The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1915, Page 15

onday: ecember 20, 1915 SE A UU Nee A AS SERRE ». a ‘ Ruaeoneeonsescoqnneooooes, , NEX , * if ‘ (] ! } ‘1 The Greatest Yuletide Ww. 1 ( Story Ever Written Vu aer | By Berte Bertra and Sinclair ee a ¥ * MATE ¢ de DADDY venue ettoer a ce trom the tnoiated fragments Che world—oh, woo te met-—and wit. of his thoughts, there would fave boon Dees What it cannot shure, but & cone of old Marley's head on every oy Hate FI on earth, and turned to i Dpiness, “Strumbug!® aald Acrooge; and de Again the specter Pulsed’ a ory, and > be across rt room, shook hig chin and swung his shad- ° ftor neve : Marley’s Ghost. = ce he th Aig 7 4 lettered,” wi Scrooge, ARLEY was dead, to begin with, ‘There ip no doubt whi Upon phe oalt, ane ae ce ey My A lites" that. The register of his burial wag signed by the clergyman, the at bere 3 } ferme re day és nak iy nyt 4 . e Dose now for; ang yar Ne | clerk, the undertaker and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. 4 Chagaber In’ the Nigheot erate er the OF tay own thas Mik cae at teh Sem And Scroogt’s name was g00d upon ‘Change for anything he chose building. It was with great astonish+ free will J wore it. Ie ite pattern te put his hand to ment, and with a strange, in Neable peange to yout” put his ha: . . dread, that, as he looked, he sow this Scrooge trembled more and more, Old Marley was os dead as @ door-nall, bell begin to swing, it swung so “Or would you know,” pursued the Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there wage avecsal ba’ spon if tan os foveg Pi oa bear youtaa ? Rees Ja particularly dead about @ door-nail, I might have been inclined, myself, . loudly, and #o did every bell In the full as Daaty nan toue ant te regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. - But f oune, Christmas By Sa0. You have the wisdom of our ancestors ia in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall ut Sar Srapo td Sart py ag en et Shoat Be met disturb it, or the country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to Th AIC hour, The bells Ceased, as they hi joor, im ion of finding Fy it together, ‘They were succeeded himsell surmounted ‘ty nome og Fepeat, emphatically, that Marley was aa dead as a door-nall $ HERE ARE rept f.. lg HAVE LOW Berns sepecnere shar were sumeetaee thre oT ee een ae q Scrooge know he waa dead? Of course he did, How could it be other- A Z UNCLE JOHN as if some person were ng A poUld see Hodbing, | wisest Scrooge and he were partners for [Mion't know how many years, ] The PAPERS, UNCLE JOHN heavy chain over the, casks in the | “Jacob!” ne did, imploringiy. "Old | ¥ Bero0ge was his sole executor, his ole administrator, his sole assign, his eole DADDY 1{] | remembered 60 have heard that whonus | iar te ebedanenlt 1 speak 4 duary legatee, his sole friend and a ? ys reason have ‘ou to Oe fae Myr ipa were described an ap 3 none to give,” the ‘ ou're rich c |. “It vomes Sr nreathitw okt te. ey tie eat having no better answer ‘The cellar door flow open with a bibaseear morosee, ln conveyed by j De so a ‘papel, drat he spur of the moment, enid booming sound, and then he years the other ministers, to other men. ‘ event, but that he was an excellent again; and followed it up with louder, on th be- Nor can I teil you what L reer y A 4 mgn of business on the very day of ae low; thon coming up the stairs; them yery little more is all malad a | the funeral, and solemnized it with an ‘Don't be cross, uncte!” said the mens Srcient nen hy door, cannot rest, I gs he i oubred bargain, nephew. “It's humbug # crooge, * lager any whare of Marley's funcral ‘hat else oan I be,” returned the A ‘ond our counting-howse, ings mabe back to the point aries bay) “when | Hive in big & world red. ber gordyg torn | ans Pate my ies Chae There is no doubt that Marley of fools as this lerry Christmas! a came on throw narrow iv . This must be distinetiy Out upon merry Christmas! What's the heavy door, and passedinto the Sone a and weary tcnkesient, or nothing wonderful can Christmas time to you but a time for room before his eyes, Upon ite coming journeys ile ‘ of the story | am going to r goving. billa without money; a time » thé dying flame leaped wp, It was @ babit with, when- see it eg a) 1 og lel a8 oor, OSE Lim eoad 4 ere and hot a it oried, Pe pid pint Meer bor ne Me Sa beeen thoughtful, to put his at et's Father je an hour + ime fv. balan- an waln, - he play besen, ee rere, Be ie cing zis books, oo having avery, fi the yee | gt dering pod hele how, Whe cieee hee. ES ing more remar! le ‘om rough a@ row Jor |, eu wi A now, without Mfting ing & ‘troll at night, in an Rnger a ot umonthe presences doad vtfaiont ° the taasels on the his eyes par ba his knees, ; upon his own ramparts, your could work my w ou me been, very slow there would be in any other middle- ntly, “every ‘aioe whe who kirte, bout It, Jacob,” Scrooge observed in aged gentieman rasbly turning out ‘h ‘Merry Christmas’ on The chain ho drew ne meLke though with rafter dark in a breezy spot-—way Saint his should be boiled with his own rs Tt was long, a Y eo, Paul's Churchyard, for ingtance-—it- me. ¢ and buried with @ stake = wound ahout him like @ tall: and " ted. erally {o'ustoniah’ bis won's weak through hi He should!” ; ey SNE AS = wae rade (eee Rercdge tae ee Ana creealin thalhimer” min . =, ICE DY iN clonély) of cash boxes, keys, locke, never painted out Old Mar. uncle A hes urses The whole the Ghost. Jey’ bane. ‘There it stood, years a ernly, Christmas in you tn bonne 8 inten’ Tits body wee tans. “No fe mewty| Tncessant torture 4 im, an of nephew, “But you don’t keep | Fe J vont, sould nce the two buttons om his “On the wings ef the wind,” wplled Lot me leave it alone, then, coat behind. the Ghoat, Berooge, “Much good may It do y. Scrooge had often heard it seid that You Rp Bm het it over a great nit the same (0 Much good has it ever done youl" Martey nad no bowels, but be had aeveu ‘yeorn,” both names, It was all the ai ‘There are many things from which never believed it until now, ser Screg I might have derived Go0g by No, nor did he believe it even now, The Ghost, on poarieg this, ast up I havo not profited, 1 dare say,” 0) fas Though ne looked | the phantow Loreent ae ond cans de ehaia se returned tho maw “Christmas: Ra . through and through, and saw / Oo Bat esgperem ee OS Aone tho rest. But I am eure J| | meg QF Standing before tlm; thougly he felt pight that the Ward would have been ene as aint, from. which he havo always thought of Christmas. the chilling infuane of ite death-cold Suneian’ ia inaietine is Sar e eulanee. ia wenero: ime, Ww marl @ very texture in ' and fi eg rr eisg ‘eelf-contalned pr Spart from the somite due to Seed kerohief bound yy 8 ironed,” the : pelliary t fan oyster. The cold whiain wacred Dame and origin, if eaves a pnd-chin, whieh wranper he nad tow that agec of i ipped ul ot can apart not observed ore, ph ale aggl eceor ory ee elke enent food time) s ind, y credulous, und fought "again es Me food of lc | 4 ad, ol » pleasant tim “3 ia bhue egleted nt bey A tine I aoe’ of, in the ong cal- sald Scrooge, caustic Seveiopedl lot odaiy in nis erating voice, A r of the year, when men and . "What do you want rien ge es frosty time was on his head, and on Women seem by one ment to opin Eye fatere thls eyebrows, and his wiry chin, ie thelr