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1 migbt h»T0 li»Bd thMf <

m hang by lh. ektamy with li

TVy mw • dgkt, howsrcr, from the ■ windoe, At which Uwjr stood, that in 1 cried them more than any vision of

t pari woold have done. on which they lived l state. Trade had o

■ into it; and lodging bonaee had ml, ised it, and yet there ware some of ^ rich old residents who still ehurg to the booses in whit* their fathers and moth-

>h they deprived, had been on ;oymeats of the little Yandarheydena r since they had been in the hones. They wen all that Un. Vanderbeyden "two girls. Wealth gone, friends

d? of the porch 1 to tha Up er the sen !

•n in a IvlDkling 1 be

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H, though she had felt all 1 Deemed .o her a mortal ter. Their breakIf had scarcely tasted; would be Christmas, and _ laid with her, bat she would give them better fare then. A

lo voloo had asked anxiously:

l we surely, surely have dinner saw me targe, i , to-morrow, because it is Christmas j s heavy shawl,

. day f" j head, and then come And she had answered: ! street, and enter tbei

"Ho, she'ean't be like papa," said, stoutly, "for V was dead, mamma ia asleep. " "Tea, she'a asleep,” aaid the sister, flrmly. " We must wait ti wakes up. WsT look over the way then, maybe, it won't aoecu so long,

But over

a brighter than

ahe turned away, and spoke

nama," cri

TV Called States Amy. Aecording to the report of den. Shernan, the aggregate strength of the line it the United States army ia 1,640 offl31 enlisted men, made up

11,000 m

ivailable recruits, hospital

lewama, onluance sergeants, etc, 3,SOI. During the past winter, the troops in the departments of the Miasonri and " employed in an ardnoua aud

iter campaign against the

Kiowaa, Cheyenne and Comanel

, dians on the borders of the ,i

Ob. tnamma, enod the sweet young that have for ,«re been engaged

i these | uj depredations on the Texas and Kan- * "* saa frontiors, resulting, in their diaai

. ..... . eoUrority.

HIS OHS STOKY.

The wailing winds of December sing

te requiem of the dying year, and we The New York Tribune says : Mi ■e about to bid good-bye to 1S75, as we Wilson, in his conversation, vary seidm eloome the young and promising 1876. ! referred to the events of bis early lif' The bare branches of the trees, thneo although it waa not a subject that b harpstringa of the woodlands, utter their ever avoided. Only a

day yesterday and last night; and j r see how aad they look. I can't eat j (be I

Christmas candies, or play with my I („[ olar th „ rappl , M Christmas things while they look so pale „ they now '■•nceome. Won't yon go over and j p, JraorJi i oonvi,.

The Bionl Indians have recently - .... •Mcuraions into northern Hebrariia, girl she too had had quick impalsee hko maa Uy to steal cattle and hones child's; bnt she had grown selflsh, j u,, („ m , the lino of the Padflo

be bald Ug In Id hi. tel

t wink of bis ava and a t

the child's frock ahe was elabor- i Then they 11 atelj embroidering. The children mmn- , were in their ei

upon hope, aud the stain, and the house over the I (ho lady from

' way, where, aa they thought, all that' their room. man oroaturooonld possibly hope j "I saw you a

i alrear'y boon given. E

rations had boon made in ■istmaa. There was a groat o in ono corner, nil full of

and a largo, fair, gentli

looking woman had bow engaged mue_ of the.aftempon in arranging gifts upon it. Now, with the twilight, a boy and girl bad come in and were watching the lighting-up of the Christmas tree. ‘It's so good of them not to p curtains dawn," Ethel aaid, with of delight. "It’s almost as gi

being there—almost.*'

'1 dosnppoae that's the verygmndhotiso in all Now York," little Susie 1, in a tons of awe and admiration. ‘Nonsense, yon only think that be-

little," said Ethel.

JOHN B. HUFFMAN, .Attorney and Counsellor at Law Capa May Court Hoese, N. J.

