I'l 1 I NswWar, HBSIL further longer For he will than creeds. around house, and the been the and his father, down two talked caught, and that I better busy sat go to Helen, over now and am a a very upon one a kind if is his fellow, whom whom the the of their boyhood. They had makes not happy fever had its she is It to force, events sweeter well; for spent hers man a of man a woman. one as was one he how he his God could has shall be only sit, and pale, in together in school; they heart often she those his sat together ache to recall how to and loving sweet seen, natures that wan my armchair. Harker, whom he has notseen? —Harkley His little savings had climbed the hills and hunted squirrels, first in this kind find joy rapidly used glance in to the reflected at happiness of were year in N. Y. Weekly melting gathered and their and long winter rowed with surprised and others. had nuts at away a up me a questioning Hudson. only just begun. Christmas boats the broad look, when I spoke gently. I She had “caused the widow's heart on to was near hand, and As the talk suspicion studying sing who went caught her curiously, for at fill the children's joy,” to and this consciousness on grew a was me, as SSH? Mrs. Oakley of the in stockings make the day if she wondering if I had secretly had and brought into her upon manner great were a own peace. which Santa Claus happened send for them? to made fortune recently, had All met the members of the merry one or a younger the But the visitor thoughtful girl, with what the minister calls change family Margaret little presents. had out to gave no entertainmen. was a a gone some clew did to the mystery, she of growing and she pondered long the heart, be boy Helen to had matter. wanted have little nor see to over or was a a through it until Margaret had told her Two before Christmas again. I think she decided the latter, days she talk with got her father, but stranger on a a was whole of the her letter Santa to for her soft and postal card, and and with him, wrote story the said, with servant and, eyes grew young, on so Claus. —American Agriculturist. like girlish loved follows; the I first lonely feeling it in her heart, she eyes years went as a Claus:—We Santa moved And she began herself. “Dear have to act her to ago. young up own room. BOOD NIGHT,’ afraid since last Christmas, and 1 won’t am you She resumed of the the Dr. Byrne pet almost immediately. use came up AN EVENTFUL TWELVEMONTH. said ' mamma. write this. We find I know where to us, so she long, There long I light in his strange name gave me ago. never night was •good a Papa No. 36 East Fourth live street. at now silently kept night! let I just and good to than usual tenderness Kind “Not One Cross Word in One on, eyes, Robbie awfully sick, and my resolve: more and have been UCII laughing papa a Shut little Year.” eyelids "Not word in kind and solemnity in isn't well Please bring Robbie ball and his yet. he laid a one cross one manner, as and chattering and fast like doll, I lost ‘'He word Dick sled, and would for spoke to year.” a a his hand Helen's head. ± never an angry on tongues l tight, as mine when moved. Good by. ” we me. “How is it with thee to-night, daughter?” of is The best all the decided improvement d Christmas IA there in n Oakley." ‘ Margaret was ■ just December It will be here. was one year ago, soon in the dear woman's health. She of Claus the Santa Dr B wrote e ■ name yrn s > - that the tearful wife of neighbor 31, is in the day. “It well, father.” Then my merry up, up, up Now of doctors explain that side of the postal card, the other and pleasant some you on cozy and With and faces happy hearts made remark. Poor to the above gay. “After night, the morning; after winter, me if wife My has directed eats better, and and just then her mother called sitting- you can. ringing cheer.” And voices of Charley! locomotive between He the spring. God is often kinder ran a to vitality for her the to to more nerve, more every way. go grocery some Boston and He killed the if keep than “I to I couldn't on ask think.” meant try was children us we even The do her half can or basket and not her things. she took So . worry as was going sleep. My from shutting and to of last day but the eyes “He is good, father.” year. one / much they very used She along V Prince, the to. gets accompanied by started, enough drive to as '|' Ip So little get to peep us a lips Now this simple verdict from the Dr. Byrne drew his daughter's with less fretting the arm she at servants. Can dog. As she passed the 1 amandis- flying I Santa Claus, flying, At corner of his wife thinking. I within his. set to remember me it I Out in Christmas night, be because fret the frosty and her less? dropped the card into mail box himself the good doctor traded,” worry a asserted, as resolve shining bright, that I took the that “Come into Helen, study, and When the and get stars were moon anything Is there that my to old lamp All about which fastened to post. if he though he looked sore was a enjoyed as white, And white, white. all the with night, in New snow was Year's gift. Because company very as, a being your "the head of the family?” you Margaret that day and the went next it well the youngest a man among as as They said it trying. was no use I turned brother of lodge, have forgotten yourself in for caring away our when If why, the head house, in the old singing through the him, surrounded so, the that For straight and girls all goes wrong the