I believe the best And Robbie the sleigh-ride, hear his father call “Well, Bridget, have to to now. as i propose, IN HARNESS. A BEAR Qjjhgjl would be wife, kitchen exploit ar.d his ill-temper, thing this to and sleigh and in but a new get go names a /O K take down entirely.” in that the village if Mr. Jones to stove you to very was common, see we Little Hauled Around Girl Colorado Is brightened. “O sir,” can’t buy cruel frame of Bridget’s face for the kitchen.” human, yet stove a n,-.w very very by Plains Pet Over Shaggy a good “And stove, and the I had pump,” finds satisfaction in said miud that she said, “if only Mrs. Jones, venting a a Mountains. and I “can I’d have its stay. that discomfort and ill-temper fixed, fixed, too?” the gave we sure on pump morning.” “Certainly this warning I’ll human being; and although devote other the mistress the we can. some Some people the impression under are pricked day conscience things. to Now wife and Jones’ Robbie, loved his in the main Again Mr. be ready he was that all bears dispositions. have bad wife asked him in half his hour had husband, when him. How often and will kind he in be yet here an papa a was one This far from is and great correct, a with plumber fix sleigh the to and bells.” spells” send of his “irritable she usually be and to a was sure harm deal of is done in this good bears Half seemed hour had But it later Mr. victim. that Jones the a very an saw pump. Of there have been way. course very A CHRISTMAS MESSENGER. and his and wife Robbie that and good half mile the station, small thing him stove to It to wrapped in pump was a naughty old and that bears, for young furs he had paid and dashing and reached order, through when Mr. Jones it he of the and out so was were snow and there have been bears that matter, gayly his good matter. neighbor of perspiration, besides being attention the had glow done in to as as no a in would night. good not stay at The #NCE V snow; on a in the his morning. The exhausted with his walk Passing the furnace-room into found almost I ( eye stove was Christmas eve bears have had to suffer in reputation /' '/) i the in only whom he little hardware the deep unbroken Arriving fell old Hans, the in wandered d through the tf'iK'vSilH store man o snow. w poor on their brothers for what and sisters /vvyfl (// village, Yjli the street, the and take of the check what had that there, learned he paid dollar week to Mr. he Jones care a a the family done. of have n!si4>w™ /ft Qfcx adventun -A- chance the in front knees careworn-looking before, that the his suspected storm furnace, ne gave who not on man was i| A little girl who lives Colorado V; thinkini scarcely near kept the with all his store caused of the heaviest and disastrous of the furnace trying brightening most poor //) a was one In night b this Springs, whose ranch and on papa owns a (*k I of his heavy that wires shake the grate countenance of the old strength degree to to that meet; season; were a give the mountains, better near can a cKm \m* attracted the befor It attention right all directions that of the iron lever. both When and by of down in Mr. a and was pathetic no CV> means bears than those of the good in account ♦v'TW y-v appearei Mrs. Jones. eyes How old my the had passed likely face and figure after trains to all man presented. to were pass easy or the who have only them Zoo at \ fair vision little seen m, a spread (happiness! overheard Mr. had What The alternative Bridget simple for hours. v."W . acts some of blu little boy girl Y and the circus. Put With eyes or a will the furnace and and dispense Jones’ either to in the cold about that seemed be stay procure which to message y cheeks •>.*, and o passing in jail and person a cage or any alone who had home. conveyed it Hans, buy. dismal station to had to money And return since and can received never or criminals by would naturally think them hair. iden his f thoughts hopes; for had been of his Q g o morning home it the knell of turned idea at not in that The as was a does The of bars little of children behind very presence She stood a group direction. Mr. thus Jones little dollar that he earned thought Mr. Jones. He at the it alluring to would was poor very clad, captive in poorly tend toward refining the not be good thing keep buy Sundays that all that enabled him to to shovel little except a home peace a show snow wondrous on was gazed so Who a some upon the the of ok in those who lo at eyes give and daughter-in-law who old Hans had; window quite awkward and of with the shrewish job shopman’s felt out of really poor cleaning y he