THfc OLU MAN'S UHHISTMAS. outao - - tne otners m aoin somctuin tor • r v CURRENT TOPICS. them little folks. * AN J£AFi£KT. It Is like beautiful past, dream; but sweet a “Well, I jest wisht have could the dream you to seen was me; New York’s German them For the children children population la in the days of old, when He Wanted the time for Clerkikly came, Confidential as come a 809,000 and cuddled around knee; and Chicago’s ’em 440,000. my to to the hall an’ their Beckuie go up He Coaid Be see Very the just And I told appres oh I them the tales 1 used tell— len sweet, to are tree! Little Holton, Freddy he o’ Mo., give yell joy with Confidential. population of a a locks and thin ere my were gray— and eat eat that 4,600, most split has an’ he jest stood To the other our seventeen churches. children of love: The ears, my Till buttons Secretary an’ fly, children clapped Shaw that his most apt that went away! hands, my to shortly he while his sister are after says It costs about $6,235,000 to operate assumed his duties head of kep’ the sayin’: And ‘How Daddy* as treasury lovely it is! Oh, Is can’t what the the I see forget the ths places—the fall of government vacant printing office. department he called by old was upon n’t an it beautiful?’ Then he Freddy wintry trouble be gentleman from snow; his can of lowa, who House state own of representatives costs $3,- In the schreeches light lived of their faces I In choochoo out: 'Oh, there’s wanted appointment rosy confidential my clerk I an that I a« don’t for pie I 000,000 len say care and the a year $1,400,000, Long senate Ago; to of the assistant engine! secretaries Goody!’ one of that department. An’ how little , I lived in the long but the Present Nearly ago; one-third of Elsie’s the 381,000 did Inhabitants shine when she eyes saw no perfect then— In spite was of the fact that I busy was very of Cleveland less than three dolls herself! born the for In For tree all were of the bitter falls the that at time,” on Mr. on Shaw, snow “I the says gave Europe. the lowan lives There of the better enough stuff that of hour, men. for he was part on an was 6f the beech-i pleasant and entertaining as old tree for A hull child chap Sunday for the school, of an five a as should I only weigh 41 knew in they mo, a were near could —brigut, chipper one meet and witty.” had been that reckless sendin’ pounds, In be men 41 world made again. inches in height On new and of his felt account tne secretary age, And the Winter Crystal violets of Life to City have for things. were chest that he girth could a of comply 23‘/ not with inches. the request, rimmed 2 with rain; the Springtime gently iso, but “Then firmly, he I informed wisht could have him that you seen The proportional I felt their increase withered kisses in the sweet he did his my on not clear giv*e him th<i see those way to children when in Big Dan all come cheeks population and cold; of the cities appointment. This did less dampen during old not the was rigged Santy Claus! And That the the up threads of silver, as gentleman’s saw, was over spirit the in the last least. ten than previously. years gleam curls gold. of their capsheaf of o’ “Now, the hull sir,” proceedin’s! First said he, “as I feel myself peculiarly Twenty thousand well children, qualified young fill heard to of his these bells outside, an’ him callin’ we one confidential It is like with past, beautiful dream; a daily clerkships, and nightly, I hope that stand in will the streets you conr out, ‘Whoa, there!’ like if he all the that songs sung; as was were sider application further.” of London my offering various And articles for I feel, that the in Silence, the after talkin’ to his reindeers. dim Then he 1 wagging his up head impressively, nen, most sale. world for the is young; he added earnestly: the ladder the boys had outside, an’ set And thanks world be God the is that to “Oh, sir, I could The be confidential!” presently down average for so he through the hole to age men came marry with all its so, sunny years— Is highest in Sweden—3l in the roof. That I jest thought little Fred’s least, lives years—and at time in Well we Remembered. one our the lowest know kisses, and and—tears! in love, the United would clean States—26y out o’ his head when eyes pop Valley City, N. Dak., Dec. 14.