Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 December 1883 — Page 2

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The Express this year, as last, will issue a handsomely printed New Years address. The poem for the address is to be an original production, for which the Express offers $10 as a prize Those desiring to compete are requested to send in their productions not later than the 24th of this month. A committee of competent judges will award the prize.

A merry Christmas to you all.

Perhaps the red sunset Las something to do with this Christmas slush

Representative Cobb received the chairmanship of the committee on public lands. The clerkship is worth $2,500 a year.

The Ways and Means committee means free-trade, not tariff for revenue only. The speaker's speech was for the public his committee is for business.

Congressman Lamb is on the foreign afiairs committee, the committee that will look after the relations with Great Britain. And this was in spite of Mr, Cobb.

The police board has not yet taken any public action regarding the conduct of the officers who released the men arrested for the robbery of Confare & Cassidy'y saloon.

The New York Sun has dropped Holman, and is now engaged bringing Ex-Congressman Roswell P. Flower, a millionaire

"didate.""

There is nothing so easily done as the smirching of a public man's name before the country. The correspondence between certain railroad manipu lators, now being made public through a law suit in California, shows how flippantly people talk about a public man's integrity.

Speaker Carlisle evidently believes in the levee system, the reclamation of the alluwal lands that lie along the Mississippi. Floyd King, of Lousiana was made chairman of the committee and his only idea in connection with the navigation of the Mississippi river is to reclaim property.

And Ur. Beeoher Has Strong Hopes. Boston Globe. Mr. Beeoher says that four-flfths ol the inhabitants of heaven are women.

The French Cuisine-

Chicago News. France has again prohibited Hie Impor tation of American pork. Does she think she can live by eating Ch Inamen

Heavens! Has Joe Been Doing Anything! Galveston News. Joe McDonald Is a good man but the people who are booming him for presl dent Bhould ask themselves: Will his moral character stand the electric light of a heated campaign?

English Detective Ability.

Chicago News. Talk about your sharp Parisian deteottves, but they can catch only criminals, while the more thrifty English detective succeeds In making cases against Innocent men, and catching them into the bargain

Gas in the Far West-

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Stone rose to a porsonal explanation last night to Inform the council that the Globe-Democrat receives a dollar a line for Its articles on the gas question. We rise to a personal explanation to say that Mr. Stone lies.

Bonny Boston, Indeed!

Indianapolis Journal. Ye solid men of Boston, what are ye going to do about it? The New York Graphic profanely speaks of your classic city as ".bonny Boston." Bonny Boston, forsooth! Next we shall hear of versatile and sprightly Emerson.

The Home of Foster and Foraker. Cleveland Herald. With Logan and Lincoln Illinois finds itself burdened with greatness. There is where Illinois is not like Ohio. Ohio might be filled with greatness, but it would never find it burden. This condition is part af the Ohio idea.

Capel

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New York Special. The Journal prints a statement to the effect that Mgr. Capel has fallen a victim to the wiles of the seductive Bteerer. The stQry is to the effect that the noted cleric was beguiled into the rooms of the equally noted bunco operator, "Kid Mailer," and there, with the assistance of a confederate, was relieved of $60 in cash and a $260 check.' Mgr. Capel, it is said, having parted with the men, suspected the true nature of the operation that had been performed, and demanded the return of his money and check, and that Muller fearing police interference likely to be brought] be more respected.

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to bear upon him, consented to return the check, bnt is now going about town boasting of a brilliant, though not

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profitable piece of roguery. A reporter called upon Mgr. Capel last evening, bnt the reverend gentleman was out. His "secretary treated the story very lightly, as if its transparency did not require that it should be denied when the ability and dignity of his superior were to be set against the boasting of an outlaw.

WISE AND OTHERWISE.

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He was a languid, harmless dude, She was a dudess fair. He had an eye-glass staring rude,

She had a JLangtry air. He had a hammered sliver cane, She had a canine pug. He of his languid air was vain,

She of her sealskin snug. He In the Brunswick window stood, She with her pug went by. He struck a dress-plate attitude,

She heaved a two-cent slgli.

He was mashed by the canine pug, She by his hammered cane, Now they live in a French flat snug,

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A TERBIBLB ISFAST.

I recollect a nurse call'd Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man

Came up and klss'd the pretty lass. She did not make the least objection! Thinks I. "Aba!

When I can talk I'll tell mamma," And that's mv earliest recollection.

Egg-nog was invented in Virginia. The next thing on the programme at the Vanderbilt mansion will be an art reception.

The Oil City Blizzard says that if its debtors will call around and pay up they will confer a great favor on its creditors.

Radicals have a hard time of it in Servia. The whole party, 20 in number, is now under sentence of death. That is a summary way of disposing of defeated political opponents.

When recently asked to dine at the royal palace at Copenhagen, Mr. Tennyson was unable to accept the invitation from the characteristic but sufficient reason that he had no dress coat with him.

Samuel L. Clements (Mark Twain), J. Hammond Trumbull, the phiollogist, Charles Dudley Warner, and Mrs. Stowe make quite a galaxy of celebrities, when they are at home, in Hartford, Conn.

