger and
my skill gave mo the day, and I left
him with the injunction that if he
wanted any more hair burning to come
to me.
.As I had expected, after my defeat
ou my first onconnter, I was set down
1113 champion of the ugliest girl in the
&shoot, I did not recover from the
heating I had received for a week.
One day as 1 limped ecross the play
ground Peddle ewe up to me and
pelted somethingat me folded in a
piece of brown paper. The sight of
tier was alone enough to rill& ne; but
to see her standing byetne, shyly, with
her hand stretched towards me and
something in it, in sight of half a
dozen pupils, was too muffle
Go 'way, I said.
She didn't say anything, but con -
tinned to look up at me shyly, an
though she knew it was a great pro• I
The old gentleman's requirements emulsion for her to oiler me a gift. '
having been attended to, the boys What is ill I asked in no kindly
eau' girls ranged themselves round the tone,
fire and the story was begun. He Something I made for you.
Ineked etraieht at auntie while he I don't want it, I said, turning
told it, evidently enjoying its effects away.
upon ber more than ou the younger • Please, Toni, she said, won't you
listeners. take it/ .
* * I cast a glance at her; she was
She was the homeliest girl in the evidently full of seine deep feeling.
achoela there 0A11 ha no doubt about What have yen got? I queried.
that. She wary freckled, her hair was •It's only this. And sue took the
rad, not a clerk shade of red, but fiery. paper cover front about it and held it
She had 'straggled with the whooping up, casting an anxious look at inc to
congh, and ineasels, and scarlet fie er, see if 1 admired the gift. It was
and every other disease that childlioed book mark suet as cuildren make, and
is heir to until she was iittie more on it, in which minty of the stitches
then 'skin and bones. There were girls were put in wrong was Tom Erven.
with fitceo more expressive of disagree. Timed not illy name, you little
table dispesitions, but for pure home. goose.
litiette lledditi would have taken the Isn't it spelled right?
pleain any honestly oonducted show No. It's I -r -w in.
fer ngly diris. Reddie was not her She looked so stupitied and woebee
real name, hilt everyone called her grotto at her blunder that I pitied her.
eteeitie hecaute her hair was sore& If we hadn't been in view of the abet
\Ye were alt very young ehildren— children, 1 think 1 could have spoken
at 'east most ofpt were. I was 14. a kind wordto her.
There Wait one buy who was still older Won't yon take it, anyway she
—Dick McLean. Dick was a natural asked ruefully,
twinentor. lie would abuse the ,girls The quickest way to getrid ef her
ashyell at the boys. lie respected Wail to 'incept it.
no mere than hoops and kitt•s. Yes, I'll keep it. Noiv run alone,
It's e. long time since we tw't, MI,
I Irwin.
it is, indeed. I scrutinized her
features ; 1 didn't remember to ever
have soon het before.
That was a noble act of youre
I was not only surprised, 1 was
amazed. I remembered no act of tny
life that could be called noble.
You do not know what I am talking
• about or who I am at all, She laugh-
ed with keen enjoyment, while 1 was
no more enlightened than before.
How do youlike the shade of my
Wort she asked.
It's very beautiful. I spoke in a
dignified tone. I wee•becottaug vexed
with all this quizzing.
I wonder if you wouleknow me by
ray old name. ahe said.
'Try me and see.
Beddie.
Upon my word 1
I looked at the beautifulcreature
before me with ill concealed aetonish-
ment. -
Yon seem surprised.
Yes—at—at the angular fate -that
brings this. meeting'. • ,
At nothing else ? she atked, 'trebly.
I found no words to treply, so 1 re-
mained silent. t e • •
You don't reniendo.en ;ity singed
doll, 1. suppbse ?
I have reason to etieeeially remember
that doll. I makes' toe quite sore to
tliztmt
Yon behaved very chivaliiiirdy. And
the book mark I gave yap,. You have
treasured it, oi course
Of coarse.
She looked at me searchingly. It
was evident that she knew 1 was pre-
varicating.
In that whole school there was but
anewho was kind to
me, she said,
im-
pressively.
g'ad to show you same attention now.
Only one was hind. And.that one
—whom do you think
1tan't tell.
