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 # } } }
<r EE FER REESE CS ' : | general manager that the patient head was hidden in the crook of one
—
would be at the factory in a couple | arm that rested or
a 4 of weeks. But the physician had not | Clutched tightly In
CI 3 reckoned on many things—the wearl- | silk umbrell
morning, Lord | For little bovs A ness of mind and body In his patient, | sliver han
fu - -
The day more generous is of joys the bitterness of his recent failore | rose and fell
F’han unto men, they Say: to induce the firm to increase sobbing lik
If So, for grea ter happiness of the hands, 1 the drazging load The docts
Teach us Thy hol bl under wh ugg od ellent- | for 11" he declared, emphath | dal BN Moe has Ie nut tha lee rth of tb
yu wv holy name to bless | 1d THAN TA / Iie handle is cut the length of th
With fuller hearts than they! - ‘ y for ae past the Year ally son ng 0g ’ ; j ha whe opened. A cushion and
a The wound caused by the opera - : } EE tol { A : Hi eon 14 ay RE
tion healed rapidly, but with the h
aoa
to the sides.
attached at
ing came no strength. Crawford sat
HEARTENING THE SUPERINTENDENT, | hy rerzea wns ar fe | “0
window, listless and uninterested in in Toyland.
CC IHMO RICHARD DARK ER SHELTON 25) his surroundings. The
physician was
puzzled and not a little frritated: the
= re ref PC erent Ke
Sit "RY" Le wR —
x i re " Sxanin . Who came dally, be
HE superintendent was a | day his “resignation”—oh, euphonic | : Sam Ah
11 i ' wav had | BAN to show signs of alarm
tall, thin young man, | term! had gone into effect they had |
presented him with an ornate watch | - ca} ; & - alanced Pall BRITT al
charn nd when, red in the face and i sir!” the physician gnapped angrily : ) Soothe Support a
yi! “ tod ATI, ANE i ’ ¥ : “02 i al
shoulders and near-sight- | A A . : to the attendant
i embarrassed he had tried to stammes
! “It's the pace of modern business
with slightly stooping
: oul » By as - tft y Ne sex 18
who had been sent : - . i | pail of r Oy a 1 k, only hal
t upon the ia
ed eyes which peered |’ : ‘ ts LT
keenly through the (28 thanks, they had ohesred hin terested in something. It's his only | :
roundly and pressed about him 19 1 hanes = ? | “a and C he stick which is to sup
The man tried everything his fer | | be bil i port the bucket lace the handle of |
e mind and thorough training could 5 a Fay | the bucket on the stick in ig al the
gan Hi 14 5 vom} wr. | Pe ER ! manner that it may 1 on it in an} ot mba ah
Company, had been transferre s from at the expense of results in the out ford sa. put oh ka, Draw ; SE - gh \ | inclined position, as and let th 00m a A draw the skot . hare.
his place as foreman of the wiring | put of the factory. { after day, looking vacantly at the i ig e {| middie of the bucket be a little with Inia ba An it ot be at and
department to be superintendent of {| Under the new superintendent the | bare branches of the trees and the | { > — In the edge of the table; to keep this | then drawn “p quickly to hold a bit
the factory at a time when an iron | output was satisfactory—and more. | patohes of dull cloud drifting across y / apparatu properly in its situation, | ra y iJ .
hand was needed to remedy the mis- | The question that continually pre j the carly winter sky Tack. inthe “Hands « {FCB ant istic, E FO. with
chief which the lax methods and gen- | sented itself to the young man’s trou Christmas time found Crawford dessins ngs hin nrg , ;
: , | Sar Alice—"Why his bands
eral inefficiency of his departing pre i bled mind was whether, in the Inter i propped in his chair, looking out over | cose oy
i
up from the hospital. “Get him in ©
ble
of the table, |
heavy lenses of his eve
glasses. “Our Mr. Crawford” as he { shake his hand. Powell had undoubt
Sy. aay Pye do ATE, 8 i . : 5
was always called by the general man. | edly been popular with his employes, :
5
ager of the Perfection Electric Switch | Put his popu arity had been gained 4
i
tie rid
*
decessor had created. {| ests of the firm he had not been too [a world newly swathed in spotless shy:
dt was a difficult problem of reor- | harsh with the employes. In erad) | ohie
gamization that he had been called | cating the evils Jim Powell had |
upon to face, but time had proved | Wrought he had found it necesaary
that the general manager's faith-—&e | to calculate In cold-blooded fashion,
Christmas Shopping.
i was only a question of time and I'he bargain counter rush is
j the attendant had long since ceased | And folks, in accents sober,
i ; p irying to rouse the sick man's dor Are vowing that another year
had stoutly advocated Crawford | {0 be ready with blame and chary of | pant interest. On Christmas Day | They'll start out In October
against the firm's cpposition—had | Praise The result was Inevitable. | cpawiord opened in envelope . from | : —Washing ton Star
not been misplaced. The new super. | While the profits grew steadily Craw- | the factory and found it enclosed a | ga = hingwon Sun,
Intemdent had entered upon his duties | ford realized that it was bicause of | sunatantial chock, He emiled bitter | They Sleep Mead Downward.
