The Holly chieftain., December 24, 1897, Image 2

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HOLLY CHIEFTAIN. |
CURRENT COMMENT.
ToE new mavor of Haltimore, Md., |
recently had 9,000 applications for 500 T
positions, i ‘
Tne total foreign exports of the l
United States for the 1i months of
1897 reached $974,000,000. ’
PENNSYLVANIA spent last year 20,-
000.000 on her public schools, and over |
1,000,000 pupils were enrolled. i
Tue number of homicides in South ‘
Carolina the past year was 200, or |
double that of the previous year. |
Ture ministers of Lincoln, Neb.,, are 1
up in arms against Sunday funerals |
and have taken action looking to their |
discouragement. l
IN Berlin 32 divorces are granted for |
every 1.000 marriages. After berlin
comes Hamburg with 27, while Paris iy i
far behind with only 2L i
THE beet sugar factory ncar Rome,
N. Y., which cost $255.000 and began
work October 1 with 100 men, will turn
out this year 12,000 barrels of granu
lated sugar. t
Lewis GeonGe CLARE, 8 years old,
the original George Harris of Harriet |
Beecher Stowe's famous novel, “Uncle
Tom's Cubin,” died at Lexington, Ky., ‘[
a few days ago.
Tue movement to have all Canadian ’
trade unions secede fromthe American
Federation of Labor and establish an 1
independent organization has failed of
accomplishment. I
A rreacHrr in Cleveland 4‘“Hnlv.!
Ok., miscalculated timwe the other week |
and when Sunday morning arrived his J‘
congregation waited in vain for him to
appear. Later in the day he was found 1
bard at work husking corn, thinking ‘
the day was Saturday.
GerMAN archmologists have recently
made and reported some valuable dis
coveries in Asia Minor, opposite the is
land of Samos. On the site of the
ancient eity of Pricne they are un
covering the most complete ancient
Greek citv thus farlinown
NOTWITHSTANDING the depression the
contributions last year of Congrega
tional churches in the United States
for home expenses and benevolent pur- l
poses were $9,000,554, which was $14.63
per member. ‘The contributions of the
Presbyterian church for like purposes |
were $13,208,151, almost sl3 per mem- |
ber.
Porice Jupee Wisery, of Eva -
ville, Ind., has established a flogging |
post in the city jail with a tough strap |
for a lash for younyg offenders. A bad |
bov’s father is allowed his choice of
giving his son a sound whipping be
fore a municipal representative, pay
ing a fine and costs or letting the lad
go to jail.
IN the presence of Mayor Malstor
and other representative citizens of
Baltimore, Md., a practical test of the
) possibilities of the submarine boat, the
Argonaut, designed by Simon Lake, of
that city. for the purpose of locating
sunken vessels, removing their cargo
and raising them, was made the other
day. The trial trip was in cvery way
satisfactory, and was pronounced a
success by all who went down with
the vessel.
Rev. B. H. E. Irwiy, an evangelist
from Lincoln, Neb., recently held re
vival services in a church at Chambers
burg, Pa. He created a sensation by
his remarkable pulpit utterances. He
condemned the use of tobacco and the
wearing of whiskers, and predicted
dire punishment for those who offend
ed in those two matters. At his last
meeting he condemned the wearing of
feathers, and so worked upon the feel
ings of the women in his audience that
some of them tore the feathers from
their bonnets in sight of all in the
church.
Oxg of the most attractive parts of
the exhibits from Illinois at the Paris
exposition will be a magnificent picture
made entirely of corn and 40x60 feet in
dimensions. The central figure will be
two huge American flags overshadow
ing a large American cagle. Below, in
the left-hand corner. will be a repre-|
sentation of a large cannon in the
midst of a field of corn, belching forth ‘
hundreds of ears of corn, which are
represented as falling gently on a scene
in the right-hand corner, which is a
map of Europe. The idea is to secure
a larger market for American corn in
JSnrope, eSR El G
Tur mint of Philadelphia is almost
constantly engaged in turning out
cents made of copper with a slight al
loy of zine and tin. The state of Penn
* sylvania alone absorbed 11,000,000 last
year and New York 9,000,000. There
is much curiosity about the final fate
of these cents. Nobody is able to tell
what has become of the hundreds of
millions of cents issued by the mint
since it began operations. It israther
a profitable business for the govern
ment, as it means the conversion of
copper costing ten cents a pound into
a form in which it is worth §2 or more
PO et et S
Tue Children’s Aid Society of New
York states that in 1867 there were
2,016 girls between the ages of !4 and
20 held for trial in the great city,
while in 1806 there were but 618, In
view of the increase in population of
the city the number, in case conditions
had not improved, would have been
over 4,000. This improvement scems
almost incredible. Increase of facili
ties foreducation and the formation of
girls’ clubs are credited as among the
fvis chief means contributing to the re
sult. In the same period there has
i been an increase in the number of boys
E;, arrested.
