Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 43, Bloomington, Monroe County, 26 December 1883 — Page 4

CHRISTMAS IN OLD TIMES. BY STB. WUUTSIl SCOTT. The Hie with well-dried log supplied, Went roaring op the chimney wide; The huge hall taWo'a oaken face, Scrubbed till it ahone the day to grace. Bore then upon its masshre board No mark to part the 'squire andloxd; Then vas bronght in the lust v brawn. By old bine-coated serving-man ; Then the grim boar's head frowned on high. Crested with bays and rosemary. Well can the sreen-garbed ranger tell How, when and where the monster fell, What does before his death he tore. And all the battins of the boar. The wassail round in good brawn bowls. Garnished with ribbon, blithely trowls. There the huge sirloin reeked; hard by Plnm-porridce stood, and Christmas pie, Nor failed old Scotland to produce. At snch high tide, her savory goose. Then came the merry maskers in; And carols roared wi th blithesome din; If nnmslodioos was th? song. It was a hearty note and strong. Who lists may in their mumming see Traces of ancient mystery; White shirts supplied the masquerade, And smutted cheeks the visions made; But, oh! what maskers, richly dight. Can boast of bosoms half so light? England was merry England when Old Christmas brought his sports again.

Twaa Christmas broached the mightiest ale

Twas Christmas told he merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft would cheer The poor man's heart through halt the year.

WHAT CAME OF A CHRISTMAS

PANTOMIME.

WI ants, kbaxk- m'cartht.

The beautiful child Lit in the heart of a gigantic pansy. Every inch of the Wage -c as used to the greatest advant

age, and the painted bauble in which they had posed the Queen of the fairies seemed to be almost within reach of the Doctor's hand, Mrs. Shelby had coaxed her son to take a box that night. The old lady was fond of the beautiful either in art or nature, and had called Max's attention quite early in the evening to this wonderfully beautiful nymph, who was panting only a few yards from lis elbow. The Doctor had turned just In time to catch a roguish beam from her magnificent eyes before she bounded off again. From that time he followed the one face and form, finding it more pleasurable to pursue this unit of grace and beauty than to become dazzled and bewildered by tens and twenties. His mother's eyes were always a reflection of his own, and she was the first to cry out during the transformation sceneMax's eyes were already riveted upon the mammoth pansy. It was as solid as her father, the scene-painter, could have it made, compatible with the demands of art, yet it rattled against the erimBon-cuahiooed box in which the Doctor and his mother were sit ting, and threatened to come to grief, with its fair occupant, who was shaking in a congestive chill. The soft roguiahness of her big brown eyes was changed into a dilated stare, the dark delicate rings of her curly hair lay wet upon her icy forehead, the pout of her red ripe lips had contorted into a ghastly quiver, and i

under the rouge upon her rounded cheeks lay the livid pallor of death. "Good heavens, Max," said Mrs. Shelby, "the poor pretty child is dying! Bun quick, and see what is the matter." Max always declared it was his mother that first sent him behind the scenes of a theater. The girl had been whisked off the stage in the twinkling of an eye, and another nymph had popped into the heart of the pansy. The Doctor, however, had pursued his poor little phantom behind the scenes, and had found her stretched out upon a dingy sofa,' the velvet mantle of a sham Prince thrown over her, her white teeth clinched, and a thin thread of crimson staining the handful of tulle and spangles she had clutched to her mouth. The Doctor always carried his medicine case with him, to be ready for one of his mother's heart attacks, and, taking the nymyh's head upon his arm, he forced a white powder between her teeth; then turned to a man who was running in and out, helping first to shift the scenes, and coming back again to wring his hands afresh over the prostrate fairy. "Who does she belong to?" said the Doctor. "She must be taken home at once." "She belongs to me, sir," said 'the man, and rushed away again to the scenes, "and we live only a few blocks away," he gasped, as he ran back again. Tm her father, Tom Battersby, God help me! This is a pretty piece of business! Oh, Betty! Betty! Betty ! In a few years she'd have made my fortune and her own. I had the manager's word fox it! Oh, what a dish, God help us!" "A cab must be got," said the Doctor. "Ten cabs twenty in five seconds as soon as this scene is over; every mother's son of them, supes and all, are busy now." "My own cab is waiting," said the Doctor. "Come with me at once," and lifting her gently in his strong arms, he carried her through the dingy, draughty passages, followed by a motley crowd of harlequins, clowns, gnomes and fair ks, now released from their duties for the night, and ready to do anything for their poor pretty comrade in the late most successful performance of the season. "Here's a chance, mother," said the Doctor, when at last he got back to the hotel, and found his mother waiting up for him, "to pluck a brand from the burning. Xot a worn-out, half-consumed, charred old ember, but a fresh young bit of sapling, not yet scorched. Great Heaven !" he said, pushing back his chair, and striding about the room, "I wish you had seen the home of that poor innocent girl ! Not that it was so poverty-stricken; but if there ever was a case of burning the candle of human