a prisoners. It is the exactly way same that, and this and they wished for the walks, bed. But thus as but shelter and for enabling time evenings him him place there at to put a any gave with Zoo and circus bears. They realize there, pointed here and special Christmas shaking of the furnace dollar forgotten the in Then he had his Sundays. not and reason some poor tossed and the hand took by fairy that they in although jail, and, me are old pockets. And impossible for by Robbie, forgiven been almost the with had the encounter more so hair; her golden nor noon new unjustly confined, thfcy in time grow she whispered little stove her And standing toes, for and old Hans in set and Bridget week, despair. household management than on the was was up, a surpassed desperate lads maidens; and don’t Good and how they act morrow, my care in ear my herself in When Mr. Jones he the lunch the cold house. he breakfast and she the saw prepared Good kind people all! poor morrow, these all. So it happens bless at that they that I should often The request sweet by its help. Such thought the end had and the delicate I’m bidden by dear old Santa Claus flaky neighbor juncture this come, expression Just at here. a children little loud look grunt and vicious, very very To make little call. biscuits, such deftly you broiled a looked I must of his face he at ham I felt that soul in beautiful and Within inmost station the to as up drove my a up but little missionary work, properly a her will. such do perfectly baked appealing. ludicrously had him potatoes furs. His horses with filled And, knowing gracious courtesy, was cutter, your worked out them, might show their what I knew among tell them bade her I been I leave card under to “What’s Hans? Has the the the matter, never regime of you say: spirit and their silver a and seen of life full thrill. were would in little hearts them different light. up a “Remember the little of the ones poor the old And it.” stove. stuck? Let Mr. and got try Mrs. grate merrily the frosty the jingled as waif became bells each small owner me Thus on The little girl spoken about above is day!” On the bountiful Christmas Jones lingered the the longed-for toy, but he cheerful of Jones table, wife, Mr. strong by his accompanied over He was man. air. a —St. Nicholas. was charming little miss of 12 a very some had that I know And it to Mrs. .Tones sweet was said: furnace could budge the grate. In- sparkling and not cheeks, whose eyes rosy of Part of the time lives she joy. them Christmas brought years age. “Oh. what burden MONEY-EARNING is LEGS. lifted from a their with them and left I stole the ranch the mountains in away near on heart. Day after my to-morrow is there, faces happy time. the One day few summer years a busy streets Christmas, the wandered through to And and this morning I looked A Who Served Strange Purpose Guest a her big brothers hunting went ago spruce-rich air. breathe the forward it to only with not pleasure, Hunting at no a stealing in the those fingers I felt mountains. In the Not long it was, away up but with dread. What transforma- Party. a through own; my of their hunt they course came across tion, dear, has those being back again, home had My fairy eyes at your today come old mother bear that had rude an very alone. hers incident in and loving is rather amusing Here were thoughtfulness your a She did believe in civilization her not and with tender sweetness, She smiled ways. Grant: wrought of Sir Francis in artistic the surrounding of every career our red; cheeks and the resented of were rosy appearance home. YYe portrait painter his o.?ld When that at and inconvenienced do was good sir, to were kind to “You me, so were hunting parties with remarkable zeal, Melton. said, and had hunting box zenith at what I he just cross; now a we are warm, for she what they call fanatic. good this was I make a how show I want to you rich in Scotch baronet invited conveniences inquisitive An and comfort, and was She all partial not at In glad, to old city was guns. happy. Sir Francis That the hunting. there for ber.utifni was a hearts snowstorm, joy and to And how I peace carry fact she loathed them. No did sooner but it appeared, its another best had guest, beauty for often sad.” as so us was followed I her magic aided by keeping flat, old Then, dull, power, I visit. He home day. feel man, you was a a on a now led; she where if I snuff looked the other took and wanted who to get as splendid up a lights twinkling city's the Above rose we Christmas talk hounds dinner when the table and share it and on way ran onward sped. »nd