Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 December 1895 — Page 3

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jjjjp t HK midnight star* shine overhead With more th«d» usual brightness; The hUts and valleys, are arrayed In robes of dassllng whiteness:

And Jeweled sprays of frost and rims To forest boughs are clinging: .And sweet the anthem and sublims The Christmas bells are ringing. It wakes old memories again; The vanished past is nigh us; We feel anew old bliss, old pain. And long dost friends are by us— Friends who have reached the betterland. Friends who have never faltered In friendship e'en around us stand With" friends estranged and altered. And voices silent long we hear Sweet words of pardon speaking; And other voices reach our ear, , v Our words of pardon seeking: The wrongs we met too trivial seem JTo merit angry feeling; The wrongs we did we greater deem While Christmas bells are pealing. And we forget to scheme and plan While Christmas bells are telling . Of him who came in guise of man On earth tocialm a dwelling. The sweet bells sounding near and far Calm, holy thoughts are bringing. And Heaven and earth the nearer ars While Christmas bells are ringing. —Chambers Journal.

That's off my mirnl for another year.’* t Mr. March gave an impatient little fling1.to the last sheet in a series of letters he had been writing. Short And stereotyj>eil they were—all running much like this; “Dear-; Inclosed find a trifle In remembrance of the day, with good wishes for all. Affectionately. “John March.'* “It's a kind of nuisance,” went on Mr. March, as he gazed at five checks which lay on his desk with the letters, each one dashed off and left to dry while the others were written. “1 don't know—** a grumbling coming into his tone— “really, I don't—why 1 should keep it up year after year. There are some things which might be considered outgrown as time goes on, and this is one of them.” Still Mr. March had a feeling that it would not be discontinued, this every■Christmas offering of a small sum of money to each one of his kindred; it was too firmly based oh old association. With the passage of the years he had grown apart from them; his interests and theirs had become widely separated, and yet he could not well have persuaded himself to sever tilis Almost only link which bound him to the members of his own family. It had begun soon after he had left home and come up to the great eity in search of the fortune which had finally crowned his effox'ts. He had done well from the first; and, even now, as he gazed upon the five cheeks, he recalled with a slight warmth at his heart the first time he had sent home gifts of money. They had been smaller then; a dollar each to three cousins, five dollars each to his brother and sister. What a stir they had made in the family. John could easily realize the feeling of opulence whieh it spread over his

home roof and that of his uncle living near. Later he had enlarged the gift. Brother, sister and cousins had married and set up homes of their own. jSone of them had, like himself, prospered abundantly; and when first John March had written out three cheeks for ten dollars and two for twenty-five, he still knew the rejoicing they would carry into families in which money, was scarce. He had rejoiced in doing it, all the snore that a little effort and self-denial had been necessary accompaniments of the gifts. That was many years ago. Time and circumstances had built up walls between him and his relatives, and the old heartiness of good will was wanting. “It is really time I was letting it go.” A thought crossed him of how good the bit of money still came to its recipients. '“But I’m under no obligations to keep it up. I have made my money—they had the same chance. Their lives are what they have made them, just as mine is what i have made it. They expect help from me, and they have no right to.” He fretfully recalled the time when it had been represented to him that unless the brother who still held the old homestead had a lift of a few hundred "dollars the place would pass out of his hands. It had been given, and that was the end of any trouble from David. With his sister it had been worse. She had made an unfortunate marriage, and then been widowed. Meek and mild in her disposition, she had never ■directly applied to him except when in extremities, but was given to keeping her burdens and struggles before him in a way which he sometimes found exasperating. ' Cousin Tom had been a scapegrace— Always in trouble, always looking for some one to help him out and set him going again on the basis of many promises of better things. Cousin Harley was the possessor of a large family and small everything lt was not so very long since Mr. March had helped titan out west, finishing his assistance with the suggestion that in future it would be agreeable that he should been

his difficulties to himself. Cousin Ms-! tikla had a sickly family; a wail from her on the subject of pressing doctor's bills was frequently heard. “No," resumed Mr. March, as be fold* ed one of the checks, “people have no right to inilict their misfortunes oa , some one else just because he hits j achieved success where they have failed, i —That you, Mike?** “lt*s mesilf, sor. Ready to shut up j when you say the worrud.” “I’ll take the key myself. l*m not j quite done yet, bulTyou needn’t wait.** j Mike, however, showed no hurry to ■ leave, but busied himself ^bout the ! room with occasional glances at Mr.j March. “That’ll do, Mike,** at length said the gentleman, somewhat annoyed by the rattle of shovel and tangs, which seemed ; to show unusual excitement in Mike, j He came slowly toward Mr. March—an undersized figure of an oldish man with a painful limp. “If 1 might be thrubbiin* ye jist a j minnit, sur.**

“Goon.Mike; no more lawsuits,hey r “No more o’ thim. It's the funny man ye are, sor.” Mike shook his head, his whole insignificant lace beaming with delight. “It’s only that bein’ it’s the blessed say son cornin’ so nearChristmas eve to-morrow, glory be to God*—that I’m axin’ a bit o’ help o’ ye, Musther March, to sind a bit of a yrifeat to me two brothers, Pat an* Ifinnis.” “So you have relatives,**©, have you ?” “Thanks to the blkssid saints l have, sor. An* so I'ta eomin’ to ye to fix up the bita *’ paper that’ll carry some money to thim two—the lectle mite of a scrap that manes so much.” Mike laughed aloud as if in great relish of the subject. “Check, hey ? Well, here,” Mr. Mareh again opened his cheek-book and again began rapklly filling a blank. “To the order of—what's the name?” “Patrick O’Toole,”—Mike paused a moment as the name was written, then proceeded—“five hun’erd dollars.” “lley?” Mr. March gave his chair a little jerk and gazed into the thin, freckled face surrounded with its fringe of ill-kept red hair streaked with gray. “Five hun’erd dollars to Patrick O’Toole,” repeated Mike in the dclib

