vote, of the House of Tee. ntatives in New Zealand granting an pension is varionsly received in England, but on the whole more favorably than could have been ex- pected. The New Zealand scheme takes as ‘poor,’ persons having less an $3.12 per week, and to such, if five years of age, a pension f $1.68 is granted, making a maxi- num income of $4.80 per week, New 1d is hardly more than a half r old, and its population is still all and widely scattered, so that much light is likely to come from the experiment there that can he of any value to the mother country. But that an English-speaking community, even st the antipodes, and in condi- s 80 unlike those of other peoples, try sn experiment of this sort - at. It is enough to muke economists of the last generation turn in thelr graves. ; ih the amigration of the las fiscal year down to less than 230,000, | showing a decrease from the pre- year in spite of our prosperity, of the tronblesome questions pected with immigration seem to be ina fair way to settle themselves, the New York World That re is still » large number of unde- le immigrants is shown by the of their illiteracy and por- Of those over fourteen years of 41,007 could neither read nor le, and of the whole number 96,203 eas thei $30 apiece. No Euro. ‘country would permit us to send immigrants of this deseription, no illiterate or pauper is a desir: addition to our population. the average standing of our im- pte is steadily improving, and represent. a total increase of #8 than one-third of one per cent. onr ip of population they cannot he street railways in thet city. ded that electricity is the '® power and that the over. raion system is the best. aud four electric tramway ln to be used by the bd SOmPADY | on ¥ payment (T was the day be. i fore Christmas, | and the snow was falling thick and fast. Among the people who hast ened along the! streets of a large | Western city, was | a lady, mccom. bd panied by two little girls, appar- ently twins, All were poorly clad, and shivered, as the cold wintry | | “this watched the children in the shop, was wind rushed down the nearly | deserted street. “Oh! msmma dear,” cried one of ihe little girls, as they were ap- | proachisg a large shop, where many vely holiday toys were displayed, must be one of Santa Claus’ shops.” oes go in,” pleaded the other little girl, 1 do =o want to see all the nice i " “My dear children," said the mother, sadly, “I can get none of the pretty books or toys for you; I wish I could, but, you know, we are very, very if, “Well we could just look at ‘em, if we can’t have "em," they cried “Well, my dears, you shall see them," said their mother, gently. “Oh! mamma.” one of them ex- claimed, “1 just wish I could have a nioe dolly, just like this one, that the lady has just laid down here; why, do you know, mamma, it shut ils eyes inst as tight as I do when I go to eep. “Ab! Bessie, my dear child,” said her mother, ‘I am afraid youn will only be discontented when you get home. “No, no, 'm—only just wishing,” said little Bessie, All this time a young girl had been standing near, watching the children and writing in a note book. “Come, children,” said the mother at last, ‘we must be going now, it is nearly four o'clock.” The little gronp passed out, and the young girl followed them. “Mamma,” said Jessie, ‘what would you like to have for a Christmas pres. ent?’ Molly Dean, the young girl who had | olossly following them; she hastened At ° ling stock and under igement of the tramways. in the natare of s compromise gen the city and the company, had bean | granted a concession | the public schools in neh the same coadi- : the great majority of ip found in some are ten years of age, ‘ socentuated when they | written down, all ready when she re- { for at the same time. | the city, and rushed into the library, her steps that she might hear the mother's answer. The mother sighed as alice auswered her little danghter's question: “Ab! wy dear, if [ could bave your pa back again, I would be satisfied. But the sea seldom gives back its dead.” She added, a moment later, ax if to herself: “Not my will, dear Lord, but Thine.” Molly followed them into an slley- way. e street was dirty, sud the hotiaes w were poor. Tha children and FEAND THEN NUNG UP THEIR STOCKINGS thetr mother nntered one of the small- est houses. Molly looked Shout ber curiously; she bad never been in such a place belore, although she was nearly sixteen. Soon she rd and hastened back to the shop. She handed her note-book to a clerk, tell ing him to