"?‘ SPEAKING of the bill for a national
f{“ divorce law drafted by the National
. Bar association, the St. Louis Christian
.~ Advocate says: *“The divorce evil has
. become 50 general in this country that
?’ . some general legislation, looking to
"‘f{,,i he suppression of the worst features,
.is urgently demanded. The general
~ history of legislation has been that no
‘,.'(61.’3" law can be made to apply to all cases, so,
- mngq m&wtbly,defeoulp the proposed
- measure will subsequently be found,
e but that some remedial lt!'p’l)li%l:‘"bl
' taken is imperative, and as a begin
§/ & Bing the pFopoesd medsure iy probedly
eBY .fPE‘;’- ol A j{}}f
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gleaned By Telegraph and Mall
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Tue president sent to the senate on
the 16th the name of Joseph McKenna,
to be associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States.
Tue nomination of Charles G. Dawes,
of lllinois, to be comptroller of the
curreney, was confirmed by the senate.
A TREATY between the United States
and the Seminole nation was concluded
and signed by the Dawes and Seminole
commissioners at Muskogee, 1. T., on
|the 16th. It provides for the allot
| ment of lands and a division of its
moneys among the citizens after the
tribal governments are extinguished.
Tue Swiss general asscinbly has
|¢-h-vlud Eugeve Ruffy to be president
|u( the confederation. M. Mucller was
| elected vice president. Both president
| and vice president-elect are radicals.
CarL ScHURZ was re-clected presi
lth-nl of the National Civil Service Re- }
form league at the meeting at Cincin- |
lnmi on the 17th. A resolution was |
| passed scoring the attempts of con
lgn-»uwu to repeal the civil service
i laws,
| DerrGarTe CArAuay will make an
effort this winter to convinee congress
that Oklahoma is deserving of state
| hood.
Tur A. F. of L. convention at Nash
' ville, Tenn., on the 17th adopted reso
| lutions for the government ownership
Jf telegraph lines, agaiost anti-sealp
linc legislation, for the appointment
of factory inspectors and foran amend
ment to the constitution depriving
courts of the power to set aside laws
made by the peoople. The proposition ‘
to create a national department of
labor was indorsed and the federa- I
tions stand against the principle of
compulsory arbitration was reiterated. f
Presipest McKiNcey has informed
Chief Sargent, of the Brotherhood of ‘
Locomotive Firemen, that he will ac- |
cord a hearing to labor leaders before !
| a new member is selected to succeed |
Col. Morrison on the interstate com
merce commission.
Tue nomination of Attorney General
McKenna to succeed Justice Field on
the supreme bench will not be acted
upon by the senate until after the
Christmas holidays.
Gov. Joxes has commissioned Miss
Emma Whittington, of Hot Springs, as
an honorary colonel in the Arkansas
reserve militia. This is the first ap
pointment of the kind ever made in
the stute.
SENATOR CiHANDLER, of New Hamp
shire, has published a letter in which
he deprecates any action on the cur
rency question and advises congress to
await the progress of international
bimetallism. He thinks it will be
political suicide for the republican
party to do anything on the subject at
present.
Tur commissioner of pensions ap
peared before the senate committee on
civil service, which is conducting an
investigation into the operations of
the civil service system, and gave testi
mony adverse to the system. He
thought some reform would have to be
enacted or the country would have the
infliction of a civil servige list. '
Tur house committee on currency
will have something more to consider
besides the financial scheme of Secre
tary Gage, every member havinga plan,
which will be perfected during the
holidays, and all phases of the cur
rency problem being treated.
MISCELLANEOUS.
{ Tur American Missionary associa
| tion made public at New York on the
20th its 51st annual report. It showed
that hundreds of students had been
turned away from its schools for want
|of funds. The receipts from the differ
‘«-nl sources for the year were saol,-
371.08.
| SecreTARY ALGER intends tosend a
Enumlmr of relief expeditions to the
| suffering Klondike miners. The first
| one will start about February . Snow
locomotives will be used to beat a trail
and 600 reindeer will be purchased to
haul the supplies.
