Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1886, Page 5

"The New Y ¥ Our Novelties. In holiday goods consist of a vast nun cles in Mufllers, Silk andke Fur and Sealskin Caps, Night Robes in ¥l Lerchief effect pres of the or uumber of Oy Fine leather and ala make a very s A larg I 1y for tho Lol articles 130 ALL AL THE FESTAL DAY!| 1 and Youthful Toys | ping Wide, [ pre Devy of Blithesome Beantics agged and Baked for tho Oc- A Feast for Big te Ones caston and The Christmas Teoe Philacetphia News, 0, tho Christ- Tuas trea 0 bright and green, awaits. Ol Santa Claus, And the ohim- s all swept capes wide its vondorous jaws. The little skckings ara il bung up, and Gavy's just makes four. Won't Old Santa Clans bosurprised when he finds there 18 one more! Thero's clogant place upin the treo to hang Johnny’s gun, and s place for May und one 'for Kate to leave Ui dolls upon. Bt for littlo baby blne eyes o fower branch he must clioose, where she may reach and ind the plice he's hune her first new shoes, “Turn down the light a little, now, 80 Old Santa Claus can’t see. And baby andall must go to bed and be as good as good can be, and omorrow miorn gt up carly, after a long night's sleon, and com e softly down to the Xnas treo and 500 Who will got the first peep. Dr. Talmage on Christmas, Christmas bells ring l'unnle' reunions! The rail trains crowded with children coming home The poultry,fed as never since thoy born, stand” wonderi the farmer's gencrosity. The markets are full of massucred nyards, The great table will be spread and crowdoed with two or three or four generations. Plant the fork astride the breast bone, and with skillfnl twiteh, t wo could never learn, give to all the hungry lookers on’ & specimen of holiday anatomy. Florence is disposed to soar; give her the wing. Tho boy is fond of music; give him the drumstick, 'The min- ister is diming with you; give him the par- son’s nose. May the joy reach from grand- fatho ho1s so dreadfully old thathe can hard down to > high-chair, who, with ono smart pull of the table-oloth, upsets the gravy into tho eranberry. Send from your l:\ly{ portion to the table of the poor, some of the white me: weil 08 the dark, not confining your goncrosity to gizzards and seraps.. Do not, us in some familios, keep a plate and ehair for those who are dead and gone, Your holiday feast would bo but poor tare for them; they are at a better banquet in the skies, * Let the whole land be full of chime and carol. Let bells, silver and brazen, tako their sweetest voice, and all the towers of Christendom #ain music. His Christmas Gife, Bessie Chandley, It seems like a hundred years ago, That wo travelod once turough the drifted SDOW 'o meet round the Christins-tree. You were a child, with a fair, round face, And you hung on the troc, with a shy, sweet krace, Your Christmas presont for me "Twas a scarlet, beaded pinoushion heart, Birilliant aud shiny—a triwmph of &rt— With a bead vird on it—y dove— “I'was bought of & “squaw’ (Who spoko with u broguo), And you said in your note—dear little rogue— That you gavo it to mue with your love, Well, that little red Lieart lias been with me “Chrongh distant countries tur over the sen, Crossed river, mountain and luke, Though never'a pin buve its tough sldes Tnown, For the hear{ was as hard But L loved it for your sak "haraol's own, We'ro very much older and wiser now, We met with a formal word and bow, And many moro things we know s We don’t hang our hearls on tree Nor woar them either Is it better, I wond, The tree 13 laden wi And the colored are gl Aud the Christ-Child floats ubove But my hoped-for gift isn’t on tho tiee, Lwant a heart—will you give it e, As you did before, “with your love? Christmas and the Puritan VFore- hers. Harriett Proscott Spoftord: So much time indecd, had been spent and, in thoir Sicw, so mucn evi done inmaking merry ver Christmas and its attendent train of holidays, that forefathers felt i solemn duty to discontinue its obser and to take no other notico of th than to denounce everything associ with it, ‘Lhey were not of tho: would make & r their children by whe A peacock pie, the magnificent tail spread at one side, the head with iis crest protrade At the other and holding in the gilde beak a sop soaked 1 spivits and Sot on fire, a dish so sacr thiat oath could be ¥, laken on it, and that must he served, ac- pording to tiwe-gray enstom, only to the ehief guest, aud only by