Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 January 1879 — Page 7

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my pocket book. "You have, eh?'' I repeated, with more earnestness* "Well, I'm glad of that, Charlie—or, what is your name?" I ended suddenly. "Squatty," said the boy mechanically. Then noticing the look of surprise upon my face, be added soberly: "That is, that ain't my'sure enough' name, you know that's what the boys calls ine. Sis calls me Jamesy." "Well, Jamesy," I continued, buttoning my collar and drawing on my gloves. "I'm mighty glad to see you, and if you don't believe it, just go down in that right band overcoat pocket, and you'll find out."

The little fellow needed no second invitation, and as be drew forth a closely folded package, the look of curiosity on his face deepened to one of blank bewilderment. "Open it," said I, smiling at the little puzzled face "open it—it's for you." "O, here, Cap," said the boy, dropping the package on the seat, and holding up a rigid finger, "you're a given' me this, ain't you?" "I'm giving you the. package, certainly," said I, somewhat bewildered. "Open it—it's a Christmas present for you— open it." "What's your idee o' layin' for me!" asked the boy, with a troubled and uneasy air. Tve been a-given you square business rinut along, ain't I! "Why, Jamesy," said I, as I vaguely comprehended the real drift of the boy's thought*, "the package is for you, and if you won't open it I will," and as 1 spoke 1 began unfolding it. ''Here," said I, "is a pair of gloves a little girl about your size told me to give to you, because I was telling hor about you, over where I live and it's 'a clear case,' and I laughed lightly to myself as I noted a slow flush creeping to his face. "And here," said I, "is a

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of good old fashioned socks, and if they will lit you, there's an old woman that wears specks and a mole on her nose, told me to tell you, for her, that she knit them for your Christmas present, and if you don't wear them she'll never for-

ive you. And here," I continued, not to lift my eyes to the little fellow's face, "is a cap, as fuzzy as a woolyworm and as warm a cap, I reckon, as vou ever stood on your bead in and this cap, it's a cheap cap, but I bought it with my own money, and money that I worked mighty bard to get. because I aint rich now, if I was ricQ, I'd buy ou a plug, but I've got an idea that this ittle old wooly cap, with earbobs to it, and a snapper to go under your chin, don't you see—won't be a bad cap to knock arouud in such weather as this— what do you say now? Try her on once," and as I spoke I turned to place it on bfs head. "Oouch ooueh!" be murmured strangely, putting out his hand, his lips quivering—the little frowsy head drooping forward, and the ragged shoes shuffling on the floor. "Come," said I, my own voice growing curiously chanced "won't you take these presents-? They are yours you must accept them, Jamesy, not because they're worth so very muob, or because they're very fine," I continued, bending down and iolding np the parcel, "but because, you know, I want you to, and —and—you must take them, you must!" and as I concluded, I thrust the tightly folded parcel beneath his arm, and with 'an odd attempt at laughter, pressed the little tattered elbow firmly over it. "There you are," said I. "Freeze onto it, and we'll skip off here at the avenue. Come."

I hardly dared to look behind me till I found myself upon the street, but as I threw an eager glance above my shoulder I saw the little fellow following, not bounding joyfully, but with a solemn step, the parcel hugged closely to his side, his eyes bent soberly upon the ground. "And how's Sis by this time?" I asked cheerily, flinging the question back ward, and walking on at a more brisk pace. 'Bout the same," said the boy brightening a little, and skipping on a little faster. "About the same, eh? and hpw'a that?" I asked.

Ob, she can't get around much like she used to, you know but she's a gitti«' betterall the time. She set up mighty nigh all day yesterday." And as the boy spoke the eyes lifted with the old flash, and the little frowsy head tossed with the old defiance. "Why, she's not down sick?" said I, a sudden nameless ache of sorrow smiting me. "Yes," replied the boy, "she's been bad a long time. You see," he broke in by way ol explanation, "she didn't have no shoes nor nuthin' when winter come, and kind o' took cold, you know, and that give her the whoopin1 cough so's she couldn't get around much. You jist ort to see her now! Oh, she's a gettin' all right now, you cau bet! and she said yisterday she'd beplum well Christmas, and that's on'y to-morrow. Guess not!" and as the little fellow concluded this exultant speech, he circled round we in a spasm of delight, and then shot forward like a rocket. "Hi! Jamesy!" I called after him, pausing at a stairway and stepping in the door.

