Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1881, Page 7

I'HE DAILY BEE OMAHA PUBLISHING CO., PROPRIETORS, 016 Farnham, bet. Oth and 10th Streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ne copy 1 year, In advauce (postpaid) - - - $10,00 © months « “ < 5.0) month “ “ .. 800 RAILWAY TIME TABLE, CIMR CARD CHICAGO, ST, FAUL, MINNRAPOLIS AND OMAMA RATL Leave Omaha—Passenger No. 9, §:308. m, Ace commodation No. 4, 1:00 p. m Atri e Umaha—Passenger No. 1, 5:30 p. m, Accommodation No, 8, 10:50 a, m. LEAVING OMAUIA RAST OR SOUTH BOUKD, 0, B. & Q. 7:40 8. m,—8:40 p. m. Viprios. m—sdop. m. . m.—8:40 p. Vo7 Clgars and Tobacco. WEST & FRITSCE ER, manutacturers of Olgars, sod Wholesale Dralers n Tohaccos, 1508 Douglas. ¥ ¥ LORENZEN manufacturer 1416 Farnham Florist. A. Donaghte, plants, cut flowers, soeds, soquots ote. N. W. cor. 16th and Dourlas stroets. Olvll Engineers and Surveyors. ANDREW ROSEWATER, Creighton Block, Town Surveys, Grado and Sewerage Systems & Specialty Uom slon Merchants. JOHN G. WIL LIS, 1414 Dodge Steset. D B BEEMER. For details sce large advortise ment in Daily and Weekly Cornlce Works. Western Cornice Works, Manufactarers Tron Cornice, Tin, Tron and Elate Roofiing. Orders trom any locality promptly executed in the best manner. Factory and Offfce 1218 Harney 8t €. SPECHT, Proprictor. Galvanized Iron Cornices, Window Caps, ete., ctured and put up in any part of the T. SINHOLD 316 Thirteenth street Orockery. 1809 Dougise street. Good line. Olothing and Furnishing Goods. N , Caps, Boots, 10th street. ©.F. GOODMAN 11th St._bet. Farn. & Harney, 8how Case Manufactory.| 0. J. WILDE, Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinds of 8how Cases, Upright Cases, & ., 1317 Onas St. FRANK L. GERHARD, ~proprictor Omaha Show Case manufactory, 818 South 10th streot, between Leavenworth and Marey. woods warranted first-clase. Pawnbhrokers, ROSENFELD, _ 10th 8t. 8Btoves ana Tinware. A. BURMESTER, Dealer in Stoves and Tinware, and Manufscturer Far. & Har C., K 1 . m, K.'C, 8t J. & . avos at B e, . and 0:90 . m. Krrives at §t. Louisat 6:30 a. m. and 6:62 . m. W., St.L. & P, leaves 0t 8 a. m. and 840 p. m. Arrives at 8t Louis at 6:40 a. m, and 7:80 m WRST OR BOUTHTWEATS.| B. & M. In Neb,, Through Express, 8:£0 &, m, B. & M. Lincoln Express—6:20 p. m. U P. Ovorland Expross, 12:16 p. m. O, &'R. V. for Lincoln, 11:45 & m. 0. & R. V. for Osceola, 0:40 &, 1. U. P. freight No. b, £:80 a. . U. P 9, §:20 a. m. U. P p.n U P freight No. 7, 6:10 p. m.—emigrant, - |P. Denver express, 7:35 p. m, U, P. treicht No 11,'11:80 p. mi. U. P, Denver freicht, 8:25 p. m. ARRIVING— PROM RAST AND ROUTH, C. B. C. & N. G R.I K C, ARRIVING FROM THE WRST AND SOUTHWEST. 0. & R, V. trom Lincoln—1.08 p. m. U. P. Pacific Expross—3:26 p. m, B & M.in Neb., Through Expros—i:16 p. m, B. & M. Lincoln Express—0:40 8 m. U. P. Denver express, 7:35 a. m, U. P. Freight No. 14—2 60 p. m. U. P, N 0 Fnigraot, . m, enver freight, 1:10 a. m. R. V. mixed, ar. 4:45 p. m, TWRRN OMAIA AXD BLUYPS. . X and 6:00 p. m, Ve 25 and 11:25 8. m.; 2:26, 4:26 ond 6:25 p. m. Through and local passenger trains between Omaha and Coun il Bluffs. Leave Omaha—6:15, , 8:60 0. m,; 8:40, b:45, 6::0 p. . Omaha—7:40, 11:85, 11:45 a. m.; 5:40, 7: Opening anr Closing of Malls, ROUTE, m. Chlcago & N. W 40 Chicago, R 1. & Chiago, B. & Q Wabash v & 11:00 4140 Ii for_Stato of lowa leave but once a day, viz: 0:50 a.m. e Offico open Sundays trom 12 m. to 1 p. m. i THOS. FHALL P M, Buginess Directory. Abstract and Roal Estate. JOHN L. McCAGUE, opposite Post Office. W. R. BARTLETT 817 South 15th Streot. Architects. DUFRENE & MENDELSSOHN, ARCHITECTS Room 14, Croighton Block. A. T. LARGE Jr., Room 2, Creighton Block. Boots and SBhoes. JAMES DEVINE & CO., Fine Boots ‘and Shoos, A good assortment of ‘home work on hand, corner 13th and Harney. THOS. ERICKSON, 8. E. cor. 16th and Douglas. C. L. HART, M. D, JOHN FORTUNATUS, /605 10th street, manufactures to order good work ‘8t falr prices. ~Repairing done. Bed Springs. 