—Two 2 years —F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. that years. o’the part show Mrs. Matilda off! M. An’what Boucher of this ago place come suffered deal with dizziness great fun there Papier in her when old Santy went mache a a mushrooms was and toadstools head. She cured of this by remedy; was a around givin’ the boys all kinds of made are for the rei now purpose called Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and has been! not dieulous of presents! demonstrating Singing He River’s give old Tim the difference troubled since. between [ Thorpe Shortly afterwards tiny she chiny doll, an’ big Jack them. had bad bilious a a attack and for this she used Diamond Dinner Ross jumpin’-jack, an’ Ben Anderson The Christmas £$ a production of Pennsylvania oil Pills and completely cured in. was a o’ set little dishes; an’ he in a pewter June aggregated 89,239 short time. barrels a fetched big old pipe, when '> great In me day, January, a which 1903. she had of attack is 5,452 barrels Being above the an of Hickey’s Story Ma’am Sciatica which they knowed of she hated I the sight o’ daily says: very average. Still Celebration That. Lives a “1 almost helpless tvith the Sciatica, was I tell it real fun? one. you, was The longest hut telephone remembering what Dodd’s wire Kidney in span “Well, the things had all been distributed, Pills the and Diamond Dinner Pills world had done for is 3,200 feet from By «T. L. HARBOUR pole to an’ the children loaded before, I of commenced were treatment me pole, a spanning (From the by Susquehanna Story that author published in a near these down medicines with and in three AAeeks I presents, an’ an’ the other St. Nicholas.) was me Lancaster, Pa. completely restored health. I havd to two about to downstairs women were go faith In in these Lowell, great medicines have for they Mass., there 17,000 are to take the when the door of up supper, Hickey’s been Ma’am account of the Christmas of much benefit me.” so to machine tending operatives w’ho the care hall opened, and Dodd’s strange Kidney Pills popular in a Singing River man at is much tree are very so for 828,000 spindles and Barnes County, earn having over made stepped in. When he gTeat the children many a saw interesting than I account more any $500,000 splendid of month. Sciatica, Rheumatism and a cures he give kind of little outcry, an’ the a a could give of it, that think best I it let to Kidney Troubles. Many families There no use 1,083,473 Odd Fellows are in next minute he down his knees was other her about on medicine. tell it in her own way: the United States and Canada, before 941,221 ’em, with around each “You an arm Big Dan an’ Joe Burke got see. Freemasons and 928,035 child, of Sometimes, an’ he the Ancient kissin’ first find an’ then to their was cost, as many back one all right the middle of the afternoon something nothing Order A’enture, have.—Puck. of Foresters. the other. We all jest stared each at the day before Christmas. They looked other when little Miss Elsie Helen clapped her hands Miller Gould like pair o’ pack peddlers, an’ they gave a Piso’s Cure for a Consumption were infallible is an together Thanksgiving and said: dinner medicine for to coughs- number and about fagged of colds.—N. W. out, for they had had hard a a Samuel, “ Ocean Grove, fame ‘Why, papa!’ N. J., Feb. boys 17, 1900. at Woody Crest, her of home pullin’ Irvington-on-the-Hudson. it the at mountain up over “An’ that’s jest who it was! The trails in Joe man snowstorm. said he didn’t a You follow luck to ruin, but Miller, named may not to who had died few days think he could a have Deaths dragged himself Fool from Trying Santa. consumption another divided to are success.