Abbyville Tribune from Abbyville, Kansas • 2

'('eiialiilv. Of course. To be ainv." PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. liuitirrotiM nobody re ABBYVILLE TEIBUNE, Pains and Aches In Ttrtou paninf llio body, mora psrtlpulsrty la bat k. tmulilor ami Jomo, ara tl, unwolounia iil umi tuna that rbeuiuitiiaiu UuksIiichI fmrt In.IJ, and fou ars "la tt It" for a Imigur or tlmrtsr tMirlcxt.

ItliuumalUin 1 raaxx) I woo arid In Ilia blitxl. anil It urc4 br Howl's r-araaparllla, li. li rajliiateaororr Impurity from UiO bloud, ana Oils It witli rltluiuusiid liual ill. "1 ba4 boon imuliluj fur soma tlmo with poor iPIelit. particularly in tlia aiurnlng, an4 slM ba4 Irwjuent aiisvkt of rbuumatlmn.

I conmiom-wt UWinjf Uoud'aHtnaparilla. suit now ny IUI Mia boat and tlia rliouiuatiam bsncnllrulf left Bin. AiitN'H, UTW KuwraM Avonuu, Chicago, 111. Jl foil tut txxin troubled with rlmumatlim for a long" timo. siiil tier blood baa boon very poor.

Laal prlii alio had scrofula auro. I cut ber soma of Hood's Karaaparllls, and on taking It aha began to ImproTO rliMil sway. She Is not In the leat troubled byrnaumatlamnow.and tho suras aro all uvalod," USKur iu.vaun.llu Vernon, 0. Hood's Sarsaparllla Bold by all dronrlsu. fit alx for is.

rinro4 by 0. 1. 1 lOOO a CO Apotbocariva, Lowell, ilaas, I OO Doses Ono Dollar I do, hut I have it roiiiiuiskh. 11 to execute In jour iielghlioihood," answered (hu tiublukhing untriither, "at a store round tho corner from whero you live." And ho and tho unsuspecting Bob went olT together. Tho next morning Brooke had hud acnrcely limn to don hU working Jacket when fii cliuius surrounded him and inundated hliu with questions.

"For heaven's sake, givo mu time," said ho, and I'll tell you all I know. They live lit an old raumhaeklo building that was once soniu kind of a factory, but has been turned into a cheap tenement There's an old father so badly crippled that hn hasn't walked for live years; a iniddlo-nged mother who nurses him and also nurse hi mother, who is bedridden. Vienna that's her name isn't It queer and that scamp 1 mean Boh earn all tho money tho family have. She's a dressmaker. And Iho l-onl only knows how they manage to get along at all." "How, in thunder, did you find that Bob ri'i'lleil, Inwardly taking himself to task for not Inviting thein before after tlielr great klmlne.m to him, and secretly mulling in anticipation of his swier nppearaucu lit Iho new dress.

"There's the place," and ho handed ono of tho young men a card on which was printed "Mrs. Susan Brlirs, dress maker, 1H Ulank street." "I'll bo there, sure, uu added, as ho started for homo. "IM. We'd eel awfully If wo didn't nnd you," sai.i iirooKe. Daily in tho afternoon of tho first day ol Iho new year live young men stood at the door or an old-fashioned two-story and attic brick houseon Blank street, and wero quickly admitted by that smiling youngster burn known to them only its "that scamp Todd." By him they wero ushered Into a nent parlor where a nrctty woman tnd a bewitching girl tho latter in a bluo cashmere dress with lilies of tho valley on her breast and In her golden hair canio lorward to greet them Theso nro tho fellows I mean tho ireii' tlcmen," said Boh.

"who've been so good to me," end he proceeded to introduce Horn ono by ono. "Wo aro very happy to rnako roui acquaintance," said Mrs. Susan Briggs and Miss ienna'ludd top-ether. "N'ot half ns happy ns wo aro to niako yours," began Brooke in it light and airy manner, and then happening to glance in back room the folding doors being partly open he Stopped suddenly. "No, indeed," then began ono of tno enumerators, also in a light and airy manner and glancing also in tho samo direction added lamely: "It's a very fine day, isn't it?" And tho other young men too, and immediately became serious and dignified.

