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Show noth. tf think "Yeti'rw right, I 14 It hot would ra'her havw ! him 4"4 ihaa and I hue if t" bad worb. ha would two qour himself, and rise without inf aid. ttt' ta of a Bias than with It. Rha pm arm around hi Hack and pattad hi fhaek 11" baa rlarn some bar, know l, faibur, (a could not ba ur arm and fail." aha raid, tha loyally and love of a HMJtns Ughtlng bar faca With a aofi tadianca Ila took op ib im hora from lb lahl" whr ba had laid l. and fondlad H a If ll war fsauahl with mainurlaa I of mar"!1 iara!!ln Ibem It lan tnra ba "fi. ba a d. what a luan ba mini ba now-- 51 lontahi Hii thinking, whan I boiieht ihl. of lb lima wba ba a curb a !!l y allow baliad tuddir. and almiMt u HJ with Juat A FAR CRY The Suy of a wont!, br Happy Ctautnu Pjr MAO.YN EATTUX m tl Uil U " jir , lit Hi Ih sin! rn K ! tar bj ut ! slw-t- Jer, r iso b nd r-,- r k for hi H'lhoiich -- nnt John Chiinl m tld hi wet ! !- lit prmide ,n 4 h h4 been lhi' Ih t wtiliiin, whet handsomely "Inn et f( story writers. touiij h;iio(h.-t- s dupUye-- l auth a burn rn, i'tlttel Je!ij stores (Viniixt ' 'l f iih aa tbta at Cbru'maa iiin Rh look Iba born from him. and look tig draamtly at H. aid Wall leap ihu. father; math" Jaka boy Hi noma lima make lhaa old waiia fin wish ll at rhimitna lima a ba mad" ihatn hlraa!f, no many !., rontiwf, ihratinh a,j n rra btlilianGy where precious against hi V Ibmiish th efvlt, florist, tin. li'Tl I'ltH shop that who yaaa ao" tlod cram ihai ha may!" aald iba ouii from famous green hniita luraihii forth fragrance that old man "Ik you ramainhar, mo'har, li to the hiii"r wind and bo b HM-- d lo rma rhanln down ls! ng t.vtt it'll ib ntraat aftar m" whan would atnrt i" Wnh "rh h h4 left c"n ni'it rh- - k. but i rtf lo my work In lb rnornln? l'h an that ha was i 'Vr. and how you would pick him h" d d nil car fating for up and carry him back to m. aha in hit" flosLj, h hud b""n ii""4 knd do yoi remamhar ih Uma tn'n a shop tVnr ram ?"ar loing Mm. iha day ha an lit" lol of lot i for smill hot , ran away to hunt you In ih rliyr and hud iWi from ls altim i 'Who that naw you then could for "nd! nr" of guns, wagons. won h r " l. mtuhar? and ba look h"r hand fill a iltra's and "ai m tu and draw bar down lo iha chair splitting ' win I a i"d iln horn. costing him VMda him They nal hand In hand only 73 rents In tha niicne. glran oyar to yoiralana Th's had given him mom aa'iifar. maniorin of iha pat, only Ih licking lion than any purchase ho had mad" of th old clork kplng an a for Manv ilmrt that amount, lo ihalr dream of mhar Ih ih"r jiafoola h" had nr d"r"d Kvaa They wro ai'llng d 'It "rd, hn il:l h" hid rarriod him 'hu an hour la'ay whn n naryant "If, aa ilm'uh i of" sonie'hfng Inn ih door and aald. rpactful in h truiicd In o'hr-- r hand. ly: 'Thar la a la'aphon" call for Mr. It m IhU ihat he nn rapped Wall, union." CanT you annn-a- r It. Maryf tha old man aitked, loath to laava bl com foriahta chair and draama. "No. ir. It la poial!jr for jrou. A long d inline" call, I think." "Who iha d"uca wama lo talk lo m m I r from a diaianca." h aald, aa b roa 4 t, and want lo iha teiaphnna In tha hall. V.vV? L. io- F Hallo, who la tbla? ba aakad, aa ha plokad up tha rwcalrer. "Yea, tbla la John Wellington." "A party In Chicago want to talk lo you," said tha longdistance oper atnr. All right, put him up. Who in thund-- r do I know In Chicago," ha ejaculated to himself, pressing the receiver closer to his ear. A peculiar walling sound was all ba hewd. and a puzzled expression crept over his face. 'Talk a little louder. I ran't understand n thing you art saving." and ha listened more Intently. Tha wailing grew a little louder, hut Mill it was nothing but an Inarticulate wall, and for a moment tha old man looked thoroughly disgusted. "Confound It!" ha shouted at last You sound exactly like a mewling Infant. I don't know what you are say- del'nte ;. 1 !' it.i-'h,- i"( dlUtl opt-na- (MH-I.i.i- e ... '' I Bought It for a Memory, Mother. the big. old fashioned fireplace where his wife sat, as soon as he had come street. Js he in from the storm-swep- t held it tip where the red gleam of the firelight was caught on ila rounded surface, a look of surprise swept over the gentle old fate near him. Why, John, you never bought that! Surely they handed you someone elses purchase. No, he said, his face growing suddenly tender, I bought it. His wife, with a womans quick instinct, divined the reason. She stepped nearer to him and laying her hand on his arm. looked at him with pleading But why, father? eyes, saying: It was the first time she had railed him father for a