Tir American Federation of Labor
| on the 15th re-elected the following
’nl!ic.-rs.: President, Samuel Gompers;
first vice president, P. J. McGuire; sec
! retary, Frank Morrison; treasurer,
| George B. Lennon. Kansas City, Mo.,
was chosen as the next meeting place.
Ara bull fight at Gandalajara, Mex.,
| the bull jumped the barrier and
| charged the spectators. Three persons
l were gored to death and nine injured.
| Many were also hurt in the panic
! which ensued.
| Tue store of the Mermod & Jaceard
| Jewelry company at St. Louis was de
stroyed by fire on the 19th, together
with the Model Cloak company, the
‘ former sustaining a loss of §335,000 and
| the latter §50,000.
| HiGiiwAy robberies occur daily and
nightly in St. Louis and so general has |
| become the alarm that a tremendous
sale of fircarms has been started.
\ Judges Stevenson, Peabody. Wood and
Withrow recently declared that rob
beries and assaults had come to be of
s 0 frequent occurrence that no one
| was safe, and that no person could be
blamed for going armed.
AsnrLAND, Va., reported aslight shock
| of earthquake at 6:45 o'clock on the
evening of the 18th,
: PrrrssurGH, PA., is trying to get the
| G. A. R. encampment to meet in that
| city in 1000 and to take part in the
’1 dedication of a grand soldiers’ monu
| ment to cost in the neighborhood of
£500,000.
| Wmire piloting a heavy freight train
_ | up the Mérchants’ bridge incline at St.
i { Louis, an engine jumped the track and
| plunged to the ground below. Fire
| man_ Pensinger was instantly killed;
! Engineer McCallough was dashed head
| first through the cab window and bad
'| ly injured, and W. . Cobb, yard
: agent, had several ribs broken.
Tur assistant secretary of the in
; terior has ruled that a soldier's widow
| has a right to prosecute to a final ad
judication a claim for a pension
; filed by her deceased husband if the
| claim is rejected and the husband dies
before appealing from the commis
sioner of pension’s action.
| A TRAIN on the Chicago & Eastern
| Illinois railroad raninto an extra train
| near Clinton, Ind.. the other morning
| and three employes were killed and
| half a dozen others injured. Both en
| gines were badly wrecked, the bag
| gage car was thrown down an embank
| ment and the mail car smashed.
: WuirLe & herd of sheep, numbering
10,000 head, belonging to M. O. Mur
| phy, was being nzoved outof Schlcicher
county, Tex., to a new range, a dense
| fog suddenly came up. The herders got
| bewildered and the entire herd drifted
away .and were not found, although
searching parties were out several
days. ' |
NoTicrs have been posted at the
China, Pembroke and \Webster cotton
lm‘.ih at Suncock, N. I, announcing a
reduction of about ten ner cent. Janu
‘.’n_\' 1. The cut will affcet nearly 1,500
operatives. It is probable that the cut
[ will be accepted.
A rramnie fire was reported on the
20th as raging in Edwards county, |
Tex. It had burned a strip from the
Nueces river to a point a few miles
| northwest of Rock Springs, about 25
to 50 miles wide.
THeE Auditorium theater and hotel
|t Kansas City, Mo., was destroyed by
fire early on the worning of the 21st. |
}\u far as known all the guests escaped |
| without serious injury. The loss on
| the building was placed at $500,000.
| Tue A. F. of L., at its meeting at
| Nashville, Tenn., on the 20th, adopted
| resolutions favoring the establishment
[ »f postal savings banks and denounc- |
{ing Secretary Gage's currency bill
| The convention decided to increase l
|the per capita tax to two cents, to go
| into effect February 1 next. ‘
A TroLLEY car at Philadelphia,
| while descending a hill, got out of the '
ontrol of the motorman and dashed
{into a horse car. The stove was upset [
and the wreckage caught fire and |
| burned. Many passengers were seri- |
| ously injured.
i A FREIGHT train of 21 cars, traveling
down the mountain near Altoona, Pa.,
‘bw-:nn«: unmanageable, owing to the
I%iippvry tracks, and crashed into a
freight train standing at the station.
’ About 50 cars were completely broken
lup and a passenger train was also
| thrown over on its side. Several train
| men were seriously huort.