our Santa happiness old with sight of fox’s brush horses. The shadowy spire met and Beyond else w\*»s we is a a some one Claus’ sleigh, less fortunate seemed awoke enthusiasm. He than to are.” no we the reindeer behind him took And seat as a Mr. Jones in anything earthly interest smiled. take He, too. had no away. sprang thought snuff his few and meals. the days before but his while flew, the that house they From house a to we glee, with laughed fairy ought, last could share Scotch baronet to their The Christmas with at contain hand; Santa’s good old squeezed the And friends, curiosity. excited “I but he had longer his checked the impulse no he. wished that I I were motive said, with Grant,” “what the thought he that with the bright, the say, danced How her eyes so merry babies and Bridget’s keeping Mr. X aid, have in old saint to incompetence good it on a you stocking small, filled each For he a visit? good chaps as There to it try; wouldn’t was no are so many use pay. made. she, too, present But with just the would like down here who spirit and to atmosphere come new chimes midnight out, Then, the we rang as that had begun My fellow does guest not develop in hi* Snow, to the King of now. seem left homes where other hurried off home his heart things And to farthing for the in went out to you care a generous could Santa not go. feelings keen 1 find that he does towards others; not is *t true are so on. so companion fair face Upon each sleeping my that happy difference thoroughbred homes know the between the seed-beds of a are left kiss, a W kindness ' for Irish hunter, does should the world. and sleeper woke he the That when remember nor an 4, * only this, “There is look fancy he cousin John to with l>h your your portraits.” a person that dream dreamed happy had That he a wife and children, two and cousin GIRL’S QUEER PET. A LITTLE m3' with night, vanished not Will with his little “You puzzled, dear fellow.” Both#f them morning's Christmas are my with the ones. lingered But light. blessed struggling know why glad and along returned Sir Francis, “to I the hunting than she began with she party small salaries are see hand, this time clasped the fairy Again my and brought him down 1 keep him here. I insulting in her the last thing they to get suppose remarks, very farewell. t to say THE SLEIGH RIDE. would think for of his legs.” and, in fine, requested of her would be invitation one an I quite I I “Before name sure my go am from “For what?” dinner. tell to Shall little bo3' bears out and the incite to get tell. ought us to we enjoyment of calling Hans of stead, however, of old 'a smile told her all night of this happy merry I them? And why If ‘Tor his You lam doing I legs. shooting so on will this hunters that there! should be am the to so. see, a no go of affairs with dismissal the fool threatening him ride. On learning state and the the year. afternoon portrait if there is full-length of the duke of Hutland The little bear, train, intite her farm. and a on its dawning; day that’s Christmas see, ’Tis trains, he said: he only said kindly: the regarding (the late). He hem is weak in the and lay in special extremely backward, t stock of though good went out a light is drawing near, fretting; there “Well, wife, it’s “Well, Hans, upstairs let and use things sir, for I no me go knees and shrunk in limbs and birthday, for the occasion.” the with the hunters and told 'twill be talked and my soon the till Let’s we’ll what’s train old and know, mayn’t be Love, get coat go you a noon. an see As He will the trouble of am it proved, laz3'. be at his had said. The there not- them what train abort mamma was a day, Christmas born Love two was on and matter.” children have and the home get a three sitting for them, I have secured him o’clock; the and nice and and who hunters kind to went so man were thousand ago.” years will be real lark sleigli-ride. It jolly When Mrs. Jones Mr. Jones a X exactly like the city sit; his legs little fuzzy head. it, bound to him his saw coming to his patted errand are N. Y. Sun. Cleveland Palmer, in on —Arthur on on , with them. morning have within the stairs her heart sank to extra duke’s. is glad an of kindness, the The fellow and .entirely different to took sack of candy up The}' also out an poor was a take and we’ll Jone 6, jump in Here, her. She divined what the you little be from and mother reason the petulant. out at it him. His was mood3', to disgruntled to man grew earn a money gave '* home.” of his but what with the babjcrying, return, time.”