Tho little fellow joined me in an instant. "Want that shine now?" he inquired with panting eagerness. "Not now, Jamesy," said I, "for I'm going to be quite busy for a while. This is my stopping place here—the second door on tne right, upstairs, remember— and I work there when I'm in the city, and I sometimes sleep there, when 1 work late and now I want to ask a very special favor of you," I continued, taking a little sealed packet from my vest, "here's a little box that you're to take to Sis with mv compliments—the compliments of the season, you understand, and tell her 1 sent it, with particular di« rections that she shouldn't oreak it open till Christmas morning—not till Christmas morning, understand Then

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tell her that I would like very much to come and see her, and if she says all right, you must give me a good "sendoft and she'll say all right if Jamesy' says all right, and then come back here, say two hours from now, or three hours, or to-night anyway, and we'll go down and see Sis together then—what do yon say?"

The boy nodded dubiously, "Honest —must I do all that sure enough?" "Will you?" said I "that's what I want to Know," and I pushed back the little dusky face and looked into the bewildered eyes with all the earnestness I oould command. "Solid?" he queried gravely. "Solid." I repeated, handing bim the box. "Will yon come?" "W'y. 'course I will, on'y I was just a-thiukin'—" "Just thinking what," said I, as the little fellow paused abruptly and shook the box suspiciously at his ear. "Just

thinking what?" I repeated, "for I must now good-bye. Just thinking what "O, nothln'," aald the boy, baoking off and staring at me in a phase of wonderment akin to awe. "Nothln', on'y I was jist a-thlnkin'that you was a tie the curiousest rooster I ever see."

Three hours later, as I sat alone, he came in upon me timidly to say he hadn't been home yet, having "run acrost the old man jist a bilin', and had to get him corralled 'fore he dropped down some'rs in the snow but I'm a gittin' 'long bnlly with him now," he added, with a deep sigh of relief, "ooa he's so full he'll have to let go purty soon. Say, you'll be here?"

I nodded silently, and he was gone. The merry peals of laughter rang up from the streets like mockery. The jingling of bells, the clatter and contusion of the swarming thoroughfares flung up to me not one glad murmur of delight the faint and far off blaring of a dreamy waltz, blown breeze-like o'er the drowsy ear of night, had sounded sweeter to me had I stood amid the band, with every bellowing horn about my ears, and the drums and clashing cymbals howling mad.

I couldn't work, I couldn't read, I couldn't rest, I oould only pace about hyena like. I heard the clock strike 10, aud strike it hard I beard it strike 11, viciously and 2 it held oat at arm's length, and struck it full betweeu the eyes, and let it drop—stone dead. O! I saw the blood ooze from its ears, and saw the white foam freeze upon its lips! I was alone, alQne!

It was three o'clook before the boy returned. "Been a long while," be began, "but I had a fearful time with the old man, and he went on so when I did git him in I was most afeard to leave him but be kind o' went to sleep at last, and Molly she came over to see how Sis was a-gittin', and Sis said she'd like to see you if you'll come now, you know,while there ain't no racket goin' on." "Come then, said I, buttoning my coat closely at the throat, "I am ready and a moment later we had stepped into the frosty night. We moyed along in silence, the little fellow half running, half sliding along the frozen pavement in the lead and I noted for the first time, with a pleasurable thrill, that he had donned the little fuzzy cap and mittens, and from time to time was flinging, as he ran, admiring glances at his shadow on the snow.

Our way veered but a little from tbe very center of the city, but led mainly along through narrow streets awl