shutup hearts ¥ and to, p vast means of eae ae carried his, own low temperature al- think of people below them as if they = knew tat po About with him; he iced his uf; Soy, rare slew peannners fo, the Wh ‘ eke atoouhe fort and didn’t thaw : pane OF ere - nacre Tel aumh ‘as ry tures bound on other journe i mxternat heat, Rantala had ttle therefore, uncle, thoi it has none “You're joular, 7M! ce on Scrooge. No warmth put scrap of gold ir Pty? wis a ay dreds of thousands principles as in and gale had he could pelt to play at blindman's To pay that he wag not startled, or of unicees, ke could warm, no wintty weather chili Pocket, I believe it h common comforts, air.’ anything to do. o Lord Mayer, in buff, that his bided was not conscious of who een ‘te apply fim. No wind that-blew was bitterer fain do me good: ‘ns 1 ty Dome ane there no prisons asked the Ei et age of the solgity, Se Berooge took bis melancholy din- * terrible sensation to, wien it bee fimeelt. falling snow Was tnore Crooge. sion House, gave orders to his y 1 u , been a r from infancy, wou! “ ” “ pe ne {te perpose, no peltins — ‘The clerk in the tank involuntarily "Plenty of prisons," sald the ed Cooks and butlers to keep Christings Cea Tagitg ee eae evetrs be untrue, ut he put his hand upon Marley tak taf Oe nas tae the paijenl rajn less open to ‘chtreaty, Foul applauded. Becoming immediately Men, laying down the pen aga’ as a Lord Mayor's household should; and beguiled the rest of the evening the key he had relinquished, turned you—can you alt down fren BBs ‘conan taklane weather didn't know where to have sensiblé of the impropriety, he poked "And the Union ‘khouse: and even the little tailor, whom he with his banker's book he went home !t sturdily, walked in and lighted his looking doubtfully at =. pg te ee OR ‘The hoaviest rain, and snow, the fire, and extinguished the last Manded Scrooge, “Are they San" fh had fined five shilling on the pré- to bed. Ho lived in chambers which oandle, qan. ey eee ee hoa hail, and slest, could boast of frail spark forever, operation?” . vious Monday for being drunk ‘and had once belonged to hie deceased He alé pause, with a moment's ir- “D0 It, th a the question, besause soy, Dusiness. ‘The. deal - advantage over bim in only one t me hear another sound from ,,They are. Still.” returned the gon- blood-thirsty’ in the streets, stirred partner. ‘They were & gloomy suite revolution, before he shut the door; ,,ScTpoRe asked the a ghost 80 treads were but a dro; ‘water in They often “came down” you,” sng Scrooge, “and you'll keep “emau, “I wish I could say they Were up to-morrow's pudding in ‘his gar- of rooms, in a lowering pile of build+ and he dia look eautionsly behind ie he didn’ t might find himeelf in a the comprehensiv: conda af bual- ely, and Scrooge never did. your Chrittmas by losing your situ. Poor Law rety,While his lean wife and baby ing up a yard, where Tiaa°so Httle frst, wn if he halt Sapestad tba tors eaten tae a vena ‘and felt nese - or y ever him in the ation! You're quite w powerful he Treadmill ang the Poor Law gailied out to buy the beef. business to do that one could scarce- rifled with the wight of Marley's pig font tS avane of it being Ts tele ue hte, dale aaa wii gle adwome looks, speaker, sir,” he added, turning to “'f, fll viKor, thent, sald Scrooge. yoggior yet, and colder, Ploreing, Iy ‘help fancying it must have run tall atloking out Tuto the hal. Tout hn “ty might tnvalve. thet ese a gl, SI ole Hee are you? his nephew.’ “T Wonder you don't go 0th very Duy, airy ce you searching, biting cold. If the good there When it wan a young house, there was nothing on the back of */’\" amburragaing explanations rete oe ie wea tee me to see mo?” into Marliament.” pad ae eee ving had oo, Saint Dunstan had but nipped the playing at hide-and-seek with other the door except the actews and nuts fue ¢ihost sat down on the O - Tmplored him to bestow — "Don't be angry, uncle. Come! Dine furred to stop them in their umal E¥il Spirit's nose with a touch of houses, and have forgotten the way that held the knocker on, ao he mld, side of the fire-place, if he were cn ren ‘asked him what with us to-morrow. Courwe, Salt Mergoge, “i'm very glad such Weather as that, Instead of uaing Out Again. Tt was old enough now, “Pooh, pegh!” and closed it with a ” inal hie ite A Fe in ie Mae ea rete, ha ee eee t it ‘ Bo Pemae pemetcy (one uieem Amr nal aerobee the: eehae | ved de of h hie ay red tho him-- Yes, indeed, he did. Hi “ 6 would have roared to lusty pur- put Scrooge, ther rooms 1 yo ‘and such a pluce, of the whole length of the expression: gcc nie® the, ,mpreasion that they pov, ‘Tho owner of one scant young bemg all lot out as offices. ‘The yard found resounded througtt-the *: gatanetoons the blind man’s doxs and sald that’ he would see him in pind or body to the multitude,” re- NO, sHawed and mumbled by the Mas so dark that even Serooke, Who above and every cask in the wine.‘ erridenes wo sla'ypu have ot and never Fed he that extremity flrs Pe ine Bontieman, “a few of us BUNKTY cold as bones are gnawed by Knew its every atone, was fain to merchant's cellars below, appeared to beyond 7 Star apie Wee lon to, a “But why?” cried Scrooge's nephew. ure endeavoring to ralse 4 fund to buy GOs, stooped down at Berooge’s key- Tope with is hands, The fog @Md have a separate peal of its own, net 4 bre toe Sere ae thee. Wie Gla the poor some meat and drink, gad hole to regale him with Christmas ere eo Hele Some tee back Old Scrooge wa # not a nan to be fright- hen you get married?” gaid mea: of warmth, We choose this carol; but at the first sou o} Oe an ar 3 med oned by echo He fastened the senses?” Pree tela ne’ evil’ ase tees Pee chu bk time, of al others, “God bless you, mecry gentleman, i mournful meditation on the thres, 200F and walked acroas the hall and i tee ae ‘Mateo oe te um genie Yet fll in lave” growled Janse rejoices, “What es ba ahr wh glean hold iG aidsuhees, oe chung aoe th <b males j ance re; : i . o * , But wba did Bervoge care? Ut was Scrooge, au Xf that wure the only one down fort" Sorooge, selsed the ruler with much Now it ts a fact that there was "yon may talk vaguely about drive You may be an undigested iked, To edge his thing the world rh " ” led. energy of action, that the singer fled yoching at all particular about the ta crumb of jong rowded path of Ife than a merry Christmas "Goo “¥ou wish tobe anonymous?® in Uerror, leaviig the keyhole to the knocker on the door, except that It GEN of aigite: or throuEh a bed a. fragment of prey t ful tuman aympathy to KEE afternoon! cody id wish to be. lett alone 4 f8 AAG even more congenial frost. was very lunge. It Is lio a tact Soting Act of Pecllaments hut J'mean There's more of gravy than of grave "t Hy Big nO was what the knowing to Nays wmole, but you never Scrooge, “ince you ask mo'what I ,At length the hour of shutting up that Scrooge had soon it, night and {> my you might have got fm hearse about you, whatever yay The ! ‘ones call ‘nuts’ to Scrooge, B00" me before “that happened, wish, gentlemen, tbat is my answer, the counting-house arrived, With en morning, during his whole resideice YW that staircase, and taken it brouds io . t much in the habit ‘Once upon a time—of all good days Way Give Mt as a reason for Se eaten ey myaclt at Christ. i! Will Scrooge dismounted from bis In that place; ulso that