—London here for short him the • v who had missed it in the furious and yelled to noteat at grass a one sleigh, climbed into the Itobbie still undressed, the Mr. Jones Trtith. poison. morning. And final might contain the they outcome of the sweets, as T labprious saved the Bridget and ell pleased be house cold and in to temper little whole the the happiest and several rifles cracked and matter Then a w was THEY LOOKED AT HIM. affected him But what going to-leave, she felt walk home. best Christmas mother the his overwhelmed, that Jones, family bear more. any never saw unaffected the good humor felt that her husband’s most and also the had known. —Helen long distance in E. Starrett, carried in He was ever a was Concluded to And Then the Indiana friend’s - wife. his of his friend and ould only add the finally to Chicago Interior. of hunting and pocket coat big presence w a the and Go to Council Adjourn enthusiastically remarking She Both perplexity of the situation. had in big basket deposited in big were a warm a . THING. THE MEAN Their Homes.-. the of the morning, tjie special help beauty trees been •accustomed to house. on never covered with icicles the tip,of household to frbfn-him in her sympathy little bear rolled and every That night the or attack the Sioux of At the time on brightness slender, leafless branch; the him regarded he troubles, and she of his pillow and dreamed on as tossed so on all about— the Mille came in 1862, Bipley', Minn., Fort of blue the sky; and intense the with that entered growing The next on candy trees. were room eyes *»K , r(!£ T upon the best and C' hap- the white assisted Chippewas Lac men feathery snowdrifts pried the resentful. half inquiring and half candy r by given on every morning he more a was pie Christmas t The s their defense. and <m to secretar3 came of side. noticed Mr. Jones had “Hello, Bobbie, hurry and get girl, whom he .x \|)<w none little up pretty soon very that the Jones r of and the state the interior of affected only these things; he had been we’ll sleighride,” dressed maybe take and liking much that he himself found a so family had for their ever grateful Minnesota were ver}' walking by inconvenience of the the Mr. Jones’first rather sheepish famity. This into the asked be taken "7jif to was known through promised and the assistance, secretar3' and the loss of his day in the city. But altogether pleasant remark addressed yet and it not finally, arranged was was Mr. Jones missing Indians these good reward that as a such good humor that shown by his who had little fellow the the to all the little bear had as long before before city days the the train two to their removed from should be not reservation. neighbors contagious, and, since his mother first started and to of bear town was to on fine run never a manners and A heavy Christinas. rain faith of the snow usual With the his attention directed it, realized he to his father. “And wife,” he sight of until through eating for dessert asked was night, and in in the had the storm later few come up white onl3* years man, a that the snow-covered landscape citj' this continued, “as I can’t the in the to day get food. Any plainer the Jonesville suburb of morning the the special interior department sent a magnificent. “No artist truly I believe will just morning I stay at the little followed, was long summer eye,.but of beauty the thing to from a persuade them to was a agent to move could its beauty,” to represent if I can’t fix home all day and always together ever and the bear a girl up see seen were discomfort the feet of thing of to pedestrians, Leech Lake. There Mille Lac to a was said his neighbor’s wife. “What going down few things. I foothills, to about the frolicking now am who especially those to must could the Indians but great pow-wow, all the galleries of wor’d art the the what help old Hans find is matter other animals out bad dogs were and if an3' or morning train the catch the early to the>' ought convinced that to be not compared this?” to furnace.” with little the harm that tried around and to little late; came Breakfast had been city. So wellknown a good land for bad. give a up By the time Mr. Jones show set down be judiciousl3' would to Mrs. Jones’ surprise girl the bear was sure was the muffins had been the coffee his aid. poor, Minnesota to man came at his door, his feelings habit had only bad donned the concealed while Mr. Jones teeth. That his own undergone some was and the overdone; the underdone eggs brothers,” he said, “the father “My great etiquette entire change. He felt of Charley bring spite disappeared into did him in and then Amy—What clung old clothes, that to an you and Jones in cold Mr. dining-room wronged, was heard how has you are ashamed of his petulance, and especial13' morals and present? book of proved better blue the basement. Two hands Christmas the for and manners. irritable humors. Had a his of most honest send and he ‘I will one man an of the slap he had given Bobbie. bring tired He thing didn’t little girl strength the when main last than arid Mabel —The At grew breakfast table he one, mean the his wife been at the talk them.’ So he looked to to to determined find to the little fellow and Shetland mistletoe. her of clinkers, sprig of walking, and lot impacted anything but had dug out of pony, sarcastic as few a indulged in a me would have — a and he north, south, and east west, make the best amends could. He and he horse trade went easil3' its City Chat. mixed in furnace the Buy grate got of a the incompetence on up remarks about swung ‘Here is honest man,’and he said: an also felt glow of kindly sympatln' The little for distressed. with much Hans’ lit she pivot and old face a household to up awa3 r was was to manage a or The women Brothers, look at sent me. me. Christmas. Heeds lor Good his wife her for the babies allow in that proposed that she furnace then little time the bear pleasure. In care but the and direct servants, a train poor winds of have blown 55 years over my pity' the shut door Don’t to poor. your somewhat unusual the hurried regular to about. So warmth haul her was glow and pleasant him began to owing to a down had to not a come woman and silvered it with and during head gra3'. of happiness, children bushel Give the business Yet he a shrank from bear bought and the diffuse itself- through the house. man. harness was baby had wakened and to the fact that was the that time I have wronged no man. it with and they’ll share you. meeting his wife directly; promising. he after not dog her cart, Bridget instructed hitched to was not to for attention just loud demand worr3' was set up a friend, and ask sign I I to 3'our —but am 3 011 Eaise the preacher’s salar3' not quite read3' acknowledge would the that he to of honor, word - ing in kitchen his make fire the tr3 to bell Little Robbie, meanness breakfast the on a rang. es this treat 3.” When finished he had high that he can’t reach it. of of his irritabilit3’ so well, and language that all went After kick Mr. Jones expressed the intention stove, downstairs old. had not three as up. years come of the chiefs and said: “M3' arose Make Christmas one the spot tree green (he morning, a he decided be to great bear the little to so of having before and dressed and had been go a half sent came a new one friends, look The winds of at more me. in - through memom the dining-room, and which sleeker His coat if suitable bought playfellow. could be reprimand and— sharp was . back with grew noon a one a than winters have blown 50 over mv Don’t lose sight of the fact that still you cold, make Colorado and detour taken until he to Jonesville. ver3' in With bright face she sleeker, slap confessed sharp a it be was must a on —a head and it with silvered but they gra3', boy yourself in the early years through were a the basement little kitchen draws the and this da3 Mr. to Springs, and had to upstairs and informed her Yes, Jones his little bare legs. r gone was have blown brains awa3'.” Then not inv the of centur3'. look the at furnace. r When his in societ3 around mistress girl of Mr. Jones’ intentions in gentleman, but educated, Christian an he down council sat and the was-ended. . let Don’t he tin horn blast happiness. t your filed In they slapped the kitchen Bridget, long who had long regard teeth little the and too he his to and the were all the stove grew son pump, so same Christmas' will’soon blow over. of been dentist, and family the faithful the maid of down by with all work, had said that child cried she would like withdraw that the out to one smartly Longent Beard in Europe. Make somebody happy, if you even long brown his stood gazing into combs out the cooking her “warning.” the servants climb the stairs the longest beard in the started Probably pain and to stove, to settle old bill —At- have do it. to to an bedroom where smouldered morning. He has few black Mr. Jones d3'ing metal worker in Vandenene, fur For is that of his mother. moment The world a a comfortable glow of the doctored every a a Constitution. lanta stands in the Her coals. of that the of his its countenance in tree realized the atrocity and Nievre, France. The act top furnace a wore however, circumstance an expression near man was, late he that