Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1889, Page 3

OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22 ADDITIONAL HOLIDAY SPORTS Attrac ive Programme ranged for Christmas Night. BURKETTS DOWN THE PERRIGOS. An Ar- Bunday Pastime on the Island—Dad Goes Home to Meet Kris Kingles and Varions Other Matters. Christmas Nigh t the Coliseum. Manager Prince has prepared an elaborate programme for the Coliseum Christmas night, sufticient to furnish sport and ploasure for the thousands, First on the evening's card will be & threo-milo race on roller skates, free-for-all, followed by a similar bicycle chase, Then follows the rogular championship pclo game between the Omaha Guards and the Miliards, after which the big building will be given up to a grand fancy dress carnival. The best of music will be in_nttendanco, refreshments within the building, nud everything done to insure the comfort, convenience and pleasuro of all who choose to spend the evening there, The Javeniles Plag Again The sebond championship game of the Juvenilo Polo league was, playea yesterday afternoon at the Colisenm, Owing to the failura of the Council Bluffs team, the Burketts took their place, bomg pitted against the Porvigos. The positions of the two teams woro as follows: Burketts, Searle, first rush; Haskell, sccond; Christian, goal tend; Weller, haif-b and Alexander, center. Porrigos’, Search, first rush:Wertz, ond, Leoder, gonl tend ;' Pixlay, balf-back and Willis conter. The' Burkelts, ufter a brilliant ight, won the gams by the score of 4wl Sunday on the Island, ‘The delectable_ precinets of Cut-Off island will be the theater of a cocking wain and dog fight this afternoon. The cocking main ‘will bo a shake bag affair and consist of five fights, for §20 a side on each fight and 50 on the main, The canine conflict will be be- tween one Peto Begle's forty pound dog, Major, aud an unknown purp from South Omaba. Will Hane Up His Sock. Dad Clarke, failing in his laudible ambi- tion t0 secure tho presidency of the Union Paciflc railroad for the winter, left for his home in Oswego, N. Y., last night to hang up his sock for' Cnristmas morn. If Dad gets his sock full of coal ho'll have enough 0 last him vill bail season opens, nay how. Onam, Dee, 21.—([To the Editor of Tue Bee]—The building of a few grain elevators in Omaha will cause a marked change in business cles and @& vast beuefit to the farmers of Nebraska and adjoining states. It will produce the same effect in its line that the packing interests of South Omalia have wrought in the cattle and hog raising Budustries ofthe west The effects of the in- vestment at South Omaha has been the cre- ation of a great market at home, maving thousands upon thousands of dollars to the farmer and the consumer, In addition it has built up a thriving city of nearly fourteen thousand people, where vo city had a pre- vious existence. Besides, it hus had the tendency to localize capital, and keep it av home, u8 well as attracting additional capital for other investments. With little or no storage capacity in Omaha, the railroads are unable to move the ruin to the distant markets of Chicago, St. Louis and the east, and with the farmers dumping the corn on the ground in conse- quence thereof, the present situation is little less than scandalous and calls loudiy for im- mediate remedy. While it is true, grain el- evators will not build a eity exclusiuely, -the concentration of twenty to thirty million busbels at Omaha yearly will add tremen- dously to the importance of our city, muot only 8@s 8 business cen- ter, but as @& metropolis. The eyes of the country will bo literally turned this way and thc - aggregation of capital centralizing here to move the crops will add Jargely to our position in monetary and financial cireles. Twelve of these great storehouses will add at least 6,000 people to the population of Omaba. Their cost will be anywhere from £1.200,000 to £1,800,000, or say #125,000 each. With yearly receipts at 50,000,000 bushels, at & Atorige charge of not over 3 cents per bushel, the revenue would pmount to $600,- 000, or at least 40 per cent, on the invest- ment, exclusiveof other ways to make money with which grain and elevator men are familiar, This city has the best of locations, vizi The river- front, tne Union Pacific, Burlington, Elkhorn valley railroad tracks and the belt line with all of its conveniences * where these groat structures cau be buit, At any rate the coming year should provide sowme rewedy to the present situation, Miss Cotter's Great Painting, Miss Magaie Cotter of this city has just comploted a painting that wus bung in the Elks club room yesterday which would do credit to any one of the old masters, **Mon- arch of the Forest" is her chiet subject, but everytning in tho work except this shows entire originality of design, as well as clever conception, The central figure, nfe size, 18 ropresented in an attitude of alarm and stands out so balily on the canvas as o im- press the observer at once with the masterly +skill and tine exccution of the artist, while its surroundings form o sceno at onco