It is estimated that the heating properties which go to waste in the smoke of London in the course of a winter is $25,000,000 worth. Only think how many people that would keep warm if it were utilized.

Speaking of Tom Henry, the Ken tucky supreme court clerk who never drinks water, the press of the state ruefully says: "It was no Ctcsar laid him low 'Twas sour-mash whisky struck the blow."

Jennie Adler, a Dayton Jewess, returning from a visit to New York, met a New Orleans merchant named Myers on the train. Thoy were mutually smitten. He popped and she said ''y-e-s," and within half an hour after arriving in the Dayton depot they were man and wife.

The natives of Madagascar have taken cleverly to the manufacture of

firearms-. TUerHavgaccuraCeIy"i"mitated the Frew?t--,,« ^llHnmE^Tr^ler •*«npowaer. statement is made that, as a thing, the greatest belles marry the homeliest men. When this item has been thoroughly circulated you can have some fun by going up to a man and asking him if his wife is not a very handsome woman.

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At the court opera at Vienna recently another use for electricity was illustrated by uie simple expedient of suspending tiny incandescent lamps by very fine swinging wires, through which the effect of a swarm of lire-flies about a tropical forestscenc was produced.

It is proposed to drive a tunnel into the crator of Popocatepetl in Mexico, and to build from the mouth of the tunnel a railway to connect with the Interoceanic railway, at Amecameca. The mountain is higher than Mount Blanc, and more difficult of ascent than the loftiest pinnacle of the Hips.

As Mr. W. D. Howells has taken the liberty of criticising his fellow-writers of America, it will not be in bad form for the gentleman he has criticised to get bock at Mr. Howells. Viewed from a Chicago standpoint, Mr. Howells' literary stylo is open to the criticism that it lacks the inspiring qualities of red paint.

Mr. Blaine.

"Mr. Blaine is in town for the winter," writes a Philadelphia Press correspondent. "I called on him the other day and had the luck to be admitted to his workshop. The sun was streaming in at the windows, a jolly good hickory fire was blazing on the hearth, and the room was as bright and warm and cheerful as possible. A great big table was drawn close to the windows, and on it were manuscripts and proofs and documents. The floor all around was strewn with books. The great statesman seemed to be engaged in revising some proof sheets of his book, and I am sure he was not overjoyed at seeing me. However, he was polite, as he always is, and talked pleasantly on many subjects. He said he was in love with his present work, and should hereafter follow the pursuit of writing. Nothing he had ever done was so in harmony with his tastes and he was never so contented and happy. He certainly never was more heartv and vigorous, and he never looked better."

The Pluck of English Jews. Jewish Messenger. Our English coreligionists are to be congratulated that their prominent brethren identify themselves with their community, and are not ashamed to be known as Jews. Sir George Jessel lost not an atom of British esteem by appearing in the synagogue on the Bar Mitzvah of his son. Sir Moses Montefiore is known as a strict con formist. When Sir Benumin Phillips was Lord Mayor, Israelites were not ashamed to dine at a special table. And Alderman Isaacs is glad to champion his brethren as a Jew as well as an Englishman.

Indeed, some coreligionists in Germany who have acquired a name in literature, science and politics, may take to themselves this instance of British pluck. If they held as firmly to their colors and did"not appear half ashamed to acknowledge their ancestral faith, the Jew in Germany would

A PERFECT CHRISTMAS.

BY WILLIAM o. STODDABD.

J" CHAPTER I.

There was not a larger house in all the valley than Grandfather Vrooman's. It was old and comfortable, and seemed to lie sound asleep, with a snow blanket all over its roof.

Nothing short of a real old-faahioned Christmas could wake up such a house as that.

Christmas was coming! Unless Santa Clans and the Simpsons and the Hopkinses should forget the day of the month, they would all be thero at waking-up time to-morrow morning. "Jane," said Grandmother A rooman that afternoon, to her daughter, Mrs. Hardy, who lived with her—"Jane, I've got 'em all fixed now just where they're going to sleep, and I've made up abed on the floor in the store-

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mother, who's that for ?,'

"You wait and see, after they get here, and we've counted'em." "Anyhow there's cookies enough, and doughnuts." •SJAnd the pies, Jane. "And I'm glad Liph gathered such piles of butternuts." •'Oh, mother," exclaimed little Sue "I gathered as many as he did, anc. beech-nuts, and hickory-nuts, and— "So you did, Sue but I wonder if two turkeys '11 go round, with only pair of chickens "Mother," said Mrs. Hardy, "the plum-pudding?" "Yes, but all those children! I do hope they'll get here to-night in time for me to know where I'm going to put

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"^^tiuess ttieywill. That there spruce '11 do for the Christmas tree. Your grandmother said we must fetch a big one." "That's a whopper. But will Joe Simpson and Bob Hopkins bo bigger'n they were last summer?" "Guess they've grown a little. They'll grow this time, if they eat all their

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randmother'll want 'em to. Hello, who's that out there in the road?" "Guess it's a boy." "I declare if it isn't one of them little gray mites from the 'sylum! Way out here! I say, bub." "I'm Bijah."