tv Id the aehe in roe ould hones, but ye see. sur, they're me own flesh an* Wood—Pat and Denote. They feel the pinch and the hardness Jist like mesilf. Would it be mesilf Vd sit by am Are takin’ roe aise knowih* things wa# harder for thim nor for roe? De me how I! Musther March. I'm thiakin* it's the stingy ould rascal l*m bein’ not to give thim more.** “Mike, you’re a fool!** repeated Mr. March, but more quietly than before. , and simply to fill in the pause. “It’ll be raichin’ ’em the roomin’ of the blissid Christmas day.** Mike took I a few limping steps in growing excite- j roent. “Think of it. sur! It'll be | roakin’ ’em feel rich! It'll bring the shiuile to their faces, anti the laugh to ’em. God bless ’em! on His own birthday! It’ll aise the ache that no one but the blissid Lord an* thimsilws knows of.” * , Yes. there was a radiance added to the gentleness in the faded evea—a ’ radiance written by a joy of whieh few \ in this self-seeking world know the taste.

Without saying; more Mr. March wrote the cheeks, to which the old man added his tremulous signature. As the sound of the limping footsteps died away in the hall. Mr. March turned agc!n to the five checks on his desk. “They look small—yes. they do.* Mechanically he added a cipher to the one nearest him. “That looks better.* A cipher was added to each check. “One hundred. Two hundred and fifty. They'll all have to be written over.* Mr. March leaned his head on his hands, less in a hurry , to get home than he had thought. The glorified face of the old servitor was still before his mind’s eye. Mr. March doubted if ever in his life he had looked into a happier one. “Cutting down his bit of a nest-egg so—the poor old simpleton! Likely enough to end his days in the poorhouse jet.” Tut it was with a softened smile that the rich merchant thought it. Then his mind ran over his own affairs. Prospered from his first beginnings he had. during these few later years, taken huge strides towards a colossal fortune. Seven figures it would take, he well knew, to express what he was worth.

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erate ton© of one taking special pains to make himself understood. “What do you mean, Mike?” “Jist phat I'm afther savin’, sw» Five hun’erd dollars to Patrick O'Toole, an’ five hun’erd dollars to Dennis O’Toole.” “Out of your damage money?” Mr. March asked, between two short breaths of astonishment. “That’d be it, sur. Where else would the likes o’ me be gettiu’ five hun’erd dollars?” “Where, sure enough! Why—” Mr. March gazed at the old janitor with a comical mixture of amazement andt friendly contempt. “Why—you old— fool!”

Mike stood quietly with a broad grin on his face. “Do you mean to say,” went on the gentleman, “that you're going to give such amounts out of the two thousand dollars you got as damages from the street railway for injuries.which have made you a cripple for life?'* “Such amounts" seemed a little bewildering to Mike. “Would ye be thinkin’ I ought to be dividin’ aiquil wid ’em, bein’ they’re me own brothers, sur?” he began. “Go long with you!” said Mr. March, with a laugh and a stamp of his foot. “Mike," he continued, seriously ,“if you do mean such a crazy thing, I hope you ! will hear me when I advise you against ! rt. Why, man, you are getting old. Your two thousand dollars is almost all your dependence for your old age—for you and >*our wife." “It’s the ould wife and mesilf *11 be aimin’ this many a year yit, sur, plase the Lord." “Hut, Mike, think of the difference this money will make in your comfort. With your simple ways it will make years of ease in your life. You can sit by your fire in your own snug hired room, instead of working hard—you with your crippled limb.” “Musther March,” he said, “I know it all, none betther nor mesilf. I know jisV how much aisier it is to sit by the fixe nor to go out in the oerishin’ cold

and the initial figure would not be on© of the smaller ones, either. His own family lived well, but not extravagantly; his yearly expenses were but a small proportion of his rapidly increasing yearly income “And IN'© never made anyone feel rich. Old Mike’s ahead of me there.** With a shrug of his shoulders he drew towards him one of the checks and added to it another cipher. Kieh? There was not one of these families to whom such a check would not come as an angel's gift, with stares and catches of breath, tears of joy from care-burdened elder ones, shouts of delight from youngsters. H© knew it all, for he had been poor himself, long ago. “One thousand dollars. Twenty-five

hundred dollars. There was a little excitement about it. Mr. March left hia chair and walked up and down the floor. How had it been that he had never before realized what a small scratch of his pen could do? They were his own flesh and blood. They were in one way and another enduring the hardness, the daily and nightly wear of mind, the pitiful, gnawing solieitude which belongs with small means. Soul, mind and'body, the hardness touched them all, binding t hem down with its iron touch, narrowing them with its cruel limitations. His own flesh and blood. They had stood to him* as of far less value than this money he had been accumulating —money which could neverbringtohim mere than food, clothing and lodging. Yes, it could. It could bring to him, to his very self, his very heart, the happiuess of five families—this rare privilege which he thanked God could come with an easy scratch of his pen. As he still crossed and recrossed hte office floor his movements became quicker, a glow spread over his face, and a new light shone in his eye. At length he sat down and slowly wrote r gain the checks, lingering over them as over an enjoyable task; and when aU were finished each showed still one more cipher.—(Sydney Da-re, in Dem* oreet’s Magazine.

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