The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 24, 1884, Page 11

Then be legs could « “Hold o hurt you.” Yhe Snow-Man. BATES COUNTY d Liph, ‘We won't eee h nm Grandfat _N ae a “cae, National Bank, children telling In glee sre hes poard the children 100 “Took m Fant ante ora tnas tree: Liph, this her hildven | with wide-reac so sada jen] ly, Id speak, a us, Pde grandmo: It was two feet from tl of father Vroom . fully in until he « : with saw a sharp bit o1 to get that i safely on the iop “Now for f mother ‘ll cut istmas Pies for you w = — fellow’s waiting for us « ‘i WL”? 1 PEREECT CHRIS hill.” jaime The hill was not 2 high one, and 3 CHAPTER I road led right o mn i in yor ve put him rit, and there c summit stood Iii all op very mo- breakfast- down the r house y Ae r fol K car rey ther Vroom le, and seeme 2 snow blan- There we. not se valley than Gr: Pees old indenter te m so tired other the } stockings, fruits of to himself, **: Claus, sleigh : He was getting co was standing still, father Vrooman « airs nd sts * | walking in front of t Liph perched amon : nee and drove, there seen Unless Santa Clans and the Simpsons thing warm about hb and the Hopkinses hould forg the | Revenant no ch vof the month, they would all be or his tremendous oy ae li o he couldn't | wn-up people er made him on vet, when i OFFICERS. and eve down the w so) there at waking-up time to-morrow | white beard, o something in t almost drove the frost out o | nose. “Well, my LEWIS CHENEY - Pre CLARK - - - Vice P esident TYGARD So Cashi ent to >in the i to leave aid Hlow- ud they idG {mother Vreom afternoon, to he daughter, Airs. Hardy, who lived with her—“Jane, I've om all fixed now just where they're tocame 15 ping to sleep, and P've made up a ‘bed | ye; floor in the store-roomn.”" } more. Some Twonder are you wran | co to the barn3”? I'm goingto e the team man, dom t you mother, who's that fo ' ait and see, after they get 1 care ye've counted ‘em.”” scene eee A Anyhow, t enouch, ores open oa a 5 and can- , ad doughnuts. And ‘the pies, J Tad Li to the Or- em what has b he won't come | ph gathered such : | again, Pm going to have laimed little Sue, f i yuntry WAS o around amo the rest of | , | “Igathered as many as he did, ad} 35. t next more f Giitakes the price of a | beech-nuts, and hickory-nuts, and—” ou t dix ae aoe. = “7 “So vou did, Sue; but I wonder if ‘ | ‘G , tl] faa ” ’ ” z vii my ' ! “Give “em something for me. — two turkeys “ll go round, with only two - een st place v i it anda ir of ch es sac dose AIA co j eard it, and he shout- x See pat Any, i iua: | L Se and Uncle Jon iol- “ other, Hardy, “the | 4,4 t : t, but the rest, till the children plum-puddins ‘ ' = a uae ae puny 1OUN LE SULLENS:.- -- President “Yes, but all those children! [do i “y’re all So eo -W. CHILOS,......+-+.Vice Presiden ! tte the ( hey i king which had | 4s, WALTON pope they'll get he e ; ve me to age M.T \ SROYN Soy ta ee t for me to know where Pm going toy 1 mas.”* ier wakes iene Ete ae i a KE score Apert 4 : £ Whatit was the last one t Atthe very min away up the i | : . Si : i i ast sono H a north road, two miles neat town, | fully unders ree } DIRECTO : a — : 39 > mer 1 3 =, &—. pf there was a sort of dot on white His lips aie = ts easton Need oe * roe] road. If you were far ¢ ay i red htcame up| «No, Bijah not tiuiess you want to from it, it looked like a black dot, and among a crowd of dinost. made Bish | 45 ‘Woctdali vou vithier’ stay haret| one did not seem ty move. ‘Phe nearer you vas hard to feel at hom Cine ae eonia | : ; ae ah mae th ? fom r ; a a us and I e jo Windows | t was not i th his hanas » McBride, the more it seemed tobe trudging along | jn i wi wer e } were out, holding up the store of thing Frank Voris, 4 ith an immense amount of small en- | gion : ae which had con morni 2 : ty. Very sn ? ed toranybedy | ceiliy a “septtle hole’ more than ‘ i | a esaalde Sean jot Sn w an Igy ot j two feet square, with a woodn lid on | W285 und and ned : ae | @ owas the matter again with a 4 5-ve ‘g little | i. | lowed B rto another. Te sear ed, bu Pchee Vicoormane beamiobut ke OTHER STOCK HOLD ae st people te ‘ i f et Soe Ree jitwas | father Vrooman’s beard, but he i Aa : | é | . He} s nid Gr Se All the k Foon” | of no use. T can’t rum | pold Bijah he would get plenty of other | G, B, Hickman, ©, C. Duke, abs : e diss: itis Wht in | to Mr. Hardy, ~ p of | Opn ightest ) away in the are foot. in town John Deerwester, ‘eH : middle ¥ i were | the tree throuch the hole Aa room int tire on | He had been getting braverand br tom, 1. Good-t ail of | John lis, Renee a} . 