There was a scared look in the black eyes, for they had never seen anything quite like Grandfather Vroo man, when he pushed his face out be tween the branches.

The trees all looked as if they had beards of snow, but ncne had a longer or whiter one than Liph's grandfather. "Bijah," said he, "did you know Christmas was coming?" "Be here to-morrow," piped the dot in gray, "and we're going to have turkey." "You don't Bay! Just you wait until I cut a tree down, and I'll come out aud hear all about it." "Is your name Santa Claus?" "Did you hear that, Liph The little chap's miles trom home, and don't believe he knows it." "Is that your sleigh "Yes, Bijah, that'B my sleigh."

J'Those ain't reindeers, and you're bigger 'n you used to be." "Hear that, Liph?"

Bijeh had not the leaBt doubt in the world but that he had discovered Santa Claus in the very act of getting ready for Christmas, and his black eyes were growing bigger every minute, until Liph began to climb over the fence. Then he set off on a run as fast as his legs could carry him. "Hold on," shouted Liph, "we won't hurt you." "Let him go," said Grandfather Vrooman. "He's on the road to our house. We'll pick him up." "Took me for Santa Claus, I declare Liph, this here tree'll just suit your grandmother."

It was a splendid young spruce tree, with wide reaching boughs at less than two feet from the snow level. Grandfather Vrooman worked his way carefully in until he could reach the" trunk with saw and axe, and then there was a sharp bit of work for him and Liph to get that "Christmas tree" stowed safely On the top of the sleigh load. "Now for home, Liph. Your grandmother '11 cut into one of them new pies for you when you get there." "Look!" shouted Liph, "that little fellow's waiting for us at tie top of the hill."

The hill was not a high one, and the road led right over it, and there on the summit stood Bijah. "I'm so tired and hungry," he said to himself, "and there comes old Santa Claus, sleigh and all."

He was getting colder, too, now he was standing still, and when Grandfather Vrooman came along the road, walking in front of the sleigh, while Liph perched among the evergreens and drove, there seemed to be something warm about them.

It was not so much his high fur hat, or his tremendous overcoat, or his long white beard, or the way he smiled, but something in the gound of his voice almost drove the frost out of Bijah's nose. "Well, my little man, don't you want to come to my house and get some pie?" "Yes, sir." *v

Biiah could not think of one other word he wanted to* say, and he mustered all the courage he had not to cry when Grandfather Vrooman picked

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em. At that very minute, away up north road, two miles nearer town there was a sort of dot on the white road. If you were far enough away from it, it looked like a black dot, and did not -seem to move. The nearer you came to it the funnier it looked, and the more it seemed to be trudging along with an immense amount of small energy. Very small, indeed, for anybody close up to it would have seen that it was a 6-year-old boy in a queer little suit of gray, trimmed with red. He had on a warm gray »p, and right in the middle of the front of it were worked a pair of letters—'-O. A."—but there was nobody with the gray dot to explain that those two letters stood for "orphan asylum." No, nor tell how easy it was for a boy of five years old, with all the head under his gray cap full of Christmas ideas, to turn the wrong corner where the road crossed, south of the great orphan asylum building. That was what he had done, and he walked on and on, wondering why the big building did not come in sight, until his small legs were getting tired, and his brave, bright little black eyes were all but ready for a crying

as he got thoroughly discour

aged he came to the edge of the woods, where there stood a wood sleigh with two horses in front of it, drawn close to the road-side, and heaped with great green boughs and branches. "The sleigh's pretty nigh full, grandfather," sang out a clear, boyish voice beyond the fence, and a very much older one seemed to go right on talk ing. "Your grandmother, Liph, she al ways did make the best mince pies, aad she can stuff a turkey better'n

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him np, as if he had been a kitten, and perched him by the side of Liph among the evergreens.

On te went, and Bijah did not_ answer a angle one of Liph's questions for five long minutes. Then he turned his black eyes full on his driver and asked, "Do you live with Santa Clans in his own house?" "Yes, sir-ee," responded Liplj, with a oreat chuckle of fan but

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to do the rest of the way home was to spin yarns for Bijah about the way they lived at the house where all the Christians came from.

When they got there, Liph father and the hired man and grandfather Vrooman were ready to lift off that Christmas tree, and carrry it through the front door and hall, and set it up in the "dark room" at the end of the hall. That ought to have been the nicest room in the house, tor it was right in the middle, but there were no windows in it. There were doors in every direction, however, and in the center of the ceiling was a Ecuttle hole" more than two feet square, with a wooden lid on it. "John," said Grandfather rooman to Mr Hardy, "we'll hoist the top of the tree through the hole. You go up and open the scuttle. Hitch the top good and strong. There'll be lots of things to hang on them branches.

