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How can I tell the story? | t My pen refuses to write? j t * * * * * j 1 I would give her gems of light j { From the caverns deep of night; j ^ Opals, rubies, emeralds green. j | Diamonds bright with fiery sheen; ' All the spices, rich and strong, f From the eastern lands of song; j Perfumes heavy, musk and nard, ^ Ambergris, opaque and hard; ? And the tissues soft and rare, > 1 That Circassian beauties wear, 1 That with clinging, tender fold, V All her charms should closely hold. I would give her castles fair ? Far in Spain's ambrosial air, t Tall and stately, sheened with gold, a Ivy grown and gray and old. ^ Since I cannot give her these? j 1 For I lack the needful pelf? : t I will give her, if she please, j I All I have?my life, my self* j i David A. Curtis. j a \hn Israelite's : S: FHenry," said the v"'ar^en> holding out his "Goodbv," said the man as he grasped his late jailer's hand; "goodby," a b*t huskily. "I thank? you?sir?for all your kindness" "Oh, that's all right!" said the warden cheerily. "1 try to do what's right; 1 that's all. Just you do th&tr in the ! future, Eenrv, and I shall never see you i here again. Good luck to you." The great doors clanged behind Henry Johnson as b * stepped out of the prison, where he had served six years, four | months and twenty-five days?not the i lull Beuieuuo lie? uau icucivcu, iui iuu ; benefit of the allowance for good be- s | havior had been his. But six years is a ; long time, long enough to change a man for better or worse fc With a new suit of clothes, a ticket to i: Xew York and twenty-three dollars i: Johnson walked away, once more a free l man. - He had looked forward to thi3 day for t years. He had dreamed of it on his I hard bed in his lonely cell?the day on y which he would be liberated, on which f I iMrwrenprwculd begin. ^^^ashere at last. Johnson was sur- A loarSetThislittle roll of bills, cuuiiuug J hem over and over. A strange attrac- j ion lured him to the neighborhood of , ;he bank where he used to work. At ! be close of the somber day he stood ; md watched the well dressed, well groomed men emerge from the bnildng. "That is the way I used to look," le said to himself, and then glanced iown at his plain clothes and coarse ihoes. / At night the Bowery glittered with ows of lights that twinkled like evil >yes. Johnson tramped for many docks, pausing now and then to gaze in ;he windows at the Christinas decoraions. There was one displaj' which 'ascinated him. In a cutler's window vere stars, crosses and other emblems brmed of smooth, shining, sharp edged aiives. Johnson looked steadily at hem for a long tiipe. Then he went in, md selecting one particularly wicked dade paid for it from the little roll of rill* thmafc it in the breast nocket of ! ii3 coat and resumed his tramp. "Christmas, Christmas," he muttered is he plodded on. "What is Christmas 0 me? I'd like to give John Raymond 1 Christmas present, curse him," and hen suddenly he thought what a fine hing it would be to drive that knife tome in Raymond's heart and attach a tiece of paper to the handle bearing the nscription, "A Christmas present from i loving friend." "HI do it!" he exclaimed. "Yes, I'll do t on the night before Christmas. What l merry Christmas it will be for me!" People brushed against him in the hrong. Children shrank at sight of his cowling face. On, on he went, unaP V?in LLiiiuiui vi 12JO nuiJvuuuiu0o, ! 2fJ|.|j; ' f/U |r pi 'f 1 OMETHING ROLLED DOWN THE CHEEK OF THE EX-CONVICT. Suddenly lie paused before a great milding into which crowds were pourQg. He joined the throng and drifted q. There were lights and music. Somebody?a man with a clear baritone voice jflh i ringing something. To the ears of heToVimoclifti ofnlo tViAQO wordQ '\m found a friend in Jesus; "He's everything to me; re's the fairest of ten thousand to my soui. The Lily of the Valley. Iq him alone I see BiBBHHHHBHBHMHBBBHnMMHi iTSjf _ to i*r= ^t&nd of w wmo^S fe^Mt fW *11 Ifli bfijjni 45 tn*y ca?