ATTORN KY A.TLAW AND MASTKR IN CHANCKRY. Capa May City, i

SSBlfttaa. Ml U KDt to F<en-^ n. tTZLi-.l

the height of her

ysrienca. “ Yon forget, bnt I at nbor. We bad a fine honao out . aelvaa before poor papa died. Thor * plenty of them ; only we're so poo

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no* asked for fa ofileo. Turning to him

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twilight of Chriitmsa e _ it which alway seemed early, since nobody is sver quite ready The pale gray of tho winter’s I scarcely flushed by the lowlying sunset clouds, though in could catch a gleam of

rightness aa yon fa

The streets of How YoA 1, aa usual, but everybody seamed

in ahuny. Thesis , and nipped the noses late with their Chrlst-

ahnpping ; bni, inspiUof it, n women rtill jostled nob otfeor n; tho stdowalki or stopped to fcA at I tempting displAya of holiday goods the shops. Everybody, it seemed, 1

ia Iota of pr-senta off that Christmas "Bo should ae. If wo had papa," the! answered, gravely. "Mamma, when we got up to heaven do you think

”■ »Vo hia little girls I" i be will," Mr*. Vsnderhey-

indcring children uon, which i

herself in report* of th.

*t over her have, under military

cro “ t ' 1 ® j been engaged in exploring tho country

[ and in negotiating with these Indians, rill throw much light on this' subject.I icnemlly speaking, the damage to li nd property by Indians is believed o leas during the post year than in ai inner year, and tho prospect is that, 10 country settl™ np, it will be lesa ai established on small reservations; b

window," she said, they hab of industry —l, ..m n merr. . - •„ jtooJ, raining, they W

el" Ethel said, breath-! ( a They heard foot upon 1 (, ion a gentle tap. and [

Christmas, How is this I Are yon all " No, ma'am, mamma is in the bed, there; bat she was very tired yesterday,

and aha hasn't waked up."

An awful terror seised Mm. Rosen ' burgh. Had this worm n died of want ^

"I am Ethel Vanderbeyden, the old-1 eat girl answered, " and she is Susie." !

Carlisle o^" *

The Torpedo Warfare. its report for tho year, speaks aa fob wo of torpedoes, which it is supposed

commend liberal opproiiriatious fo :p[Kirt. The torpedo is in its nn

supply the place of, efficiently

"Yes, ,

friend, a

g. Ion,

snpporl

d by monitom.

the window of a large but rusty, looking house on ono of tho avenues, two children looked down at tho throng below, as they had been looking all day. They wen* in the four th story of the

the nnooosoioqaolegancuaf hoa.gestures oF' tho grouefnl Hue. of he, curving figure ami bSaF bead. She waa very and very poorly Had, but

Would have felt that: *

lady, and wondered how she . he fourth story of this house, a great onao, which had been handsome, too,

starved poor people. Not with sneh neighbors had Xm. Vonderbeyflen'. lot been formerly oaat, nor for such uses as M Hefcfa itarif Iwwu de- :

groped bra way In s them,

bed In the oorrira and lay down, drawing tha aoaat badolotboa np ovar her. They •topd At the window still aad watched til# merry children epposile, nntil af

servant came and pulled do<

n them the ita gleaming

and the boy and girt, who dandng round it to some gay whi* their mother played. Than Ethel and Susie began to realise that they were cold and .hungry and the room wm dark. Ethel lit a ramlle. The fire was nearly ont, bnt «he n't wake up mamma," ah with the premature thoughtfulnc ehsraetcriaed her. "She'a so