3. F. LARRIMER Manufacturer. 1617 Douglasst. Books, News and Statlonery. J.1. FRUEHAUF 1015 Farnham Stroet. Butter and Eggs. MoSHANE & SCHROEDER, the oldest B. and E, ‘bouse in Nebraska established 1876 Omaha. OENTRAL RESTAURANT, MRS, A. RYAN, scuthwest comer Lethand Dodge. Best Board for the Monoy. s Batistaction Guaranteed. Meals at all Hours, Board by the Day, Week or Month, by ey, Good Terms for Cash. Furnished Raams Supplied. Uarriages and Road Wagons. ‘WM SBNYDER, 14th and Harney Streets. uewe ers. JOHN BAUMER 1314 Farnham Streot. Junk. H. BERTHOLD, Rags and Metal. Lumber, Lime and Cement. FOSTER & GRAY corner 6th and Douglas Sts. Lanps and Glassware, J. BONNER 1809 Douglas St. Good Varlety. Merchant Tallors, G. A. LINDQUEST, One of our most popular Merchant Tatlors i re- ceiving the latest designs for Spring and Summor Goods for gentlomen's wear, Stylish, durable, #nd prices low as ever 216 1th bet. Doug.& Farn. Millinery. MRS, C. A. RINGER, Wholesalo and Retall, Fan- Goods In groat varioty, Zephyrs, Card_Boards, osiery, Gloves, Corsets, &c, Cheapest House in #tho Wost, Purchasors aavo 30 por cent, Onder by Mall, 116 Fifteenth Street. Foundry. JOHN WEARNE & SONS, cor. 14th & Jackson st Flour and Feed. OMAHA CITY MILLS, 8th and Farnham 8ta., Welshans Bros., propriotare, Qrocers. 2. BTEVENS, 21st between Cuming and Lrar . A. MoSHANE, Corn. 23d and Cuming Btreots, Harawai e, Iron and Steel. OLAN & LANGWORTHY, Wholcsale, 110 an¢ 112 16th strect A. HOLMES corner 16th and Californta. Harness, Baddles, &c. B. WEIST 20 13th 8t. bet Farp. & Mamey, Hotels ANFIELD HOUSE, Geo, Canfleld,0th & Farnhan) DORAN HOUSE, P. H. Cary, 918 Farnham 8t. SLAVEN'S HOTEL, F. Slaven, 10th 8t. Southern Hotel, Gus, Hamel 9th & Loavenwortb Olothing Bought. © SHAW will pay highest Cash price for second Band clothine, * Gornor 10th and 3 Orugs, Paints and Olis. KUHN & 0. Pharmacists, Fine ¥anc Goods, Cor. 16th and Dougise stroots W.J, WHITEHOUE E, Wholcealo & Rotall, 16th st. C. FIELD, 2022 North 8ide Cuming Btreet. PARR, Druggist, 10th and Howard Streets, Dentists. DB. PAUL, Wiliams' Block Cor. 16th & Doige. Dry Goods Notlons, Etc. JOHN H. F. LEUMANN & CO., New York Dry Goods Store, 1310 and 1812 Fam- bam street. L. C. Enewold also boots and shoes 7th & Pacific, Furuiture, A ¥.GROSS, New and Se.ond Hand Purniture od Stoves, 1114 Dougiss. Higheot cash price ald for second hana gooos. BONNER 1809 Dougia st. Fine goods, &c. Fence Wor) OMAHA FENCE CO, GUBST, FRIES & CO,, 1218 Harney 8t.,, Lmprove- o Tos THoxes, Lion' and Wood Fehces, 0o Radlings, Counters of Pie aud Walout. of Tin Roofs and all kinds'of Bullding Work, Oudd Fellows' Block. J. BONNER, 1809 Douglas St. Good and Cheap. Beeds. J. EVANS, Wholesalo and Retall Sced Drills and Cultivators, 0dd Fellow dall. Physiclans an1 Burgeons. W. 8. GIBBS, M. D, Rsom No 4, Creighton Block, 16th Street. P. 8, LEISENRING, . D. Masonic Block. Fye and Ear, opp. postoffice DR, L. B. GRADDY Ocullst and Aurist, 8. W 16th and Farnham Sts GEO. HEYN, PROP. Grand Central Gallery, 212 Sixteenth Stroet, near Masonic Hall, First-class Work and Prompt- Deas guaranteen Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fltting. P. W. TARPY & CO., 210 12th St., bet. Farnham and Douglas, Work promptly attonded to. D, FITZPATRICK, 1409 Douglas Street Painting an _aper anging. RS, 181 Dodge Street. HENRY A. KOSTE] 8hoe bcores. 