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A CHRISTMAS CAROL. In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan Eurth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. II. Our God, heaven cannot hold Him Nor earth sustain, Heaven and earth shall flee away When He comes to reign In the bleak mid-winter A stable place sufficed The Lord God Almighty- Jesus Christ. III. Enough for Him whom Cherubim Worship night and day, A breadstuff of milk And a mangerful of hay Enough for Hira whom angels Fall down before, The ox and ass and camel Which adoro. Angels and Archangels May have gathered there, Cherubim and Seraphim Thronged the air Unt only His Mother In her maiden bliss Worshiped the Beloved With a kiss. What can I gi\e him, Poor as I am If I were a Shepherd I would bring a lamb, IfI Were a Wise Man It would do my part,— Yet what can I give Him,— Give my heart. Christian Kossctti. AH KIM'S CHRISTMAS TREE. I have more than once reiterated the following simple story, by word of mouth, fur several reasons. In the first place, it is as strictly true as it is strange in the next, it enables me to justify gratitude in a quarter where justification is seldom accorded and again because it places our patiently suffering, much abused John Chinaman in a better light, and shows him to be as fully susceptible to humane and generous ticatment as his more for tunate fellows of the less slanted optics and less pronounced expression of nose and cheek-bone. As the wintei holidays of 185- ap pioached, they found me in a very un i-m iablc state of mind. I was living, with my family, in the little mining town ot Red Gulch, not a hundred miles from Marysville, Califor nia. A continued run of 111 fortune had reduced,!^ from the proud position of a mining speculator on my own account to the superintendency of a small average paying quartz mill. It was barely suffici ent to subsist on in the provoking hard times that prevailed. Long continued ill success had broken my spirit and under mined my individual energy, and it was only by observing the strictest economy in everything that my good wife and I managed to make both ends meet in the conduct of our household, and at the same time send our three children to a respect able school, and preserve an outward sem blance to the thrift and decency that had distinguished us in our prosperous days. And one of our sources of annoyance iust at the time of which I was speaking was that our little ones would have to be put off with their Christmas tree, to which they had been accustomed once a year irom the time they were born. But they took it better than could have been ex pected when their mother prepared them for their disappointment beforehand. Tommy, the eldest, who was a veritable little philosopher in his way, stoutly as serted that he had outgrown such childish luxuries, and would manage to make merry enough if we would treat him to a new-pair of boots, of which he was sadly in need, poor fellow. Bella also pretended to think nothing of the disappointment but if little Jenny, whose brief recollection could not include more than two Christmas trees at the furthest, looked a little downcast when told that Santa Claus would this year have nothing for her but a cheap doll and a picture book, she did not whimper about it, but bore it like a trump. "Still, I know that they feel the disap pointment bitterly at heart," said my wife sadly "and 1 hope we shall be able next Christmas to make amends to them." "Suppose I cut one ot the dwarf firs out on the mountain, and hang it over with sugar plums and cheap candies?" I sug gested. "It would be better than nothing." "I don't think it would after the beau t'ful and expensive trees to which the darlings have been accustomed." "Then let us think and say no more about it," said I with some impatience. "I wouldn't mind their disappointment so much," continued my wife, "if it was not constantly aggravated by the Cameron children, ne.xt door, who are forever crow ing o*er"our chicks by describing the magnificent tree their parents are going to provide for them." "I have a notion to move to the other end ofrtown," I exclaimed, biting my lip, for MfUCamcron was one ot my employ ers, and the one who most persistently reminded me of my dependent position, having known me in other days when I was aagnyell offug himself. "That.'would cost more than a well loaded Christmas tree, I am afraid," said my wife." Just thcri Master Tommy came stump ing in from-tfichool, with his satchel on his armv arid a brighter look on his face than I had seen it wear for some time. "Hooray!