Denison Daily News. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 251, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 21, 1879 Page: 4 of 8
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He onnm in tbe
iff?- ■' ‘‘/Jr f P! ;
r comes;
t heads ou the pillows bo
white
Are dreaming of bugles and drums.
He outs through the snow like a ship through
the foam,
While the white flakes around him whirl:
Who tells him t know not, but he flndeth the
home 1
Ot each good little boy and girl.
His sleigh it is long and deep, and wide;
It will carry a host of things,
While dozens of drums hang round on the
sides.
With the sticks sticking under the strings.
And yet, not the sound of a drum is heard,
Not a bugle blast is blown,
As he mounts to the chimney top like a bird
And pops down In like a stone.
The I ittle red stockings lie silently fills,
TUI tlio stockings will hold no more;
The bright little sleds for the great snow hills
Arc quietly letdown to the floor,
Then Santa Claus mounts to the roof like a
bird,
And glides to His seat in the sleigh:
Not t he sound of a bugle or drum ts heard
As he noiselessly drives away.
lie rides to the east, be rides to the west,
Ot his goodies he touches not one;
He eateth the crumbs of the Christmas feast
When the dear little folks are done.
He doctli for us whatever he can;
This beautiful mission is ills;
l^jen, children, be good to the little old man
When you find who the little man Is.
known to his companions as Long Tom
Rollins—“ whoever she mought be, she’s
alone, barrin* thet kid, and unpertectod
besides. She’s sickly, too, and orter
hev a doctor. This ain’t no sort of a
place fora—a—inverlid,” he concluded,
hesitatingly, removing his heavy boot
from the table, and helping himself to a
liberal allowance of the punch. Then,
ver, and spend it for ’em. Who shall it
be?”
“ Let me be your agent,” responded a
deep bass voice.
Turning, they saw a tall stranger
standing near by, who had just entered
in time to hear the Judge’s call for con-
tributions. One or two in the room
recognized him as a miner who had
Here's Merry Christinas Come Again.
Here’s merry Christmas, and It seems
To call back child hood to the breast,
With kindly words and laughing gleams;
With leaping stops that make the beams;
With noisy games and happy dreams,
And all of life that’s bright and best.
H.
It comes with music In the hall,
That stirs the old man in his chair;
And when the midnight measures fall,
lie'll lead the blithest dance of all,
.Spurning alike the chimney wall,
And seventy years of wear and tear.
m.
Here’s merry Christmas come again;
Cling heart to heart and hand to hand.
“ Ixyvc one another,” was the strain
Ot IThn who never taught in vain;
And let it sound o’er hill and plain,
And rule the feast In every land.
—Eliza Cook.
CHRISTMAS AT MUD FLAT. | gentleman explained his peculiar posi-
- i tion.
She had been in camp four days, j “ You see, grntlemen,” he said, grad-
iVlr ri sh came from, why she came, | ually resuming the attitude from which
or who she was. no one could tell. But lie had been surprised by the abrupt
.in was m camp, and had come to stay,
•there was no doubt. She was quiet,
imodest, and simply Had—three quali-
ties which commended her to the resi-
dents of Mud Flat, as a change from the
ordinary run of females who from time
to time invaded tiie precincts of that
classic settlement.
Nor were these the only points that
had been noted by the boys. As Andy
McCorkle had gallantly handed her
from the lower step of the mud-bespat-
tered coach to the portico of the hotel,
•every body saw that she clung almost
"flem’trtsfe'ely' to the little child whose
arms were twined about her neck.
They observed also that her features
were pale and bloodless to an extent
that was almost pitiful By that deli-
cate intuition which sometimes exists
under the roughest exteriors, the sturdy
miners of Mud Flat understood that the
strange lady was suffering from mental
as well as physical illness. Their sym-
pathy was aroused in her behalf from
that instant, and every man in the place
immediately constituted himself her
champion and friend.
A day later, when she had rented a
cabin near the outskirts of the town,
without disclosing to any one her inten-
tions for the future or her story of the
•past, their interest was increased, and
they began to show their friendship in
substantial ways. A great heap of fire-
wood was mysteriously deposited within
easy reach the first night. Bags of flour,
after a pause, he continued, “ I wonder come in from the diggings that after-
noon, having found it too cold to work
longer in the mountains.
