The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1887, Page 3

MERRY YULE TIDE FEAST. —_~--— THE CITY GIVEN UP TO THE CEBLEBRA- TION OF CHRISTMAS, Hountifal Provision to Make Poor Poople Hinppy — Scenes in Homes and Tnettin- tlony—Nanta Claus dolly German Household — Some Who Had Cause for Kejoicing and Some Who Had None, OR two days the peo. p ple of this town haye 4) boen doing their best to ,bring dyspepsia upon themselves, There are a few New Yorkers left whose digestion has success. fully weathered the repeated assaults of turkey and cranberry sauce, truffles and ice- cream, bonbons and nuts, And these i have another Wj round and wind-up { to-day with the foe ity ‘ who always strikes hardest: below the belt, On every side dealers rub their hands pleasantly and declare that the holiday trade has not been so good in years, and then add, half mournfully, that their chiefest trouble on Friday and Saturday was that the crowds in their stores were so great as to be difficult to handle. One family of five persons yesterday morn- ing displayed to calling friends no less than ig) Twenty-eight of these were to a little girl of seven years. And the family is that of a wage worker with no wealthy friends. The elevated railroad trains carried more passengers on Saturday than on any one day before, and it was positively a torture to ride in any of the trains going up or down town from 10 o'clock on Saturday morning to 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Most of the trade, say the dealers, comes from people who depend for an income upon the efforts of the members of the family. All of this goes to show that people are in better circumstances and that work is plenty for those who are willing and able to do it. Then why should not the greatest holiday of the Christian year and the chiefest holiday for children and their loyers be celebrated gloriously ¢ Dickens insisted that there should be a Christmas every day in the year, In this prosperous year, at least, three days are given up to its celebration. Dickens meant that there shonld le the kindly, heartful, charitable feeling of Christmas swelling in the breast of al! mankind from the first frost of January till the knell of the year is rung. ‘There was an abundance of good cheer and Lappiness yesterday, ‘How sorry I feel at theso times,” said mine host, ns he slipped another bit of the dressing and a slip of tender, juicy, white tneat on the reporter's plate. ‘How sorry i feel for those poor devils who get their Christmas dinner at one of those restaurants. Tiow they must fairly bunger for the holiday feast that isn’t served on plates—the good- iaicoabipy the home kindnesses, the voice of inother, the cheery word of father, .the child- ish glee of little brother or sister. At the restaurants, everywhere, ‘ poor devils" made the best of it, witha pint of burgundy to wash it down, and doubtless pursuaded themselves into the belief that that they were having a Merry Christmas, Leaving the hospitable home the reporter crossed the street to the apartments—"* apart- tient” would more nearly fit the home of a German porter in a downtown store. Dinner was just over here, and_ the fragments of a ish of ‘kraut, snips of bologna, bits kase, thé shucks of peanuts, siems of raisins and apple-peclings were strewn over the table, and there was the droth of departed beer in several glass Here Schmeitzer said in a fat, husky, ‘too full” voice that the caller was just in time, for ‘ Santa Claus is shoost comin’ out.” ‘Then Hchmeitzer brought a great spasm of his left ‘eye within the gaze of the visitor and the **schimall peoble,” and the children elgpped their hands and hugged the fat legs of their father, Schmeitzer saw the reporter's eye roving over the remains of the feast, and éx- plained that he supposed there were more sumptuous dinners in other houses, but ‘* der #chiltern liked it, und dot goes a great vays for a Ghrisdimas dinner,” ‘Then old Schmeitzer said he had to call on @ man down on the avenue, and maybe “Gris Gringle’ would come out before he ‘ot back. A sheet hung at the back end of he room became immediately the object of the undivided attention of ‘the towheaded children on the taut of the departure of the head of the family, Presently a number of twinkling stars haying come out and be- come indistinctly visible behind the curtain, the frau turned down the table light, and, at a gruff word from behind the curtain, she re- moved it, disclosing one of those conyen- tional, straight-stemmed evergreens which the ‘reader has seen at the markets and groceries for the past week. is It was a wonderfally small Christmas treo, Dut the children danced in glee as they be- ‘hold the vision, and Santa Claus became vis- ible inthe dim light of the twinkling stars which now proved to be bits of candle tied to the branches with twine. Santa Claus’s figure was very like Herr Schmeitzer's, and his yoice, though disguised, could be none other than that of the father hai cl trance of the white. ut his hair and beard, flowing out fi the rim of a big red cloth cap, was of furel, ture stuffing, and his coat looked suspiciously ike Schmeitzer's old overcoat turned inside ont, 8 that the red - striped sleeve lining showed, ‘To be brief, the gruff-voiced Santa Claus Proyed