the lady of Tae with "~ music go Ing lefore all her damsels following atter. Nor this st all becyuse e to dinner, lied in & huge rehiefs, Neckwear, Gloves, Fin utiful ned Underwo ind Fine Hand- and bought ox- Any ¢ of hea ud newly a wnel, Canton Fl suitabl 1 alligator Traveling Bags ats and Suits, 't the ¢ ok they would not | thoy hud had a wilderness of pencoc or wonld these unco good peo descend to sec at a Christmas dinner the pi {stuffod with i shicos, soaked mered sherry, royal wild bour's Iy clent than the time then on g trum in imitation of ad, a dish moro an of Ivanhoe, served Id and silver, with flourish of | us beeame the king of the for- est. The went further; they would h no Christmas dinner at all, and in theie hatred of everything that bad once had part in what they esteemed popish wdolatry, they extended their horror of the afluir even to the traditional mince- pie, for no other reason than that it had been wont to belong to the day's feasting, to be called Christn i nd that s crust had originally been shaped to rep- resent a manger, aithough possibly every Puritan did not know that circumstance. A Symbol of tho Season, From the Yonkers Gazette, As birds to su nd wing their way in biithesome bevies and with sone, so from the gitt band, Chiristmas Day. tflow tokens that life's joys orolong. Tne sea- son’s sviubol, like acharim, wish and delight, is interlocking and t gifts the heart will warm but found within a stock- Time can destroy the the sweetcst joy a¢0 can bedim: but on lifo’s way all 1ove to pause each year y with Santa Claus, Tho' ds be bowed with welzhit of years andonward crowd ‘l ife's sadding cares, the mem'ry turns at Christmas tide in Erooves of child- hood joys to elide. *»* “Then Hang the stockins— great and small Our chimney- sprite wil know them alll e reads the wish in oevory mind and tries the wished-tor aye to find, Yes! fiang tho stocking-youns and old, Let Saint Nick's legend Le retold! Let old heads play the Christmas parts, whieh prove that naught can uge young hear ts! What to Give and How to Give It, Rules for giving Christmas presents, according to the San Francisco Chronicl Always give the girl who loyes you some- thing cheap. Some other follow who wants to win her issare to give her some- thing handsomer t you do, anyway, and you will suffer mparison what- ever you give, Sh pstimate your gift by the richr v aficeti She'll gange the other chitp by the v of his present, and it's two to one you'r left 1n any e Always cur send her anything us. peal to her ‘sentiment, 4 it every day she will forget all about you on the'th .‘ day out. Butif yougive her somcthing she” can only use ou exeep- tional oc ons she'll make as many coptional o she can and think kindly of s, white satin s a dude scarf-pm. He'll never wear it,but he will be tickled to death and he'll leaye you something in his will, if he's got no relations to vrove him insane posthu- n old lady somothing. She only enjoys the atlection and fecling that < with it, end old ladios ure the most eusily made happy and gratetul. They have no bout things like that, and they have reached that stage where they would give you back n pres it you might soll it and have fun with the inoney, but they will always cherish the memory that you gave it to'them, Lights on the © How came the | tree? asked a wi Muaguzine, and then as follow In the ninth month of the Jewish y corresponding nearly to our Docembe nd on the twentytifth day, the Jews lebrated the Feast of Dedication of their Tomple. It had been desercrated on that day by Antiochus; it was redodi- cated by Judas Maceabweus and then, ac- cording to the Jewish legend, suflicient oil was found in the temple to last for the seven-branched eandlestick for seven days, and it would have taken scven duys to prepare new oil. Accordingly the Jews were wont on the twenty-fifth of Kislen in every house to lighta candlo, and on the uext two and s0 till on the seventh and last day of the feast seven candles twinkled in dévery hou It is not eusy to fix the exact date of the nativity, but it teil, most probably,on t lust duy of Kislen, when every” Jowi house i Bethlehem and Jerusalom was twinkling with lights. It is worthy of no tice that the Germian name for Christmas is Weibnacht, the Night of Dedieation, as though it we wted with this feast Ihe iks also ¢ Christmas the Feast and indeed this was also en to the Dedication festivs , by the Jows. In