You.
-
Fortliteavett's sake,
Red --1 stopped
short.
You fought for me,
Prhaps some of them would he
will swallow anything in shape of a
compliment, I thought,
I really think it is more perfect than
when [ zttLY0 it to you. The spell.eg
is certninly improved. If I remember
aright, I spelled your neme incorrect-
' ly.
I glanced again nt the hook mark.
Something hi her manlier caused me
to, Scent danger., Suddenly it broke
in upon nie lit a (blab The original
bad been misepelled.
The n-n-u-nme is written a great
naany ways, I stammciicl,
I spelled it Ff r•v•e•n.
You tiouldn't have (ICAO that.
0.yes, 1 did ; I remember it perfect-
ly, Little gide are sensitive. At
- least 1 was, and I felt your rebuke at
my blunder very keentv,
was wiping the perspiration from
iny hrOw, It seemed to inc .1 bad
never seen so stern, so contemptuous
an expression on any woman's face
Thate n.g-g-good way to spell,- it,
I remarked wildly.
She took the Iteolc nark and the
visiting card from the table. 'You sef•
they agree, she said.
Isn't it odd.
Very odd.
must have, made a mistake.
She concentrated her gaze upon mo
in what seenu•d to me'ene glance of
whithering contempt.
You are very much' mistaken if yon
think to impose that brand new book
mark on me fur the one I gave you.
.
Oh for an earthquake, a eyclone,
anything to change the situation,
How ridiculous 1 1 mutterrd, trying
to force a laugh and put a humorous
view on it all.
She declined to see anything Judi
°roue in the act. Sho became more
grave, if possible, than ever.
,I picked up the bookmark and bent
my hot face down over it to hide my
confusion. 1 had lost all presence of
mind, My ideas were in a state • of
chaos. What to say L didn't know,
aud didn't know what I said.
See, 1 stammered, the one you
gl-agir.
avum e was w -.worked iu red
i
1 blushed. 1 bad never vow:Meted A peal of langhter broneht 'me to
that bnd fought for her, but that 1 my senses. My discomfiture was
'was .7..bliged to fight. conaph•te. T fell back iu rey chair and
1 got thrashed. . covered my lace with my hands.
. The kindness was all the more ae- You do that tuat like it girl, 1 heard
ceptable. her cry detightedly. it's exactly what
I was not especially appreciative I did whmn. you left me that day in!
when you offered me your' gift.- - the scleool yard, and I thought ;theta
You fought for me. my _ittneder in spelling. Only I
Theren
inee ere was .no near & 1.Ve were covered my face -with my apron.
,•staed.iner elose together. 1 felt for her Presently 1 umitetcd uourago to
. hand lind gave it a quick pressure, then leek at her,
. He wont(' mall into a ringwhere the Her Lute brightened up and 1 was dropped it. ' In another moment she . Who male that letek mark ? site
'boys were playing merbies, and pre- surprised at ao much expression. I f • was whirled away iu a waltz by a asked, resuming a serious expteetion,
tending not to notice -where lie was she had not so many freckles and Ineelseme fellow with a tawny muse My sister. , •
treading, scattin: the marbles with the swill IA hair, and had more flesh on niche and blue eyes. ' 'What made you do such a thing e
• toe (If bit hoot, wir puke his finger ' her bones she wouldn't be so ill look- After the last.'dance and we were My admiration for you . •
tie -nigh a kite, or let the sawdust out ing after all, 1 thimaht As slie going home, I saw her again • in her
' or a dole end be wile so big and steatite; skipped away oho termer and gave Inc 1 wraps in time hall. .
rust ne nee drivel punish him. I wasa grateful look ; such a look as a I May I go to see yen ? I waked.
the inuetet boy ill the seimai, but in I peasant might give a prince.