bave the articles, she had turned for them, which, she said, would be in the evening. She also told him she wonld send some Nao purchases there, which she would call “Dear me,” she thought, as she hastened homeward, “I wish I sould give that lady ber busband. I ean give the hry A all they wished for, but her wish I am powerless to grant.” She entered a handsome stone house in the most aristocratic part of where agentleman sat reading. “Oh, Unels Dick!” she cried, eagerly, “1've got some work for you to do.” | “What is it, my huckleberry?” asked her uncle in a teazing tone, as be pulled her onto his knee. He was a tall man, whose naturally sad face always brightened when he Was speaking to her; for she was his te niece. And she thought there big white fur coat (when dark). And then you'd both children, said Molly, “I want you to | § i ‘whiskers and wig | Just then Molly Sawe in i been waiting at the your Aunt Litey.” ! whiskers, some greatlong, white ares, {and take a nice big sack, and thet | Swell bt 1 guess I won't tell you | the rest just now “Ob! ho! I goess 1 see! going to make a Santa Clans of ine © “Don’t ask any questions, but ns? do as I tell you to." said Molly When it was quite dark, Molly and | {her uncle started out to make their vimit “What a SPlesaid Santa Clans he | does make,” thought Molly, as they walked along They went to ‘The Star,” and Mr. Dixon (Molly's uncle) got a vehicle to take himsell and Molly, with their many packages, to = the poor little house in the alley. After Bessie and Jessie had helped their mother wash the supper dishes! that evening, they got ready for bed, and then hung up their stockings. | Then their mother called them to her for the little avening talk. T hey | talked of the father, whom tha chil dren could not remember. He had | You're | to think yon are my econsine. inever knew in" j lina Knees, and Molly and Mee. Dizon ‘wat, one on such side of hi. Mr. Dizon told them the vesse! sank, and for days hes had | np. | befora he again stood npon his native (of her trials and sorrow. First, the ons, then the and aot 0 a bey sad some and candy. The little shonting and conld be, Santa Clans, as the children called him, turped at last to the mother, who stood amaze. “Madam,” he said. your wish was, I believe, that your bs “hand miiaht come back to you again’ The lady lerok ad amazed you kpow my wish,” she asked “Because 1 am that Christoias pres. “he cried, as he tore off tha files gir laughing, happy as “Haw da i « were | HE children in American antiouss ly wait for Christ. nas Eve to some, that they may | begin the im. | portant ceremony “of hanging their siachings, In wan Mra “thei.” She had | Dixon only eried, loor, “Molly,” said ber nnele, “this jai Molly Kissed lier aunt, then hugged and kisted the twins, she | “Ot! and I Mr. Dixon took his little girls upon Then the story of the past few years He has wrazped * floating spar when i foated noon Fhe water. Finally a ves. sel bound for the Indies picked him He wan carried from home, in. wt ead of toward it, and it was two years shore, Then Mre Dixon related the story | They sat {for a long time talking of the strangs | | avents | re reason, that Clans Wil. Feiterates "Santa | tan’t come antl it gets darker! hie sad Sune and Kittie and Tom can't | — etirb their impatience, and are deafto | Jon Santa Clans's reindesr may | “To think," evisd Molly, “how wa've lived right in the same city all this | time, sod within & ball mile of each a “Leet na thank God,” said Mr. Dixes. UNDER THE i MISTLETOE. ’ {alder children's at the ands { mantel-abeall must be claarad, as wall The Stupid thing Sits silent tare, As 1# bound tightly fo hischarr! The Stupid thing! HE Had [ the nerve, what perfect bliss From those red lips fo take akiss’ | | Had | the nerve! i | i § i i ander it. i ; : a0 the floor wound it. | genavoait ty munst not be restricted by Er SLetoN iN SERMANT. be yoi far i in the distance, bat their art of the programmes shall no! be Rosati delayed sncther instant, Up go the stockings! A row swings apon the mantel-shell in many a home, The baby's ia in the middle, and the The Santa Clans's | lek of apace to deposit his gifs, The hittie German children oare more for Christmas trees then stock- Lings to hold their gifts. Santa Clans does not come down the chimney for them. But the window of the Christ. mas-tres room im opened, that ‘“Koecht Rauaprecht” may have a chance to adorn their frees, And not only have they the largs Christuas tree, but at esch one's piste on Christmas morning is