They were inclined to resent the in-
terference of an outsider, aud probably
would not have heeded his request had
he not spoken a second time. Drawing
near the table, he said;
“ Gentlemen, I was once a married
man myself, but my wife, God bless
her, is dead. For the love I bear her
memory, for the affection 1 have toward
the remembrance of my little one,buried
with her, I ask you to let me aid in this
matter.”
The sadness in his voice and face was
so sincere, and the utility of sending a
man who had ‘‘been tlmr, and knowed
what wimmen folks would like,” pre-
sented itself so favorably to the miners,
that with but little hesitation they id-
lowed him to do as he had wished.
In an hour lie was gone, and the set-
tlement was lost in speculation as to
what he would bring bask for the
strange lady and her child.
The morning of December 25 dawned
crisp and c»ld. The fresh, biting air
of the mountains raced among the trees
right merrily, whisking among the
branches with real holiday gayety. It
what ails the critter, anyhow?”
“ A man’s at the bottom of it, gentle-
men, you hear me,” observed Judge
Gashwilder from the other side of the
table, nodding conviction at each of his
hearers in turn. “ Take my word for
it, ther’s a man in it, as ther allers is in
any deviltry as robs some poor woman’s
cheek of its bloom and her eye of its
light.”
The Judge was eloquent at all times.
But when his round pate glistened from
the effects of good punch, and his theme
was woman, he was thought by the men
of Mud Flat to have few equals. There-
fore the little party seated around the
table were considerably startled when,
just as their favorite orator had thrust
his right hand into his breast as a pre-
paratory gesture leading to a more ex-
tended tribute to the sex, Long Tom
ltollins leaned forward and exclaimed :
“ See here, old man. How do you
know all this?”
For a moment every body was aghast.
Whether they wore astonished at the
suddenness of the interruption, or at the
half-savage tone of the speaker, or
whether it occurred to them that the
Judge might possibly have so far out-
*« THE UKSTH8T CHRISTMAS.”
My dear little cousin Marie had such
a charming Christmas that I really
think I must tell you about It; for when
there is a pleasure that any one may
have it seems very selfish not to let it be
known.
You must know that Uncle Ben is
very fond of teasing Marie, and by way
of doing that he gave her last November
a roll of lozenges, as ho called it, and, to
be sure, that is what the little silver,
papered roll looked like: but then it
wasn’t that, though Marie thought it
was, for when she pulled out very care,
fully one end of the roll, and put in her
little thumb and forefinger to pull out a
rosy lozenge, what should come but a
bright new cent!—or a penny, as Marie
called it, because she lived in Brooklyn!
Really, she did not look very badly dis-
appointed, for her eyes were dancing,
and her feet began to dance too when
out rolled a penny on the floor, and an-
other, and another; and down Marie
herself went to scrabble them up, laugh-
ing merrily all the time for tho pennies
looked so bright and pretty. Then she
sat down and poured them all into her
lap, and counted them over and over.
“ One, two, three, four,” ou and on,
till she came to twenty-five. Oh, how
rich she did feel! Was there ever such
another paper of lozenges?
She put them all carefully back in the
paper, and went dancing around the
house, showing every body her treasure,
and telling what wonderful things she
was going to buy with it all; but many
a time that day she emptied the pennies
again into her lap, into a saucer, into a
stepped the bounds of prudence as to j was nearly noon when the stranger rode
have attempted “pumping” the inter-: into camp, loaded with bundles. At
esting stranger, may never be known. the Magnolia he met an eager crowd of ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
But it is certain that they were aston-; 1,lb" 1 s> " ho, lu.uhd Jud^i G.i h |)0Xj ;lnd counted them over and over,
islied into silence. Even Judge Gush-. w 1 1 ii"' ie soon on t u io.k <> u : Xmloetl, every morning the minute she
wilder was observed to lose his usual j grange lady’s cabin. _ Arrived there, ^ ^ ^ *jn ^ htT ]i{tlo
presence of mind. For an instant his ’ " ) *' 1,1 sUI 1 11 1 ,l lt,n Ml head all covered with frizzles of golden
naturally serene countenance wore an j teniig. It was like intruding upon some
expression which in anotherwould have j saL'wl ST0"nd- alul th‘T were alniost
been mistaken for guilt. If the con ft-1 twuPted ^posit their bundles upon
dence which the others had always tllu threshold and fly.
placed in him was a t rifle shaken at that; “ lo" tak« lho stuff’ 8ft,d thc Ju,i^
instant, it was quickly restored when, jto the stranger, “and go in fust. You
after a moment’s hesitation, the old ha™beel1 ^miliar with wimmin. and
know how to handle ’em. We’ll wait
outside.”
