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The Goderich Star, 1898-12-16, Page 20- . � . � 1 7 1 . I I I � � I . � .. . 11 Deceraber 16, 1898. � , � I Chrisinoks liell* Christmas bell* are softly peeling, Sweetest songs o'er earth are gloating. The amgela touch their harps and lyres Loud anthems rise firVm heaven's choirs There's Joy in heaven, there's Joy on earth, In honor of the Saviour's birth; The whole creation seems to sing A birthday chant to Betilleriern's King. All "Glory be to God on High" The prophets. priesto and martyro cry; "Peace be on earth, to all good IkIll" Resounds from every vale a rid hill Let us all Join this happy throirg In swellIng out this Christmas song-, Let grief take wings and fly away From all this merry,Chrtstmas day. SEVEN UP FOR A WIDOW. ___ - r WAS just thir. -'-rAr-_- teen year ago that L.. we has our Christ- mas weddin' at Springer," maid the Rev. Thes. North. He wan sitting in A,- citis . Tranalt the stock yards. . chewing a remints- I cent cigar. "More I prop'ly speakin'. we I ,k� *ot ready to hAVO It. We wait fooled. a W It was all on 4' account of 06 we, wan. not w�owln' of her own mind. Re, - tan has the marryin' and we has the laugh on us. it wall a white Sbrfstmas, too, and was nothin' short of it bird of a day for AL weddin' or any kind of a celebration lltttn' for Christmas, an' the boys feeliS that bad over bein' chiseled out of It that way that It taken till way past New Year's for. the heft of 'am to git sober -them as didn't lose no blood. t him an' he sobers right away. It looks like the booze goes out with the gore. "But I wasn't atmin' to give you no lecture on medicine, nor ylt on the uncertain ways of women, tilough I ain't sayin' that neither subject hasn't pints of interest to the observer. "It was like thin: Out of Springer about ten miles lived the Widder Cave. She was About the only detached piece . of womankind In Colfax County, The others to either married or too young. Mrs. Cave hadn't been a widder at- wers, you bet. Her man was buried the September before. We planted Cave In shape. You can string your bets behind that proposition, an' win lem, on two. We sends down to Vegas an' g1to the Hot Springs Hotel band, an' reads all kinds br burial services over him, playin' lem frorn the Memento ritual either way an' a copperin' of none. Which I alwers looked upon It as exemplifyin' the public spirit which has made Springer the Illy of the west. In sayin' thin I ain't detractln' none Itram the just An' proper claim of my own camp, which just now Is Tascosa, but I do Want to no that for ure IllW9—_`s"FW.1`WW . �'; . �: N-1 - 1.11, .1 . . 11 . - . � I �, � . - � 1: . 11 1:1:11 11111111 for 0,rnorroW. The chances is YOU' ,, be 4,94d ls� W".k by New YLO.1's if YO . perosto in orewle Your way into in affairs, &W yQtl won't leave no wtddt to maqrn yoUr loop, neitner.- � "Vill 1394piN, was plenty polite. H Was AIW*0 6noiderate of the feellu ' � of others ign! never Iower his voice t ra.lue. I Wittil the teller which he Ct the Whole Wheelheuse off of Over 0 Dodge One day says. a talkin' Of subsequent when he could cripp] round some, that It was a true ideal ure an' delight to mingle Into a figt with Bill. he bein' so gentlemanly ill cordial. . "Hadley had a good game streak I him, too. an' was likewise careful I his language among gentlemen. B says. all quiet enough, but determine( " 'It In a matter I'll live to regret thl ther ain't no plumbers nor glazlei In this Yore town. Siddons. You'll nee a lot of repairin' before you'll be I shape for the marriage festivities, eve If you to around to represent at tt game In a personal capacity. If Yo Will kindly wait till I can step Over I the hotel an' git my Winchester I wl be with you, or if you prefers me] noise an' smoke we can shoot III match off here an' now with our fort., flVeB.' "'If they to any gun play to 1 made,' says Bob Stepp. 'I can tell Yet alto right now, It hain't gain' to be I Yere. I don't want to interfere wit no togitimate game, but I ain't sendh up to St. Lee for bar glasses an' thinj for you cusses to bust. ThSt time M, Farland shoots up the Mexlca�n co me $60. You fights outelae, or tfie ran that begins here can figure me in a It" he can make his calTations on fightin' of two men from the start.' " 'Make It Wincheaters,* says Sk dons, 'An' outside. We don't want I bust up Bob's business none, besid( which I likes the method: It betn' heap cleaner an' more satisfactory.' "Before Hadley starts for his rifle - Bill's was a standin' In the corner, h havin' brung it in with him from III horse -I says: 'W'at to the use of YO two gents disturbin' a peaceful an' at der-lovin' communIty with a killin' Cheer on earth an' good wl to men Is the motter whtc goes with this joyous Chrial mastide, an' you-alls wants to pair up, the, tow with each other's bloo an we at &bout?' says 1, 'Nothin' bu % derned petticoat. Hold