\ i* "iir Q*j>"r\? Wl bdck, And 1*11 fortju# Tnywhtpidndcco'ty ofp&in (9 Once *\oft on tJt to]i^ "^jr And b? 6 boy r\ a ' * When she rose to go he followed h< As she hurried away he stealthily ere behind her, his hand involunt&ri clutching the knife over his heart. Up a rickety flight of stairs she we: and close behind came her pursuer. S opened the door on the third landi: and went in. He crouched outsic holding his breath. The door remained ajar. He looked' in and marked the po room, with its wretched belongings. ] saw the bed and the sick man bolster up by flabby pillows. "Is that yon, Nelly," he heard Ra mond say. "I thought you would nev come." "Well, John, dear, I just ran into t! rink a moment to hear the singing, sounded so sweet as I came along. He is your medicine now." I K . c ,yvX'_uv^ \t "["WBrfTI?!VjdI if**} ifJUWU-L V'iJV . 7^ * >r. I' P. P. P. P Pt t ily ? TPriftHv Ash. Poke Koot and Potassium! , L - ? - - , ? ^ ' i Makes Marvelous Cure in Blood Poi- . ne i] ag son, Bheumatism aDd Scrofula. I n P. P. P. purifies the blood, builds ^ up the weak and debilitated gives n ' strength to weakened nerves, expels a e(j diseases, giving the patient health ^ i and happiness where sickness, y ;y~ gloomy feelings and^to^itude first prevailed. p be In blood poison, malsM^fcgpep- j sia, and in all blood and skHS^^^L ; like blotches, pimples, ulcers, tetter scaldhead, out fear of contradiction P. is the best blood purifi^^^^^^^ world. I ( Ladies whose system s are I am whose blood is in Thai presen in of ma: hands, suffer, ? Speciti ^^ipJ^^^^^Kothers exchai. ?? the ear children: friends nations use has robbed evil pai Bi?il|y^apce to some of us; we are unc ^f^^^^omaticalij without much P-> the WSyW ?ufc consider. We are, as known. putting off from time to ^^e P^Ron an unexplored sea. Our tively ||Bbs of life set sail and'g^ on- Scroful ||| into the darkness; and we, ^me> w our pillows, take no such ^ave ^ do when awake and Picas ksllte^py daylight. Of the perils eases o1 whatever they may be, heed. An unsleeping llf^-^?tches over us, but it is the ever - of one stronger and terbox. who is the Eternal ofwhici ^?d from Duppa "Good-by" is *r?e Yei ? j friends y?u- Good- emblem |^^0^^^^^k^ood-cight," or custom w building ||^; ';;1' ' - , ^ peznetira f^t, and I^C&< is very in cabinet: Allko grained day by When s IWifct."?Har- imitatioi straight ?||?|gjg for whi; ^ The lea-v Ith. are freqi ^Strong and those t0; circumsl If "La poem by ISil and weary, though i world ii MF5'8 reme<3y a man o j|||t<iKtomach and ings ma; iliose organs Till the Like th ^Mions. If you ^:.*Koadache, you , Ainonj permanent relief tantare c Bitters. One trial rrummir 11 fV^of fl^ic? ia 411^ OxfOl PUU lUO>U buio iO 111U | k leed. Large bottles dressfat Bazaar. ing: t A merry ( Your poc! 'atoaro Coming. fuU< But this time the bu the davs of Judea it has i lines are ?:; ? "1 | setshire; ?f^fcohcy of the money changers j circulation of various r j^|?^fcey used for different | . varying monetary | BBBgBBmtekels were good for The 1 the Roman money auc^ Ifa legal for pipes, s BjjjiP "'-B Jerusalem; the of all gi >ther was good for payments to J Caesar. Each in its turn was scarce >r plentiful valuable or less valua- ^ )le. as the quality and urgency of he demands varied. These variitions gave to the money T :hangers their opportunities. On be approach of the Jewish tax-payug time the money changers promply md providently bought-up the Jewsh shekels, and afterwards placed hem in the Temple for sale to the axpayers at a premium. It was this ricked scheme which so enraged the 'Man of Peace.'