Scrooge had Wigs with the mllntersoar CWArd the Of cecckiOe Whe. ner did’ he fea, 1% +4 tn the year, BS rin ie siete: Mi bow OF Some Tass end Lean ators to make idio M00! and tacltly admitted tbe fact ae littio of what ts cet age teat wall ana tie door toward the bales in hie beat, by any meane weeps } e ay 1 counting- ood ” to the expectant clerk in the tank, him as any man in the City of Lon . T sien hair bitsy eaatarrony” four Tone Eechmnate nave, mewignes~ Sn loraniy spufed hin candio out, don Shan inclu wich ee Gold plenty of ia Yor tht, on room tg 10° aunt, fara gran of dara vis and put on his hat. @ corporation, aldermen, an ‘ rie in the court outside PacnipE,of you: uy casual’ we De they cost enow 9 “Youll want allday to-momow, T officials, Let it~ also ‘bo. borne in SPAse;, which Is perhapa the reason ing his own attention, oe: up and down, beatin “Good afternoen!" sald Soto bagly off faust go there. suppose?” said Scrooge. mind that Scrooge had not bestowed WHY Scrooge thought he ma@ a Reo- down his terror, for th four hands upon thelr breasts, and «fam sorry, with all my hea womaty, can't, 60, Shere; and many "WW quite convenient, sir.” phe thought on Marley, since his ihe giodm. Telt o doesn. 608-16i)D6 hie bongs ene NO eeu deeded ihe Reet, eee their feet upon the - J 5 “fj gold , last mention ot is seven-years- q y nit 7 7 "he pin By ‘warm them. The bea wy 0 revolute, We have ni Mie they would rather dia," aid Fe OA ee tly ten ey eat partner that afternion.” vAnd 2¥ of the atrect wouldn't have light~ qo git wiaring at those fixed, glased to-night to warn vou that you clocks Tad only, Just pope wares, pany. But f have made the jee tae ay ae eerie $24 hnalt-a-crown for it, you'd think your- Yhen let any min explain to me it Tony i, (0 wall 66 700 Bay Ripe eyes in, rilence, for 4 moment, would yet & chance and hope of it was juite fa rease used, he can, ow t a) DONO) that ” Play, TOOge . \e is jeuoe o hope not been dent, all arr ond cone a i a Faerie aides, excuse ime—1 don't know ®t 1l!-used, I'll be Arr Sil Scrooge, having his key in the lock Serooge’s dip. with him. There was something procuring, Ebenezer, in the Wiskews, 9 ‘thet might know it,” observed ,,/ABd yet,” paid Berooxe, “you don't of the door, saw in the knocker, ton tet rene non ears wnt, very awful, too, in the spactre's be "You were always @ friand to palpable brown aif. O ceed the geniioman.. i ins ae if) used when I pay @ day’ without Ae astray ai’. Scrooge liked It. But bofore kp shut sntarvore ang, vite ne deeael antigo will be becntedt the pouring in at gvery "Ite pot my Dupiness," Scrooge ork observed that it was only knocker, but Marley's face, his heavy dodr he walked through hia not feel it himself, but this was Ghost, "by Throe Spirita,”” chink and keyhole, and wae se dense nie ees returned. “It's enough for a man 10 once 4 yenr, Marley's face. It was not in j1m- fete e shat all wernt 7 & ® clearly the case; for though tho — Scrooge’s countenance fell as without, that, althowsh the oe @ Understand his own business, and pos “A poor éxouse for picking a man’s penetral , sbadow, Aas the other obs fay Ao ontte ge roagiies' lon of the Ghost sat perfectly motioniess, se low as the Ghost’s had done, the narrowest, ¢ 0 no Lhe aingy to interfere with other people's. Mine et every twenty-fifth of Dece jects in the yard were, but bad u# ‘sited: ah hair, and skirts, and taasels were still Is that the chance and hi you were were ete Patooping down, obscuring ‘Pe mas a 2uthe 1° beenom on the a setbie te Songtaimly. Good-atter- "" Pty uf Beroome, buttoning his aasial Mant about ot, like £ bad m.,, in, prs y A inner. agitated as by the hot vapor from 2 faiterin