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VOL. XIV.
CHRISTMAS CAROLS;
OR,
faith, hope and charity.
MOLLIES W. YAUBIIOUGH.
It was Christmas Eve, and the very
air seemted buoyant with the pulsa¬
tions of merry hearts; far and near
the chitne of tnerry Christmas bells
floated out and mingled in glad her-
aldings of “peace and good will.”
Nature, in harmony with a wave of
her magic wand had softly, lightly,
silently, drifted the pure white snow
in a beautiful garment of white over
the bare, brown earth, and bedecked
each tiny spray and quivering leaflet
with sparkling array of glittering
gems, that gleamed and glistened in
the rays of the young moon that hung
like a silver crescent, concave in the
west.
In the parlor of a lovely home sat
an old man and a young girl talking
softly of the plans they had made for
the holidays. The old man reclined
in a large, softly cushioned arm-chair
before the glowing grate, listening
with a fond smile to the happy voice
of the child, who sat on a low rocker
at his side, slowly rocking and strok¬
ing the glossy black fur of the kitten
she held in her arms, and looking ea¬
gerly up into his face, sure of an in¬
dulgent smile or word of sympathy
as she recounted her plans.
“Christmas is always such a lovely
time, grandpa,” she was saying; “peo¬
ple seem to love eacli ether more then
than any other time—and most every¬
body get they very presents they
would like best.”
“What would you like in all the
world, dearie?” he asked, smiling
and patting the bright head.
“Oh, grandpa, I would like to have
a sister better than anything else in
the world; but 1 know that is impos¬
sible; but when the wreaths of holly
and mistletoe were all finished, and
everything in the house looked so
beautiful, trimmed with the bright
r0 d j and ^ i w ,, hitt *, , berries : „ amVgreen r i leaves,
] f e j t so ] one ly " with only Mrs. Wilton
and , the , servants to admire my work ;
and I was so afraid you would be de-
tained at the store, and T was almost
ready , to , cry. I T felt - ,, so sorrowful pi- in
m v heart ’> just like I did when I was
-
a little, tiny girls, when I awoke in
lhe n ; ht and the honse was so still
and dark, and I’d trv and try to go
to sleep and couldn’t till T called you,
and when you spoke to me 1 felt so
. happy anti ,* rested, for I knew you were
taking care of me
“Poor motherless child,” he said,
gently drawing her to his heart. Oh,
the of lhe care bestow
e( } on many a motherless child bv the
-
strong hands , of father _ or grandfather!
All the awkwardness of such unaceus-
tomed duties overcome by the mighty
power of love—the strong, firm hands
gentle as a woman’s, the deep voice
by »H the
little sorrows and cares of childhood
soothed, all the countless little details
of child-life remembered, all the
wants ministered to—what more
sw eetly pathetic sight is there this
side of heaven than a man caring for
a little child?
“Grandpa,” f she continued, featring
against . his shoulder and absently
twisting his watch chain through her
sleitcfeT'fingers, “don't you think little
girls are har>pv that have a mother to
love and talk to, and a sister to be
with always? Oh, I get so lonely
sometimes . this . . big house with ***** Mrs.
in
Wilton always busy, and when I ask
her questions she says, ‘There, run
away and play, child,’ and there’s no-
body J to play with but kitty! And
« -
when I try tor\?ad I can’t understand,
and the day is so long before you
come home from the store and I can
osk )' ou - When I read my verses
this morning it all seemed so strange;
Devoted to News, Politics, Agriculture and General Pivgrcss.
GA., MAY 13, 1887.
let me read them to you, grandpa.'
She went to the table, and taking up
a small, elegantly bound Bible, she
seated herself at her grandfather’s
knee and read the thirteenth chapter
of 1st Corinthians, ending with‘And
now abideth faith, hope, charity,
these three; but the greatest of these
is charity.’ “Grandpa, I can’-t under¬
stand why charity is greatest; it is so
easy to be charitable when we see
how much pleasure we can give, and
it makes something spring up and
glow in our hearts to relieve some
poor creature’s need—and see,grand¬
pa,’’ following the lines with.her fin¬
ger, “ ‘and though I bestow all my
goods to feed the poor, and though I
give my body to be burned, and have
not chairty, I am nothing.’ Grandpa,
how could 1 ‘bestow all my goods to
feed the poor’ and not have charity?”