Liph's father hurried upstairs open the scuttle, and that gave Grandfather Vrooman a chance to think of Bijah. "Where is he, Liph?" "Oh, he's all right. Grandmothers got him. She and mother caught him before he got into the house. tried to run away,too."

Bijah's short legs had been too tirea to carry him very fast, and Grand

Vrooman and Mrs. Hardy had

caught him before he got back to the

The way they laughed about it gave him a great deal of courage, and he never cried when they took him by his red little hands, one on each side, and walked him into the house. "Jane," said grandmother, what will we do with him? The house'll- b~ choke, jam, packed full, and there isn an extra bed." "Father found him the snow somewhere. Just like bim. But what a rosy little dot he is?" "Are you Santa Claus' wives? asked Bijah, with a quiver of his lips in spite of himself.

How they did chuckle while they tried to answer that question! All they made clear to Bijah was txwt the place for him was in a big chair before the sitting room fire-place, with a plate of mine pie in his lap, and Bush, the big house-dog, sitting beside him. "It's Santa Claus' dog," said Bijah to himself "but his house isn't big as the 'sylum."

CHAPTER if.

There were fire-places in every room on the ground floor of Grandfather Vrooman's house, and some kind of stove in more than half the rooms upstairs.

There were blazing fires on every hearth down stairs, and Liph got hold of Bijah after a while and made him and Bush go around with him to help poke them up. Bijah had never seen a fire-place before and it was a great wonder to him, but Bush sat down in front of each fire and barked at it.

It was getting dark when they reached the great front parlor, and the fire' place there was wonderful. "Woof, woof, woof," barked Bush.

Bijah stood still in the door while Liph went near enough to give that tire a poke, and he could hear Grandfather Vrooman away back in the sitting room: ovvtw&ngsprtl?f"Barignini

up."

"That's me," groaned Bijah. "He' going to make a present of me to some body.. Oh, dear! I wiBh I could' run away."

But he could not, for there was Bush and it was getting dark. "Now, my dear," went on grand father, "I'll"just light up, and then I'll go and meet that train. I'sl briiiigPrue and her folks, and Pat '11 meet the other, and bring Ellen and hers, Won't the old house be full this time?" "He's caught some more somewhere," whispered Bijah to himself. "I wonder who'll get 'em Who'll get me?"

That was an awful question, but Liph and Bush all but ran against him just then, and he heard grandmother say:

You'll have to stick candles on the window-sills. I can't spare any lamps for up stairs." "But, my dear, it's got to be lit up every room of it. I want 'em to know Christmae is coming." "That's what they were all saying at the 'sylum this morning," thought Bijah, "and here I am, right where it's coming to." $o he was, and he aud Liph and Bush watched them finish setting the supper table, till suddenly Bush gave a great bark and sprang away toward the front door. Grandfather Vrooman had hardly been gone from the house an hour, and here he was, back again.

Jingle, jingle, jingle. How the sleigh-bells did dance as that great load of young folk came down the road, and what a racket they made at the gate, and how Bush, and Liph, and grandmother, and the rest did help them! "He's caught 'cm all," said Bijah, "but they ain't scared a bit!"

No one would have thought so if they had seen Mrs. Prue Hopkins and her husband and her six children follow Grandfather Vrooman into the house.

They were hardly there, and some of them had their things on yet, when there came another great jingle, and ever so much talking and laughter down the other road. "He's caught some more. Some are little and some are big. I wonder who'll get the baby?"

Bush was making himself hoarse, and had to be spoken to by Mr. Hardy, while Mrs. Simpson tried to unmix her children from the Hopkinses long enough to be sure none of them had dropped 6ut of the sleigh on the road.

Then Liph set to work to introduce his cousins to Bijah, and Bush came and stood by his new friend in gray, to see that it was properly done. "Wher'd you come from?" said Joel Simpson. 'Sylum," said Bijah, "Where'd he catch you?" "Catch what?" said Joe, but Liph managed to choke off the chuckle ne was going into, and shout out: •'Why, Joe, we found him in the road to-day. He thinks grandfather's old Santa Claus, and this house is Christmas. "So I am—so it is," said Grandfather Vrooman. "We'll make him hang up his stocking with all the rest to-night.

Bijafci onld not feel scared at all with so many children around him, and h« was used to being among crewda of them. Still it was hard to feel at home Bfter supper, and he might have a blue time of it if it hadn't been for Liph ar.d Bush. It had somehow got into Bush's mind that the dot in gray was under his protection, aud he followed Bijah from one corner to another.

All the doors in the "dark room" were open, and it was the lightest room in the house, with its big fire on the hearth and all the lamps that were taken in after supper but there was not one thing hanging on the Christ

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mas tree until Grandfather Vrooman exclaimed: "Now tor stockings! Its getting late, children. I must have you all in bed before long." "Stockings?