on,' I ei plaIns, seeln' by the wny thliy reecho f,,r their belts. I'd overplayed mysel: 11 don't refer to the Widder Cave apt clal, but to women as a gen*ral prol - ,a I I . I �--'. � '' I I . I I , , a . t � (' COL Iforth." nars, she, 'xn' the gain* an'ti xo� im.' "i -a.0 $As gets on the buckboard and , WgiJbikit back, A nice. two-inch fall of . , . L , 9 PCW" 4 , Ad Come down. An' as I told her , I hao'simed to ep,ron for her with a ., 0 Irb er to , Cli I tIIIWLs for b1i cutter we finds that t10 wWnt none. Four years ago, Wtich Wits the last alaightn' we hits, a ycuur shorthorn from Harvard visittn' tiles to drive bronchom tandem to the a!ed The cutter was dlitributed over the prairie between Springer an* the Cimmaron River, and the cayusea Is rul Din, yet. She says she an't special partlekler an to conveyances, an' 80 everything was agreeable an' we ry chea town. Young has rounded up his preacher an right an' has him corralled In the Ct.ttleman's R-4 whers, I also deposits the lh-7, "hopkins was this teller's name. an' I've never been dead Pure he was a claticyinan. I'thought then he was A Counterfeit. it was my buoy day, for I had to deal tor the boys, CoUntin' begit an' jacks alternate, as it was thought bese that SIddons an Hadley don't do no dealln' an' don't touch the cards, except to play. no's to head off Piny chance for recrimination Or ar-, glimentation. I "'Von could a-heered Bob Stepp's click tick If the.,,"Ing had ever run since Benson iho�- into its insides It was so still while the game wan a-goln' on. Hadley wine on a Jack of spaden stood si--and "'Well, they Is pints tn favor of liv- in' single.' says S:ddons, .although my lic,ndencles to all domestic.' an' that Was the nearest to a holler I ever know him to come. "We all goes over to the hotel. Too$- loy the proprietor an' Hadley a leadin' of the procession. "Ibere wasn't no Mrs. Cave ' an no � prfacherl "They Wits a pile of hustle it- ine l,n , , quick time. Then some one, I think t viam Simmons, the station agent, Bays: Waybe they are at the depotl So we all goes over there, but they w'a'nt no one there, excev' the half-witted cuss that Simmons had left to flag the esiot� to.und train through while he watches the gains at Stepp's. The bay Bays there ain't no one there, an' none has been there only a man an' a woman who cornea over from the hotel an' makes him stop the 12 o'clock train. It wan only by a strong talk an' pint - in' out the boy's unfortunate mental condition that Simmons heads off the lynchin'. Over at Tousley's we pas- sed a preaiiible an' resolutions de- nouncin' Simmons for abandonin' of hill depot an' leavin' of it in charge of �a Idlot. When the 4 o'clock train conyes In from the east the conductor brings a mesmage from Raton to me. It was from she that was Mrs. Cave. an' she says for me to notify all In- quirin' friends that she had bee United In the holy bonds of wedlock to the Rt -v. Mr. Hopkins. They'd been sworn in by a justice of the peace, there beln' no ordained preacher In Raton. The critter that married 'em wasn't nothin' but a shoemaker when he an't holdin' ccurt. - I I I 4,&- - -W - I.. I � �__ - - I . ... M6...- _,Mfti . . . 1� I I . 1W , I I I I I I . I I- . . - lq� I � 14 tl � . . - - � , 1. : . .. I . . . . THROOMMMSTAR. - � I I: I 1=1;:11111'.�.:a_1 .. I-- --".,-. - I I . -11111.1;; . I I -1 � � ORILGIN OF 101119111ITMAX QXWXWS. � ... i I .. WARRINQ TO FAT PEOPLE. ' - � Ife, I!ent his ear to the tinkling Of tile I Bores uro people who have either no . r,now, haird to hear through the whist - The customs of ditcoratioir ,oharches I . - ' ling of the December wind. and homes with eversmovis, Imiluctles TI -7 Run 41114, stlew V.- auOrivalax T*o,;. A leader crack proclaimed the set - and flowers In of very, ,WJT dLate. Llvu* Ilk 7-tV7109 t9 R04als, . I -tjLX of a foot upon the wooden step The Jews used them ali ,their trast � i4ti riesh. before the door. Both rose. A little _ of taborunclao, lead. the ' hoiltisolul in . - knock and both went forward. several of their ceremonies; surkAkoy, w,ere Irst men. do not try to Make your, "Enter," said the rather; "no wit adopted by the Christians. C-bithdittermit- , 90veb thin. Itlathus that Prof ,Cut * ' nor bar*tdocka the Oay in this, Illy '�Gu.e. " ted branches to be used as, a tI*eAef re- Lat.uurg of Berlin, adjures you I. oil. Then, as the door .stayed , Joiciag upon his triumphal' entry Into , I * ot the last numbers of the German slant. she, not he, stepped forward to Jerusalem. It was nat"O...,jolittvtore, Medical Weekly. It In not that lie lift the latch. - that at Christmas time wheit'111abirth WOUld advise you to persist in Your lute the room fell, rather than step- wagcelebrated, this sy;nbgl' 6r`;rajo16ng Ol-PPItY. but he has discovered that ree, a little figure, Blender amid all should be restored to. Soma �41',�tha,ehrly all the means that You may employ IQ , the wrappwgs