ity at both ends, it rests with Tom Batteraby and all his belonginirs. It was

nearly midnight, and yet the lamps.

of. sensational literature, left the stage to come to the rescue of Tom and hi orphans. I've no doubt site's a good creature. Something was simmering on the fender for their lata tmpper, and a row of night garments were airing close by. One can fancy them, if Betty had been all right, gathering around te ricKety table, devouring the savory stew, rehearsing noisily the triumphs of the evening, kicking their tinsel into the different corners of the room, and falling off to sleep with the digestions of so many ostriehes. It is not their present misery or lack of cheor that arouses my pity for this innocent child ; but you saw for yourself how beautiful she was, and remember what a life she will lead as Tom Battersby's daughter!'' I will interpolate just here that the Doctor was not the proper judge of Tom Battersby's life and morals. Tom's code of propriety went much further than the Doctor had any idea of, and he was as watchful and fierce as a bull-dog over what he considered his property. But habit is everything. He could think the world of his daugh

ter, and yet be proud to put her half

naked in the pattern of a flower of Ms own devising, and give her over triumphantly to the loose stare of two or

three thousand idlers and vagabonds.

But the Doctor had no time to think out this problem if it had been pre

sented to him. What ho yearned to

do was to get Betty away from sur

roundings that he honestly thought led to infamy, and put her young life in the hands of his mother, to lend into the paths of pleasantness and peace

that surrounded their quiet home at

Shelbyville. He coaxed his mother

over to his desire, the more readily that

she had long coveted something prettier and brighter than Higgins, the housekeeper, to while away her tedious invalid hours, and philanthropy took a very attractive shape ia the person of Betty Battersby.

As for Betty, poor little Betty, she

clung to the Doctor as drowning creat

ures will cling to a surf-boat when the waves are surging around them. She had felt the clammy hand of death at her heart, tho breath of the charnel-

house close upon her cheek. These had been put to rout by her new friend and beref actor, and something strangely sweet and wonderful crept into the languid life he had given her. He told

her of the flowers at Shelbyville that lay sleeping now beneath the winter

snows, but would awaken with the breath of spring flowers whose fragrance knew nothing, of the taint of

turpentine; of the mild, delicious, balmy mountain air that made the

pulses bound without she aid of malt, and gave an honest bloom to the cheek,

finer and more to be depended upon than rogue. "Putting false and foolish notions in the head of the

child," said Aunt Pom, "and slandering

the necessary devices of as honorable

a profession as his own! How would

an ordinary Johnny-jump-up look upon the stage, I'd like to know; and what mountain air could furnish a bloom that would properly stand the footlights? And 'where ignorance is bliss,

'tis folly to be wise.' The garden of

Eden knew no shame till the serpent entered it with his wilv tongue, and

turned good to evil." But there was no objection made to

Betty's trip to the country, as they were scared .out of their wits, and would do anything to save the sweet life of their darlinor and nride. Thev

let her go, poor dear, without murmur j or complaint, though none of Tom Bat- j J 1 , , i 1 1 ! . !

lersuys jun mm ever oeen iona oi me ;

country. To do justice to the Doctor,

he tried his best to save the whole family, and in the early spring got Tom a job in the village, that would have been the beginning of an excellent

business at Shelbyville. The Doctor

offered to build him a work-shop for Tom's original trade was a carpenter's

id, with the cheap way of living at

Shelbyville, the Doctor said they could

all very soon become respectable mem

bers of society. The children were delighted, and lived out-of-doors from morning till night, wandering far afield,

picking cowslips and daisies, building

dams in the running stream, robbjng

birds' nests, sticking pins into butter

flies, and enjoying themselves in their own vagabond way. Aunt Pam generally went with them, carrying her novel at the bottom of the lunch basket,

and told Tom at the evening meal that

illustrated papers to while away the agony of a passing moment, and whin the night comes on, and the musicians out there begin to tune up ! Just listen for a minute. Tom, when I first camo hero the croak of tho frogs and tho cries of tho crickets drove me into an attack of melancholia, but it wasn't a patch on the orchestra now. AVhat with tho doleful cry of the whip-poor-will, the zig-zag sawing of the katydids, and the fierce rattle of tho locusts, I'm fast becoming a raring lunati. And hark ye, Tom Battersby, a word in your ear. i'ou think yon ai'o doing

a fine thing for your family in bringirg of Tom Ualt.-rdiy.

