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From the Chicago "What Next?"
I.TEBPBCTAT0.s,
BY UABY A. P. STAKSBUBY.
I sat by myself last nigM, muniina.
In the hush of the Christmas eve.
Aud watched from my window the
cold
moonlight
On the bare, brovru fields, and the meadows
white,
Till 1 could not ihooae but grieve
That Christmas, came in the winter-time,
When the btittcrtiies were dead,
And only snow filled the lonesome nests
bo warm, last June, with the dainty breasts
Of blue-bird and robin red.
Through the parlor door you had left ajar,
I saw how the hearth-fire shone
On the evergreens that we twined that day,
But I wondered how we had been so gay
When the cummer dowers were goue.
If only in place of the holly-boughs.
Hail lieen roses, warm and aweet ;
If the lily white and the mignonette
And the wild sweet briar were blooming yet,
The Christmas morn to greet ;
If the soft south wind to the maple leaves
Could tell of the dawning day,
And the brooklets, loosed from their icy
band,
Could run with the tidings throughout the
laud,
To the rivers far away ;
If the lambs were out at play on the hill,
And the fields were green again.
It would have lieen titter far, I thought.
To welcome the beautiful time that brought
The Joy of the World to men.
Kut all at once, as I sat, mamma,
And mused on it all in vain.
As i.'at the touch of a gentle hand,
The things that I could not understand,
Grew, somehow, strangely plain
If Christmas came in the summer time,
Could we ever surely know
Of the wondrous glow, so warm and deep.
That touches the earth in its frozen sleep,
Despite the ice and the snow ?
Our parlor tire may be bright, mamma.
When we come with our gifts to-night,
But warmer far than the kindling blaze,
Brighter than sunshine of summer days,
Are the beams of that Sacred Light.
The strange, sweet rudianco warm and
cheers
The path of the poorest feet.
And rests with a pitying tenderness.
More soft than his mother's lost caress,
On the orphan child iu the street.
And never in all the wide, wida world
Is one heart so hard and chill.
But it may in that heavenly ray.
The frosts of selfishness melt away,
And the springs of gladtiess fill.
And just as many a rugged thing,
Which the spring-tlowers could not hide.
Under the feathery Christmas snows,
Into graceful lines of beauty grows,
By the f untight glorified.
So the tcm'.er Love that came to earth
With the earliest Christmas even.
Wraps even our sins in its mantle white,
And makes lis fit for the angels' sight,
And the perfect days of Heaven.
And so I am sad no more, mamma.
That the frost and the snow are here,
That the bleak winds howl frctu the hills
again,
For if Christmas comes in the winter, theu
Y'e have summer all the year.
From "To-Day," Philadelphia.
msJior roTTs.
A CHRISTMAS STORY
BY MAX ADELEK.
Bishop Potts, of Salt Lake City, was the
husband of three wives and the happy
father of fifteen interesting children.
Early in the winter the bishop determined
that his little ones should have a good time
on Christmas, so he concluded to take a
trip down to San Francisco to see what he
could tir.d in the shape of toys with which
to gratify ar.d amuse tliem. The good
bishop packed his carpet-bajr, embraced
.Mrs. Potts ne by one and kivscd each of
her affectionately, and started upon his
journey.
He was gone a little more than a week,
when he came back with lifteen beautiful
mouth-organs in his valise for hisdailings.
He g"t out of th train at Salt Lake, think
ing how joyous and exhilarating it wouiu
beTat home on Christmas morning when
the whole fifteen of those mouth-organs
should be in operation upon different tunes
at the same moment. Hut just as he en
tered the derjot he saw a group of women
standing in "the ladies' room apparently
waiting for him. As soon as he approach
ed, the whole twenty of them rushed up,
threw their arms about his neck and kissed
him. exclaiming:
"Oh, Theodore, we are so so glad you
have come back ! Welcome home ! Wel
come, dear, dear Theodore ! Welcome
once more to the bosom of your family
anil then the entire score of them fell upon
his neck and cried over his shirt fiont and
mussed him.
The bishop seemed surprised ar.d embar
rassed. Struggling to disengage himself,
he blushed and said.
"Kcally, ladies, this kind of thing is well
enough it is interesting and all that ; but
there must be Fome kind of a that is, an
awkward sort of a excuse me, ladies, but
there seems to be, as it were, a slight mis
understanding about the I am Bishop
Potts."