that kept "I the h,e:t councils, however, consideLiving lh,#t the be rid of It would have the effect of in spite of -the piercing winds. practleasomewhat savored of paganism, 1. uti.ing your health, nnd even short. t ul , _ "Art thou John Arm age�an .,I endeavored to abolish It. and at.ime tifne voing your life. Against all these be Chel. his wife?" asked she, faintly. It was A uacted chat It was not IAWL,tut to be 1% ould Place you on guard. For exe leaning upon the old -arm that stelid- girt or adorn houses with laurel, or green arnple. he to indignant that pixmission led her toward the warmth and light - boughs. . uli-oild be given to German druggists "I am," replied the father. The mo- - . to sell. without an order, to the first ther had alrea,dy, by a gentle pressure under the Alitattstate, '� coiner. tablets and Potions Which of the arm around the waist. told the - wislit perhaps Cole obesity, but which otr4liger It was she. 11 injure the organism and produce grave Slowly she handed forward a paper 7 ". , I 11 ", troubles of the nerves and the blood, he had noticed In her hands as she , �3 " V � for all of them contain some pQlsoi,, Caine Into the wavering beams of the �4;1: .11 . I ard It would be much better to be fAt fire. $Inking back upon the settle, while ,�i! I"! , und healthy than a lean valetudtnar. fingers not stiffened with cold helped ; . They were sitting side by tilde on her lay aside the heavy furs with the old-fashioned settle In the old- which the new -comer was burdened . , I . .. fat,hioned flre-pLace, themselves older Slowly and painfully through his I I In look and bearing than'elther. They vulde glasses the father made out the I drew close and closer to the warmth. ,,,�,:i.age. nodding only to his wife m� rr L' as the winds shrieked and howled she queried with a glance If it were . vviihout, whistling through the win- from him. The little figure nestled UP ILMI-,��. , dawa and outer shytterB till even the to the motherly heart of the house mis- heavy oak of the high-backed seat they treas and fell asleep with very wearl- I ,, occupied seemed all too thin to keep ness am the older woman awaited eag- IeL. the chill from the side they turned erly for the welcome news. Perforce away from the blazing wood. John Armitage read the letter twice . A quWnt old couple they, wrinkled ant then. with a tear tn voice. his � and cross -seamed with more than age, eY(-s too long dry to learn of weeping, . and with furrows in their brows more lie said: "Rachel, our prayer to yea ru could never have plowed. These granted," showed the more as John Armitage "Tic Is dead? Our Benjamin Is dead?" gulf) Raio.el, his wife, sat thinking- now of the end which can never be far sobbed the Poor mother softly, hold - ' from the minds of the old, now of the Ing back her grief as she had afore- tt3j4 held back her love, and looking ' Young Fresh. Ali, I tell you, 0141 Inall, other Christmas eves when youth and hop,t were with fireside -tei derly f�bpon the tired face at her I'm not going to be the timid fool I wto last Christiana. I'm going to kiss every and the merry voices of children had made loneliness impopstble. So they side. ** 'I.Isten to his final word,' be went "In tamale I catch under the in la,le a, and aav And thought .until the Ilence be- a on.' the name of God, amen. 1. Benjamin Armitage, yeoma n sound don't you forget It I came unbearable and Bhe spok- ,of mind, though bodily broken by the I "Vkhere Is Benjamin, fath er ,., ' Startled, the old man shrank Trom Pottle of the sea, do hereby de clare . . an .answer. He knew too well that this as and. for my last will and tes- tant. ell t. . the child of their o'd age, the only one an untowardefate had left them after "'Item. All my property of every I . all,thelr year , was gone through their kind and nature I do give. devise, and . ow i harshness. br, -qLeath unto my beloved wife, Ruth . . 1. Ali, wife," he made answer, "would Armitage, born Winship, and the heirs - .. I � t h " p, ()od I knew that I might,tell t] ee. of her body forever. .. I . I . ,( "'Tis three years. John," she replied Item I do bequeath unto my be - B(ftly. loved mother and father, John Arml- -i'J", I/ - "Three years-tt might be thtrty. And tage and Raichel, his wife, my said dear wife Ruth. I _; I thInk more upon him every day." "Aye, so did I ever. But we never - 'Item. To them, my father and my � told him we loved him when we had h in" t er, I do bequeath my forgiveness, him, John." liciping for pardon as full and free on "It was not taught us, mother. But the day of Judgment as bo I now, If we only had him. then he would tbtirs since first I left their door here- , know." by begging my said Wife Ruth t� bear N"When will we have him, John?" the this message to them so soon ,as she ol-I mother asked, tears dimming the ma' ma?'MY mortal frame laid away. Lady of Color (from Now Jorsey ,is 11"*ary eyes, weak with much watching BENJAMIN ARMITAGE.