them out to this hollow in tho hills. 1 hill that led to the

bring Betty back with mo, and do yon not to hide our talents in a napkin, and ;;ot our traps ready. We'll t-ltako the ' you must see for yourself that my dust of this aoeimod hole from our feet. J daughter's are of no common order. It beforo daybreak to-morrow, and go is better for us all that she should go back to what our lino evangelist calls j back and take her part in the next pantho haunt of infamy," I tomine. It was a fino September night. Ai "Never !" said the Doctor, putting his

noft south wiud stirred the forest leaves. Around tho tops of tho far distant hills tho whito clouds wore tinged with the warm blush of evening, and tho brown leaves of tho maples took deeper dyes in tho mellow light of tho setting sun. All .seemed tranquil

an t at ieaco save tho turbulent spirit

As ho mounted tho Khelbv homestead

hand Jightly upon tho drapery of Betty's shoulder. "Max," said his mother, iu a trembling voice, "let her go. It is better for all of us." "Never," repeated Max, "Maxl" "Mother!" They looked at eaeh other for a halfsecond, both of them hard and white as

MY CHRISTMAS TIIEJ3.

awayj she is a good creature, but chuuiy. There is only the ono hand I belief e in the wide world, except your own,' Max, that I like fumbling about my bed. I wish it was hore now, my n; I wish you'd go after it, and bring it, and let mo put the two dear hands together before I die." "Mother" (a doubtful joy leaping to his haggard face), "you will not die, and you must not sacrifice your own huppinoss to mine." "I thought they were one and the same, Max," she whispered. "Anyway, I'vt changed my mind; I've been so near to our dead ancestors that I feel safe to say they can't be disturbed by anything we may do. If you should go

I after Betty, do you think I'd live till

yoaget back?" Wy own mother! my best and

dearest!" I ''Your next best and dearest, Max. ! Go for Betty if you think there's time, j I'd like to see you happy beforo I die. ! Yni're happy already, yon foolish boy,

an so am I. I begin to feel better nV that I've made up my mind. If I hill Betty to nurse me, I think I might gdwell." "You (hall have her, darling, in a qtirter of a second. I'll call Higgins and make her sit iu the further corner of tho room." fYes, because she always smells of camphor, Mas, and makes me think I'm lail out in a trance." And shortly after Tom B.ittersby and Aunt Pam, too raisemble to go to bed while Betty's white, face was still pressed against tho win-.

I clow-pane, heard tho hoofs of a horse

man come thundering down the road, and running to the door they found Betty already leaping to the saddle. "You scoundrel!" cried Tom. "Don't oall your future spn-in-law names," called the Doctor. "I haven't

! time to make a formal call. It's a caso i of life and death, Tom. My mother j baa sent for Betty." Aud horse and

riders dishppeared in the soft radiance of the September night. "What will tho villagers say ?" stammered Aunt Pam. "Does he mean

oes he mean "

"He means what he says God bless

un ! And you vo got the dead-wood

in tne villagers now. By the powers , f smoke, Betty's fortune is made.; !

Shell never take part in a pantomime 1

ogam."

But she will. She will be there not

in the heart of a pansy, though. And. she will wear more clothes. And Aunt-

Pam will come with l!r, and her moth

er-in-law. The box "ill be crammed

with the Shelbvs and the Battersbvs,

and the flowers they -will rob frui the: conservatory, and p4bk in cotton, and' bring to town in honor of her papa's latest aud greatest scenic snceess in spectacular drama, and all will go merry as a marriage bell.