But the stranger felt the same hesita-
tion. Perhaps his long absence from
feminine society made him bashful. Per-
haps a thought of the memory he re-
say “ Thank you,” for she was so eager
to carry it to Bessie; and I do not be-
lieve she was a bit happier than Marie,
who came skipping along the sidewalk,
thinking how Bessie would smile when
she saw the dolly.
“ It only cost five cents,” said Marie
to herself, “and I can buy the other
dolly that costs five cents. It is almost
as pretty as the ten-cent one."
Then she saw two poor little shivering
boys looking into a candy-store, for
some most tempting tin-trumpets were
hanging there. All through the streets
on Christmas morning, one hears tho
trumpets, for the boys think there isn't
much better fun than to blow a trumpet
and make a great noise. These boys
looked so wistful that Marie did not stop
a minute, but ran in and bought two
trumpets. She was just turning to come
out when the thought crossed her mind
that perhaps those little boys never had
any candy, and soon she had bought and
put into each trumpet an ounce of mixed
candy—she thought the boys would like
that best. Meanwhile the little shiver-
ing fellows were staring in at her, and
to them she seemed like a Princess,
spending so much money. When she
came out, and gave them each a trum
pet they could hardly believe their eyes,
and when they looked into the trumpets
and found the candy, you would have
thought they were the richest little peo-
ple in all the world, they looked so hap-
py. They called out:
“Bully for you!" which was not very
elegant, but it was the highest praise
they knew. Some of tho candy they
put in their mouths, and some into their
pockets. Then they began to blow, and
indeed l think nobody but a boy could
have made so much noise with his
mouth full of candy.
■ New .Marie had only five cents left to
is no weaving together of branches. In
short, the orang builds a nest precisely
as a man would build one for himself
were he obliged to pass the night in a
tree-top^ and had nothing to cut
branches with. I have seen ono or two
such nests of men in the forest, where
the builder had only his bare hands to
work with, and they were just as rudely
constructed,of just such materials,and in
about the same position as the average
orang nest. Upon this leafy platform
the orang lies prone upon its back, with
his long arms and short thick legs
thrust outward and upward, firmly
grasping, while he sleeps, the nearest
large branches within his reach. On
several occasions I surprised these ani-
mals upon their nests, and once I had
an opportunity to watch an orang while
it constructed its resting place, lie
never uses a nest after the leaves be-
come withered and dry, no doubt be-
cause the bare branches are not com-
fortable to lie upon. I never saw or
heard of any house building by orang-
outangs.
We found the animals most numer-
ous along the Simujan River near its
source. Our manner of hunting was
to make trips up and down the river in
our boat, paddling slowly and silently
along, keeping a careful lookout. Some-
times in rounding a bend in the river
we would come full upon a huge, black-
faced, red-haired animal, reposing qui-
etly or feeding. I aimed to shoot them
through the chest, and thus either kill
them at once or disable them so that
they would be unable to get away. On
several occasions I succeeded in killing
a large specimen with a single bullet.