1 by but | and open the scuttle. the } were jer, now he was wide awake, and he 5a ) time for dinner. | 5, Q. Dutcher, was FOC DY <2. dot to! sood and strong. The taken was | crawled forward and looked down the Rina Bish Cash he Henry Donovan, A, Il, Humphrey fain th {. sters stood for | things to h: not one Christ- | scuttle-hole. He knew that room in a | Ie » tous om Christ- ab remeron ae ‘of Bo cu Lipl’s father hurried a stainto open | M4 tree Vroonxin | minute, but he had to look twice be- | mas ” he has cometo| -arge Fire and burglar AASV a boy of 4 years | the scuttle, and that gave Gradfather exclaimed ae i | fore he knew the tree. ‘ stay.”? p f Saf x _ with i: tne nead under his gray | Vrooman a chance to think of Bijah. “Now f. ngs! It's getting late, any stockings! And east iren did their part, root Safe with time lock. pop full of Christmas ideas, to turn the | «Where i is he, 2 : have you all in bed Look at those sleds! | and » st, aud so did Bijah, | wrong corner where the roads crossed, “Qh, he’s all x Grandviother’s ! i itv tact Cl tma. si : : Z h, sd a andnother’s on | my - and so it was a perfect Christmas. Receives deposits subject to check a path of oes { Span Asylum got him. She and mother caumt him} {Ste ing | Whichever way he looked he saw eo Right Uoansinibney buys antl actinic aecins : 33 ar bicape y ie i a - sls before he got into the house. Fe tried Bo ne w what that meant, and something wonderful, and he began to | . _ : change and does a veneral Banking } - i walked on and on, wonder- | to run away. too." pos it was wonderful non } get excite Si - E \ Dr. J. I. Baker, a physician of New] ness. not come Bijah’s short legs had been toc tired y that tree had te carry. Bob “Tecan climb down. It's just like go- | Castle, Pa., writes: “During the past , r 2 is © get-1to carry him very fast, and ¢rand- Hopkins insisted on hangi Z two pa ing downstairs.” ; | years, [have bad opportunity for Your business is respecttully solicited ttle | other Vicokian and Mes: aedi baa [ter Dim and Thad Simpson v | It was just utas safe and easy, | Jing the effect ot Mishler’s Herb Bit- oe ady for 2 cry- | canzht him before he got back t the | 2¢¢ging his mother for a second pair, | with all those branches under him, and | ters upon my patients—those who have when ‘Lip oh Hardy came in from the | all he had to do was to sit on one, and | Suffered sr y Bes spepst gts OF neryous voroughiy diseour- eee cca chen v = . long, empty ¢ | wet ready to sit on the next. one below | energy, diarrhoea, etc. lave neyer of the woods. z y they laughed about it gave 2 PIYE P- cee es ae aes - known it to tail in effecting the most with | itz & great deal of courage, ant he pane bout half way down,and | ical cure, and Ihave no hesitation in fe ene with: | ne--- Giedietea they took him b) his the world is that fo there wa » grain bag, with Sones Fethe aha, Stecae ioe seas ee red little hands. one on each side.land rother, poe astonish- | mouth wide open. Just beyond it on Se discoved tor diseases ensuing from a n ry style price and quality A great | walked him into the house. dl, what do you mean | the same bough, but further out, there | gicordered stomach, liver, bowels, lungs A orsnG nes. ae Jane,” said grandmother, ail thing in here 4 | hung a very small stocking indeed. Peas ee? 3 ‘ s pretty nigh fail. grand- | will we do with him? The house’l be ‘ stocking for grandfather. | ‘That's mine!” exclaimed Bijah. |" —_ iat sung out a clear, boyish voice | choke, jam, packed full, and theregn’t s hang it up, hoys. _ Maybe Sants | “It's cram full, too. They've borrow- Order Of Bile beyond the fence, and 2 very much } an extra bed.” s “HM ecome and fill it. ed it, after all theirs were full. I want Xd s iiss ade scammed see oe xtra 5 Pion Gare wasinuo eudiot £ ey ae eee re reales STATE oF Missouri, } og T guaranteed a fitin every cas 6 » seemed to go right on talk- “Father found him in the snow s¢ne- here was no end of fun over Grand- | it to put on now, but can’t reach i: County oF Bates, ° f Call and see me, south room ing. : where. Just like him. But whd a | (ther Vrooman’s grain bag