f
. . Yes; Thee, with lea' eyes snapping,
etrengte 1 wee greiztly ittferior„ and That wee the last t saw . of R„a„li, she adi1(41: (lame and bring the book
.keet. out of his wily. . at school. The next, day she wee torkg Let me see ; 'I'm engaged
One des Red& wee carrying her • taken with symptoms which develeped every night for a week. Come New
d 41eie,ross the eleygrotind, a doll with into typhoid fiver, nut" was kept •at
hair its red as Iter opt n, Some one 1 home. Her absence was a great
-had in I it a4 a rAtiC1.1011 nn her own ' relief to the, and 1 wished when she
fiery iocita; but Redden never seeing or reenvered, if she ever .should, that the
never yet tAret the elight, reek the would go to tome other school. •
wet nen, eel little minister into ler Between 14 aud 21 year of ego
segre mei nune.:1 it with tts mueh of there ceines a fi„,,reat clizinde,. -when at
fe ;:ion as if she had been a real moth- 241 look hack on my childhood and
me Diet: ttleLean, seeing hoe with i thought bow wrote:is I- was of the
tee doll et her arms, its red head ' feeling's 'ef other,. I was surprised.
tritling Oat ever her ithonldert went Yet it most he confessed that what I
no heliet I. her with it lighted match, ! had emitted in 0110 way I bad lost in
,ted tonelileg the fleeno to its 'mita [another. 1 hull acquired polish and
there tees a bright ham around the prevaritatimi. 1 had learnell to stay
d 'It's }req..' f.ir au instant, and then p'edsant,things to young ladies, and
2 lo' erametn was as bald 03 if the was considered quite an adopt in this
hetle thing hedn't been in the world respect. Besides, I did not scorn to
eigeleh to grow even red hair. I practice petty impositions, to flat.
......d,lie, s-eing what had happened, ter theca to gain their favor,
1,..,,,p i,,v, ream 1 soon became find of society,
I. w is 02 witness of this bit of millen which was unfortunate for my mother
hen. and althengit at that ego I had and sisters, for whom 1 was the only
4-insidera.de eoutempt for girls in available escort. Ittill, 1 wee octet-
emterai fled thio ,prevailitz . tiontempt Mortally dragged by them into the
fir Reddie, 1 was shocked. whirl. Otte night J Lied ;men „nitwit'.
It Everett to me, - Dick, I 'said, I'd ingly appropriated to teems; my
, .
taxe it boy far that sort a' thing if I, eistere to a . daeciee perty. It was
were yon, Ohrietreas night, 18151. 1 lied given
I'll take yon, if you like, he re- up dancing, awl t4t,00C1 lookiug on
There is 0 tido ie the affairs of meth
I mut treed, which, taken at .the
flood—
have admired yon, 1 said, humbly,
ever since—I hesitated.
really in earnest, and this gay
the victory.
It's so sudain, Rho said.
We have loved each other br
Wei k, 1 urged.
Yours may have been since then,
niiIXTrurs71
Has lasted ever since you fought for
lue'ihen 3 knew why I had won so
sudden a .victmy.
Before I took my leave that evict-
ing I naught syitt ielleetien in
themirror. tv ette Oo yen 6111;pogn
it was 11 It, was noddle mind .1, she.
lovingly restieg in my 0.11119, with her
head on rey. ehoulder, ter back to the
mirror, 1 with my face toward it.
said to myself, WA even
speaking the worth; in a whIsper--we
lies were too near her ear. It is dui.
to the gesterosity mid gratitude of that
freckled, red headed child you ileum
ed (en years ego, that yen are net
if:t:1:g yollr itibt ElFserts now.
know you were that kind cf a man
cf
Why uncle, said a tars of 17,1 didn't
Why didn't you num y Ileddie? ask-
ed another,
. Perhaps ‘It' resu turd her common
sense and thought better' it after alt,
said the white haired lady et the
centre tabte, her heed bent down low
over hrr work. •
Palette, said a tenger of feet girl of
10, 1 Mow litho Iteddie wts.
itelted 0 chorea of voices.
Hoer could filet be, yon little geese,
said tier mere when 00111 ie buts white
hair and lteddio's visas red?
11w -a made most of it out of, whole
cloth, tint' the old lathy. Thrit about
the mirror is ridiculons. If I Vali
forepoetel be d talk itbout such thing.
Ilautvgo4til. 11.4t
gh•is all bnrst, _into, a-
trIewold lady stopped short. and
the hogs end
An Elephant Envembers a Friend.
