Show 0 13 11 1 1 in qa P at li t m Z 41 I 1 I 1 ian V I 1 ia I 1 r av 4 7 II 11 1 I I 1 1 il I 1 im 5 4 2 I 1 I 1 I 1 iro I 1 ca I 1 I 1 1 I 1 t avat I 1 A I 1 if I 1 1 1 I 1 4 INN L ife ir I 1 TO LAND how it credulous Nete newsboy tolled for a dream bream that became it fact at I 1 the he ca close oise ot of the day the crowd always rushes rush c a and swirls SUMS like fee a great human eddy about t the entrance to the UK bix e tonight it was even more dense th than an ur usual u aj for or the day before christmas had brought everybody arross across to the great shops for or the last few to that roust always be il bouR ought lit and now they were eggl back agoan but it was a good natured lie crowd w d and it pushed and jostled with the jokes a and u 1 I that a christ chrict lung snowstorm always brings when it Is tilt the first 0 ot f the reason peason it seem seemed ed as though n nobody 0 bad y could move in that mass unless he moved oved with it JO but bat sey was accustomed 1 ceus tomed to it and squirmed in and 0 out u t a armonk m eng the moving le legs gs like a slim it ond d v very ery elastic eel shouting at tile the top 0 of r bis big shrill bolce strai straw last e dee esbun bagsey r realized L lazed that it wits was good u t time I 1 me for b business t I 1 and ho he control ue d to phout and to run to and fro th ough his throat was horribly dry and he felt ready t to 0 drop aery ei err few moments his legs ires tr tried led to give way und under er him but lie always managed to m make a rally a need luid kept repeating to himself twenty six cents now only awen ty four more and so co on as aa the pennies s came dropp dropping I 1 ng into his black little IISE and his stock of greve smaller and smal lr bal balady tey felt feit very happy in spite of a gnawing pitin pain that was to make itself felt in his stomach anti and lie he sent san out merry christmas in such a jolly tone that many a man turned and nodded kindly ot at him bilth the time same greeting Cst masV it max as not anew a now word but ut it had a new and strange sound to balsey vas mas 10 yea yean old id and wise in t the it e ways of the marld but he had never ne ver known know n a real christ christmas lie soil by spending only 2 cents instead of 0 3 for or ills lunch when the other b boya 0 YO indulged in the choll cooling li gaux luxury u ry of ap pp penny tiny ices fees it in Prank frankfort fort street datsch ha had d moistened his big parched throat at the fountain in city nall hall square onil anti had if thought and ought of polly when was wag bad lie he was unable to save adv thing for or he always alays took home ills usual contribution to the il nelly fillad c still his hoard board began to grow row when nhen its dimensions reached 1 lie he hall it changed into se a crisp new bill which he hid inside ills ragged stocking in the bottom at 0 his hl shoe choc the only place lie ryald uld think of secure both train from tile the boys and his hill grandmother erand mthr at tile the beginning ot of christmas week bagsey had four of tho the billi two lei in one each 1 I shoe business had been pond gond 14 face then and ito ho lead had great hopes that tonight lie might bo be able to make up tip the balance of the required amount that was why battiey bagsey was so cheerful and so lively but him bl head began to swim and the pa pain lei in 1 his I s stomach grew crew sharper for lip hp had h a I 1 rone gone without any lure lunch h all day ite ile loaned leaned against an ail L pillar for support then he be saw a man on the other side of the motioning lne tor for a paper and started across the slippery pavement pale in ent at that moment a carriage drawn by it a lively team came across the bridge and turned sharply into tile street batsy tried to dodge ode butof out ot the way but his head nas the carriage carr lapre pole struck him and in an instant he was lying beneath the horses feet his scattered in tile papers at the entrance to the big bridge and his sister polly two to years older riold panels down by the stock lack exchange the two lived together in a little room on the top floor of 0 EL a cherry street tenement with their thi ir grandmother t r who ho was supposed to keep house for them the old lady ho homeer weer kept ahnise I 1 only I 1 when hen her bottle was vi as empty a aal rd most ot of the walk was wa q done by polly folly she was the t he only mother bats sy y could remember and the two child ien fen hall had tuned the world together almost unaided ure aided for or over three years it hart had kept them quite luay busy to find food and fill pay the rent thore had beten been no time f for 0 r as polly called the various va r I 1 luxuries m which vere ere beyond their reach a so christmas had becu a word ord ot of little meaning to datsey up t to 0 last year he h had i ld ano know re the great childrens day only as aa a a time iv hen he rould could be sell 11 more inore papers th thin urual and an d when 1 he n he occasionally get cot a iad instead of a penny for its his IN wares are then he b had ad overheard ILL a heated argument beta nt ean n johnnie joh nnie griblin and bancsy th the T fake a ke as aa to the exi existence tence of n santa claus clans bonery maintaining unit that there w was 8 such stich d a person in all the mission ho house un avith te a ions unite bite isaid it ond and pocket stuffed full of good s to 0 eai a As when bagsey was in ili doul t he ll 11 r i questioned polly santa C alius 1 ell I 1 should the u id guess so said boily tolly 1 bu but t 11 lie 0 dont conic come no where here round liere here then seeing the tears como come it into Kal Bat ey eyes she sat blown ULM anil lot told him one ot of the balry fairy sti tries irles t ries sheet frequently invented to am andine ise him santa clans chalis Is fill an old old