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Which is the best of nil tho trees? Answer me, children all, if you please! Is it the limlen, with tassels gay. Or tho willow thern whero the calkins sway? I3 it the oak, tho kins of the wood. That for a hundred years has stood? The graceful elm, or the stately ash. Or lim napeo, wfcueo lofrllcw okimuw.- "iigh? Is It the solemn and gloomy pine, With its million needles so sharp and lino? Ah, no! Tho treo that I love best, It buds and blossoms not with the rest. No summer sun on Its fruit has smiled. But ice and snow are around it piled; llut still it will bloom and hoar fruit for mo, My winter bloomer! my Christmas-tree 1 Its blossoms are candles, all shining- (ray. And its boars Its fruit in the queerest way! All lied by ribbons to everything, BlK and little, aud little and bijr. Bolls and trumpets, and balls and bats. Horses and monkeys, and dogs and cuts.

Drums and whistles, and sans and whips, Crying babies and flying 6hips; Every conceivable kind of bo.v, With all conceivable kinds of locks; Tigers and elephants swinging In air, Singular fruit for a tree to bear! Hut so it blooms aud bears fruit for me, ilr winter bloomer! my Christmas-tree!

Elm and linden may both be fair, ISut they hare no elophants swinging in air; Ash and maple may gracefully grow, But they have no fifes nor whistles to blow; The oak may be king of the forest wide, lint be has no parcels with ribbons tied. No guns, no rattles, no books, no boats. No purs, no lions, no cows, no goats, Ko dolls, no cradles, no skates, no tops. Nor oranges, candy or lollipops. Nothing that's pretty, and nothing that's good, Hut leaves and acorns, aud bark and wood. So the tree of all others that's best to mo Is my winter bloomer! my Christmas-tree!

The English Christinas.

5 to and fro in her easy- and tumbled in a heap upon the poreu Tohu Bnl, and heaUhv dal htel. down, whero a.ymgjlhe Doctor .prang to her side, and lv re8;stin efforts J th

Tom told

Aunt Pam afterward that nothing could be finer than this scene, on or off the stage, while it lasted, for all four of them were in a white bent, either of

! reprooeli npon my own aud their

dear inuther's profession till they came here to bo twitted with

she wondered how those noor creatures i their ltelonrinsr to play-actors as the

were flaring away in his tawdry lodg-ffe?f it's mother, God help it, and can't

lags. A frowzy, good-natured I

woman was sitting by a blazing fire

the rusty grate, reading a ragged novel ; around and about were all the odds and ends of the theatrical toilets, for no less than three of the young Eattersbys took part in the play. The poor children's mother, it seems, died with the last babr, $mA iter sister, the florid devotee

in town could ever get along with the foul air and the dirty streets, and how

did they get along, anyway? And, for the love of Heaven! had he heard anything from their old friends? And she leaned over the table with suspicions eagerness to hear any bit of news that he might have learned of old times and eld cronies. One soft September night, when poor Aunt Pam had been more than ever eager for news from town, Tom looked up with a gleam in his fine eyes (like Betty's, only Mot so soft and glowing), and winked, and whispered behind his hand that he'd tell her something if she was sure the children were asleep ; that, in fact, ho had got an offer for, himself and Betty that day that was was not to be sneezed at. Of course he didn't want to interfere with the health and happiness of his family, and though it would be a dreary business, he would, if it was better for him, leave them all behind. "Leave vs behind!" eehoed Aunt Pam, raising her hands in protestation to heaven "leave us behind! Oh, Tom Battersby, think of all I have done for yon and the children, and what I'd do ten times over; and you can have the heart to talk of leaving us behind. Never I Tom, nothing in the world could keep me here five minutes after yon set your face cityward. I've stood

it as patient as one of the lambs bleating yonder this minute. I suppose it's

don't deny their sojourn here litis done : ho saw upon tho porch the Doctor's ! marble; then the

them good so far as their extended in- mother, rockiug to and fro in her easy

tunacy With tho fresh air from the j chair. Lower

mountains, the liowers fresh from the i beam of the sun turned her brown hair j Tom dragged Betty away.