- " With a tenderness he had not known Young Fresh and. his friend stod out of doors). Hash yo' Is, inlatletou nice and for the dear face that never came. "Rachel, my wife, I have hoped ' and With him own flesh and blood John fresh I praTed so long and my heart is lie sick Armitage leaned over his wife and fol - with waiting that I would rather know lowed her in Imprinting a kiss of love C, . . . .. ,Upon %t, were never to see him again than his new daughter'a face. QI I I . I � I . - ... / "We didn't get this note that day, r a nine e a. to valt until the end has come with 6 ' QW y a e opene Der eyes with .1, an' undefiled moonvelpeal advance- �, for we wasn't doln' a thing, perhaps, "Peace and good w I I I I ou�r hope till unfulfilled." tV. chastened gladness upon the two ment an' push )ran strikes the fountain P., Peace and good will W a with Tousley's grub an' Bob Step 'Oh, father!" said she, and an he' loving faces above her. bead of It All at Springer-, Whether It's - liquor at 4 o'clock In the afternoon. It Ring out the message o'er valley And I'll] b, t forward to put fresh wood on the Father," "Mother," she queried a lynchin' of a two -card roan or killer , wart more of a sing party. possibly, To the glad earth. - sit"king fire she slipped from beside (rather than said, as smiles chaiBed In 2890 to building of a, young ladies' I thea some might fancy, am there wa'n't Herald his birth ; hnn and went off into the darkness. their wrinkles Into forgetfulness. Then seminary In 1890, you finds the Springer . I . no women Intown after Mrs. Cave left. Welcome his coming With Innocent mirth, After a little she rturned bent for- Answering their willing looks she Me- publto sentiment abreast of thd enter- ,- but It was a nice, sociable gatherin' As on the ear 11 I . ward with the weight of a little chest sad each full upon the mouth and sat price. 'Ant the people In In up to the I I until one or the boys got to shootin' Fall the notes cle . . n which In brazen nails was the one art et. . . cinches from start to close up. I . r 0 1 fk Bel' story was not long to tell. Ben- , "When a marri'a dead three months In . at the berries on the sparrowgrass We the sweet voice of the Cbrtst-child name "Benjamin." Jamin had asked for a lodging at her . bar gin' over the table. Falters at an- may hear. Slowly she placed it within the circle the restless, eager west he's been dead other table with their backs toward of the firelight and sunk back shiver- Widowed mother's house as he ended a long time. Mrs. Cave was soma . Doth he not say: _, - his Journey to the ocean In the little , 19 " Ing with -I----,"-- �q,tbe weakness him Site nervous. an' the sh-1-1 '� r - - �'.' It., peedowthywa ; -, . sea Younger than the old man. She was . I '-*.A- I I .1 , .. , . . . y . port town where they, I _. ___ I , ,�IIC116�-U�l -.,- - . Va. .dwelt. Think - a woman ths& did you good to took at. I , . I . - - Ing upon his manly face and cheerful , She Was What I calls a wholesome- VIE STAIXTLTIZO ANNOUNCEMENT. nut .4 one was MoPw Warl'ureaffetr, _or_ _ I �,_ ,-, . � '." ..� . � -. V, - "-fift"Iffee�1, be undid ,the hasp 1, . . mebbe a little scratche d, an' the .womit ."Deep In the heart I awl lifted the lid. There amid laven- 01ce during all his first, voyage, she lookin' woman, dn' she could throw an' osItion. They' Wuh't piLy' 'you to right hurt man In the outfit was out an' Lurks there a smart- df,, and rosemary lay'the hundred 14- Warned In the few weeks he spent with brand a calf or hang up a aide of beef "bi,ut 'ern an' I'm some dubious about around Inside of three weeks. Olt) griefs remembered, old wrongs nursed it! things of babyhood; dresses the pa- her on his return to dread the dangers RD Convenient as she could pour ten. Mrs Cave enterin' Ine a nupshil ar- "No, Hadley never called Hopkins' &part ? ti�nt bands of the housewife and of of a sailor's life before the great wave I I had b- U, - . � I . . I . I . . . I � . I I . ... - r . . I I . , . I . - 11 � "I � . PLAX190 Poll, FAIR . STAKEa. ,L.�:,,: , I , , I I — I I— I ,,, ,,,, I I . , , I I I t� , . � ., I ., I I I � I � I , ,�:��, I I I I . - � L I I I I I I �r_ I � . " /111 1�, , � I - i., � ,,� I , 1. � � . . � . I I . I . , I I 1: � I � � �:11 I � 1, I I I I I I . I I - �, - - , , . � I I . �, "': . . . , I I . I , � , , , � , I I I '. . - I ,- - I I 1. . I 11% � � ��. . . ,- " " � I I � , '' I I , I I I I I .. � I � . �', �_ I . I , � . . : I � . I I � , I , 1; " , I � I I . I I �, . I 1� , 1 I 11 1. . I I I I � 111 V I I ,,, Many a time she's packed old Cave Into theboUso when he's too full to even fnil off a horse. Nalchally Wax - tri`., Ill is Womark, an that Waln't gain, � , _0 , . _ � � I - tr**kW around single till' no ,one ones - Ili* Up her trail. She could have mar- ried forty men In Springer alone an, as many more In Raton, If she had been Willint &lid