They nil recovered their spirits, however," before they loft, and chatted merrily with their fair hostesses while discussing tho excellent cofl'eo and sandwiches and home-made cake whicli comprised the list of refreshments. And when they took leave Wheat laid his ind upon Bob's curly head and said solemnly: "Bless you, my boy, bless you," which solemn proceeding, however, did not prevent them shouting with laughter ns soon as they had turned tho corner. All but the second enumerator, and ho said with long-drawn faco: "Ah! there." In tho back room sat an old man in a wheeled chair, and by his sido bt Mr. Prince, wearing a bulton-holo bou. quel of lilies of llio valley.

Bob never paid for thnt bluo cashmere dress, for Vienna tho lovely, golden-haired, sweet-tempered, bright Vienna becoming a member of tho firm soon after her first appearance in it, graciously forgave him tho debt. Margaret Detroit Free Press. A POPULAR NAME. Historical Facts and Anecdotes Coniicetnd With the Name of James. Spain is tho great home and center of the Jameses; thenee they havo radiated as Jagos and Jaymes over tho whole circle of the civilized world.

St. James the Apostle, it. appears, preached in Spain before tho date of his martyrdom in Jerusalem. His authentic relics were duly deposited by miraculous agencyon the Galician coast. The shrine that arose around the final resting place of the canonized bones was dedicated the word "Sancto Jacobo Apostolo." Peninsular tongues soon converted the word apostle into the namo of the town ho inhabited, and tho place was ever afterward known to fame as Santiago do Compostella.

Very remarkable miracles used to lake place there. The aid given by Santiago to tho Christian Spaniards against their Moorish enemies on ono occasion ho even fed tho victorious army in person on a white horse made him by far the most popular saint in tho whole kingdom. Pilgrims flocked from all parts of tho world to the shrine of Compostella, with St James' scallop shell tho pecten Jacobaius fixed in their hats as a symbol of their pilgrimage. Hence tho somewhat obscure connection between St. James and oysters, typified by the fact that on St.

James' day, July 25, old- style, the oyster season used to begin, nappy times when an oyster supper was regarded in tho light of a devotional exercise. Tho change of calendar put on the date, to August 4, when the season now commences without rhyme or reason: Tho little grottos of oyster shells whicli London children formerly built on St. James' day, and afterward on tho transferred date, wero the last relic of the scallop-decked shrines of St. James of Compostella. From Santiago in Galicia the namo of Santiago spread to numberless other towns in all parts of tho wide Spanish dominions.

Your conquistador, though a trillo bloodthirsty, was undeniably devout. Like his' Norman prototypes, he combined the practice of filibustering and religion. If he burned tho Indian's body it was for the good of his soul; if he killed him with hard work in the gold and silver mines ho took care to baptize him before finally destroying him. Tho "pious founder of the Spanish colonies was very particular by what titles ho christened his towns and islands. Ascension and Vera Cruz, Dominica and San Salvador, sufficiently attest the orthodox devotion of tho Spanish mariner.

Even the men-of-war were christened by such grotesquely inappropriate names as La Santisima Trinidad;" while Con-cepcion, Asuncion and Santa Fe show their ardent desire to prove the entire catholicity of their faith in the merest details of local nomenclature. But Santiago came in above all other saints or dogmas or abstractions for the nuneupatory homage of the Spanish mind. There is a Santiago in Chile, and another in Cuba, a third is in Mexico and a fourth in La riaia. The Californinn specimen varies the type a little, and comes out in the alternative form of San Diego. At least ono British colony has inherited an example, and that is Jamaica.

The old capital of the island must still be described in all ofiieial or lfgal documents as Santiago de la Vega, but the name is too long winded to sit comfortably upon the British throat, and conversation knows it only nowadays as Spanish Town. C'jrnhiil Magazine. limine. I Angry tt him lung, llo vviw ready to ru-kiiowloilgo hW fttull, and so vorv aorrv for tliu 111 a 11 vexa lions miritnkea ho Hindu, and lie had audi really contrllu and "1 will do better" expression In his expresKiva Inco when bpsrtrlng lor another trim, that hu had kept on getting another trial ever nineo bo numo in nrst np. nenranen ns win nil helper (hint after liU twelfth birthday) and Iho threat of iliHciinrgci had never lieert enrncu cut.

