AT CHRISTMAS TIDE, 80 blithe this hour, when ones again The Star glows steadfast in the sky * 80 hope attuned, when human pain Grows less, for faith that help is nigh So hallowed, when the angel train With song and harp are passing by. Once more, between the midnight's gloon And the pale rose of breaking dawn, Heaven's matchless lillies wake and bloom, And far athwart the east are drawn The pencilled sunbeams which {lume All pathways men must journey on. Again the Sages and the Beers Bend low before a little ohild And o'er the long aud stormful years, The desert spaces vast and wild, The strife, the turmoil, and the tears, He looks, and smiles, the undefiled, "Tis Christmas tide! At Mary's knee The shepherds and the princes meet! Love-bound in dear humility, To clasp the Infant Saviour's feet, The Star is bright o're land and sea ; The Gloria song is full and sweet, - Margaret E. Sangster, in Harper's Bazar, HEYSER'S CHRISTMAS, BY FLORENCE B. HALLOWELL, I' was 7 o'clock on Christmas Eve, and the streets of town of Li— were | crowded with eager, shoppers, variety store was like a great bee- hive, and the clerks were kept | busy wrapping up | dolls, trumpets, drums, toy pistols and other toys dear to the heart of childhood; while the buyers jostled and crowd- ed each other good - naturedly, too thoroughly imbued with the peace and good will of the season to mind a | dig in the ribs or a bruised toe. ‘““How happy everybody is!" ex-| claimed a bright-faced, middle-aged | woman, pausing a moment on her way past the store to look in. Then she drew her old plaid shawl closer around | her and hurried on, the sawdnst-filled | limbs of a big doll dangling from a | cumbersome parcel on her laft arm. If she bad paused a moment longer | she might have caught the derisive, | contemptuous sneer on the face of a young man who lounged in the open | doorway, his hands thrust into his pockets and his soft hat pulled down | over his scowling brow. His eyes fol- | lowed the woman in the plsid shawl | until she disappeared in the crowd, | and a short, hard laugh escaped his | lips, “Everybody happy!” he muttered, | ““What fool remarks some women do | make!” then dropped a bundle; but he didn't stoop to pick it up for her. He wasn't in the humor to do a kindness for any one. All this Christraas excitement and hurry had filled his heart with anger and bitterness. In his pocket were his week's wages—twelve bright | silver dollars; but he didn’t expect to | spend a cent. There was no one to whom be felt inclined to carry even a dime's worth of candy, no one who expected anything from him. He remembered Christmas Eve of last year. He and Nan had gone shop- ping together. They had bought a woolen cape for old Mrs, Bosley, with | whom Nan had lived previous to her marriage, and a trumpet for a little orphan boy Mrs. Bosley was ‘‘rais- ing,” and stockings and flannel for the Widow Wisk and her imbecile daugh- ter. They had also laid in a stock of good things for their Christmas din- ner, to which old Mrs, Bosley and | Sammy had been invited, and had de- liberated a long time whether to have plam pudding cr fruit for dessert. Nan hadn't been sure the plum pud- ding would prove a success, for she had so little experience in cooking, and so, they had boaght fruit. What fun it had been to buy their presents lor each other! Nan had | made him promise not to look while | she made a hasty tour to the counter on which were men's furnishings, and where she had bought a erimson muflier aad two bordered handker- chiefs. Then they had stopped at a jewelry store, and Nan had waited outside while he went in and made a mys terious purchase, which she found under her plate at breakfast the next morning, sad which proved to be a plain gold ring. Heyser remembered how she had kissed him and told him it was just what she had wanted, for she had al- ways regretted not having been married with a ring. The wind caught one end of the red muffler around his neck and whipped it against his cheek, and Heyser Li away from the store door with an angry growl, the scowl on his face growing darker. [le turned from the busy main street into one that was comparatively quiet, and in a few minutes was at the door of the great, barn-like tenement house in which he had lived ever since he and Nan had quarreled and parted. That was nearly nine months ago, und he had never soon Nan since-—had never heard a word from her nor sent her a message of any kind. They had ted in hot anger; he had told r she was a wretched cook, and he'd warrant she could spoil anything she turned her hand to; and when she had replied that she wished she had never married him, he had rejoined that she didn't wish it half as much as he did, snd that be could have had Sarsh Humes for