man m in said bald she rho ever so many hundred years old out but it he wrinkled a bit ills his face is red iland lie he has a long white heard beard and lie he v it ft fur eel cap and coat coal and big I 1 saw raw it picture 0 of him once is lien I 1 went nent to sunday school lie he lives way w way a y off in christ christinas I 1 n atre a tre arce loud ill d where n nothing 0 theor grows growa but mas maa tre trees eg and theres snow on all the ground bround all the time ile he drives rein doors deers like youve seen pictures of in tile the pa papers perit and he rides in a great big biff sleigh me ile must be awful rich sighed nata sey ey ile he it Is said bald polla grandly lie ho has everything every ing and on in Christ mils night lie rides around anti and loaves leaves a chill chili rn mis tree in every house all hali ging with ith candy and nuts nula and thi things gs but he cant corto como here you B see e cause there any snow and I 1 inane he be anyway I 1 guess he only on ay goes to see rich folks that live in chea christmas straus tree land end ii 18 it very far away ached bagsey 13 aksoy ill h ever and ever so far further than the park the park to Hat Bat mind marked the furthest limits of civilization ile he hall had been thern there onre arver so much further r bald polly twice as far wish we could go there just juet one d day A Y ald batary longingly ile he never mentioned the subject to her again hut but he had not forgotten it one day he broached breathed the matter to nia maloney the big pop POW who he stood tit nt tile end of the baldre baldee how bow far 01 oft Is 19 tree land he asked timidly t till IY burh further ali than n the park I 1 maloney smiled 4 aln just junt there or thereabouts lip lie salil said I 1 row how much would it cost to so go just for a day ell Persi oli oh I 1 grohn you and sissy could make the round on a a liver maloney 11 had a el answered the fiver of which willell maloney spoke mo BO carM carelessly essly cepres represented led 0 of f wealth to bat 8 mind but tile hie good food hearted credulous little fellow I 1 nothing daunted had bagain saving it at once determined that poll polly K 1 spend the boxt christmas in t that ha t tabu lous loun land of which she I 1 he had told him all th the th summer he had bad sexed muddy roadway A crowd quickly gathered bothered and a dignified old gentleman rot out of tile the carriage to see what hart had elg big Sl aloney made mad his way through the crowd and picked the boy tenderly up tip poor little kid he said 1 I guess lies hell done for this time me then in answer to tile the ald gentle mans questions he told the little ho be knew of Bat history adding find his sister bister down at nassau kassau and wall sir tile the carriage brovo away in search march of polly the old gentleman oford alood at the llie boys side while his haa wound was being dres dressed qed in a neighboring drug store still and listened 0 his incoherent words 0 only rely eight cents more I 1 tried ha hard r d polly hut but iff too late lat enow now well oll well mell said tile the old gentleman we wll I 1 have to look into this ve folly explained many thins things to the pray gray hall halica cd old gi ci and ILI his is pleasant faced wife the result was n as that when bagsey revived I 1 on the evening of christmas day he was firing in it big room w M filch seemed to him a 9 veritable fairyland fairy land but which was really re ally the aurrin y of 0 a bis big uptown up to town W n house the side ot of the room opposite tits his bed was filled N w itil it ft couple of 0 large titles ablaze with kith lighted candles candler end and hung with all manear of if things tempting to tile ebe or of childhood thild hOOd A tall tail gray b bearded herded man was bending over him art and by ills its side fat eat roary polly in a beautiful new frock flock bagsey let his gaze wander antler NN over the room find and its contents for a few moments then looked up into tile the kindly face above him ahlm I hello fello san santa a claus he said ra id faintly im so eo plad glad you mine mind about the other S cents you see I 1 got get no nn more but ill make it up to you afterwards aftic ile he turned tinned gleefully toward polly aint it great lie murmured were lei in christmas tiec land suro sure anouch now aint wo we and that was waa the beginning of a new life tor for the two wolfs balfa tit nt the h city RODERT robent copyright all rights reserved I 1 A wagner anecdote I 1 this wagner anc anecdote dote is related in I 1 rt a vienna Nl paper laper by li 31 von van I 1 who mho board it from wanner wagner himself ai ati the time v when hen avazier was tit nt at it a asi oni one of lily his intimate ft fi lends fen do I 1 in n dresden alas aa alie ill lius Doku a nihilist who mho was waa subsequently confined con lined in ili an austrian prison and finally landed over to the ill authorities and exiled to siberia dy by him wanner wagner uns aim infected with ingeni muan or of that revolutionary which led ird to ills hl own onn twelve yea years exile the events of had raise to tho the point of ec ecstatic static fanaticism Ba kunins hopeb of a ien cial civet tut re of cf politics and society one day shortly before tit uprising in dresden wagner him to a rehearsal of Beet hovens munn NYM symphony phony bring very fond of at tiu ic 1 he I accepted after the performance he lie atel aed up to waiter at the con can dutoi s deek and aid look here when ullon we annihilate wo we shall leave have to make an except exception Inn of the acore r core of tho the ninth symphony phony ony coptic superstition I 1 the coptic christians believe that on 0 eve the nature or of every savage beast Is tamed that hat lill lilloren dren relay may play alth a lion aloni and that uil ail e s lose their power to lu harm I 1 |