every house the seven-nozaled lamp, von branched candlestick, symbol ized the seven-branched eaudlestiek in This latter was, moreover, nd cach lamp was like a flower on the troe. Many seyen-branched eandlest 210 use in the German churches in the middle ages; the most magnificent that remains is one in the cathedral of Kssen, dating from 1008, standing nenrly nine feet nigh. - Another isat Brunswick, stunding fouricen and a holf feot bigh stmas T ts on the Christinas in the Cornhill uswers the question e. 3 l& LChirtmas and the g THE OMAHA DAILY BER: FRIDAY, Our Bargains. For the holidag ud suits for s wo have bought an enormous lot of Overcoats, Pea Jacke nd men. Beginning with the Overconts, we are going to s for the holidays only, a number of chinchitla and beaver Overcoats for $4 and §6, that cannot be bought clsewhere for from $8, $10 and §15. The Pea Jackets wo sell for §2.60, are worth at loast §5, They are ALL WOOL AND FLANNEL LINED. A most suitable present would be one of our Jersoy Office Coats which bought for $3, $4.50 and 85.50, Underwear, we will scli f) it to $15. ne all wool worsted suit for $10, worth $15, 0, i be A Tic a o e A e e Many rs exist, The very beautitul iron work stand _of seven candles in Ieeland, mado in imitation of angelica leaves, Ho was told this was only lighted on Christmas eve o Milan is one of the thirteenth con- tury called the tree of the virgin, with four rivers ri ented as issuing from the base sil bad bLut three. A superb tree of seven branches was pres cented to Canterbury in the twelfth cen- tury; auother to Winchester by King Canute 1035, Anthony Beck, “bishop of Durham bequesthed “what scems to to have beon ono of silver gilt, with an image of the virgin and child atthe foot, to his cathedral. The Blessed Virgin takes the place of the Norse Hertha by the well or spring. A seven branched candlestick remains at Litehfield; seve remain_in France, at 1 A Tours. Vienna. yLhey wore placed entrance to the choir, and were certainly lighted at the midnight mass on Christ- mas ove, ns the Paschan candlo lighted at Baster, ot Songs of Love, Whiltier waters, writer saw a Sound over all out from all lands, The chorus of vojce Sing hymns that were the morn, sping of sung by the when Christmas ilints. t until yon can eatch L nnder the vustletoe bough. ' wherever you find hor. Lo filling up her stockin uot to “‘put your foot in it. A ton of coal and barrel of flour would 1ot be too much for many stock ings. A shapety foot, notto go any ferther, is about us neata thing as can be put into a stocking. The stocking that contains a pair of diamond e: not give any wore happiness than one with s tn rat- tle, Some people think that their stocking ould ook about vight if stufled with a skin cloak and a sable mufl, Don’t hang up any long red stockings this Christn Krise Kringle may not mind them, but there is a possibility that the man of the house may come home slightly befuddled and mistaking them for n five, alarm tho entire neighbor- hood. Among the Norwogian it is & super- stitton that if a tur is killed on Christ- mas day something terrible will happen. Among Awericans it is believed some thing ternible will happen if a turkey 1s not killed on Christmos day or there- abouts, “This will be a green Christmas for the girl whose sister car off the sealskin sacque palm, as it were, She'll be green with envy. your Kiss have a care Krix Rringle's Visit. 0 daslies on in sleet aind snow, bears and elieoks a ruddy glo, With whoop and shout and merry ji Goud folks, look out, 'tis old Kris Kringle. & Tis cap Lie raises with a shout, His beard and hair blow all about, Ho stamps his feet and snaps his i For notan instant can he linger. He eracks s whin, now left, now rizht, ‘Phie reindeer speed with all their might, A willion stockings must be filled, And not a single toy be spilled. Look out now-—there's a sled broke loose, And there's adoll caught in a noose — Now hasten, hasten fvers on, Or soon werll §¢6 the tisiig sun. Now, first go thro ow slreet; Vel eive the ififbon '3 et i ear, at least, Ul sco X b i chil TS Hartford Post: They were sitting by L el apy;be- the fire, Job Sttt and his wite, The children had gone to bed and the subjeet of Christmas presents were under dis- cussion, S1 suppo od M of sk w L “Phiere, halt! Tow hizh this chimuey is! "T'is well Lunderstand my biz, For never mortal saw before Jack wants a sled,” sug- Shuttle, “und