Ai elephant attached to Womwell's
menagerie was tivated in Gloneestersh ire
by it:druggist for internal spasra.., The
animal recovered and duly departed from,
the town. This was in MO. put ir
Ste, When the druggist stnod at Ids shop
doer to watch the nleaagerio again enter
the town, time elephant crossed the street.
a4eanced to the man of drugs, pieced'
ter think in his hand and grunted agree.'
Hey to.show her relnembrance of past
kindness. At night, in -visiting the men-
, agerie, the elephant drew the druggisro-
attentien to her side, to which a blister
had been applied nine years before. In
1881 the elephant again rOtered the town.
Recognizing her chemist friend in the
audience she Med him gently- • off his
feet-. by means of her trunk and drew
his attention to one ef her forelegs. The
keeperexplained that the limb had been
lanced by. a veterinary surgeon; and that
epparently-she con:paring 'notes of
the differenee between the gentler Winter'
of hem' friend and.: the procedure of the
surgeon:'.. It is not often that sen4ces,
e'e' • toe ".
, are so buy; and gratefully remembered
1 was a red headed little imp.
, either by quadrupeaior by "the paragon.'
of animals" Louis
No, I went on, profiting by the I es -
'Y ear's rive. scat I had learned and speaking frenite
And not without the book mark. ly. Then, to thoughtless, unreason-
. She hard just time' before thc door leg' children you were 'attrae.
closed behind her to give me a this-, tive.
ebievous look,' and say, no. : Now you are speaking: manfully.
My position was embarrassing. I Please don't ever attempt to impose
had- permission to call with mt book on me again,
mark and no book meek to tall with. Indeed,.1 never will, if trout will for--
. I had no intention Whatever. of fore- -give me for this.
going my call for want CA a souvenir, You are forgiven, she said,
Nothing would be more easy than to But you haveu'etolihme when this
duplicate the Doak mark, and as to admiration for me blootned. •
practicieg the deception of ofrerhut it When 1 met you Christmas night at
as the original, I had no qualms of the &echo; party. •
conscienee whatever, having perpetrat- in other words, you have admired
cd many such sins of -far greater enure we for a whole week. •
mity. 1 Raked/my sister to make a I looked at her frankly, honestly,
book mark for MO, and warned her and meant every.w,iird•I spoke when
not to do the work too carefully,imita- I replied :Imi those, three days have
ting the stitches of a child. been crowded enongh ndmiration to
Armed with what 1 considered a offset ten yenrs of indiffereuce.
fair imitation, 1 called and sent it in She blushed and towered her eyes,
with my card. When she entered It hail riot been ouly _admiration, I
the drawsna room I Sartailliwd her went on. For three whole days I
face to see if there Were any signs have been' madly in Jove -with you.
of her having discovered that the She leaned back in her chair mid
tokenovne epunous. She held my drew a long, long sigh.
You know that 1 speak the truth.
Ily your past rerord ?
card and the book firma m her hand
i am) as we oated ouraelvee she tossed
Democrat.
IThhet itprreciata It.
The Listener was a bit amused the ether
day by a SCC410 that occurred on flans
street.. A man orgigantie proportions---.,
a dime museum freak. oat for an tdring—
the top of whoSe head was located fully
.eight feet above the.solei,of his feet, was
seen lumbering along up the streeL Front
the opposite direction canto another very
tall man, but not nearly so tali as the
freak, The latter stopped, gravely liftecl
his hat to the eight -footer, and made
somo passing saluretion by word . of
mouth. The freiik did not seem to relish
this familiarity of the ()tiler tall gentle-
man, and sullenly growled out a word or
two between Ilia teeth. When the other
tall Man came along to where the LISteil-
er was standing he remarked: "1 steat
six feet one inch in my stockings, aod-
whenever.I meet a, man who is taller than
I aux it is my invariable rule to take off
my hat to him in acknowledgment of his
superiority, you know; now that moun-
tain of flesh might to have felt honored,
but .he did /iota he's the gruffest old.
codger that I'vo ever mot." St. Paul
Pioneer Press,
Ile Taal: It Away.
