ONCE UPON A TIME. Aly little child comes to my knee, And tugging pleads climb Into my lap to hear me tell The Christmas tale he well tate my mother told to me Beginuing "Once upon a the” tale of skies that rang angdl rhapsodies sublime; tis a Witl Of that white, shepherd great host serene The Is suw one winter ght nd of the glorious stars that sapg An anthem once upon a time, hallowed sublime alone his story of the years Tells of the sacr Of One w wept While His slept And how His blood Commingled once upon a fice bo prayed and followe and Mary's tears time, And now my dar! r wide And echoes of Bui ¥ any Ing at 4uy chvme back the distant ugs that sweet story me, Of Bethlehem and And of the gentle Ohr For sinners once upon a of uvalvary, dled time, et tha The have in pondero deeds that men f fluent rhyme us bon of fiu away. mighty ‘ tows fade Prep i Pym story bides fo g of old, t.me.” “eld. { “Once upon a Euget we F A CHRISTMAS EPISODE. BY EB REXTORD, ty pred ud were gi o do “Wey with “You pe. | pd Bene ber o frou times ave ng else Lr It was about plained Mrs. Jon to build wanted he wanted ntexd hie ger of tht ‘em bein’ if the; way tere ears, nt had { See 8 Inv Bon’ #0 sick harp nd =o Con hard the church Jered that's ever bappened. Phey're awful post ways, but it see they Kind o' loony on this one p'int. | Mor if "twill ever be settled ot till one Jones, “They're jest —Conirgiry as two men I 1 be—'n’' ‘am "ll in to the other, unless tele, which 1 place. 1 can’t imagine either achinittin’® he was wrong, et fer that” e need a new meetin’ t way,” said Mrs, Perkins. pre's been patched up an’ ill there ain't much anything more for i agree, I don't see why they ii't keep still 'n’ lot the others de bout a new one.” teh ‘em a-<doin’ thet,” sald Mrs . “They're jost as stubborn as they was twenty year ago. You shall do my way or you t do anything’ with ‘em. I've told eon it wa'n't right 'n’ Chdetian » but he all'ays flares up ‘yw ad that I've got sol hardly mention it, fer the sake o' peace, Jest as sure as ean be that 'H be a set4o between "om of they gO to Mrs. Willlamers 'n’* go they wil. ar the othe say he dasson't I most wish the deacon’'d be of +4 Hie Work more'n everyt both. good men ms 's ef desl” or t'other dies” decidedly, neither of oy ot there's a don't s'pose’ll ever of fy i | i § sick so he had t% stay to home. | don't b'leeve it's wicked to feel that way, fer | hate quarrelin’ any time, 'n' ‘specially Ohris’ mas." Mrs, olnes felt it her duty to say husband about the on Christmas morning, for church, wore they started from place they hamesstead, “Now, Lem'wel, let your of you t the Willams to go to I do hope you won't ait she the ran’ the wilh temper wday,” upper sadd. “For lan's sake, don't git into a dispute Mr *I §'pose you'd have me Snyder hump up’ hi hat swaller anything woul me, | what old 1 1 Dirt rou ht lll IS your way, amp at icon Ot Mr Wo Det weer Not It was simply a quest on The men «at down barn and tion flagged for a i" quite to do among are not in the habit of “vis women-fashion. awkward silenes that ensued was at broken by Mr. Willams, who what his guests thought abont town hall that was to be “I haven't came in from te Conversa He, as men who ing" The length asked the new built. heard anything aboot it)’ Snyder. “It's all been talked x away. ing to be?” “On the Duosenberry plied Mr. Williams, “That's a good place for 1.” sald Mr. Styder, approvingly. corner,” The best place in town.” Mrs. Jones felt her face getting | | pale with a dread of what was ¢ oming. The Dusesbesty corner was where Mr, Suyder wanted the pew church budle She a at the deacon. His face was red, and she knew by a look by him that he was preparing for a bat tle royal. “What do you think about it. dea con?" asked Mr. Williams, not aware that he was precipRating matters, The deacon cleared his throat and blew bis nose with a blast that was like the sound of a trumpet urging on 10 combat, “AR 1 have to say is, of anyhody's fool enough to want the town hal they hain't god sence enough to last ‘em over night. I at'l oppose |, sirl 1 won't consent to hev the funds o' the town squandered in a bulldie’ put In sech a place as that.” “Of course you'll oppose It," sald Mr. Snyder, glaring at his opponent. E very body that knows you'4l expect But that's all the good twill do. got thedr eyes opened in or a dozen year, 'n’ they to be bulldozed as they sald t! Inu best site Falks the a-goin' used to be, I alloys ner was 16 seunberry cor in any other public my hall's goin’ to be built the town buildin’, 'n’ I reddy with money. back town to The bull, ‘nu’ it's Dusenberry eo “I think that's i place LE," sald Mr, Willams, hough, for he frighten quarrel he had 7 Or opimion bye the to ' goin Mer, on Lo," the for it rather Was sd at the rospieetive nnocontly Y i pavexl] the way been in and Mrs Jones wiped hor yes and took her de 3 \ ris 1 e is ria parinre latter and read it. As knowledge of his f ir froub! © Drea down nt Jones took up the Rat by the fire to amd the orl enemy's kindness to the away he did so. boy so f EL 4s eg werd 3 & from home aml in sore became clear to lm, bitter and angry thoughts away. For the wake How remem bered the days when he and Joh der had been the best of friends! memory of them burst Pood gatos of resen down upon him in a migh | that overwhelmed him. Could he have «| done what his enemy had? | He sat there and thought ¥# all over: | | und ad he id #0, it seemed as if the spirit of the Christmas. season came in. { to his heart and took posession of it, and drove out the old, bitter thoughts, began to die of old times! he n Sny seemed to the ehity been befriended as he loved no one ole on earth. and the kindness done | im by the man with whom he had so | | feoces of hatred that had kept them apart, “I've been an old fool!” “What If we didnt see alike! Was po reason why we should hate each