hand of God, the nulJc fresli from the into gold, was Tom s daughter Betty, udders of the cows, and all those sort ; A white diaphonons cloud of some filmy of primitive blessings go, but when it j material floated about her shoulders, comes to their aeipiaiutaueo wilh j and the folds of her pretty dress: lay

htunanity they are far better off and ; upon tho ground. Sho was looking up i love, rage, or resolve,

happier in the city. I never told you at Mrs. Shelby's son, tho Doctor, with J "Aud let it kill or cure," said Tom, a word about it, Tom, .till I saw your ' a rapt expression upon her exquisite , "she never shall see his face again." longing eyes turn onee more toward face, and he was bonding over her iu ' "It may be the making of her yet," the blessed brick and mortar, but my .some such fashion as Tom had seen I said Aunt Pam, in a troubled whisper, heart has leen near breakiug many a lovers posing upon the stage. Tom j "It needs something of this kind to time with the insults and gibes and leaped through the gate and neared tho ; bring out what there really is in a slights of these insolent villagers, porch nt a bound. ! creature like Betty. She's spoiled for The children never knew there was a viv T,.m " ni,i timiw.tiw with a : the innocent cavetv of the ballet; she'll

bf art, "is anything amiss?"' never bo light enough of foot or heart Betty thonght that Aunt Pam or ono ravish the seuses of the multitude in of the children must be at the last gasp, : the dance the beautiful wings of the and turned as whito as her dress. ' butterfly are singed, poor dear! but I'm Tom controlled himself with an el- mistaken if she hasn't the makings of a fort. Bf was too innately honorable io : " 'j actress iu her. If you'd see leap to vtlo conclusions. "I hopo not, her now in the room within there, with indeed. Doctor," he said, "for the sako ! tho fine embroidered dress they saw fit

Tho English Christmas tradition makes good cheer the glory of the day. Forty years ago, when Leech was beginning his career, Kenny Meadows was the "character artist" of the Illustrated London News, and its chief Iioliday pioturoa woi tli-awn by him. They were all scenes of .eating and drinking, of games and jolity. They

were full of bottles and smoking bowls, j of roast beef and plum-pudding and j mince-pie, of burning brandy-and kiss- : ing under the mistletoe. "013 Christmas" was represented as a .flowingj bearded satyr crowned with ivy and j pouring huge flagons of wine or as a ' rollicking boon companion stretching i out one hand to the spectator over dej canters and jugs and glasses, while the ' other holds an open tankard. The tvnie.nl facoa of tlin Christmas fir tires

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her in the pitch darkness and the

Mrlde. waste of the field. How dreadful

to he lost in the howling wilderness, with miles and miles of green and dusty monotony to blind and bewilder the senses ! Just think of one of tho children going astray, and no police station or officer to cling to, no candy,

shop or pictures hi the play-bjpi and

poor ignorant creatures cnll the exponents of our noble art, and they pull their skirts aside when we pass, and turn up their coarso freckled noses, and not one of them has ever darkened our door, save the Doctor aud his mother, who eomo in an evangelical way, and make fresh fruit for gossip. Their evil imaginations and low lying tongues spare nobody, and they misconstrue the kindness of Dr. Shelby to our sweet Betty in a way that would make the blood boil in your veins if you knew it." The blood began to boil in Tom lint-

tersby's veins without any further knowledge. Ho had listened to Aunt Pain's confluent confidence with great composure Ho knew that she was o:. of those passionate, prejudiced, ardent creatures, who must have their iling, according to Tom's phrasing when their back was up, so that they'd feel better for it afterward, but this coupling of those two names, tho Doctor's and Betty's, iu tho way she did. opou.-d a wide field for conjecture and doubt. He remembered now his little hints and innuendoes that had once in a while puzzled him, ami now that he began to put them together, it wt bis lrniii on fire. Down came his ii.sl n the table in dire destrnctiou to tho dishes which Aunt Pam had washed and wiped during her monologue. "If J thought there was any tiling wrong!" he said, his honest, manly fa-e becoming black and murderous as he spoke.

to give her lying yards upon the floor, with her two lovely hands holding her marblo cheeks, gazing out of tho window up to the big house that has brought her so muoh misery, it

i as i r, i.u ! would melt the heart of a stone. She ; and so did Mrs. Shelby, who . . ...

,.ve from l,or on'K ! wuu Bl'-U """ Bwl" "

of all concerned; but I am going back to town to-morrow, and want Betty to pack up and go with me at once." Tho Doctor changed color. There

was no doubt about that, lorn saw it i

at once,

had not taken her

face. "Jf yon are tired of our quiet country ways," said the Doctor, in a tone of suppressed emotion, "don't you think it wise to try them a little longer for your daughter '!" The patrician smoothness of this fling at city preferences stnug Tom to a quick rejoinder. "Xot a day. Xot an hour!" he cried. "These four months of your quiet country ways have done more to smirch i Betty's fair name than her whole life in

I tl.e city," "Her fair name!"