“There is a higher chairity, my
dear; charity that‘b'eareth all
believeth all things, endureth all
things’; any person can be charitable
in the giving of alms, but very few
are really charitable in their hearts,
I’m afraid, with the higher charity of
the text. Did you ever try to feel
charitable to one who had done you
an injury? Suppose some one you
had loved very much had proven a
traitor to your love and tenderness,
and by an act of selfish disobedience
had stabbed your heart with a blow,
the more keen and cruel because the
hand that dealt the blow was one you
had loved and trusted, do you think
you could feel charity for one who
made such a return for the devotion
o a life timer' ’
She gazed wonderingly up into her
grandfather’s face, for she felt that she
had unconsciously touched a chord of
deepest grief in his heart, and fear-
ingto farther sadden him by recalling
some half buried sorrow to his mind,
she knew not what to say# but- sat
silently leaning against his knee, and,
lifting her head, she pressed her lips
gently to the hand rating on her
shoulder.
“Grandpa, I know you never would
be uncharitable; whatever you thought
or did would , . be right, ... because you
are always good; grandpa# you say
grandma’s name was Faith—^such
a soft, pretty name! I’ve often won--
dered why I was called Hope; I
would like so much Faith/ Did you
never have a little girl of your own?
was papa all you had?” lie started
as if in pain, and, drawing her closer
to his heart, said, “Yes, H »pe# a little
daughter; I hail thought I’d never
tel) you of her,” his voiefe faltered
with a S’gh, a “dear little daughter
placed in my arms by her dying moth-
er , hands, who bade me lore and
cherish her always * for her sake; and
t^*j 1 tried, as never man trie ! before# to
fulfill the sacred trust, and as she
S rew ln grace and beauty from a
l° v b!y child to a lovelier maiden, 1
J’oured out all the wealth of my heart’s
best love at her feet, and I thought
—blind fool that I was—that she loved
rTle ’ * (xy y with a deeper# purer love
other girls felt for their fathers.
Oh, vain, blind trust! just fourteen
years ago to-night she left her house
an J fathers love for a strart ^er whom
I abhorred# the tendeF love of years
thrown aside for one she had known
irft but a lew short momm; lent with on-
lj a short rote to tell me she was
tnarried to the music teacher—the
man ^ hated aud except that they
took passage on a steamer bound for
,, T * - . ,
L ranee, A nave never heard from her
m i,. «]] nn tnese years. rparc ”
“Poor grandpa,” ^rlrispere 1 Hope,
her tears falling on his cheek as she
hissed his forehead.
“Now you know# my littl t Hope.
, T ^ ...
"“V C hrwtroas always makes me sad.
On, grand pat, she Mill come back
to y ou some day; I know she will! Tlwfe
‘ON ilk that man r never!''
was an angry tone in his voice Hope
had never heard before.
“Grandpa,” she said softly, “if she
comes, sorry she gave you pain, you
will forgive her because ‘chairty suf-
fereth long and is kind. » 5!
Just then a silvery voice arose on
the night air, singing in the clear
sweet tones of a child, and Hope
paused to listen—
“When night, shepherds watched their flock by
All seated on the Lord ground,
The And angel of the around,” came down
glory shone
floated out on the chill air, the clear
voice seeming less of earth than
heaven in its wonderful purity and
sweetness.
Hope listened a few moments, then
ran to the window, and, holding the
curtains apart,-looked out; the bright
lamp-light, shining on the iey r pave¬
ment, fell in ruddy gleams over the
slender form, and uplifted face of a
child standing on the frozen stones,
singing as Hope had never heard one
sing before.
“Oh, grandpa, its a little girl, and
she looks so cold and pitiful!
me bring her in to the fire. May ],
grandpa?” running to him and ” ojanc-
lug eagerly at the door.
Certainly, my dear; tell John to
bring her in, and ask Mrs. Win ton to
send in a glass of wine and a biscuit.”