a tiny tree. 8 perfect mininture eopy of the fsrge ons, with a '"Christaas bor” These little trees make the tabla look Likes » garden, and are pretty snough to give a hint worth coppying. Little Gretehen and Haus ‘do not hang their stockings, thengh sometimes they stand their wooden | shoes | birds’ well ax a pretty thonght been a sailor. And one day he had | sailed from port, leaving behind lus wife and babies; bie bad gever re | turned, and, in & few months, vews | came that the Lady Gray, the vessel | upon which he had sailed, had been wrecked, A few months Ister the! mother moved to another town. She | supported her children by taking in sewing. She resided there about fonr years, then she went to this Western © city. hile the three were busily talking there came a knock at tho door, The | mother opened it; as she stood gazing | out, 8 man came into the room. Hae had snowy hair, aud a long white beard, He was dressed in fur from bead to foot. “Santa Claus’! Santa Claus!” eried When Mr. the womwin before him he started to. ward her, then stopped and looked at | the children. he asked, in a gruff voice. FOn! we tried to be good,” said “Then, said their visitor, tell me your names.” “My name is Bessie, and hers is Jessie, and we're twins. Please, is your name Santa Claus?” trust THE ENCHANTED LAND, But Santa Claus did not answer. He threw down the great sack he carried, 1) reap and some false | bank. j envelopes, each bearing the nams of the one who is to receive a mf. and Dizon saw the face of | " = > iin each ecavelope a “check *‘Are there any good children here?” | follows: and began to take <ut the things. “for His great love and divine morey.” They knelt down, and be offered up | s prayer for their reunion. : “We mast be going,” said Mr Dixon, after prayer, as they still talked Mrs. Dixon dressed herself snd the | tehildren in the new warm clothes; they locked the door of the little house, and all entered the waiting carriage. Thux they left the old life, of toil and ' poverty, for one in which they would | : never know want, SAAR PA A New Way of Distrivnting Presents, Let one corner of the room where the Christmas festivities are to take place be fitted up as a postofMes, and | another corner made to represent a Have ready in the postoflice, in favor {of the one to.whom the envelope isi ‘addressed, This check may read as | Nowra Pore, Christmas, 187, fxow Frosy & Co, Bankers, Pay to the Order of Harry Haw. thomae one pal Gf skates. Basra Crave, vu Rw Also have ready in the bank the presents which are to be given, each one properly desigoated. On the evening of the festival let the post. master call out the names upon the envelopes one by one, and each child or person, as his name is called, go to the office and receive his check. He may thon take it to the bank, and pre- senting it to the cashier, receive his | An Exquisite Effect. While the candle in the socket is still the common method of lighting the Christmas tree, a most exquisite eflect is produced by the use of tiny incr~descent lights, when expense need not be taken into consideration. These are scattered all over the tree, and protected by small glass globes. A slight pressare of the lever, and the | tree bursts into rosy, radiant bloom. | A OA 3 NS AN Hp WB sn A Good Pair, | The Hou. Abraham Lincoln Brick | has been elected to Congress from In- diana. He would make a good pair | with Mr. Mudd, of Maryland. — Bich- mond Times, for bad cue ered and singing of earods, the singers go- Cc Britta gifts at each, fashioned customs are kept up the i Yale log 1a palied ia and lit with mn shal { caremsony and rejoicing. tress and gifts are cosunoun there as {mas dee | to { has always been sacred to Christmas, IA sprig of it 1s a talistoan and dont ast ‘fora Christmas be as goad a8 yer kin be! in couvenienl spots, that the Christ ehuld may Si then [he Christmas tree is favored thronghont all the Northern countries of Europe. Norway amd Sweden, Prussia and Poland slike delight in elaborately dressed trees coverad with gifts for young and old A pretty Swedish custom ix to provide a Christ. Cans dinner as a Cheintoaas tres for the whose dinners are scarce in wibier in that snow coverad region. A shoal of wheat or cova is tied to The op of a high pols erscted in front of thie house for the birds’ convenients. Be sure it is soon sarrounnded by the cuattering thaokin! recipisnts. The Christmaas tree is a kind as birds, The hte alias boys and girls do not hear ax pretey a legend as Santa Clans and bir reindesr. Nurse