"We know it, wekuow it, dearest." they
exclaimed in chorus, "and we are so glad
to see you safe, safe at home. Wo have
all beeu right well while you were away,
love."
"It gratifies me," remarked the bishop,
"to learn that none of you have been a
prey to disease. I am filled with blissful
serenity when I contemplate the fact; but
really I do not understand why you should
rush into this railway station and hug me
because your livers are active and your di
gestion good. . The precedent is bad ; it is
dangerous!".
"Oh, but we didn't !" they exclaimed iu
chorus. "We came hero tj welcome you
because you are our husband."
VPaidou me, but there must be some
little that is to say, as it wcie, 1 should
think not. Women, .you have mistaken
your man !" -
"Oh no, dearest!" they fchoutcd ; "we
were married to you while you were away!"
"What !" exclaimed the bishop ; "you
don't mean to say that "
"Yes, love. Our nusuauu, v in. urown,
- died on Monday, and on Thursday Brigham
! had a vision in which he was directed to
I 1 .. Ja1.
Real us to you; ana so piwuuuu mo
ceremony at once by proxy."
Th-th-tu-th-unuei r ooservea mo uum-
iu a general sort of a way.
Pi
"And, darling, we are all living with you
now we and the dear children."
"Children! children!" exclaimed Bishop
Potts, turning pale ; "you don't mean to
say that there is a pack of children too?"
"Yes, love, but only one hundred and
twenty-five, not counting the eight twin
and the triplet."
"Wha-wha-wha-what d'you say?" gasp
ed the bishop, in a co'.d perspi ration ; "one t
hundred and twenty-live ! One hundred
and twenty-five children and tweuty more
wives ! It is too much it is awful and the j
bishop sat down and groaned, while the j
late Mrs. Brown, the bride, stood around i
in a semicircle and fanned him with her
bonnets, all except the red-haired one, and
she in her trepidation made a futile effort
to fan him with the coal-scuttle.
But after a while the bis-hop became re
conciled to his new alliance, knowing wU
that protests would be unavailing ; so lie
walked home, holding as many of the little
hands of the bride as tie colild conveniently
grasp in his, while the red-haired woman
carried his umbrella and marched in front
of the parade to remove obstructions and
to scare off small boys.'
When the bishop reached the house, he
went around among thr cradles which filled
the back pailor and the two second-story
rooms, and attempted with such earnest
ness to become acquainted with his new
sons and daughters that he set the whole
one hundred and twenty-five and the tw ins
to crying, while his own original lifteen
stood around and joined in Ihe chorus.
Then the bishop went out and sat on the
garden fence to whittle a stick ar.d solemn
ly think, while Mrs. Potts distributed her
self around in twenty-three places and
soothed the children. It cccuncd to the
bishop while he mused, out there ou the
fence, that ho had not enough nioutb-or-gans
to go around among the children as
the family now stood ; and so, rather than
seem to be partial, he determined to go
back to Sau Francisco for one hundred and
forty-four more.
So the bishop repacked his carpet-bag
and began again to bid farewell to his fam
ily. He tenderly kissed all nf Mrs. Potts
who weie at home, and started for the de
pot, while Mrs. Potts stood at the various
windows and waved her handkerchiefs at
him all except the woman with the warm
hair, and she. in a lit of absent-mindedness,
helil one of tho tw ins by the leg and brand
ished it at Potts as he lied down the street.
The bishop reached Pan Francisco, com
pleted his purchases, and was just about to
get on the train with his one hundred and
forty-four mouth-organs, when a telegram
was handed him. It contained information
to the clleet that the auburn-haired Mrs.
Potts had just had a daughter. This in
duced the bishop to return to the city for
the purpose of purchasing an additional
organ.
On the following Saturday he returned
home. As he approached his house a
swarm of young children Hew out of the
front gate and ran toward him, shouting,
"Theie's pa ! lleie con.es pa ! Oh, pa,
but wt'ic glad to see you ! Hurray for
pa '.'" etc., etc.
The bishop looked at the children as
they flocked around him and clung to his
legs ami coat, and was astonished to per
ceive that they were neither his nor the
late Brown's. lie said, "Vou youngsters
have made a mistake ; I am not your fath
er;" and the bishop smiled good-naturedly.