7 Philllp Lang, 1820 Farnham st. het. 18th & 14th, 8econd Hand Store. PERKINS & LEAR, 1416 Douglas St., New and 30 | Socond Hand Furniture, House Furnishing Goods, &c., bought and sold on narrow mareins. Satoons. HENRY KAUFMANN, Tn the new brick_block on Dougiss Straot, has Just opened a most clegant Beex Hall, ‘Hot Lunch from 10 to 12 every day. “ Caledonta " I FALCONER 679 16th Stroet. Undertakers. CHAS, RIEWE, 101% Farnham bot., 10th & 11td. 99 Cent Store: P. 0. BACKUS, 1206 Farnhum St., Fancy Goode ot Rt W I West for belng the most satest line connecting tho CAGO, and tho Eas aud BoUTH-EASTZRN LNRs, which terminate’ here, with KAN#As Crrv, LRAVENWORTH, _ATCHISON, Counct BLurs and OMAHA, the COMMEROIAL Cuarxns trom which radiate EVERY LINE OF ROAD that penetrates the Continent from the Missourl River to the Pacific S8lope. The CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND & PA- CIFIQ RAILWAY 1o the only line from Chicago owning track info Kansas, or which, by it own road, reaches tne ints above named, No TRANSPRRS BY CARRIAGH ! 0 i8NG coNNRoTIONs! No huddling in ill- ventilatod or unclean cars, as every passongor s carried in roomy, clean and vent coaches upon Fast Expross Trains. DAY CARs of unrivaled magnificence, PULLMAN PALACS BLRXPING CARS, and ourown world-famous Dixixa Cars, upon which moals are served of un- surpassed oxcellence, at the low rate of SEvENTY. Fois OkvTs RACH, with ample time for healthtul enjoyment. rough Cars betwoon Chicago, Peoris, Mil waukee and Missouri River Pointa;and close con nections at all polnta of intersection with othor Woticket (do not forget th) directly o evo lace of importance in Kansas, Nebrasks, Bkc 1ills, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Califofhia, Oregon, Washington Territory, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, Asli beral an enta regardingbaggage as any other line, and rates of faro alw 10w o compatitors, who furnish but tithew #80 com- fort. Doll and tackle of sportewen free. Tickets, maps and folders at all princips officos in the United States and Canada. quickest, otropolls, CHI e, Norvr-EASTRRY, | 0 Ut R. R, CABLE, E. ST. JOHN, Vice Pres't & Gen, Gen, Tkt and Pass'r Ag Manager, Chicagn Chicago, Sionx Oity & Pacific RAILROAD. THE SIOUX CITY ROUTE Runs 3 Solid Train Lhrough from Council Bluffs to St. Paul Without Change Time, Only |17 Hours, —i 18— AOT> MILES THE SHORTEST ROUTE, rRoM OOUNOCIL BLUFFS8 70 8T, PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH OR BISMARCE, andall polnts tn Northern Iows, Minnesota and Dakota. ~ This lino {4 equipped with the improved Woatinghouse Automatic. Air-brake sud Miller Plattorm Couvler and Bufter; and for SPEED, SBAFETY AND COMFORT is unsurpassed. Pullman Palaco Bloeping Car run through WITHOUT CHANGE hetween Kan sas City and 8t. Paul, vis Council Blufls and Bloux City. Trains leave Union Pacifc Transter at Coun- cll Bluffs, at 7:85 p. m. daily on arrival of Kansas City, 8t. Joseph and Council Bluffa train from o Bouth. Arriving at Sioux City 11:35 p. m. and at the New Union Depot at 8. Paul at 12:50 BooD. TI'H‘BOUEI IN ADVANCE OF ANY,OTHER ROUTE, £ar Remember In taking the Sioux City Route you get & Through Train, Thé Bhortest Line, the Quickest Time and a Comfortable Ride in the ‘Through Cars between OUNCIL BLUFFS AND §T. PAUL, e that your Tickets read via the */Sioux City and Pacific Railroad.” . 