UP A TREE. ne admitted that possibility, he could about anything connected with the A I S A S A O Bad a a N never be sure that he would be happy A in Incident. 25th of December, we know this, that From Good Housekeeping. with her. That seemed a dreary Christ was not born on that date. On one occasion two sportsmen in Th heavens are bright on Christmas night prospect to behold at the end of a Physicians assert, and it seems at 'Hf Wit a a twinkling star, So as we can't agree upon the date FAMILY Christmastree Africa witnessed a strange sight. long, uphill courtship. Now, if she The burn and glow, high low least reasonable, that the condition for observing Christmas, why not They were on horseback and had ridden is an occasion of And their light is shed afar. would give him the least inkling of of the hair-is an index to the health divide it up all through the year? It a few miles up a certain stream a in emotions, how she would act if she did ever doesn't pay to save all our charity of the owner that a scanty growth They nod and blink with a cheery wink, searching for game of any kind. get to love him— AB if they wished to say, .among which may be for an annual deluge. A waterspout indicates impaired vitality, that I glad he glad, forget to be sad, They had arrived at a thick belt of The door opened, and there stood isn't a good thing for a garden. A where the hair is thick, glossy and mentioned Joy, Envy, "To-morrow is Christmas Day! —a pretty picture, surely but did he forest, consisting of acacia and evergreen cloud-burst destroys more crops rich in color it indicates bodily vigor Fun, Grief, Hatred. really— They sing their so the night long than ithelps. What blessesthe land trees, when they were startled and health, and this is undoubtedly Till ol the eastern Love. There may also Suddenly she started, and turned is not the thunderstorm, advertising by the sound of breaking branches true. Another alleged cause for the Out of the blue, so steady and true. pale. Her eyes searching quickly itself far and wide with noise and be different varie- and the unmistakable rushing of Shines a light from on high. scanty growth is the custom of keeping over the tree told her that nothing fire, cyclone, lightening, thunder, some heavy animals thiough the the head closely covered, and ties of these various emotions. For A wondrous light from a star so bright, had been placed there in her absence, roar and crash. The smiling farm W watch it and nsver tire, thicket. this is supported by the fact that instance, Love may exist as Unrequited, but there was Joe—Joe sitting close and dirty lane, the garden and the I Binning a entrance our gaze. peasant women of Europe, who work Both men looked to their rifles and among the branches! stony street laugh in gratitude for And with awe our hearts inspire. Doubting. all day in the fields with little or no then drew rein to watch the issue. It was only for an instant, then the commonplace, quiet, rather drizzle-drozzle And we seem to hear the midnight A few seconds only had elapsed when covering to the head, have the most the blood rushed back to her face as that comes down without Sally Leigh, old Mrs. Gunter's clear two full-grown giraffes were seen to luxuriant growth of hair. It is quite she saw—oh, the shame of it!—how A voice of sweetness say, attracting much attention to itself. grand niece, always superintended break from the thicket and strike probable that both of these hypotheses Behold the Sta at shone afar manly her feelings had Jet her imagination "Love covereth a multitude of sins," out at lull gallop for the plain beyond. And lighted the shepherds' way the dressing and decking of the Gunter are correct. Certainly the Breton play her false. sayeth the Apostle Peter, and ot a peasant girl, toiling in the fields Family Christmas-tree, and this "I hate you!" Somehow her voice verity, brethern, the little shortlived at showed the place where in childis But the two hunters were quite unprepared grace did not have the playful ring she love we feel for our neighbor at with the brawn of muscle and of endurance year she had selected to be her sole The infant Savio lay, for the extraordinary sight I meant to give it. Christmas time is an ulster made to fully equal to that of her And now, as then, is born a men assistant, Joe Hallet, who was old that met their eager gaze as the wild Joe looked up shocked and rather serve as an ulster in July and an brother, enjoys a degree of health A glorious Christmas a creatures flew past.' A large leopard man Gunter's first cousin, third remove. pale. Her greeting came like a dash ulster in December. You have given greatly superior to the larger portion —Goo Housekeeping. had bounded on the back of one of a Christmas token to each of the of our country women—although them, while still the forest, and servants, if so be that you are like we are not quite prepared to A CHEISTMAS SERMON. She had selected him because she was now seated firmly on its shoulders, Canaan, "a servant unto servants." adopt that form of life, no, not even tearing the pooranimnl's neck loved him and as she knew he didn't That is right. But did you pay for the sake of beautiful hair but it ith the savage lerocity ot its kind. their wages regularly all the year? care a rap for her, and was terribly \1 is quite possible, by care and painstaking, ROBER E E The other giraffe, mad with terror, And if you didn't, don't you know bored by the whole business, she to preserve and improve soon left its companion far behind, Wealt maket a friends, the that prompt payment is ever so poor is sepai ated from his neighbor.