* The "Man of tears md acquainted with grief." The dan who was more than man, whose preat heart melted at sight of wrong * md in human suffering. The man j n vho on no other occasion was ever n mown to exhibit the passion of auger. j' iVhen He found those iuhuman ^ vretches?the money changers? vitk a corner on shekels and a corner v si ?n sheep and oxen and doves, the c u-eat soul of the Savior of men was v noved with anger, and with "a cat- * r nine-tails," or words to that effect p ?with a fashion of scourge used tl h >nly on slaves?He drove the money ^ hanger?the hyenas of finance? e: rom the Temple, saying: "It is ? written, My house is the house of 0 irayer; but ye have made it a den of ^ heives!" ^ On no other occasion did the Son v f God on earth become angry and f iflict phyiscal violence on his ene- ^ lies. This proves most conclusively a hat. nn no other occasion did He leet with so great and so merciless . ciime as is the robbery of the p 'orthy poor though the schemes of ^ be pirates of finance when gambling ^ 1 money and other necessities of the w eople in the hour of their reed.? ohn Davis M. C. e. u S ft Close Quarters. c, ^^Tarrow * bands, gle bei re, and what do yon think I jjot gifts f( i beautiful umbrella. / men an le?It must have been a pretty for gr; I "Old S< ? . famiiia: i't Forget to Remember 51sl^ ? meanne year, v ; impure unhealthy bhod is t it all, and the direct cause Noway diseases from which we ^iae ^ Scrofula rheumatism and row o? c Diseases which have ravaged expecta th and poisoned the blood of i *hey lir . , , I denng i - for generations, and are the I creeping rents of indescribable horrors i the gro\ ler absolute control of P. P.- I t!ieir sign of 1 only infallible blood purifier ; down t house is P. P. P. Blood Cure Las posi- ?he*Chi cured numerous cases of places a: a and Salt Rhuem in a short voting here all other blood purifiers j j^en^ot iled. the Kinj >ant to take: applicable to dis- chuckle* f infancy'or old age. in the h< Christmas llolly. the God ractice of decking churches with teethe; green is very ancient, says Chat- ! ^ On this account our pious fore- ' gave it the name of "holy t^ae," a our word holly is a corruption. r^e 1 tells us "that branches of this elr e sent by the Romans to their Pfif ( with their Xew Year's gifts as san' aticaLsf good wishes, and the 81 is saicT to be nearly as old as the ecuueH 0i ; of Rome itself." The holly wearet* ;es attains the height of forty each one I when of this large size the wood heap* valuable and is much used by geese an( makers. It is white, hard, close < and takes a very fine polish. 8e^ tained black it is an excellent sooi a of ebony. The long and ?>*r^9 are tough * branches are often used The fei p handles and walking sticks. *?w* T1] res of the holly near the ground aently much more prickiy than e??^ feel ward the top of the tree. This affecfioni tance forma the subject of a at se Southey, in which he says that theinselv in youth buffetings with the ri(ie'wlji lay call forth harshness, yet t? D ught to pray that unkind feel- tr^' .E ' daily wear away? the Chris " . . ' , ? . cie tnrou smooth temper of his ago shall be o high leaves upon the holly tree. e -fairyland Christmas Mummers. nothing i 5 other quaint customs still ex- enters tl those of the "mummers" and firmamet igs at Christmas, all common softer th? rdshire, England. Some wear broidered )me black their faces and others maa ^reei itastically. They go about sing- where ar< of old an Christmas and a happy New Year, of costly kets full of money and your cellars But in 5f beer' pleasant is the convivial side. At this 0f the pen following apparently senseless homes a sung by the yeoman of Sorner- the prisoi forgotten lerc comes I, liddle man Jan, from his Vith my zword in my han! . f you don't all do 0 ^ As you bo tojd by I, ugnteneu *11 /.end you all to York the store: Vor to make apple pio. an(j was inde* jest brands of cigars 2?, 5 tng the . Sweet cheroots, cigarettes, earth anc moking and chewing tobacco *ades, at the Bazaar. try blaci ROYAL KRIS KBINGI 'HE KING WHOSE SCEPTER IS HOLLY BRANCH. low St. Nicholas Became the Santa Cli of Today?Christmas as It la Celebrai North and South?An Old Plantat Scene. LCoi>yright, 1892.] C~ | t t, HEREVER it / curs, Christn northern lior stead, on 1 southern plan ^?VlwL *S^ tion, among th( who go down "the sea in ship nd among the people of all civili; iiids, it is the ono season of tlie y< larked by a reign of hospitality, mei lent and open heartedness. It rec? i the old the pleasures of youth, a ransports man^an absent one back is own fireside anu quiet home. In the early annals of New York ci ;hen it was Nieu Amsterdam and 1 turdy Stuyvesant was commander hief; when our now crowded Broad-w ras below Wall street and known 01 s plain Heere straat; when ourbusin arottled Maiden lane was T'maa^ aatje?"The Maiden's Path"?whi iie red cheeked Dutch girls went ang their clothes; when the meat m et was on Bowling Green, and the pr n4- City Kali park a public pasture o .....11 4.1, ? 044.1* 1 OK4.1, luc cue uicj wan, cue -c^cu auu u )ecember were dedicated to St. Ni< las, the patron saint of the colony, ras his image that constituted the i rehead of the ship that brought 1 rst Dutch emigrants to this shore, ras he who gave his name to the fi hurch within the walls, and whose b< ?ons were most solemnly invoked in t our of trouble by all Dutchmen on la nd sea. To the Dutch boys and girls St. Nit las was a jolly, white bearded, litt Id man, smoking his long stemin ipe, and in their fancies drivi iirongh the air over town and count] ceans and deserts, sending throu pace the sharpest of whistles to t ronderful reindeer team that carri ne wonderful sleigh. These lit Knickerbockers have passed away fi ver, but the children of today still ke p the devotion of the children of 10 )r St. Nicholas, only they now c. im Santa Claua. He is the same friei le same little, low built, chubl terry, mysterious ancient whcrjoi iildren of all ages and all conntj^^ The manner in whicj^aMfl|||| ilebrated differs qdJjjllSBjSilll ami ooasnco, |SjgPP^^^treet cars and trun- ' BuupTthe highways in wheel- * s. Women and children, hus- I bachelors and sweethearts strug- *j * it. 'i i_l mj i maul i/ueir weignt. mere are 1 >r boys and girls, presents for d women, and heaps of presents mdfathers and grandmothers. c jrooge" is there, crowding pater- r 3 in his endeavor to buy the bigrkey and make amends for his ^ ss to his bookkeeper during the ^ rhile materfamilias declares to that her Christmas shall be the nest among all the neighbors, comes Christmas eve?the fairy the little ones. And who shall j it? The old mantel, with its stockings, large and small; the nt looks of the youngsters as iger around the fireplace wontvhat Santa Clauswill bring; the j into bed and listening, while vn folks are making merry over gnog and mulled cider, for any ;he coming of the old gentleman he chimney; then, when the still, the mysterious movements happy parents as they produce istmas gifts from their hiding ad tie them up in the most proknots; the commotio'" in the ng before dawn when the chil- , mce from their beds to see wfcat ; has sent them; the chorus of 3 and gabble of delight as they .round the bedside of the sleepy nd mother a^uarouse every one 3use to display the liberality of I of^gifts?who shall, who can ai tfory of such a happy time? m I by the bells in the steeples call people all to church and chapel, ar y they go, flocking through the n their best clothes and with m rest faces. Closed stores and a ha cessation from labor give a Sabctity and reserve to the day outy different from the Christmas 611 : the night before. A little later iated at the Christmas dinner, nervously impatient to attack ?d up viands. The turkeys and 1 chickens that caused such a )f baskets on Christmas eve are ,uffed in turn upon tho tables, 1 after lots of little boys and in the same condition, ist ended, other pleasures fol,e old folks gather around the ^ ace to enjoy the outpouring of ing and honest interchange of n ite attachment which abound ason. The young people betake es to the frolics of a sleigh j le the children repair perhaps ] eighboring hills and ponds to ? tew sleds and skates. This is tmas of the average home cirghout the north and