8. WATTLES, J.R. BUCHANAN Superintendent. Gen'l Pass, Agent, . ROBINSON, Ass't Gen'l Pase. Ag't., issouri Valley, lowa, J, H, O’BRYAN, Southweetern Agent, Counci_Bluffs, lows YRON WRED. LEWIBKE BYRON REED & CO. OLDBXT RATABLISHED Real Estate Agency IN NEBRASKA Koep 8 com) Estate In O lete abstract of title to Rem a0 Douglas county, waylt THE OMAHA DAIL BEE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1881, "MERRY CHRISTMAS," “‘Christmas again—really Christ mas! Tt has been a long, dreary yoar; but how we will laugh at it to-night! It was Loisio who spoke—Loiste sitting in the little lighted parlor, with beating heart and flushed, beaming countenance, waiting torher lover, the lover from whom she had been tepa- rated atwelvemonth — who was com- ing back to-night to her. A rare fair woman was Loisie: a tender, dove eyed little body, with curly golden hair and a_childishly in nocent expression, that lent a piquant charm to her fs A rare fair face ordinarily; this night its gentle pas- sion mado 1t most angelic, and must have made to Loisie's lover the hum- ble room sho graced seem quite a paradise, An humble little parlor, truly, fur- nished on the stiff, scant fashion ot New England fifty years ago: but the gay greens and holly with which Loisie had decked it out, the bright, blinking candles and the soft hearth fire, gave everywhere such an aspect of cherry comfort, It flashed a thought on Loisie, pre- occupied as she was. With a facea bit sobered she regarded her pretty work, *‘We will laugh at it to-night,” she continued, softly; ‘‘but somehow I can never help wondering why the dreary year need have been at all. 1 did not want more money. 1 would rather have marricd Ralph last Christ- mas, I would rather have been his wife all this time, helping him, work- ing with him, in a littlo home of our making, than that he should have gone away dreary, lonely, all to work tor me; to get riches, so that he could cover me with jewels, as he said, T should not even have an engagement ring—not till] it could be a diamond; nothing elso was good enough, 1 sup- poso he will bring it to-mght. 1 sup- pose he is coming home very S Eight o'clock! He muast be with his mother, now; it would be only minutes — only minutes —ere she would feel his tond arms about her, his loving kisses on her lips. Two impulses moved Loisie this supreme moment—the one to go out when she heard him coming, to throw open wide the door, and go out far down the path to meet him with open arms and tender words; the other, to run softly up the stairs, to let him knock once, twice, three times, per- haps, before she came, pretending not to hear, A saucy look erept into the tender eyes. She would do this way—she would masquerade a little, this Morry Christmas night. Yes, she would come slowly down the stairs, she would open the door and say, demurely: ‘“‘How do you do, Ralph? 1am very glad to see yau; and I hope you have brought me my diamond ring,” The sound of wheels pausing at the gate, a quick step coming up the path, and the saucy plan quite failed to Loisie. The sound of wheels, the step! She is on the doer stone now, with eyes like stars and heart close to her trem- bling lips. “Ralph, Ralph! Merry Christmas, dear——" One on the door-steps could not bear to hear the eager words. He turned away, and thought, with a shud- der, of what men were talking of out- side, ‘‘She was to marry him soon, they say. Then this thing will surely break her heart.” Loisie did not catch the| muttered words. She had paused, erimson with wortification, te find herself acdress- ing a stranger. Iu confused silence she took the packet he handed her, and went back | into the house. A ‘petulance, almost anger, shone now in Loisie’s eyes. She quite for- got to look at the little packet in her hand. Tt was not Ralph’s fault, she knew, but she had learned a lesson; she would never, never be so foolish again in all her life. Suddenly remembering, she looked down, What was it this man had brought? She looked, and saw her name in her lover’s hand—Ralph’s handwriting, and the old post-mark, {oo! Something had happencd, then; he was not coming—not coming at all to- night. What could it mean? She was only the woman she was —poor Loisie! She could