'Vcs" aul Tom; "aud yours is !

coupled with it in such a way that the :

sooner one is rid of tho other,

fi r it will bo for both." Tom saw in tho astonished, indignant, and altogether electrified fuco of the Doctor, in tho pure, proud, uplifted fuco of his daughter, tho lio to all his j fears, and so took heart, and made light , of a matter that just then suited his nvenionee and desire. "You nee, madam," said Tom, tul-

I feront, to those that have worshipped i and watched her since she was a baby,

and hasn't stirred baud or foot since sho flung herself away from you, and ran over to the window. I'm afraid sho'll go mad. My (tod! Tom Battersby," said poor Anut Pam, breaking into sobs, "what had we dono to be brought to all this misery?" "Better this misery than one of a baser sort," said Tom. "If ever a fierce, reckless love leaped out of a man's eyos it did from the Doctor's to-night." In tho meanwhile, up at tho big

repeated tho Doc- i bonso on the Mil, Mrs. Shelby lay on i her bed so weak that her voice scarcely

rose alwve a whisper. "It was a pretty bad attack, Max,"

tho bet- i sho said to her son, who sat by her bed

side, his head buried in his hands, helploss misery in every lino of his being. His scheme of philanthropy had nearly killed hia mother, bade fair to break his own heart and that of the woman

Uphesproug to his feet, nud reached : dressing Mrs. Shelby for tho Doctor for his coat and hat. j was still white aud speechless with con"Tom! Tom!" said Annt Pain, ter- j tending emotions "it's all for lack of rifled at tho blaze she had kindled, harmless amusement out hero that the "don't do anything rush. Where are : nut: s full into Mich miserablo ways, going?" tiko '..iv to keep their imaginations To the Shelby homotcad. I'll beM r .-mployvd iu town. Wo aro told

(ayly resisting tne efiorts of the young

i oldier Irving's Julia and the Captain I -.to draw her under the permissive

bvgh; or of the buxom chambermaid ail greedy children in a frenzy of deligit over the smoking plum-pudding. Chrstmas, according to those delectable pictures, was all guzzling and gobbling, love-making and other blindman'swff ; and as the reader of to-day looks i-ith amused curiosity at those holidaydcetelies of yesterday, he, too, like the tranger by the fire in Bracebridge Bill, through all the fun and the feastiig, hears the music of tho old Christmas soig : "Twos Otrlstmis broached tbe mightiest ale, 'Twos Clrtstmm told the merriest tate; A Christmas gnntwl oft would cheer The poor man's heart through half tho yeav." This is tho spirit of Dickens' Christmas, and of Thackeray's, and, in a great degree, of living's, touched in all of them by the nndern humanitarian sentiment. It is tie traditional English Christmas, whei no man should go hungry. For these is no joy npon an empty stomach except, indeed, tho hin ecstasy of the starving saints in old pictures, and they wero already dehumanized. This is a Christian truth which asceticism has forgotten. To identify squalor, emaciation, and denial of all human delights with especial sanctity was to degrade the rich and generous religious spirit which taught

that all the world is for man's benefit and pleasure. It was George Herbert of whom Ilichard Baxter said that ho sang as one whoso business in this world was most with God, aud whoso beautiful lines, "Sweet day, so cool, so calm, no bright, Tho bridal of the earth and sky," are as fresh as when they were written ; who also said, "For us the winds to blow. The earth doth rest, heavens moro and fountains flow; Nothing wo see but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure; The whole is either onr cunboard of food. Or cabinet of pleasure." Christianity jloos not decline any wholesome use or beauty of tho world, and it would be a sorry preachor in tho church embowered and scented with Christmas greens who did not hold

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,r 11 , , ,;i,:i that Christmas good cheer contemplates Max was bo absorbed m his own lovo, , ' n t i..i . i body as well as soul. ueo. nm. Cur-

not yet mo grow ui ui a hwcituuiuumi, that ho failed to measure that of a mother for her son. "Pm afraid it was too much for me, Mas." sho said.

"I will talk; I have something to say. "Who's that tugging at tho bedclothes? Is it Higgins? Send her

Augustus had a New Year's card, Bovel-edgcd and Kaitrty; And everywhere Augustus went He swapped it off for toddy. Augustus gave tho cards arouud Until he used tbe stock up. And woke a sadder, wiser man, Noxt, morning, In the lock-up,

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