Jennie wants tes,” ¥ hink the sled. should go to Jennic and the skates to Jack, id Job. “Whny not give us both sleds and ounded a piping voice from the bedroom. n't have a solitary thing at all,” said Job excitedly. But they will. Every burean drawer in the house” is chock tull of truck for the children. STENY A Christmas Chorus. Lec C, Havby, in Brookiyn Maguzine, away o'er hill and dale, nd moon begin to pale, Kringle will not wait—' likes her breakfast late, A She nevel The A French Ver izht Before Christmas. o of Clement C. Moore's Famous Holiday Pocm. It was Christmas during the night, when not a being down to a mouse wus promenading itself throughout the whole of the mansion, The stockings be- low the mantel-piece had been suspended carefully, in the hopes that Saint I Nicholas would render his visit with | Now titl up #hur glasses of champagne and speed. The infants had retived them- sherty (i 3 i - ¢ |, And turn o the bumper of esgnog again; selves to their couclics, and all of [ qyie'ficst stroko of midnight muct Nud us ol them were exceedingly comfortablo, dur- merry, i ing which periods some drcams of the [ Andthis bé th confectionery made s dance within then Ol I Christmns is hote, heads. The mother with her handker. The bext of the yea vhivlfiml1m_s‘wlih:mm;‘l»muc«l wy cap | We'll mi-vlru with love,” as each heart had that montent arranged our brains m deeroo— tho condition of a slee; of the lingtly HEsemayalldcken winter, and an excitement o groat [ g 11,0 joy bells thal Tiug Ih the yeuw’s jubi- mado " 1tsolf to be hoard ousade | VLY J0p bells tiad riuk in” the yew's jubi within tho court vard, that from the bottom of my bed [made aspring in order to o riain to .nyn-l‘i |]h|- Cinse J'l'n the window flash of Tightning [ myself Al . shot, tho shutters pushed with violence | Which musical cadences markfor their extreme, and the framowork raised, The | 110 mane of tho moon, down upon the bosom of the snow pleasure, now fullen, fmparted a brightness of the | Aud adds its own broad day below the objects, whoeu before swoe 5, lost in the astouishment, U1 Sleigh and enght 3 L with an aged conchmin small, very animated, very this man. ‘I knew it at once, must Saint Nick, Than the eaglets s gr deal more rapidly his stecds advanced themselves; he mentioued how they were called, with & whising, a cryi Pusier-on! Waltzer! Riser-Uy Two-Hind-Feet! Termagant! Come now! Make yourself to go on'to the roof of the pinzza, to the portion of the fence tho most eleyated! Be in a bhurry, be ina harry!”" As the withered leaves impe: eyclone make for the height the pa in the same manner the reindeer the ridge of the mansion as- conded with celerity, bearing with them thesleigh of playthings full, Szint Nich olas with them going also. ¥ K in the time it takes one's oye to be winked, upon the roof I discovercd of ench small hoof the serape, the zambol also As my head 16 the interior of the apart ment Lhad brought, and was of myself making the turn, St. Ni himsclf down into the fi chimneys. From his head even down to Ius feet in the fur he was clothed, and upon him the ashes and soot 5 a tarnisiung him; on his ok u greatavundance of the playthings ad Cast, and, m fact, the resemblance him to' s peddler 'was very close His eyes blinked; he possessed joyous dimpl His cheeks were of the ros his nose possessed the appenrance of a cherry! MHissmall mouth wus puckered un us the bow; his beard wus | suzgesting . simlarity to the et pipe, of which the smoke | rlanded Ins head, was between his He possessed broad vis; ir stomach,also, When he 1 the latter was tated as the jelly which is placed in the howl. Round, corpulent, | excessively hilarous, he cansed me to | burat out laughing in spite of my serious efforts the wmvuf of myself. His winking eye and twisting head immed- intely gave we to know he was harmic Silently he inauguratea bis task, fillng with pluythings the stockings; then he himself turned, alongside of his nose Ins ger placed sud, giving 1o me of polite ness the salutation, ugwia the chimoey Within his sleigh he es - tling, aud as a £ flew his wam, evertheless, I heard him exeluim. im: mediately in the advance of his driving | afar offt “To everybody the Huoppy o ighy ! cliorus that marks the Let beauty and gayety trip to the measure dance wellspring of to this is a charm al Christmas is here, ¢ best of the year! Then nail it with jolity, greet it For pulses aré Deating And warm