not force back the pitiful cry, ner check the hot tears that fell fast on the seal she broke, And this was what she read amid them---this the message she found within: “I cannot come to you to-night, Loisie; I cannot come to you at all, It is a strange thing to say to you, but it is true. There is only one way Ican explain it, for there is only one way I want you to believe it, dear You have heard of faithless lovers-——men who fall a prey to women, for whom they forget those they once loved, Think of me that way, Lowsie, No matter what others may tell you of me, remember what I told you; believe only what I say. So, after a little, T shall be only as dead to you. Is it cruel to say this to you? Al, there were crueler things—— But what matters it, Loisie, since I cannot come to you to-night, dear?! I cannot come to you at all.” This was what she read, bewilder- edly, wonderingly; only grasping of its mystery that he would not come— would not come to her to-night,” The strange, wild words were lost on her. At the second glance they faded out, leaving on the white page only this : *‘You have heard of faithless lovers —men who fall a prey to women, for whom they forgtt “those they once loved. Think of me that way.” The letter fell from Loisie' hand. She did not cry, she did not faint; only a vexed expression crossed her countenance, and then she looked up to the gay greens and holly with a laugh breaking from her lips, ‘It is cruel; but nO.illI I cannot help laughing in the joy of knowing it is not true, And ‘I will show Ralph Hare quickly how little his Jjests can sober me, 1 will go now where I know to find him. T will steal softly in, and—oh my pretty lover shall see which of us can play best pranks to-night.” With a new laugh—loudier merrier —Loisie hurried out of the little par- lor, out the door into the cold night and ran swiftly down the road. What she did she searcely knew-—nothing of what she meant to do, Her one I'night. | thought now was to find him—to find | hard night a night followed by long him, days of tliness, leading slowly down to 1t was different out i the ary | death, But death would not have her night, so different from the warmth, | and sho came back, foresd to take up the light, the Christias cheer within. [a burden all of life now left for her Poor Loise | How coldly the stars gloamed, how the mocking winds wag sod their tounges. AL, what was this | vision looming up-« torturous fiend in the dreary night A girl fairer than horself, clothed in o satin robe, with orange buds in her hair a face proud, triumphant, smiling down at her. With a_dispairing cry she turned and fled from it, but the lovely vision kept pace elose besido The rond led past the church; its boll was ringing mereily for some. fos tival within, In, away from her, fitted the white-robed tigure. Through the open door Loisie saw another join it--saw them go hand in hand to the altar, where she had so often fan- cied-— The bell ceased; Loisio started to tind herself alone on the church sward, save only the cold stars look- ing down. Just bayond she saw the lights of Ralph Hare's home. I will go there," she murmured, brokenly. I must find Ralph, and tell him he need not mind for me; that in a litle, little whilo 1 must be happy, knowing that ho 1s 0. On, almost eagerly now, she wont, through the gate and up the steps. The door was unlocked, mul she stepped softly in. It was a familiar house to Loisie. & bit on she hurried, round an angle, to Mother Hare's sitting room, She had generally a great awe for Mother little she cared now, only to see if Ralph were there. But she paused, suddenly paused, for the moment forgetting all things in what she saw and hoard. A bowed, white head, a sound of moanning, low but