ther hadn't been a popular prejudice agin atch a proceed - In'. "It was the day before Christmas in 1880. An' Bill Siddons he drops Into Bob Stepp's saloon an' lie says in a kind of a 'to-who-it-may-conearn' way.. 1.10ents, to-marrer I 'Iowa to marry Mrs. C&vao an' .you alls be an' the same in barebY Invited to be Present an, witness the ceremony to the bent of your knowledge all' belief, so help you Goal, giddons onst plays a engagement an deputy marshlil tit San Mar,09L an' he took pride #in' Joy in the correct way he could reel off legal notices. You -wouldn't know Bill now, He Is Atoppin, lion at the Transit house with me, hAVIW Come to with a car load of atiat. At that, time I was a rockiest - Verlabin' worm of the dust Myself. An* .*tvl engaged Ili dv%gain* stud when I wan't dealln' fare at *therways a cap. pid' for the devil. 13111 an, me to both sotile ybuinger then, but, what we lacks In SOW looks now we MAktB Up th 9OOQ 1ut7*WtJ,6", ,both playllil his game to the, own. he A,ralshil cattle,an, payin, �htif taxes an' funbin' Cow aw hobo 0ftybi out of the touritty. an, me, ' i" "',' tWhI the gospel acedtilhillta ni�r , 'lights. Ant -What 1, ftailidets,to, ba the . I * . Piritual ti"do or tb* people In thi§ . likabaftalt-,of ToAx ,, 0 -it r* . I I 1*01 I I 41141h, . 00 title tirielf iloilt, , I I L': ii'Aw AeAttLy *94, "Mor thel*L At �� 14VIO 'La the tAblow,*466-11W Of Lhik t1jiltit 1A;;;'*LIth t14 4till$ iKh' la, Uk A-tr#11V 11 I , � - I t* . .14 " 106101#1 ji..,blrl,t4ei44LJa �,jjfb, I � , L 11 V t " tilto' %)OL 0 1*0W file*" liflabla �"* R. X.F I 1, 609 1§01 ranp,ement with a man whose ban a is band. He declared himself first off an nalilgh regret , elder siaters long gone to their rest rne in o once more In search fintnued with the crimson life current having a special call to fill this man Caucel the debt. ha -I 'made fine with needlework, little of fortune. He was gone, as he had at a candidate for her affectiona.' Then up with lead, but as Hopkins claims Noble It is to forgive anti forget. . srekF'and bands knitted from born " been before, more than a twelvemonth a an Inaptration strikes me. 'Why don't to be a preacher -although he don't "Brighten and cheer SPUII Yarn from the ewe lambs, pinning and came back with all his wiphes for YOU-0la obake dice for her?' I asks. preach none, but runs old Cave's Lives dark and drear ; blankets, hoods, and then onthrough wealth fulfilled. They were married "It strikes 'em right, for they was mi ch an' makes money- yet as he ,aye Share with the angels their ministry here. the months, when birthday's came b , forthwith, for her mother had not L y totb hot sports. he's a preacher Hadley can't go & months, were *the little. leathern shoesM lived and the sea for which she had 'Not bein' no blood drinker I'm Ss-mpathy true , I I gunnin' for him," . trudged and kicked strudily through aue 1 fear he foreswore that he might WIllin' to settle It thataway.' says Bill. Falls like the dew ; be all her own. And then, after their 'I am willin' to arbitrate with the gent, "Neath its soft Influence hope springs by the untiring feet of childhood. A tls�les, Girt. anew. These she held pleadIngly toward few short months of Joy, be had pervidin' he ain't pinin' for smoke.' him, stooping with manifest pain to traved tempest and tornado in the " 'I'll leave it to a game of seven-up,* . I "Turn not the poor the task. panish main, plunged Into the sea says Hadley, 'Dice throwtn' Is a 'born- , Sad from thy door- "Aye, I know wife. I would not rob Core more to save the men and women ination to me, an' I prefers to mIx In I' / heady one-; bless from thy Godgiven thee Of thy hope. But for me the fu- cTo"ded on a shattered wreck off the a little science with my gueasin'.' . store , . ture holds nothing more than the sweet wintry coast that had so safe a harbor "Whereupon It was arranged that - ... So thy true Joy cenrifort of thy company." a little farther on and was no crushed the game should be pulled off at noon . I Naught shall destroy ; "East heard aught that makes thee by Its parting fragments as he bore short. Christmas day 'at Bob Stepp's. r . Christmas shall bring thee peace free from fear, my John?" awa3 a mother and her babe. that, All that afternoon we was busy ar- alloy." "Nay, mother. He told me he should though he lived to bring them safe ranging for the d6in's. Tousley, who I . . I never write until he gave us his for- ashore, he had but strength to set keeps the Cattleman's Rest, trims up ,�.. . .. "Peace and good will I gli c neon tn his last testament." down his last message to his kindred the dinin'-room of his hotel with spar- Peace and good will I" .'All. John, thou west right. Even and give back his life to the God who rowgrons tops, which he sends Clean . On through the ages the message floats t, 1-3nt It him. So his little Ruth had , iat would be welcome. Let Us pray , )I still. klitsed him, and when the simple rites out to Doe McMichael's ranch to Sit. 11A that we may know that at least be - 4W telegrafts over to TrInIda . � ] Throughout all times, fi. r.e we go an our last long Jorney.11 bad been said over the bruised and ; boon cook to, come a-runnIn', with In- .