"Oh yes, you are. though !" sci earned
the little ones in chorus.
"But I say I am not," said the bishop,
severely, and frowning ; "you ought to be
ashamed of yourselves. Don't you know
where little story-tellers go? It isscauda
lous for you to violate the truth in this
manner. My name is Potts."
"Yes, we know it is," exclaimed the
children "we know it is ; and so is ours :
that is our uan:e now too, since the wed
ding." "Since what wedding ?" demanded the
bishop, turningpale.
"A hy, ma's wedding of course. She
was married yesterday to you by Mr.
Young, and we are all living atyour hou.-e
now with our new little brothers aud sis
ters." The bishop sat down on Pie pavement
and wiped away a tear. Then he asked,
"VVlio wk yonr f:l lir 9 '
"Mr. Snrpson," said the crowd, "and
he died ou luesday."
"And how many of his infernal old wid
ows I mean how many of your mother are
there ?"
"Only twenty-seven," replied tho chil
dren, "and theie are only sixty-four of us,
and we are awful glad you have come
home."
The bishop did not seem to be unusually
glad ; somehow, he failed to enter into the
enthusiasm of the. cccasiou. Theie aii
peared to be in a certain sense, to much
sameness about these surprises, so he sat
there with his hat pulled over his eyes ami
considered the situation. Finally, seeing
there was no help for it. he went to the
house, and forty-eight of -Mrs. Potts rushed
up to him aud kissed him, and told him
how the prophet had had another vision in
which he was command to seal Simpson's
widow to Potts.
Then the bishop stumbled around among
the cradles to his writing-desk, where ho
felt among the gum rings aud rattles for
lor his letter-paper, and then addressed a
note to Brigham, asking him as. a person
al favor to keep awake until after Christ
mas. "The man must take me for a found
ling hospital," ho sid. Then the bishop
saw clearly enough that if he gave pres
ents to the other children and not to the
late Simpson's, the bride (relict of Simp
son) would probably souse dow n on him,
i'umblo among his hair and make things
warm for him. So repacking his carpet
bag, ho started again fur San Francisco for
sixty-four more mouth-organs, while Mrs.
P..tt nraduallv took leave of him in the
..nir. -il! hot the red-haired woman, who
was up stairs, and wl.o mm to ou sansue-u
. . . i .i
, i x.. i A j
w ith screeching good-bye at the top of her
vu;ce.
On his way home, after his last visit to
San Francisco, the bishop sat in tnecar Uy
the side of a man who lutu icn nan jake
ilin dav before.
1 lie si ranger was coni-
inunicative. In the course oi tr.o jonver
sation ho remaiked to the bishop :
"That was a mighty pretty little affair
up there at the city on Monday."
"What affair?" usked Potts.
"Why, that wedding; McGrath' a widow
you know married by proxy."
.-"You don't say," replied the bishop. "I
didn't know that McGrath was dead."
"Yes ; died on Sunday, and that night
Brigham had a vision in which he was or-ek-rcd
to seal her t3 the birrr."'
"Bishop !" exclaimed Potts. "Bishop !
what bishop?"
"Well, you see there were fifteen of Mrs.
McGrath and eighty-two children, and thay
shoved the whole lot off on old Potts. Per
haps you don't know him ?"
The bishop gave a wild, unearthly shriek
and went into a hysterical lit, and writhed
upon the floor as if lie had hydrophobia.
When he recovered, lie leaped from the
train and walked back to San Francisco.
He afterward took the first steamer for
Peru, where he entered a monastery and
became a celibate.
His rarpet-bag was sent on to his family.
It contained the. balance of the mouth-or- '
gana. Ou Christmas morning they were
distributed, and in less than an hour the
entire two hundred and eight children were
sick from sucking the paint off t litem. A
eloctor was called, and he seemed so much
interested in the family that Brigham di
vorced the whole concern from old Potts
and annexed it to the doctor, who imme
diately lost his reason, and would have
butchered the entire family if the red-haired
woman and the eldest boy h.id not
marched him off to a lunatic asjlum, where
he spent his time trying to arrive at an es
timate of the number of his children by ci
phering with an impossible combination of
tho multiplication tabic and algebra.
Giving Present.