hands are meeting, === thytinn of lusic the senses entiancol with dance, be | v . Of feasting and plenty “iis fitly th 8o give to the indigent part of your stor Tor e who withholds it, does ctirity treason And fails in his duty--to think of ‘the poor, O L Chiristmas is hore, “Ihe best of the year- y that we love and an era of glee; “Phe gloom elouds shall lizhten From hearts ns we brighten of the needy with gifts full aud The « d in hte mselves to the sky's Fhsho i v, A toast Wish for the Christus itin gladuess e to Ro0dw May the sunshine of sadness, And life for our'quafiing, its choice distil O tide! drink the world, unto all men tjoy plerce the shadows wines istius is here, yoar, ‘The season of merriment, charity Such mem'ries entwin Eacl b Awid the aff strong! L song it, art shail gnshrine'it s wlhich grow green and Origin of a Popular Ousto In the good old times the custom of YR mistletoe™ was very quaintly Every berry on il mistletoe bough hung in the center of the hall entitled a youn dlant o a kiss from any member « fair sex who passed beneath 1t After exacting the penalty from the maiden he had to pluck a berry tom the hough and hand’ it to her as n peace offering. To be strictiy correct the young lady then had to throw the berry on to tic burning yule log in the open grate and decide by the timne it took in crucking her luck during the ensuing year Nowadays the custows has been | shorn of ali its formalities, but the lead. g feature of it has not been forgotton or abanaoned, Scores of legends abound ak to the origin of the custom, one of the quaintest of which is worth recording i\ priuce of royal blood and of fin physique got separated from his com- | anions while out hunting. He wua- dered through the woods and at mght ar rived at an oud rained ca He knocked at the gate and having satistiod the watch wan that Lo was not a robber or a dan gerons character, was allowed to enter he only inmutes of the eastle was hideous cld baron und bis lovely daugh | tor Ze; 4 t himself, wi DECEMBER 24, 1 AYS, HOLIDAYS, HOL! Our Stock Our stock I the peoplo. Being entirely now s stock of ds in the city so des! Saits, Undorwear, gloves, Hat Overcoats, Suits and Furnishi lected f goods can make th The Ne nd mad oods m The welecome accorded to the we was not of the moet_onthusiast ter, and when in the morn ne well-worded compliments o the baron's duughter he wus seized rudely by comm ivate parent and | turned ¢ astle. e wandered wbout for lays, and when almost 1 from fatigue and hungry, oncoun La fairy, to whom he told dven She informed him that if he turned to the eastle armoed with @ mis tlctoe bough the power of the baron ladylove would cense and he could win her with a kiss, But the bou must be plucked from a hollow o ing by the side of a stroam,on the opposite bank of which stood a weeping willow with all its leaves torn oft save two. For weeks the love-sick prince searched for this particular oak, but without sucecss At last he fel' asleep one night under an oak tree, and when he woke in the morn- ing ho obsorved to lus surprise a rivalet just at his fect and a weeping willow on the opposite bank which answered ex- actly the deseription. He speedily | climbed the tree, plucked a bough of mistletos which grew at its summit, re- ired to the castle and won his bride st A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY. By Julic D Whitin n the Springfeld, (Mass.) prblican. Last year, while taking n horseback vide throngh a scetion of asouthern state made desolate by the war, I chanced one afternoon just at twilight on what once had been a stately avenue, and 1 wondered at the negleet now visible, still more, as Lidly traced it, it opened upon a lawn where stood an imposing mansion. I he od to approach it, and waited underneath the trees, thinking to accost some servant, and ask tho namo of its owner. No scrvant appeared, and, as [ waited in tho gathering gloom, I felt something uncanny about the place: ‘I'hat said, a8 vlain as whisper in the ear, “I'he pliice is huunted I Almost fearful yet desirous to s mystery, Lrode up to the veranda that shaded the front of the lower stor then perceived how fallen to decay The steps that had led from it we gone, whue the heavy door that opened into the onee hospitable hall sagged upon its rusty hinges and_ stood halt opon, a t pile of acad leaves choking the entrance; and now I observed the vroken panes i the long French