� 11 � . Under all climes, Slowly she put back the little shoes bitoken body as his shipmates laid him . . . I : , atructions to.hIre a Ingine If he can't Ak I Ring Ift our hearts for aye, sweet YtiletIA6 away she had with firmness and true make the trip On the reglar train. He . f Chimes I obedience ,said good-bye to the scenes .;hid he aimed to gtt up a feed that .. 11 V -_ . -\I- _% --\-N -4 � I% of her childhood and started out alone I 7.. , Old Chrisnins Choer. future historians would r6ger back to .. �� "I — I 1, In spite of snow and storm over the When the grIm boar's head frowned on I ler-4b : roads that bad taken, him from the as the most surripchus layout of chuck 1� high"Vt - I " . .own In the hist'iy of Colfax County, ,� futher and mother that would not own kr ;;A, Created with bays and rosemary, hard by all', you bet, he made It good. . � Plum porridge stood and Ch ristmam pie, 10 , they loved him to the darling wife 1*1 was delegated to go out Christ- .0 . Nor failed old Scotland to produce . rr , . I who loved to tell him how dear he wan mus mornin' an' break the news to the ; I I I 15 And so they sat Into the night; all", widder and bring her Into town. Abbl �. I 11 At such high title her savory goose. . I 30 In the middle of the old settle with Yoxng was detailed to rope An' bring Next in Importance to the boar's lie d as .� , '. I" do, " ,4 � I her new parents on either side " they in a preacher at any pi�lce an' to that 4=16 11 jL a Christmas dish came the peacock.[% TO . , Z .'�. Zt listened with smiles and tears. like a . ,�.i, prepair � end driven off that night on a buck ,* Argus for the table, says all Eng- i day In early spring, hovering Over their - 1. I I , . bot.rd fbr Dorsey's. We heard they was I lish chronicler, was no slight care. t I tlr*lit faces. u kind at a maverick of a preacher a- ... , The first stop was to take off the skin I . Almost before she was done the little ningth* around there. , , � � , " I . without loss or Injury to the ;P'Urnage- T1181 LITTLN WIFE WHIIS HOUR. � Mistress Ruth had given a cry of pain. ,11: took items talkin' an' arguments- .. - .&fter being roasted and then 'Partially I The father hastened to the chamber tlon for me to git Mrs. Cave to took at I li 440, I - - . Wetted '� It Was again enveloped n Its coat, with a tear Into the old chest that had the once hospitable home had Bet Aside the situation In the right light. She of faZlers, and Its bank was gilded, not seen firelight or sunlight through for guests, and with embers from the Wftpidead %gin gamin'. she says, an' "In Cattle of naturalinesel It now appear- manyllengthoning.yetflit An she bent hearth In the living room had not Mother -Charley. You earn* right In 44'Otithetable. Abundanedof apices And to gather It to her her husband spoke ablize the seasoned logto that plied con' like Hadley none'leo well at the the h,Ua,-the Idea of'Your ilOophis nl�ch store of sweet barbs and basting a gil tn. � themselves upon the brazen andirons. brat I put It to her as a matter of around In that snow and mud with with yolk oteggsand rich gmvytomblned ..N,y. leave It there. goe'd rn�ther. And 'with wals and*warmlng pan bad coluclance whether she'd'sot two good these nice new tubber boot# that Satintat. to Make it its, lordly disli�" It was served 'Tis a fine text for a idjent Christmas taRet from the ftigrant sheets the mun a cuttin' loose at each other with Claus gave "U,l . Wh cheaters an' Possible a-shoothil up by Wy Vesta, PrOced"KIN bcInit given to set man I would presch tn Innocent people, which has come in I the" most distingubd�*d -for youth atid hl()Irow.-- I I Ynelf On the 61111id of midwinter; muge thoughtless an' tn their eager- lb"Itle Lat-t. beauty, And again the old couple Alit silently Later in flit night he stole, with nozs to witness the kIllin'. She "ya "Mr. Softly," she began. coldly. "you It wan borbe to the lj�anquethall by Cal dle lighted, to the broad hearth one lorking with the, *ya�'ag the mind once more and took up the tittle old .4ho don't like the Idea Much an' to sent me a set of Ibsen's works for Of the '"t" 1087dells'4 Alld t* the sound through the fire And Into the days gone chert that bore. the name of 136njamim tell the boys to toll It off. She wen't Christmas. Do not deny IL" otmusile. Other latly �Ruelilti toltowed III bv. And when the sunlight first glittered worry neither of lom. To which I rea� His blood froze within him. no, proboulon. The niftstar cif �6jictraoor go the night went- on, 'The waits led nor *A for speech bis moot distinpight4 igileit,*6 through the trees that bore upon them ot,s,d"hd I was cons!derable eloquent tielther derk - ftla , 1. "Ited It. Caine and *Aug a little WIrse without, thi-Aining Jewels of the morn "i tn, aithough I shouldn't be a tellin, had fled him. oe =611 thought upon "ry marked kfi"100 4044IVIOY ot love and 064 chea, their vol"s � of the the bird wait served ifia woAd*fn1'CbrIW quivering with the bitttr.cold and heir. IfAtivIty Sohn Armitage stood by the 6 . lt,�,thkt the chances was in favor struck toll Upon hj*,,,�Ihnt be WA 6filk _ at a fight at some kind anyway*, At, khowti Of Ibsen by, hooftay andi hAil mais III,& At one end, his ,014�40 Vrdst Ing all that the Word,* And illi"fY bet an p . I . 