lnter- esting and full of study. The landscap: owing rugged wountains, their pea rouded in misty clouds, supply the back~ § ound, and lend berfect harmony to tho arker colors of the animul and shrubbery of the foreground, Miss Cotter has shown excellent taste and the work ranks hor among the finest o1l painters in the country, She has turned out & 5”“ many small pic- tures, some of which do her immeasureable credit, but this 1s the young lady's master- pioce,’ and she has every reeson to be proud of it. Miss Cotter arrived av home yester- dey from Davenport, la., whero she is at- tonding the schoo! of the Immaculats Can- ception, to spend the holidays, She will graduate next June. —— The Theatres, The Pear] of Pekin, which is undoubtedly Rice & Dixoy's most moritorious production, will be seen at Boyd's opera hiouse Christmas matinee and night, also Thursday night. ‘Che opera is originat, brilliant and elaborate in every sense of the word. The music is mainly by Lecoeq, though some of the gems are by Herbe and Mr, Gustave Kerker, a wvory clever composer, who bas written sev- eral delicious bits for this work. If the worked can be nuwed as velonging to any school, it would be that of the ‘*Mikado,” which of course 18 suggested by the fact that tho secne passes in Chwna. The Peart of Pelon way be safely termed one of the brightestof comic operas that this country has seen 1 many years, Its humor bubbles sud sparkles throughout, its costumes ght- ter, its music is always charming and melo- dious, ana with the prince of comediaus, Mr. Louis Harrison, and the numerous and ex- collent surrounding coterie of artists, in it entirety, as it will be seen here, it shoula Prove to be oue of the most brilliaat eveuts of the scason, “Held by the Evemy,” William Gillette's excellent ‘war drama, which is to be pro- sented at the Boyd un ay anl s-nlrdug of this weei, deals with a subject in whici the American peopls are bound to have @ dufl and lasting interest. Like sll of Mr, Glllotte's plays there is delightful vein of sentiment, as well as of humor, running through it, and it tions, The end of the fourth act has no superior iu strength in the whole realm of the A rams, and thro ing story of love aud loy: action taker pisce in the south aud in & city wfldw Federal troops, Ao aunt and LWO nieces ure left aloue, the wen having gone out to the war. They of course are southern ladies, and loyal as the women of the #outh were 10 the cause of the confederacy. abounds fu strong situa- | A case of love develops between one of the young ladies and & colonel in the Federal army, The young lady is, however, engaged to her cousin, a confederats sby, who is captured by her Yankee lover while attempt- ing to visit_ hor. The company engaged to present the piece here is an unusuallystrong one. "“The Kerry Gow witl ita pigeons, black smith shop, and prison scenes, will be pre- sented by Joseph Murphy tonight atthe Grand opera house, This is one of Mr. Muar- phy's most enjoyable plays and should in- sure a full house, The usual Suuday night popular prices will provail. To laueh, to fairly roar with laughter, in this swift, carc-burdened time of ours is the prime necessity and not the reigning fad. No pevpio are the unconsci possessers of 8o supremely heartfeit powers of mirth making as the irish people, aud when an nctor can embody in his work the heart of Irish com- edy, that person is one among ten thousand. In'no case in the history of the American stage are theso facts so strikingly evident as in the rollicking,- puro, whole-souled Irish farce called “McCarthy's Mishaps,” which will be prosented at the Grand this week commencing Monday evening, 1t embodios refinoment in the highest degree und is charming in all that tho word weans from hirat to last. “McCarthy's Mishaps” 18 one of tho most superdb laugh-making shows now on the boards. Tomorrow evening Milton and Dollie Nobles will appear at the Boyd in their first ard groatost succoss, **Tho Pumnix,” which they have been playing succossfully for Af- teon yoars. “Nym Crinkle’ the ablo aramatic writer for the Norfollk Mirror, says of “The Phwnix: After seeing all of the modern melo-dramas, native and imported, I come back to tho old *“Phmnix” with & sense of reliof. It {8 incomparaoly the best of the lot, There is something indescribably “eatching” in the play and the chiof player. Year after year 1 find mysclf laughing atthe quaint, curious comicalities of the contrib- utor to the *Chambermmd’s Own,” wildly applanding tho incomparable fire scene, or holding my breath during the painful still- ness of tho gambling scone, and stamping vociferous approval of the well known eli- max. In looking at the play last night for about the twentieth time, I tried to analyze it, to discover the secret of lomgevity and vitality. 