the making. Nan bad al ways been a little ous of Sarah, excited] Sill’s | { hanging up their stockings. | There was no one to give a thought to { him to see if any one were looking | that led directly to the river. | He to white heat. Recriminations and | reproaches followed, and the quarrel | had ended in his leaving the little ! house which he had bought on their marriage, vowing never to enter it | again until Nan apologized. The nest day be had sent a mes- | | senger for his clothes, half hoping the | apology would come instead. But it; hadn't. He had felt angry at himself | for searching all "the pockets for a note, only to be disappointed ; and he had sworn to make Nan sick of her “blasted pride.” He had left his place in Hinckle's store in Bridge City, where he had been employed since boyhood, and had gone to IL, to take a place in the iron works. And not a word had ever come from Nan, A bitter loneliness filled his heart | as he entered his cheerless room with ite carpetless floor and curtainless window, The fire in the rusty little stove had gone ont, and the cheap kerosene lamp on the wooden mantel gave only a sickly light. | Heyser shivered and flung out of | the room, muttering something be- | | tween his teeth. It was too early to | | go to bed, and he had lived so entire- ily to himself during the past year | that he had no friends in the tenement i | house upon whom he could drop in | | for an hour's talk. What was he to { do with himself? Walk up and down | the busy factory | Main street, he supposed, snd see peo- ple stare at him because he had no, | bundles. As he went downstairs he heard the Payne children laughing, and through | a door that stood a little ajar saw them Heyser's heart swelled with self- | pity, and he tugged at the muffler | about his throat as if it were choking | | him as he went stamping down the | bare, dark stairway. In all this | stood back from the street at some dis- tance from any other. It was the home of old Mrs, Wisk and her weak- minded daughter, and Heyser sprang forward as if electrified, wondering if | any one were inside, As he approached the "gate he saw the imbecile girl ran out from the front door, and at the seme moment the flames burst from half a dozen places in the roof. “Is any one in there?” shouted Hey- ser, seizing the girl by the shoulder. She only whimpered and smiled in reply, and Heyser released her, and with one bound was at the door and had dashed it open. Before the wide, open hearth was a wickerwork carriage, and in it, staring up with bright black eyes, lay a baby perhaps twe months of age. Heyser | seized it in a rough but careful grasp and rushed ont—just in time, for the old roof fell with a crash behind him, sending the sparks flying over him and his precious charge. The yard was full of people now who bad come running from every direction, and ss Heyser staggered forward with his burden he heard a loud, piercing cry, and a young wo- man in a big shawl and a white hood sprang through the gateway and tore the baby from his arms. She was weak and almost breathless from fright and her run up the hill. Heoyser looked down at her, passing his hands over his eyes away a mist, ““Nan!" he eried. “Jerry!” and around his neck went | one round arm, while the other held { the baby close to her heart. “Let's get away from here, Nan," said Heyser, thickly; and he led her through the gateway and down the hill, paying no attention to old Mrs. “CHRISTMAS COMES BuT ONCE A YEAR. Wisk who ran after them, eryinz and as if to clear | j to Nan and the baby—which as yet he | ! hardly realized as his own-—he hud taken time to go to his lodging house for Nan's note, and he read the words it contained with eyes suspiciously dim. How gayly his heart beat nas he he felt! time! He didn't wonder people en- joyed it! And this time when he reached the cottage it was all aglow with light and warmth, and Nan met him at the door and exclaimed over the number of his bundles, and laughed because he had bought the baby a drum and a toy engine, “But we can save them for him,” she added ; “and just come out into the kitchen, Jerry." Jerry followed her, wondering what he was to see, end gave = little gasp of surprise when he found a nice supper spread upon the table and a delicious aromas from a coffee pot filling the room. “I've learned to cook, Jerry. Mra, Bosley says I can’t be beaten at it,” sail Nan, laughing, though her eyes were full of tears, Jerry's lips quivered, and he swal- lowed a lump in his throat. Then he put his arms around his little wife and drow her close to his happy heart, ““This is a Christmas, sure enough, { Nan,” he whispered, huskily. —Inde- pendent, Christmas in Egypt, The following Christmas experience in Egypt is related by a