Tuk Indian agents have been warned
by the interior department of the pro
posed movement to enter the lands of
|l'l|‘ Wichita, Kiowa and Apache and 1
Comanche Indian reservations in Okla
homa and have been directed to ecall |
| on the military to prevent the forcible ‘
| oceupation of the lands.
| Roppenrs dynamited the safe in the |
post office at Canal Dover, 0., the other |
| night and secured the contents. |
| Frrzsimymons stated at Chicago on
the 19th that he had changed his mind
and would give Corbett another
chance in the prize ring. The date of
| the battle is indefinite.
Tue A. F. of L. at its meeting on the
16th at Nashville, Tenn., decided to
| admit negro unions.
i “Morner HuMpenrey,” the aged wife
| of White Bear, once a chief of the Win
| nebago Indians, was recently found
frozen to death in a hut made of gunny
sacks and rags on the Missouri river at |
Sioux City, la. "
AN open switch on the Chicago & |
Alton road was the cause of a collision
between the St. Louis limited passen- l
ger and a freight train on the side- |
| track at Pontiac, 111. Several persons
| were seriously injured. The two en
l zines and two freight cars were total
| wrecks.
' Tue testimony of Directorof the Mint
Preston before the house committee on
i coinage developed the fact that there
were many counterfeit silver dollars in
Ivirculnliun and that the government
was encountering much trouble with
the subject, but he offered no sugges
tions as to a remedy.
Grapy ReyNornps and Bud Brooks
were executed at Jefferson, Ga., on
the 17th for murder.
Bup Beanrp, colored, aged 14, was
hanged at Carrollton, Ala., for assault
ing an eight-year-old girl.
Tue advance guard of 10,000 Croatian
colonists arrived in Denver the other
day. The colony will locate in the
Shenandoah valley of southwestern
Colorado, where houses, schools,
churches and various industrial insti
totions will be erected, the Rio Grande
railroad promising to construct a
branch into the country.
Fine destroyed the United States
courthouse at Ardmore, I. T., on the
15th. The records were safe in the
vaunlt, but valuable papers in the offices
of the marshal, clerk and commission
er were lost. Only the bare walls were
left standing. The fire also destroyed
the Cobb house, Arch Matthews' feed
store and 60 bales of cotton in a com
rrcss yard. The blaze was believed to
have been of incendiary origin.
A RECENT dispateh from Bayou, La.,
stated that the steamboat Pargoud
sank in the Mississippi river just above
the mouth of Red river. The boat and
cargo were in bad shape and the loss
was heavy.
A yoOB lynched Tom Waller, a negro,
near Bankston Ferry, Miss., for being
an accomplice of Charley Lewis—who
had been hanged a day or two before —
in the murder of Mrs. Smith and her
four children.
Tug house of Patrick Leahy at Otta
wa, Ont., was burned early the other
morning and Leahy and five of his
children, the oldest only nine years of
age, perished. It was supposed that
Leaby dropped a lighted lamp.
Tur comptroller of the currency has
issued a call on national banks for a
statement of their condition at the
2lose of business Wednesday, Decem
ber 15.
Tue threatened strike of the New
York printers for a nine-hour day has
been compromised, a 9}¢-hour day be
ing offered by the ?roprie'.ors and the
printers accepting it.
A TERRIBLE sandstorm raged the
other day at Pearsall, Tex., and sur
| rounding territory causing all houses
| and stores to be closed and the suspen
| sion of business.
‘ A Loss of nearly 81,000,000 was
caused early on the morning of the
| 17th by the burning of the Hotel
| Dakota at Grand Forks, N. D. It was
| a large five-story structure that cost
| §250,000. Two large wholesale stores
adjoining were also destroyed.
' Tur bishop of Havana is gathering
| all the authoritative reports of deaths
| in Cuba for the past year. The patriot
priests of all the parishes are report
| ing to him the number of persons who
| have died in their districts. Accord
| ing to trustworthy information, the
| rriesu had found that 500,000 persons
had died in Cuba in this short 'Rme. .
: Mgs. ANNIE WEIL stepped on a par
| ior match at St. Louis, causing it to
| ignite. The blaze causzht her under
| skirt and she was fatally burned.
3 Jonx MorGAN was executed before a
s | crowd of 10,000 people at Ripley, W.
.| Va., for murdering three members of
the Green family. 8
Trees Root in in a Tomb.
