Souietimes at ¢ o'clock, when the | wag awakened by a lusty sepying at | re ot mong the Lowl big gmg had sounded, he would sil | the door Phe ar went into WC & CH€& BEST UIA LHES - by tte time-machine and watch the | the little fall and presently returned, | \ Hate 8 A men file down the stairs, He would “Two ladies and three gentlemen | / OF CIE! €A50N have given much il Lere and there | to see you, gir,” he sald. | & in the long line a fase had been lift The visitors were ushered in and | MECTSRO the Solitary, the dwellers apart, by choice or by ed to his with a ned or a compre {as they entered the room Crawford | 2d BNI FON chance, with hearth-fires that for one burn dull and hending smile, but the “hands” rang | gripped the arms of his ehair and | 3 Fa for two would glow and sing—to all of these, in their time In sullen silence. His | stared with wide openod eyes. There erry # very presence scemed to chill thelr | were two giggling girls from the wir | A Christmas and 2 happy Year! spirits, and when one of them looked | ing department at the factory, two i AC Them that are set in Families where. love. bos & # 4 ( Nv 5 AYLHO8S » . { i ' Hng » * ant { * . : . Er ’ at him 4 was. ither with bitterucs Ta n from the ass mlz 8 be nch and | S184] stowed with no thought of its return, passes back ‘ 2, ie foreman of the brass room. BE end forth abundantly between open hearts —to all Meanwhile the Perfection Electric| The girls tittered and the men of these, parents, children, kinsmen, friends, switch Company proepered amazing: | looked ill at ease. Crawford sat up 3 17, and at the gare time the super- | in his chair. Two spots of color came | RA Merry Christmas and a Kappy New Yeart lotendent grew a little more gtoop- | into his ‘wan cheeks. The foreman | shouldered, a little more reserved, a | advanced and cleared his throat. % if: C° the Poor and the Rich, envying each the others’ iittle more heavy of eve, “We've come, sir,” he said. looking ped freedom from the cares of too little and too much, In November of the third year it | at the ceiling, “to show you that, even Re “6 vet learning year by year that without health and happened that “Our Mr. Crawford” yg you're not with us, you're not for ; enthusiasm and faith and love, none can be rich, was taken sick, At the time he was | gotten. Perhaps we haven't always and with them none can be poor—to these, putting forth strenuous efforts to | understood you, but anyway we know A Merry @hristmas and a Bappy New Year have an Increase of pay for the em- | you're the right sort, We've heard ployes, In consequence of which he , gll about your fight for an Increass wis at the office several days when | for us, and even if we didn’t get it, he should have been in bed. He | we know it wasn't because you did wanted the ‘hands to understand that | not do your best for us. So to show | their work had been appreciated, and | our respect for you and your efforts O the Workers, the vast fortunate majority, in Lum. ble places and in high, often baffled and disheart. , ened, questioning if there is not somewhere for them ———= a greater work with a greater reward; yet happy at the last, if they will have it so, in s eing the figure they have although he had to grind his teeth | in our behalf we've brought you 5 - wrought in the fabric of living, a figure drawn by the great to keep from crying out with the | He tore the covering fron Derigner for their weaving and none other's — to all of these, pain he went daily to the office and be hore and held out a silk ur ; argued with the general manager and | with a large pearl and silver handle, : A Merry Christmas and 2 Boppy New Year! the members of the firm. i “And-—an Merry Christmas!” : En An was he frm, It was de- | nd . 4 F7y Christa : a O Old and Young, with the years behind and the cided finally that, in view of the ex- | “M« rey Christmas!” echoed the : SE Years ahead, years: that Show but a span in the tensive additions that were to be | other men and the two girls. eenturies since the Light first shone from Bethlehem made to the plant the increase could A lump rose in Crawford's throat . oon tie paths of MH e, humility and sacrifice, anid not be granted for another year, Sick | He could only beam upon them and | gave to ail the ages a Spry that has made them one; to Young Coy and Old, treading with gladness these lighted paths, even { =) though not always knowing whence the Light comes — to all, A {at heart and racked with pain the | mutter feebly, “Merry Christmas to superintendent staggered to his anart- | you!” The picture is by Leon Augustin I'Hermitte and was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of New York Qity, in 1905, from the income 3 . a th , ad oy ments in the gray November dus) Some few minutes after the com. R Merry Chri : ww p Year! of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Fun l. In a letter to the directors of the waht to bed 5 . Wh or Tusk, mittee fre lac Tact - h a D the | Merry @anistmas ud 2 Boppy Pew ear! . en y Ded and se or a doctor ITie from the factory as gone Ln tn museum, at the time of the purchase, M. I'Hermitte says: “I have em The physician ¢ a id e - loc e bustling Ix * hail —_ lO ] ; ! } yYaicia tame, chides 12 voung doctor came bustling inte the hail mn - . a SER deavored to bring to all the figures in the scene the varieties of emotions Tio ) : Fuge | 7 a f : C—O eT a . man for his carelesgness of his health | The attendant met him and shook a in — Pr La EE ERR proper to each but united as one in the expression of confidence —respect. as : " . . SS — Le e—— ful in the old, searchingly so In the young” and said a slight operation would be | warning finger at him. The doctor " We SERTCHING'Y SO RO young. {| necessary the next day. eraned his neck and peeped cautious The operation was successful, and | ly into the room A Dew HB | the physician assured the anxious Crawford sat under the lHezht His : AAT NE! AD Berg - a et — I soamig # } } }