writer in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. He was at the house of a Greek who was apparently not a Crossue, as the entire | furniture of his cafe consisted of a | stone-and-mud fireplace in one corner, “2 Christmas festivity he bad no share, him, no one of whom he must think. And it was all Nan's fault. She had ruined his life. How could he help hating her? Why had she never sent that apology? Evidently she had never repented her share of their quarrel, Reaching Main street again Heyser hesitated, gave a quick glance around who might suspect his purpose, and then turned abruptly down a street, Hel walked rapidly, with his head down, | the collar of his cont high above his | oars, and his slonch hat pulled down | over his scowling brow, | It wouldn't do any harm to go and | give & look at his old homo-=that | pretty brown cottage in which he and | Nan had lived for four short months. | had nothing else to do--and he needed the exercise. The wind blew stiflly as he crossed the bridge. On the other side a wo-, man was crossing in the opposite di- rection. She had a shawl about her shoulders and wore a white hood. Hey- ser remembered that Nan had worn » white hood on Christmas Eve just a year ago, The keen air had made her cheeks rosy, and given a sparkle to her black eyes. People had turned to look at her on the street, and he had felt proud of his pretty wife. He had not dreamed then that in less than three months from that time he and Nan would have gone separate ways, It was only a short walk from the bridge to the heart of Bridge City, and the little brown cottage Heyser had bought stood on one of the steep, ungraded streets, He felt a chill sense of disappointment when he reached it and saw that it was dark and all the blinds were closed, He stood at the little gate and stared st the cottage for a long, long time, Nan had deserted it, of course, and it had stood empty all these months, He ought to bave known she wouldn't stay there alone, and yet-—somehow he had always thought of her as keep- ing a home there, waiting for him to come back. He was stiff and chilled when at last he turned from the gate and went slowly up the hill, with a vague idea of walking through the village before returning to Li~. Not that he ex: to meet Nan-<that was most un- ikely. In all probability she had left Bridge City snd was following her trade of dressmaking in some larger place, As he reached the top of the hill he saw a sudden tongzae of flame shoot u from the roof of an old house w sud this remark fanned her anger wringing her hands and saying she had gone out only for a minute to borrow a little molasses, and if the baby had been burned she never would {| have forgiven herself-—never! Heyser's brain seemed strangely confused ; but just at the base of the | hill he stopped. “What did she mean, asked ; “‘and-—what's this 7’ he asked, touching the baby. “Didn't yon know?’ she eried. “Oh, Jerry! I thought some one would surely tell you.” Heyser shook his head. He couldn't answer her just then. Nan stopped at the gate of the lit. tle brown cottage and drew the key of the door from her just as she put it into the lock Heyser threw both arms arms around her and strained both mother and child to his breast, ““Oh, Nan, 1 have missed yon so!” he whispered, huskily. ‘And to think you've been living here all this time!” “I knew you'd come back, Jerry,” she said, and then she drew him into the warm sitting room, stirred the fire, put the baby in its cradle, and then seating herself beside him on the old sofa gave him the history of the months she had spent apart from him, “I left baby with Mrs, Wisk while I went to Li— to leave a note for on,” she said, as she nestled against im, her arms about his neck, and her rosy cheek against his rough and benrde] one. ‘I couldn't let Christ mas go by and not-Jerry, wo must never, never quarrel again,” “Never I” rejoined Heyser, forv- ently. ‘And now I'm going back to Li, I've got to buy you and the baby something for to-morrow, I can keep Christmas now as well as other people.” And any one seeing him coming noross the bridge on his way home, two hours later, wonld almost have jimagied him Santa Claus himself, so arate Tad of every an JTmpatient na he had been to return Nan?" he | pocket ; but | a palm-branch divan occupying the remainder of that side of the banquet. ting hall, and a lot of rush mats on the earthen floor. 