boys go group merry help God, from Charley's door: "So others, did think father old me is you the whole body sick, eh? Exactly. your To before they know. the land of dreams she had shown light-hearted of thought it whom so way necessary none ever much wife shall be able is going to forget you?” to say as my • have I’d rather kind of ache invaded the little since sickness had any to put long because an countenance on a it making mistake "But great was a And of this coming year.” I “Oh, it but to now me ache in head-piece. no. papa; you gave me, than Now household. “father an my had Indeed, this awake. come.” I couldn’t To that stay say was I have lived record it. I trust, remember, in I didn't may, you money. expect could it tell; card How long I after the postal Soon always the signal was never was other kind To people anything—indeed, think well. I don't and 'Twas hours hours, I know one many very year. dropped into the box the postman for -increased came tinkling bell When I heard silvery, ought give anything a to more.” you me of it, with lot other around and threw mirth and happiness. a stealing. Out in the moonlight “Well, well, child, just and my come into and cards, letters ting-a-ling-ling. newspapers, a On it came—a look it. If it, don't at want or you office. jingely. jingely, jing— which carried the And jingely, bag, he post to The hoi ida y s its would prefer equivalent in ring heard such ring, ring, You money, a never poured the There clerk the bag, took approaching, a were sleigh-bells pealing. little Of dear tell so.” you can me table and began sorting contents out and the doctor’s on a With wonder silent in her heart, not When Mar- held breath, for at I knew them he to “I my once came over. four daug ht e r s unmingled with curiosity, Helen stood his reindeer 'Twas Santa Claus and too. little letter garet’s all discussing were it would do Of the half at study door. course never, never open he laughed the important weeping— To let them know I was 'Fhe shaded light her father’s upon and showed it to and subject He might have carried the books of Christmas toys desk faint of revealed the outline a man Ra girls and Tho other little boys, To some mas ymond, and New who standing it, and who advanced of noise If had made speck was near 1 a a he anot Year r gifts, and sleeping. And he thought 1 wasn't eagerly toward her. clerk who comparing was notes Helen looked bewildered, into the up, ‘‘Ting ling, ling, and ring ring, ring— busily engaged a a at to the beautiful as face of the she had mourned it kept sounding! How as on man he tab le. anot r articles they heard the crack the whip I surely of dead, faint of joy, and then, with cry a Mr. Raymond had in the little reindeers bounding. And the seen queer threw herself into the that had arms through. read it noise the house, Then—there about shop windows. was a opened receive her. to humming. stepping, stirring and The Oakley A name We said all. and Dr. Byrne almost regretted his held myself still precipitancy I a mouse; as as his attracted attention. there yet Somebody, coming. was one. his daugh he looked sure, was as upon "What fair, sweet-looking a ter's pale face. But joy does often not if it should be “ ‘Up, for day, the up, up merry girl, sitting kill, his fears a and entirely dissi- were Christmas night has passed James Oakley, the away. little from apart all’— Up. little ones, my friend of boyhood?” my the who did rest, ringing ringing ami The bells on— were he asked not join in this the dark night and But all the was gone. himself. call And mamma’s cheery animated own conversation, with din Came along the other Christm though s eve a evidently Just the shining in. sun was as Margaret, and from came, no —Sydney Christian Union. in Day re, Dick and unfri end 1 y motives. Robbie, with the faith unwavering Th is Dr. was of childhood, hung oldest Byrne’s and their stockings, best-loved daughter, up said their prayers and he noticed ETTEa?' around their her quiet mood. mother's knee, and “And what does tucked soon were Helen for want their little in away New her Year beds, dreaming gift?” of Christmas The doctor regretted Claus. and Santa the question Mr. Oakley, too it as soon as sit feeble to up passed his lips. few than more a Helen’s quickly time, hours at a I averted filled eyes had already OAKLEY retired. AMES “ HOW IS IT WITH THEE TO-NIGHT, with tears,her lips t-zC^hlllliif Oakley Mrs. worked his at DAUGHTER?” after and. quivered, If thinking sat jxf trade carpen' as silently struggling k sadly of the disappointment pated when he returned the to in the ter room an same " for few a which hour later. the village, near with t en s mom seemed awaiting The good doctor fond of joke. born. His he Hudson river, where was a was feelings, she her the children for “If doesn’t suit present lilacs in the tall with little your you, cottage left the and arose the time first in Helen,” said, slyly, will he “I try to in the garden kitchen front, and the room. their lives. Suddenly in exchange it, give its value His him. dear place to or you rear, was very a the As soon as the doorbell —that is, the if don't rate kept sunny-hearted wife pleasant-faced, money you doctor could do so and Mrs. high.” too tidy, and and rang, bright as the home young man always d, he unobser ve Oakley opened Helen glanced smilingly from her filled it with children the three rosy followed her, lover's the there door, her father's face. to the oldest, Margaret, glee and laughter. going directly to stood “You kind, but I girl; Dick loving an expressman are very papa, am sweet, was was a her chamber, in satisfied and the well with New Year's and Robbie fellow, very little my sturdy, manly a he found where gift. As loaded receiving its value in street to of the house. a money, the darling was Helen sobbing From its not all that the whole world contains mechanic skillful Mr. Oakley wagon. was a with abandonment an depths he give it is drew what worth me.”