I nodded. "He's asleep." "You bet he's asleep!" said the boy, still in a whisper "and be'li jist about stay with it thataway fur five hours anyhow. What time you got now, Cap?" "A quarter now till four," I replied, peering at my watch. "W'y, its Christmas, then!" he cried in a muffled rapture of delight, but abruptly checking his emotion he beckoned me a little farther from the door, and said in a most confidential whisper "Cap, look here, now, 'fore we go in I want you to promise me one thing—cos you can fix it and she'll never drop! Now, here, I want to put up a job on Sia, you understand "What?" I exclaimed, starting back and staring at the boj' in amazement. "Put up a job on SU?" "Oh, look here, now, Cap, you ain't agoin' back on a feller like that!" broke in the little fellow in a mingled tone of pleading and reproof, "and if you don't help a feller I'll have to wait till broad daylight, cos we ain't got no clock." "No clock I repeated, with increased bewilderment. "O, come, Cap, what do yon say It ain't no lie, you know all you'll have todo'll be to tell Sis it's Christmas, as though you didn't want me to hear, you know, and then she'll git my 'Christmas Gift!' first, you know, and, oh, lordy, won't she think she's played it fine!" and as I slowly comprehended tbe real significance of tbe little fellow's plot I nodded my willingness to assist in "putting up the job." "Now. bold on a second continued the little fellow, in the wildest glee, darting through an opening in a high board fence a dozen steps away, and in an instaot reappearing with quite a bulky looking parcel, which ,as he neared me, I discovered was a paper flour-sack half filled with some strange jumble, and the other half lapped down and fastened with a large twfne string. "Now this stuff," he went on excitedly, "you must juggle in without Sisseein' it—here, shove It urfdervour •ben,"bere—there—that's business! Now when we go in, you're to set down with the other side to'rds the bed, you see, and when Sis hollers, don't you know, yon jist kind o' let it slide down to tbe floor like and I'll nail it slick enough— though I'll p'tend, you know, it ain't Christmas yet, sod look sold out, and say it wasn't fair for you to tell her, and all that, and then I'll open up sudden like, and if yon don't see old Sis bng out them eyes of her'n I don't want a cent!" And as the gleeful boy concluded this speech, be put bis bands over bis month and dragged me down tbe narrow steps. "Herd*h that feller come to see you, Sis!" he announced abruptly, opening tbe door and peering in "come in," he said, turning to me. and I followed in, closing the door, and looking curiously arounu. A squabby, red faoed woman sitting on tbe edge or a low bed, leered round upon me curiously, but with no salution. I glanced nervously about tbe room. An old cook stove, propped

with bricks, stood back against

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ways, where tbe rear ends -f a^asive business blocks had ed down to insignificant proportions to leer grimly' at us as we passed from little grated windows, ana low, scowling doors. Occasionally we passed a clump of empty boxes, barrels, and such debris of merchandise as had been crowded pell-mell from some inner storage by their newer and more dignified comp ions and cow and then we passea empty 'bus, bulging up in the darKness tike behemoths of tbe olden times, or, jutting from still narrower passages, the sloping ends of drays, and carts innumerable.

And along even as forbidding a defile as this we groped at last, until we came upon a low, square brick building that appeared as though it might have served at on 3 time as a wash house, or less probably, perhaps, a dairy. There was but one window in the front, and that but little larger than an ordinary pane of glass. In the sides, however, and higher up, was a row of gratings, evidently designed more to serve as ventilation than as openings for light There was but one opening, an upright doorway, half above ground, half below, with little narrow side-steps leading down to it. A light shone dimly from the little window, and as the boy motioned me to pause and listen, a sound of female voices talking in an undertone was audible, mingled with a sound like that of some one snoring heavily. "Hear the old man a-gittin' in his work?" whispered the boy.

figure of a man, evidently in tbe deepest stage or drunkenness, and thrown loosely over him was an old tattered pieoe of carpet anda little checkered shawl

There was no furniture to sneak of one chair—and that was serving as a stand—sat near the bed, a high bump shouldered bottle sitting on it. a fruit can full of water, and a little nim and smoky lamp that glared sulkily. "Jamesy, oan't you git the man a cheer or somepin queried a tbln voice from the bed, at whioh the red-faced foman rose reluotantly with the rather sullen words "You

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reckon," while the boy looked at me significantly and took up a position near the "stand." "Sa this is Sis!" I said with reverence.

The little haggard face I bent above was beautiful. The eyes were dark and tender—very tender, and though deeply sunken were most childish in expression, and star pure and luminous. She reached a little wasted hand out to me, saying simply: "It was mighty good in them things to Jamesy, and seud me that mo—that—that little box,

uess I—I won't need

and as she spoEe, a smile of perfect sweetness rested ou tbe face, and tbe hand within my own rested with dovelike peace.

The boy bent over the white face from behind aud whispered something in her ear, trailing the little laushing lips acfoss her brow as he looked up. "Not now, Jamosy wait awhile." "Ah!" said I, shaking my bead with feigned merriment. "Don't jrou two go to plotting about me!"