other. I've beon aslesmed of it more'n ones, though 1 don't hdieve 1 ever admitted to myself. It ain't the church, as Mlindy's sald tHme'n azg'in, =f let the devil Into my heart. nn there he's staid; but"—and there was a lowk of grim determination on the dea. con's face as he sald It—"*he's got to got out, I ain't goin’ to bold a grudge |agatnwt a man that's helped wy boy he hadn't a friend to look to, Ef he'll drop the old difikilty, 1 whl” He shaking Mrs, Mr, looked out. hands with in the mad, Jones was Snwder at “Now re the door the gate, or never!” he = . with a soliste look fae apened and steps effort to do not the nan On 11S ¢t him he ddd, to put his h a great what but he was Ld and look back hie hon Jon to the plow “Hello! Mors HID se Mr. that winid ow Snyder you think ab friends aga Was put his nose t the ground and off like a shot, On he w fields and timber reached a point where Rutland, Here the up at long #iream animal waler refused the edge of the bark, and brought gave go further, Then men got to procured hooks and poles, and the bad of the stream thoroughly search ed. All Pilot stood by water si though atiempis were made to drag him For the first time since he in the One the work They Was this time the fe, away. had wen { i i i i 3 § Toward night the body of | the missing girl was found, As it was drawn to the shore. Pilot sprang for took the slimy dress in his raising the child as ten as though it had been In its mother's arms, trotted back to the house, the long line of searchers fol. lowing. — New York Herald. The Hammer an Ancient Tool. One of the oldest tools in existences hammer, Hustrated seripts of the eleventh century répre sent carpenters with claw hammers, Hammers are of all sizes, from the dainty instruments used by the jewel er, which weigh less than half an ounce, to the gigantic fiftydon ham mer of shipbuilding establishments some of which weigh as much as fi*y tons and have a falling foree of You ninety to one bandred, Every treads has its own hammer and its own way | of wing it. — NEW YORK'S BIC BUFFALO HERD. Twerty-Nine of the American Bison in the City's Park. The American bison is again on the hills beyoud the Harlem, Aecording the authority Ham I. Hornaday, long offic sociated with the work of the Zoological Park, the bi il Hs LY Yours {to of Wil inlly as National On Was thers wom ng neo caplvity, of Van parade tere to-day lave In close About wf Live HOTER tlandt Park ground, inclu Venuty Cor the H north of wih ab ul Which Beaters Re- ness t duce the Precious Meta out on grourd « absolute. bigs Te The mes, the gold tinually exact dimen ent ult bratory movem pro ated wever it spreads being con sub required, skins in which the gold is beaten that they will tear as nevertheless they ar The #0 delicate as paper, the continual hammering for The gold, which is fin 200000mh of an inch, is rubbed with “brine” before being placed in the skins, in order that it shall not adhere to them. Easy ax thix work of beating out the gold may seem, it is, in reality, an art of a very delicate description. The workman must know to a nicety pre stand ally beaten down to hiz hammer must be and also the ex a very superior class of men ~Pear cordingly. are employed in the business, gon's Wes KI. Prospects for Longevity: A French doctor says that persons omt suffering from any serious disease are likely—all things being equal—to live till they are at least seventy-three EE ——————— Books bound in the skin of departed friends are sald to be the fashion pow in Paria. Bo are clgarelie cases in bacco ponchos, pocketdooks, and prayer books mada of the skin of no Sortons criminals, "RAILROAD oN TREE-TOPS. A Curious Sight Can Be Seon fomoma County. In the upper part of Sonoma County, Califorulz, near the coast, may be seen an actual railroad bed In the tree tops. | Between the CHpper mille and Stusrt) Point, where the railroad crosses a deep ravine, the trees are sawed off on a level with the surrounding hills and timbers and ties laid the situ wap, on NY a —— Sf far tific A 1 IF nltilc manner, ER —... for Business, tie workingo or eruteh Heady Heart Disease Relieved in 30 Minuies for the Heart gives per CREO wrZanic or Symps [Misoas in utes, and is a peerioss rem ire 8109 Reward, $100, The readers of this paper will be pleased fa parn that there is at jonst one drends dinense that soencs Liss Deen able 10 cure in all its plages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure iz the iy positive cure now known to the medical Aeraily. CUslarrh being a consti. tutional disease, requires a coustitotional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu pous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the pati ent strength bullding up the con. stitutio and assisting nature in doing its work. 1 he proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hun. dred Dollars for any onse that it falls {0 cure. Send tor list : { testimonials, Address Fa J. On exuy & Co., Toledo, O. Fold by Drag Pr ints, The, Hall's Family y Pills are the lest, When some pool they seem § ¥ taik the Returns to the heart of the victim bound in ihe t Sha us of rheumatism, dyspepsia, serofuls, str «. when blood is enriched and pur fied by Hood's Sarsaparilla The One True Blood Purifi-r All drneeiats, 5. Hood's Pills Aroeiet Potatoes, Cabbage, are the best afier-dinner pills, aid digest on. 2c. Tomatoes, Melons, Onions, and all Vegetables, re- move large quantities of Potash from the soil. Supply Potash in liberal quantities by the use of fertilizers containing not less than 10°; actual Pot- ash. Better and more profit- able yields are sure to follows. — shout Potnchwabe welts of J doa bt ihent on tie best farms in the Lain wild 0m tinde bowh which hy publich und Sm Ad £08 19 dny fusmeria America whe wil wets forts. AN KALI WORKS, a a Navsun St, New York,
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