—Garfield. before, cousin o’ the children’s was a mile for love pa. by He had follows: nor Under money. age 45, as It seemed that this cousin o’ the ol StoiM) big the Congh two 69 turkeys his hack name besides cent.; 45 60, on per to 29 a cent.; per Miller had been sent to and works off meet the children the cold. Laxative Bromo lot of other things. above great CO, 12 cent. per Quinine Tablets. Price because 25 their had been cents sick an’ wasn’t “Well, pa the in the had been men In the camp opinion of the health department hardly strong enough to busy, They come too. had big away cut pine ovei an’ set “Did she a of affection?” Chicago return “Yes, school in that your every - to Singin’ River for them. He lived in unopened.”—Detroit It in the hall Free the Press. a up post office, an’ over city should be provided with apparatus little only about 20 miles camp but the they had dec’rated away, the hall way with to sterilize drinking water. Putnam Fadeless Dyes it hard but road cost 10 to was travel for cents a well beautiful. You a evergreen couldn’t was Smokeless package. powder, machine per guns So this cousin he man, an’, inch even. of the ugly bare logs come, see an of the nor and quick-firing rifles tend to make the from all could make out, he had bare lost we rafters. They In bragging set to an’ scrubbed of the the seed don’t forget the attacking of small states by powerful his in storm, soil. —Judge. an’ had laid floor way an’ a out washed the winders, an’ a strung and impossible. ones more more night an’ got chilled it had brought lot o’ red, so white and blue buntin’ up a I At Washington five ABSOLUTE still women pneumonia. When are he on didn’t happened have to in the house, an’ I come tell drawing pensions widows of back with the as children after men two three the little old hall did look you or scrumptious. who served in the of the revolution days, their war got an’ he I kep’ set the pa out children the oneasy, in kitchen which ended 120 himself to what years ago. the with where matter. He I see was makin’ pies me. an’ was The London wasn’t hardly county fit council to travel, but cake an’ doughnuts he now most o’ the time. I come SECURITY, makes $350,000 anyhow’, an’ from he tramways. all tuckered ’em give dough when a year out to with, was an’ let ’*m muss Leeds he corporation got to Singin’ River. from similar Then he secures a was so income an’ of SIOO,OOO. kind o’ wrought source that an nervous up no thought A it his to shame typewriting that he one jest machine returns new broke clean the down an’ laughed carriage an’ automatically cried when the might have worked if he hadn’t kicked bedclothes, Willie’s scheme off the by Genuine turns, kind o’ hystericky end of like, the line is reached that the a over showing the apparent size of his feet due to boots.— that papa’s hunting so was children. operator is not compelled to Chicago News. Daily p>tuse. “We did have Carter’s the best time the at Senator Stewart, of Nevada, supper! is the A storm had an’ the wind only come in up, the senate who has man never settin’ befo his fire smokin’ his pipe, roarin’ and’ howlin’ in the was been shaved. His beard caynon began to an’ when de chile’s ’splain matters an’ an’ down the Singin’ River, an’ pa up when he 1G and has been grow was TSE CANDY Mr. big Wizzle Wuzzle Little the puff out Liver sleet dashin’ Pills. ag’in the winder er\ was growing for 60 years. cloud of fill de smoke. De smoke it lights; but that jest it made seem more The United States produces now an’ in de when it die ’way cheery an’ comfortable CHILD in room, the cabin, over with hops than other Of country. more any dat chile. what Dat is, roarin’ fire o’ pine knots was in corner the big fireplace was a Must Boar Signature the world’s of 1,760.000 cf hundredweight crop de chile, into fo’ had turned he done at end o’ the cabin, an’ the teakettle one the United States furnishes What Happened Little to mixture aft’ all of candy an’ cake, a singin’ big er shinin’ stove on at my 462,000 hundredweight. Who “Boy Ate Too Much sorts of t’ings. the other end. Mr. Miller he between set “Of chil’ren,” solemnly the* children, two an’ he’d hug iemarked kiss course, and ON THE “DUDE” TRAIN. the noticed old she ’em between times. We him made woman, as stay Fac-Simile B DUTTON Sea R. W. Wrapper Below. Johnny y Dm Who Side- Is miner, the surprise of the little “it