Under thi3 caption the St. Ixiuis Repub
lican makes some very sensible lemarks,
from which we clip the following :
The essence of the present consists in
the sentiment of the thing ; and as all eu
timents seem to bo out of date, it is not
wonderful that presents have nearly be
come obsolete. A birthday present or a
Christmas or New Year's gift, ouc-e the
earliest aud pleasantcst thing in the world,
must now be a etistly article of bijouterie,
the worth of which can bo reckoned in
dollars. Little articles of tertu, cups and
spoons, nice little puzzles fiir the little
ones; the cunning invention of some kind
old uncle or aunt, are given witii grudging
groans, because they are a thing of course,
and therefore do not redound to the glory
of the giver, unless indeed, they be unus
ually rich and expensive. Even bridal
gifts are bought with especial reference to
the fact that they are to bo exhibited,
ticketed with the giver's name ar.d "one
does hate so to appear shabby !" There's
no sentiment in all this. The trotieatc
may be enriched by such contributions,
but the heart is out of the question. The
exactions of Eastern despots, the shawls,
the horse, the jewelry arms and previous
gems, w hich are offered w ith outward
smiles and secret ctuses, merit as well the
name of presents.
The old woid "keepsake" is a most ex
pressive term genuine Saxon ar.d un
translatable. No French substitute of
"utivretiir" "gajc"1 or any other word
which has taken its place in modern days,
is worth half so much. The broken ring,
the bent dime the pocket-piece of small
intrinsic value the book that ha been
used and marked the ring that we have
seen worn these simple tokens often have
a worth that no money value can give. ;
We have seen some book of small pecuui- j
ary value, a.hymn-book or prayer-book, or
some selection fiom a favorite poet, re- j
ceivid and treasured w ith a degree of sen- ;
sibility which showed how g.sxl a judge ;
the giver was of the true nature of a ' pres
ent." !
We do not desire to be understood as :
wishing to limit the name of present to
articles of small intrinsic value. We are
ouiy pi.acs.mg agaius. me .s-.
!?. LrVtTf ' L
consecrate the gitt of an estate toa friend,
and a perfect sympathy" a,ltl confidence
which would make it proper to accept suck
a gift.
We should be far from denying to the
wealthy one of the purest and best pleas
ures of large possessions the iwer of
giving freely to those they love, for the
simple gratification of doing so, without
further thoughts or object. But still we
insist that, considered a-s a present, tho
value of the largest gift, as well as the
smallest, depends entirely upon the senii-
rich or poor, has a dear friend, one loved
and sympathized with, and by whom ho
or she wishes to be remembered, if that
friend is worthy, he or she will receive
whatever is offered as a sacred memento
a keepsake to be cherished for all time.
This is giving presents.
Christmas Mc.MMnits. In old times,
all over England, patties of mummers, or
maskers, went about the tow ns and villages
dressed in showy amPfantastic costumes, to
the great delight and wonder of the people.
Sometimes this mumming, as it was called,
was carried on with a considerable amount
of splendor, and was neit strictly confined
to the Christmas season. Almost any gen
eral holiday would bring them out.
"To shorten winter's sadness.
See where the folks with gladness,
Diiguis-cd. all are coming,
liint wantonly a-mumiiiing :
Fu la."
says an old English madrigal cr song.
But mumming, like many other old cus
toms, has had its day in England, anil now ,
it is carried on only in certain parts of the
country. Their grandest performance of j
old was a kind of play, in which the story
of St. George and the Dragon was acted
out in gorgeous style, and there was a great .
deal of mock-fighting done be-fore the dra
gon could be conquered. The actors, when
fully arrayed, would sally forth, and, visit- ,
ing tho principal persons of the paru-h, ,
would knock at their doors aud ask, in the
name of Christmas, for the admission of
St. George and his men. Sometimes they j
were feasted anil sometimes given a crown ;
or two, but always tl:ey were itccicu uu
i . ... . .. .r IF
i;vU,rhter and interest. jitart.
-
A touso boy attending a mixed school
; i'adncah writes to us, complaining of
( the partiality which the teacner snows uio
euls. in conclusion ue sajs :
But thank
the Lord, if they do crowd us out Iroiutne
stove, and play 'blind man's buff' with
the teacher iu recess, they can't ride horse
back on a horse, nor play leap-frog, nor
wear breeches, nor make dogs light, nor
throw rocks at cats, nor go in swimming,
nor smoke and chaw ; can they ?" On re
lied ion, we rather think our young corres
tmndent is mistaken. We have seen girls
1 who, we believe, can do all these things;
but one thing they can't do. They can't
stand ou t heir heads whore bys ai. Lou.
i Courier-Journal.