'a, door of the long Untined guest Chain aV�rr it We could talk 16tri oulli, of It bought 'the set '" *11tetlOot WAVid above the L .40hel, big wife. put into his . . I I . MA6160% el Bk. xwl*� � �0000`slter I trusle would bay, Out 461in ArnlIttgo blib& 6 lIttI6, tiny mit,*, stlying: � "" ilitift Would t1tiveft'lle th*'4jil$*-�r Of &L he*V*rkal what if A* *irttl I b* ionfoliled In 41, I 5, ivaiAw "reAd :.� .. Ao"t4a ,, :Ety,�, and bill wife Anew betm�thom, zat; "It Is Aman child for our Christmas ' oiltbr#ak� 11 also r#pIt'joebto that it tnimotal'. reelLintlol' :. I ..- . � lot. Thret Iki't . , . , , . 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I i . .M " L I � CHWIMAS FACEI " - - If . L , . , . 11CI I I I - . - — __ .. - 'k I , k k "4"' / The DaUgbter-This to Christmas and papa In going to give Me a hand, some diamond ring. I I JW, , , . Ilk The Son--('hi,.strnas Is here. thani heaven! and I expect the old man t( come down heavy. . .011953phs- 40 I - 5"'k k W"k �� 1111111111111111111111K A�� , 411, �11111 y � . ill I . I - - � - ia_ 7 . ,^ 1 - 6/ .1 . t,ro � I TF �� The Children --Phis is Christina I when papa will give us lots and lot, of nice presents. I �. I . I - . . . . I � 11 .. . 1, � . t� I I , The Mother -Now that Christmas t- here I dokt suppose my husband wil refuse me a new sealskin. .� � " I I � , I " " I . , . I . I � I I I I I I I . ",� I � — WANT OF PAMTH, Who Tattlor w7 -;A —�tFmtjo*.. me till, 'rental Woo Plaialitpolut.,:4. "I dealre a dr4**,0.U%" Wit a brisk young man, entering the eatab)igbintipt 91 I Rich . 6rds, tn the 9tis,fid.' "Yea, air. Shall I show you 6onlo pat- terns?" reworked the proprietor, who was on duty. ' I I Yes, idr, and before we begin negotla. tions it to perhaps well to tell you that I have no immediate cash," said the brisk young mail, I IWO give no credit hero to stra)ngem " '. ., I 'Quite ao; but I w lob to relate a pretty Inoident. When the late Earl l3e4constleld woo n, young man -Just lily agv-tk tailor - . trusted him for I% suit of clothes. When AiNk he illiplied for the ne,colnuiodatIon, the tallor told him he did not know him. D17.zy replied, 'I ilon't, know you, eltbqr, so we have no advantage over each other.' I 'Pon my Bout, you tire u daring �oungobap, with an tritelligoot rites. I'll trust you for the full- of the thing,' said the tailor, and, by Jove, he did I Now, look buck, Dizzy rose to be the premier of Oreat Britain. The tailor pr�paperod as his client rose in the social scale, fue Diz. zy never forgot him frien4a. Note the cludu of coincidences. Dizzy was *poor. So am I. He didn't know the tailor, and the tailor didn't know hlin. I do rich know you, and you do not know Inc. Soo what a golde- chain of Iluked colnel- denceal" Richards, who Is a bit of a wag, regard- ed his would be custonier out of the cor. ner of his eye. "I'm afrald iny little anecdoto doesn't strike you," murinured the brisk young roan. . "Oh, yea, It does; I'm very much struck." "By what?" "By your unlimited abook apd"- "Stay, air I You perbnps don't believe I'll rise to 0111IDence and become an idol of the public. Take care, air I Men have snubbed angels unawares." "Well, air, I have no desire to continue this converaution," remarked Richards, and he opened the door for the brisk young mail. "You think I'd better try this on some other sartorial artkt, all?" "I certal n ly do." I "Well, guod morning, air. I had h�ard you were a man who moved with the times, but It seems my illustration does not touch you. Ali, sir" -and the young man simulut,od it well aoted sigb-"the great fault of the premut age is want of faith Ili man It Ind. We do not love each other sufficiently. A vulgar error, tdr-a hopeless, vulgar error. Uood morning, sir. If I over got to be anybody, or even knighted, I'll denounce you as the worst tAilor Ili the Strand." - I And in anoth(T instant the brtak young man was one of a thousand pedestrians traversing the busy thoroughfare. The "sartorial artist" was lacking In faith. - Ally Sloper. � I A I i A A . � ., ..'.. - � . � - , r 1.`.. m� It I il ell', , , k . .. I �. �- 11��' - ; r ", L . I I 44 ��,., , I . 1.1 17 i'', . � .. �4.1 ;, � '', � �. i'� ":, I : 4 . I .: � ;_ I �, I � � : I , . - I I , I . � . I ,. , , � 1. , � - .. , , . I . 