1 took the place of | honor on the divan, says the writer, | and soon the Arabs commerced drop | ping and squatting the floor. Our Copt had made so much noise that he had awakened the whole village. It was Christmas Eve, or, rather, morning, and 1 felt liberal, I or- | dered coffee and mastic for the party, | and kept the landlord basy until I had | filled the whole lot—a feat never be- fore accomplished in Tel-el-Baroud, { I began to feel hungry, and the land- lord fished out from under the divan, which also served as a chicker-coop, three squabs, which he killed, plucked, broiled and served np on Arab bread. This bread is baked of unbolted flour in round eakes, seven inches in diame- ter. It is hollow like a doughnut, and pf about the consistency of heavy blotting paper. After breakfast everybody went on a hunting expedition. After their re- turn they all went for their bath, a change of clothes, then to dinner and such a dinner! The bill of fare could scarcely be equalled at that season of the year in this country ; the little oysters from Alexandria Harbor (they wero first planted there by MoKillop Pasha, who was admiral of the Egyptian fleet un- der Ismail Pasha), soup, fish from the Mediterranean, turkey, ham, ducks, snipe, fresh vegetables of every de- soription, figs, grapes, oranges, ba- uanas and the flaming English plam- pudding. n on fan A ——a—— As Usual, “Did any one remember you on Christmas Day?” inquired Jho ier, “Oh, you,” responded Smitn, show. ing a handsome collection of lately opened envelopes, *‘my creditors did.” Mme. Regnen a florist of Roostoen, Holland, is the owner of a giant rose bush, which had 6000 roses in full bloom at one tims during the past summer, teamped acrossthe bridge! How happy | Christmas was a glorious | | Ciremham { Financial ! mitlpond | thelr | was TFIPTY-THIRD CONGRESS, In the Senate, Ori Dav.~In the absence of the Yiee. | Presi ent the Benate was called to order by | | Mr. Harris, Mr. Onll offered a resolution looking to the independence of Culm, Speeches In fnvor of Government control of the proposed Nicaragua Cans! wers made by Messrs, Morann and Miteholl, cA reswoln- tion wns Introduced calling on Beerctary for the correspondences In the tering Son damace onses, Oru Day, Mr, Morrill spoke on “Quack Panacoas,” and Messrs, Dolph and Sherman on the Niearagoa Canal bill, Tru Day. Motions to take up the bill pouling the differential duty on refined sugar ! and to consider a closure resolution were de. fonted by docisiye votes, —Mr, Mitchell in- | trodueed a bill providing for the abolish. ment of the donth penalty in the army and navy and in places where the United States has exclusive jurisdiction, except in cases of murder, desertion to the enemy in time of war and aggravated mutiny, Brn Day. Mr. Morgan finished his argu. ment in favor of ‘he Nicaragua Canal, - The bill to establish the University of the United States at Washington was tzken up | and spooches in favor of it were made by Messrs, Hanton and Vilas, «Mr. Sherman introduced a blll providing for a statue the late Chie! Justice Chase, Mr. Bate presented a favorable report on the bill erent- ing a National park out of the battlefield of Shiloh, of In the House. Gran Day. The greater portion of the ses- slon was devoted to a continuation of the discussion on the bill to so amend the Inter. State Commeres act as to per nit rallway companies 10 pool thelr earnings, ——A reso- lution offered by Mr. Wilson was p 1 dis- tributing the President's ong the several uppropriste commitiens, On resolution the House was briefly addressed by ex-Speaker Grow, who presented his views in regard to amendments to the XNa- tional Bank act, A resoution offered by Mr. Bpringer was agrood to, giving the Com- mittee on Banking and Currency permission to sit during the sessions of the House, 61 Dax, ~Champ Clark spoke in opg tion to the bill providing a retired list for the revenus cutter servios, Under the special order the House took up the bill to so arn i the Inter-State Commerce law to permit rallroad companies to pool their earnings, Mr. Geary, Mr. Dalasi], Mr. Grow and Mr. Mahon advoosting the bill Mr. Blair gave notios of an intention to offer at the proper time an amendment proposing that all contracts entered into should be sub- ject to be changed, rescinded or terminated by Congress, Tra Dar.—The day was devoted to dissas- sion of Distriet of Columbia affairs ~The Urgency Deficiency bill was reported. It appropriates $245,005 1 collection of the income ax, Brn Dav.