two whole weeks in Singin’ River to rest ones, was Tracked let to Limited the by, go dat chile, De an’ den ag’in it wasn’t. an’ get real well, an’ then hull passel up Very a small Ills sentiments cad regarding expresses as easy leetle boy’s mos’ grieved to o’ the boys with him went to the children that get pa was Superb Train. te take sugar. as Aunt busily engaged in Matilda wa3 death to what done happen, an’ home. The boys rigged sled, “It lias been see dream joy of up a my finishing supreme the kitchen, the putting lMdttd’c for HEADACSIE To ride in plush ask and he de Wizzle Wuzzle Man what velvet splendor an’ tuk turns drawin’ Elsie an’ Freddy < delicacies innumerable touches the UAftl to mo Parlor for swell FOR taiiender DIZZINESS. car a kin be done in de Mr. Wizzle the matter. trails an’ Red over away up over table. designed the Christmas to Platform fenced with swell brass fender grace IITTLE a FOR BILIOUSNESS. Wuzzle puff nuther big of out cloud Bird mountain. I reckon it ride was a the On Regular Limited Train interesting The children of the household were smoke, an’ when dat die ’way, de they FOR TORFID won’t forgit; an’ of LIVER. IVFH ever non* us woman’s of the old spectators Electric bell right under chile Den he take his pipe that there will in this world was your nose gone. FOR CONSTIPATION. were ever by special being permission PI LIE work, present Porter and brush clothes to come your Singin’ his mouth an’ ’splain forgit out dat nuthin’ that Christmas the on FOR SALLOW SKIN. Grub the of their mother. in diner the bc-st that m grows kin be done fo’ y’ar River.” de leaste.st. at Mi er A downy bunk for night's do “What chil’ren wants to tomorrow a repose FOB THE COMPLEXION you chile’s “De he beg, of On dat the Regular Limited Train pa course, chil’ren —dat is, what OSIVUINB MUST lIAVI ÜBtATUM, you 8 a a . Wizzle Santa. Claus Jokes de Wuzzle Man do somethin’ I Turtity Vegetable. 25 cards do,” remarked the old doesn’t want to Chorus ’way, but right Mr. Wizzle V/uzzle he work, she paused in her woman, as indeedy, an’ de leetle CURE boy’s SICK HEADACHE. Biff! Bang! mile minute say no pa a a doesn’t eat much “is dat too to you see Merely No other method of travel is in it Suggestion. know well nuff dat when Mr. Wizzie a fifissr ’Cause ef does, to-morrow. you you zipping I ripping, skipping and want to Dimmick—ls go law mother-in at Wuzzle indeedy, dat it is your say no no has be like chile dat I Train.'’ ' is liable to Away the Limited er on house now? sho’ indeedy, nuff, and he hojne. your go an’ de Lawd knows dat mind, in you THE DOOR OPENED Kickshaw —Yes, and I don’t know AND A STRONG But befo’ he Mr. Wizzle Wuzzle These lines original with They lie not go, me. are be like dat chile.” doesn’t want to MAN taken tuneful little dittv STEPPED from IN what her for Christmas to get dat ef he mind to, he could are sung a a present. say was a little well knew that these The Paris.” ones in George Ade’s comedy “Peggy from sumthin’ right ’way, but he do ’splain 1 the cake dishes, an’ tried to keep scrape jingle through brain the The danced of Aunt Matilda preliminary words my were Millions of U.M.C. Shot Shells “She lives Philadelphia, doesn't at dat de chile mus’ l’arn by ’sperienee, 'em interested Prairie all the other day lay the siding time, at thety so we on as of those wich stories to They sold each one & are year. are she?” such place, let the l’arn Junction, ef he won’t else, an’ to den wouldn’t ask about no way some their or pa. cartridge made in the largest delighted them, and she often which | so Fe’s bound California Limited Santa west “Yes.” he tell de chile’s to to “When Big I Dan an’ pa Joe-got back, come see the factory in the world. awaited it. impatiently they by. It train of palace go was a gorgeous “Then why buy not her ticket Chris’mus him nex’ I other had a time eve. great riggin’ the men a plate.glass observation and behind the up UNION CARTRIDGE CO. METALLIC cars, I speaks of,” chile dat continued “Dis The home?”