It would at all times have been an easy
matter to have shot them through the
head, but this would have ruined the
skull. As soon as an orang was fired
speech above quoted, “I was prowlin’;
round her cabing last night, when all of 'ercd» caused b'm bcdd biMd£.
a sudding I heered voices inside. Thc Finally thc Judge consented to take
door was open a leetle bit, and by stand- J ,be 'uad' and’ dtd*Ilng his hat, knocked
in’ where I was I couldn’t miss a syller- softly. I he door was opened by the
hul. I will here explain,” he contin- (dldd* wbo bado t;"*er' Beside the
ued, thrusting his red bandanna hand- j dre sat the mother, who rose to meet
kerchief into his breast, as was his wont j them. -AH passed in but the stranger,
when speaking publicly, “ that I was • wbo stood outside,
there for thc purpose of findin’ out, if “Marai,” said the Judge, whq some-
hair, and drawing the precious bundle
from under her pillow—where it had
spent the night—begin to count again
and plan anew how she would spend all
that money, while her brother Ned
would caper around the room, singing,
Queen was in the parlor, counting out her
money;
I must be the King, and where’s the bread and
honey?
i can’t begin to tell you of all the
things she thought she would buy with
those pennies. Of course the first
thought was a doll; but, thou, she would
have a nice picture-book instead; yet,
how delightful it would be to have
twenty-five sticks of candy! She won-
dered if ever a little girl had so many.
Then she would go down to “Nor-
man’s” and look all through his “ pen-
ny-drawer,” wanting every thing there.
1 must tell you there is <uie drawer
spend on herself, and she began to think j at, if not killed at once, ho would begin
which of all the things she wanted the j climbing away with all haste.
most, but just then an organ-grinder
came along with a miserable-looking
little girl holding a cup for money. Her
poor little wizened face looked as though
it had never smiled. It was very, very
sad to see, on a bright Christmas morn-
ing, when every one is so merry. Then
Marie was tilled with pity for her, and
I think we may fairly consider the
orangs tho most helpless of all quadru-
raana. Owing to tho great weight of
their bodies and the peculiar structure
of their hands they can not run nimbly
along even the largest branches, and
never dare to spring from one tree to
the next. The weight of the adult male
she longed to make her smile, too. The ranges from 120 to 160 pounds. Owing
little girl looked so old and sad that! to the disproportionate shortness of his
Marie could not think of her playing, so legs, his progress depends mainly upon
she went into the store and bought some j his long, sinewy arms, and very often
more candy. Bringing it out she went he goes swinging through a tree-top by
up to the little girl and gave her the their aid alone. Upon the ground
possible, whether the gal was in need of
any thing that I could help her to.”
“ Which accounts,” observed a by-
stander, “ for that chicking wicli wa.-
hung up alongside the door when I came
by this mornin’.”
“I heerd her talkin’with the kid,”
how had lost his usual ease of speech
and gesture, “ we—that is, the citizens
of Mud Flat, has come to wish you a
merry Christmas, and to offer you
these few tokings of our respoek an’ es-
teem.”
Having thus delivered himself, the
candy, saying: I orangs are the picture of the most ab-
“ I wish you a Merry Christmas, and j ject helplessness, and in their native
please take this for a Christmas pros-! forest they are very seldom known to
ent,” and I know she must have smiled j descend to the earth. They are utterly
very sweetly when she said it. | incapable of standing fully ereot with-
The little girl looked perfectly aston-j out touching the ground with their
...... ... , | ished. 1 suppose she was not used to I hands, and for them to to be represent-
there in which every thing costs a pen- , 11 ‘ ,
, , . , J ° ..... having any one care for her, but she ed in drawings and museums as stand-
nv, and most always some little eves ; , , , , ,, .
• • ! grabbed the candveagerly and began to ; ing erect is contrary to nature,
are peering into that drawer. 1 hen, i ' . ... ,. I
, , .. ... , , „ eat it with great satisfaction, staring I -------*-»-*■ .......—
on the shelves, wliat pretty little dolls b
continued Judge Gashwilder, not notie- <)ld gentleman deposited the bundles on
ing the interruption, “and I couldn’t j the table, ahd stood smiling serenely on
there were for five cents! What nicer
ones for ten! What “perfectbeauties”
for two shillings!
Oh, dear, what should she buy?
What should she do? So every day she
came home still undecided, and still all
the pennies were in that bright little
roll. Really, some days she grew quite
tired of that shopping—I mean with
thinking about it—and so Christmas
morning came, and still Marie was
counting her money—though she said
now she knew, what she was going to
buy. “ Ten cents for a dear little
blonde-haired dolly; ten cents for the
sweetest little box of furniture, and five
costs for just the loveliest beads you
ever saw!”