'| Mechan’s Monthly has recorded trees
{ growing from the mortar of stone
walls and on church steeples. It ia
| said that a horse chestnut several
: years old is still growing from a
tomb inside an old church at Kempsey,
, | near Worcester, England. The monu
.| ment built in the church is to the mem
.| ory of Sir Edmund Wylde, who died in
| 1620. The tree is now several yearsold,
| having sprouted in the crevice of the
| | mortar on the back of the tomb, spreads
| toward the light and forms a leafy can
|| opy over the stone form of the old
kuight as out on the surface.
WHAT MA'S HUSBAND DID
N AW
B aint got no
Chris’'mus tree,
‘Cause my mam
ma's husban’ he
‘lst forgot he hasa
kid,
'At's what my ma's
husban® did.
Pa, at's my ma’'s
hus!mn‘. says
| Trees ain’t fash'able (hese days:
} Ast him why, an’ pa says: '_'Llu"
Don't b'lleve {n Santa Claus:
Says he hates the nolse and fuss,
Makes him aggravate an’ Cuss;
Don’t see why ma keeps him, he
Ain't no use ‘at ] can see.
\
'F me was him ap’ /'m was me,
Bet I'd have & Chris'mus tree;
Ma 'ist smiles an’ say<: ‘‘too badl!™
*At 'ist makes me «wful mad.
‘ Other little boys has pas
| What believes In Sunta Claus,
| Hate mean pas—l'il v/l him so
1 ‘lst as soon as | can grow.
Wisht ma lock him out to-night
‘ When he comes, "5t serve him right:
‘ Make him stay out there, an’ then
Gobullns an’ begle men
Ketch him ‘fore the mornin’ come—
Bet you then I'd have a drum,
An’a whistle "at |0 Liow,
Whether he don't | ke er no.
Wisht—why, here’'s pa. an’ I see
That he's bought a Curis'mus tree.
Bays he thought he'd fool the kid—
‘At's ist what ma’s hasban® did!
~Haltimore News
A CHRISTMAS
SRORVOKING JURCTION .
b - a2
OMEHOW or
other Reuben Bull
> winkle will get
into Heaven,
though I don't
suppose he will do
so in any ordinary
way. But Lam fairly fixed in my opin
jon that somehow or other, in the
merciful providence of the Lord, he will
walk the golden streets of the New
Jerusalem, wearing a crown of eternal
life—and I will tell you one reason why
I think so:
It was almost noon on Christmas day
when the through express pulled into
Starvation Junetion six hours late,
Desolate and dreary us the station ap
peared, the travel-worn and hungry
passengers were glad to see it, as they
had Leen informed they could procure
refreshments on their arrival, as no
other opportunity had presented itself
to satisfy their hunger since the pre
vious day.
The storm which begnn in the night
had developed into the unmistakable
blizzard so much hated and feared by
all who travel by rail. The engine hal
done all that iron and steam could do
against its inveterate foe.but in spite of
gallant efTorts the blizzard seema d to be
getting the best of the battle, 2nd for
some time before the train pullec up at
the station the iron lungs of the engine
seemed to labor gflz a painful effart as
it plowed its way t rough the drifts.
The station was equipped with the
usual Junch counter, upon which was
displayed the uninviting and meager
fare which generally greets the travel
ing public at such institutions. There
were sandwiches for those who could
afford to pay ten eents for the small
suspicion of the fag end of some old
remnant of fat mercifully hidden be
tween two slices of stale bread. Ther:
were beans—baked beans, hard, dry
and musty, which eould be had for 25
cents; ten cents for two indigestible
lool\'mg(loughnms:?fi\ecen(u apiece for
eggs—boiled eggs, boiled hard, boiled
until they were black and blue, boiled
to the consistency lof an india-rubber
ball. Nobody coulditell how long those
eggs have been boilked. 1 say have, be
cause probably most of them are doing
duty yet on that lunch counter. And
then there was pie—nt least something
that went by that title—and coffee,
too, that would be recognized only by
the name.
It often happens übder circumstances
of this nature that there are some who
have not started on'their journey with
the expectation of being put to ex
tra expense, and are consequently not
prepared for the exorbitant charges of
the railway lunch icounter, and are
therefore placed inla very unpleasant
eituation.