pitiful, floating through the open door, Mother Hare! What sad thing had come to her this Merry Christmas This Loisie's sole thought, sole care, moved by a quick, yearning sympathy, she went, with lushed steps, up to tho little table, and laid her hands on hers, The sobbing ceased. A face looked up, pale, agonized, suddenly to grow stern and harsh. “What do you want here, Loigio Grey?” The unconscious uestion brought all back to her; so sharply—all buck to hi ‘I —1 want to see Ralph?” she fal- tered. “I want to tell him that since he does not love me any longer, since he cannot —"" A bitter cry interrupted her, “Love you! 1If ouly my boy had never loved you, Louisie Grey! Oh, it is cruel, cruel of you to come and torture me! But for you I would not be a heart-broken muther; but for you my boy would never have stained his manhood with this base crime. ‘It was all for her—all for Loisio!’ he wrote. Is it a wonder that 1 hate you, girl——that I hoped never to sce your pretty face again?” What was Mother Hare saying! What did the strange words mean? Loisie did not know; she only realized that this women she so loved, for his sake, was turning from her, too--that she was fast losing the one ray of comfort lighting her poor life. With a_sudden, almost violent, mo- tion, she threw herself down, and seized the hand she drew away. *‘Mother, mother!” she cried. “you ought not to hate me; you ought to ibity me to-night. Do you know that Ralph is — untrue to me? No, you do not, you do mot, or you could not treat me so!” Something--a cry of agony, yeta laugh—burst from the poor mother's ips. ‘‘Untrue to you? Ah, if I only knew it, Loisie Grey, Listen to what he wrote: ‘It was all for her—all for Loisie. If I did not love her 8o en- tirely, I could never have done this % thing. T could not endure the thought of making her a poor man’s wife, and yet time passed and I was not getting rich. Temptation came. I said 1 could take this money, make a fortune s other men were doing, and replace it ero the theft was known. AndI took it! Yot low as I am to-day, mother, it does not aeem to me the dreadful thing it would if T had not done itall for Loisie.” Do you hear? Do you wonder that T hate you, Loise Grey?” No answer, only a strange light creeping into the upturned eyes. “You were neyer cruel, and yet you can look at me that way. Loisie, Loisie Grey, do you know where my boy is to-night’ ~In Stanford jail, un- der arrest for stealing money from his employers: in jail, awaiting trial. Do you know what that means, girl? Years, yeosrs behind a prison’s bars—a lot worse than death, aname eternally disgraced. Yes, I seé now—1I realizc; they have told yon, and 1t has made you mad. Poor child! poor littlo Loisie! Porhaps somo day 1 shall come to pity you; I only hate you now!” The head was bowed again. One moment Louise staid there still kneel- ing, lost to all thing but the great joy yes, the great joy in her heart, She aroso and went softly out —out again into the night, late so drear, now 8o bright, so beautiful. The stars smiled down serenely: ths winds play- ed only soft accompaniments to the gay song in her heart: “Heis true tome, true to me; truo for eternity,” That was all Loisie grasped of it. On she went on merrily past the little church, with a loud laugh, as she thought of the lovely maiden, with @ fresh heart-beat as she fancied the wedding she would soon make there; on, heedless in joy as 1n sorrow of the cold, cold night, till at last she stood again in the little parlor, looking up at the gay greens and holly with which her hands hands had decked it out. But presently recollection came, darkness fell upon her, and like one struck, she sank down on the hearth- h the maddening vision of the crumbling to dust around