—The bill to raliroads was passed by a» fru Day. Mr, Bartlett's out from the Urgent Defi propriastion for the colle of the Ineome tax was defeated, ~——Mr, Siokles Introduced a bill jor a pension of 8100 per month to Mary Palmer Banks, the widow of Major- General Nathaniel PP. Banks 10s Day, Mr, Cookran’s motion to commit the Urgent Deficiency bill structions to sirike out the approptiot for the income tax was defeated oays, 188, The Lil was then passed. - Portifiestion and Military Ao 3 priation bills were passed, Soc isle sent In of 854.000 deft in the appropriation for Chinese exciusion ast for year, Has INONANIe AIT this Os - or the permit pooling by vote of 166 to 110 motion to strike iency bill the ap re an estimate riency enforcing the current fNsoal the NEWSY GLEANINGS. Cmiwa uses Amerionn shingles, Late statistics show 148,660 more females than males in Sweden, Uscre Sax’s revenue from customs and in- ternal taxation insreases, CHIEF CLARENCE PENSIONED England's Grant to the Fx Ruler of | Mosquito, { Ex-Chief Clarence, the former ruler of the Mosquito Territory, bas been granted | maintenance of $22 per day by the British Government, The Niearagusn n Govern- re- | EX-CRIEY CLARENCE, ment has lssusd a decrees granting amnesty to ull the members o » defunct Mosquito lerritory Government, with the exception of Clay™~or GOLD PRODUCTION, The Immense Yield In the States During 1894 The United has received duction United Btates Treasury Departinent returns in regard to the pro of the ealenda. gold n the 1: during warrants the put will approx States of f and California amounting | the total pro Staten 7.00 i of the year it is estimeat od that California will $13,750 000; C $11,275,000 ; Montana, $4,- 576,000. and Ldaho, #2.225,000. agrrersto to © sontributs orado, THE MARKETS. Late Wholesale Prices of Country Produce Quoted in New York. 50 MILE AND CREAM. The surplus sold during the Jpast week at the platforms at an average of £1.67 per orn of 40 quarts, Exchange price remains Se. per quart net to the shipper Receipts of the week, fluid milk, gals Condensed m Cream, gals. 1,508,434 11,670 85,987 ik, gals BOTTER. Creamery Penn. , extras... 8 Western, extras. ........ @ 24 23 0 2 20 173 19 14 1 1434 State Extra Firsts .s pr Thirds to seconds eat Western Im. Creamery, firsts. Seconds... Western Dalry i Factory, June, firkins CHERSE State Fulleream white fancy Fall cream, good to prime. State Factory—Part skims, OROIOO. aviv vt uns Bens «nin 11 10% 10% @ il @ i Tux oat crop of France fs 100,000,000 bush- | els in excess of that of 1888, Tux German Anti-Socialist bill drastic than had been expected Sxenxrany Momrox suggests dressed beef instead of live cattle, is more exporting Tuer are 1300 untried eases in the Dis torney’s ofioe, New York City ¥ boasts of having had 610 pairs of twins and nine triplets during the past year. A m5 glacier has formed in the Rooky Mountains, near Bt, Mary's River, Montana, Tux Knight flow, Alabama Legislature » punish passad the bill te usurpers of State of- It is estimated that about forty per oent, of the hogs in the sountry are now being fed on wheat Twesrr-rivs grass lands in prairie fire Tux King of Italy has ordered more Ameri trotting stallions to the royal stud, miles of swept b) THOUSAND Square Texas have boen that Ave Wh be added Fonoxp American sehool bonds to a large amount are found to have been Soated in England and Ireland, Exovisn capitalists propose to bulld six suburtan residences towns between Milwau- ken, Wis, and Chisago. Provision was made for a five-cent postage rate on lettors 10 nearly every foreign cousn- try, effective January 1 ATR with £80.000,000 capital is trol of all the elevators, ware ks of Brookly RaiLnoap managers are anticipating an Avairnche bills bh 10 their interests inthe Legisintures this winter, Russia has 85,000 men massed at Viadi- vostok that could be landed in Korea, Japan or China within ten days. Taene are indications that immigrants from Greeon to the United States in 1805 will it more numerous than for years, Coxsvrar reports indioate that the pro- duction of wheat in the Argentine Republic is enormous and will keep prices down. Joux Buaxs, Member of Parliaments and labor leader of England, says the slums of Chioago are more flithy than those of Lone don, A sYxpi seeking co houses and do | wit ile LIVES LOST BY DROWNING. Treacherous Tee on a Millpond in| lowa Gave Way, News hae been reonivad of tha drowning | of seyen persone at the town of Littleton, is | Indepradence County, lows, Hannah Cook went skating on the near the village, ani on fallure to refarn home seare™ instituted, A crowd thered an nairho's through which # George and around | wan sunnoss | the ahil dren hal millon, when | suddenly tha lon guavas way and twelve per. sons were precipitated into the water, Seven ware reacanl by bystanders, but the other five wera taken out dead. The ho ties of the Cook ohildran wera also found, The dead are Fre leriek Hanks, Joti Morton, George Roberts, S, H, Hanke, teotge B. Floss, Goorga Cook, Hannah Cook, SLEW FAMILY AND SELF. A Missourl Farmer Murdered His Wife and Three Children. David Spragg, a farmer residing in Ham. ton County, Missouri, cut the throats of (wo of his children, Their erios brought thelr mother to thelr ald. 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