decade past, and there was a pitiful break in the old mans I bought it for voice as he replied: a memory, mother. That was the first time in ten years he had railed her mother, and at the sound of the name, she. too, gave wav gave way, womanlike, leaning her head on his arm. and sobbing out a grief that hart silently stolen the roses from her rheeks and the light from her eyes as the years had gone by. The old mans, arm went round . hpr lover-fashio- while his hand gent stroked hr soft white hair. There, there, mother, dear. The hoys not iv dead. Ill find him for you, if I have to I was to hunt the world over. reblame, he said, with such infinite gret in his voice that the old wife reached up and drew his head down to Dont take her face and whispered: it so, father. I know you thought you were doing the best for the boy when die on his you sent him away to do or toown account, and somehow I feel felt never before, have I as night, that he may be found. As she spoke, something in her tones made him feel that at last his ife had forgiven him entirely for the before, had A'wr011 which, ten years her of her only child. Always felt through all her gen-icare for him, that somewhere in the silent r being there was just ess against him for the Ihe had brought upon that he, himself, had J,t, he knew beyond a d (ast drop of that up in a grief v Jack. Jack, mjr boy, is that you? he shouted, staggered by the unexpected joy of his sudden discovery. None other, father, but what you just heard was another Jack, the second Jack Wellington, Jr. He has Just arrived, and his command of English is somewhat limited, but he was doing his best to introduce himself, and invite you and grandma to Christmas dinner with him, and Oh, Jack, Jack, where have you been all these years? sobbed the old man. Catch the Lake Shore Limited tonight. father, bring mother with you, and I'll tell you all about it when you get here. Youve got time. You see, father. Ive kept track of you and mother ail along. I wasnt going to let anything happen to the old folks, and there was a eatch in his voice, Tvp got the right kind of a report to make, father. Never fear that. The old man could scarcely contain himself as he listened, pressing the closer and elospr to his ear, as though he feared some bit of the precious news might escape him. All right, son, Then he shouted: were coming on the next train. He left the rereiver dangling on the wall, and started on a run to the room where his wife sat, shouting as he went: Mother, mother, it's Jack our boy. Get ready, mother. Im going to have a cab here in 20 minutes to catch the train for Chicago. She had risen with a wild look on her face, and had started to question him, but he shook his head, saying: No, no. I'll explain later. Not got time now. We're going to spend Christmas with Jack and his boy. He started for the phone again, and then dashed hack, exclaiming: Pack the tin horn if you don't pack another thing. Any child that can cry loud enough to be heard all the way from Chicago ought to have breath enough to blow that horn, and he dashed again to the phone to order a cab. bitter-aiiowe- vbeing shared. gwat arm chair eyes at his ing. Then a man's laugh was heard, followed by A merry Christmas, father. You know exactly what he sounds like, but you dont know wbat ha la saying, and there was another laugh, ringing jov ful, as in his boyhood days, and the old nan knew he had found his own. I I Natural Deduction. Peckem I cant understand why ao many people look upon Friday as th unlackiest day of the week. Mrs. Peckem Why, do you consider it lucky? Peckem It must be. Few people get married on that day. Chicago Dally News. MR. STAYBOLT AS SANTA CLAUS ram out ape the th of mountain; $ Soma bis way slowly westThings H Would Lika to Civ (henc ward. If Ha Could. passing around upheaving to ms of dark stone, across slope to to that wer smooth as white aatm, and. "Do yu know tha Christmas presto by still further up the mountain side, to ent I'd Ilka to make If said to found little hollows, evidently llnd s Mr. Sisybftlt. "Id Ilka in give Express with brush but now filled with snow, to tha downhasitad. rouraga to th timid, and strength to tha weak; simply big, glistening dimples In th mountain's fat far; but ba saw no lh power of seif d nii.1 to those who deer. Tt jiiMii nm Is draw ing to woik yield too exuiy, and a By to ilia lazy. H'h. Ih lim of luikry, pudding, Finally, being weary of laboring n da w dmm of stir? ALVAH MILTON KERR "I have of'en thought what through what was very' much Ilk an pity of nd SduUit, and pa:, in, It It that inn r.iu't buy all these Infinite bd of glittering