*' he cried, "we're going to have a'Christmas tree after all!" "Yes' indeed!" exclaimed Bella, who just then made her appearance at his heels, towing in Jenny, whose eyes were also dancing in her head "a better and a more wonderful tree than is in all Cali fornia." "And'where is it to come from?" said I in much surprise. "Ah Kin is going to give it to us." But my wife and myself buret out laugh ing at this. Ah Kin was. a simple-minded, Chinese laundryman, who had formerly been em ployed by me in my little shaft on Feather River, when I was delving for gold on my own account. He had been taken with a dreadful fever, from which only the most unremitting care on our part, together with fortunate doctoring, had restored him to life and usefulness—though to the latter only with impaired and broken faculties, Ho had never been strong minded at his brightest, and his conva lescence left him sodevastated of his small store of Oriental cunning as to verge upon imbecility, while his physical energies had only recuperated sufficiently to en able hita to earn a precarious subsistence at a neighboring laundry that was carried on by one of his countrymen. He had at first joined a showman's enterprise in the capacity of "the great original Chinese juggler," avocation in which he (accord ing to his own account) had been a pro ficient in the flowery kingdom but his impaired faculties had deprived him of his former skill—if, indeed, he ever pos sessed any—and he at length settled down as a spiritless and unambitious man wash erwoman. But he had never forgotten our humane treatment during his illness, though we had come to look upon the stupid expression of his gratitude as con taining as much intelligence as would have been betrayed by a well-dispositioned Newfoundland dog. "It will certainly be a fine tree you will obtain .from Ah Kin," said I. "Better put such notions away at once,my dears." "But, papa," said Tommy, earnestly, "he swears he will come here Christmas morning and make a lovely Christmas tree grow right out of the ground." "Yes," put in Bella, "and he promises that it shall be ever so much better than the Cameron girls are to have." "All covered with silver and dold." chimed in Jenny, clapping her little bands. "And a teal tree, growed right out of the ground before our very eyes," reiter ated Tommy. "Nonsense!" said I, a little crossly, "I shall give the stupid fellow a lesson for putting silly notions into your heads." "But I have somewhere read of Oriental jugglers producing a full grown, matured tree of dwarf size in a few minutes," said my wife, whose predilection in favor ot Ah Kin was greater than my own, chiefly because he attended her Bible class in the Sunday-school, and led her to believe that he was in a fair way of being converted to Christianity. "So have I," I replied, "but they must have been far more expert than our poor simpleton of an Ah Km. However I was interrupted by the entrance into our little garden—where the foregoing conversation had taken place—of the very object of our remarks himself. He was, without doubt, the most insane, ultra-addled, super-stupid specimen of even a John Chinaman I ever saw. He might have been almost any age from twenty-five to sixty, so utterly expression less was his flat, vapid, sleepish physiog nomy, the skin of which looked' like nothing so much as imperfect mahogany veneering that had been exposed to the weather for an indefinite pciiod, whose little slits of eyes were not without a sort of canine affectionateness when they en countered me'or mine. His development of forehead and chin—or rather the lack of it—was after the manner of the princely Aztec descendants that were once exhibit ed through the country his yellow pro tuberant tusk-like teeth were constantly exposed and one wondered that even the weight of his attenuated pig-tail did not preponderate over his cerebral incapacity to prostrate him altogether on his back. The children were not long in making this cheerful specimen of Celestial civili zation acquainted with fho nature ot the conversation that he had interrupted, and the doubts we had expressed in respect to the promised Christmas tree. He con tented himself with making a low salaam, with which he always greeted us, especial ly my wife, and simply said: "Waitee till Kistmass comee, and see what I do. I know what it means, for the good lady makee me lovce the Melli can man's Joss. I never forget kindness, not me. I was a big lick magic man in China. I make grow light here in this garden a splendid tree, so high" (measur ing off about a yard with his hands), an Kistmassee morning waitee and see." With that Ah Kin went into the house for a basket of soiled linen, and we saw little of him until the Christmas morning following, when our garden contained a number of