While she was gone on her errand
of mercy, come with me to a poor at-
tic room in a tenement house in a
part of the city where the narrow#
squallid streets, and comfortless
houses, are occdpie 1 by the
class of the city’s destitute ones; a
woman lay on a straw bed in a corner#
shivering beneath the thin covering,
her great bright eyes gleaming from
their sunken sockets with an unearih-
ly lustre# while# at intervals, her etna--
edited form is convulsed by a spas
modic cough. There is no furniture
in the room except a broken chair and
a small, rusty stove'# fireless and colei,
The bitter cold seems topeotrate the
very bone of the invalid, and she
draws the scanty covering closer
around her chest.
2 Faith,” she eatls feebly.
2 Yes, mother,” and a girl, pale &nd
thin, as if from fasting, turns from
the dingy window panes and stoops
over her mother’s humble bed/
“Faith, is there no money left? I
am so cold; cold and hungry, and this
is Christmas Eve! I am rightly pun
ished for my sin of disobedience; but
oh, child, how hard to see you suffer
for my sin! On Christmas Eve I fled
from my father’s house: how long
ago ft seems! and crue n y cast aside
bis warm, true love.*’ She wronghef
hands and sobbed as if her her heart
were breaking.
“Hush, mother, don’t cry# so,”
pleaded the child, “here let me tuck
the cover closely around you#and I’ll
run out and bring you some warm
milk and you will soon be better.”
She tucked the ragged quilt closer
and hastily folding a fad«d old shawl
over her head and shoulders, ran down
the creaking, dirt-covered stairs, and
and out into the noisy street.* She
paused, frightened, on the curb-stone#
listening to the hoarse laughter and
loud shouts of a group of men and
boys that had congregated across the
street, making .night hideous with
their cries and the popnmsr ftro of fire- ^
crackers.
She walked swiftly until she reach-
ed wider, better lighted streets, cast-
ing longing glances at the tempt-
ingly arranged ° fruits and confections
seen through ‘ the shop / windows.- The
sharp . with . , frost# and , the , ■
air was n-v
wind almost lif ed her from the pav-
ing stones as she hastened around the
corners.
“Ob," site said, “T must try to get a
little , for motiier, I will . ;
money try not
to be frightened!” and, going
under the bay-window of a large,
handsome house, where the Innn bars
of gaslight streamed far out into the
NO, 40.
night, she folded her hands over her
fluttering heart and began to sing a
plaintive air of Christmas
she had learned far away under the
blue Italian skies; low and soft the
pure notes began, till, gaining courage
»nd heedless of the bitter wind that
struggled to tear the thin shawl from
her shoulders, her voice rose and fell,
then rose again in clear, bird-like
tones, filling the air with harmony.
When the song was finished the
w, ' ,u Fw opened cautiously and a gilt-
Bering coin fell into her outstretched
P a ^ m > hut with a low cry of pain she
let it fall into the snow at her feet, as
a m °ckinor, wicked laugh rang out
from behind the curtains, The coin
had been heated red hot.
She hurried on, her benumed fin¬
gers holding the shawl across her
breast, her thin, old shoes sodden
with snow, and her eyes blinded with
tears. “Oh, 1 must try again for
mother’s sake,” she sobbed, and, paus-
1 ?? a £ a * n ’ s h 0 began the sweet old
son & :
“When, shepherds watched, their flocks by
AH seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came down
And glory shone around,”
and before the song was finished tli6
door wrs opened by a servant, and
little Hope stood on the threshold
with heavenly pity shining in-fier eyes,
and outstretched hand, begging her
to come in out of the snow and the
cold.
“See, grandpa,” she said, as she led
the shivering nTthe child into the warm
room “this little girl we heard
sing.”
“What is your name# my child?”
be asked kindly.
“Faith Duees# sir/* she replied,
Standing on the warm hearth and
holding her eold hands to the bright,
glowing coals.
“What?” he almost shouted to the
astonished child.
“Faith Duees#” she repeated, Light¬
ened at his strange maimer.
“And your mother’s name, child?”
he cried# grasping her shoulder in his
eargerness# “what is your mother’s
name?”
“My mother’s name is Agnes.”