I niako a iiiMitko. It wai once, That week Hob had Wen uncommonly trying and had wound up 011 Saturday by suddenly darting, loaded with from a dark corner directly In tho way of a stout customer from llio West, In eonsofiueneo of which proceeding the stout customer iiiunHtired his length upon tho floor with tho parcels upon his head and tho iinreel-earriur across 11 jus wick, mint nun itcKieru iiinu (aid when, shaking oil' both boy and parrels, ho regained his feet, worlds could not induce 1110 to repent. Sulllco it to say that tho surrounding air was Lino with strango swear-wonla for live minutes thereafter, and tho scamp Todd, summoned to licad'jtiartcr, was paid Ins week wages and was Inline diately sent adrift. and early the following Mon day morning a lad eauio briskly into tho superintendent's olliee. Ho was ns neat as neatness itself.

He carried his lint in his hand and his faco beamed with tho tirido of conscious virtue. "I hear, sir," ho said, in a respectful voice, "that von wero obliged to lire vour generally useful boy hist Saturday for being so awkward as to upxot a strango gent, and I should like very much in deed to havo his place. I've had ex perience in iho business and I II promise not to spill 1103 body on tho floor, and to endeavor to promote tho interests of tho lirm In every way I can." iho auperlntenilent burst out laugh ing. along to your work," he said. Tho new boy was the old hoy that scamp loud.

And yet this intensely respectful youth, before, the day was over, had replied to sonio question addressed him by tho dignified senior member of the houso with: Jl bo blowed if I know, sir." But with all his faults thero was ono thing Hob was not. lie was not talkative. Not that ho would havo found any one disposed to talk with him if ho had been, with tho single exception of tho porter, a crood-naturcd German who often shared an abundant lunch with him and discoursed meanwhile of Grctchen, Nina, Fetor and others of tho Seiger family. 15ut not a word of his own family did the boy say in ro-turn for these conlidenccs, and so Seiger knew no more of him and his belongings than did any one else. To tell tho truth no ono in that busy place had ever thought of him as having any belongings, or in any way at all savo as that scamp Todd, until December 23, 1883, when a clerk on the iloor level with tho street, who was calling out some numbers in a monotonous tone from a big book which lay on tho desk beioro him, sant numbers being repeated in an equally monotonous tono as last as they wero called by a fellow-clerk who stood some" distance from him, became suddenly aware of a strango presence as they say in the ghost stories and lifting his eyes saw tho prettiest girl he had ever seen in all his twenty-hvo years standing before him.

'I beg bardon," ho stammered, snatching oil' his hat and reaching for his coat, "can I do any thing for you?" Uy this time the repeater, thinking he had waited long enough for tho next number shouted "Why tho dev and then raising his eyes, also saw the prettiest of young women and also snatched oil' his hat and reached for his coat. The girl's sweet faco grew rosy as a summer dawn. "I would like," sho said in low, faltering tones, "to see Robert Todd. He is my brother. I should not have come had it not been something very important." "Oh! lm sure you're excecdirgly welcome," began tho first enumerator.

"That is. it doesn't make any difl'er-ence. 1 should say Hey, Seiger," he broke off to call to tho porter, who happened to be going by, "tell that scam I moan tell Robert Todd his sister would like to see him." "Robert said tho porter wondcr-ingly ns tho second enumerator brought forward a chair, which tho lovely apparition accepted with a musical 3'ou." "Yes, Robert Todd. Don't you knowP Our boy." "Ya, ya," said Seiger. "Robairt Tott.

I fetch him." And away he trotted with a comical twinkle in his small gray eyes and a backward glance at Robnirt's sister. I can't imagine how it got all over that largo establishment a few moments that that scamp Todd had a grown-up sister; that sho was distractingly pretty; and that sho had conio to see him, and was waiting in tho enumerators' room, but it did, and almost every n-an employed there managed to get down stairs it being lunch time and take a peep at her. "Who would have thought of a Miss Todd," siwd Brooke, "being not only pretty hut decidedly charming "Great Scott," was Wheat's irrelevant reply, "what hair and eyes sho has. Looks something like that sea I mean like Bob, "Poor thing!" exclaimed Gibson. "Sho seems to bo very poorly clad for such a cold day." "That's soy' said Brooke.

