Show merry christmas and paid in full how silas vaughan contributed to yuletide cheer of the needy by FRANK HERBERT SWEET I 1 T WAS nn an eloquent 1 6 plea for the public building an urge for its beauty its value to the town t the li e educational gift aft to tile the eyes of 0 youth auth the speak or was hypnotic lip ile had find been engaged for that purse strings were loosened money poured freay twenty fifty tifty a hund hundred reil five hundred and it was christmas they went to silas vaughan liin the grocer le louder lider a wealthy man mail of the town people looked surreptitiously to i see ice I 1 what sum lie he would bie at first a hand wont went into tits his pocket I 1 iipp I 1 k 0 the others then cagne out and 0 the inns arms were ery folded tl there tre wits ais an audible gasp from wat watchful chau I 1 eyes more cattle came more solicitors went round mind nian inui to man inan put hut sat it there urnis arri 9 folded aigid unmoved bitnes tire lire too toe hard lie he ans is heird to sy say in answer to tin an importunate Importuna Imp it tt beggar it Is a bad year ear fur such it building nut not hid had for me in and all those who bield to noble Ini pulses stilt said it a neigh hor in it a voice olce tint that all enrilo hear the next day was christmas MI the grocery firo cery und and drug stores tors open for a few hours stills vaughan wont went to lo his desk and took out twite twice as nian man hills bills us its ever had been allowed allotted to uc tie cumulate before times wert ere lian and ild more were obliged to charge cli arge bully hulf half of tile the accounts were selected from tle the others and ni words written ritten w at the lie bottoms bottwin R taint took nearly an all hour then ile he slipped the bills into tits his pocket put on hig lint lit and cont coat and went out lea tins illg the store to the clerks it wits was nearly closing time when tie he ume back this he occupied with |