1 bad neariy given it up when the solution presented itself. Nobles is a gonius, It must beso, Here is a play with nothing, save the story writing incident, to relieve 1t of commonplace sensationalism, and-yer for yoars it has been stoadily Rrow- ing in popular favor, although advertised by the most legitimate and conservative meth- ods, ungil today it 19 recognized us ono of th o surest drawing cards on the road. It is the mau, 1ot the play. One of the best ehows ever placed on the boards at the n Musee will bo at thut popular resort the coming week. ‘I he man- agement has spared no pamns to have first. class Christmas attractions and a pleasant hour can be spent there. Foremost among the attractions is Lulu Hurst, the electric girl, whose strange powerg seem to be awe- mspiring, Miss Hurst possesses such a force of electricity or magnetism that by simply placing her finzer tips on an article into the air. Strong men cacnot resist her force and power aud with the greatest ease she can move them about thestage, Besides this Del Fungo, the living salamander and fire euter, whose feuts are wonderful in the extrem he Memphis students in a mus- lcal comedy present the life of a darky in the cotton fields of the south, Theirsuyings are Bright and crisp, monial Agency,” a farcical sketch ns rendered by Willis and Barron is replete with merriment aund would entertain an undertaker off duty. ‘The pauper children of the city will be en- tertained this week by this popular resort free of charge, hoping thereby to cast at least a ray of sunshive into their hves, Great preparations have been made for the Omaba Guards’ benefit, which 18 booked at the Boyd for Luesday evening next. There will be o great minstrel first part, with an array of burnt cork artists that would make Thatcher or Dockstader green with envy. ‘Then there will be drills, solos, quarlettes, dances and an_ elaborate presentation of *Qolub, or the Brigands in Clover,” which is guaranteed to duzzie or thrill any au- dience. In short, the bill is a great one, and an immense house will be a matier of course, Secats on sule ut Meinberg'’s, T THOUSAND sUBSCRIBE ). Firat Step of the IKeal Estat> Ex- change to Secure Factories, Tho room of the real estate exchange was crowded to the doors at the session yesterday by representative citizens to hear the propo- sitions that had been made by two manufact- urers who desire to locate in Omaha. Mr. Wells, the auctioneer of the exchange, was reported sick aud the regulur Saturday sale ot auction properties was postooned for a week. Theexchange resolved itself into a citizens' mecting for the purpose of re- ceiving the propositions from the manu- facturers, Mr. D, J. O'Donohue, the momber of the exchange who wvisited Lynn and Boston in the search of manufacturing cnterprises, mada a report. They hall found, ho said, committees from every city in New Eungland, m Lynn and Boston, offering inducements greater than Owaha could afford. The com- mittes went to New York aud Pittsburg and had conferences with the companies that have made propositions to Omuba. The first establishment is ‘s prosperous knitting fac- tory, manufacturing all Kinds of hosiery and knit goods which wants to start a factory in Omaha to manufacture goods entirely for the jobbing trade. They propose to organ- 120 & company here with a capital stock of $200,000 of which they want the citizens of Omaha to tuke one-half. They ask no land or bouus, If £100,000 or stock is tuken here the company agrees to build a factory with a capacity of 800 men and will bave 400 men av work by July 1, ‘The second proposition comes from a boot and shos factory employing 200 men, They prapose to como to Omaha, secure their own ulidings and begin work by Muy 1 next with 200 men if o cash bonus of §12,000 is sub- scribed 1o pay thewm for the expense of moy- ing their plant. Mr. O'Donohiue urged the citizens to make a speciul effort Lo secure both of these enter- prises. Dr. George L. Miller was called upon by President Hartman and made o brief speech, urging the citizens to work as one man to secure the.location of these enterprises and thereby secure for Omaha a greatly needed industrial population, At the close of Dr. Miller's remarks Ernest Riall, A. M, Kitchen, W, J. Pauland Nathan Shelton aunounced that they woutd tako $1,000 each of stock in the proposed koitting factory, and would ad in the loca. tion of the shoe factory. Before the meeting adjourned Mr, Hurtman announced that $10,000 had already boen pledged for the en- terprises, oud that & committee would be appointed by the exchange to solicit further subscriptions of stock and bonus offeriugs. Mr. James Creighton was called upon and briefly expressed his gratification at the in- ter xhibited 1 the effort to build up i 's wmannfacturing industries, He said he would aid the projects all ho could. Mr. Joseph Barker aud Mr. Joseph Giar- neau briefly addressed the meeting on the uecessity of a ralroad to Dakota, and the meeting adjourned. ‘The following property was listed : Hanscom place, ono-third of lots 23 and 24, block 19, 50x100, nine room house, $3,500. City, lot 7, block 150, G0x133, three frame houses, #00 per front foot. City, lot 6, block 347, 60x132, ten roowm house, $10,000. Hanscom place, two-thirds of lots 23 and 24, 100x 100, #5,000! Y. M. O. A, Concert, ‘The postponed concert of Miss Maud Pen- nock will begin at association hall tomorrow evening, December 23, This is the fourth concert in the course of eight months being given by the Young Men's Christian asso- clation, The Misses Roeder, Prof. Butler, Lievtenavt Kinzie and Mr, Peuny appear on the programwme, e— County Court. Ube ‘ormwer firm of Patterson & Fawcet has brought suit against the defunct Owaha Bauking company to recover $575 alleged to Dbe due as rent for the room occupied by the bank at the corver of )ifteenth and Howard streews from the time the bank was dissolved until January 1, next, Howl, wy of Cedar Rapids have Wifl suit against W. H. Bush o recover 21 on @ bull of goods sold and delivered. 