—Harlem Life. “It mighty long y’ar,” said We windows beauty and fashion and youth and afeerd tree. they was a wouldn’t be was she old the resumed her S woman, as CONN. BRIDGEPORT, the luxuriant old lolling old “fo’ de the leetle boy’s able buy Christmas age were among to woman, tree candles pa in “had of de mos’ rapacious labors, reading, cushions, visiting, one some some some The Old Standbys. an’ an’ b’lieve Crystal City; but, ma, land! you may they me, my got pleasantly dozing, making wreaths of heerd of. Eatin’ dat appetites some you ever Cobwigger—Here Mrs. is printed chil’ren, it still longer fo’ about dat chile, dozen ten of ’em, an’ a was end o’ through t'moke, gazing dreamily cigar no some an’ eatin’ all all de time, sorts of list of suitable for had presents wife who in all dat time to be the windows passing cities, and nuthin' tinsel an’ shiny to the balls an’ things a at to hang on an’ His tell him, of tings. ma pa fields, and and forests rivers. her husband. give Mark chile of candy, the but an’ cake 3, the tree, an’ lot o’ an' little flags er to stick ones you in an’ dere platform of the last dat all I stood the at is wrong, er course, on rear would like best. dat of t’ings. all sort But the at las’ dec’rations. among We evergreen watched California of train and the fo’ eatin’ well fo’ car our time time as as er Cobwigger (after Chris’mus ’round, had o’ reading list) —I an’ end de taller eve come toward golden Limited faded the no candles she common on as away eatin’, but Lawd bless chil’ren, not you, And thought of the difference think I would be an’ both wisit 1 hand, satisfied, chile’s Mr. Wizzle west. an’ the dear, with perfectly ma pa reckless my men were boy he ’tention dat to what travel in the days between travel and pay no mo him now anything Wuzzle. Dey find with ’em. that settin’ befo’ I not mentioned here. de reckon they was put as many gold-seeker half took of ’49, when it the an’ den ef dey his didn’t a pa say ma —Judge. an’ smokin’ de pipe, 200 ’em fire of an’ after around same as the up filled with all kinds of room. long, weary year, dey ’zist. Why, de Wizzle even see An’ howdy an’ he what did dey howdy, they he do but travel distance that is hardships, the an’ say say rig to now go Man ’bout him, but Mr. Wizzle Wuzzle days. I thought of the covered in three Big Still dat he is sho’ dat de chile Dan Somethin;; done Santy Claus! to Do. up They say as he dat he ain’t gwine do dust, Wuzzle to slowly moving the the stones, say “Has wagons, wife finished Christmas her dat him l’arned lesson he ain’t wrapped in your, liable big bearskin to er up a o’ one the thrist, the hunger, the the jolting, jes’ yit, an’ fo’ de anything to let shopp’ng?’ boys Wid dat he puff the had, an’ furgit. bigger out put about er quart o’ crossing of homesickness, the snail-like a jes right ef he chil* keep wants to. on “Yes. She laborious expects be flour his to able of smoke den long, busky cloud an’ when climbing of mountains, plains, the naw dat whiskers on ever, to chile keep right “An’ de he on,” remarked dragging weeks, the ending the to put in all the whiten ’em, rest of her time an’ they looking dere de big ’way, leetle weary never put die boy, fur was a capon old trail. the she woman, as completed at things she might have bought his head, and befo’ his he did look standin’ right an’ for all the an’ world ma pa, had just glided by In these palaces that cake, frosting giant “notwithstandin’ a for less if she like Santy his had only known Homesteai! self. FREE self. Yes; his right The money an’ he in own had place the people going to to same were de an’ to contrary, matters it.”—Chicago go Record-Herai climate the string o’ sleigh J. spend the winter months where bells they jump “De chile right into a got his at the ma's frum Bimeby, to Christmus And thev perpetual not wuss wuss. is were office stable; summer. stage an’ them boys she hug an’ and kiss him,” of UarLcis arms, as hardship the journey. single endure ’round, an’ dat boy he to ’gin on come a Ont of file Hurly-Burly. ackshully hole in the cut roof Santy Matilda, “he a said Aunt he aat so beds say they lie in WESTER! night When to were came H de minit he frum wake Jane to eat candy —I ha I such up, miserable never Claus could down