Borne vague promise

m utt/ word ; Ethel did not know what not Via#other ffayx. "BtfeMr-wa. there* of the bWr- AfdtKto tKc Iwo ‘ tree knelt down together and well known prayers, and - think “Onr Father" heard, for Ihei. is jast as sweet ss if they had the warriu, ao.ft neat Of the, ‘

torpedoea. The

■while Mm. Rosenburgh bad knelt I considered then on a good busis if the by the bedside. She had lifted tho low-1 monitors are armed na above estimated lying hood upon her arm, and drawn a for. Our efforta are now principally dobottlo of pungent oalts from her pocket, | voted to developing ‘ - ' oho woe crying aa.if her heart would ! of torpedoea by specially constructed tk, while the children looked won-1 vessels, snoh as the Alarm and Intropi ng on. by fast steam laanchoe, and by the mo Oh, Ethel, my own old Ethel, woke able torpedoea of lay and Ericoeon. up." And then she dropped her cheek, Each of these has achieved a consider all wet with team, against the white, able suooom, but all are deficient it cold cheek that waa so still speed. Tho movable torpedoes of Lay it the warm iaars, or tbe voice and Erienon can be submerged and di that sounded from for sway out of the rrcted from the shore, or a monitor, will

nosed j great accuracy, and the former for cos heavy j alderable distanoe. further indeed that :early , is, in my opinion, requisite or useful,

dratli | I dd not Further experiment will without doubl

""" """' develop an increased speed aud value.

Is pnt on their h

robes of snowy white. It is only by r looking back through the vista of the | a pari that we realise bow swiftly time I wo welcomed in tho birth of tbe now e year now about to He down in its shroud •' to sleep forever. Solemn thoughts will ‘ f' preea upon ns at such a period, spite o( V

(to with n

nol

imory of his mother.

The reports were utterly u

n to almost any other or all

cannot forgot that time ia but the other early influences ho owed the for imns between our livee and eternity, mation of tho beat traits of hia characw rapidly til esc yearn run through tor. He asked me if it would bo proper ir career and vanish, whflo lime seems for him to take pnblio notice of thee., be quite nudeOnable—the past is untrue reports, aa he waa anxious to do

I have found it hard to pc

A Lyons journal, having repeat.-,! the very bid story that the Pope in hie youth The colored Methodist Episcopal church in America has now font bishoin and a membership of *00,000 in the Southern and Western State.. There is not a drunkard among the 1,500 people who tivecn Block island, and the nearest approach to a barroom ia a place where pop beer is sold. oriring chiefly to the military footing on which that country peraista inalgnding. Living ia higher and wages lower.

in print that hia 1 Mach excitement ia created at ti ; they were re-1 Cirqno d'Hiver, Paris, over a gymua poor New England I who allows himself to be shot from

of this country liowwhericompared wit! what it waa fifty or even thirty year ago, he gave me a brief sketch of hi boyhood and early manhood, and al though the loading facts which ho re

dt set with sixty dia-; cited h »'™ h * fore >«’= published, the No reward is offered, 1 “MTatiYO as ho related it wil . forever!" Ah. wbv I ike less interesting, and 1 frit people learn to part with these ; ,ruIn "!’ tM "bich I mode at tin

,ents which they posseos os sparing. 1 "1 ' n * born," he said, "in 1812, and they do with their gold, giving not j “ l the age of ten years was pnt ont osa >nr without receiving Itoeqaivaleut I “pproutioo to a former. From the dn As the thoaghtleae spendthrift lavishly > bO* birth to tho day 1 was twenty-ot

thonghtfnl person once inserted ' ‘ ' Lost, ymtenlay.

lor they i

days are too few, i

ts os though w hoie i o them. No i “oxer hui <

he allowed me a holiday

1 tile tablets of the hmin. As wo start “rday, tho sixto , ib of February—in .orce, fragrant with dewy epfendor, ] joke of oxen and L: abeep. The latter rer glassy waters, while the landaeapej 1 ““'‘I the aame afternoon for nine dola Olanilo Lorrnine in every hne, Hv 'or*, bnt, not being able to dispose of id-bye the current grows stronger the oxea tint day, I requested my masore turbid and deeper; there are oc-; b-Rto keep them for mo nntil Monday sionol storm clouds aud vivid lightning, mfcning, whichhedid, bnt chorgod me it with wisdom fur our pilot we emerge ,ut y cents for il I paid him U '

GOD sailors. The centennial of the battle of Fort Moultrie, fought on tho twenty-eighth of June, 1778, is to to be celebrated by tho Palmetto Guard of South Carolina by erecting a 812,000 monument. Some people wont lei well enough alone. Take, for inatauoe, the man who, having been sentenced to a flue of go

idity of t

fifty c

■ear) elghty-fonr dol

nights.

keeping

henceforth ;

their mother cry : ‘Oh, Susie, Susie, have I boon dream-

all this time ?"