1889, ~TWENTY PAGES. - KELLEY, STIGER & CO. Appropriate Christmas Presents for Everybody. . L Syl FORS ON Prices of CLOAKS SEAL PLUSH SACQUES AND SEAL PLUSH JACKETS. Our $£20.00 Seul Plush que, with four seal ornaments, and Chamois Skin pockets, quilted satin lining, fully 40 Thcie Tong, NOW ONLY $15.00. 00 Seal Plush Sacque, with y give o written guarantoe us ar, for Monday and Tuesduy ONLY $20.00. Our §22.00 Waulker Seal Plush lish Walking Jacket at $17.00. These are juckets other dealers have sold right'along at 0. CLOTH N Our § which to we ng- SWMARKETS ULSTERS. AND 318,00 garments at $1; garments at $17. Our $50.00 garments at $35.00. MISSES AND CHILDREN'S CLOAKS All of our children’s cloaks, that have sold at from $6.00 to $8.50, NOW 0. All of our misses’ and children’s cloaks that have been sold at from $8,75 to £11.00, NOW $7.00. All of our misses’ and children’s cloaks. the forwev prico of which has been from $11.50 to $14.25, NOW $9.00. d All of our misses’ and children’s cloaks, that have been sold at from $14.50 to $17.00, NOW $12.00. All of our cloaks for misses and chil- dren, that have been selling at from $17.00 to $20.00, NOW $15.00. FURS. FURS. | AT ACTUAL COST, NO HUMBUG! The unusually mild season cause of it. Everything in the fur line positively and honestly reduced to actual cost. For Christmas gifts there are nothing better. is the Bon and Muff Sots in every desirablo fur from $2.50 up to $45. Collarette and Muff Sets Tn every desivable fur, from 3 up to $20. Shouldar Gapes, All the rage in the from 5.7, arge castern cities MUFFTS. MUFFES. ' In every fur in the market, from black hare to the finest Alaska seal- | skin. Prices range from 40c up to $15. i up to TUEFES. | Fur Trimmings. Every desirable fuy in stock, Takea | look through the other stocks in the ' ! city. thas call on us. Comparison is | the oniy true guide. J A BIC XMAS HANDKERCHIEF SALE We are receiving a continial stream of compliments from the ladies on our stock of handkerchiefs. This season we ransacked all the leadiag importers and Buropean manufucturers’ lines and culled only the choice novelties. Monday and Tuesday we will offer greater bargains than ever, 4 VERY SPECIAL BARGAINS, Ladies’ fine embroidered . and scalloped border handkerchiefs /latest novelties) at the following prices: 150 250 80c worth worth g 40¢ o, 200 dozen ladies’ H. 8. embroidered initial handkerchicfs (ull linen), 15¢, worth 25 e, DUCHESSE LACE Astonishing values, Erom 85¢ up to $12.50 each. INIE FRENCH HAND EMBROID- ERED SILK MULL HDKE'S. Exquisite novelties (wo have had a grent success with this line), At 2,60, %3, $1 and up to $7.50 ench. LADIES’ SILK HANDKFRCHIEKS and MUFFLERS, in cndless va- riety, from 2ic up to 81.50 cach. All greatly reduced. FINE IMPORTED SILK GAUZE FANS hand painted, spangles, ete., latest nov- eltics, $1.25, §1.85, $2.25, up to #13 each. 25, REAL OSTRICH AND QUILL FEATHER FANS., I'rom $1.50 up to $6 each. PORTMONIES, PORTMONIES, In great variety, in all the latest styles, from 25¢ up to $4.50 each. CHATALAINE BAGS. In dressed and undres gant mounting, latest novelties, 85¢, up to 36 each, HDKL'S, STLK HOSE Special sale of ladies’ silk and lisle hose, suitable for Xmas presents, Ladfes’ silk pleated hose in black and colors for luced from $1.25. Ladies’ black spun silk hoso, extra good quality and guaranteed to wouar, for 81,25, reduced from $1.75. Ladies’ black pure silk hose for $1.50, reduced from Ladies’ black pure silk hose, extra A heel and too, oxtra qual- reduced from $3.25. plated hose boot pat- terng, ‘‘black boot ‘and high colored top,” for #1, reduced from $1.50. Ladies’ pure silk fancy hose, “‘boot patterns,” “black boot and high colored ton,” for $3.25, reduced from $4, Luaies’ pure silk fancy hose witn “black Richehen ribbed boot™ and plain high colored top, “‘high spliced heel and toe,” for $8.75, reduced from %5, OVESH GLOVES! GLOVES! SPECIAL—~ Complete assortment of our colebrated Adele #1.50 kid glove always on hand. Ladies’d-button dog skin street gloves for $1.25, worth $1.75 Ladies’ 7-hook “oster patent” lacing gloves, in bluck and tau shades, for $1.50, worth & Ladics’ Mousquetaare gloves (un- sed), in black and tan shades, for 0, > line of evening gloves in 20 aud 32 button lengths for $8.25 and . BIG SLIPPER SATLI. 25 doz. choice patterns just received, Men's fine velvet opera slippers 9Ce, rogular prico $1,25, Men’s extra $1.75. regular pric Men’s extra fine plush opern slippers chamos lined, $2. very low at $3. 