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Show PENCIL POINTS. LBy Nemo. She Yes, you have made me many promises, but you always break them. He Well, well, 1 oan always make more, so what harm does it do to break them? One can look a man in the face without having him open his rcouth. I is always best to tell the truth, unless you are an exceptional good liar, and even then you need a good memony, The way to keep from breaking your New Year resolutions, is to resolve re-solve that you will not make any resolutions. Christmas presents are now ripe, ana will soon be plueked from the postoffice and express ofEce by the carload. Lika any other kind of fruit, they will be good, bad, and indifferent. in-different. Many will be junk that one cannot eat, uriak, wear, or even admire ; but they all answer the code of Christmas. Col. Ingersoli's idea of making health contagious is great, but how would it be, if everybody was born old and rioh and grow younger, and batter, and wiser all the while? What an intolerable nuisanca a religious bigot is. They are in every land and swarm about one like flies They feed on hate for all who are not marked with their brand. Why they live is one of the problems of the universe. , , ' Who would not livo in a land of snow and sunahina? Blessed snow; it brings health, purity and prosperity, prosperi-ty, It puts the cheer of the season into the heart of man. "King happy bells across the snow." |