The herald-advance., December 19, 1890, Image 3

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Lty UAUGHIN'
TIME.
0
i„ K-rp Cl»fUtu»i%s.
"Ho*
e
ONKY wuz fkoree
that chi-is'Rius
wc hadn't a cent
to spare
f" o I i s Ii'.utvA
wa-Ui-ful pic'rats
that wasn't to cat
niir wear.
l'a !v* car looted Mi"'
f* U f* S it WttZ
lx-Unr HO,
put we ou'v thought
th* shiliin's an'
not once o' Utile
•lit:.
Ai
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V
n
(lu'y ct time
(50—
kep'
ft
i/t
i- o in' an il
v
1
t'iiris'musi wviz al
niost' here,
•vcr aa' another
pa wviz bothered. ho i) st'Oh an
if tin- subjic
i'3npi"l 'he Hul'jn"
what the other
feW awful mean I tauin got
jldn't *ta
th t*na'
,n' lauxhin'
with foil
of urn
|p hulMin
•rn? un
t,Mn«
I't a a
irfK ntitii
iu rturli «n" Htm,
tuz a risiCi' iioHm old Tin
in-latch
•t to .liii'X room a:
at flyin
isfctrrti'd
iia a •itmii
hoot, an
-X*
5
enough, we's not goin' to sell my wockin'
horse. I'so dot Pickle, dis here ebickie,
safe—mo and Rosy take turns holdin'
her—but wo tan't hole yo horse. I dess
wo'11 do now."
"Did your mamma send von?" nuked
Mr. i to
main.
"Oh, m! she's crym', an
WIT
was
A nU
II MP ANr I.andp
o lif ut irun nuin'
my n«
t.i
»p had K^ch hoik
iir us f.ir an' ar
aWttiT— 1 1 iv till a
iion't .stint
(lay
II year thn
is awaj
I.)oks an kivo ye
lo itrow
Kiiirftiii''* K I'ralt, i
IAIN'S LEGACY.
stmas Pr sant to
-:'3 Hud Her Ciiildfon.
Hex
!f«'
inv Ufar i
Mrs.
NLY two days
u it ii i li niits!
How different
... this will lie from
V-.»
i
tiie one I looked
forward to this
year!'' thought
Mr. llomain as
he restb'sslv
».}. ,'/ paced the wide
porch of his
i a n s o i n e
home.
"How pleasant
the air is as
w a a n
'Prinrr! Rxi)iiisiie. if one hud
to enjoy it with: but I'm lone
or ldiii! How I hoped to see
'. to tell
you
that the fault was
iuit, ijuarrel and you are dead
ui!v last week, thev tell me-~
i bat-k in Old Virginia, with
did or a chick to bid me woi-
nornin", Mister Man wiil you
n to ye nauction?"
'0 words foil on bis ear, Mr.
"•irned and saw two little cbil
tdirij* on the steps, a ehicken
't!y under the arm of one of
ere pretty children, too—a hoy
exartly t{i same size. Blonde
vn«d oaeh .shillinghead: brown
buiff, curling
1
lashes, looked
ut from uuder straight, clear
rows. mul two little pujr noses
merrily from the little rosy
that were always smiling be
^o. not always for there was a
''1 little quiver about them now,
owners looked up timidly at
"i, handsome man who was so
V re^urding them.
to your what?" repeated -Mr.
nauction," the boy explained
tfone to Heaven, and we's poin'
i nauction it's to det money,
we's goin' to sell all our sin^s.
says yo more ye folkes come, yo
'11 dot money and if dere's
1
I
the Jay afore
uk the Ueers
,vrfiu qui
ly. jist packed
we dus
fought we'd help ask folkes. Please
turn. IS!r. Man."
And smiling in a friendly but half
frightonod fu-bion. the children trotted
down the w ilk. As their little figures
vanished, Undo Peter catne around the
house.
"Who are those children, uncle?"
queried Mr. Romuin, gazing after them.
"Dey's po' Massa Rlako chill uns, S ih.
Yo" 'members 1 tole you how Massa Torn
done die las' week well dey's his twins.
Dey do say it's sean'lous how Mi*s'
Wake's liein' treated. MassaTom done
sign a note fur a genncman, an' he can't
pay, an' dey is ter b« a auction dero to
morrow, an' MnssaTom not dead a week
yet seasi ly.