THE DA UK. HOVE.
"I can't stand it any longer. Jane ; I'll
go out, and perhaps something will turn up
for us."
"It's a cold night, Kcbcrt." j
"Cold yes ! But it's not much colder
outside than in. It would have been much
better for you if you had married Johu
Tiemain," he said bitterly. j
"Don't say that, Robert -I've never re- '
grcttcd my choice." i
"Not even now, when there is not a loaf
of bread in the house for you and the chil
dren?" j
".Not even now, Robert. Don't be dis- :
con raged. God lias forsaken us. Perhaps j
this Christmas eve the tide will turn, hot-,
te-r days may dawn upon us to-morrow."
Robert Blice shook his head desponding-
y- i
"Yon are more hopeful than T, Jane, i
Day after day I have been in search of cm- '
p'oynient. I have called at lifly places,
only to receive the same answer every- j
v, hero." j
Just then litt! Jimmy, who had been
asleep, woke up.
".Mother," he pleaded, "won't you give I
me a piece of bread ? I am so hungry." i
" There is no bread, Jimmy, darling," said j
the mother, with an achin-' heart. i
I "When will there be some?" asked the I
! child, piteously. j
! Tears came to the mother's eyes. She
! knew not what to say. j
"Jimmy, I'll bring you some bread," j
, said the father hoarsely, and he seized his j
i hat and went to the d Kir. j
His wife, alarmed, laid her hand upon
his 6leeve. t?he saw the look in his eyes,
and she feared to what step desperation
might lead him.
' "Remember, Robert," she said solemn
ly, "it is hard to starve, but there are things
i that are worse."
j He shook, her hand, but not roughly, and
i without a word passed out.
'; Out in the cold street 1 That would be
their only home next. For a brief time
longer he had the shelter of a cheerless
room in a cold tenement house, but the
: rent would become due at the end of the
month, and he had nothing to meet it.
! Robert Price was a mechanic, competent
and skillful. Three years since he lived in j
a country village where his expenses were
moderate, and he found no diiriculty iu j
meeting them. But in an evil hour he j
grew tired of his village home and removed )
' to the city. Hero he vainly hoped to do j
better. For a while he met with very good j
: success, but he found his tenement house,
1 in'which he w as obliged to li-.e, a very poor ;
1 substitute for the neat cottage which he
' had occupied in th countiy. lie saw his j
: mistake, but he was to proud to g back.
"Of course, I can't have as good accomo- i
i da t ions here as- in the country," he said ; .
. "but it is something to uvo in. and be in
the midst of things."
i "I'd rather be back again." said his
' wife; "somehow the ciry doesn't see-in li!:e
' home ; thc-i-e I used to run in and take tea
' with a neighbor, and have a pleasant social
i time; he-ie I know scarcely anybody. "
! "You'll get ured to it after a while," said
I her husband.
She did not think so, but did not like to
! complain.
But a time or great depression came, ami
with it a suspension of business enterprises.
Work ceased for Robert Price and many
others. If he had K-en in his own old
home he could have tun ed his hand to
something else, and at the worst, could have
borrowed of his neighbors until better
time. But the friendly relations arising
from neighborheiod do uot exist in tho city
to the same extent as in the country. So
. fc worfc
' tVLd himself one of a large number, ail
! ZZ! t StrS
If he had been alone he could have got
along somehow, but it was a sore trial to
come to a cheerless room, anil a pale wife
and hungry children, with no rehct'tooffc-r
them.
When, ou that C hristmas eve. Robert
Briee wuut into the stieet.he hardly knew
how he was going to redeem the promise
he had n.:,de little Jimmy. He Was abso
lutely penniless, and had been so fur three
davs. 'Ihe'-e was nothina: that he was
likely
o isii ii. v coat,' ne said at last.
"I cannot sec myjwifii and children starve."
It was a well worn overcoat, ami that
cold winter night he ncedid something
more to keep him warm. Weakened by
enforced fasting he was moie sensitive to
the cold, and shhcicd as he walked along
the j lavement.