yard, but mixture front steeps of health. unwarranted and then distress old and in perfect utterly nature, is never was a 74 compared comfortable years Christman Eve. in the and relatives do An hour his before six like conscience Mr. Jones of he had beard himself his by When mountains. excused to he anger. glow of 14 up the househgfld a ’atmosphere when years age Secrets, secrets everywhere. is decked in would On Sunday he out have begun It from naturally irritable, at to her apfisared inches long. to saying he of that rate Swarms secrets in the Mr. Jones air! once again year year, in his wife's grew was Something's hid of candy from several bags sharpy- for her r papa’s and badl3 ribbons eats breakfast prepared breakfast. hirsute attachment when his and that cold house, eyes. and What poor transformation from a a now room. a Slyboots and look May wise, so —Cincinnati Enquirer. but breakfast. he before said: the respectable wading through reached ihe of unrolled has and prospect now the chill, pettflant, miser3-begettingdomestic baby’s lips Even close. are “Wh3', Bridget, what’s inches. When snow-drifts the train the of feet and ten the unbroken to matter length ten atmosphere of the early Folded like crimson a rose; morning. Show Didn’t Up. Why He ith the stove?” walking he carries —his much for human Wee, sweet everywhere, out nature w secrets this Bobbie too with the man goes forgiveness were sweet of Indian wealth East A them some feel in the I air! j'oung can big skein under in As hetliusexcused “Well, rolled bear. beard human —to sir, there’s his nature dhraft all of childhood up a at sure held his little face no up Companion. —Youth’s and there claimed York, arrived in New carried Roman senators himself his began rise the to all, and whin temper at I thry the make to for kiss quick arm. and asked as about the sleighride. a a gentleman whom with acquaintance a tinle he winds winter before leaving the In just fire again, and there’s the their it togas. Time Is Required. Sure The baby, soothed b>' the warmth, way serves me. The American Calcutta. in had met he around the times several called his wife from the foot has take beard he it’s wife house to the that’s “My to weeks his broken do grate and dropped had dropped two tc off asleep, Mrs. and Jones’ and, cordiallj', after him greeted soma boa. Since the shopping.” using it neck, of the stairs: down that Christmas man chokes the fire. a A cheeks her as gell pink and her bright poor grew ejes invited him dinner to the conversation, measuring but in size, small she buy rather can’t is that if do cooking “Does man3'presents?” fool Hans he “Tell that old that under stove.” the so genial looks an3’ and conduct of on had been arranged have It daj'. to next is inches, the beard she has feet three but Mr. Jones’ “No; five more can’t furnace conscience to downtown the to get pricked Mr. Jones. him. go so as manage the friends meet stranger, and the some man’s height. the twice r and exchange His day than wife all the morning he had the house in told him the things several times “It’s ever3 warm can good thing for to a stay elabroate, a rather therefore man dinner was day before.”—Chicago the about job.’’ Then, remembering the got another broken Becord. had she grate; written horqe get at in awhile,” said Mr. Jones, once highly disappointed Plan. was Simple everyone His down been the for several days his wife had and number that of the “and.find name the out things that need his make did his children? the not the guest —What’s matter, when Mother appearance. something about the and begged telling him that him stove send it from the attention. I declare, wife. I don’t know Mail day he By Express. The jet? next dressed cr Net was seeo city, but that Hans could he had forgotten furnace not it. He how Bridget was wrong has l of Christmas saw along not gotten with sing Ch. me asked if his past. and absence Emma’s hotel —You his Little Edgar mamma, at see, asked him about it. ihe impossibility had fix. and to of doing that though good be that Tor pleasant. may see stove at all. And any old Hans! “No; her we’d due illness. I told to poor and I had been apple, was got an Christinas future just And off avoid hearing her work bright, hurried with such he to instrument as repl he a poor not strong as enough to said, well,” he calmly, “but I I the Eve, get quite and move Christmas Adam play waa the so can I want present. \. badly his wife would feel this, and knew then he said: He that ‘ furnace Brooklyn But grate. it’s all right Landbursh Wilson. hungry." In World. Y. —M. Lift apple.—<N’. not