neighbors and their children, attracted thither by the wonderful prom ises ol Ah Kin, which Tommy and Bella had noised through the entire neighbor hood. It was lovely weather, as warm and balmy as a day in June in New England. The sunshine caressed the sward with a loving hand, the birds were melodious in the cedars, the gold fish flashed ruddily in the little fountain, I had improvised near the gate, and the children were disporting upon the steps of the cottage piazza with new toys and jimcracks, in which, how ever, Tommy, Bella, and Jenny were con strained to take aback seat, inasmuch as I had only been able to afford an extra dinner for the family, and their parents and nurses near at hand, among whom I noticed, with an uncomfortable feeling, both Mr. and Mrs. Cameron, who appeared to look down upon me with ostentatious commiseration at my poverty. I bore it as well as I could, and my wife, knowing the humiliation that oppressed me, moved familiarly among those who had constituted themselves our guests, and made such a show of appearance at her ease that she overdid it a little. I took care, however, to make every one understand that I placed no reliance in the Chinaman's promise—as, indeed, I did not—and would not consider myself re sponsible for whatever disappointment might occur. They were welcome to sit in my garden as long as they wished, but I had not invited them, and should not exert myself to afford them entertainment. Ah Kin made his appearance at ten o'clock, accompanied by another China man bearing a basket containing appar ently nothing but fresh new earth. They were both dressed in clean but coarse cot ton clothes, and Ah Kin—who looked more emaciated than I had ever seen him since he had newly arisen from his sick carried over his arm a large mantle of faded silk. He selected a spot of green sward upon which he directed the basket carrier to empty the earth, after which he dismissed him, and throwing himself npon his knees, proceeded to press and pat the soil into a smoothly rounded littlo mound, about the size of an inverted washbowl. He then took from somewhere in the folds of the silk mantle a little round purple seed or bean, which he held up for us all to examine, between his fore finger and thumb. This he deposited in a small hole in the center of the heap. Covering it up, he made a number ol cabalistic signs over the surface of the mound, while he muttered to himself in low, sing-song, unintelligible tones, at the same time waving his hand slowly and mechanically over his head. He then produced a little vial, contain ing a sparkling yurplish liquid, which he proceeded to sprinkle over the spot at which the bean had been planted, accom panying the motion with a sort of spas modic depression of the tone in which he had been chanting. He then hastily covered the entire mound with the mantle, and turning to the spectators who had observed him with varying emotions, though, for my part, I had made no effort to conceal my con tempt for the whole affair, as so much hocus-pocus, beneath the notice of an ordinary intelligence—and opened upon them with a long winded harangue, so rapidly spoken that few of us could gather its meaning, if, indeed, it had any, which I very much doubt. But while ho was speaking my wife called our attention to the silken cloth, under the center of which something was evidently forming into a conical shape that tented the texture into regular folds on every side. I now made no effort to conceal my in terest, and every one looked on with breathless suspense and curiosity. Sudvlenly Ah Kin seized hold of the mantle, whisked it off, and there in the center of the mound, was as perfect a fir tree in miniature as the mind could con ceive of. Its tiny branches were thickly hung with little nuggets of virgin gold, which sparkled in the sunshine, and a little en velope was sticking fiom the upper branches, like a billet doux from fairy land. An exclamation of delighted surprise ran through the assembly. Ah Kin gravely seized" the tree by its slender trunk—it was not much more than twelve inches high, and exquisitely pro portioned—raised it gently from the ground, and thus exposed the genuine roots and then placing it in a small flower pot that chanced to be lying near, pre sented it to my wife with the injunction that she should tp':e exceeding good care of it, and picking up the silk mantle, took his departure without a word. "Wonderful!" exclaimed Mr. Cameron. "The nuggets are genuine, too. There's two hundred dollars' worth of gold on it." "It beats our Christmas tree all hollow," said one of the Cameron offspring, whose mother thereupon sent her home by a peculiarly spiteful shove. When they had plenty of time to ad mire i*, we took the wonder tree into the cottage and inspected it at our leisure, and in the privacy of our family. Of course the children were wild with delight as I shook the solid nuggets from the magic branches, and collected them in a glittering heap upnn the table. "Read this missive," said mv wife, snatching off the small envelope". "It's directed to you, in Ah Kin's best pigeon English." 