Theyall knew what that meant, and so did Bijah, but it was wonderful how many that tree had to carry. Bob Hopkins insisted on hanging two pairs for himself, and Thad Simpson was begging his mother for a second pair, when Liph Hardy came in from the kitchen with a great, long, empty grain bag. "What in the world is that for? asked grandmother, perfectly astonished. "Why, child, what do you mean by bringing that thing in here "One big stocking for grandfather. Let's hang it up, boys. Maybe Santa Claus'll come and fill it"

There was no end of fun over Grandfather Vrooman's grab bag stocking, that was all leg and no foot, but Uncle Hiram Simpson took it and fastened it strongly to a branch in the middle of the tree. It was close to the trunk, and was almost hidden but Liph saw Uncle Hiram wink at Aunt Ellen, and he knew there was fun of some kind that he had not thought of.

Grandmother Vrooman had been so busy with all those children from the moment they came into the house that she had almost lost her anxiety but it came back to her now all of a sudden. "Sakes alive! Jane," she said to Mrs. Hardy, "every last one of 'em's got to be in bed before we can do a thing with the stockings."

Bijah heard her, far he was just beyond the dining room door, with a cruller in each hand, and it made him shiver all over. "I wish I was in the 'sylum. No, 1 don't, either, but I kind o' wish I

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had not seen much of the world, but his idea3 were almost as clear as those of the other children andt Grandmother Vrooman for'the next fifteen minutes. The way the Simpson and •Hopkins families, got mixed up, with Lipn and Sue Hardy to help them, was something wonderful. Old Bush wandered from room to room after them, wagging his tail and whining. "Mother," exclaimed Mrs. Hardy at last, "the bed you made on the floor in the store-room!" "Just the thing for him. All the rest go in pairs. I'll put that poor little dear right in there."

So she did, and no one of her own grandchildren was tucked in warmer than was Bijah. He did_ not kick the bedclothes off next minute, either, and he was the only child in the house of whom it could be said. Grandfather Vrooman paid a visit of inspection all around from room to room and Bush went with him. It took him a good while. When he came to the store-rAom, and looked in, Bijah's tired eyes were already closed as tight as were the fingers of the little hand on the coverlet, which was still grasping a cruller. ..

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had hidden there, and while he was gone Aunt Ellen Simpson and Uncle Hiram slipped a package into the grain bag, and grandmother handed Uncle Hiram another to slip in on top "f it, and Undo John Hardy and Uncle Martin Hopkins each handed him another, and the bag was almost half full, but you could not see it from outside and then they all winked at each other when grandfather came in with a back load of sleds. Grandmother may have thought she knew what they were winking about, but she didn't, for Uncle Hiram whispered to Aunt Allen: "I'm glad it's a big stocking. One'll do for both of 'em."

It was late when they all went to bed, and there was so much lire in the fire-place they were half afraid to leave it, but Grandfather Vrooman said it was of no use to try and cover it up. and the room would be warm in the morning.

When they got upstairs the children must all have been asleep, for there was not a sound from any room, and the older people went to bed on tiptoe, and they had tried hard to not so much as whisper on the stairs.

CBAPTER IRR.

Oh, how beautiful the country was when the gray dawn came next morning!—white and still in the dim and growing light.

So still! But the stillest place was the one Bijah woke up in. He could not guess where he was at fir6t, but he lay awhile and remembered. "Santa Claus' house, and they're all real good. He's going to give me to somebody as soon as it's Christmas."

He got up very quickly and looked around him. It was not dark in the stoie room, for there was a great square hole in the middle of the floor, and aglow of -dull red light came up through it which almost made Bijah feel afraid.

There was his little gray suit of clothes, cap and all, close by his bed on the floor, and he put them-on faster than he ever had done it before. "Where's my other stocking?"

He searched and searched, but it was of no use, and he said, "I can't run away in the snow with a bare foot."

He had been getting braver and braver, now he was wide awake, and be crawled forward and looked down in the scuttle hole. He knew that room in a minute, but he had to look twice before he knew the tree. "Ever so many stockings! And they're all full. Look at those sleds! Oh my!"

Whichever way he looked he saw something wonderful, and he began to get excited. "I can cfeib down. It's just like going down fitairi."

It was just about as safe and easy, with all those branches under him, and all he bad to do was to sit on one, and get ready to sit on the next one below him. He got about half waydown, and there waa the grain bag, with its mouth wide open. Just beyond it on the same bough, "but further out, there hung a very small stocking, indeed. "That's mine!" exclaimed Bijah. "It's cram full, too. They've borrowed it, after all theirs ware full. I want it put on now, but I can't reach it out there."

Just then he began to hear noises upstaird, and othsr noises in the rooms below—shouts and stamping, and people calling to one another—and "he could not make out what they were saying." "Oh, dear! they're coming, aanta Claus is coming. Wbat'H I do?"

Bijah was scared but there was the wide mouth of Grand father Vrooman's grain-bag

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fore Bijah knpw what he was doing he had slipped in. Poor Bijah! The moment he was in he discovered that he could not climb out. He tried hard, but there was nothing on the side* of the bag for his feet to climb on. Next moment, too, he wanted to crouch down as low as he could, for all the noise seemed to be coming nearer.