Among the crowdof hungry mortals
who gathered in thedlingy station were
l THEY STOOD BESIDE THE STOVE. '
a woman and a little boy. These two
made nc effort to secure a place with
the eager crowd at the lunch counter,
but stood unnoticed and alone beside
the stove. It was easy to see that they
did not belong to the opulent class u{‘
society, for, though serupulously neat,
their clothes were of cheap mnlerinl.i
and several skillful patches on the gar
ments of the boy indicated careful econ- |
omy. There was a weary and anxious
look on the woman's face as she bent
down and whispered something to the
child, who was whimpering and tug
ging at her dress, easting longing
looks at the lunch counter.
To a close observer the situation was
perfectly plain, for there was no doubt
that the boy was pleading for a chance
at the edibles, and the mother, with
out the means of relief, was trying to
pacify him, Of course, in a selfish and
greedy world it is no ancommon thing
for some to go hungry, for when so
many are actually starving to death it
seems hardly worth while to waste
sympathy on those aho are anly fast
ing a little, and yet what is more piti
ful than a helpless mother with a bur
gry child?
Among the erowd of passengers who
had hurried into the station came Reu
ben Bullwinkle, The discomforts of
the journey had no apparent eflect
upon his invineible good humor. “D:n
ner is now ready, ladies and gents!™ he
shouted. “Table de hote, or ala carte,
all the luxuries of the seasou at prices
within the means of any millionaire.
Never mind the cost. A full stomach is
better than a full pocket book, and you
can’t have both together in this ranch.
Wulk right up to the festal board and
enjoy your Christmas dinner.”
After this outburst of dime-museum
eloquence Rube looked about him for
some evidence of appreciation, but
every one was too busily occupied in
the scramble for food to heed his
vagaries. But no, not every one, for as
Reuben's eyes wandered over the room
they observed the forms of the lone
woman and her little boy standing idly
by the stove.
Reuben was an old and experienced
traveler, and withal a shrewd observer,
and it did not take him long to read the
puthetic story of this group of two.
There was no dounbt in his mind that
they were faint with hunger and with
out sufficient money to pay for food.
The drummer Rube pushed his travel
ing hat to the back of his head and
scratched his bald pate as he held a
secret consultation with the angelic
and interior Reubep. “Rube, old fel-
Jlow, whaut are we going to do about this
business? We can't enjoy our Christ
man dinner knowing all the time that
hungry eyes are watching every mouth
ful of food we devour; no, that's out
of the guestion, but what can we do?
That woman is no pauper, and she
would probabiy scorch us with a glance
if we presumed to offer her money, or
even to blow her off to a dinner. Bur,
great Cuesar! they must be fed some
how. Now f we could manage to
serape up an acquaintance with the boy
i think we could make the deal; so let’s
see if we can hypnotize him."
Agreeable to this resolution Reuben
fastened his gaze upon the child until
he caught his eye, then smiling the
same old smile which had won him
friends from Doston to California, he
addressed him: “How's this for a
Christmas, little boy?" Rut the lit!le
boy only clung closer to his mother's
skirts and scowled at the presumptu
ous stranger.
“What's the matter, little friend.
ean't you find a seat? You just come
with me now, and if we don't find a
place I'm much mistaken.”
The boy ceased whimpering and
looked inquiringly at his mother,
St >
TOMMY GETS HIS CHRISTMAS DIN
NER
Reuben thought he could detect lhc'
conflicting emotions of the woman i"(
the struggle between womanly pricle |
and motherly love. He saw her tighten l
her hold on the hand of the boy and
turn slightly away.
Slipping forward and politely doil
ing his bat, he addressed the woman:
“Madam, 1 beg your pardon, but you
see 1 have taken a notion to that boy
of yours, and as I am far away from
my own little ones (this was runk du
plicity, for Reuben had neither wife
no- children, near or far), and as this
is Christmas day, | am feeling a little
lonesome. You, being a parent your
self, can appreciate my feeling, for
doubitless were you away from your
boy you would naturally be interested
in any child which reminded you of
your own. Now | beg you to permit
your little boy to be my guest and eat
his Christmas dinner with me.”
The woman lifted Ler downeast eyes
to the honest fuce of the stranger, then
blushing slightly, without either for
bidding or consenting, rephed dipiomat
jcally: “Tommy isafraid of strangers.”
However noncommital this answer
| was, it was equivalent to a full consent
when made to a knight of the grip, and
either owing to the hypnotic power
of Reuben Bullwinkle or the cravings
of appetite, no difficulty was experi
enced in winning the child's consent
to any arrangement which huad for its
ultimate object the eating of a din
ner.