olen he dema: b in Svervthings one might have thournt eA ON sila py nt wipoting elsérty thet (t, would be user geal hy Pe i But T mp. vot angry or ferocious, but looked wader the table, nobody Under tho “You ee thiy toothplok?” said © id pay Nature lived bard by, and was (2, cordially, " leas to pureye their point, the gentie- R are ail *the earlier’ noxt mor at Scrooge a3 Marley Used to look; Sofa; @ small fire in the grate; spoon Scrooge, returning quickly to the Pll think 1° rather not," said brewing, ono large Hot noale “There low," muusred n withdrew, Scrooge resunsed lala i with ghostly spectacles turned up on ©d basin ready; and the little sauce- charge, for the reason just assigned, Scrooge, ‘és ight ker ho arerkeety’ al bi fubo: bors with an improved opinion of of clerk promised that he would, !t# ghostly furehoad. The hair was PAn of gruel (Serooge had a cold in and wishing, though It were only “Without thelr visits," sald the she Son nis clerk, fe mient keee han vith Mrvann shilling himself,” ahd ina more facetious and. scrooge walked ‘out with © CUrlowaly stirred, ap If by breath oc fhe Rend) upon the Wn Neways undey For a gecond to divert (the vialoo's Ghost, “you cannot Rope to ahun thn q oa in siowe temper than was usual with him. grow!. office was closed in hot airs and tho he even we Pap ste eis to 1 7 . path I trea xpect the first to-mor- a at fatty? Chilstans ii votre Bed: “Sieanwhiio The fog and darknonn (wining and the alk, wih the, Tat Pwo giny ere werd By Cungity up'in'n syapllae atuciae Yet ans Mat skiog a ;* ania =; tn i al ll Os 5 ‘0 ol hi ol A 1.3 2 4 - PO: . % wo" very, much’ sipalee ‘bat ie eoked This lunatic, tn letting Scrooge's Nith Haring. torches proffaring thelr dangiing below bie waist (for he Inade it horrible: but sty | horror CeWel Ole Hil eA oeg tw sald the ghoat, 224 nave It over, Rue one coal, But a caus ge SO «Md Arey SE poeple services to go before horses In peated pe wre atthe end of clang and beyond Its control, rather thax 6, warhing-stand on three Fee ths advan anak ak gry ig for weronge and no aurely pleasant to behold, and now stood, was tho ancient tower of a cburen, Of Ya, twenty timés in honor of te ® part of its own exutosslon Ae and 8 ORT sed, ia door, bur aneturned Secroome “fave nighties D4 second en’ Me. mean Whe clerk came in with the shovel, with thelr hats off, in Scrooge's office, Whose gruff old bell was always peep. POD nd thea van As Borooge looked fixedly at this | .d"iockeq himself In; @ouble-looked of my days persecuted byw 2 upon the pext night, when the last Se manta r predict 14 They hag books snd papers in thelr ing slyly down at Scrooge out of a ‘Town as hard as phenmenon it wae @ knocker agaln, Pi scit in, which Was not nis custom. goblins, ail my OWN. cre froke of Twoive ‘haa onasod to vi m to De! le ¥, Gothic window in the wall, be in- Thus secured against surprise, he bug, I tell you; humbug!” Look to see me Ro more; ani re put on his white comforter, & Marley's, I believe,” sald visible, and struck the "hours and took off hig cravat; put on his dross. Ki this the spirit raised @ frightful lok that, for your own sake, you re- det ROR Og de oo quarters in the eens, ih bear ing-gown and slippers, and bis mighis cry and shook ie chain with such a oa ber what has passed between iJ of rm OF lous vibrations afterward, as iJ cap; and sat down before the fire to dismal appalil nolae +7 n stron imagination, ne faled. aa & j ior Me; Marley?” ‘oath wore chattering ‘in ita trons take hie avuel. Horoane hela on tight Ko Feeney hom he had eald theee worde de, the m q . head up there. The cold boeame In- It tna very low fire indeod; nothing wave himselt from falling jn a