So it was, indeed, and at the head of it were grandfather and grandmother

He was fast asleep, but Grandfather Vrooman was not and yet, when T3nsh looked up at him, the old mans eyes were shut too, and there was a stir in the thick white beard as if his lips were moving.

Things got pretty still after awhile and then there began a steady pro cession in and out of the "dark room,' which was not dark.

Boxes went in, and bundles, and these were opened and untied, and their contents spread out and looked at and distributed. It was no wonder Grandfather Vrooman's big sleigh had been so full, and the one Pat had. driven, when they brought the Hopkins and Simpson families from the

and the other grown-up people trying to keep back the boys and girls until they should all be gathered. "Wher's Bijah?" asked grandfather, after he had counted twice around and was sure about the rest. "Bijah?" exclaimed Liph. "Why, I looked in the storeroom he isn't there." "Hope the little chap didn't get scared and run away." "Dear me—throueh the snow I' exclaimed grandmother. "Of course not," said Aunt Jane. He's around somewhere. Let's let the children in* They're all here. "Steady, nowsaid grandfather, as he swung open the door into the "dark room." "Don't touch any thing till we all get in. Stand around the tree."

He himself stepped right in front ot it, and he looked more like a great, tall old Santa Claus than ever as he stood there. The children's eyes were opening wider and wider as they slipped around in a sort of very impatient circle but grandfathers own eyes shut for a moment, as they had a habit of doing sometimes, and his

white beard was all of a tremble. It WAS only for & moment, but when h© looked around again he said: "Now, children, wait. Which you can tell me what child it was that came into the world on the first Christmas morning.?"

They had not been quite ready to answer a question that came so sud denly, and before any of them could speak, a clear, sweet little voice came right out of the middle of the tree: "I know. And the she-pherds found Him in a manger, and His mother was with Him. He sent down after my mother last summer."

Bijah!" exclaimed grandfather, but grandmother was already pushint: aside the boughs, and. now they al could see him. Only his curly head and his little shoulders

Bijah was lifted out of the bag, and he got his stocking on, after it was empty. For some reason he couldn guess why all the gri i-up people kissed him, and grandfi -i. ?r made him sit next to him at breakfast

That was a great breakiast, and took ever so long to eat it, but it waa hardly over before grandmother followed grandfather into the hall, and they heard her say: "Now, husband, what are you wrap ping up

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back there again. I'm going to have enough to go around among the rest of 'em—I am, if it takes the price of cow." "Give 'em something for me."

Uncle Hiram heard it, and he shout' ed, "And for me," and Uncle John foi-* lowed, and all the rest, till the chil dren caught it up, and there was contribution made bv every stocking which had hung on that Christmas tree. They all gave just as fast as they understood what it was for, and the last one to fully understand was Bijah "You ain't going to take me?"

His lip quivered a little. "No, Biiah, not unless you want to go. Wouldn't you rather stay here '. "Course I would."

That was not all, for both his hands were out, holding up the store of things which had come to him that morning, and he added, "Take 'em."

Something was the matter again with Grandfather Vrooman's beard, but he told Bijah he would get plenty of other things in town. "Keep 'em, Bijah. Good-by, all of you. I'll be back in time for dinner. Children, yon and Bush must be kind to Bijah. He came to us on Christmas morning, and he has come to stay."

Bush and the children did their part, and so did all the rest, and so did Bijab, and so it was a perfect Christmas.—[Harper's Young folks.

AMUSEMENTS.

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Tuesday, December 25th

Christmas Afternoon and Evening.

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The management take especial pride In announping the appearance as above of JOHN M. HICKEi'8

Ideal Rip Van Winkle Co.

Introducing the Peerless Comedian,

Mr. Orlando W. Blake

In his bright and Joyous Impersonation ol the title role in the new version of Washington living's farnous legend,

Rip Van Winkle

The best company in America, correct and majestic scenic effects and a representation in its entirety without eqnal or parallel.

Note the new era in prices. The cheapest ever known for first-class amusements: 26, 83 and 50 Cents.

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the grain bag, aad Uncle Hiram shouted: "Father Vrooman, he is your stocking 1 Who could have put him he re "I think I know," said grandfather, in a very low, husky kind of voice but all the Simpsons and Hopkinses and Hardys broke loose at that very moment, and it took them till break-fast-time to compare with each other the things they found in their stockings, and all the other wonderful fruits of that splendid Christmas tree^

Z. N. BENTON, Representative.

Seats are now on sale at trie nsual place.

QPERA HOUS

Friday, December 28, 1883.

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Chorus of 100 Yoijes, Orchestra of 20 Pie§i?s Admission SO Cents

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No. 1232. Frame housa, two stories, 6 rooms and summer kitchen, large barn. Lot 33 by 141, and 3 squares south of Main, on Eighth street.

No. 12&1. House of S rooms on south Third stroet good locality 36 by 141 all In good order. Price, $1,135.

No. 1261. Lot 60 by lu Tuell fe Usher's addition, near Polyteohnlc Institute, and near the Seventh ward school.