Those were the things she wanted
most, she was quite sure; but the store
his companions that he had heard the j expressing the wildest joy, canght the j v as closed on Christmas Day, so she
with wonder at Marie, all the time; and
A Short Christmas Story.
though she did not know enough to say
“ Thank you " Marie saw how glad she ! . ,
waste have the candy, and my little I g°InS home’ and’ meetlnS a
Once upon a Christmas a citizen was
help lissennen. As near as I could
make out, the talk was like this:
“ ‘When shall we see papa?’
“ ‘Heaven knows, my baby. We
have sought him long, and when God is
ready He will restore him to us.'
“ ‘1s Crismas cornin’ soon, mamma?’
“ ‘Yes, baby darling. But there won’t
be no presents for my little ono this
time. We are away from home, and
poor. But when we find papa we will
go where there are lots of pretty things,
and then baby shall have plenty.’ ”
Here the Judge leaned forward and
all his companions. The strange lady,
completely overcome by this unexpect-
ed kindness, could not find words to re-
ply for a moment. Then, in a broken
voice, she said :
“ This is a glad moment of my sor-
rowful life. You are good, kind men,
and I know God will repay your gen-
erosity to the widow and fatherless.
I-”
She stopped suddenly, and stood with
blanched cheeks and distended eyes,
staring toward the door. The miners
turned and beheld the stranger, who,
whispered in a mysterious voice, telling i with a great stride forward, and a cry
mother repeat to her child the sad stoty woman in his arms
of how her father had gone West four j They stood thus, heart pressed to
quantities of coffee and sugar, a whole i years ago to seek his fortune; how for heart, and lips to lips for an instant,
ham, and a quarter of fresh venison two years his letters, containing money 1 hen the stianger turned his eyes de-
likcvvi.sc made their appearance from I for her support, had come like rays of vouih' toward thc coiling.
some unexplained source the third
morning.
Little was seen of the recipient of
these treasures, however. She had only
been on t he street once, and then only
to purchase a few necessary articles.
sunshine through the clouds; how they
had suddenly stopped, and no answers
wers received to her agonized appeals;
how for two more years she had sup-
posed him dead ; how, at last, the Post-
master in the little village where she
Thank God," he murmured gently.
“The wife 1 had supposed dead, is re-
stored to me.”
cousin came dancing on her way home.
She had not a bit of money now to
spend for herself but somehow she
didn’t mind that at all, for she kept
thinking how happy those little boys
and girls were and she was as merry as
a cricket all Christmas Day. Indeed she
says:
“ It was the very, verybestest Christ-
mas that ever I had.”— Christian Union.
HUNTING ORANG-OUTANGS.
How Our Ancestral Live in Tli**ir
Native Loreuls.
At the recent Social Science Convention
at Saratoga, N. Y., Prof. Homaday, in
an address, said: In Borneo the orang-
outang inhabits that wide belt of low
man with a pack on his hack, said to
him: “You infernal old swindler, I
have you now. You are the man that
charged me 10 cents for a pair of socks
that wore out in six weeks. I will now
take it out of your hide."
“ My dear sir,” replied the man with
the pack, speaking in broken English;
“ my dear sir, I hope you will do noth-
ing of the kind. It would he a sacri-
lege. 1 am Santa Claus on my annual
rounds.”
“ You are a liar on your annual
rounds,” retorted tho oitizeu, and with
that he hit the strange man a severe
blow on the ear.
The strange man retaliated in kind,
and made it very interesting for the citi
must wait till the morrow; still, she
could be thinking of all the good times
she was going to have w ith the lovely
things.
Before church-time her mamma want-
ed her to carry a mince-pic and a cake for Prof. II. A. Ward, I had ample op-
to poor Mrs. Cragg, for a Christmas ! port unity to study the habits of the
greeting to herself and herlittle boy and I orang-outang in its native forests. I
forest-covered swamp which lies between /en, albeit he had a pack on his back
the sea coast and the mountain ranges ! that weighed 700 pounds. It
of the interior, extending entirely around j majestic sight to see him get around so
the western half of the island. Lust j lively with the great pack ou his back,
year, while on a collecting expedition | and was a source of much surprise to
thc citizen, who got an eye punched, an
ear chewed, a nose badly disfigured,
and several ribs caved in.