swoon, sheetre tools bis Wrapper frat save you!” ered a cheerful voice. Tt Scrooges replied. tenet, “In the mein str ‘at the ‘such @ bitter night. He was obliged But how much greater was his horror table, and bound tt rotind his head, sa a ue voioa of ‘Serog hay ‘ed seven years ago this very night.” corner of the court, ‘on latgrore|f PME OP VHE MANY THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO ARE READING 7/9 cnet Ooi Gnd brood over Its phantom tuking off the before, Scrooge knew this, by # sam Ty eg lg tray rt © no doubt his verallty ie bit repairing the gag pipes, and THE EVENING WORLD’S hetore ne could extract the leaat on: bandege round hy head, ae If It were arpart ecund nie seeth, mado whoa ne 1 Se a great Li ler, ation of warmt! ‘om such @ hand. too warm to Wear indoors, . jaws w be : 18 approach. al ehicn « party of poiad Com lete Novel Each Week? {ul of fuel’ ‘The Areplace was an old jaw dropped down upon h basdage, He ventured, fo Taiee bis } pas “mumbug!” bin creden and’ boys were gathered, “warming one, built by some Mutoh merchant fell upon ia k evew again, and found big supernetu- imselé with rapid It certainly an for they had been their hands end winking their are rebbing yeurself of the richest fiction treat ever long ogo, and paved all round with cluape hands before hig tace, ral visitor confronting him jn a y+] 4 welking in the fog and frost, this two kindred epirits. At the ominous before the blaze in repture, ‘ne re she More af 0 Newspaper, quaint teh tiles, designed to tlue- roy!” he sald, “Dreadtul attitude, with bis chain 4 w of Scrooge's, that he was all word “iiberaliqy” Scrooge frowned and water plug being left in mohiwade its Werld, every week, prints a nove! by seme famous trate the Soriptures, There were Cains tion, why do you ¢rou about tis arm | a ew ‘his face was ruddy and ghook his head and handed the ere- overflowing suddenly congealed and euthe ae novels are lesued complete in six large dally inetalments. and Abel Pharaoh's daughters, Man of wi 7 ! © apparition walked backward } ys ores specie and Nis Gentinis back, furned to misanthropic ica. | The! ‘They are aslected’ with a view to suiting the tastes of all readers, Queens of ‘bnede,"engetio mevsengers Glow . i from him; and st. every step he took, | eae et ood eee. ine “At this festive season of the year, brightness of the shops, where holly | descending through the air on clouds "do," said Bere 1 q the window raised itsa}f a little, ae j humbug, uncle} eld srr scroog sald the gentleman, sprigg and berries crackled in the) like feather. ls, Abrahams. Helshag- why do aptrit hed that when the apectre peaoned it, it os ea i liteitahiagge sn OE BES pale’ facta yao esther +3 werk burtar‘bantas hued ‘of fguree to ; PM ee er wich wo. did estrable that we shot ie bh 4 4 4 o approagh, 5 ‘Merry Christ- pone rovision for the poor and nase Mary Roberts Rinehart, Rupert Hughes, James Oliver Cur- attraot ble courts: end yet thet fone Ghost returned, (tbat the spine witha sop Pe eremithin twa pean ol 2 ve you to be fe deatitute, who, sultan greatly af the same poe sok 2, Glorious Margaret Widdemer, Georgo Randolph Chee: Maney, seven vane Sead, Care Ne en een and trevel tar “on ade; other, Marley's Ghost ‘held up . np have you to be M ‘tre in It was next to fanee, Ragar Rise Burreughe and meny cthere ef her ancen TOpMOve Foe. ane aval. £0 ieee apii mone gt forth #4 hand, warning him to come no . 4 ig aura be bah non mecesearien wuss powetblo — Dallave that “euch” dtl tile ‘bad’ Seon a ‘blank at aret, with fifo. ttt do no after Scro right rave you "TBedian.—As insane satym (2 Losden. bes Peorkowe, n power to shape some pictures on x 4 ae | ‘ ° ’ \ ‘