8 I have not the contents ot that mo mentous missive before me iust now, and shall not undertake to give its phiase ology from memory. Suffice it to say that it gave me such minute diicctions to take out a claim in the mountains not more than twenty miles from Red Gulch, which had never been prospected ovei be fore, specifying the place in the most careful manner, that I lost no time iu in stituting the claim in close accoi dance with the directions received, and the mines which I opened made me indepen dently rich. But our house was broken into that very Christmas night, and the wonderful tree, which the grateful Chinaman had (at least apparently) caused to spring from the earth for our special benefit, disappeared and was never seen again. But, inasmuch as I had taken care to secrete its precious fruits, and the burgalars were frightened from completing their plunder, it was no material loss, though I should like to have kept the tree for exhibition. If the reader can offei an explanation of its strange production, I should be happy to know it, as I have long since given it up as an inexplicable mvsteiv. Ah Kin died shortly after I opened*the "Charity Mine"—as I call the magnificent property which his information placed me in possession of—and after steadfastly re fusing any compensation for the favors he had conferred, but leaving a request that I would embalm his remains'and have them sent back to his fiiends in China, which of course I did. My children are all grown now, and we seldom spend the holidays together with out recalling to mind the gratitude of the poor Chinaman as evinced in Ah Kin's wonderful Christmas tree. "Girled Up." The Springfield Republican suggests a now colloquial expression for the next ed ition of Webster's dictionary. It was in vented by an anxious father on the oc casion of an interview with the principal of one of the Hampden County academies, where the co-education of boys and girls still prevails. The boy in the case had formerly been studious and piomising,and for several months had gradually fallen off from his previous standaid, glowing so careless and dfcsrholarly that it became a serious question whether he would be able to pass his college entrance ex amination. It was a coincidence that he had meanwhile become conspicuous as a ladies'man. The piincipal having alluded to this as a prominent cause of the boy's demoralization, "Yes,'' bioke in the father, "I know it he's got all gh led up." Which the Republican thinks is a remarkably happy and pregnant phrase. If there is any thing that plays the mischief with the boys and "girls during that budding, downy and velvetv period oftheii teens, when they ought to be laying solid and permanent ed ucato&al foundations, it is this piema ture eifloiescence ot Hie sexua. criod which moves boys and girls, who ought to be kept down to study, to perk and and prim, and play with each others' eyes, and write silly and badly-spelled notes to each other, and eat slate pencils in private. But then it lately lasts long it is less harmful than tobacco or whiskey, and there is no law "agin" youths of tha age making fools of themselves. Which?—"Shall I try homoeopath or an allopath?" -'My dear fellow, it is six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. The allopath kills his patients the homojpath lets his die." "Then I will call in an al lopath -the poor woman will suffer less —French Wit. A Campaign Slander. AVhcu Dr. R. V. Pierce "was a candidate for State Senator, his political opponents publish ed a pi etended analysis of his popular medi cines, hoping thereby to prejudice the people against him. His election by an overwhelm ing majority severely rebuked his traducers, who sought to impeach his business integrity. Ao notice would have been taken of these campaign lies were it not that some of his enemies (and eveiy successful businessman has his full quota of envious rivals) are repub lishing these bogus analyses. Numerous and most absurd formulas have been published purporting to come from high authority and it is a significant fact that no two have been at all alike—conclusively proving the dishon esty of their authors.o .The following is tl»e Buffalo Commer- cial, of Oct: 23d, 1817. 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