Mi.-s' Hiake
Thai night Mr. Romain sat up late in
1 i Jjtr over lett-rs and
library,
v, W I
N. v
I I r: N I 1) AM) bAW
n Two
nol sin«'P tho »lav
r.-l wuh Tom 1!
same morning
gram en I'. inn
ill at q»
w as
1
Luropi
pos-ession of
and vesterdav h(
wnrhl tlion
like a warr
i»l v Uiiw
bouse dis mornin' tryin' to aay good
bye to it. De little ones a-ehrftfin' to
her kep' a piokin' up things. 'Mamma,
dey won't take my wnokin'-horso, will
dey?' '.Mamma, will do nauction man
det my little chair?' dey ask. Missis
tried to hoi' back do tears an' speak
chirk to dejn chilluns, but when stu*
come to her own room she say: 'You
stay out here, darlings mamma wants
to go in here alone.
1
but presently I peek in de room, an'
duru was my po' missis, a kneelin' 'fore
massa's bi^ arm-chair, wid her heal a
lyin' on de bi^ family Uiliio dat she'd
put on de chair she hal her arms
around dar., an' sin.' was cryin' softly
"'Oh, my husband!' she whisp---'
over and over, an' den she say:
'A fader to de faderless,
to de widow. Dear Lord, 1:
pass from me.'
"1 shet de do' den. lly'm by she ctne
out, all whito an' treml»lin', but .she
tried to smile on de chiliuus a« «!e b-.i
dern down the walk.
"Dose po' little tbinixsl I .»
hujr^in' b(^r ra^ doll an' tryin' u u
under her apun, an' Romain was toi.n'
I'ickie. le i.'hickon, clost in he arms.
'To nanction man can": '..'••••• ti.rituj'j
.i!lun-, an" so he can'* ,. ley'd
K'-ep sayi.n'."
"Iloniain'.'" repeated her visitor.
"Ye.-,, sab. Jlumain: dat's for a
Massa Tom's. Massa not see
yeat-h, tv. h» a ut.
1 Miiain,'
''Than,, ,%
"red Mr. Remain, as he loft the ki!'."! en
i'. retpons" to lie business-! ike tines of
a.i -tion'-er that now ra.iy out ciear
'td colcl .., !,.• bcg-iii oiTeriiiff the p.
rnitn-e.
(re.it w... indignation of onp
-.
er when the i\r-*i bid of a tall, hand
tn btrancer c.irrie
1 the pricb far b
md the sum she h:i.i menially deci.lM
'ii. and ho secured i* without oppo-it:on.
Her feelings »i*i« soon shared by
most of those present, for a similar
•one took pi-ice over almost every
i "licle otTered for sale, from Mrs. Wake's
ano to 1! "v
1
r.nnwi
so*
iti wy i:
11'v If 111
Vtmrs as ev-r,
threw a way a frleudsbij)
ost jjronned Mr. Rotnain,
as he laid down 1 hen a
den thought struck i.itu, and-- be--li»st:ly
rang: the bell.
"Lucie -Rotor,' i
wliat used to he
Meadow 1 arm
"Old Mr. Rrowii.
ful rich on dat farm.
e-ot a coa!-:itino in it
rk»h.''
"And Tom
save my old h-c'ie,
main, sorrowfully.
could be that the check 1 sent from Kn
pland di'i not tret to him in time,' In
any ease he's dead, and Nellie and the
children penniless, and j.rlanviti{f at
the :ot*nr ajrain "a leiraey to me!"
.. owns
(l.ako's
ah he r-t- po\v"r
see, sail, bit's
Oh, yes, sah, he's
"t 'hat land to
i.i• ii Mr. Ro
"i wonder if it
"An auction almost at hrU.'ftias eve!
Why, it seenis fairly l'a baruu-,
thought Mr, Roinain, indignantly, as
lie entered what hal been the plea-ant
Itouio of 1 is friend 'lmu, and w,i* so
soon to be left iieola under t.!,e iiaicis
of the auctioneer.
It .was early in the tiay. but .i.n a iy
tile bouM* was filled With nei^-iibors
who had come from miies around to at
tend the Mile and as Mr. Kovnaiu moved
amon
1
greeted with remarks on the foolishness
of "sitrnin' for people."
Sick at heart, he entered the little
kitehen back of the house, which was
as yet. unocupied. save by Mrs. Wake's
faithful old colored cook, Aatit Nancy.
She was sitting on a split-bottomed
chair, rocking herself to and fro, and
occasion.illy wiping her eyes with her
blue-checked apron.
"Where is your mistn-s-.. r,n e'"'
Mr. Romain asked.
There was a kindly ring i.is \»i -e
that unlocked the i woman's bur
dened heart, and sin* -obbed aloud as
she answered
"Oil. mussa. she clone took dechill
uns, an' gou' to her cousins Miss
Rachel. It jest broke my po' ole heart
to see 'em go! JJut Miss Waive sav she
couldn't stand it here, an'dey have to
go soou sure. IV things', only do good
Lord know what's to come of dom, she
say."