"That jacket looks like a summer jacket and makes a fellow feel ashamed pf having an overcoat." As for the enumerators, ono of them called out "18" when ho should havo called out some thing away up in tho hundreds, and tho other repeated "18" in an idiotic manner when he must have known better, and just then as Bob walked with his sister to tho door, Mr. Prince, tho junior and bachelor member of tho firm and very fine-looking ho was, too came down on the elevator, and tho young men disappeared as suddenly as they had appeared. Bob was very much astonished that evening when, as he was leaving the store, Brooke hailed him with: "Hold on, Bob; 1'iu going jour way." "Thought you lived t'other side of the city, said Bob. Ton I Lufon, French quadroon of New Orleans, is tho richest colored man in America. Ho Is wroth When Admiral Nelson fell at Trafalgar ho had in his pocket eighty' four guineas, A PorUmouth gentleman owns theso and has them riveted Into a paper-weight form.

'-il. W. Brittuiti of ('lowland, has received a liamtsomo gold medal from tho l'rinci) of Wales in recognition of tho merits of his machino for the level ing of iron and steel rolled plates. Mark Twain Is getting old very fast, hut docs not like to be tola 01 It. His hair is nearly white, but Mark per sists iimt this was caused iy sitting in damp churches out in California.

JVr. lunc. L. 11. Davis, tho Inventor of tho locomotlvo "cowcatcher.

Is hvine In Cincinnati, devoting himself principally to designing patterns for iron work. Ho nover received Hny remuneration for tho "cowcatcher." Cincinnati Times. Duprcz, tho onco famous tenor, hns a hobby for eats in his old age, nnd is said to feed hundreds of them every day. Tho animals remind hint of tho days when ho associated with sopranos, especially when they get to lighting llio cats, not tho sopranos. As a family man David Wright (colored), of Columbia City.

can hardly bo surpassed. Ho is the father of twenty-live children, most of them living, nnd his present wife is tho mother of twenty-seven children, nino-ten of whom aro living. Lhicaqo While Mr. Wilson Barrett was playing Clnudian In Boston a six-year-old boy, who had been taking a small part in tho play, approached tho star during an intermission nnd said: "Say, Mr. Barrett, do all theso people como to tho theater just to seo you? Don't some of 'em come to seo me?" Mr.

Barrett's answer is not recorded. Ztoa-ton Journal. "Camp Meeting John" Allen, ninety-one years of age, but still vigorous, lost two houses in the Farmington (Me.) fire, with tho manuscript of an autobiography on which ho had been at work for twenty years, his certificates nnd ministerial licenses and many valuable papon. He is now in Boston, whero ho intends to make bis home with a daughter. Boston Budget.

A rare character is Nathan Ilobbs, near Pcnfield, Ga. IIo is now In his ninety-seventh year and can work every day and read without spectacles. He was born in tho latter part of the eighteenth century. Seventy-live years ago ho settled at his present home, and there ho has lived continuously ever since. For eighty-five years Nathan has been afflicted with rheumatism.

Atlanta Constitution. Martin Gomez has deposited 000 in a New Bedford (Mass.) bank under rather curious circumstances, He recently reached that place from San Francisco, and is bound for his homo at Fayal on a ship which sails this week. While in San Fraucisco a friend gave Gomez a lottery ticket whicli ho had grown tired of carrying. On reaching New Bedford Gomez discovered that the ticket had drawn a $15,000 prize. Boston Herald.

W. C. McCaulcy, 'of Baltimore, a commercial traveler representing a number of oyster packing houses in lialtimoro and JSew lork, has received the information that the last will of a St. Paul lady bequeathed to him a legacy of $5,000. The legacy is in grateful recognition of an act of heroism by Mr.

McCauley, who two years ago rescued tho daughter of the ladv from drowning while sho was bathing at Coney Island. Baltimore Sun. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." The altitude of an orchard in Cali fornia is over six thousand feet. No wonder, then, that California apples como high. Some claim that the pulley is the oldest mechanical invention, but probably tho crowbar has a pryer claim.

lexas bijtuigs. --As her father was hanging around, he merelv said, "I will see you in dew time." and sho knew ho meant in tho evening. Lowell Citizen. The Boston Herald makes what it no doubt considers a rare pun when it says: "The Chicago beef men play for high steaks." It certainly can be considered well done. 'Troy Times.