stocking, | out there.” _ : In the Circuit court ot said county, Feb- grange store. ‘Your grandmother, Liph, she al- } rosy little dot he that was all leg and no foot, but Uncle | Just then he began to hear noises uy. ary term, 1885. s ways did make the best mince Are you Santa Claus’ wives?” aked | Hiram Simpson took it and. fastened i | St#!rs. aud Ge GE ee ee ES SN as ta ae J.E. TALBOTT she can stuff a turkey bettern'’n any h, with a quiver of his lip in gite | strongly toa branch in thé middle os | 10W— shouts and stamping, 2nd people | head his wite, plaintiffs, vo, ss one T_ know." of himself. ; | the tree. It was close to the trunk,and | C®lling to one _another—and hejcould _ The unknown heirs of Absolem Fras-| 47 t¥. _Merchant Tailor 5; Grandfather, do you s‘pose they'll How they did chuckle when hey | was almost hidden; but Liph saw Un | "0 make out what they were saying. ier defendants. see ae i all come? tried to answer that question! All hey | cle Hiram wink at Aunt Ellen, and he| ,,“Oh- dear! they're coming. Santa | | Now at this day com? the plaintiffs JSOHNSON’S “Guess they will. That there spruce | made clear to Bijah was that the pace | knew there was fun of some kind that Claus is coming. What “il T do herein, by their attorneys before the un- ‘Ido for the Christmas tree Your | for him was in a hig chair before the | he had not thought of. Bijah was scared: but there was the eset Se Graves e ee gtandmother said we" nust feteh 2 big | sitting-room Sas e, with a plate of Grandmother Vrooman had been so} > age mouth we DANES WEEULSE © ipa eae anti velnon ne ae i 4 zs tl . g, a S| _ ging a gy ot on F: one. f : mince-pie in his lap, and Bush, thebig } busy with all those children from the grain-bag “‘stocking,’’ and almost be ther as plaintifts verily belies cee That’s a wh will Joe | house-dog, sitting beside him. morygent they came into the house that | fore Bijah knew what he was doing he Z es <a the subi pedis 5 Simpson and B, pees “It's Ss i ae” aa " At | had slipped in. sons interested in the subject matter ot Saget f ise It’s $ a Claus’ dog,” said Biah | she had almost lost her anxiety: but it| Poor Bijah! Tt cseeut owas this petition [whose names they can not ae ere last ,,, | to himself: but his house isn’t as jig | came back to her now all of a sudden. Capt here ncaa ati 4 af i | insert herein because they are unknown is, M wuess they) ~~ owewthey'll | as the ‘sylum. “Sakes alive! Jane,’ she said to he dise abhes bed thax hey coukd “nos chmb to them}, who have an interest or appar- 421 N.3d St. St. Louis, 0. — bide eat all ae ———. Mrs. Hardy, ‘‘every last one of “em’s | eal oe a eae i cotp gies ent interest in said premises which they : ther “Il want “em to. ello, CHAPTER I. gotto be in bed before we ean doa]? = - eg ee as heirs of Absolem Frazier de- ce ae wees ee conmere in the road? There were fire-places in every ram { thing with the stocking eee to -elimb on. Next “moment. 100: ceased. Whereupon it is ordered by the Open 411 the Wees! a it’s a : on the ground floor of Grandfater | Bijab beard her. for he was just be- jh wld, fo Pipes a mea # be Clerk in vacation that said detendaats be —————— ee _ erp tiem cone of — ante Vrooman's house aad some kind bf} Yond the dining-room door, with a coming neat e e noise os ead gains cay paint De e€ Allthe Branches of an Englah gray es e ‘sylum. ay out | stove in more than half the reoms p- | Cruller in eacit hand, and it made him = COMMIS CCG: RIL AR SMe cement terete Math emathical and Commercial : = There were blazing fires on ev “I wish Iwasinthe ‘sylum. No, ee ot which is to divest the ti wings : 1 © Was a scare inthe rsneege os Whe s ee 2 z pila or e 6 - or may at e eacher’s Course foi gre Hick > had ared look in the black | hearth dowustairs, and Liph got h don’t either, but I kind 0 wish [ was.” ae i = on le ore rie | eee ae or sey apenas eon t —— to Learn and Teach ae like hey had never seen anything | of Bijah after a while and made hh j_ Bijah was very small boy, and he ed By a n ee a as beaters Weeiregeian Ease So lee ERE conihiwext Lestat a i AR ts Grandfather Vrooman. when | and Bush go around with him to hep | ad not seen much of the world, but hee pees sev neat tereet: aée Business and Ornamental Penman eS puso ae meee ine Pr . i northeas f sec- oe his face out between the poke them up. Bijah had never see his ideas were almost as clear as those aft ee oe pee | fon een pend in ioe natip No. 39 of Lae eS Th : tire-place before, and it was a egret | of the other children, and Grandmoth- adieings oe ios SPOUT to Laan ay ge chee ot A Seolert: Ere Refers to thousands ot former stu- he trees all looked as if they had j w hi fer V; rc ft: i was sure about the rest. Seog ey in intt beards of snow, b : wonder to him, but Bush sat down 4 | et Vrooman for the next fifteen min- “Bijah!”’ exclaimed Liph. “Why, I | zier and vest the same in the plainttt,| dents who have completed under our Bee ow, but none had a longer | front of each fire and barked at it. | utes. The way the Simpson and Hop- { ) 494, '} oy S Lae h >. | Cordelia Morehead, and that unless the | jnstructious “Bijah SEI ae p connate: It was getting dark when they reack } kins families got mixed up. with Liph | the =. een aa | said defendants be and appear at this in & of Exper: Jd Christe Sele lid” you know | ed the great front parlor, and the fire; sad Sue Hardy tohelp them, yas some- | on the little ch Lidn't get | Court, atthe next term thereot, to be wa A Full Corps Experience pecan oe athe @ Bee Neon ea || thing wonderful. Old Bush ‘wandered } wee sal maa aa Ms daha | begun and holden at the court house in Protessors. O-Morrow, ~ pipe: he dot Woof, woof, w bark 3ush fro t e - t Butler, in said county. on the : + > . nd we're going to have tur- | Bijah stood ee ees Bal om room. ire sail EES SE | “Dear me—through the snow!"’ ex- | Berd os Fe as Sorat onor be-| _ Write for Circulars, Specimens of | Liph went near enough to give that in} bese Mother,” exclaimed Mrs. Hardy at i claimed grandmother. ey J | fore the sixth day of said term, if the Penmanship and Catalogue of Stu = ! Just you wait until | poke. he could hear Grandfathe}! last. ‘the bed you made on the floor in | roe unt Jane. | rerm shall so long continue—and if not, | dents and References. Address: so be tree doen: and I'll come out} Vrooman away back in the <itting aij the the store-room!”* | ‘He's around somewhere. Let's let | then on on betore the last day of said h : oor all eeca ae room: = 2 ‘Just the thing for him. All the rest { ee a moe ee au bere _. | term answer OF P - “be ResOS om Prot. J. W. Jo néon, ae ee ee cians “Now, my dear, we'll stick him away goin pairs: I'l} put that poor little | sii ade iar pec i arc ae Speers cere aPBS . Lous, Mo PRESIDENT r id you hear that, Liph? The littie | somewhere. Put him in ome of tha dear right in there.” | he swung open the door into the ‘dark | : vhay es = z. 2 2 ss es c Sisaiies = Sante miles from oe and I don’t | stockings, and hang him up. So she did, and not one of ber own | sar eat : git tess mnyrmiog till we fee si | +*That's me." cvcaned Bijak. “He'd grand-chil dren was tucked in warmer | * Suniel If stepped eht in front of | |DO YOU KNOW | going to make a present of me to som was Bijah He did net kick the , Se se ge wy Ete ms . es Ih i j body. Oh, deart 1 wish I oor runt bedclothes off nex: minute, and ee a bee a eta a j Bat HAT and you're | aws he was the only child in the b poke ate Sener a in Hae esean ie % 3 i s th iy chil ! hil, Spee - ccessively, ra you weed to be, | But be could not, for there was Lipa| Whom that could be suid. Grandfather | tere. The children’s exes we | LORILLARD’S CLIMAX PLUG Ki gaa we acon j there was Bush. and it was getting | Vrooman paid a visi. of inspection all j gSund in a sort of very impale Ge e least doubt in the | da around from room to room, and Bush at Lanse TOBACCO cle; but grandfather’- own eyes shut } for a moment, as ther had a habit of doing | sometimes. and his white beard was allofatremble. It was only fora io he had discovered Santa = Now, my dear,” went om = grand- one: he veTy act of getting ready | father, “YH just light up. and then Vil stmas, and his black eyes were co and meet that traia. IT bring Prue went with him. It tvok him a good hile. When he came to the store- »om and looked in, Bijak’< tired eyes b tin tag: Rose Leaf fine cut avy , and black, bro i th deca w snuffs are the best and ch { bigger every minu until! and her folk ad Pat “ll eae : . iL} ar r folks, az atl meet th re already cle swe F ta ecEmb over the fer | — m - ingers peas ; sae ROR a ee moment, but wien he looked aroun ity, this 2 est, quality consfdered? ee 7 pee ae ; again be said: : ae R. JENKINS, “Cireuit Clerk. t ess