100 pairs men’s fine feather opera slip- pers, chamois lined, hand turned, in all ost shades, at the very low price 505 all denlers get $3.50. pairs men’s fine hand made g 15t 81.25 to close, regular pr slush opera slippers at o Men’s axtra fine sowed shoes value at $6. Men’s fine calf shoes, button, bals or congress, all sizes and widths, other dealers get $8.50, oar price $2.90, 200 pars ladies’ fine French dongola hand sewed shoes, all sizes and widths, in opera and commou sense toe, at &3; this shoe has had the largest sile of any in the cit, Ladics” warm linad slippers in great variety at 90c, $1.25 and $1.50, Ladies’ fine don L kid Oxford ties, hand sowed, at $1.85; this 18 a $2 slipper and we warrant overy pair, Warm lined areties of all kiuds, at bottom prices, to fiv all sizes of feot. French ecall hand at $1.90; they are good Corner 15th and Dodge Streets. SITIN SUSPENDERS, STICTLY NEW GOODS, We offer 200 dozen men's elegant sille and cashmere mufllers at 500, worth $1, Men’s extra targe and hoavy all silk mufllers in white and at 81, worth $1.50, . Men's heavy cashmore mufllers in light and dark colors, at ae, worth $1.25, Men's all gilk mufiloas in cream,black and colors, at $2.75, worth 84, Men's heavy all silk muflers in cream and white, at $2, worth $8.50. NOVEL/ NECKWEAR. Mon's all silk searfs and four-in-hand s, worth sle. Men’s silk scarfsand fonr-in-hand ties very choice styles at 50, wortn $1. Men’s elegant silk scarfs and four-ine hand ties at 750, worth $1.25, HANDKERCHIER SALR, Men’s fine all linen hand kerchies, hemstitched and fine, at 16}o, worth 85e. Mon’s all linen 1nitial handkerchiefs and faney borders roduced to 2ic, worth s0e. 100 dozen men's extra lawge white silk handkerchiefs. hemstiched, at 5Co, worth $1. extralarge initial silk hand- kerchiefs, hemstitched, at 85¢, worth $1.25, Men’s black hemstitched handkerchiefs reduced to $1.25, cream, ve Jap silk 750, worth FINE GDOW#S. Men's imfiorted kid gloves and mite tens, wool lined, at $1, worth $1.50. Men's real dog skin gloyes and mite tens, fur trimmed and wool Ied, ut 81.50, worth $2.25, Men’s beaver and sc duced to §3.50, worth SILK UMBRELLAS. We show 200 elegant silk umbrelias in gold,silver and natural stick hundles. We guaranteo the silic. At 34, $4.78 and $6.50, worth doublo, Our store open evory evening until 9 o'clock. lskin gloves re= MORNINGGLORY AND THE BEAR. Ohristmas Reading Ones. By Sandy G, V. Grizwold. NCE upon a time, as the faivy story tellers always be- gin, there lived a httle girl named Morniugglory Pollypuss. She lived withher father ®who was a wood- chopper, and her grandmother, in a S rude little abode built of logs, on the shores of a murmuring stream, at the edge of a big black wood, in the heart of the Allegheny mountains. Morningglory was certainly the best little Miss ever born, for in her an) to do good, she kept her little b busy from the time the golden sun first peeped over the fvowning crest of Mt. hunchl):lk‘li until he sank to rest midst the shadows of the grim old woods in the west. If my unpretentious pencil could draw a picture of Morningglory as she was, my little readers might form some con=~ ception of her rare loveliness. But that is impossible, yet I may give them a faint iden of what she looked like, She was a little thing, of course— only six years old on the last Christmas day—a little midget, with a fair, round, smiling face, dimpled cheeks and dimpled chin, eyes like wee patches of blue sky peeping forth from the sombre clouds after a4 summer thunder shower, hair that rivaled the sun’s yellowest rays as they glinted and gleamed through the chinks in the cabin walls, and a voice, tender and soft, sweeter even than the sound of the melted snow trickling down the white rocks on the mountain’s side and over the glistening pebbles in the bed of the sylvan riva- let, or the softest winds rustling 'mongst the forest folinge upon a June day, Grand Dame Pollypuss loved Morn- ingglory with all the fervor of her kindly old soul, and she nourished and cherished her like some fragiie plant that had sprung up by chance amidst the sterner growth of weeds and bram- bles of the wilderness. But it was not only Grand Dame who loved Morningglory, but her rugged father, the wood-chapper, and all the Lirds, of wood and llcll], and the ani- mals of copse and dingle, too. She was 80 For the Little good, All day long she played among the narled old oaks in the woods about her home—building playhouses out of the dead branches scattered so plentifully around, making cups and saucera from the husks and shells of the acorns, and chairs from the big rod and topaz leaves, and tables from the chips her father’s ax bad strewn about, or from pieces of dove-colored slate from the creek’s bed, For hours she would rock her doll and sing with the birds, or sit silently with folded hands amusing, to the accompaaiment of the breeze as it sighed in Aecolean tones through the nodding cat-tails along the stream’s shores, gazing curi- ously at her own etfin image roflected in the limped waters below. She talked to every bird, as she would d playmate, and