—Prov4 that which we have. the poor creature's life-blood flowing took a keen delight in bossing him much better than a present? "Thou from its neck and streaming over its about all the time. She despised shalt not oppress an hired servant Dearly beloved: The Scripture side. The sportsmen's dogs now joined that is poor and needy, whether he herself for this weakness, but didn't moveth us in sundry places, and in the chase, following close upon be of thy brethren or of thy strangers about once a year, to yearn, with allow it to interfere with her enjoyment. the heels of the enfeebled animal, already that are in thy land within thy tottering to its fall. Soon bowels of compassion, for the poor, gates. In his day shalt thou give they overtook it and began barking Joe was acting his part beautifully. him his hire, neither shall the to stretch out our hands to the at its heels, but the giraffe did not He could not have been glummer and sun go down upon it, for he needy, to send a load of limbwood give in without one struggle. less communicative and more obedient is poor, and setteth his heart to the widow, and to give the fatherless Lifting one of its hoofs it dashed it if he had really been married—a upon it lest he cry against thee unto backward with unerring aim, striking a job of shoveling off four dollars long time. He did exactly as he was the Lord, and it be sin unto thee." down the foremost dog and told, and occasional groans were all Is there a dressmaker or a tailor, a worth of snow for fifty cents. throwing it several yards to the rear, that betrayed his real feelings. shoemaker or a carpenter, hired man We send a barrel of last summer's where it lay struggling in the agonies These only gave an added zest to or servant girl holding a claim clothing to the Montana Missionary of death. But this effort was the Sally's pleasure, and Eevenge crept against you this week that you have last. Jerking its long neck violently slyly into the catalogue of emotions in the blizzard season we buy a put off to suit your own convenience? outward, the giraffe reeled over on already noted. "Thou shalt remember that thou five-dollar ticket to a ten-dollar one side and fell heavily to the earth, Checked The only trouble was, Joe was so wast abondman the land of Egypt." charity ball, out of which we get fifteen severely crushing the leopard its exceedingly docile that in a surpris —the frightful inroads of Scrofula You'd better, because it you forget dollars' worth of fun, and cry tall. Both animals were killed by ingly short time the popcorn, ornaments, and all blood-taints. Dr. Pierce's it, there are a hundred people right the two sportsmen. candles, cornucopias and the nloud "1 am he that considereth the here in this congregation, who remember Golden Medical Discovery purifies The leopard, though fierce, is rather lighter presents had been properly it for you, and who will take poor." Yea, verily, and thou considerest and enriches the blood, cleanses the placed amid the branches, and the a cowardly animal, and it is not frequent pains to remind each other of ice water on top of his long think. him a nuisance, for hath not system of all impurities, and restores heavier articles disposed about the usual for it to attack game so large that they can remember when your "What do you mean?" health and strength. It cures all the "Wise Man said, "The poor is hated base. as the giraffe, especially where antelopes grandmother hadn't clothes to wear "You haven't any present forme." diseases arising from impure blood. abound. even of his own neighbor?" He "That all?" sighed Joe. to church. And this story, oft repeated, "Yes, I have." Consumption is one of them. It's "Oh, no' cried Sally, cheerfully. will lead to the belief that "Where, then?" hath—see Proverbs, XIV: 20—and simply lung-scrofula. In all its earlier "There are two presents missing." 