-Oh, inassa,
missis, dis is.
V
them his ears were constantly
hit's awful hard on
She wont all i^vor do
"-'!"Ni' Tin*
-.•.ransfer c.i eve: v ne. an i w j-- s-. *n
")le posf-'^-i
lie even noi'iiun: tin* ow ne( ,,f
tid fttvk, he only active 1 i bier a
itu ln'intr t)jo ret.ri'siMitative o*
SUM
Mr. Wo
it ii an s
i'» s
-it ion,
1 unit hi
»rv tin
n s vii i\
s to pa
'sen tat
Mr. K
-e of the sale. Mr. 11 nain a*tted
nished and di-ap -tinted crowd
-.(• vat' i'e the prem -es as soon as
ossii.se, as he had bought v«-r
Mr. R.!..i-.'i tf i •..'*
kitcbeiu
"(Jo for your mistress, auntie,'' In
said, "an.l ask her to please bring tin
children an 1 conn* back at onctv There
is a"
pa per she must read."
When Aunt Nancy d'-liver- -I
vage, a few minutes later, !. a.
Wake, she was greatly surprised but.
with t!ie patience born of deep suffer
ing, she at once called the e'l.ldmn to
accompany her, and went home, won
dering. as she walked along, how she
was to endure the agony of seeing her
home despoiled of its treasures.
She had dreaded the sight of wagoii
and people moving her goods, anl, a.s
she entered the gate, *\as astonished to
«ep noun
1
Only Rollo. the old dog. lay
.'2L
W
•t
'.«
'U
ywese
Be' :iv •. n.v right to .v- ..
I
'L '-v.
v
n
"UK 'IAI.lv A in.\e o
-7
.*',
basking in the last rays '!i
n
setting
Min, and bounded tip t" no et t-beui.
Tlirs children ran joyfully up the walk,
and at the sight of the rooms, when
they entered, cried gleefully "Why,
mamma, may be. dere wasn't no nauc
tion!"
Mr-. l'. a.ke gave herself no time, to
think, but. hastened from one room to
another, seeking the lawyers, until she
came to her own room.
IIow pretty and homelike it still
looked! There was her husband's big
arm-enair. still draw n up to the table,
just as she had left it the family Hiblo
still lav on i's s"^t. but on it lay some
thing -he had not left there, and as she
picked il up.she read her own name on
the big envelop". With lingers trem
bling so she could hardiy use thorn, she
tore it open and road:
"MY IJKAU Mris. Hi.AKK: When y. it read thp
Intlii.-ct! Ifttor, written tweivo years atro. t-y
ui fiit-utl ai
.- 1
yi'ttr Uu-jhanrt, 1 ttiiak you wiil
u
Very -inc.-rely
I took do Chilians,
the iaolo»ed
irlng xt '...n M.»ur home. i
gave !),( niinr.
"I flu.! Hruwn htirr i°:l this sal'» to secure
the land in'javeiu to l:i coal mine, it Is vprv i
vahiiib.u, ivtul in a ft*w ycurs will mak« you I
rich.
"And n*-A •..• :l»ar trl» n ,• ,•
hu to y ,t Mcrrv 1 •.n- ., i,
travc choorfiijueas 1 hop© you wui lliaKe 1
your children not ao unhappy one. I am
y.mr frji-tid, us 1 »a-
fauabjod'ti friend,
1
'John II' .M A IN."
father to itherh'ss. a husband
viuow.' ii,.. a^ain the words
feilfrorti tim lips
of the weeping woman,
who for the second time that, day knelt
by the old arm-chair.
Then clamping he: •. ..dren in her
arms, she cried
"ihank (led with u e. -ny darlings
we have a home once more!
"And is de nam-iion clear trone
namii a'.'" Romain asked, anxious _. i
"All fTtno. my treasure. .-/y bit
gone, thank Uod!"
"Tiien, sii-1 little Uoma.i:, ..\i:'efuily
pulling out Susanna Louise from under
uis apron, "set »n. I'ickie, and turn
on, folkses, an' les hav» Chrisu.es'"—
Anna I'iurpont Sjviter, in Santa ...
A CURIOUS STORY.
S.W:
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y
illCAIlD iirh
•*$M 1-
v ii.': "ft-
A
curious st-rv
Of Santa f.iv.is,
so tfiey
a ho4 of hi--
b.-ltd, old Saatii
('laus saia
1 (, ,u of
of OoT« tmis'
ach cent a
tid i
•tt*n«o-i 11«
i 1 u s o
poor,
'lli"!.!