"Yes," he said "my eor.t must go. I
know not how I shall get along without it,
but 1 cannot see my chiidre: starve bcfoie
my eyes.'
He" was not in general an envious man,
but. when he saw sleek, we'.l-fcd citizens
buttoned up to the thioat in warm over
coats, come out of tho brilliantly lighted
shops, provided with presents for h.ipj y
children at home w hile his were starving,
he suffered some bitter thoughts upon the
equality of fortune's gifti. to come to hi.s
mind.
Why should they b so happy and he so
miserable?
There was a time, he remembered it well,
when ho too stiffeied not the Chi ist masev e
to pas without bming some little gift for
Jimtnv and Agnes. How little ho dreamed
then that they would ever want bread.
1 here was one man shorter than himself,
warmly clad, who passed him with his
h.inils tnrust into the packets of hi.s over
coat. There was a pleasant smile eu his
face, llo was doubtless thinking of the
happy circle at home.
Robert knew him as a rich merchant,
whose ample warehouse he had ofieu pass
ed. He had applied to thi- man only two
days before for employment and beeu re
fuse d.
It was peihaps the thought of the wide
difference between them, so far as outward
circumstances went, that led Robert to fol
low him.
After a while, the merchant, Mr. Grimes
drew his handke-ie-hief safely frum his pock
et. As he did so, hs did not perceive that
his pocket book came out with it aud fsU
to The sidewalk.
He did not ieteeive it, but Robert ''1'
His heart leaped into his mouth,"1
....i.i-.. .t...,, .,l.i ..i.tA l.w ,.,i.,d He bent
iIB.IUlIJ ili'MIU vm iet om , j
quickly dow n and picked up r'-'KCl- :
Un.k. lie raised bis eves itant!y to see ;
if the the movement awllwu' . 11
not. Tho merchant unheeding .
his loss. ' .
"This will buy 'Td for my wife and
children," thougbt Robert instantly. ,
A vision of the comfort which the money
wuid brUig tLit sii,(r:es3 ruwmllhtsa uj.
his heart for an instant ; but then for he
was not dishonest there came another
thought. The money was not his, as iuuca
as he wanted it.
"But I cannot see my wife and children
starve," he thought again. If it is wrong
to keep the money, God will pard.ii't!ie,f.
fence. He will understand my rtic tise.'"
All this was sophistry, ai d lie knew ic.
In a moment he felt it to bo so. il.c:e
were seme things won e tVan siarvition.
It was his wife who said th'.? j ,-r i . k re
came out. Could he ii:e'.: her .a:o !.
he leturned with food so obtained ?
"I've lived hore't so far," lie ihii .
"I won't turn thief now."
It was with an elicit he came to tl-;s
cision, for all the whi'.e there was bef- -his
eyes that vision of a cheerier
ar.d he could hear Jimmy vainly as-'-.r.g:"
fd. It was with an clloit that lie start
ed forward anil placed his hand on tho
merchant's sho.dder. and extended
th
Land that held the poeVet-book.
"Thank you," said the nici chant, turn
ing round ; "I hadn't erccived my loss."
"You dropped it w hen you took out your
handkerchief."
"Ar.d you saw it anil picked it up. I
am much obliged to you.''
"You have reason to be." said Rolieri,
in a low voice. "I came near keeping it."
" That would have been di.-hoiiest," said
Mr. Grimes, his tone alterine: slightly.
"Yes, "It would ; but it's hard on a ma-i
to be honest when ho is penniless, and his
wife and childtcn without a crust."
"Sure'y you and your family ate uot in
that condition ? "said tho merchant earn
estly. "Yes." said Robert, "it is only tootrx.m.'"
"And your aie out of work
"For two months I have vainly sought
for wot k. 1 applied to you tw-udays since."
"I remember you now. I thought I had
seen y mr face before. You still want wvrk."
"1 should feel grateful for it."
"A porter left n-.e yesturday. Will you
take his place for $12 a week?''
"Thankfully, sir. I would for half that."
"Then come to-nit it row morning, or rath
er, as to-morrow will be a holiday, the day
sueecdir.g. Meantime take this for your
piescnt necessities."
He liew from his p 'cl.et a hank, note,
and put if into Robert's hand.