The miners stole softly away and left girl, and to help them have a good j visited Borneo in August, 1878, for the “ How do you like that for a Christ-
tlie stranger standing thus, with his ! Christmas dinner; and they were all so sole purpose of obtaining specimens of j mas-gift?” asked the man with the pack,
arms tenderly twined about the woman ' pleased that Marie came away feeling the Bornean simia and to study the dif- as he picked up his hat and proceeded
Upon that occasion -he mot the rover- lived had, upon his dying bed, confessed of his love, and the little child Hinging i \eiy happv.
ferent species. 1 visited the territory of on his journey.
ential gaze of a score of loungers, and to having stolen the letters from her fondly to his knees.
• i . . i ... .. 1 . ‘ .1 * . . ! lm. !..».-wl so ,1 • f/v ivof flvo »YWinnv tlv.iv- ! Tllf* MU’ W.lM llfllr
turned her head away, pretending not husband so as to get the money they
to see, when the jovial Bill Carter smug- contained, and suppressed her missives
glod a huge package of candy into the
•child’s capacious pocket. But aside
from that she had remained hidden from
view, and the miners knew as little about
her on thc fourth day as thev had on the
first.
to him, for fear of discovery; and how
she had started out with her little one
to find the lost husband, who had been
last heard from in Mud Flat.
All this the Judge told to thc few
friends he could trust, speaking in a
She was so much interested in the ' Sarawak and for two and a half months ! “ This teaches us,” mused the eiti-
Tho air was balmy outside; the sun | stores lioW that she thought she would devoted my entire time to hunting the zen, as he picked himself up tenderly;
shone with ineffable sweetness upon the g0 back through Smith Sheet and look J orang along the liver Sadong and its j “this teaches us that because a man has
scene; a blue-jav screamed his delight jn the shop windows. When she came tributary, the Simujan. This whole re- j a hump on his back is no reason lie can
The 23d of December was unusually whisper, lest the precious secret should
•cold, even for that locality. As the be passed to others in the room,
frozen moon came up over a distant “ And now,” he added, resuming his
crag, cutting with chilly hands the rhetorical attitude and voice, “ I axes
from a neighboring tree, and the wind ; to the first toy store there was already
played a joyful tune among the rocks. |a little girl staring in the window.
Christmas had come to Mud Flat. j Poor little girl! She had very few
j clothes; her hands and her face looked
Ax eccentric Englishman has lately and coi<l; b„t she didn’t seem to
built a house in the Quarter Tivoli, for ; bfl thiaking of thiU, h0 wistfully was she
the residence of himself, his wife, and ! .. . ,
eight children, which is the talk of all
Paris. It is circular, and has neither
gion is one vast swamp, covered every- not hump himself.’
where with a dense growth of lofty vir- ; The stranger was not Santa Claus, as
, gin forests. During the fruit season, ! he alleged he was, hut a peddler. The
clothes; her hands and her face looked from the middle of January to May 1, citizen was right in that respect, but
thc food of the orang is the durion, wrong in tackling him, because he got
inongasteon, and rambuton. During j so badly left,
thc hot months of May, June, and July |
they retire far into the depths of the ,
I gazing at a little china doll. Marie
| knew what that look meant—so, many
days, she had looked at the fascinating
dusky gloom, one might have fancied you, as gentlemen and representatives • J , ,
h-fLu ! ...i.’.,.:. • ..., ;.f \imi ........... .h.11 fhi. „0| "A preach to it is from the ground floor on
door ner windows externally. The ap- tbi'ng3in Norman’s window.
that he had suddenly been transplanted
•into the Arctic regions. The ground
was covered with a thin la ;or of snow,
which g istened like burnished silver in
the i»ale light. Here and,there along
the sides of the gulch, giant pines,
standing like ghostly .sentinels, threw
spectral shadows across the white ex- her mother thet we ain’t so lost to vir-
panse. The roar of Potato Creek, too an’ principle as not to appreciate it
wrapped in the icy arms of winter, was when we hev a good woman and a in-
subdued to a tiny, muffled trickling. ! nereent kid amongst us. Let us give’em
And the wind, gently sighing through a Crismas. 1 will now perceed to head
the passes, played .Eolian melodies the subscription.”
of Mud Flat chivalry, shall this ga! and ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ] |,|der which i m >v fl
her kid, being too poor to have a Cris-! J. , , ’ !