Hungry children are not very fastid
jous, and however unappetising the
viands of that forlorn lunch counter
would seem to you and me as we sit
down to our Christmas turkey at our
own table, to the little hungry boy they
were fit for a king, and if everyone
throughout the land enjoyed his Christ
mas divner as little Tommy did in that
dingy old station, it was indeed n merry
Christmas,
However, it came to pass that the boy
was finally satisfied. He had stuffed
himself to his full capacity, and with a
sigh of supreme satisfaction prepared to
slide off the high stool, ignoring all ob
ligations and without a word of excuse
or thanks to his genial host. 1t was
very probable that with the purely'
natural selfishness which we are all
heirs to, but which is more plainly evi
dent in children owing to their inno
vence, the boy who did not think that
his poor mother was still fasting, but
with the sublime faith of childhood in
the omnipotence of parents, he rested
in the conviction that she was old
enough to look out for herself, if indee(
he gave the matter any censideration,
which is not at all probable.
But Reuben had not forgotten, and
had made up his mind that the woman's
fast should be broken.
*Wait a minute, Tommy,” said he,
seeing the boy wasabout to escape.
“Don't ycu want something more ?”
“No, 1 don't want mo more,” an
swered the polite Tommy.
*Woulln't you like a nice big apple
tc put in your pocket?—or hold on, I've
an idea. It's Christmas, you know, but
you didn’t know that I' was old Santn
Claus, The reason you didn't know me,
Fommy, is because the blizzard blew
wy obeard ciean off. Yet all the same
I'm going to fill your stocking, and it
I can't get at your stocking I'll fill some
thing else for you. Here, young lady.
let’s have one of those big paper bags.
Now, Tomniy, we'll call this a stocking.
Let's fliil it up. What'll you have? Ap
ples, of course, and doughnuts and some
of those delicicus sandwiches and pie
*like your mother makes," and I guess
that exhausts the bill of fare. Now hold
the end of the bag tight and don’t =pill
out the vicuals; and, Tommy, your
mother wants you."
The refreshed travelers had all set
tled themselves in their seats and the
train was jogging along again as best it
could through the snow. Passing
through the car Reuben looked careful-
Iy about for the woman and child, as he
was deeply interested in the success of
his maneuvers, There is no great dif
ficulty in locating anyone on a train of
cars, and as n matter of course Reuben
soon found the objects of his search.
His business with them was very brief;
indeed it was completed with a passing
glance, and completed to his intense
satisfaction, for that glance was suf
ficient to show him that the hungry
woman was enjoying his bounty with a
relish which none can appreciate, un
Jess he has had corresponding ex
periences. He was not noticed as he hur
ried by the little group. He did nou
want to be recognized, for with a fine
delicacy which always accompanies
true genercsity he felt that the less the
woman *aw of h'm the more comfortable
she would be. Reuben Bullwinkle
wanted no reccgnition or thanks: in
deed the idea that he was entitled to
thanks never cntered his head for a
moment. Neither did he make any
mental ealenlation as to the value of an
act of friendliness put down to his
eredit account on the recording angel's
book, nor did he look for any special
blessing which the Lord might owe him
for his nct of charity. Indeed the littie
thought whiel: he gave the matter had
its relation entirely to the objects of his
sympathy, and if his heart was light
and his soul joyous, it was because he
had unconseiously wandered near the
threshold of Heaven and heard the echo
of angel voices singing: *“Peaceonearth
and good will to men."—Frank Beard,
in Ram's Horn.
CHRISTMAS LONG AGO.
All Presents Hnd to Go Into the
Christmas Stocking.
Robert J. Burdette in the Ladies’
Home Journal tells in his humorous
way how he remembers the Christmas
of long ago. *“Most of the Christmas
presents in those days were designed
by the manufacturer for the hang
ing stocking. Anything too big to go
into a stocking had to go over to some
bedy's birthday. In any family where
there was more than one child the old
lrrliublu ‘Noal’s ark’ was always looked
for. We hailed with exclamations of
astonished recognition Noah and Mrs,
Noah, Messrs. and Mme. Shem, Ham and
Japhet. There was no way of telling the
‘men and women apart. They were ex
actly alike, but the elephant and giraffe
you could distinguish at a glance, on
account of the spots on the giraffe. Sc
also the dog and the cow, because the
cow was always white and blue, while
the dog wus invariably plain blue.