down, be . Chiwim reached a point on tbe steep slop things, lh se helpful qualities, already V and at stub a pilre aa to put Mil a quarter of a mil or ao up pul apparently A ful twfint lo hanf up ih them within the reeh of all: ranued At be Donald Saunders hid his (list great directly north of th rabln w han mikilri'W tluul H cheerfulness honied hr np hopefulness, advanitii up In th peak stood there debating If b should lung up her clacking . coinage In table! and strength, say, country, a region famous throughout return to th "dtaw or attempt to 1 J In the for ut of a Hjd'-r- . find a more direct rout to the floor and so on; Colorado for heavy snows and A rMimt IS a frUow who or f siovku-wuuidn t of th gulch, b suddenly felt himself yon Might, I upMise, put em all lanrhei. Donald ram over from Ib-op hts lur tear old hnia Claus might III flrst thought was that up canned for Hut mailer. ver, after graduating from high school moving SWipt II was seating tha "Ilut In the alikenre of such market to spend ih summer w;h Sumpter an eatthquak j j or ihat h blmself bad bit and our consequent mountain faihers broih Saunders, preparation youngest Christmas cigars at not to huv such thing and send er. Sumpter wax a very young unde seized with Vertigo. Then with a wild always pufird up with piuli. them aa glfi to ihn Indeed, being but 27 and not very thrill he perceived that a atrip of whom they J JO might most lc pcihRpt you will long out of college, while Ikinald was snow 200 feet wide and perhapa $04 Thrrrs many a slip iwit tha "I'ncl Sump was a big boned feet In length at moving down the permit me to offer to e at h a word of Mias and Ih miaiVlor. auggesilon. mountain aide! JO JO strapping fellow who had played ren ter In his college football team, a man "To the dmplifted taka a cheerful Don't mak Itonsld s gray eye dilated with sudit too wrong. with laughing bin eye and "teat den fear and horror. He was thrown view. To the downhearted, don't dwell Many a man has bran knocked oui by on food, stiff punch. on ika doleful aide. To Iha timid, Ing way a but entertaining serious headlong In the snow, henring aa be to JO JO dreams of owning a great min. If fell th crunch of atone that wer To tha weak, or those to 4, j don't he afiaid to Ak a truthlul woman what T who fancy themselves so. try your strength and plurk and persistence being rip"d out of their beds and th .f aha rn.ovt moat about Chilal Jw j Mreng'h You'll ha surprised to find would bring on to light. H was run rrash and rending of ttutnpt and to tna. and ah will tail you th to how ntui h jiri vv g.if. nlng a tunnel on what ha believed to root they parted from their sockto aalrs aflrrwaid. baigain to To Ihosa who j laid too rasitv, deny ba an excellent gold hearing prospect, et In th earth. With vry puls JO JO to vonrself oner, snd seiin. and feel tha up In Iha (sing's Peak country. Don leaping In alarm he got to his feet, To aicf a rhym nf Christmas to aid went on! to help hint. Tha tall toppling and reeling and shouting for to )nv snd strength that will rnme hsrk ttm lin ut but tha hil nf ihat to Id as he glanred about him. to you To tha lurv. gat a job wl'h a boy had notions of becoming a min The to it', hates hoping yog may not to Nun bacaoa you fat tha Ing engineer, and hare was experience next Instant he was again thrown shovel, iq a gang of laborers, tinder to worst of it. driving Imiss; snd if you sre noi glad that might prove of value whan h headlong He waa upon the hack of to JO JO to b ready to enter a terhnleal k to should hn in steed beside which the fabled Horae do to get Job present jour to a Inner Whn a child school tha t nf Death waa as an Insert. Something oii know how at It. I ntiss to nf thanka to Kama Claus, it to The world la very much In mnfuxlon went through his brain Ilk a sheet my guess Should be chrnkhad like a rare to 1 ean't send you these things in up In that country, the earth having nf flame. In It a picture of Rumpter to plant. That ktd isnt tonf for r this world. rsns or bottles, hut If anvona of you been flung shout at all sorts nf sitting by the open fir of pine log to JO JO will taka my a lvlen and sMr k to it, to angles, hasped and ragged and down In the cabin, a book In hit band, No Christmas present is an to tumbled. Streams sprawl In foamy undreaming of this ruthless monster think ihat Mr. a was lolt youll Slay to useless that you can't pass it on kind Santa t'latis" V very rushing down lo crush him. to aome on rise next year. to The next moment Donald waa again to JO to Remember that it is better to upon his feet, pitching and clutching to at the air and shouting. In that moto give