her, and all her life held fair and beautiful floating out with the Crist- mas tide, * “ * ¥ “*Christmas again,” It was Louise who spoke Louise sittingsin the littlo parlor, amid the gay greens and holly with which her hands had decked it out. The blink- ing candles, the same warmth and brightness; the same' fair face that neither time nor sorrow could steal away from her, Years have passed since that last, = = He was in prison; sentenced for three years, Sho learned by accident, from an old paper, what none were 8o cruel to tell. That moment she thought her brain would turn; but, no—mental darknees would not have hor. - There was 1o wseape from the burden anywhere, v help; no pity; nothing but to bear her burden —all of lifo now loft o her. the hard days passed to Loisie two long, suffering, dreary yoars. Suddenly, with the third year, & ray of light erept into the darkened life. Twelve months: twelve months only, and he would bo free! % How fair lifo grow with the days; how much brighter each sunvise thau the last! For he was coming, coming, surely coming hack to her. Despito it all, soon as the prison bars were lifted she knew Ralph Hare would come, Would it be to-night’ Would they grant him the fow hard days, and let him come to her this Christmas night, She had prayed it; in strong hope, 1 faith, she had decked out her little parlor, and sho sat now in tho warmth and brightness, and, with a smilo upon }u-]r face, looking up at the gay greens hol ristias again.” Looking up to speak absently, lost, lost in the growing faith that he would come, So lost that she did not hear the step without. Sho had no fancy of the wild eyes so close to the win- dow gazing in on her; no warning ot the exteaded arms, of the sudden step backward; no presentiment of the ter- ible strugglo the stars wero witness- ing. Nothing—until a hoarse voice broko in upon her blissful dreams. “Loisie, forgive me. I could not keop away from here,” She turned bowildoredly, She looked, and a faint cry burst trom her lips. Who was this standing bo- side her— this man, with the havgard face, the unkempt hair and dress! So like and so unlike, Was it could it be——o The vision held her spoll-bound, powerless, further to move or to spoak. **Loisie, T did not mean to come, I was going to say good-by to mother before 1 go away for good. But 1 v the lights. T looked in, and, d - knows, L hoit, but 1 o, 1 fought could not help hore. Do not look so I am going now. That night u the letter T was a mad- , I think; but 1had one clear, hought, and it was that I had rather you would think anything —anything—of me, than that I would disgrace you so. I am more a_mad- man now; but the thought how I have isgraced you is with me, asit has been through all the years, But 1 am going now, going forever away from you. Loisie, lLoisie, what is this! Youcannot, you must not How she did it Loisie will never know. She only knows that a great terror seizod her, and that, with her own weak hands, she drew Ralph Hare down besido her, and pillowed his head on her breast, “Oh, my love, think a minute, think a minute ! You will kill me if you leave me now.” nse Still wildly, frenziedly, her white arms clasped his neck. One little moment of ing terror, then she looked idly down to see the great light shining in his eyes to know that whatever should come to them in the future of weal or woe, naught but death and the grave could ever part them now. And a laugh never so joyous, so perfect, welled up from her soul as she whis- pered: ‘‘Merry Christmas, Ralph.” Ah, merry Christmas, Mother Hare! W coming white. A Friend in Need- Time over and again Tionas' EcLkc- itic O11, hus proved o salutary friend to the distressed. 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