to be a very soft-hearted one, and dealt out invaluable prizes of tin’ horn stuffed monkeys, toy books, ten-pins, tool: chests, tiny dolliés and what not, judiciously interlarded with comical speeches, Christmas was being ** worked for all it was worth " in this humble home, and it will be remembered with joyful hearts by the little Schweitzers till {ime to prepare for an- other coining of Santa Clans, In the feasting ad gift-giving the lesson of the day is not iorgotten, and the story of the coming of the Messiah ‘is told. to a thon- saud auditors on the knees of Christian parents every hour in the day. And that ‘*a little child shall lead them” Femplified in ten thousand homes of island ci sterday, ‘The manner of celebrating the day was as diversified as the people who celebrated, W. K. Vanderbilt. just dropped down around the Gollen Horn and called on the American Legation at Constantinople, where he atea yery pretty dinner under the very nose of the Sultan, He treated the American Legation to a luncheon on board his steam yacht. Alva, and doubtless thinks to-day (which is yesterday in the Levant) that he hud a “pretty good time” and a merry Christmas. President Cleveland and Mrs, Cleveland finished their dinner with a frozen water- melon for an ice, aul Gov. Hill's bill of fare also included a melon, the gift of Fish Com. missioner Flackford, who froze the melons in September as an experiment, Edward Burgess, the designer of the May- flower, Puritan and Volunteer, ‘undoubtedly had a comfortable feeling towards the rest of the world yesterday as he sat at the dinner purchased out of the $10,000 gift recognition rom those who are interested in yachting and American successes, Anthony Comstock was not 80 comfortable however. His nicely sensitive feelings were completely ‘upset by information received from Dutchess County that the sinful and moral destroying game of hog-guessing was going on there again. He’ spent most of yoster- day wrestling with Satan on behalf ‘of tho poor, miserable sinners who are the victims of the evil practice, and will next try a legal process on the wicked ones, Mayor Hewitt forgot his dyspepsia on Saturday, and was as full of Yule-tide humor as a nan well could be. n order to the Charities Commissions to purchase a gross of rattles for the children in the city’s infant, Boetiral on Randall's Island, and nthe billintohim. The Mayor said in his note that an old man, who did not wish to he known, would foot the bill. Full of Christmas charity, the people of New York will generally credit their Mayor with the act, and-add the hope that his dyspepsia will never return, Little“ Luln W. W.,” the Brooklyn child, whose father, a tugboatman, disap, months ago, was given as enjoyable Christ. iy is yesterday os possible in the absence of ner fi Luz WoxLp, which bronght nearly $3 yuipathetic readers of Tux Worn. ‘The wife of Sergt. Crowley was also. re~ mem by Worup readers, #6 being added on Saturday to the $18 turned over to her on Friday. Mrs. Gibbons found cause for rejoicing in 4, Kent to her through ‘THe Worup “to aid her in paying of her debt tothe furniture shark.” Fiyé dollars from the same source enabled the family of John J. Breslin to extract a little happiness out of the day and 2. was sent to ‘le Worwp for the Dominican Sisters at Elizabethport. Chatncey M. Depew's appetite was not spoiled by the New England. Club dinner, and he partook of a good’ dinner, seasoning and saucing it for himself and all those so lucky as to sitat the same table with him were regaled with sallies of his champagne- pop wit and good fellowship. ail But while so many people were enjoying the holiday bounteously, old savin “The Roce ye have always with you,” should not we forgotten. It is, alas! ‘ever too true. Whuilé tables groaned with thoir toothsome loads, and happiness prevsited around them, Henry Beyeland, who suatched Mrs, Mary A. dAubigne's purse Friday night because he was starving, was tying in a cell of the ‘Tombs awaiting trif for robbery. Atleast two thousand hungry men were deprived of their Christmas by the closing up of Jobn H. Keyser’s restaurant, at 128 West Fourth street, where he had attempted ‘all the hungry who came, On the door after breakfast Friday morning was hungacard reading : ‘* Closed on ac- count of the place being tar too small to feed the increasing number of applicants.” Mr. Keyser, who is a stove-dealer in Clin- ton place, say's that 2,000 poor persons ate up 1,100 loaves of bread and ‘consumed 100 gal- lons of soup inthe place Thursday, and he believes there are 6,000 able-bodied and worthy persons in the city who do not have half enough to oat from day to day. Christmas could not have been very glad- some to the families of the strikers on the Reading Railway, and the recollection of the strike of tho ‘longshoremen just before Thristmas last year and the hardships which followed will make kind hearts pain for those who have at this time voluntarily cut off the meuns of subsistence of their families, ‘Tue Wonup felt particularly good natured and self-satisfied with itself yesterday, for it had Hstened to the hurrahs of three thousand school children of New York and pda zathered by it under the dome of the Peop! fieatn Saturday afternoon to see and A ‘Aladdin and His Lamp.” The