than lo receive the things CHRISTMAS PROVERBS to you dont want. ment he saw a very amazing thing, to JO JO to though everything waa both amazing h The love to light In the eyes of Take off the tags. Many a and not amazing aa In aotna sort of Into precious ones of tha household U the friendship hss been severed by describable dream. A hundred feet to most lirilllant of Christmas illuminathe price mark on Christmas to the rear of him, almost at th upto tions. present. to JO JO per tip of the avalanche, be taw a to The soft Christmas light Is not th" hear rolling and tossing on tbe hurlto I have often wondered wherein least welcome where the shadows of to consisted the wisdom of Solomon ing mass. Thrown out of Its hibernatto bereavement have fallen during the when he had a thousand wives. bed among th rocks or decaying ing year. The Christ mas angels hover I am now convinced that it must , tha animal waa pitching s over surh dwellings of sorrow In have been in living in the days about, now upon Its feet then upon Ita before Christmas was celebrated. of divine love. hack, helpless aa a fly upon an ocean It was Ihe Christ who said: J JO ll Donald never knew why, but surge. is more blessed to give than to lt'a all right to pity the poor he shouted at the bear, and he never at this season, Aealn. he said: "Inasmuch could recall afterward exactly what but it is also well to' remember ns ye have done It to one of the least It was he shouted. He says now that that sympathy doesn't fill an of these, my brethren, ye have done It he thinks he commanded th bear empty stomach. unto me. not to roll down upon him, which waa certainly absurd. In his ntlnd were many glancing RULES FOR CHRISTMAS GIVING thoughts. In surh momenta the mentality of man sometimes seem as a Give willingly. Ha diamond with many farels. KtYJTOO? JiY" rtf Give tartfully. of the Christmas trea to ba thought r,.ji .ra; But thought Into your giving. wr Ft Kun' lighted In tbe parlor at home In DenItont consider return gifts. roto ver, of how tired he was of corned-beef- , verry-Never give to others what bprr of where they would bury him tAS ftT wouldn't want yourself. JAU when they took him crushed and dead l The unexpected gift Insures a Am.'wvsu from the snow at the bottom of th mr appreelation. gulch, whether or not his school felTo give ostentatiously Is the height lows if they now saw him would of had taste. vsvri sliouF'SfMey-eApnaldslide!" aa they i w! iml 'll Give to Ihe siek and the sorrowful If n I qg tha used to when h y on would know Ihe true joy of giving. Donalds Gray Eyes Dilated with Sud- bases when playing ball, and many Never give more than you can af( den Fear and Horror. other things, all, seemingly. In a ford. Your friends know your rlrcum-siance- s moment. as well as you do yonrsPlf and abandon through the canvona and the single It must have been a very short the pleasure of both giving and reclumps of pines on the soaring steeps In which he was leaping and e newing is lost sing cheerily in the wind and sun. period tumbling and whirling about on the Donald found it all quite magical. He had purposed returning home mighty toboggan, for the avalanche At the Manger. to Denver In the autumn, but Sumpter ran down the mountain aide like a A Question in Finance. snake, save that ita When flrat, her Christmas wairh to keep. having offered him an interest in the swiftly hurrying were undulations "Are you good at arilhmetie, ray Came down the Int Angel, Sleep, up and down instead In should mine, they succeed striking With snowy sandals shod, as with a serpent. It dear?" asked Mr. Perkasie of his wife. quartz, he concluded to remain at of sidewise what ids mothers hands Beholding "I was accounted the very best Had wrought, with softer swaddling" least until Christmas. Donald's fa- seemed to Donald be had scarcely snow-slidbands arithmelieian at school. replied Mrs. ther, knowing the value of practical drawn six breaths before the She swathed the Son of God. from shot tbe above the Perkasie, with a touch of pride in precipice experience, thought it quite as well her voire. his son should stay and rough It cabin. Swift as was his flight he waa that Then, skilled In mysteries of Night, "I have a problem for you. conscious that the slide had leaped With tender visions of delight for awhile. She wreathed ids resting-plac"Stale It. from the canyon wall, for throughout were There deer bear and and a warmer wakened by Till, glow "How can I buy $30 worth of Christin that lifted, broken a few seconds there was no noise and mountain Than heaven to itself had grouse show, yet mas presents with $10 in cash and no he seemed