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gr.. - ' iiedney’s Chr i jrt ms Smoke [Copyright, 1902, liy T. C. McClure.] IT was three days before Christmas. Uedney Burke separated his di minutive frame from the seething crowd of humanity that pressed along the street and paused before a plate glass window whiHi above all others attracted him. This was not a department store or a candy store or a bakeshop. Inside there were neither toys nor sleds raw good things to eat, but it held tho.-' ■ things upon which IP fluey iturk s 1 •.. -1■ ■ i bis small eyes for many days. And now he looked, with lis whole soul in his glance- be look'd aed looked and look ed. He sniffed the air and imagined 1o himself that a I re: dy 1.".* was enjoy ing the good tilings within. For it was a cigar store, a store of the la tier Ha, s. full o ' pipes and totale »o and eigarefO's and chewing tobacco and everything that i n is in smoke. In tiie front of the window immedi ately under the olfactory nerves of Mr. r i 1 7N ; J , Alv\: 1; ; " ' ><Zr 'mr \ \ , II Jl rm{m -1-f I j h,k f w ' //' BCw# 1 t'f' I J..; ktmr .'.t v.nriiii van; nu.r. to have nm Bb \ v ibirke was a pip: not ::n ex " •, l»ut one of jut the make 1 ' ft Hk H ■ Wt IF hSHhebhhr HHESgHHgHsH > ' 1 mUmmsEii hr-' -if II $ Bt Hb I ■ , j§ ‘ij ~ .’ -||p S| W 8 & . gjs |jj 1 §1 < f - > |§r ■9l I ■ H|HVv K Hipoi V/T'C ji* : ‘ '.‘fgi-J'i.'-' h'f'.Vj'?'. ■ B A A II MM* & seir, "how true it is that one Hair or the world knows not hmv the other half lives.” Then he raised his voice. "What would y , 1 say, small sir, if 1 should buy you me of those toys’V lie stopped as he gazed into the win-' dow. “Why, why,” lie went on, “I thought this was a toy store that you were looking into!” "Xaw,” returned Uedney. "It’s ato : baceo store.” ‘‘But—but,” continued the man, “you —you don’t smoke tobacco. You cer tainly at your age cannot”— "Naw,” returned Burke, “I don’t. I —I wasn’t tbinkin’ about meself so much. I was thin-kin’ about me old father. He broke liis pipe last moot', an’ lie ain’t had none since, an’ lie’s too poor to git annuder one. I was lookin’ at. these. Gee! If I could git enough of the stuff together, I wouldn't do a thing but buy that there one for him— me poor ole father.” This was said with an air of the greatest frankness, although Mr. Ited noy Burke had always considered his father, as did many others, in Pue light of a genteel myth. Still lie thought lo himself that if he had a father and if* he himself were worth a few million or so lie might--lie didn’t commit himself upon the subject, however, even in his thoughts- he might blow his father to a pipe some time. This considerate sentiment, he reasoned, justified his re ply to the philanthropist. “Well, well,” remarked the latter, glancing down at the disinterested specimen before him, “but what would you like to have now for Christmas?” IJedney shook his head. “I ain’t por tieler about meself. If 1 could git Ilia; there pipe an’,” he'addcd as he scent ed possibilities heretofore unsuspected, “ant a good bit of smokin’ tobacco, an' one of them there rubber tilings to put it in say, if j could do that for tli<“ <ld man say! An’ wouldn’t lie feel stuei. oil hisseli! But, gee, wet’s de use? 1 can’t do it, so I ini;; lii as well lie ge in\” Ho made this last, remark because he knew intuitively that brevity, which is the sou! of wil, is also the essential in charitable enterprises, (food impulses don’t last forever, so he moved oil, shaking his head as lie want. The big man looked up and down the street to see if he was observed, then he stretched forth Ids blind and caught Rodney by the arm. “Here, my boy," be exclaimed gently ns no shoved a five dollar bill into Mr. Uedney Burke's reluctant grasp '’here, go and get the pipe for your father and then go and get something for —for yourself, and—and have at least one happy Christmas that you can look back upon.” 11 is eyes glistened a bit as lie said it, and, to his credit, be it said, he did not regret the impulse or the do nation for a fulj two hours thereafter. "T'nnks.” said Mr. Burke, with a hit of a scrape and a stiff sort of bov "t’anks from mean’ me old man!” The next day there was a queer for mation in an unfrequented corner of th<' play yard of the Fourteenth ward