Rey. Dr. MeGlvan's first Christmas unfrocked was a novelty to him, but must have been a pleasing novelty, for when he entered the Academy of Masic last evening to preach a sermon out of church he was mi tedhe door and preceded to his seat on the stage by two fonr-year-old girls in white who strewed flowers in his path, and bouquets and enthusiasm were his throughout the anti to feed for nothin, e's ear red two | ther, tlirongh the appeal made for her | € THE WORM MOND AW EVENING, DROE MBER 0671 887 ain tomued of ns eeting. |, Ha was again and assured of the abiding love of his old pa ioners, Mrs. Langtry’s house was made gladsome by a gathering of children there as guests of her little nie: nd a Christmas tree was plucked of rich fruit in the evening. Mrs. E. L. Fernandez was Santa Claus to the children of the stage, who are under her supervision. [he tree was erected in Claren- don Hall last night, and. a novel entertai ‘as given, in which Lizzie Ingram, of ©” company, Gertie Hornau, Clar- ence Worrall, Lillie Hecker, Mattie John- son, Marshall P. Wilder and others who have played to audiences of matarer age, took part. Ex-Alderman Jacobus's watch, stolen by a burglar some time ago, was replaced on Christinas Eve bya fine timekeeper, with a massive chain and an emblem of Mystic Shrine for a pendent charm i was presented at the Eimpi t » by R. M. Collard, President, bs y 130 members of the club and a li other Republican voters of the. old Ninth, Mr. Jacobus was correspondingly jovial yes- lay, and the smile still lingers on’ his genial face to-day. At the Sixty-fitth Stroet Infant Asylum the little ones found their stockings bulging out to their fullest capacity yesterday morning, and the fruit of a Christmas tree was distrib- uted to them also, Mrs, Olliffe, Matron of the Howard Mis- sion in Rivington street, fed 200 needy chil- dren yesterday, and a ‘number of families were provided with dinner. Santa Claus visited each room at the Foundling Hospital, and each of, the 1,700 inmates received a’ Christinas gift. A big dinner followed, 'The Rev. O. R, Bouton preached yesterday morning at the Five Points Mission on the birth of Christ, and in the evening ** Our King" was his theme. Mrs. H. B. Skidmore Jed 400 child in singing carols and the re- sponsive exercises. On Christmas Eve 1,000 bags, each containing candy, cake, nuts, fruits and atoy were distributed to the poor children of the neighborhood. Seven hundred pounds of chickens formed the backbone for a fricassee which was the Christmas dinner for Warden Walsh's family at the Tombs yesterday. There were 24) male and 75 female guests. The Rev, Sydney Law and fourteen young women held a ser- vice in the prison. ‘Owing to the lack of an appropriation, no dinner was given to the immigrants at Castle Garden yesterday, and ‘’ Merry Christmas” blazoned in flowers across tho interior wall of the Garden seemed like a taunt. 1 soup, bread and coffee formed the Christn breakfast for the immigrants, There 216 persons, But later in the day those who could speak English had turkey and furnish. ings at the Cornish Arms at the expense of the Irish Emigration Society. The Christinas dinner at Ludlow Street Jail was eaten at noon to-day. There were turkey, vegetables and plum-pudding. An entertainment, consisting of vocal and in- strumental music and recitations, is under way at the jail now. Yesterday Dr. Morgan held service at the jail, forty prisoners ut- tending. ; ebration begun on Friday night is not ended yet, and to-day there is rucm at 3 nburg and Clifton, and, as all public ‘are closed,to-day being @ legal holiday, big crowds are in attendance, There will be a supper for the grown folks of the Hebrew Christian Sunday-School, at 17 St. Mark's pines this evening, and the children will Lave an entertainment on Wednesday evenin Cleveland H, Dodge proyides a dinner for the 200 boys of the ‘Thirty-fifth Street Lodg- ing-Honse, and gifts will be distributed at the expense of Theodore Roosevelt, J. E. Roosevelt and James K. Grace. The boys will give a novel entertainment themselves. A specially good dinner will mark the day in the dining-room of the Five Points Mis- sion, where the 800 boys and girls attending the school get their dinner at the expense of the Ladies’ Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of New York and Brook- lyn. ‘The children cared for by the Children’s Aid Society have a spread this afternoon and this evening they will be entertained, Shoes, mittens and playthings will be distributed to the little ones. . ‘At the Newsboys’ Lodging House, in Duane street, at 6.90 this evening a thousand lads without home comforts will dine sumptu- ously, and William M, Fleiss will foot the Vill, while tho, 200 regular, inmates of, the ouse will receive strong, serviccable shoes from W. 8. Brown. At the East Side Lodging-House, Broadway, J. Pierpont i in East organ will boys eas ve the astout, knit jacket, and the boys will celebrate Christmas right royally, the hall being fixed up in tine style for the occa. sion. A banquet will be followed by an en- tertainment, musical and literary. ‘The 150 homeless boys provided for at the Tompkins Square Lodging-House will have a supper with D. Willis James and Judge Van Vorst this evening. ‘At the Young Men's