3 our grandmother dressed in a palm "Why. here, right before your JOHN BANCROFT, who went to Portland, you are the very neighbor he was stages, the Discovery effects "Which?" asked Joe, with little interest. leaf fan and was baptized in the river eyes. Can't you see?" Putting his Ore., a very poor man eight thinking of. a cure. It's easy to see why. The Congo by a missionary. hand on the box at his side. years ago, died lately and left a Comfortable Beloved, let us consider this matter "Why, yours to me, and mine to medicine that masters scrofula in Sallie, looking straight into his Do not abate one jot of your fortune to a woman who a moment I indeed expected you. to be sure!" one part, is the best remedy for it in eyes, saw only Joe. "But—you— Christmas benevolence but do not once gave him some good advice and that the announcement of the text "What—have you got a present said—you—would—put—it—on the another. It is the best. It's warranted. admit the firm of Mammon & Mammon a bieakfast. would raise a howl that might stop for me?" asked Joe with surprise. -tree. It's the only blood and lung to your dealings. To whom the clock—"but none of these things "Oh, never mind," said Sally "I "Yes but it was slightly heavy to remedy that's guaranteed to benefit are you most apt to send the costliest move me." Let us see, not how won't embarrass you by giving it to hang on the branches he could not A no-\el industry—romanc writing gifts? Do ye not lend to those or cure, or the money will be refunded. much you have done for the poor you if you haven't one for me." help smiling at her earnestness. of whom ye hope to receive? And No other medicine of its this merry Christmas season, but "It won't embarrass me in the "Yes, of course," her voice sounded how often do we read that the employes Poor nrettv. little blue-eyed baby what you have done tor him all the class does it. How many would be least very strangely. Joe noticed it. "But he coughs' W don't his mother give him of a certain house have clubed year round. I am not given to criticising left if they did? k' a dose of Dr Bull's Cough Syrup? "Well, it ought to. There don't what is it?" together to present a gold watch to Providence, but sometimes, worry I was only joking:—see, I Upon a fair trial I find Salvatio Oil the "Can't you see?" he asked rising the boss? "He that giveth to the in my daring and sceptical moments It's the cheapest blood -purifier, hpst cuie foi rliPiimatism I have ever known. 4 bavpn't any present for you,atter all." from his seat. rich shall come to want." Do not I gives relief more quickly and a a does I have thought that it might have sold through druggists, (no matter "Yes, you have," said Joe, who was "Yes. yes, I see but what do you make Christmas a financial burden its work been money in the poor man's pocket how many doses are offered for a O ZIMMERMAN WetheiedMlle and worry yourself and friends. and "collops of fat on his flanks," dollar,) because you only pay for E E A CHR1STMASES. "The desire of a man is the measure had he been built, as to his entenor at obtain their in the good you get. 'CHILDHOOD. A N O O O A E of his kindness," a token wrought department, upon the plans and the to of tiees have lofty browse. by one's own hand is a treasure to specifications of the cow, with four Your money is returned if it the friend who receives it. A letter A I I N O A stomachs, or, with storage lip like doesn't benefit or cure you. of a dozen lines is better than an insane a pelican. Then, when the rest of The high Dosition attained and the universal frenzy of a Christmas card, Can you ask more? the world had its annual spasm of acceptance and approval of the pleasant representing a howling snow-storm Christmas benevolence, he might line liquid fruit lemed Syrup o' Figs as the S.CKHEADAGHE on the seashore at midnight, with a himself with tat things full of marrow, excellent laxativ known illustrate the woman dressed for bed, and half a and hibernate until the next value of the qualities on which its success is dozen bare-foot children picking PoMltlvrljr December took us by the throat with up sea-weed with hot-house b.ised and ore abundantly gratifying to the it Coliforma Fig Syrup Companv "la grippe" again, and the fear of blooms on it, with a verse Thsy slio rsllevs Dit trail from Dyspepsia,In death should once more frighten of poetry that doesn't rhyme i—»-e digestion and TooHearty Shouldn't be handled without gloves—live us into renewing our fire insurance, scan, or mean anything, printed in Sating. A perfect rem elettut wires •dy for Dlssinesa.Nansea and buying a cut-rate ticket pale letters on a white ground on Drowsiness, Bad Taste to heaven over the Phylactery in the Mouth, Coated the margin of the nightmare. And it I it Tongue.Pain in the Side. Broad Gauge. I cannot make you is it not so, in these days of high Age finds its surest solace in the bemjrnant TOKPID LIYKB. They believe this now, when you have just art, that it is even cheaper to give tonic aid ufforded by Hostetter' to a regulate the Purely Vegetable. Bitters, counteracts rheunintic and helped to decorate a Christmas tree unto a friend a house and lot, than 2 & malnrial tendencies, reliPveH in inactivity for the Blind As\lum but if you a second prize Christmas rebus? of the kidneys, and is the finest remedy CASTES UZDICnrc CO., HEW YOBK. would recall this sermon—which you And is it not so, beloved, that ofttimes a for dihoiders of the to a liver Small Pill. Small Dose. Small Price. will not—or remember the text which the women of the household and bowels .Nervousness, too with which old people are very a to be afflicted, is you cannot—about six months from have worn themselves out in the preparations promptly relieved by it Moderate 'rfjcfie* now, 1 think it would grow upon