chased every butterfly that came within the scope of her blue-bell eyes, dashing madly through the forest, her cheeks aglow like the bloom of the wild rose, and her sun-lit tresses sireaming loosely in the winds behind. One day Morning-glory found a young robin, which in its premature ambition to leave howe like many s litile boy has done before, and will do in the time to come, [ nuptmu, had tumbled from its nest in the low crotch of a near maple, and as the timid birdling piped peev- ishly, she nestled it close in her bosom lmllmoooedw it like o mother to her Then while the parentrobins chirped and fluttered destractedly among the branches, alavmed Jest injury should | befall their offspring, she ran with the feathered infant to.old dame Pollypuss | and begged her to come and help her store the little bird to his nest. Of course the good dame did as requested, holding Mornmngglory .in her arms high up the tree till she had placed the baby robin back in the little bowl of woven straw and grass and haiv and twigs that formed his home. That made all the birds love her. And then Morningglory every fall would help the squirrels gather nuts and ‘lay in_ their winter’s store. She would spend hours thus engaged. filling her little check apron with shell barks | and hazel nuts and carry them to an old hollow sycamore in the glen, where she knew a whole lot of bunnies maie their home, and pour the in the hole where she had seen h little tawny friends pass in and out. She did this becanse she did nob want the squirrels to be compelled to leave their snug beds of moss and ferns when the cold and snows of winter came. And so the squirrels all barked glee- fully and scampered wmerrity about whenever Morningelory tripped through the wood., Kor they all loved her so, for her kindness and lor care. But of all the important periods in this little wood sprite’s life, the most important happened one hazy October day, v.hen the sun shone in riys of gar- net and gold among. mellowed tops of the tall hickories, the maples and the elms, and the winds were sofv as o baby’s breath, aud ‘all the flowers seemed bowed in sorrow and regret over the waning summer time. Morn- ing-glory was wandering aimlessly along the stream, whose low~ banks were streaked with Tyrian-dyed moss- grass und the faded tasselsof the Indian {:lumc, sadly thinking that soon all her ittle friends, Cock Robin, Master Tom 'T'it, the gaudy jayand chickering wood- pecker, would be gone, leaving her no playmates at all until sweet spring came again, but plaintive buntings and dolorous ravens, when suddenly, so suddénly as to almost take her breath, she ran right on to a little half- grown bear cub, who lay whining pit- cously at the base of a big oak but a few steps from the babbling brook’s edge. Mornngglory quickly saw that the young bear was badly hurt. He had been wounded by some ecruel huunter, snd his glossy eoat of velvet fur was blotched with'blood in a horrid way. 4 How, you my l“‘.flq friends, would have screumed fn faarand ran affright- edly away at the sightof that poor little sick bear. But not/’fo with Morning- glory. She was quickly at the cub’s side, and she smoothed " his back and atted his head and spoke encourag- ugly to him, Then cshe ran in the woods and plucked +a. big mullen leaf, made a cup of it, filled it with cooling water, and with heplittle soft hands washed awuy the erimson stains from master bruin’s side; ' and with a strip from her linsey fro¢k bandaged up his hurt. Then she gof him water todrink, and cracked nuts fop him, and feed him the goodies, and stuffed him with moun- tain tea berries until he felt better and was able to get up and go on his way. This made Morningglory ‘very happy and she laughed nnguhulwd to her grim companion as she trotted along by his side until well in the woods, when she bade him goodbye, allowea him to lick her hand in gratitude and thus loft him and ran home, That bear never forgot Morning- glory. But the incident passed out of our heroive’s mind—as they put it in real stories—for the merry Christmas time was coming on a pace, and left little Morningglory naught else to ponder over, A night or two before Christmas fmdy granny sat, with Morningglory 0 her arms, as was hor wont, rmfldnu before the great cavenous fire place, iled high with blazing logs, telling er weird and funny stories of the fair- jos in the Hartz mountains, and the queer ways they had of winning the R00d favors of Old Kris Kingle. She tola how these Tittle no-bodies believed, that if one, a boy or girl, could catch a ; rabu’t and whisper in his ear her wish for Christmas morn, that bunny would gallop away tothe home of the old gray-bearded myth and tell him this, and then the wish was sure to come true. This story made a marked impression on Morningglory, and that night she dreamand of Santa Claus, and chased a score or more of rabbits through thicket and bramble, butall in vain. She could not catch one—they were so quick and took such provokingly long bhops, and always, just as she thought one was within her grasp, it was a dozen yards away. The next morning, just