Instituto, in the Bow- ery, this afternoon, all members who have no homes are enjoying a hearty dinner, and at 8 o'clock to-night the Institute Glee Club will give a Christinas concert. To-morrow at 8 o'clock the Christmas fes- tival will be celebrated at the Memorial Nursery, 275 Eust Broadway, and gifts will be distributed among the children. This evening the children of St, Barnabas's Home will revel around a Christmas tree in the chapel in Mulberry street, and the Girls Sewing Class will receive gifts from the tree to-morrow night. At tho Virginia Day Nursery in Fifty-fifth street the celebration will occur on Wedues- day, Kind donors may be liberal all the week to the children of tho, Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers, at 56 Rivington street. Goods things, clothing and other gifts will be distributed to both adults and children. : ‘The inmates of the Wetmore Home for Girls, in, Washington square, will _ enjoy musié and rofroshients to-morrow night. A GAPE, sure cure for coughs and col: ADAMSON" Bore Sara “Kisewn Baur ee dreree eet TALES OF CHRISTMAS DAY. ———— HAPPENINGS GRAVE AND GAY OF THE HOLIDAY SBASON, Little Bessie’s Bad Dronm—Clothing and Toys Distri on the East Nide—A Boomed a Little by Practical People. “T don't like you one bit, and I wish mamma had never got you—so!"” It was a wee bit of amaiden, with the sunny hair of four Christmases for a crown, and she exclaimed against a two-year-old little brother who had just committed some awful offense against her. The baby mouth puckered and twitched pitifully, and then a wail burst forth from the throbbing little heart. But when, an hour later, baby put up his cherry ripe mouth for a good-night kiss from ‘ Sister Bet the offended sister heeded him not, and turned away. Baby sobbed and sighed his way into dreamland that night—it was last night, and Bessie, a little mite repentant, kissed the sleeping brother in a sly, shamefaced way fea id cuddled herself up beside him for the night. She lay along time thinking about her un- loving words to the little brother, and the house had grown very still, when there was a sound of jingling bells, and then a rustle, and presently there began to emerge from the fireplace in the dining-room a stuffy, fat figure of an old man whore white beard and whiskers wreathed a jolly red face with twinkling black eyes and an awfully,absurd stub nose. Bess could see it all from where she lay neroes the half-opened door. ‘The little man shook the snow from off his furry great-coat and gave a hitch at the straps on his fur-top boots as he looked curiously about the room. Then he spied the drapery over the bed where Bessie lay, frightened now so that she hardly breathed, She knew that the little man was’ Santa Claus because he looked so much like the picture of him on her ** "T'was the Night Be- Tore Christmas ” card, only he had no big bag of toys and he was awfully solemn in the face. Santa Claus stepped to the portitre and looked in at Bess and then beyond her at little Ben. Ben’s round, chubby face shone white as marble in the light from Santa's eyes, only when a tear filled them and for a ent dimmed the light. So this is the bad baby you didn't want, is it? I, Um around to-night gatheri up the things thatsome folks haye get tir of and don't want any longer. There are lots of other people who want ‘em, and by ex- changing this way it saves the trouble ot making new ones. There's Dolly Bert in the next house wants a baby brother awfully. It's only a step and a lot of work is saved.” ‘Sauta rattled onin this way, just as though he was talking to keep back something in his throat. Then he gathered little brother up tenderly in his fat, puffy aris, Bess was ying as if her heart’ would break, and when Santa actually took Bennie from beside her she burst forth into a shriek of anguish, “Oh dear, good Santa! Tam sorry I said it. Ido want a little brother, and he’s the dearest little brother in the world. I’m sure you can find another little brother for Dolly Bert somewhere, and I will never be wicked ¥ Bennie again. Do, do let me have him oi " Can't do it, you know. I make out m lists, aud I have to look sharp for enoug! things to go'round. Sorry for you, but_you see you did it yourself. You said you didn't want him, and T take people at their word. Want to kiss him good-by ?” Santa held baby's face down close to Bes- sie’s as he said this, and Bessie in a last fran- tic burst of sorrow threw her arms about the little bundle in Sauta’s arms and cried hot tears on Bennie’s face. She sobbed hysterically:‘* I don't want Santato take you, dear, dear little brother. Oh, Iam so sorry I was ugly to you. Don’t go away wit! Banta! I dowaut you.” Bennie had been asleep before, but this awakened him, and he lisped, ‘* Don’t oo wy, sister Bettie! Menmie won't do ‘way. Don't ewy!” and he patted her lovingly on the cheek with his dimple... fat hand, But Bessie only sobbed and sobbed. She forgot all about that Santa Claus was wai ng | to little brother. Sud- at the friend of the for her to sa good-by denly recollecting. th f children was waiting, she raised her head to plead with him once more to spare baby brother, when lo! he was gone ! But there was little brother, sure enough, clinging tight to her in bed, and_ before sho had done