tells them often of Old Balfana, whe comes rid. ing aloag on her broomstick, and who will leave presents for good ehildren, bat who jay! aa surely carries a rod . Eve ix nsh- of bells Io Eogland, Christisa in with the ringing fram hoase to house, sollscting Whara old: Christasas eixswhere, and our enston of Christ. nach grester extent. The holly to conjuie | up « long procession of Christos | days and Christmas feasting The story of Christmas, in both its sacred | and 124 merry meaning, is told ia a thousand ways and a thousand tongues FRG mg in AE up mow | dred Send for Het of tesfimmrninin Add i berstrnnd Fev dye ¥ : We, Me. : Cheshire 41 IL. RA 175 to be negotiable and a Pit is also held that it passes with the | title to the instrament, ES | who, with standing on a siding near a station, : to cross the maln Lf Will ¢ welts alee ppll catinns, 1nd make the mi bs Haber gad strong, i A —————r——— Ca = m10e Reward. S100. The readers of this paper will be cased that There fu #1 jeast ane dread 4» wd Hsu that science han been able ta garein #44 sod tht is Catarrh, Hall all's Cater! ¢ andy pesdtive cure BOW gnaw i fraternity. {ahs any of ing the founda | the patient strength by butiding ap Pow ¢ £9 det §owtitntion snd assdating Eatupe in The proprictanrs have so pu toes posers that they milters for any case that it fat Wari son ¥. J Onesey & Co, Tole Sold hve Drrogginte, | Fails Family Pilla are the ent, 2 In Turkey the Sultan is by tradition 1% hair and beard Fdoeate Your Bowels With Cascarets Candy Sathartle, eure constipation fore we CC C fail, drugeists refund mona WHAT THE LAW DECIDES. An anrestricted saaranty af pay ment indorsed on 4 negotiable instru ment is held in Commercial bank v8 Provident Institute (Kat), The “heirs” who are entitled "to & | Fight of action for the death of a pers son under I Hill's (Wash) vod» see tion 138 are held, in Noble vs. Seattis {Wash j, 40 I. R.A. 522, to {neclade the widow and children only, and not (0 : inci de the parents of the deceassd, A statute reducing the lien or charge 3 & Judgment against the estate of | person of a jndgment debtor and pro~ hibiting the renewal thereof for more than one year alter the act takes affect is held in Bettman vs. Cowley {Wash ) R. A S13 to be an voomnatitoe tional impairment of the obligation of rontradts 20 far a9 it applies to those made before the statute was passed, A person holding a mileage ticket, intent to board a trai8 without going to the station, attempts line, is beld, in Southern Raliroad company vs Smith Co App MACH MO LR ATH to be no! u passenger to whom the carrier Owes extraordinary care or diligence, but only one of the general public entitled to ordinary care, if he has done nothing to notify any of the of flears or agents of the carrier that he Is a4 prospective AERATRSr, Supe Look Wack Alike The Japanese are curiously alike physically. Recent measurements tak. sn of an infaatry regiment showsd no variation excapt two inches Ia height or twenty pounds in weight Are your nerves weak? Can't you sleep well? Pain in your back? x ? | Appetite poor? i h | bad? Boils or pimples? FF & These are sure signs of BY poisoning, I From what poisons? » From poisons that are al- wavs found in constipated bowels. = if the contents of the bowels are not removed from the body each day, as nature intended, these poisonous P | substunces are sure to be absorbed into the dlood, al- P WAYS causing suffering and frequently causing severs PP disease, There is a common sense | sratios with greens ia carried | to bright-eyed, listening babies. But | of all the marvelous legends told, Santa Clans and his reindeer still seems the quaintest aud prettiest AAA IC SE Jest Fore Christmas. For Christmas, with its lots and lots of ¢ dies, sakes and toys, Was made, they say, for proper kids, sot for panghty bors; 50 wash your fave an” brush your Latr, mind your p's and q's, ust out yer pantaloons, don't wear oul yoar shows: Ray “Yessum™ to the ladies, an’ tote men, An’ when they's company, don't pass yous plate for ple agalia; But thinkin’ of the ap yor’ spon that tree, an’ and and “Youaue* yen : ald Lo se ~Eugens Filed, Werking on Santa's Sympathy, You toe 4 | Farms for Sate? oof $i cheapest Facns send <tamp get fall desert igh tion and drive in 5 atria Cin, AX pi Sout state in the Hon o SENET In the When Santa Clans sees that layou!, we will surely be touched. The mignonette in the national | flower of Spain. NG | MANCRORT, _defterson. ‘Aentanate Ca hia. oi
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