“Merciful heaven!” he groaned,
sinking back in his chair, “it is her
child; the same eyes# the same voice#”
then starting to his feet, he cried,
“Where is your mother?”
“She is sick—oh so sick! and the
money was all gone, and to-day we
could have no fire, and I came out to
sing for money to buy food.”
“\\ here is your father?” lie forced
himself to ask.
“Poor papa is dead; he died three
years ago in Italy.”
“And have you no friends?”
“Oh# sir, mamma cam© to America
to find her father! She wrote and
wrote and no answer came# so she
sold our furniture# and papa’s piano,
and everything# and came herself to
find her father; but whet? we reached
her old home# grandfather was gone,
ar, d strangers living there. I thought
she would die, she cried so, reproach-
5ig herself always for having been
undutiful—as if she could do wrong,
m y sweet mother! and mother got
some work to do, then we came here
aud-^ she was sick, and soon all the
money J was gone,” rs
The tears were slipping silently
down her cheeks, aud Hope cried for
sympathy; and her grandfather stood
with his hand on the chi Ids shoulder,
gazing into her face as if he would
read her very J sou)
“Gome,” hesaid,starting "grandchild! »p “Hope
my darling, this is my ^
Thank God vour wish for a sister is
possible after a!l!”
“()h, grandpa!” site cried#ljewilder-
“Yes,” he continued drawing little
Faith to his heart, “this is my Ao-ues’
daughter ; get her some food”and
wine while I order the carriage, and
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we will go for her mother; and,
please God, she shall never knew wai.A
nor suffering again.”
Tire meeting between father and
daughter was to sacred to admit af
of the presence of others; but the
next day—the holy Christmas Day—
they were all together in their warm#
luxurious home# and as the grand¬
father drew little Hope and Faith
within his arms# he said, “Now, my
darlings# I have ‘Hope and Faith#
too.”
“And chairty, grandfather, in your
h^art,” whispered Hope, “and great¬
est of these three is charity.”—Ex.
-— ■ — -
A Chattanooga doctor chaims to
have discovered 370,000 bacteria in a
drop of water.
The fool seeketh to pluck a fly from
a mule’s hind leg, the wise man let-
teth the job out the lowest bidder.
The Czarina is said to be a very
early riser. The Czar, however, thinks
Lim self lucky if he can get up at alL
A tourist in Florida says he has not
been able to find a verified instance
of an alligator injuring a man or
child.
Nine-tenth of the blind men in
poor houses, are bachelors. They
probably lost their sight trying to
thread needles.
An English surgeon says that peo¬
ple who use rocking chairs the most
get deaf the soonest. Rock ; ng hurts
the eyes and makes people near sight-
ed.
John Critnmins, of Brownsville#
Dak., celebrated Easter by eating
fourteen hard-boiled eggs. He was
found dead in hrs bed the next morn-
ing.
In boring an artesian well at Eu¬
reka, Cal., they found charred wood
at 500 feet, and the pieces of shell
and parts of the skeleton of a bird at
580 feet.
An Algerian lion slayer, who has
killed more than 200 lions, has re-
ceieved the order of the Legion of
Bor.or. The prize paid by the gov¬
ernment for each lion is one hundred
frances.*
If the recording angel keeps a cash
book—and we believe he does—a
great many in this word are credited
with three-cent pieces, notwithstand¬
ing this fact they have debited them¬
selves with dimes.*
The apppearance of the Star of
Bethlehem is looked for by astrono¬
mers this year for the sixth time since
the birth of Christ. It is so brilliant
as to afipear by day as well as by
night, arfd is- watched for directly
north of the North Star.
The Anarclnst who were recently
sentenced to various terms of impris¬
onment by the Austrian government
will each have to fast one day every
month, and-one of them will have to
spend the anniversary of his proposed
( . r j m e m a dark cell,
He hadjtaken her to hear Patti at
^7 a seat, and afterward to Delmoni-
co’s where tbe two together ate up'
$9.75 worth. As he reached for his -
hat later that same night she said: “I
am sorry Mr. Sampson, if my refusal
will cause yon pain. I esteem you
highly as an escort, and in that capac¬
ity I will always be a sister to you#
but your wife I cannot be. You are
too extrav?gant.”
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