xie a , ( 10 col* bell . of a house on
1 firtPri. witli illy arias 2olded. f them on thP tsble, e,0 far us 1. coghl by
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my sincerity. You can See Second avenno arid then sat down. In a
Iiii.o.v if; at) quarreled 1 would get in, to
I wee serry I heel 0141 anything,. I Tom,. said my Otter Very,
Inc with her Overlie alt ageoet_i to 1;e gemunte
emeiegli discover, she believed the book marl;
, eyes, my whole being.,
it in f•very
` he w• i • , • - e
't . a ted a ti ell am' rong ',or the third
feattire , . my voiee, my minute he roie tip and ram, '10' ' Tl
, ....wail. dell
1 irasil,s1. DesIdqs, if I fought about she had jest ilnielted it thnee—you! It is very good of yon to have kept ne sat with her vyon fled on a i itlioninese.. bStotorialytiii7zreaaftitoezrenthper ,i(t)tftlyoofe sti(hke--
headache, ()limed the door and de -
omit it wizened little creatare, ae look too blase f.,r Lnything. I want; that souvenir so lonto she reMarketi, spot in thecarpet, occasionally raising
them to olio° as though wondering,
mended:
inc
.;.-adie, rhe wholeesebool weak' villi ti, leo:mince you t� a young Indy.
I tried tn. beg elf. . 1 . Don't Inention.it; 1 oltserved, intline whether 1 %%0 WortI1V of credence.
1 fitting her beautiful eyes on mine.
you ti,t Ig to pull the house
VII 1.,a,-41 von—added Dick to his ' . 't1
...10I1 a 11Calay,, ana SO imp ,i2p.1 a ; 1111t my bea4 ch•foreotially. 1 floe% believe ft word you say. down?"
t r.04.121,ivemark, and he catne up to licautv, Mery urired. 1,i.i„., pat 1,„r I . How carrfully you intr4 have kept lint 1 saw that the tide had turned- '
lita and :..truck mo.. I t;aw I was in , 111121 till'Un411 thine tilid led lilt! 10 111A
i' it. n...4 made uo any mind . to take. girl in question. . After iiitrodueing
a theiraiing. The eloidten Wood i lua feu. slipped sr:ar.
• o, maim, mwered. "nave
it. Ls not the leapt dingythat she watt ia%erm' 4by with t of you the 'Live:it:if. Phie,rdeet'
It was very good o you to give it reputation with her for trntlifuInets "No, sir, but if I Was 0, man rd kayo
m eon knew. Throe when twhoolt was certitinly a; great barrier in the yours in about e rdeute "
s..'3.t.,,i, Arr;loilt3 nmong them, with her 1 if ever there was a ease or: love at mark is kept lti a hoelt it doesn't gt.t way of tny sitcerity; lint I did hot, "Ith-ailil I see, madam, I IV
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1 ii'l in, vied d..11 in her twins, and her; linzlf. Agin', it c'ue' to me" tit that -1 (Hoist% Seepair, for tkilow that what 1 .sold better go." guess
4 • O'' 'I l4,,:e tHakinl iu illaminateug i 0)1101 It The girl wets heir -eel n I I never thentritt of ; that.
t ..- • - :, eel Of the 10 1'., hone. i plf.%i,11,, Pvf.,; der!: ligiiiii :rot, t • ..-:, ee, .4 fo. wliAt halt leen Wit Iv ! teartril 11,, , Pri 0(4.1 1 1 5 I tire, fair f.,,ei•. Doer steamier'. Hew inneeent. . was: 1 doutonly too true, For half en bonr And he took the "Live:: of Ilutarch"
thued tbo attattk, slip parrying tuidff hisarm, find hiss:awn in his band.
and backed down the step 4181 out of the
P gate and went off with li-it ..i'
'i• • - .., .., t Hist brief struggle until , m Port sheet. of Tither. * itente ht.:dile ivy mull on tbA tattle. It I ill me ra my recent deception r but who wishod • • . , .. r of a man
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1. fwilox3 1:1zot utrib;e to cwil,',:itic.., lier ii!4* IPM- :':: :-Uir.:0 1 ItV't • hili..ri mw fresh vie. card. A girl I II'' (1'1;1!cest way to venvince is to be pease.
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