wondering where Kris Kringle had gone she noticed that her pillow was wet, and then she knew that it was all a horrible dream, come to her troubled heart through her troubled conscier.ce. Sister Bess huge-d and cried over little Ben fora long t.me, and finally fell asleep with her armsa safe anchor about his soft, fat little self. iy ; You may be sure Bessie will never again speak 80 ‘shly to Ben, and when he pulls one of the arms out of her Christmas dolly to-morrow she will not scold a bit, she says. (2 ee, CHRISTMAS WITH FREAKS, An Oriental Resort in Which Visitors are Requested Not to * Hollar.”” The delights of the Bowery dime museum for Christmas pleasure-seekers have always been overlooked in the whirl of holiday, gay- ety. That there is something in them to pleaso which could not be found at a matinée of Wagnerian music, or, in fact, at any of the Christmas matinées, a Worip reporter im. agined, and determined to investigate, He had read the complaint of Mr. William xe and had heard the complaints of still others of Mr. Nye's contemporaries from the dim distant regions of Wayback, that most of the museum managers Lek tla in the f Announcements and pictoral displays in front of their places of amusement, much more than they wore prepared to. exhibit ; that the egation of beautiful ladies, so »picted on the canvas at the door, ax contesting for the beauty prize, had moved into the next county, and that the eighty. tonner, who travelled on her shape, hid closed her eng: it and entered upon an- other with a manager in Cohoes, The man who fattened upon fire, glass, tin cans and other goat and ontrich fodder, war always found by these Waybackians to have emigrated to. some other y wore tr ical dissertation upon the antiquity eral horrible and impossible anatomical ductions from the studio of a Bowery special. ist in horrors. Keeping wellin mind these tales of the dwellers from the other end of the rainbow, th orter resolutely refrained from enter ing any of the tuseuins whieh advertised anything, and hastened on until his eyes were attracted by vluring redfsigns whieh fd. vertised absolutely nothing but insinuated “European Pleasure open for the enterti y." who could Resort? was nent of ** gentlemen “seo, hear—but mustn't seoker after Christma rd and saw two frowzy-headed women with physianes as strong as An athlete's, and, he was assured by the burl bull-headed ‘expounder of tho mysteries “twenty per cent. more 'lecricity in ‘em than Lulu Hurst, the Georgia ‘lectric girl, He saw aliving mermaid, whose ill-fitting cont of scales gaye proof that it was made originally for a larger inaid who, perhaps, had struck for higher wages. Her bustle which sho flirted about as the body and tai of the mythical animal which she repre- sented, would have been quite the fashion in the days of the famous “ pull back.’” He saw also the time-honored illusion of the body head, but it would have been more of nn illusion had the mirrors between the logs of the stand on which it appeared not been so apparent, These things he saw, and he heard the unual learned lecture on those Koveral ex. hibits, in the Bowery patois, delivered by the attendant, ‘he reporter had seen and heard, and had it not been for the injunction on the sign to the effect thnt his investment. of a dime did not carry the privilege with it, he would have *' hollared” ** chestnuts !"” ees NOT AS GOOD AS ELECTION TIME, Only @ Little Push Given to the Hat Trade by the Holiday Season, ‘There are some lines of business which it does not seem possible could experience the usual Christmas boom. Among them is the hat trade, The fact, however, that there are many people who are practical in their selection of presents gives even this branch of Business a push forward in December. A prominent hatter said to a Wortp reporter : “Oh! yes. We have our Christmas trade ‘as well as the jewellers, toy sellers and fancy goods people. Our trade is fully doubled at this season, But I must admit that our Christmas business does not compare with that at election time. ‘There are thousands of hats irretri@vably ruined during the heat of the campaign, and it is discovered that thousands more are lost amuso- y confident betters, after the conflict isoyer. “The last. election was a very good one for the hat business, but it did not equal that of ‘46 in the matter of hats won and lost, and the record of the Mayoralty fight will be totally eclipsed next year when the chief magistracy of the nation is at stake. ‘Last year one unlucky fellow gave mo one order for thirty hats he had lost. He must have bet the hate for the crowd." eeee gees) POOR CRILDREN MADE HAPPY, Warm Clothing and Toys Distributed Am Destitute Enst Siders. Wobster Hall, in Eleventh street near Third avenue, was thronged yesterday after- noon by poor women, needy widows and des- titute children. The occasion of the gather- ing was the fourth annual distribution by Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer of overcoats, wagons, shawis, dolls, candies and toys to more than three hundred deserving boys and girls be- tween the ages of three aud ten years, A large and beautifully decorated Christ- mas tree head of the hall Mrs. Pull th its branches le distributing her practical holiday offerings to the children. "The boys