the day be- fore Christmas, Morningglory sallied forth early. determined to run bunny all day but what she caught him, and sont Ler message to St. Niek way ap in hi§ home among the white-capped peaks of the distant mountains, The day was dall and gr nd there was signs of snow in the , but this did not cause Morningglory to falter, but she ran on aud on until deep within the gruesome depths of the Dbig black wood, But not a cotton-tail did she jump, and with a heavy heart she gave up the task and concluded to go home aud tell the snow birds in the dooryard what she wished Santa Claus to know. Poor little Morninggloryl When she turned toretraco her steps she knew not where she wns, She was perplexed for the first moment, but the next alarmed. Bverything looked strange and unfamiliar ‘about her. The trees were tallor and darker and stretched out their skeleton armsas if to grasp her; the wild fern, yellow and sero, was taller and more luxuriant, and there was not the trace of a path way anywhera to be seen. X\Iorningglorfe little heart begun to beat more rapidly. Then she laughed, the sweet sounds rippling from her red hps like the trill of a bluebird. She had not gone so awfully far? She could not be lost. She had been in strange parts of the wood before and her father’s cabin must be near, but as she said these things to herself she be- came more and more bewildered, The barren trees, like tall colonades, sur- rounded her everywhere, and sbhe started like a frightened fawn when a hawk, winnowing his sable shape far above, sent forth his shrill scream, Then, child-like, she began to cry, just ‘what'you would have done, Frankie or Billy, Fannie, Mary or Janct. But that did pot help matters, and to add to her fright and misery t‘lu snow began to fall, first in large flakes, then in flne and blinding particles, faster and more furious every moment, Stifling her sobs, Morningglory started and ran, She knew not why, nor where; she only knew that she must et somewhere and get there quick, 'j‘bu spow was now drifting down in a continuous sheet and the poor little thing’s efforts to get out of those awful woods were in vain, She seemed to be getting deeper and deeper. into their tangled mazes. Still she persevered, Finally, all out of breath, with her cheeks glowing like live em- bers and her hair bespangled with snow, Blie stopped and tried to take her bearings. She studied the moss on the trees and the way they leant that she might be sure of her course, then she set off again with a braver step and stouter resolution. She wouldn’t believe that she was lost, though half blinded by the sifting suow, which came down about her in whirls and ed- dies, with long iotervals of stillness that would have been appalling to a heart weaker than dear little Morning- glory’s. On, on—ceaselessly on, And yet she seemed to make absolutely no headway. All the landmarks that she usually de- pended on were lost, and when she felt a8 she pushed slunf, plunging into the fast unlhar(n.{ drifts, and tearing her way through briar and bramble, to the | dull, mournful, muffled roar, coming and going like the sounds weo hear ut the dead of night from the dlstant sea- shore, very much as if she were going to her own funeral. And why not? She had heard her old father, the woodehopper, tell how Lig men had even been lost in the woods, had been buried in just such fts, only to bo thawed out, cold and dead, in,thospring. Aund why not she, a wee bit of & girl, with all her bravery and knowledge of the forest, why not she be misled by the changed appearauces about her and wander off and be lost forever and forever? She had never been situated so bofore, and her phight seemed to grow worse and worse with every step she took. Sno had cried until the tears refused to flow, and was ready 1o sink in the snow from weariness and despair, but to stop now, she know. was death, for her old father had impressed upon her mind the necossity of going on and on, if she ever got lost, as long as there was light to see tho trees by. 1f shie could only find shelter some- where, some hollow treo or protecting wind-fall, she thought, sho could stop until the storm lulled, but beclouded ns she was and utterly bewildered by the flying snow and fast gathering dark- ness, she knew not where to look, could only keop plodding through the in- creasing drifts, on, on, forever on. The end came at last, the littie soul’s stock of pluck and endurance finally gave out, and she fell in a heap in the 8now, insensible, as the black shudes of night settled over the gloomy woods about her. And now, littie children, what do you suppose ever became of poor, little Morningglory, who had spent her whole little life in acts of kindness only? It does seem as if there was no helvp for her—that she must certainly perish in her shroud of snow. Nobody could be abroad ow such a night. No travelers ever passed that way, and the poor, old father, and the tottering grand 'dame, in their frantic grief, were helpless to assist her, as hard as they might try, on such a horvid Christmas eve as that. ‘What do you think,'[ say, became of