school. This formation resembled m re Ilian anything else an Eskimo hut, but composed, instead of inanimate ma terial, of a very animated and intoresi d crowd of boys gathered around a com mon cent From the aperture ia tin top of this human Eskimo dwelling, and therefore heightening the ilium ascended a column of smoke, and as ii ascended to the skies there oami a voice from within, “Gee, fellers!” said the voice, “Gee, but ain’t iiiis great?” It was the voice of Mr. Uedney Burke, tbe votary of my I.ady Nicotine, the center of an admir ing crowd. He smoked a pipe—the pipe of his heart- and lie filled it from a red rubber eas e. “Just fits in me pants pocket,” he ob served. wVml us be said it lie pulled out ' n few dollar bills and exhibited them. "An* 1 got four more plunks left! What d’ye fink?” lie said. Eater, in the class room, the teacher lifted her head high in the air and sniffed. "t’a.l. 1 lay.” : <• ;• -marked severely, ’ a smoking. I want to know Vi the circumstances, therefore, lie * mopped with alacrity Into the aisle*.- aud looked squarely into the teacher's eyes. "Me H 1 wo-me mother,” he explain ed glibly "me mother had a smokin’ jag on yostkldy, an’ 1 had to stay home an' till her pipes, an' me clo'os is full of it. It ain’t me; it's her. JVye see?” Then lie whipped out a small, new leather pocketbook with a brand new penny in it and handed it over. “An - a merry Christmas to you. Miss Burt whistle!’’ he remarked. A Treasurf Tree. One of the most famous Christmas trios in history was erected at Wind sor castle in the early fort is. It was not so very remarkable for its height, which was forty feet, but for the fact that in the aggregate its crop of pres ents amounted in value to ?-KS.OOO, or ; bo value of ike product of f.OUJ ac:v ; of forest laud. lives: ’ ’ "• Bickers calls his office garb bis even bn: suit because it places him on a level with the other clerks,—Boston Transcript. ojk ion */* Near the North Pole U W THINK Christmas, ISS3, was Q my most memorable one,” said JH General Greeiy, tlie arctic ex plorer. “With my command I was proceeding southward in the hope of obtaining, help, and about the 20th Of October we ensconced ourselves in a little but at Cape Sabine. Our sup ply of food was running very low, and we were on very short rations, every one being allowed just food enough iu each twenty-four hours to sustain life. Under these depressing circumstances and amid the awful silence of the polar night the cheerfulness that we continued to maintain was roiwirkable. It would have been a splendid oppor tunity for Dickens’ character, Mark Tapley, who was always seeking some specially depressing situation in life to show how jolly he could he under ad verse circumstances. As the Christmas season approached we all looked for ward to it with eager anticipation, not only as a festal day the associations and memories of which would to some extent vary the wearisome monotony of our lives, but because we know that tlio winter solstice would fall about Dec. 22 and that then tho sun would return and the long, drear? - night be at an end. “Christmas day came at 1 ist. Christ mas in the arctic regions! At 0 o’clock — —: —> T, , laj-- hflfii'fetegjAN }% zL\ wto* fY wp\ \ Ili ! j aiKjj J is#.S»}a // aj \ r/l; * -3MI V-M ■ p'. r ■ /1 4 1/ - j H Is AJ re: U MipMiir k M: iiiyi mmmmm Ti.r.T.TNG CHIUBTWAS STORIES. we had our breakfast—thin soup made of peas, carrots, blubber and potatoes. Our Christmas dinner was served at 1 o’clock. Hearken to our menu, ye who will sit down tlie coming Christmas to roast turkey stuffed with oysters: First course, a slehv of seal meat, on ions, blubber, potatoes and broad crumbs; second course, served one hour after first, a stow of raisins, blub ber and milk; dessert, a cup of hot chocolate. The best and most Christ maslike feature of this meal was that we were all; wed a sufficient quantity cf it to satisfy the pangs of hunger. Our enjoyment of the d-.-.sort, one cup of chocolate, we tried to prolong as much as possible. Over it we told each other Christmas stories. We exchanged reminisconv s of bygone Christmases at home with the loved ones so far away. We dis -ussed the probability of «..;ir over reaching our own firesides again, and we entered into an agree ment that if we got hack to civilization before another Christmas wo would pass the day together in memory, of that awful Christinas we were then spending in the realm of the relentless ice king. Alas, many of those brave fellows never lived to see another Christmas!'’ -Buffalo Express. On*' of Falb's The Journal dee De’ ais tells a s ory of Professor Rudolf Fnlb. in 1574 be pre dicted an eruption of Etna on Aug. 27. sie offer u a Vienna editor to write an account of it if die editor would send lam to Sicily. Falb was commis sioned. When he reached Etna there was not tlie slightest sign of disturb ance. As the 27th approached Falb was tortured with anxiety and spent sleepless nights watching the volcano. Nothing hupp, aed on tlie 27th and 2Sth. Tee fri! .v! r n: t. > s, v: t rushed iuto t • . ..•>• r s r -m shout ing, "An err; n. a t a—.; v , rtrmon!” Falb saw the sp.-ctade and s- nt off his *i ’■ : 1. C t* ivol'si .i'ji- -. «r’c. “f i ■ ; •" .q." A.ai tire ( . erring a < gu ii. a cle er's window. '"Did .'ell. custom was in mi-.iity smuti business wlnm it cut pantaloons down to pants.’’—Chicago Tribune. » Mexico’s Hot Pepper Sellers. The hot pepper seller of Mexico is a merchant who derives his livelihood from the fact that the Mexican must have his poppers, whatever else he may deny himself. They are brought to his door by the countryman, or he may go to the market place and find them spread out for sale on matting. The market man, while dressed inexpen sively as far as liis bodily garb is con verncil, wears in nearly every instance an elaborate head covering. Some of. those Mexicans own bats that cost as much as the rest of their wardrobe. The pride of the "white man in his panama is not to be compared to that of the Mexican in bis sombrero. # lt is a racial characteristic which finds its counterpart in the apron of tbe Portuguese onion seller. Her occupa tion may be lowly, but her apron might be that of a woman of higher degree. Plush edged with fur is not uncom mon.- -Everybody's Magazine. The IJllpK. Two thousand years ago it was sup posed. that water lilies closed their flowers at night and retreated far un der water, to emerge again at sunrise. This was Pliny’s view, and it was not impeached until the English botanist John Ray, in I<>BB, first doubted its veracity. The great lily of Zanzibar, one of the grandest of the lily family, opens its flowers, ten inches wide, between 11 in tlie morning and 5 m the afternoon. They are of the richest royal blue, with from 150 to 200 golden stamens in the center, and they remain open four or five days. It is not generally known that there are lilies that have nocturnal habits— night bloomers as well as day bloom ers. They arc very punctual timekeep ers, too, opening and closing with com mand;! hie regularity. Cats Fond, of Olives. “I have often wondered if all cats like olives,” remarked a Germantown woman who is very fond of the feline tribe. “All mine do, and I have six. Oiives are usually an acquired taste with the human race, but cats seem to take to them naturally; at least mine do. An olive will set any one of them into paroxysms of joy. They will leave milk or fish or anv other article of food .a for it. purring and rolling over it much as though it might have the intoxicat ing effect of catnip before they finally eat it. I have often tried olives on other cats in tlie houses of friends and have found them equally appreciative, only they prefer their olives cut up into pieces.”—Philadelphia Record. Glnusmakiiig: Isi Japan. The art of making glass was intro duced into Japan about 150 years ago by a Hollander, who. settled at Osaka. For several generations the knowledge of the process.was confined to a single family, aud it was not until about 1879 that the employment of coal instead of charcoal and the construction of brick chimneys enabled the manufacturers to introduce improvements which placed the industry on a substantial basis. Osaka has continued to bo tbe center of the industry and now manufactures for export besides supplying the borne demand. An Englißli Bcroiigh, In the days of "rotten boroughs” in England that of Gatton Park is said to have been tho worst. It had only one qualified voter, and yet it returned two members of parliament. Of course with this right the property was very valuable, and in ISMO it was purchased by Lord Monson for $500,000. Two years later it was disfranchised. A Bonifstia Ineongraity. Naggsby—You say that is a picture of the comptroller of the currency and his wife? Waggsby—Never! I said that was the currency and that that is his wife with him, but controller of Ids wife— never!