11 �: I , �, , I I M '. _ Some people economize in gas to pay the Oculist. . I A dismal disposition is a ridiculous form . of selfishness. Bores uro people who have either no . I � originality ortoo much. . 11 � �_ Our charitable opinions, like our un ' - . . . . _ charitable opin Ions, grow out of obRtinacy I . k .. 11 .,. . - , Stolen sweets are bestj but stuffed pop- � - 'ay, pers, sent In by the neigh bon are good too. ,I ,,, . A lever Is never really humble. He .. f 0 � '^' only playa humble until he gets the con- I tract signed, � . The Help-Cbristmas presents from I - A woman thinks she saves money when .4 Aeilliiuys doesn't the old party now. things she need at two -1 � . . � . fO49 quarter. I - � I - - - I � . . . - .. I I � . I I i . 1! y � - � I . . I ,,�_, ___ - - , - - . ,. - - I - - . � . __ � work off an do lady of do house? - . . jwx Tye Walker-[ song ter dot pat'etta t� I I song, "Roineir.ber a Poor Tramp Must R11 Livel" ustyR.Imilos-Is'pose dot movedher ! ., totears? ( Tye Walker -No; it moved her to do ? dog, an obe mail she saw no apeci-il Deces- � city for a tramp living, anyway -Up to Date. The Old Man -This Is Christmas. Realistic. d-! h-! ! -1 ! ! - I ! ! -1 ! "That wood scene in the third not of your opera seemed so natural that I Imag- 4011 1, -wI.nw'i. ined I could actually bear too benrs growl- . ing," said the western man to the vr,�. - - - I I rical manager. 4�_ ,�. . - �_ "Guess that was the Charm girlk yft board," replied the managvr. ' Some of *0 them haven'tbeen paid off for i Ix weeks." I -Chicago Ncvvs. � 1k � , I I 1) , , \ 4 "`_� ,�, ----,. - � -I-_ 11 ., � .!,1,7 P I I , melawlA I% I Little Ebe4�-Doan' yo' dalh hang up de bore ob dern stockin's, Tilda! ' Tilda-Wha not? Little Eben-Hase ef Santy 01 is 11,11s dem Cost dLy won' be nuffin lef' In he's bag to' mah pantal — Christm- T'- . 1, 44-cla. Christmas times a-comin'-hummin", drummin', st,UmnAn'- Jolly times In Georgia. v�:-erever you . may go! I Never notbin' like 'em, everywhere you strike 'em, Fire -crackers poppin', and eggno,;g on the flow! � Christmas times In Georgla-alwt they jes'.tbe brightest, of all to youl 0, then a teller's feet-thei Jea' begin to feel the tightest When the fiddle gits to playin' an the girls to dartaln' tool Christmas times tn Georgiti-al*Ays fne at' funny. , Wizh the time would slide stank-, all, � hurry up the day; I Reach up to the top sbglf, bays, &If take your Peach an' boney. An' balance to your partners When you hear the fiddle playl . -Atlants. Constitution. I Hit Own hilak., "What am you doing?" asked the lille, bad boY. . "I," prOtIdly cold the bby whowgs; Diak- In# up III$ Own txcuso for bonnit,viliMcle, At, *01%66lo "Mal MakIlig history." �Cfh. � offirlAd lulqtltrer� � � I I � I � 0 , � C 1, . I obatiestif tA vism, I I #6-thls Allawrl fiego *,t the vwo 4to- 1 mWilob It voty,*Ylbg it to huttibit idy b,AA1hVA*. . , � �, I she,-Wbat in tear bintfriaisof . "I'm tk)bdj�))Lithofh6tore,,,.V*...*Ookom. Ifti*14ill. I � .1 � . - I I I I I. I I , '' I . � I — 11. L � . * I . I ., 11. � . , . I �� 11 � I 11. . . "I., S � � * � ,�, ,� I : I - I . � . , � . � \ .1 � 11 I , \ ., I ` 11 n.�JLJI,t 1". ,.A�� ... 46nda_ , , , * * _�F I'll .. I �1.0;1 - Weather. The Sun and Wind were discussing for the thousandth time the Man With the Cloak. I 'Just to think how I blew myself, " said the Wind I , 'and lie would not open up." "Ali," maid the Sun, ,'but you did not show him Lie warin a time as I did. "-In- dianapolla Journill. Good'Form. I I Don't out my ImIr too short, " said the customer. "I have7a bad cold In myllead and threat. " "Yes, air," said the barber, coughing Sympathetically.' "The very best people we linve4li town are suffering with colds now, air." A VerV Good Reason. Mnliaby-Bragleigh boasts that DO IIV- Ing man could forgobiR Dome succestifully ion check and got Roushed, IlaahoRtioh *,very pociuliar signature? Honmna-No. But he hasn't any bank AcCount.-Now York Truth. A Matter of Phrame ' "What will yotr next political move beiVi Inquired tho energetio politician. I don't think," said the IlQfoated can - didato for coliaress, 11that there'a going 0) be any. I guess I'll stay home. -Wash- Inglah Star, - - I Sold gueourasement. "She told me she WOUldn't marry the beat InAll In thoworld.11 "Whatilld you MY111 "t told her that didn't impugn my ell- glbillty."-Detrolt Free Press. . A Delkoato, compliment. "Ah. bUtYOUWlltgetkillotlt"Fibearl6d- 4WN6AftIlpr,,1 be Inurinured. "I bear it charined lifa." 1 By Bach little, sr�cches are wonten won. , -Now Vork Journal, "A-� I Go, . at ItItAf9f"IrOd Bays he never gom in so- . ,� I I 611Y.", � I ti% ; I ,*01t6(ttled, but be didn'tgo. 1—Cin- 11 I v4fithd shquii". . � , . . � I 1,1111.1, � W* -1— ��, I .. . .ldth I , 'A tts,*id imater. I , . It, 10*01*21afustatmism Y." ...... � . It: .. I A 60111u� 00 Mtl,8604 ,44 � It h, (MM . . 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