being borne upon a bed of He saw his mother's face. region, but the two young fellows had credit? feathers John B. Tabb, In Atlantic. through space, then there waa little time for hunting them, being intent on driving the tunnel as rap- a roar as of muffled thunder and ha was wallowing deep In snow. idly and with as little delay and exThe mental picture that had flashed as possible. Sumpter had built irfa dk 3) 4 pense s siTt a cabin close against tbe base of a through Donald's mind of his young Kf alC; perpendicular wall of rock at the side uncle sitting by the fire engrossed In of the canyon in which his claim lay. a printed romance, had been true to c p 4 the fact. Sumpter had awakened to In this cabin they lived very snugly, 8 down to Ward occasionally to the coming of the avalanche c only going h bring up supplies. Donald had come when it neared the brink of the wall, a; 70 feet above the cabin. His book tip to that country over a little railCM road that runs from Boulder to Ward, dropped from his hand and he made a bit of track upon which th snow leap for the door. The next moment a Sd PV arotary plows are busy most of the bear crashed through the roof and season of Kindness. Tor Christmas is smote the floor in front of the Are, winter. Christmas celebrates the coming of Christ inleaving the luckless animal lifeless. minTowards Christmas the young 1 ers began to grow a bit lonesome and Sumpter's face blanched as he stared fo the world, and tbe heart of the Christ restless; they especially grew weary at the strange object, then he thought message is love love expressing itself in of ham and tinned meats and longed of Donald and hurriedly pushed his for venison, bear, beef, or almost any way out of the door. The snow about bomely channels of friendliness and good sort of flesh food that was fresh. the cabin was up to his neck and the will, love that suffered) ions and is kind." Snow was heavy on the mountains roof was piled deep with it, but the r J and they could get about hut little bulk of the slide had leaped clear over Tf we have kindly emotions, let them have save upon snowshoes. Donald wished the little house, heaping the bottom their way and blossom into kindly thoughts very ardently that he might go home of the gulch to the opposite wall, some for Christmas but made up his mind 600 feet away. The bear had dropped Cet the free child spirit and kindly deeds. that to leave Sumpter in that white, from the tail of this rushing mass did of friendliness prevail. Tor lonely world would be selfish and rectly upon the cabin. When Sumpter had got his frightcowardly, so he remained. this is the childs festival, celebrating the Christmas morning Donald put on ened nephew out of the smother of v birth of a child, the wonderful Giver who his snowshoes and, flinging Sumpter's stuff in which he was floundering, the rifle across his shoulder, he declared two young fellows stood with pale gave himself for mankind. Cet us carry the he was going to look for fresh meat. faces staring at each other for a little His uncle laughed at him but the space, then both, seeing what they Christmas spirit through all the following had escaped, laughed Joyously. Scotch youth was resolute. hardy meascome and all their with that go days 'An old hunter," he said, told me Come into the cabin." said Suntr'x ure Y or or in of care and down in Ward, the last ter, we will have broiled be"11 at hear the hotel pleasure, pain 2 " time I was down, that a lot of deer for Christmas dinoer.-To- o t our hearts the inspiration and hope of the wintered In the big thickets just snowslides around here back of us here; he said they were row we will pull out blessed Christmas festival of love, hearing hard to get at but he'd found them the spring we will ofcJ3IUny reny A T ever ringing above the sounds of earth and there' twice. Im going up to see. tunnel until we strike the vein. We" All of which came true. assented reluctantly, eaution-iny Sumpter sense, the song of the angels heralding in ) his not to too go nephew far away. r the birth of the Saviour of mankind. The day utis soft and mild, the white world alif'agleam 4) Did you enjoy Abe play last Donald put ota a pair t inoked was rjxtnl. I could wri a glasses and spirted up the canyon. A V half mile atay h? found 1 Iff v nust bn bad. ' JlssrAr "draw climbed until It aid ba mad g Christmas Dinner Toboggan chaar-fulnes- di-s- pj txi-a- h( n ba to-f- !. J H ie-s- j 3- tree-roots- min-istrit- peace-on-ear- lh y spe-ela- :o , f1 e i. CIj Cjiristnias m 1$ pmt I'i I. J af i 5? IS 5? $ r P open-hearte- IS s a I riT'i iCIZl fa li g nigf wltfe-unhiae- . "N.-AI- 6 ' |