'.n-»y us«
suff.'-riiv
1 a-h action, if fni'
t- xa trk» f"ir th
at-! iijiii k- tl
lit ijihiv lii! Kill
i
1
•/:ie
1
i
.v.-j
a la ly ho wouM take
icr property that nifht.
Tiie peuj-le tiled sb-wlv ou\ and Mr.
Romain was at last left alone with -.
lawyer he had brought, the auctioneer
anil ib" hold.-r of Mr. Hia'k'-'s unf-rtu
nate obligation. All the claims agains
tiif proneriv were very xaon un-t. am
far
tierif ft
er 1)« i,
A Hei'ty Ii in.l *.
(r- in -st of commetnorative days, its
everv re' ,rn challenge
4
our inmost sc.
riousucss of thankful welcome. On oti.e."
davs men havt? been born, whose me:' o
es are h.illov.c.l within '.he bounla.
of States and nations they served--War
rior*. state-men, discoverer-i. men of
letters, public benefactors -but on this
t. we haii as .'hri»tn!, s, a Divine I• r
i-tor. a Saviour, was born to
-M. His life and memory were t«
tfie blessing and joy of all nations, .No
lI.e. nor kindred, nor tongue was to
eu-j-it.ss H:s 1 jv or glory wholly in Hitt
a.iaae. Wide as the globe, over all con
•:\ents and to all the i-les. tin- lleav
y light of ii it birth was to spread,
i! tim was:e p-a'-es werft made glad
.it, i the desert hio-somed as the rose.
i»]ori«»u*ly t-o this end has it spread
l.c eighteen hundred and eighty-nine
\e,rs. until Christendom is become the
.irt anl iif" of the civili/ed world.
Wherever sav ageisms and barbarisms
have been dissipated, an.i nation.?
brought to enl.-ghtenment wherever
u: i il is T: i-' do vo loped as a htl'. n.
ug- tie hrisltnas ought to i
it,ost hallowed, for there has the si
of Christ most wrought its redeeming
work. Among the nations most biessod
i.\ its divine liiflnenet-s. our own stands
foremost. Foremost, 'hen. let us be is
a jM'ople in reverently welcoming the
birth-day of Christ—but still more fore
most in applying to the practice-, of our
daiiv lives those blessed precepts and
example- by which the founder of
Ctir.stmas is regenerating th wo.-id.
St. Louis Magazine.
PERSONAL AND literary.
1
in retirement
Kensington, En-
—Jean Ingeiow
with i.e.- mother
gland.
l.)r, J)rooks, a Johns Hopkins pro
fes'-o". says that either dredging inns
"•top or the Maryland oyster will cease
to bo a fact* tno market in three
years.
—'1 he sill. i:: .facturoa of Oerniany
boon completely crowded out of
l-bircpean markets by the superior
•.•lies* ami oxci'loncu of French
s. The (ierman wares aro now
'ly exported to South America.
Uobcrt Hrowning is said to have
on "The Tied l'iper of llamelin"
he aniuscmoni of a young lad of
whom iio wjis especially fond. The
idea of puldi-ihing the little story did
not occur to him until the child's pleas
onvinced bin. .r unusual
inert,.
Mine Louise K Ruttkay,
writing to a friend in New .lersi'y, de
plores Hungarian indifference to th«
needs of ln-r famous patriot brother,
••v:.- lias to keep a! work to supply hi'
"is. Kossuth ha* linislM'd the fourth
v me of his memoirs. He declines
Ate aid
Kr«in a ,* de-crhed a- a live
"HorgeUi.: mull, very neai -.sl^ ii tod,
1
in various ways reminding ono of a
i. si-iiolarly tierman prob-s-or. Ten
1
Hefuro
ptc-er
rent publishing houses in tii-rmauv
invited him to write a volume or
about his African i:fo, but the ox
lion to the "interior, whict ho ov
•s soon to undertake, makes it im
-1l.J* for hlrn to engage in any liter
i work at present.—N. Y, L"lger.
In his article just printed in tha
I
1
.-Ni-uvietne Sli'cip, Cieneral Roulai^f
tells th" interesting fat-is that an
-.'ri'-aii bureau offered him ^.'nJ.OOO
i course of lectures in this •onntry,
u declined the offer. It is
de that. Mr. Cilads'. lie has yet
w he fact- that an American
rary syndicate rec'-nt'.y offered him
oi'.i for twen y-iivi articles that he
u] v .- ncn ir, tivu or throe days,
iTi-i i' in- i lac offer.