her? ‘Well 'l tell you, and you must not laugh and doubt it, becauso I am older than you, and know that it ts true. When Morningglory awoke from her stupor, for she did at last, on the nexu morning—Christmas morning—the soft sun was pouring 1ts golden lustre over the silent woods after that long, long night of storm and snow. She thought, ut fivst, that she was snugged up in her own warm and cosy little cotat her own home, and that her awful experiencein the woods had all been an ugly dream, But when she stretched forth her hands to pull up the coverlet she found them buried in a mass of shaggy bair, and felt a warm breath upon her face and a tender touch as if some one was kissing her heavy eyes and golden hair. Tim- idly she unclosed her eyes,and for a moment her heart censed 1ts beating. By the light of the rosy sun which streamed in through the crevices in the rocks, she saw—what? Not that she was at her own home; in her own little bed, not the good grand dame leaning over her and administer- ing her morning caress. No. Then what? Why, in a nest of dead leaves and soft-fir boughs, in a gray cave in the ragged rocks of the mountain’s side—in the !grmn hairy arms of a big black bear Did she scream aloud in her fright. Not little Morningglory. The kindly face of old bruin, as he looked down upon her, and the gentle way he licked her face and cuddled her close to bis big warm breast, assured her that he was her friend, that he was none other than the half grown cub, whom months sgone she hadfound wounded and near death in the woods on the river’s shore, The old bear smiled as he saw the light of recognition in the child’s face, Then he arese and shook himself con- tentedly, looked down fondly upon his liwle churge, and lumbering to the mouth of the cavern,took n long searchs ing look without: Satisfied with his survoy he came back to where Morningglory sat, and putting his great paw in her lap, told ier, as well as he could in bear lan- guage, to get up and he would take her home. : . Morningglory was not slow in obey- ing, but sprang up at once, talking glibly to her strange friend, asking him all sorts of queer questions as she stroked his sleck sides with her tiny hands and made ready for devurhu’e. The bear laughed aloud, he was so tickled, and gathering her up in his shaggy arms he strode just like a man out of the rocks, down the snow-clad mountain side, through the whisperin, valley, across the woods to - the creek’s shore and up to the very nath leadin, to her father’s home.” There ho sa her down and after straightening eut her crumpled frock . with his clumsy paws, he gave her one last fond hug, and then, with & tear in his eye, turned sadly and shambled off into the woods again, And maybe that wasn’t a happy Christmas day at old Grand Dame Polly puss’ little woodlaand homoe? ———— Christmas, Merry Christmas, Happy N Soon will be the joyful e Of a thousand thoughtless childron they gayly pass you buy, Ah, another is closing, All withouv is robed iu whitas Soon will peal the partiog signal In the silent hour of night, Year, 1o you wonder that the children Are 80 bouyant like and free? Al, they kuow old Santa’s coming With his toys and mirth and glee, Now this quaint and carious *‘spectre’ Whom the children know full well, Never fails to visit mausions = Where there's plenty all to sell, But how many ragged newsboys, ‘'Most are orphans,’ so they say. Will go hungry whilé you revel Iu profusion Christmas day. All will then be decked in splendor "Mong the rich on Christmas eve, Many a joyous chuldish clatter Will be wafted on the breeze. T s6me poor old musty hovel Where no Santa Claus has been, Al wo well he knows their station, That's no place for him within, As we sit around our fireside All our hearcs 80 full and hight, O, how many helpless cnildren Are in want and cold tonight? Will you from your ample income Spare them just a little part, Or hus thirst for worldly riches Driven mankind from your heart! You must know this life’s uncertain, Wealth oft changes, wrong on right, * Aund your happy children may be Orphan beggars e'er tho night, Then remember, as you nestle, Iu vour homes 8o bright and warm, All the little ragged children That are waudering through the storm, While you live in easo and comfort Try in truth to always say : “From their little pleading glances I have never turned away,” May the kindly pitying angols On that joyous Christmas nighy, Hover gently o'er the orphans In their sad and cneericas plight; Child of sorrow, desolation Mn{ you never know from me, But the hope of peace and comfort In the life that is to e, God In heaven, care in pity For the orphans of our land, In the dim, uncertain future Guide them with Thy sinless hand, When at lust their souls have parted With this world so dark aud dreary, May they finu & rest with angels Where 'tis Christmas all e Building Permits, The following permits wero issued yestem day: A P.Tukeysnd W. F. Allen two cot- tages, Clitwon Hiil. Jumes i Baroacle, dweiilng. 418 New- ThOmpsonTiouiton eciris Light G0 iy, Dulldii, Joues And SIXUD 8treets ue minor permit. Four permits. .