through a it! makes sleep luxury— La, gwine an’ embrace come ain’t to eat whose soft like eat never a an’ cakes an’ apples, an’ de Lawd Christmas month in all of life. day time the velvet cushions the if things and in want carried through my you did befo’, an’ dat he he gwlno to regardless, was CANADA" by knows what. Course his be made deeper still an’ Martha —What’s their to the seats matter? ma pa were let lot of Rocky Mountain you a mind his an’ all de time. But ma pa delightful spend pillows—and thy to ’monstrate wid him, an’ a were tell him dat “Why, I silly got fit, and did boys take it in hand. all They a won’t stop remembers dis, chil’ren, at an’ I I hopes glittering the gilded and in of their time Attractions Star part no’ jections dey has to his eatin’ Christmas jes’ shopping two my nothin’. I reckon they’d months h’isied dainty that off where the remembers it,” remarked dining ever the old every you car, what he like, purvided he in ago.”—Detroit eat served —in Free Press. palate enticingly tickled the is roof hull if it had been to make rather necessary in tone, “dat woman, a severe the all the trip have But, Lawd 1 magrniflcentGra mod’ration. bless they short, V V Millions of of to on acres you, were the of Santy true life. to Such appearance Wuzzle ( Mr. Wizzle de chile’s had fr ami Orazing bo say, as Lands to as a kind of best —and of the of home comforts he mo’ chil’ren, 'tention K&ilwj to from no {rift, bv purchase pay or fun the boys had it all! Close An’ of as Quarters. over off an’ start home, an’ pa’ dey ma home. Companies, Corporations.etc. Land say den befo’, dey what an’ den de say Jaggles—Why the all they up! cut Seemed them watched out like storing there and capers stood sfe- are you I ’bliged, ‘I done bring pass much back Attraction so is dis The Great t’ing happen dat strangest consumed with while soul much you of sight they all boys of ever furniture? more! Me were an’ your was once my but I wants it ’stinctly chile, understood consolation out of.” I derived heerd But some Waggles—l Dickey envy. Ann an’ Mary Ann live Morris in fiat and a ’bliged dat I ain’t bring were to am back would I, cl s-ometime too, delightful I I Good resolving that Cropi, of inn Matilda paused Aunt to note the effect the only trying V>JL»F' ; in the to make perfe an’ for system, school women had the Christmas apiendld camp, room myself that we chil’ren dat persists in doin’ promised all and I what California, see ; exception conditions* social y‘ of her words ' the little hands full the gettin’ tree.—Town upon would be the Christmas Topics. there it did our ones, if I up over weal*— anti No, indeedy!’”—Washington railway done. ndvantages* he go ever DRUMMER.” “JOHNNY acquired easily, and then she continued: und affluence Fe. Santa intended havin’ after the supper we tree. Star. WKSTEKM of The population “It gittin’ toward de dark,” v Mind there she I A&J wasn’t wus child in 128.000 bylmmL increased you, Subtle CANADA ft a camp even ire. orer**),QGf pasty during: the ear, pr.ation said, “when dis chile’s Carious Custom. “Has the but just them an’ A doctor given miss all two little Kate —I hope?” “Oh. liked ma orphans, an’ brother-inlaw. pa pore never up being my Americans. fvWm/T/ he thinks the will jCryir authorized settle bill Dey hunt estate the aim high no; an’ that dey Scandinavian inland all fues In the of Dago hunt their the the nearest account. If Write to was on you if his for Cana patient dies.” —Cincinnati Airent Times- Canadian Government low, but don’t find him, an’ think off have curious rough people of miner boys sots his custom putting can’t Laura—Why have don’t a information: the knit him dian Atlas and other ci Star. you a SUPERINTENDENT IMMIGRA address fo’ de house of de Wizzle kindest each branch o’ hearts, Wuzzle candles of the five Christmas just pa remember necktie for Christmas on you present?— TION, Canada Ottawa, a - They who court fame it.— win He find Man Mi Wizzle never Psal, Mins. that. Every WuzzJp HOLIES, Street, St. tree. E. T. 315 Jacison seemed be to tryin’ Somerville Journal to man Ram’s Horn. North D&koU* C* riLLLNd, Groad Forks,