Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — Lant Year’s ChrUtmas Gifts. [ARTICLE]

Lant Year’s ChrUtmas Gifts.

I wonder where last year's Christ mas presents arc? A great many o! them have gone into the shades oi the dust bin, a great many of them are nuisances around houses, a great many of them have been kept to give to somebody else this year. I suppose some of them have been and are religiously kept. Everybody has some little keepsake, often the least costly, that he docs not want to part with. Who knows? A little hand has wrapped it in silk paper and tied it with blue ribbon, and the ribbon is around it yet, perhaps the paper, too. There is a little tender note in the packet signed with a little tender name, and it carries indestructibly the w hispers of a tender love. The little hand has possibly slapped him since, and rested affectionately before the minister in another’s palm; but that little package recalls a lot ol sweetness, and in the seclusion of his thoughts, even in the ecstasy of a new love, he says to himself, “If I hadn’t foulfdjf'her out!" San Francisco Chronicle.

The New Leaf. , January 1. Swore off. 2. Caught cold. it. Rad couzh. Was told Rock and ry» ’D knock It high ’Er'n a kite. ' • , Friend and I Sat all night, Good and tight. 4. Fainted town I Rosy red. 5. Broken down. Large head. Aching sore; . Don't think .' O V, j Ever drinkAny more. —Winnipeg Sittings. * “Now, Johnny, yotf’ve had a merry Christmas, and you must be good till next Christmas to p$ for it.” “Ob, yes, of course, be good. I don’t believe you can hire me to be good a whole year for a tin horse and a story hook just like what Bill Jones was going to trade me for three marbles. Not much 4 The reward of on,e duty is the power to fulfill another.