windows. Oppressed by the silent influence of the place and half ushamed of my tears, I turned away und sought the highroad. Remaining in - the neighborhood for some days, [ visited the deserted mansion again, and wondered muech why this house, onee so delightful, and even now inits decny so full of churm, 1 been doscrted. While I' questioned it for an answer itssilence denied me, I forborg to sk those that might ve told me, lest the mystery might be violently dissolyed. But'one day, riding in a new direction, chance brought me 1o a house where an old lady sat on the porch, oceupied only with her thoughts it would seem, as her ay idly in her lap, and she ‘started | ldressed her. Asking her my wiy she answered courteonsly, id 1y about to take my leave, when the thought struck me that here,if uny where, 1 should rof the deserted house. So I said 1 you tell me the history of that lonely honse that stands in the grove of of live-oaks on the Ghent roady'” She gave nsharp glance, ns she an ed:” *“No one knows ns well ns 1 Why do you ask? Leave it to itself,” 1 «d her Thad none but o tray terest, and, at length she told me its history. Buot first, she turned tow the opon door, she cailed *Zoo!” threc four times, and on n smart colored appearing ordered her to fetch wine, As she appe un with decanter and glass the old Tady poured wine for me lierself, and we drank with groeat cere mony. Desiring me to be seated she be gan ber tale, preluding it with “*If [ s not mistaken you own other blood than iglish, ‘There is mixture of (e fic French with your cooi xony" 1 assured her th was right was proud to number among my ance some from “fair Proven se,” CIprevails with you, young man, and you will sym in'the passions that wade this vossible. It was long ago vs ago thatithappencd, Iwas'n young girl, aud & beauly, sir, with youn, iLs at my eall, ahme! | “That honse is the old Grantley house and Lucille Grantley, my dear cousin, was the only ehild and heir, Wo were of an age, and fondly attached. How ean | ibe my beautiful cousin! How paint her clarm! The Grantleys on the mother's side were of Freneh origm, and to thut ghe owed her graceful form, tiery wnee, and dark, sowing check; but,— Took,' said the old lady handing me o lockit, g on witl description, while ' | 1 at the pictured fuce within It was indeed a magnificently beauti ful hat met my In the somber yet fiery eye there shown the ility of uny fute. ‘The hair was Pt away from 1 in riel curis, and the deli cate uqguiline nose, weiting lips Ive the ¥ bo i rose tinted cheeks mude avision 1o chiarm one In gazing at the miniatare, I had lost what the old lady w suyin I look up to anologize, but she cxeused e, ing: “No one could zaze on Luc think of aught cls - not Ab well ““Lucille hud many suitors, among them Dick Floyd, and my own_ dear brother Hugh. [ knew Lucille's heart, and had long known that her afiection was givea to Floyd, That socret was buried in my breast, —not even to Lucille I brenthie my knowlodge. | have that we wire cousin tations joined, our fam ies were in | able to choc and Caps, Tios ot | Fioyd. Th weon in sueh o splendid condition to me rossly for o from, Shirt mple 1o ox Tho stocks of Overcoats, Childeens' and Boys' e 1 snow as & large, woll se- mas we kept the day at the Grantle and Mrs, Grantley gave o ball, Many beantiful girl and gay gallant woro thire that 1 that now lie in their g a id sad like me! After diy Is went up stairs to d und, bo- me ready ti ran_across the corridor to Lucille's v Never had Lseen her look so by fut; Llittlo thought 1t was the last time! Her simplo wiite gown, with no ornament saving a greal d mond oross, a family jewel, that b 1 upon her throat, well 1 e her sump- tuous beauty Ah, Lucille,’ I eried, ‘How exquisite! There's muny a'heart will ache to-nightt’ und 1 whispered in ber ear, ‘You look like a bridc ** ‘Hush, you silly ‘But I wish'to look by Dest to-night.’ “Why, Floyd would admite you homespun, ' 1 said. * *Hush, don't bLreath his name. My mother —' s sho spoke Mrs, Grantley appeared at the door to hasten us down stair “My cousin fed the dancoe with my brother Hugh, and never had she queencd ftwmore royally. Al the young men looked after them with envious eyes and Hugh scemed in a transport. As they swept past me in the dance 1 heard Hugh mhisper, ‘Wonld that this might last for. ever! T would ask no better beaven than to bo forever by your site.’ I saw her smile in_answer, “and mnrked the glad light spring into Hugh's eye, and pittied ::gm for the disappointment in store for iim, “The hours flew by, 1 was sought by many, and_listening’ to the words of complimer:t, and whirling down the long hall “in the waltz, I had not marked the absence of Lucille, until, rest- ing after a dance, while my tner went to fetch me o glass of wine, 1 became aware of a sudden excitement in the room, and [ overheard a neighbor, Mrs, Stanley, saymg to a friend, ‘Why, she lias been gone for the three 'last danco and M wtley has disappeared als “When my partner returned 1 asked him for an explanation, but ho could only tell me that there scemed to be a fecling that something was wrong. Lowever, the band struck up, and all innecing, when all at once the musi , and all was confusion. Every eve wus turned toward the door, and there appearcd Mrs, Grantley holding Lucille’s hand tightly in her own, bot mother #nd danghter palo ns “For an instant I caught L She looked away and shuddered! “Mrs. Grantley led her daughter into the midst of the hushed assembly-—-then, cleasing her with a gesture that looked like renouncement, she turned (o Floyd, who had elosely followed their footsteps. 1 ng him to Lucille’s side, she turnca to the gucsts, and said *‘Is there not a clergyman here®” and her eye songht among the crowd, while from Lucilic’s lips there breathed a mur- wur of ‘Bo merciful!’ “Unheeding this interruption, Mrs, Grantley said m a distant, hard vol £ think I numbe Mr. In, among tho friends asked to spend ristr night with us? As she spoke a servant eame in from the library, with the gentlemnan, *Come here, if you please, Mr. Ingalls,—your services are r (." While the clérgy 1 was erossing the anticy imed, girl, said Lucille wor cease lder wo grow duli invention, but *n often pr surprises for us. My daughter, I flnd, with & wave of the hand inler direction, ‘with the help of our young friend, My Floyd, had arranged a marriage, to make the festivitios more joyous!' “Moth id Lucitle, imploringly, Mrs. Granticy went on, unhecdin pecral occasions all should bo ir ctuded in the enjoyment of the house, and I have prevailed on these foolish young veoplo to sharo. their pleasure with Tis. Procced with the ceremony, Mr. Ingalls.’ *Ahem!'said the o d clergy n, “Ihis 1s quite hardly to-- “‘Donot I glve it n Larr ivregular, 1 wy sanetion? Pray , Mr, Ingalls began the mid & breathle silence. All eyes were fixed upon the ex waordinary group. It scemed much more like & burial than a marriage, and there was a horror over t mbly tl seemead to fix all in their v When it wis over and the mumster stepped away from the newdy wedded puir, ther wag i stir of uncertainty, b know whether to wish them joy. irs. Grantley, still in that icy voice, £aid, ‘Are there none then to congratu late the bridey “Mother!” eried Lueille, she would fail upon Ler n. me! Give n 1 blessing Her mother repelled herand said, “You spoil the play by b iaprovised speeches. Forgivel not set down inmy purt." Floyd now for e first time the hand he On me the spoke Mrs for Grantley pansed vords, then her fury Ll ¢is over—I hu no further wish for yon! Farewell, Mrs Floyd!—Lucy—she éalied her maid, who stoog with the ot cervants in the door way eying the scene, “Pray fetch your ng mistress’ wrips for it s cold and Mot broke sur Yo peaple ta © boat There was ot threw herself at he with s0bs and ¢ Her mot while a dr O way und said bt her ) ul smile i cn she “Enough of for for u upon nnined b ew ler thie It Giet fricnds now ea Iped 1o L while other remonstarted w ne for from my il them Mrs ( the floor mother ristmas hol 8, ROW with Lt Obrist- )it of pending the th the Grantl yours alteruated. ley: she ha is s W have punisiied her if murmured | | my att b S—— ork and Omaha Clothing Co., Our Present never before ¢ are now doing,that ) cle that is not trash . We give to those who buy $ \ or oo, & gold Lioaded cane, that s viled at I'nis is something thut you will not be given every day and you sho go of it. Something which has been done n ar and wort (ke advanta b no daught not know with much y Mra, 0 house with an*Aun revoir!' an pered ins il!ih’h-n\ to her old butler; who followed his young mistross down the walk, s wo afterward learned, with_instructions not to lose sight of them until the boavded the boat.” “What a horrible scene ing for the first time, *Do you eall this horriblo?