— to God-fearing can industrious, and man; an of grief that Mary Grace Halpine, in N. Y. Weekly. big fat out turkey, him in Smithville times dull for a but were alarmed him. hand-sled going little Center. There a on was daughter." “My and heavy and he building, in the of a paper Particular. She Was new way said, in he tone a box wrapped for from home A who had full hour often had be absent spent up to woman a of tender reproach, in thick employed “looking for together, while at in of the weeks paper. stores some something one “do not Having deposited for her son,” finally asked if place. remote was give to your the way things in the hall, hurried with his he talks particular earnest she not rather for After was a many thus.” sorrow to his out and drove the would-be purchaser who had such wife they decided to west, to wagon remove a Helen lifted her leaving Mrs. greatly Oakley Christmas cities choice of where villages and away, presents. were rapidly new head from her father's puzzled. Surely there be found must “Why, I she So they I am.” purchaser a yes, suppose replied, growung up. shoul de mistake, she thought. the But r, had I tell I need be.” little and “but to for the some cottage, no; an you smile with that packages all plainly marked: horse and “Then is also particular?” and a auction sale of the AS SHE BOX. were MAIL PASSED THE CORNER SHE DROPPED THE CARD INTO A your son cow sadder “James Oakley, No. East Fourth heirlooms 36 even Hardest suit was “I should so! boy all the furniture except to 4i 1 ■ i some say than street/’ tears. the neatly and sled articles which they Why, he's turned few and on was you ever saw. me a ungrateful it must painted: “Dick Oakley.” In the how if cheerful kindness I “I know with Then, bidding I doors, had fight his father, with. after I have been about the it is that by out would not part true paper presume a same blessings box French doll with hair when I have real and turned many the house fire and taken good-by, they of fellow for wife’s the their neighbors sort But have saved so was a set seem, papa, nerves entered a as on many years. my help could not and that closed I when laid remaining. But she it. whirled faithful wife of doors, ought I not to horse off and sold And if I should the I have the and eyes to spoken doctor out not was cars w ere away my with down. A little card attached it he thinking how didn't to of her year him anything he happen flourishing in fretful of us a to home in town complaining give her present the amount get to was was new’ one or cross or a a a life, and of marked: full “Margaret.” and There also That's strong like he'd kick all the furniture of Illinois. word, the best of knowledge usual doctor's bills? Jupiter! out to and was ago, so my ball marked "Robbie,” and such lots now—” windows, his in spring. The red-bud belief, for twelve will! is good to the order father off the It early months last idea, and I It I a past. way a was an utterance. of choked her candy and again things for all. The Here the sobs pretty premises and for foot-wiper. bright in thickets, and have made much this kind bushes the not this round use me year. a were money year, up one stockings filled the to Oh, know Tommy from bottom, but I have made thousand flowers, and heart glad. top to strange to were smiles furnish soon very is curious how we It new one a a affected, strongly and the good tops, other things laid The doctor and we’ve be particular out got to the immigrants, painted the prairies. is was Now it let tell how difficult this know what on a house. I very me you presume you dear table, had been where Tracy the children found for Robert his them and consult feelings.”—Detroit as air of bustling activity pervaded the An Did buy stand by running have wife beg to to new was. you ever you a your a the him next morning. Free Press. going to Buildings town. thing. son. and think how other as a stream smooth oil its chair, picture, were up on as or or some certain that it is not “But, Helen, There side, Mr. Oakley found joyful and meeting around Well, swift flow Then thrust out. was? Our things was get every soon a ray worn you your ship—” the with down Robert went the breakfast employment better than he table, but Mrs. Oakley's at hand FOR HER HUSBAND. in the thing all and lo! it mill wife hasn't asked such water, wages me a was a himself, too checked in face Here Dr. Byrne had received his old home. Finally puzzled expression. The boiled Yet somehow I waters and spattered this kind ever wore a race. say year. one hold out to she asked: wise, well honest, For time everything well with “Where could all those went about hand furnished till could hardly home looks better the old as as a your you things him his His w'ork in have false hopes. and family. from?” it's the hold it Maybe there. it did come than was year ago. a Helen later, few days morning, demand, if his thoughts One and constant Sunshine things. the old sunshine a “Why, Well, I mamma,” said Margaret, realized the force on now never study. father's with entered her turned tender the regret to anything. of do almost ever “Santa Claus scolding them. I know he habit that sent to can my snappy, spoke present would the “Papa, hills which surrounded his former increased you surprised by did, I have been green 'cause till I him.” wrote to began to check my own woman new my vow fifty dollars?’’ much of buying he had only look his cost home, to at dinner. as breakfast and appetite for as it. me rosy I found that I had been in the “You him?"'said her wrote to mother. constant children and picture himself the to scold and too. fellow can't eat habit A of playing the coward—that “Yes, I and him wrote told where we certainly.” all of that, “Yes, dear: which seemed for them in favorite time is, breakfast my open Now career scolding good A dozen was my lived.” a woman. have let “Then would the vigorous growing west. me night— dinner you as soon at times for scolding—except each week fretful the words This made the matter clear enough to instead?” into the Spring and Let lunch down town. money take wore away summer, lips. for I I to shut mouth sprang my my my the children, but only deepened the under the long and rainless heat the Byrne smiled. Dr. meal home tightly, makes at that and my! how the bitter stuff every me see; mystery for the father and mother. river which flowed the entered busy past “What idea has town that about feast. Well bubbled growler’s your and boiled against teeth was a my on In the afternoon, when full justice shrunk into bed, leaving is it that its great Helen? Or brain for I best meal, the inside! You My lunch you are laugh, but, actually, now, was my may so. had been done the turkey, Margaret to stretches of slimy festering in the mercenary?” getting fret nobody to I had and there ooze to chew alone, the words. My wife, ate was holding sat her beautiful doll, new the pale fierce sunshine. Autumn into at A faint color changed. Meals quite Now all is at came lady for proprieties, came used to at. a exclaim: Dick out drawing his sled through was length, with soft south winds laden cheeks. There salt “Harkley, like them. Ido home, I wish would are no you the streets, and Robbie asleep, was with a Widow of disease. Robbie, the but the pet “It is that, forgive not God me! chew bread. germs not that the papa; leave tears spruce on gum as you from the front door. summons came of the house, stricken with the crippled boy, has Howe —she that somebody the door. How I used make was it looks How often to a the street!” on As Mrs. Oakley went it to she answer could malarial fever. For long days and —thinks that she know children, Which of the support generally wife two at made laugh I you one or cry, me as found there tall, bearded who a man, nights he lay in his nicely if she crib, tossing and herself and children in this kissed her is changed good morning. table. All Dear heart, one now inquired for Mr. Oakley. She led him moaning, with flushed cheeks and so—” and machine, had sewing it far better that kind I chew spleen a was my year. the little to sitting-room where her husband At length the crisis taking heavy said the doctor, “I see!” see! I eyes. than her gentle spirit was with biting with words, thing has to fact, the In gone me sat propped with pillows in up putting passed, but slow; pocketbook, and two and his this out kind recovery was gradually in the I have got the one store. year. his armchair. The caller went look at clerk) while Robbie still the in Helen's hand. Lady (to —I want to shadow fifty-dollar notes was mere kind, I have being first civil, then to noticed increased habit of fondness an straight to him, seized his thin hand suitable would be of ruddy-cheeked little for such wound something that the boy he had balm “There is a a as in oil down there no wife, It is like the this kind the boys. She my one year. and asked: ‘‘James, don't know you husband. of ministering for been, the fever seized his like that Christmas gift father. daughter, upon my is but yours, my draws months. It oftener, last few to she confides queer, everybody near me friend old Tom Raymond?” It your something cheap, alleviating There sorrowful times and the Clerk—Yes, madam; in needs the the to were now in scolded; I do. A be she has hates to lost that “I'm me more, even indeed the friend and playmate of was little household. I Mrs. Oakley of others.” s’pose? watched afraid-of-you” sorrows than whip with look is that half the time kind word better a a his early days. something cheap but day beside Lady—Yes, and night her husband and Helen, papa,” said find, “So I begin to she used going to We Yankee clerk. Now lam consult on one wear. now “But how did find inquired me?” little boy, looking. and helpful Margaret good proved face you her that lighted smile with family about make up matters; before kind I don’t used a any very year more. we Mr. Oakley. herself treasure. its old beauty. than a with telephone to it pretensions, but I think there’s to each other, loud more a as were. When the is first brief, wintry that Christmas days —Bobley “Oh, I had it of New Year had from the Santa Claus,” The first day a says Her spirit Almighty in being has improved. The irritation deal of gratitude to the Robbie playing give-away.—Rochester Post. laughingly replied its close. It had great his friend, and came and dawned, was once more then that I had it Perhaps it inflicted, kind His creatures. was near she to seems L ■