, , . ° ; , , . , .up and down by machinery, similar to
mas of their own—sli til they go without , , , ., „r, . ,
„ ,, , J ,n . that of a drawn ridge. .There is only
it, or not? Remember, gentlemen, that , ., f
° . .. i one floor, and that contains 18 apart-
kui is thc fust one as ever came into this ,
, . , , . , , ments, more or less small, looking into
place, and p’raps she s our luck. Lotus • , .
1 , , , , the center, which is lighted from
uurtur her, my friends, and let us show
among needles of pine and tassels of So saying, the gallant old man moved
hemlock.
Xu the main apartment of the Mag-
,/joiia Sail)on, a party of the boys were
sitling around a table, upon which
abdve
by a glazed cupola. One stove for all
these rooms is in the middle, and in
summer its place is to he occupied by
an exquisite parterre of flowers. A cir-
cular balcony, open to all the apart-
ments, surrounds this place. The mo-
tive of this oddity is, of course, only
“Are you going to buy it?” asked
Marie, eagerly. “ Do you like it very
much? ”
“ Like it! ” And the little girl turned
wonderingly to her. “Oh, if I only
could! Dear Bessie! ” \ aud down the rivers and watch for them
“Bessie! Who is Bessie! ” asked in the tree tops. Near thc source of the
Marie. ! Simujan River and far beyond
“My little lame sister. She has to | the last Dyak \illago we found
lie ou ‘ he bed all day, and oh! she wants j great numbers of old orangs nests
a doll so much,” she said, sighing wist-j and some which wore quite new.
fully. The nest consists of a quantity of leafy
Then up spoke Marie's warm little : branches broken off and piled loosely
Italian Cream.—Soak one-third of a
forests and are exceedingly difficult to box of gelatine in a little cold milk,
find. But during the season of the j Bring to a boil one quart of rich milk;
heaviest rains, from August to Novem- , then stir in a cup of sugar, the beaten
her, when the forests are flooded, the I yelks of six eggs and the dissolved gela-
orangs are found in the vicinity of the i tine. When it begins to thicken, take
rivers. I soon found that the only way j from the fire and pour over the beaten
to reach them would be to paddle up
whites. Whip together; flavor to taste,
and pour into a form. Make a few
hours before needed.
, ., known to the author of it; but every
body can see that two points are gained
by it—immunity from taxes on doors
tied the contents of his breeche -pocket
upon the table. Others followed suit,
and when the last man had placed his
steamed a large bowl,emitting a fragrant contribution there the pile contained a
and aromatic odor. goodly sum.
“ Whoever she monght be,” observed “Now, gentleman, some one of us
a (ad owl i.ither angular personage has got to take that money, ride to J en
and windows, and a perfect preventive
of any attempt at burglary.
heart within her and said to her, “ Sup-
pose you buy it.” Quick as the thought,
she seized the little girl’s hand and
drew her into the shop, saying joyfully,
“I'll liny it, and then you can take it
j home to Bessie,
A farmer near Bangor, Me., noticing
that wheat was being picked from the
heads of standing grain, and finding
flocks of yellow birds flying about, shot
some of them. On opening their crops
he found only three grains of wheat,
into the fork of a tree. The orang usu-
ally selects a sapling and builds his nest and, by actual count, 350 weevils.
in its top, even though his weight causes j -♦♦♦-----
it to sway alarmingly. He often builds There is something soft and tender
liis nest within twenty-five feet of the (|lu fap 0f a single snow-flake, but
and in a minute the I ground, and seldom higher than forty when it comes to crawling out in the
Now, if money was ever ha f so tight purchase was made. The little girl in ] feet. Sometimes it is fully tin oe feet in morning and shoveling away a big drift,
as the man who b, ends it—then you 1 the ragged clothes seized the doll, and i diameter, but usually not more than jp, ornery, mean and disgusting,—De
might look out for panics.—JIuwkfye. j ian away so fast she had hardly time to J two, and quite flat, on the top. There (troit Free Press.
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