™ said the old lady, ““T'hat was nothing to whak followed, Don't interrupt we, listen!" “We returnod to the parlor, to wondor and surmise on tho aiair, whilo Mrs. ntloy shut hovself up in' the library. rom ono ot the sorvants we lourned thag Mus. Grantley had comwe upon the lov in the conservatory, and had heard ¥loy n i Lucille consent to an elopo- nd had taken this way to avengs herself. A poor revenge, you think? ,h was, indeed, and recoiled upon herself. “The tragedy of that nizht was but bo- A half-hour passed, and the guests 1 to ship away, when the old hutler burst into the room, and rushing up to my mothor, exclaimed, “My God! Mig® layton, who's gwine to toll missis? Iv'll kil her sholy ! What hag Lell her what, happ. Mars' Floyd, lm’ the landin't Hol wh aid 1, speak- Roberty “'Miss Lucillo dead, down yand of 'cm! “There aros exclamations, to which “I'his gwine Kill Misses poor chile alone thi ‘1t cold outsido, 5o de down on the landin’, ti Miss cryin’ and Mars' Floyd tryin' 1o comfort her. Mars' Floyd hear noise outside, and say he guess boat comin® and he g0 out,—then we hear him speakin with some one, tirst low sike, then louder, —and Mies say, ‘Mo’ trouble!' and she open the door,—and I hear her suy ‘Nol No! You shall not hurt him!” und den £ hear a shot, and den another, and a seream,—-and a fall—and den I run out, and dere dey lios! with the blood runnin on her white dress! an' I ise ‘em, bus they bof gono—dead bof of ‘em! **Who's dead?' demanded a terrible voice=-Mrs, Grantley stood in the door, She was answered by the tramp of foek without,—the door opened, and men brought' in, on an 1mprovisea bier, the bodies of Lucille and Floyd! “With a shriek that still rings in m saw all in one swift her nands in frantio forward over | Fhey run to lift her up s dead | d on New Year's day. s of Lucille and hor bridegrooin anstigured with immortil hap- pines, She was buried in the dress she wore that fatal night, n eloud of luce cov- ered the ominous stain over that stll Leart! Mrs. Grantley's features, frozen marble stillness, yet wore that look of horror with which she died. The t e buried, and silence fell upon t house, once so full of hfs and ety:silence fell upon their history, It scemed strange to me, who knew bt too well—but no one guessed the murderar's name. I knew “The old lady paused, and wrung her hands agit the teagedy she told was Tresh, After a few moments” she colleeted hers self and resumed “Why should I conceal it longer? He must be beyond reach of reprisal long ago. It wis my brother! My poor brother! When I, at last, reached my oo that droadful night, 1 found o, m pillow a note, Half beside m_\wll,{ locked my door, and read that” Hugh, maddencd by lis'passion for Lucille, hid followed thim to the boat landing, and when Floyid eamne out to listen for the boat taunted and stung him to the quick, His rage partly satislicd he would have left the spot; but when Lucitle sppeared and hung upon her husband’s arm, it drove him beside himself, and he fired-— to see Lucille throw herself between her husband and harm, and then received the second shot! Hugh, so the ietter ran, not during to sos what he had done, fled trom the spot, and reachi home, how he knew not, had gathered togetier what money was at hand, penned the confess sion, und throwing himscli on a fleot horvse, was miles away as 1 read. He onlied himself her” murderer, and charzed me not to seek him “What could Ido but bury the scorot m-omy heart, and wonder, and mourn, with the rest, over Hugi's disappear— n It wus Laid to his grief at Locille's cath, and yeurs passcd, and he did not return, it was supposed that he had met death in- some soltude—und 80 ib may be—no word his cver come to me Hore the ol lady paused so long that it length [yenturcd 10 sk why the house was left to Well th th b of Luci and ey y vanished from the earth d, the esta rted 1o th Ansion 10 fall to 108t story has been told and of shricks and hort answered, 1f she lof thab rhappened! went in de shed tho boat comey glance, threw up appeal, and sank daughfer's body. but she “The The f secmod t ruin, of And 50 ended the story of a Christing 1 wish my readers could haye scen the old lady that told it. As she pro- ceeded with her nurration her bent form ew more ercet, a flush rose in her faded cleek, her eyes grew bright, and 1 saw, for the time, the beauty of long ago. A# the story ended, she rélapsed once more to d n | ! me wod day ution that defie i's to bupiove