I' .•! V. I ..:ian prede'ts in an
too Arena ihat betwt t*n 'i'.'o)
a. \meni'a wilMie devastated hy
t' arful war, "a labor arid cap tal
..." and a black and while war, in which
•-••church will be shattered and the
.: ri'ii'f- relation approximated ,to froe
tntic coa-t of the LniUiil
devastated bv a tidal
N' N .-! and Now Jersey being
sufferers. All the cities not
.n fifty feet above the sea level
i to destruction, and in tbo
:. it all there will bo an earth
,i'ich will belittle all previous
il .convulsions. The professor
ti a v bo !.«* v ic: .ni 'b- fee ii-. e '.tiforina-
HUMOROU-S.
:A
1
A t'lirimiimii Ket-in".
'1 a.,e ..bout, eight quart-: of unselfish
ness uiui iinati n!torate i charity mix
briskly with a liberal supply of generos
ity, kindliness and forbearing love.
Simmer gently over a slow lire of for
giveness. good-will and good-fellowship,
l'u in adash of cheerfulness und a plen
teous sprinkling of -smiles, and serve
piping hot wnii your 'hn-tm ,s dinner.
-Judge.
liilMfmus
The oid saving that "hanging is too
good for them" is never understood to
apply to tin- Christinas stockings.
And talking about stockings "Stock
ings bt banged!" says the St, Louis
girl, "it is on-ytl.f- Chicago belle who
expects to find a grand piauyiu a #ocit."
—Hi.
Louis Magiuiua,
t.a'" '. .tffy o'lav,'anvi:"'-v. Jim?
"IHm tl-- i ess it b- and
gg-. s Raza
1
As -Citizc: "11• -.V y.i-..r
open this S".,«b'n".
"U a rus-b.".—*I-Mck.
I -st Dealer in V* .'1 Amma'.--
•How's i r-
v
nd Dealer in
'-Viid Ai. I! -Texas Sift
n»s
oib'ss 'a young lawyori -"Welt,
.. hanged!" Old l'ractitioner
"I ,dn"t iio s-o-'.-i-od tltat is. if you
b-f r.d yourwif."- Upoch,
s- r.jr-p-ant. drilli "Hecruit
Meyer. I wisii yo-.i would imi hi ways
look as if yon were a hen who has laid
a b-.lliard bill instead of an egg."'-
I .• 'itle Blatter.
.dents of AShe
"Are's't the stars cio e to one another
I in the Milky Way?" I.Ie A cs. It
mil-: be a sort of Condon-.-d Milky
I Way." liiisi-y's Weekly.
i —''You "Inujid f-'-el cuniplimented by
i Mr. Starboarder's ajipotlte. MissTowa
week." "F/'.iheroomplimonted or bank
rupted." ret- rnetl tbo lady. -a -!, a stony
glare a' hungry gin Harper's
i l'.a/ar
"f r. v- -a v any creatures like
women. ..n- ug thoir minds every
'minute.'' 'On, vw*H, John, you know
it's the only change tbo poor tiling*
have. wouldn't mind if I saw some
of th" other kind ••iv- in av.
1
.:!""
Philadelphia Times.
I wnttieil ami 1 r« n-.d liOtim! and
-st |, Klt'l dt'M .'t -S'- I SDJIlrt
in t'p.
Aim) then I liOKIt-i .1^ n ti:id strodf.d
i o-i it the Mliore.
I'd irork* for i-vrrv kind of u that any
i ffirt cout do
Cm i-ou'it'-d sn'in-wli.it br.:: t-..-, and I'm
i rutlier ir»«rty. too
I ii.i.ited ami pmyd tonni* ttti I'm tpiltn
i tint pi opcr tnu.
I Atul atol li-i.'iod mid fi-ilmcl nnd fished.
I 'at i
Man.
Tearful Wife—"Judge,heain't a had
husband when he's sober. Can't yo
make his fine a lit* le less? Judge
"No. my good woman. When
a,
man
flogs his wife 1 give him the full ex ton*,
of the law." Tearful Wife "Well, the
flno lias got to be paid, 1 s pose. Would
yoi.r honor mind giving me the job of
cvcMung the floors of thi* building?'
l'i. dadelphia Times.
His Luck Seems to iiange.-
"Snykes. I'm in great luck. 1 am going
to write for a synd cate that pays me S-\
a column." "i know if.. Cleeyjim. I'm
a member of the syndicate. We furnish
th- stuff to thirty-six paper", and it
nets us «J CO a column." "Shykes, do
you think it's fair to get rich by grind
ing poor devil's liko mo down to starva
tion wasras?''—-Cbiuaff© Tribune.