—Baltimore American. 51»i»es ansi Sti-isifrs. "lie seems to think lie’s n winn/r with the girls.” "Yes, he thinks he knows the rones.”, “I guess that’s why it’s so easy for them to get him on a string.”—Phila delphia Ledger. Obstinate-. Magistrate (sternly.)—Didn’t I tell you the last time you were here I- never wanted ybu to come before me again? Prisoner—Yes, sir, but I couldn’t make the policemen believe it. fl U a l Vi ILUlllGrco.. .... : ' ' ! - - "i ksY Y Liv;ry. ard Sale " • * v ” h ■ ~---j HSAR T *<::«■ .*• tITSLi !y >- c \ . : ‘_j Turn cure furnished drui . I, mas to :tny ].:u{ .. . - CGJIitV ‘ * W- ■ : ’i MOTHL : v?j Wintry Wrinkles. Oh. the hai rv boy is flopping Down tho i.JI with his new sled, While the hum! A tramp is chopping Kindling v. cod out in the shed. And the ruffled, Muffled, stufß-'d ChicKlet pecks the frozen corn. And the golden, Molden, olden Brandy’s looked for ev’ry morn! : The fragile maid is skating On the pond behind the mill; The sparrow's masticating t Frozen crumbs upon the sill, • * And the bawling, Sprawling, crawling Infant's wrapped in flannels hot. While 'J. z -aling, Ever healing Goose gr- a - ■ stands beside the cot. The suburbanite is skipping To his snow becovered lair, And old Boreas is flipping Merry snov Hake:: through the air. And the creeping. Leaping, sleeping Trolley car hops through the mush, While the rosy, Always dozy Butcher's boy slops through the slusfc. T 1 tese wintry scenes T fancy A 5; I’m snuggled in my bed. Concealed so .that you can’t see ‘ E’en the bald: - ss of my head. And the dashing, Clashing, smashing Hailstones rhyme upon my pane, While 1" coolly, Honest, truly, Dream that summer's here again. —New York Journal. Christmas Dinner Recipes. Chestnut s:affine ;s the most deli cious that can go with a Christmas tur key. Shell a quart of Italian or French chestnuts. Put in hot water and boil until tho skins are softened; drain off tho water and remove the skins. Press them, a few at a time, through a colan - der and season with butter, salt and pepper. Add chopped parsley, onion and bread crumbs and season with stock. Giblct'Bauce.— Roil tlio giblets until tender; chon then’, but not too line, and add a tablespoonful of flour to the pan in which the turkey was roasted. Brown the dour, stirring constantly, adding slowly a cupful of water in which the Hl.iris were lriled; season with salt ami popper and add tho chop ped giblets. A Cotuitrj Xrmieil JHik" C!i~’ lstm.: :. South Africa was discovered by tho Portuguese, who were searching for an ocean road Jo India. Bartholomew Diaz was the commander of the two little ships that formed the expedition in 148 G. Eleven .wars later Da Ga ua took another I’ortv.giu.-re licet south, lie discovered Natal on Christmas day and iliiia named if in consequence. Tale c? n Cl'.ri-.im.-i-i Survivor. “But where is that beautiful tail you lmd d:l b. fi .'O y. • ..••'da;*; 4 ' I win* tils you lose.’ Well, 1 took to my lieelPaud lost my tail, but lie did not win ray, head.” ; • -'J4 ttii.:ill ■niiawil Willi ill X k.::.; j'.unxUT.W’frY— a I I I jljlj li * fIL, j qJS «\ W' if fc* /// I Vlf Tm » I I B-%3 %a=Yii Bo te> I i g Rhcumatlsn,'. Bypbi!i», Scrofula, Blood j Poison, Sv/elilags, St!.f, Paiafnl Joint/:, t Backache, Old Sores, Bolts, ana. .1,!;; | diseases arising from impure cr irapov- Sj erished blood. If it fails to cure, or i| -dots cot satisfy the purchaser oi Us |i worth, we will tho Monopr i paid direct to us, cr to any druggist or jj d dealer ia medicine, for Go’dea Rh/U: I snatjc Care. When 70,1 want a blood | lTH33Tcine, insist on having “O. S. CA’ .| ij 1 f your dealer dag noi have it, esje him '-! 'to order it for you; or sand your money ij to us by mail, wo will ship “G-, B. >\ C.” to you with ell express charges ‘j prepaid, * Price 91M per bottlo; six : for $5.00. TKE G. Tt. €. CCc* *OVB MAKVPACTURSRS AKB PSOPmSTOas. j; Tiften, tia. lhnaiimgagaaßSCTTi!Tir.-:,x»ut.'u. L -si