Sympathetic "Hello, old boy, how are you feeling to-day?" "Oh, I'm l'mnroviiif. but slowlv verv slow ly." "That's excellent. I'm delighted to hear it." Pittsburgh Dispatch. Photosraph collector By tho way, I've been making a collection of mon strosities lately. Friend Indeed! P.

C. Yes. And that reminds me, will you kindly let mo havo ono of your photographs? Mamma Avhy, Charley, what aro you crying lorr tJhariey wiio has eaten the only pieco of pio there is on tho plate, while his brother Willie looked wistfully on) 'Causo they ain't no pie for Willie. Life. Shopping in tho country "No, ma'am; those are two articles we don't keep; but the oysters, I think, you will find at tho post-office, and bananas you can get across tho way, at the barber's." Harper's Bazar.

--Economy is wealth." If the per son who invented this proverb will call at the office any afternoon we will present him a goodly supply of economy for half its face value in wealth. Wo have more economy than we really need. Prairie Farmer. "Some idiot has put my pen where can't find it," growled Asperity this morning, as he rooted about his office desk. "Ah, aw, yes; I thought so," he added, in a milder tone, as he hauled the writing utensil from out behind his ear.

N. Y. Graphic. This is the latest witticism with which W. S.

Gilbert is credited. "It is easy enough for Bishops to be goon on a salary of five thousand pounds rear," said the satirical dramatist, look around on a select circle of literary friends, "but we have to be good for nothing," a pause, "and souio 01 arc." X. Y- tiun. DUFF A AimYVII.LE. KANSAS.

"INASMUCH." You aav Hint yu want tnoptii' lioueo tor I ho liovd in Iho vu It'll ilicre, And a biiiily ctii with inutur-bookif Well, nut ma down for elmr. I believe in IttUo ohllUrnij ii'mtnlco to lienr 'in roan A to wander mund Iho ration at noon ana Ai.j. I li j. 1m 1 And 1 helluva In rcachm', too-tijr lucn for preaoliln' born. Who let alone the huaka of croen, and inr-a urn out Iba cuiru.

The online but a manger whoro llio pcwa are (iospel foil; And thojf aiiv'twat to a manger that Iho tnr of it lory led. 80 I'll aulMorilMi a dollar toward tbo innneor and thoitaimt I always iriva the boat IV tot wlionovor my partnor oalln. An J. ai ranger, lot me toll you: I in bcainiilnjr tO IlillCft That all the world are ai Inert, whatever their creed or aeel That lire la a kind of pilgrimage, a sort of Jericho road, And kimlneaa to ono follow! Iho awoc-tcat law In the Ko matter about iho 'nltlalu from a farmer, you undornund, Wboa a-enorallv hud to play It alono from rather an or'nury limnl. I'va nover struck It rich 1 for rannlnjr, you no, lailow, And whenever the crop ore fairly (rood, tbo price aro alwaya low.

A dollar Isn't very much, but It help, to count thoanmo! Tbo lowest trump aupporta the ace, and eoinc- time wins tlio itume. It aiisiNt a fttllow a praying when bo down upon hil kiioea "Iuimmuch ua you have done it to ono of tho leant of tlieee." I know the vcmoa, atranircr, (0 you ncodn atop to quoto: Jt's dlflerent thin to know them or to say them off tiyroto. I'll toll you where I learned them, ir you'll step In from tho ran: Twbb down In Iriaeo, years ago; bad boon thoro haullnir irrn n. It was near the city liin lis, on theSncramouto P'ke, Where stores nnd sheds aro latiiurmlxed, and sliuntios scultcriii' llko. Not the likeliest place to be In, I remember, the snloou, With grocery, market, baker-shop, and bur room all in one.