for Christmas, so that it was the hardest day of all the year you, For a Disordered Liver The Kurd to know all a cheesea to them? And is it not so, that people "All the brethren of the poor do in beginning to wake up alittle "you've mean? You are fooling me don't you labor to remember all to whom hate him how much more do his got one for me upstairs." se what a fool you're making of me?" they should send gifts, and make a friends go far from him? He pursuetti Try BEECHAM' S PILLS. RO VT* I S E A S ES commence with a Cough, "Haven't!" She seemed about to faint. Joe catalogue of their friends? Verily, them with words, but they are Cold S it O W N S BRONCHIAL "Have!" held out his arms toward her. S immediate relief, bold only 25ctSo a Box. our love is altogether lighter than gone." So it was in the days of "Haven't!" in boxes. Price 2 5 ct "No, I am not I was never more vanity when that costs us an offort. Solomon. Is it much better uow? mm "Not it I've got one for you?" earnest in my life—d—d—darling'" O .AXJLi a S S Bather had we be forgotten than I lequires but little mining to blast a reputatio This Christmas week your heart is "Honestly?" "Then it's true! it's true! Joe," have people tax the brain into a warm you say "the first-born of a _».^____ "Now I know you have. Gave she whispered as his arms closed headache, trying to remember us. the poor shall feed and the needy S ourself away that time!" about her "and you are my present Millions of women use Dobbin"' Electric Give simple gifts out of the fullness CAIN shall lie down in safety" if it takes a "Mean!" boo a and nav it is the beBt and cheapest after all. Joe, this is the best Christmas of your hearts dollar. But when the same poor It they are right, ought to use it "Go up and get it, like a good girl." present I ever had in all my life." It wiong one trial only will show vo Bu man came to you in October and "I think you're horrid." "It's not half so good as mine." After the deliverance of the Jews a bar of youi grocer and try it next Monday. ONE POUND wanted to borrow seven dollars, you "Well, please." And there was only one kind of from the plots of Haman, and the even wished that you had a sword "Will you have your present for Love present at the Gunter family days of the deliverance were established in your hand that you might slay A horse a a needs to be well mounted A Day. me on the tree when I eome down?" Chistmas-tree, after all. among the Jews in the provinces mm him. You canstand him once ayear, "Yes, Cross my heart." of King Ahasueras—the 14th day —H. G. Paine, in Puck. when all the world is bent upon gorging O BILIOL S AFJECTION S TAK E Allen's Iro "On the tree?" of the month of Adar and the 15th Tonic Bitters All genuine henr the signature A GAIN OF A POUND A DAY IN THE him until he "loatheththehoneycomb" "On the tree." of J. Allen Druggist, S Paul, Minn day of the same, "as the days wherein CASE OF A MAN WHO HAS BECOME "ALL buttosee the beggar lying: at The Da W as re "Remember—you've promised," the Jews rested from their enemies, RUN DOWN," AND HAS BEGUN TO TAKE the gate every time you go out. that Well known—the man who is never ill. and Joe was left alone. and the month which was turned jSCOTT'S^RPRODUCEHFLESEKEMARKABLITHAJ "They say the real old Christmas is trying. We could love him were unto them from sorrow to joy, He sat down on the box which spirit is dying out but I don't see he a naked heathen, far, far away in Biecham' Pills care sick headaehe. and from mourning into a good day: supported the tree,, took from his benighted lands where we could never it," observed the gentleman from that they should make them days pocket a small but rather heavy Ben on going—the hump back man see him but to stumble over him Dead Horse Gulch, Arizona. "Now, of feasting and joy, and of sending package, placed it beside him, and every time we go to church or theatre, EMULSION portions one to another, and gifts to our town is a quiet, conservative Poisoned continued to think. euchre-Darty or prayer-meeting, the poor." Now, there is a good sort of place, and it's nussing a tired You see, Joe had been thinking for communion table or ball-room, this way to celebrate Christmas. If you some time, for several months, in makes us tired. But, brethren, he boom just now. And yet we had a by Scrofula love me, send a turkey to a poor fact for nearly two years and more he isn't promised to us as an annual family down the alley if you want lively, pleasant, genial sort of Christmas. thought, the less able he seemed to OF PURE COD LIVER OIL WITH blessing, like the latter rains, he's to make your brother a present, make up his mind. The difficulty an all-the-year-round reminder of Hypophosphitss of Lime & Soda give it to the poorest man you Ts the sad story of many lives made miserable "First-oil, Dick Carver undertook was, he was thinking about Sail ana God's riches and our stewardship, through no fault of their own, Scrofula is more know ifyouwantto surprise your IS NOTHING UNUSUAL. THIS FEAT ,» 'A'* he was trying to find out if he loved to clean out the town—before nine "For the poor shall never cease out especially than any other u, hereditary disease, fai her with' A gift, give it to some HAS BEEN PERFORMED OVER AND OVER. and from this simple reason Arisinprfrom impure her or not. o'clock in the morning, sir!