and girls were ially selected from the most deserving ee and were of all nationalities and ods. A large majority of the children were des- titute of warm clothing, and many of them were in rags. The boys went away with fine, heavy overconts, and the girls rejoiced in the possession of winter shawls of the finest quality. i Fully two-thirds of the children were orphans or half orphans, who received pres- ents and aid from no other quarter or associn- tion. The little ones were also immensely pleased with the wagons, dolls, toys and can. dies handed them, pork.) She—So you went to hear Josef Hofmann last evening, Mr. Wabash? He (of Chicago)—Yes, She—You were pleased, of course? Me—Immensely, Why, I know grown people weno. can’t play the plano with that ten-year-old Oye THE MAJOR'S DUEL. [From the French af Albert Delptt.} AST year I went to Besangon to attend the wedding of one of my best friends, the Vi- comte d’Avaray. He was marrying a very pretty and | wealthy girl, who belonged to one of the oldest fami- lies of the Doubs. The ceremony wasa very fine one and attended by hundreds of friends and relations, The Archbishop in per- son performed the ceremony, At night a splendid dinner was given by the bride's parents at their chateau in the neighborhood of Besancon. Jnst as I was entering the dining-rooim somebody touched my shoulder and wished me ** good-evening.” I wheeled round and found myself face to face with a slender, handsome, fair-haired young man, wearing the full uniform of a captain of dragoons, “Do you not know me again,” ho said, laughing. T acknowledged that I did not, “Why, I am Gerard Hammer, your old Bchoolfellow at St. Barbe, Have you for- Gotten what good friends we were in old days?” We shook hands heartily, and I felt de- lighted’to renew my ‘acquaintance with the bright boy who had been such a favorite with both masters and pupils fifteen years previous at the old Ly¢ée of St, Barbe. During dinner he told me how fortunate he had been in his military career and how he lioped to become a Major before the end of the-year—e very high distinction for a man not yet thirty years old, expecially in the French Army, where promotion is but very slow work at its best. He was so confident of the future, so truly happy ard full of life and fun, that'it did my heart good to listen to him, At midnight we walked back together to the railway station, and he promised to come and see me as s00n as he came to Pai Months passed and I saw Bothing of m: friend. However, inthe month of May read in the Journal Office! that he had been promoted to the rank of Major of Chasseurs, and that he had been sent to the Belgian frontier. 5 i At the beginning of August, I was walking leisurely one evening down the Champs- ysces. It was about 9 o'clock, and the popular thoroughfare was crowded with people enjoying the coolness of the evening under the gaslit trees, or lounging on the chairs and benches which are provided for the convenience of the public, The cafés ‘and restaurants were ablaze with light, and music was wafted in from all sides on the light summer air. : ‘Suddenly asl was passing the Palais de Industrie, I came upon Gerard Hammer, I approached him with outstretched hands saying. Good evening, Major. How glad I aim to see you, and to be at ee to con- ratulate you on your promotion.” eran is that you?” replied he, in 60 sad and dejected a tone of voice that it cut me to the heart to hear it. ‘* Very glad to see you, dear old friend.” Good heavens! How changed the man was! He looked at least ten years older than when I last saw him, His hair was turn- ing gray and he stooped as if the burden of life was too heavy for himto bear. I slipped my arm through his, and asked him if he would not like to,come for a short w He as- sented, and we silently pursued our way, At length; déepty ressed by the appear- ance pf suffering on his once 80 happy face, Tventured to question him gently :_"* What is the matter with you, Gerardi? You are very unhappy, are you not” Yes,” said he in a low voice, ‘* What is it? A love sorrow?” He seemed to hesitate, and I was abont to desist, blaning myself for my meddlesome indiscretion, when he looked up, saying : ‘Listen, lam going to tell you all about it, Any way, it will be better’ for me than keeping all this sorrow to myself. Moreover, perhaps, you can give me good advice, “Since I met you at Besangon there has been a tragedy in my life. You did not hear of it because the Minister of War took care that the newspapers should not get hold of it. Do not be afraid. My story is soon told. It is only another instance of how children always suffer for the faults of their parents, nay interest you. , in dune. the young soldiers belonging to'the reserve were sent to Mau- Dbeuge to perform their twenty-eight days’ annual service. [had been appointed Major of the Sixth Chasseurs Regiment a month previously, and was to take charge of them, “One morning I started for Lille with one of the senior captains of my regiment, and we stopped at the depot totake a light lunch. eon, While we were sipping our coffee and discussing our ‘ Cotelettes ala Diable’ in the restaurant, which was half full of passen- gers, soldiers and workmen, ny comrade naked me if I had any one worth mentioning among my ‘twenty-eight days’—this being the name by which we designate our men of the reserve. *“Oh, yes, ) said I, ‘I have the son of the great artist Myrian, who has just been made a member of the Academy.’ J lave you not also got the son of George ‘érisset ?" Yes,’ I replied. ‘But he is a celebrity of another kind, Iwas m surprised to see that lovely Mme, de Férisset had got a grown-up son, Do you know her? ** Oh, yes,’ laughed he, ‘I was very much in love with her some years ago. hat @ pretty woman she is, Unfortunately at that time she was on moet intimate terms with my best friend, and that prevented me from de- olaring sm; ince then TI have had no opportunity to do #0. i Well, that is a pity,’ said I. ‘She is well worth a little trouble. And then ‘her husband is #0 good-natured and #0 conven- OUR SWORDS WERE HANDED TO Us," fently short-sighted. He never sees but what she allows him to see, She bas had more than twenty love affairs, and M. de Férisset has never been the wiser,’ “Thad hardly finished my sentence when a little bit of a soldier, wearing the uniform of Chasseurs, rushed up to our table. He was as white as a sheet and Heembiing from head to foot. His long sword dangling between is legs made him reel as if he was drunk. * He sto pped in front of me and raised his hand to strike. A few soldiers caught hold of him and pinioned his arms, He straight- ened himself up and, looking me full in the face, he said. in a strange, hollow voice ; *Mme. de Ferisset is my mother.’ “Tn an instant I felt how abominably I had been Sens, What was the matter with me that morning, | And since when bad « gentle; man any right to speak of a woman asI had just been doing. *** Let him go,’ said I to the men who held him, and taking off my kepi I bowed to him, saying: ‘I am entirely at your disposal, uf ‘The train for Lille was about to start. I jumped into a,compartment, and an hour later I was at my General's telling him what had just happened. “He got into a terriblo rage, and asked me what I meant by talking in' that way in a public place, Te added that it was too stupid of the Minister of War to choose his superior officers among men of my age, who had not yet sense behave them- selves, and, althou f that had [been a mere captam the misfor- tune would have been equally great, I kept my, own counsel, ‘Well, aud what are you going to do now?’ thundered the infuriated General, “*Tdonot think that Ihave much choice in the matter, General, I have deeply in- sulted this young man. I have placed my- self at his disposal, aud I must allow him to fight me.” The eral struck the table so violently with his fist that his Looks and papers flew all around the room. ** Have you taken leave of your senses, Ma- jor? he fairly yelled. — * How can a superior Officer of your rank aud position fight a duel witha common soldier, It is against the rules of the army.’ *** Allow me to remark, General, that no rules can hold good in the case of certain offi- cers, [have put myself in such a position that I canngt do otherwise than fight M. de Feri isgna grant me your permission to do so." “*T cannot.’ : ** Will you then have the kindness to telegraph to the Minister of War? ; *" His Excellency will refuse his permis. ea Very well, then, I shall in that caso acquaint M. de Ferisset of the fact, and, as we are close to the frontier, we shall go and fight in Belgium.’ | *Do you really mean that, Major? It will be a case of desertion, and you know the punishment which you will incur.’ **T rogret it, General. But in that, case I must desert, then, I shal! be punished after- wards. I have acted dishonorably once al- ready in speaking as I did this morning, and | Tam not going ta do soasecond time by refusing satisfaction tothe man whose mother Thaye publicly insulted,’ “The General walked two or threo times, REFUSE FROM ASSYRIA, is That This Free Repwbitc Hans No Use For. A distinguishing feature of the immigration during the past few months jg the large num- bor of Assyrians that aretoming to this y. These people aro asa rule not very . They usually bring with them a few Oriental trinkets which they peddle about the streets in the lower part of the city. A colony of them has located in Washing- ton street, where they liye in squalor and filth. When they earn a few dollars the; send it home to bring other of their country- ne to this country to follow in their foot- steps. ‘A fow days ago a party of fifty-five of them Innded at Castle Garden, On being qnes- tioned only twenty of them were found to have any means. These were released, The remainder will probably 1 A This morning Supt, Hi Landing Burean, was, astonished mall colony of Assyrians among the atcorage passengers of the steamship Rotte dam, from Rotterdam, ‘The party numbere about thirty aud come from int Lebanon in Assyria, hey aro a poorly clad and miserable look- class of immigrants. When they arrived at Castle Garden the scene was amusing. ‘Their countrymen who are about to be re- turned were in the rotunda in asmall en- closure, A® soon as they saw the other mot- ley crowd filing into the Garden, they vd them with a ringing shout of welcome, a waving of handkerchiefs. Tho latest batch come from the same place as the others, and are friends, Supt, Heinzman will question the As- ayrians, and those who are