And this made up tho picture my hair was not then gray, Out every Hung seems as real at If 'twere yesterday. A little girl with haggard face stood at the counter I lie 10, Not more than ten or twolve at most, but worn with grief and care: And her voice wh kind of raspy, llko a sort of chronlo cold-Just tho tone you tlnd In children who nre prematurely old. Shesnid: "Two bits for bread and tea. Ma hasn't much to eat: Ehe hopes next week to work again, and buy us all some meat. We've been Imlf starved all winter, but spring will soon bo bore, And tho tells us: Keep up courage, for God Is always near." Just then dozen men enmo In; the boy wat called away To shake tho spotted cubes for drinks, as 'J-'orty-nlncrs say.

I never heard from humsn lips such onths nnd curses loud As rose above Iho glasses of that cra.cd and reckless crowd. Hut the poor tired girl sat waiting, lost at last to revols deep, On a keg beside a barrol In the corner, fast asleep. Well, I stood there, sort of waiting, until soino ono at the bnr Bald: "Hello! I say, atrangor, what bnvo you over thar?" Tho boy then told hor story, and thnt crew, so tlerco and wild. Grew Intent, nnd seemed to listen to tho breathing of tho ch Id. The glnsKes all were lowered; said tho loader: "Hoys, see here; All day wo'vo been pourlnir whisky, drinking deep our ChrlMnuis cheer Hero's two dollars I've got feelings which nro nol entlraly dead For this little girl ami mother sulTerlntr for tho want of bread." "Here's a dollar." "Hero's another." And they all chipped in their share.

And they plunked tho rlngiug metal down upon tho counter there. Then tho spokesman took a golden double- eaglo from his belt. Softly stepped from bar to counter, and be silo tho sleeper knelt; Took the "two bits" from her fingers; changed her sliver piece for gold. "Geo there, boys: tho girl is dreaming." Down her cheekt the tear-drops rolled. One by one tho swarthy miners passed In silence to the street.

Gently wo awoke the sleoper, but Bho started to her feet With a dazed and strange expression, saying: "Oh, I thought 'twits truel Ma was well, and wo were huppy; round our door stone roses grow. We had every thing we wanted, food enough, and clothes to wear; And my hand burns where an angel touched it soft with lingers fair." As she looked, and saw the money lu hor lingers glistening bright, "Well, now, ma has long been praying, but she won't believe mo quite. How you've sent 'way up to Heaven, whore the golden treasures are, And have also got an ango! clerking at your grocery bur." That's a Christmas story stranger, which I thought you'd like to hear: True to fact and human nature, pointing' out ons's duty clear. Hence to matters of subscription you will sen that I'm alive; Just mark off that dollar, stranger; I think I'll make It Ave. William Bruce, in Harper'i Magazine.

THAT "SCAMP" TODD. But Ho Found Sudden Favor With Hia "House." He was thirteen years old and small for his age, but by no means delicate. On the contrary, ho was as sturdy a chap ns ever looked out of a pair of mischievous blue eyes from under a most rebellious crop of curly, golden-brown hair. His name was Robert shortened by relatives and friends into Bob Todd, and he was in the employment of the great dry goods iirm, Ham, Tell Prince. Ha was engaged as a general helper, but got into so many scrapes and entanglements that the majority of his superiors voted him a general nuisance, and he was threatened with dismissal once at least on every one of the six working days.

Such a boy for tumbling down stairs and bursting and scattering the contents of tho boxes with which he b.ad been severely enjoined to be specially careful such a boy for going out of his wav to stumble over things and into holes such a boy for stopping when sent on errands to double-shuflle and heel-and-toe it to the lively tune of every hand-organ he met such a boy for bumping his forc head, barking his shins, hitting his funny bones, acquiring black eyes, cutting his lingers, sneezing at inopportune moments, forgetting what lie should have remembered, and remembering what he should have forgotten, surely never lived before nnd probably never will live again. No ono ever thought of speaking of him 1 mean no ono in the establishment where be was supposed to work as Robert, Bob or Todd, but it was always "that scamp Todd." And yet, in" spite of his outi asked Wheat, "lou vo got a good deal of cheek III fact, I don't know any fellow that's got more but I don't believe even you havo quite enough to walk into a house and demand information of people about themselves." "Oh! ho pumped Todd, nssertod Gibson. "Didn't." denied Prooko, Tried to, but it was no go," Got it all at the corner grocery. The clerk there eon found him for a lisping, weak-eyed, conceited donkey told it to 1110 on tho slightest provocation while I bought a box of tigs. 'I'm nil broke up on tho young lady ho said, 'though sho itli rather proud and don't llieeni to care about making Now, my friends nnd fellow-countrymen, hero's a chance for our doing something really Christma-v in tho iiuo Dickens? stylo." "That's so," said Wheat, "and wo can do it capitally through that throuirh her brother." "We'll make up a purse for her I mean for them," said Maury, "nnd givo it to him Christmas live." I'll conlriluito a warm cloak," said Gibson.