O, hello, no, Cap!" exclaimed the boy assuringly. "I was on'y jist a tellin' Sis to ask you if she mightn't open that box now, honest! Now you jist ask her if you don't believe me—I won't listen," and tbe little fellow gave me a look of the most penetrative suggestiveness, and when a moment later theglad words"Cristmastgift! Jamesy," rang out quaveringly in the thin voice, the little fellow snatched the sack in a paroxysm of delight, and before tbe girl had time to lift the long dark lashes once upon bis merry face, be bad emptied its contonts out tamultuously upon the bed. "You got it onto me, Sis!" said the little fellow, dancing wildly round the room "got it onto me tbis time! but I'm game, and don't you forgit it, and don't put up nothln' snide! How'll them shoes there ketoh you and how's this fur a cloak—is them beads enough suit you?—and how's this fur a hat— reather and all—and how's this fur a dress made and everything—and I'd a got a corsik with it if they'd a on'y had any little enough. You won't look fly nor nothin' when you throw all that style on you in the morning! Guess not 1" and the delighted boy went off upon another wild excursion round the room. "Lean down here," said the girl a great light in her eyes, and tbe other slender hand sliding from beneath the covering. "Here is the box you sent me, and I've opened it—it wasn't right, you know, but something kindo said to open it 'fore morning—and—and I opened it," and the eyes seemed asking my forgiveness, yet filled with great bewilderment. "You see," she went on, the thin voice falling in a fainter tone, "I knowed that mouey in tbe box—that is, tbe bills—I knowed them bills, cos one of 'em bad a ink spot on it, and tbe other ones had been pinned with it— they wasn't pinned together when you sent 'em, but tbe holes was in where they had been pinned, and they was all pinned together when Jamesy had 'em —cos Jamesy used to have them very bills—he didn't think I knowed, but once when he was asleep, and father agoin' through his clothes I happened to find 'em in his coat 'fore he did, and I counted 'em, and hid 'em back again, and father didn't find 'em, and Jamesy never knowed it—I uever said nothin', cos somepln' kind o' said to me it waa all right, and somepin' kind o' said I'd git all these things here, too—on'y I won't need 'em, nor the money, nor nothin'. How did you get the money That's all!"

The boy bad by tbis time approached the bed, and was gazing curiously upon the little, solemn face. "What's the matter with you, Sis?" he asked in wonderment "ain't you glad "I'm mighty glad, Jamesy," she said, tbe little thin hands reaching for bis own. "Guess I'm too glad, cos I can't do nothin', on'y jist feel glad and somepin' kind o' says that that's tbe gladdest glad in all the world. Jamesy!"( "O, shaw, Sis Why don't you tell a* feller what's,the matter?" said the boy uneasily.

The white bands linked more closely with the brown, and tbe pure face lifted to tbe grimy oue till they were blent together in a kiss. "Be good to rather, for you know he used to be so good to us." "O Sis! Sis!" "Mollie!"

Tbe squabby, red-faced woman threw herself upon ber kness, and kissed the thin hands wildly and with sobs. "Mollie, somepin' kind o' says that you must dress me in the morning—but I won't need the hat, and you must take it home for Nannie—don't—don't cry so loud, you'll wake father." 1 bent my bead down over the frowsy one and moaned—moaned. "And you, sir," went on the failing voice, reaching for my hand, "you—you must take tbis money back—you must take it back, for I don't it. You must take it back and—and—give it—give it to the poor," and even with the utterance upon the gracious lips tbe glad soul leaped and fluttered through theepen gates.

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Address P. S. WEBTFALL, roblisner Saturday Evening Mali. TRRRtH A 'TK

Cancer Cured*

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Ro»s, of Peoria, IHinoin, hw dlicovewd O perfect cure for without the urn of the knife. Dr.

BCANCER

adepted to ttw etifluva CMdt

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sequence on Self Abuse as Loss of Memo-

Slmness

OM ta graduate and A thor

oughly educated physician who haa made tbe treatment of Cancer a specialty for twenty yeara. Numerous persona, afflicted with Cancer, in almoat every state In the Union, who would long since hare been dead had it not been for the great efficacy of hie treatment, are now living witnesses of the wonderful cures performed. Dr. Ross' great success iu tbe twatoent of all chronic, private, and wasting diseases, Uiat haw hitherto been looked upon as Incurable, has given him a wide reputation. Hit medicines are M1«C prepared with great care from herbs,

aird

roots, bar as.

and leaves of the treta of all nations. Patients from distance (except in Cancer cases by writing a ftaU description of their symptoms, will be treated at homa. Medicine sent by expreee or mall everywhere. Write or call. AU letters confidential. Circulars sent tree.

Address, Dr. J). Z. Moss, 903 Maim Stroe*, pieoriat Illinois.

Portable Mulay Saw Mill,

With recently made I oeccoaJ*4 as a ncifbittrbMid Bin. Item b« tho hy elllM* (tram er wttr.r r, antllietpmUty

It oajr be opera** by either two or Utrea mm, end will est' mstb lumbtr is pr*portteo to the power •ad Dumber of itaM »aplojcd aUla of tfcrger eapacttf.

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