in destitute ci cumstances and devoid of any visible mean of gaining a livelihood will be referred to the Collector, who will probably return them, ———— MONEY FOR THE SICK POOR, Tho Hospital F Nections Fully as Laat Year's. ‘Tho amount of money already collected for the Hospital Fund gives indication that be- fore the holidays are over the collections will be fully up to the mark of last year, if not actually above it, The collections made in the churches yesterday have not yet been re- ported, as some. of the congregations are waiting for checks from their wealthy mein- vere, Inthe West Presbyterian Church last even- ing the Rey. John K. Paxton announced that the donations to the Sick Poor Fund amounted to 2,600. As the Presbyterian Hospital has withdrawn from the General Association all but 300 of this amount will go to the Presbyterian Hospital, Rheumatism ‘According to recent investigations in enused by excons of id in the blood, ‘Thin acid attacks the fbrows larly in the joints, and causes the local the disease, ankles, bips and wrists in Hood's Sarsaparilla a positive and porm for rhoumatiam, ‘Thin medicine, by tte purifying and Vitalizing action, neutralizes the acidity of the blood, and als) builds up and strengthens the whole body. ‘+ Lwaslaid up for six months with rheumatiam, and used many kinds of medicines without good result till one told mo to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Thad used half a bottle I felt bottor, and after tak- » bottlon L think Iwas entirely cured, as have not had°an attack of rhoumatism since." EUGENE H, DIXON, Rossvillo, Staten Island, N, ¥. N. B. 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Then he stopped short in front of me, and, putting his hand on my shoulder, he said, sadly: * Very well, up and down the room, my poor boy. ‘Do ax you please. 1 know nothing, and shall act as if you had not told panything about the matter, Only please mind that you run the risk of a aartinl,’ *When I left the General T went of two of my friends who did not the army, and they arranged wit Ferisset’s seconds, who were also ciy that we shonld meet the next morning at ‘——, a small Belgian village. T iid not sl oy much that night. I had determined that I would give the poor boy every chance of killing me, and with that in W put all my affairs in order, “© On the morrow, at the appointed time.we arrived at F. it was a rainy, cold, dis- malday. We had to walk through soaked meadows, with mud up to our ki M. de Ferissot walked on in front of us with his two friends. I followed with mine and young surgeon whom had brought with us. It was a dismal kind of promenade, “We stopped on the outskirts of a. small pine wood und took off our coats and made our preparations. for this duel between a superior officer in undress uniform and a common soldier, At length we were placed opposite each other. "M. de Ferisset saluted me and, stepping torward, said; ‘Major, I nearly struck you w n both you and I'were in full This] was on my part an offense against discipline, Asasoldier I beg your pardon for this, and now the gentleman can qn first customary thrusts I remained ‘Suddenly he fell back two paces, and frantic lurch forwards and throwing himself ** He moaned only once, A bloody-stained avenge his hono. * Our swords » handed to us, and after t Ber. fectly still. 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Grand CHIISEMAS MANNER To-Day, Tuesday Evening * "Monday, Ji T had listened breathlessly to Gerard Hamm. mer’s story and we walked silently on, “Ah,” said he bitterly, “I know well that T was determined to let him kill me; that he, so to say, committed suicide by rushing onto I know, too, that my career is od, andthat my life is without farther se since T have have had to leave the army. “ Butall thatis nothing compared to tha remorse which I feel, In. my own eyes I nothing better than a murderer. Just think this poor boy dying at the age of only twenty three. Think of the poor mother who knowa that her only son died through her fault, How intense must be her despair and her sors row!” Thad nothing to reply. true. My poor friend's life was entirely r fied by this terrible incident. We walkeu on sadly, arm in arm, with bent heads and heavy hearts, thinking of these two young promis. ing lives sacrifieed by a few rash, bantering words and ® woman's indiscretion, It was getting late and every one wr turning home, ‘The café concerts wer ing and great files of carriages werg Still e chiire I looked at them with in- as. passed along. idenly I tightened my grasp on my com- panion’s arm, smothering an oath, for there, seated in the middle of a group of laughing and well-dressed people, I saw & woman who, although more tl forty years of was still remarkably handsome. She wore a elegant. black dress, and large littered in her shell-like ears. She was aughing aloud at some remark of a rakish. looking inan who was bending over her toying with a big bunch of violets which inher lap, It was Mme. de Feérisset, A bitter oath escaped my lips as I reeog- nized her, ** What is the matter with moe ? exclaimed er out, mutter It was only too “There is his mother, my friend. I slowly pointed le staggered and ine” old a death, “Never mind, old man,” Ne this tho irouy of fate ¢* and Wo'padeyd axe