—and he of the land therefore I command 5 AGAIN. PALATABLE AS MILK. EN- needy old fellow of whom he never and insufficient blood, the disease locates itself DORSED BY PHYSICIANS. SOLD BY ALL He had as yet arrived at no settled made cullenders of three men befoi© thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine heard. That will insure for you a in the lymphatics, which are com posed of white 5 DRUGGISTS. AVOID SUBSTITUTIONS AND conclusion. ^Sometimes he was hand wide unto thy brother, to thy we put him to bed. Then we tarred right royal, merry Christmas. tissues, there is a period of foetal life when the 3 IMITATIONS. sure he loved her verv much he saw poor and to thy needy in thy land." and feathered the Sheriff—he had whole body consists of white tissues, and therefore the nnbo-n child is especi ally susceptible to clearly that it was all a mistake, and Overhaul your Deuteronomy for CONSUMPTION: gone back on his election pledges, this dreadfnl disease But there is a remedy for that lie loved some one else a great that it will probably take you all a in S a a Claus* and the moral sentiment of the community scrofula, whether hereditary or acquired I is deal better—himself usually. the rest of the morning to find it,but was aroused. Then Jim "Hadn't we better send those Hood's Sarsapanlla, which by it« powerful effect Then he u«ed to think if she would you will run across a whole volume upon the blood expels every trace of the disease Fowler had a dog that had just gone I have a positive remedy for the above disease by its things to auction?" asked the clerk, of good things whileyou are looking and gi\es to the vital fluid the Quality and color only give him some sign of caring use thousands of oases of the worat kind and of long mad, and he let him loose in the pointing to a lot of shopworn gimoracks. of health. If jo decide to take ood sSarsapaiilla standing have been enred. Indeed so strong is my faith for him it would make everything for it. street, and he was more fun than a its efficacy, that I will send TWO BOTTLES TBEX.WIUI do not accept any substitute much easier. But he knew that she Thanks to Christianity, thanks to VALUABLE TREATISE on this disease to any soC goat—it as 'most an hour before "No,"replied the proprietor. *"Jnst Hood's Sarsapanlla fererwho will send me thair Express and P.O. address. ."wasn't the girl to give her affections every church founded on the teachings that dog was shot. Then we ran a rCURlFlTS!.Y.N„t8lraeP181,C.M,mncolS.A^T mark them up pretty high and label -where they had not been sought, of Jesus of Nazareth, we do take temperance lecturer out of town, and them»*New Holiday Goods.'" and as he had hitherto carefully abstained better care of our poor, a thousand Sold by all druprgists. $1. six for $3 Prepared in the evening Bill Hasenpfeffer onl by I HOOD &C0 Lowell. Mass. from committing himself, he fold, than Solomon, or his father before 100 Doses One Dollar made a bonfire of his new barn, just "When. I say cure I do not mean merely to Stop them foresaw that after he had once declared him or his sons after him, ever for a show for the boys—he's a a S a Fruit. for a time and then havs them return again. I mean his intentions, he would have did. But we have yet to learn that I prescribe -nd foU7 endone radical cure. I have made disease of FITS EPI. thorough-bred, Bill is, ifheisa Dutchman, Bessie—"Miss Oldgirl showed me Big AS the only LEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a hfe-long stndy. I -a long fight and a long wait before while spasmodic charity is better specific for tn certain cure warrant my remedy to care the worst eases. Becaoso of tins disease. 3ie got her, if indeed, he ever did, tlran none, Christmas ousrht to last all the presents she received for others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a G.H.INGKAHAM.M Besides, he didn't know whether a all the year round. And, indeed, care. Send at once lot a treatise and a Free Bottled Christmas." Amsterdam, N 3ft5 "No, sir, the Christmas spirit ain't my infallible remedy. Give Express and PostOfS^e. there is no reason why it shouldn't. W have sold Big man* of his selfish nature was calculated Jessie—"She has been showing dying out, not while there's any sort Q» O O At, 1 8 3 a St. N many years, and it bo. Because no man knoweth just when to make such a woman happy. iix.^ them to me regularly every year for given the best of satI' of society left in Dead Horse Gulcn O N STAMP—Sen 1 for Worlc faction it should come. If we are costive Lven it he ere so constituted, and 1 don't know how lonir." Fair Letter sealer Jtamp stack*r and Stamp ox and you can tell anybody 1 said so."- DYCHB&CO. Chicago, 111 Ag'tB wanted WestManfl. Co .Minn apollp, Mina Sl.QO Sold by Druggists. W. W N V. 1 8 9 0 *&aKs^4ks*&r« A 5Jf-*£ &&££ -"^3r&^rfi*r4JU«ja* 1 ....•„i.... «9" BWMW