west. --a iristmas of the rich is also a / in which for one day at least jfc save the spirit of Kris Kringle le voluptuous heaven with its vit of gas jets, its carpeted floor, * in clover, its perfumed air, em. curtains and gorgeous Christall aflame with light and color, ? gathered a fashionable throng ;d young awaiting the bestowal gifts. the background of even this picture is another?the families Dr, the labyrinths of wretched nd teeming tenement houses, us and hospitals. They are not i. The rich man has spared abundance that the hard presDverty may for the moment be anil charitable hanils ileal out ? of good things that make one jel as if the spirit of Christmas ed the angel of the day bring- t0< old time message, "Peace on aP I good will to men." re; F. G-. De Fontaine. ile _ , . , ?a CDRAU?HT lea for Dyspepsia. fE F Nature should be A . blood. Nothing illl BDIIi does " 80 weU'80 fflALAnlML promptly, or so :::; poison safely as Swift's ^ I __Specific. ion . LIFE HAD NO CHARMS. i For three years I was troubled with malaoc. I rial poison, which caused my appetite to fail, and I was greatly reduced in flesh, and life ,, j lost all its charms. I tried mercurial and , e j potash remedies, but to no effect. I could Ene getno relief. I then decided to ftyggSSMM Qe" i A few bottles of this wonderful SSaSS the medicine made a complete and permanent ta- cure, and I now enjoy better health than ever, oso ! J. A. Rice, Ottawa, Kan. to ,3 ? Our book on Blood and Skin Diseases ^ mailed free. Owr-cn Sompm Atlanta. O*. ?ar " ? ' ? j Mav? '2o ly. lll3 j r =? Lnd Poor Man. jfSrr rst "x Wife?Is there anything else, dear, ;he you would like to hang on the nd Christmas tree? Husband?Yes. Those triplets. ;hje Christmas in the Land of the Czar. ed Throughout the Uln-aine, or little ng Russia^ Christmas is observed as a great ry, sacred day. Weeks before Christmas gh preparations for welcoming the so called be "Ckristman kutia" (barley grits) are goed ing on in a peasant's hut. tie The hut is whitewashed, the floor and or- polatia (bed of boards) are scrubbed, the en holy images, or ikons, on the walls are ?0 adorned with coarse linen towels emall broidered, and a few crosses, neatly id, made of straw or hay, are nailed upon >yt the ceiling and wall. r6s A bench covered with hay is placed at the corner under St. Nicholas* itaage, SbMgxvri wjiich rest? the pot with the sacred ^ llH^pL'he head of the g?j|^L*yer and ||mm^ the kutia? )efore tliera, after a few mere little formalities So devoured with great apjetite. After this is done all dress them:elves in their best clothes and start out '^EKl :o church. WRKk - rain December. , )h, happy hearts, list to the chiming bells! Oh, yearning souls, list to their sweet retrain! t is the echo which forever tells Of "peace on earth" amid its joys and pain. Vreathe holly berries and pale mistletoe In garlands for the joyous Christmastide; 'he year is buried, and the chastening enow Falls like a benediction far and wide. -ClaraLee Puckette in New Orleans Picayune. A Bad Neighborhood. Dashaway?Well, Uncle Ebony, what e you going to have for your Christas dinner? Uncle Ebony?I'ze gwine to have a fat id sassy turkey, sah. Daskaway?Why, I thought you told e not long ago you didn't expect to tve one. Uncle Ebony?No, sah, 1 didn't; but 1 >ne moved out ob dat neighborhood ice den. A Plea. j Dear Sauta Claus. I've got to go To bed?it's late, you seeSo listen, please, for you must know Just what to bring to me. **' ~j T ' ! | I want a pair of skates, a knife, j A pony that can trot; I want a nice big drum and frfe. And all the books you've got. * I I want a kite, with miles of string. And several Christinas trees; But when you come this year dont bring Another baby, please. > Ginned salmon, mackerel, lobsters, sters, potted ham, sardines, toinaes, okra and tomatoes, corn, pine pie, jellies, dessicated cocoanut ady for pics and custards, con nsed milk, "Worcester and pepper uce, pepper and mustard,?at the izaar. V ,