No. 1282. Four good lots on high ground near the nail works. Very cheapNo. 2298. A No. 1 corner lot on south Seventh street, 8600.

No. 1371. Two vacant lots on east Main street, very cheap. No. 1375. Large lot, pleasantly located, _j by 140, In southeastern part of the city. A pleasant place for a home.

No. 1378. Northwest corner of Seventh and College. No. 1400. Vacant lot on east Main street.

No. 1414. Vory desirable corner lot on north Third street. No. 1889. Six lots in Burnham's sub., andean be fenced together.

No. 1250. Lot 75 by 141 feet, on south Sixth-and-a-half street, south of Oak, and on east side. Kasy terms.

No. 1210. Splendid lots, near the Seventh ward sehool house, in Tuell A Usher's addition. A No. chanc for persons of moderate means to secure to themselves a home, for a vory small amount of money. Small cesh payments, and almost any time given on deferred payments. If purchaser will build. These otsareln everyway desirable, and wo have no doubt will be taken up immediately. Thev are specially recommended to non-residents and others desiring a safe investment, being near the Polytechnic, and only a pleasant walk north of the Vandalla railroad. Houses built upon them would rent readily and at paying rates.

Lot 1231. Lot 70 by 168 feet on south Sixth street, near the residence of Henry Robinson, Esq. Prlco, 91,250.

No. 1359. A very desirable lot, 42

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No. I486. Two-story brick on First street, will be sold cheap. No. 124S. House and three lots in Mack

Grimes' subdivision. House of four rooms and in good condition, southwest corner of Liberty avenue and Twentyfirst street.

No. 1497. A good four-room bouse on south Second street, cheap and on easy terms.

No. 1107. No. 610 north Blxth-and-a-half street. House of seven rooms gooa cellar, cistern, stable lot 40 by 260 east front.

No. 1201. South Fourteenth street. House of five rooms, pantry, porch, cellar, and good new barn.

No. 1479. A good four-room house on south Second, cheap and on easy terms. No. 1421. Large frame residence on south Third street, twelve rooms, beautiful rounds and good fruit lot 120 by 900 jarn, well, two cisterns, smoke house, all In fine order.

No. 1490. Anew one-story frame house, three rooms and all improvements, on corner of Seventh street and Lafayette.

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barn?" "Barn! Why, my dear I'm going to town. I told Pat to have the team ready." "To town Why, husband— "Mother, there'll be stores open to day. I can buv cords of toys and candy and things." When get to the Ornhcin A

House and six lots, east of

hinsi furnace and south of Montrose school house very pretty little place and very cheap.

No. 1238. About 15 acres of land south of city limits, on Seventh street lay together and very desirable. tin 1240 Five acres on-Vlncennes road, a shin distance below city limits good double house a valuable P'®?® ground and a good investment very oheap.

N 1191. Five acres, beautifully situated, east of city fine f™1.1.linresJIs hmiRA of nine rooms, with clothe® presses and^orches, good barn, and everything

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142 feel ou west side of Fifteenth street north of the residence of Charles Daggett, on easy terms. Price 9375. One-half ca*h, balance in one year. A bargain.

No. 1239. Two good lots, southeast corner of B'^omors and Seventeenth, in Jec" t.4 's add. Also, three lots, 30 by 140 feet each, on Seventeenth, north of Sycamore, and north

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houses, recently built by Edward Reed, Esq. These lots are very eligibly situated for small homes. Houses In that locality rent well. It is only two and one-half squares north of the street railroad. Will sell all or singly for 9230 each. Ono-balf cash balance In oue year, with 8 per cent. Interest. First come, first serve

No. 1239. Five lots on Eutaw avenue, a part of Jewett homestead, east front, good shade and very cheap. These lots are only a few feet nortb of Chostnut, and near Main.

No. 1246. Large and small lota on Thir-teenth-and-a-half street, hear the nail works. Cheap homes rent well. Good Investment. Lots cost, say 9200 A house of four rooms, cellar cistern, outbuildings and fence 700

Total cost 9900 Which will bring 910 per month. How is this for a safe and profitable Investment?

No. 1280. Lot 35 by 150, on north side of Chestnut first lot east of Sixth, and only good lot left In that neighborhood 91,900.

No. 1426. Northwest corner of Seventh and Linton streets, "Old Brewery property, 143 feet front on Seventh street.

No. 1485. Two lots in Tuell & Usher's subdivision. No. 1378. Two lots on Sixth-and-a-half and College streets, B0 feet each.

No. 1487. Corner Second avenue and Lafayette street, S% feet front on Lafayette. Only 9450.

No. 1488. Vaoant lot* in Burt's addition. I part down.

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Take pleasure in calling the attention of thoee who may wish to make a good investment, er who desire to purchase a Home cheap, to a few of the many pieces of property in their hands for sale. Our list of property for sale is so large and has such a great number of Bargains, tliat we will shortly issue a Bulletin, in which wecan do full justice to all parties who have placed property in our hands. Before enumerating a few of the many tmrgnina in real estate, we may mention two stocks of groceries, one valued at $1,500, and the other, $2,000, which will be traded for real estate. The following is only a partial list of vast numbers of bargains in real estate they can ofler:

IMPROVED CITY PROPERTY.