"I thought of that summer jacket half Iho night." i he others burst out laughing. "Jlow could vou present Todd with a girl's cloak they asked. "You're right," said Gibson, and then added hastily, "Here comes Ilaru. Scatter!" And they scattered. A short lime after these generous resolutions had been made in his behalf Bob was wanted but 0011 Id nol be found, for the very good reason that ho was snugly hidden away in the corner of tho loft with a board on his knees, on which lay a sheet of paper and an inkstand, which had also been found want ing, on the floor at his side.

Bob was writing a hitter, a very unusual proceeding for him, if ono might judge by the time it look nnd tho pains it cost him. When at last it was finished he rend it aloud, with several "asides," and it and tho "asides" ran ns follows: "New Youk, December SI, 183. 'Mr. 8. A.

I'rinre (lie's llio youngest and looks the genorousest. Iicsides he's a prince, niul it seem n'loi- riglit lor princes to bo good Christmas). "KRAiifciu: 1'ino tlio lmv what works hore Itobort Todd. Vou'vo soon me but never spnlte to 1110 ('cent lie told me to git out of tho way oust). 1 like your looks very mutch.

You look good. '1 lint 18 tho reason I'mo wivt- In' tills letter to you. 1 have a very nice sister I hat wants to go to my ant Susen's to vo-co. vo calls 011 New Yeur'a day. but sho has no drcita.

Won't yon tho tirm to Blve 1110 one to jrivo her for lior Christinas and let ma wnikltout? Th oy can keep what they was agoiif to (r.ve mo to'rd puyin' for it. Then she can ftel it ilnno 111 timo. Shpso a roel smart ulrl and just ns pretty's though sho hud 11 mill on dresses. 1 sh you a merry Christinas and a happy New Your. (That's liijfh pio!) Very respectfully, Hohkrt Toon.

P. S.A orly nncr crnostly requested. Bho takes twolvo yards." This important document being addressed and dropped into tho letterbox the writer hurried back to his duties, expecting to be met with a sharp riprimand for his absence, but greatly to bis surpnso isrooke only said: 'Try ited, to be around when you ro wante Bob." That very evening apackage directed to "Master Robert Todd" was handed to him by the porter. And tho boy's eyes fairlv danced in his head when, tearing olV a corner of tho paper covering, ho saw a roll of tho finest blue cashmere. Home ho rushed and bursting into tho room where his sister sat, he Hung it into her lap with "Here's your Christmas, Vi, from your lovin1 "brother, Bob.

Mr. Prineo got it for me on time. But how did ho know blue would suit you best? I didn't say nothin' 'bout no blue. An' now you cau go to Aunt Sue's, and won't you bo in perfect ecstacvP And ain't I a lucky boyP" "Lucky" lie thought so Willi redoubled forct. tho next evening when the clerks, represented by Burko, presented him with a pocket-book containing twenty-two dolJars in crisp, new bills, as "a slight testimonial of their regard for him and their appreciation of his strict attention to business and exemplary conduct during (lie past year." And he thought so still moro when Seiger handed him an envelope inclosing "a fiver," as he called it, from his employers.

"But they ought to have kep1 this," he said to himself tho next moment, and Mr. Prince passing just then he ran after him. "Mr. Prince! Mr. Prince! This was to be kep'," ho began, holding out the greenback, but the junior interrupted him: "That's all right, my boy.

Wo'll settle tho afl'air you refer to next year. By the by, I find that your father was bookkeeper in the house I was wih when I was two or three rears oldsr than you. Perhaps I shalf call upon him some day." 'I guess he'll bo glad to see you," said Bob in a subdued tone, being quite overwhelmed by tho proposed honor, "though wo don't live in no Btjle But Mr. Princo was gone before ho finished his sentence. Christmas came and went and left the Todd family a pleasant memory.

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