"It's fifty dollars," said Robert, in amaze
ment. "I know it. The pocketbook contains a
thousand dollars. But for you I should
have lost the whole. I wish you a merry
Christmas."
It will indeed be a merry Christmas,"
said Robert with eraotion. "God bless you,
sir. Good night."
Jane waited for her husband in the c -id
and cheerle-ss nvun, which, for a few d;ys
longer, the might call her home.
"D.i you think father wilV briu some
bread?" said little Jimmy, ashc i.estkd iu
her lap.
"I hope so, diirlhig." she saiJ ; but her
heart misgave her. She feared it was a
delusive hope.
An hour passed there was a step on the
stairs her husband's. It could not bo,
for this was a cheerful, elastic step, coming
up two steps at a time. She looked at the
door.
Yes, it wan he. The door opened. Rob
ert, radiant with joy, entered w ith a-basket
full of substantial provisions.
"Have you g. t some bread, father?"
asked Jimmy, hopefully.
"Yes, Jimmy, some bread and meat front
a restaurant, and here's a little tea aiul
sugar. There's a little wood left Jane.
Let's have a bright fire and a comfortable
meal, for, please God, this shall be a merry
Chi istmas."
"How did it happen? Tell me Robert."
Si Robert told Ids w iH..
The next week they moved to r. b-'.'.er
home. They have never s.Hue .'.v;i
what it is to want. Robert !'j: :id : -. :r
friend in the met chant, :r: ! : :-.r. ..c
in the savings bank and in-.i I i - . .
ber with grateful heart t." ti.ies u .
that Christmas Eve".
Newspaper I'atrox-. This is wh.it
tho Athens 1'itnt h is to say ab-'V.t ncwsi---per
patrons : "One thinr we have ::".';'.'cil
ftoin tlm we r.-iteieU upon our appren
ticeship, forty-eight years ago the loth of
this month, that Providence generally
smiles benignantly ami prosperously uik.ii
the jnan who keeps himself square ujion
the printers' hooks. You take the sub
scription li.-t of any t-cuiitry paper wheie
the advance system is not religiously ad
hered to, call out the names of those who
pay promptly, then visit their habitations,
and in nine cases out of ten you will Iiml
them iu the enjoyment of all the ordinary
comforts of life pleasant and contented
households the husband kind and iuilti.--trious.
the wife happy and affectionate, the
children upright anil well-behaved at home
and abroad, sleek cattle grazing in green
pastures and good stock feeding iu the
si alls, thrifty fiuit and shade trees around,
iiowers blooming in the gardens and aiiout
theyard.ami an air of neatness, com f irt arid
substance without and within. Now tako
the other class i if patrons those that never
pay at all. or have to be 'ding-dongt d out
of it' at the end of tho third year; what
is still worse, the newspaper sponge, who
is not able to pay for a paper, but is ever
ready to borrow from l.is ucighbi r '.en to
one you will lind a majority of these always
ahTicted with 'short ci-op.-,' always 'hard
run,' always "out f kclter. axes, plows
and hoes eternally dull, horses thst look
like the geniu.i of famine, cutle ni arly iu
lated to Pharaoh's lean kinc, and too poor
to low without leaning up against the l ick-e-ly
fence, gates off the hinges, floors half
hung, windows guiiiless of glass. !Kt a
fruit or shade tree in sight, rank J.imca
town weeds blooming around the thmr sills,
and instead of luxuriant mead-ovs and .!
eimial pastures, sassafras briar bushes
grow ing in the feiice-ro- ami broken pla
ces and hill sides for iwed w.tb gullies,
and bunches ,.f fall-eogc waving mourn
fully iii the- ":d ai! olt'r t'1 farm; and
worse th:" aiI H '''scontentcd and ill-natured
"- disobedient, intractable
c,;;.oen.
"Tlie re-sder may think this is a fauc-y
skvtch; but it ain't by a gooel ileal. Theie
is 'more truth than poetry in it."'
A YoU.no man who applied nt the re
ciuiiing station in one of the far Western
States for enlisln ent, was --kd if ho
could sleep on the "point of a iay n t,"
when lie promptly replied by saying i h it
he could try it, as he had often slept on a
pint of whisky, and tho kind ui.d in Lis-,
bon would kill fuithr thau auy Lowthnf
Lw L ever iw.