No. 1312. Houses of seven rooms on south Second street. A very pretty place and good location. Kasy terms.

No. 1328. A desirable residence on north Third street. Large corner lot, room for another bouse, ana on easy terms.

No. 1467. Valuable property on Third street, between Main and Cherry, 50 141. has a large brick barn ou rear and wi sell oheap.

No. 14TO. House and three lots In east part of city, will exchange for property more central.

No. 12S2. Eleven acres, near Fort Harrison, all In cultivation. House of three rooms and a desirable garden spot.

No. 1116. Northwest corncr of Eltn and Seventh, known as the Wintormute property ground 150 by 141 good house of 10 rooms, all in perfect repairs, largo barn, beautiful shade and fruit trees.

No. 2303. James M. Lyons' homestead on south Sixth street. No. 1200. Two houses and lots on north Tenthstreet,

No. 1413. House and lot ou south Slxth-and-a-half street, seven rooms and on easy terms.

House of four rooms, and three and i» Half acres of ground, on Locust street, with good barn, well and cistern. ill sell or exchange for other small property in the city.

House and lot on north Seventh streel, of seven rooms, with good barn aud outbuildings. Will be sold cheap. Lot 74$xl» feet.

SUBURBAN PROPERTY.

No. 1220. Large frame house, two stories, eight rooms and on south-Seventh street, lot 80 by 168. Can be had cheap.

No. 1214. A first rate brick residence of eight rooms, two dories, large barn, all needed out buildings, and all In No. 1-good order In the central part of city, and Just the place for a business man. Price low and terms easy.

No. 1237. Large frame residence, 1H stories, 11 rooms all in perfect order northwest corncr Ninth and Mulberry. Will sell very low and glvo long time on part.

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house: will be sold at a bargain being near the depot of the I. & St. L. R. R., aud is very desirable as a boarding house.

No. 1208. House nnd lot on south Third street lot 83 by 141 well in fronf, house has 4 roomB good barn all in first-rate order on easy terms.

VACANT LOTS.

Four vacant lots in Burt's addiido. tlon.

No. 1489. Nineteen aores of land onn mile south of city limits. A splendid garden place.

No. 1490. A nice building lot, corner of Sixth and Third avenue. No. 1261. Lot 75x150, north Slxlh-and-cv half street, near Lafayette.

No. J366. Thirty-three feet on souih Seventh street. Will bo sold cheap. No. 1442. A desirable building lot on south Sixth street, all under fence, ready for buildings. Will sell cheap.

FARMS.

No. 1200. Twelve ucres of land on south Sixth street, known as the Sparks property.

No. 905. Four hundred and elgbty-elght. acres of land In Prairie Creek township 250 acres in cultivation all under fence, and two small houses on It. 906. Eighty acres In Clark County 60 acres In cultivation, 5 acres in meadow will sell cheap.

No, 907. Three hundred aud seventyfive acres in Clark county 120 acres in cultivation agorfd farm house with eight, an go am a el or half cash, balance on time.

Cine hundred and twenty acres in Clark county, Illinois, six miles west of Marshall, and two and one-half miles from Vandalla railroad about thirty-five acres in cultivation and under fence. Log house with two rooms orchard and log stable.

One hundred acres In Sullivan county, 88 acres in cultivation, and 18 acres in timber good living water on the place: one frame house and log house, stables, «tc. Will sell at a bargain.

Two hundred acres or land in

wood county, Kansas part In cultivation. A good stone house ana stable. No. 901. Forty acres in Cumberland county, Illinois house of three rooms, orchard and small barn about 35 acres tu cultivation close to Toledo, the country seat.

One hundred and sixty acres of land In Miller county, Missouri good timber land. Will exchange and pay dlfi'erence for Terre Haute property.

One bundled and sixty acres In Greenwood county, Kansas. Will trade for city property and pay small cash difference.

Eighty aores in Cumberland county. This is fine llmberland, one and one-half miles from Vandalla railroad.

One hundred and elghty-two acres ot, land south city, on west side of Wabash river 70acres in cultivation bottom lain We sell cheap or exebango for city prj

Eighty acresdf land in Clark cou llnols. Will exchange for city

Four hundred acres south of Merom^ Sullivan county, Indiana will sell nil I gether or divide up in small tracts. Prli 820 per acre.

One hundred and fifty acres In county, Indiana, on the east fork of river, near Hutsonville, say half miles from Washington, coun seventy-five acres In cultivatiouvyeiit timber—920 per acre.

Ten acres of land on National r: Orphan Home. Will trade for.

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property. Lays on National rood. Three hundred acrcs of land in Sullivan county, ind. house of six rooms, newbuilt two years, with barn and all necessary out buildings 230 acres in cultivation fences fair. Keady to move od March 1st, 1881. Will exchange half for city property. Thirty-five dollars per acre.

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