Within 24 hours after the landing oa
Ararat the baby would have all the
raint sucked off Shem, Ham and the
hired man, and the doctor would be
sent for.
“The red monkey climbing a red stich
was another regular Christmas visitor.
Ile was highly esteemed as a light
lincheon by the baby. It never seemed
to affect the infant unpleasantly—to
bimself, that is—although the cloudy
s¥mphony of red and blue about his in
vocent mouth was apt to make the be
holder shiver. Put it made the monkey
look sick. Then there was a man on
the box, with a major-general’s uniform,
bteating a drum. You turned a erank,
the general lifted his stick high in the
air, and something in the box made a
noise as much like a drum as a peal of
thunder is like a piccolo. These things
as loys were of no great value, but as
practical and useful object lessons they
were beyond all price, on the minus
side.” g
ACROSS THE STREET.
The Change That Came with Another
Christmas Time.
Last Christmas the house across the street
from mine was the brightest and gayest of
any in the block. There were beautiful
Christmas wreaths in every window and the
whole house was aglow. The shades were
thrown up high and the soft lace curtains
parted wide. The tree in the great parlor
of the house across the street was larger and
it had costlier presents on it than any other
‘tree in the town. And most of the presents
were for the little girl in the white dress
and the big pink sash who could be seen
from the street dancing around the tree, the
'happiest, sweetest little maiden in all the
‘world and the light and life and joy of the
house across the street.
This Christmas time all is dark and silent
‘and gloomy in the great house across the
street. There are no Christmas wreaths
'in the window, no ray of light comes from
'behind the closely drawn blinds, no childish
‘voice is heard within the house. There is
‘no bright and beautiful tree, but on the
spot on which the tree stood last year there
‘ is something white and as beautiful in its
silk and satin and velvet finish as the skill
lnml wealth of man can make it. But the
sight of it brought a chill to the hearts of
those who saw it carried into the house on
Christmas eve, and when the eyes of the
mother and father fell upon it their hearts
bled anew.
The passers-by who saw the bands of
white fluttering from the knob of the door
of the house across the street went on to
their own humble houses thanking God
that their own little ones were left to them.
no matter how little of wealth or beauty
’there might be in their homes.
The poorest house in which there was the
laugh of children was 80 much less deso
late than the great mansion across the
street in which the child’s laugh was for
ever still. It added to the melody of Par
adise that Christmas morning, It rang out
clear and sweet across the jasper sea. It
had gone through the gate Beautiful and
into a house not made with hands eternal
in the heavens.—Detroit Free Press,
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When Formally Institated.
The celebration of Christmas is
the church historians to have been f:.r::n};;
instituted by Pope Telesphorus, who died
A. D. 138,
—_—
Witk His Own Money.
Mrs. Benham—He what sh
you for Christma? "’I" all T aet
am—Nothing; I've got to econo.
mize this year.—Chicago Trib.:no.
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The best way to tell whether a present.
a cheap one is Lo observe whether lhnhi:
bas been rubbed off.—N. ¥, Truthe . |
Neminded of the Auld Sod.
A Cleveland land’ord has one of his houses
|.,n“.~.(,-.l by a family that ia out of al}
| portion to the size of the dwelling, Ir Zet. % i
| 2e strongly suspects that there are at least 5
| two distinct families in the house, and he is
| Juite anxious to get rid of them. He doesn’t
| want to turn them out, and he has been
| hoping they would take frequent nints he ‘
zives them and seek some other location. 4
| Lately they have complained of a Jeaky ¢
| roof, but the landlord has determined to ;
| make no repairs until they leave. : ]
| A few days ago the hca(fof the household :
| waited on him. 3
f “Well, sor,” he said, “that roof has been a
leakin’ agin.”
i “Has it?"” !?idllhf ]and‘llord.
“Yis, sor. It leaks right over me sister’s
'l»(‘d. ])rn{"m right down.on her, sor. This A
marnin’ she came out o’ the room a-eryin’ ;
|sor. It had been raining on her all night.
| Yis, sor, cryin’.” 4 g 3
‘ “Well, why in Tophet,” inquired the land
lord, “didn’t she move the hed?” AN
| “Twasn't that, sor,” hastily remarked Vs
| the tenant. “‘’Twasn’t that.” &
| “What ailed her, lhelr:‘.'"' b Y
| “Why, you see, sor, she were just a-cryin® i
!bt-l':nhr it reminded her so mucin of home.*
| —Cleveland Plain Dealer. & 24
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