wuletly, unassumingly, but with a | his ceaseless vigilance ard the firm- ly and handed it to the attendant | The buttesfly, like the bat, invarl
tenacity of purpose and an unrelent ! nese with which he held the employes “Hore, take it! Merry Ch-tgimas!"” ably goes ty sleep head a swaward |
ing energy that bent all things to | at work. he said, in a colorless volce | its eyes locking straight down th | . haald haw mall
bts will. Three of the best years of | There were times—when he was| At dusk it was snowing again, and | stem of the grass on which it rests gretonne selected should have § awn
Bis life he gave unhesitatingly and | tired, especlally—when it seemed to] just after the lights began to twinkle | It folds its wings to the utmost, and Wis gure .~ a Tm eng iy
uncomplainingly to the work before | him thal he had merely developed | through the gloom Crawford. in his | thus wraps its body from the colde a (and the basket 2 preiiier 'L 418 ps
kim. At the end of that time th» | into a successful slave driver. chair, fell into a heavy slumber. He | Home Notre 16M) TUNA NANTOW Acioss Whe handle
factory was running with a smooth. . ‘ l and in lines round the outside. Pock
wres (hat took several wrinkles ont m—————— a a - - n—— —————————————— | ets for Spools may be added if de-
af the general manager's brow and Ce > re SI NEPA < AA . 3 . wre rrme——— sired. —From Youth's Companion.
made the firm think seriously of in- A} Ft i ) . : i Res aS J a ; 4 i + ot
creasing the plant. Aik 2 ES SN dt LE Sc ORR wet be ent to retain It. The buck.] | Christmas in the Kiondile,
Spur Mr. Crawforg.-fhe fia fi - rcs - — ak wa pe : Eo te 4) % of will thus be kept in its situation
«poke of him proudly in this manner TRA fo : : - Ae ‘ WPT CNS Bo oe ; 2 fh without: inclining to either side. and.
wsow-—had made himself necessary to , 3
The doctor declared that nov
£
on
fancy work or small trinkets. The
t
V not already filled with water, it may
oh - : a fs $7 y se filled with safety.
CHRISTMAS CAROL [ZZ/APty| CHRISTMAS EVE [Kl | curious stoioms—prcure o base
¥ "Twas ib a roudh manger, FLA | See the mimic lords and ladics Pi, Balt 4 dozen pieces af camphor about
he size of a pea; in a minute they
The little Christ lay, : | Gravely ste ind fo and fro, A ll begin to move, and acquire a ro-
oft arms were His cradle, |. ila] In aslow and dainty measure, HE tatory and progressive motion, which
will continue for a considerable time,
§ His hed was the ha * 5 ig b 3 While the Caristmas candles low; 3 ; if now one drop of oll of turp: ntine
Gi To wise men and shepherds | uli 88 And around the plithring irre ATS or sweet wil, ot wes of gin, be ie}
#8! The Star showed the wa gem Little dancers
U. vi: i camphor will dart away, and be de
a * . “ Whirdin : rive of tic d vivacit Alaska Ike—"Wot did yer find in
dy Sing carol! for Ch isms here PA 2 po. | BN Ee asielr motich nd NE [ka Fie :
“Nd
{ Little pieces of cork that have been | yer stockin’ this mornin’?”
J & As soaked in either, act much in the Chileoot Pete—"Frostbitten ices.”
1 ) i Hedy 1 i 1 same way as camphor, whe hro ——— i So So
With O15 rare and precious, ’ jo foot it paily round the irre, y is or Chics, Nei ahi The American Pose,
from lands far away, Hr Hung, with ifts for reat and small: §3 : combustible, will burn if ignited while | The American woman has a special
hree Kings fared to rect Rim, £58 Join our blithe and ripping measure, } §ig foating Usen water, profuctug a sin- gift for falling unsthiciousty late
, x Ee | ul E o op i Rn.
As slepping He lay. be : | § This is holiday for all. np — Sind poves~1 onion Ques
i 8 © 1 { : airy Tales Were Rea 0.
Our hearts warm and loving, FEE “O10 King Christmas! yo lrien Fairy Tales Were. Really
5 We bring, Him foday. 4! 4 : Goo King, Christmas!” ; WHE Hiers were mermaids In the
J Jing, carol! for Christmas 15 bere. Eis Hear the merry voices call. | roots ou bave. SHysl
Crawford's Shoulders Rose and Fell i Cra SE :
with me] .
Cotvalsively. ' — ik i , SEIT And fairytales were really go.
Lh
sc ot arian eran
pv
; oT ee : Se Lg hb ; : I's Yike on Santa Claus’ sleigh
the Perfection Electric Switch Come ; : \ : F &
pany, but his success bad not been # . ak” 4 A 5% Rd fal” Na Ch HStmu Eve to have a
Shiels BL amide, With | i : #4 . : 1045 7 3 ; a gk And I would love to sce a witch
all bis quiet force, the superinten : ; vt f : :
dent was a very human young man, | RN : es x7 NL AR ., Upon a broomstick ride away.
e bad hoped to gain ths complete AY ; » aah , 2a :
Deh of the mon and women | ; oy , he 48} bg ; 5 ac Mh : or sour. a still are lots of
Puy yes wii, | 3 i giv “dh y ! oh And there are princesses besides,
“he lax, easy going regime of the i a 1 Wf : . Bt Bowagars men Jom iu brides
former sui | a y or r going off on dragon-fights,
superintendent had made that p we ga 7d : go Y wien I'd lived long, long ago,
ey hr Thor han Hives | 3 Lo : ” p When fairytales wore really so.
@'1 gorts of presents on his birth | ’ : 4 Vil Pim “A ST Mary Street, in December Lippin-
” y