.ml then there were explanations, I tho story of tho long yrars since na Bryant and Ethel Carlisle were girls together was told. Bnt the beat of all, the children thought, waa when e lady from over the way took them home with her and told them tho bqy girl there shonld be their brother aiater, aud they should live there

- *-r she, who had found brat friend, would let her straggle with want

gifts and din-

rid

Fireless Locomotion.

n diameter and nine inohes in length, jacketed by a non-oonduotor of beat, would be sufficient to propel an ordinary vehicle, oontalning two perilous.

rend an appropriatii

do," to be determined after tivo trial as I am of tho opinion that in-

speed equal to th lained by ordinary whs. In large cttlra * Itm, Faria and Now York, large boil era coaid be kept at each

zeer—

of flic preparation and t of torpedoes is now ss necessary as the great gun drill A Claimant for It. Condnctor MeKonnoy, of lbs N Yqyk, New Haven and Hartford road, has received a letter in which claim is made to tho *1,000 bill that waa tendered him by mistake on a night train betHartford and New Haven, nearly yean ago, and left in his hands, the who had tendered It and who was ha pa one of the Boylston bank robbers, taking alarm and denying that be had given it when the oondnotor returned to him after a frnUlras search for change. Slnoe that timo it hua been on deposit in a Hartford bank. Tbe oondnotor has apparently il-

rriler of which claims that the I lave the monsy to the aondnotor ■herbrother." She aaysthat be- • on his d*>' Wrat to buy land ;" that be

A Tragedy at Sea. A shocking tragedy, has oocurred board the Siamese ship Queen of Bigvoy age from Hong Kong t .ordered the chief

captain.

n sitting on th* Ire asked him •Well." arid the

drmik. I’ve tried twice to get in at tbs front door and aho'a pnt mo out both

0 — —— -y.. It ia stated by times, and my aeU-rrapert won't allow : W. have longrinos forgivwn fca the oapfein that the aaaman was suffer- me fa.fay il again. So Pm waiting till net ■-britfaeHcwti. has in* from . diaraae, a species nf ring- -■dra'a quieted dowu a little, aud than I of

ihile we glide on steadily and surely , " 1 ‘h™ l " r ” 1 nl - T “‘' 11 10 R f“r°>er I ward that brood ocean whence no voy -■'S r ~’"'8 hr work for six dollarv a montl ger retnrns. | ““•* hoar.1 I used to gel up long befon These thoaghte are between anrselves I ‘h'Y'ight, feed tho stock, get my break nd onr readers. It is well to pause at ^ ** 11"' Mst was bogiunitq :.e close of a twelvemonth and look at j h® *i‘h red. start off for th, w serious ado of life. We are all be! I ”"" ds “Y u '“' 1 U5 >' d h> place

rr for some moments of aelf-oommun-1 m S dloo ® r P«| rg, and of oonfldonco ftritir caoh otber. ! and 0011 hi

boro is a strange link which binds Ur e ; tire mill until after dark at uighl Then

titer and hia readers together. Of tho ! 1 ’"' nt h' ,m '. ,W 1 the stock, ronsmids upon thoasands whom i "" f '

leekly, at

ich unwearying industry, t

become familiar, the tone of whose voices may ever reach onr ear. They are bodiless to na—we address them, bnl ,it is only Indirectly that Urey echo ont thoughts. Still we ntslmo that, like ourselves, they are liable to all the vioiari' tndra of life, and the joys and ilia which time brings in it* rapid but onvarying coarse. Some may have been - ” ' daring Ulb year, now -Irawing to a to strorv flowers o» the gravaa of tho loved and lost—to them may the f consolation; others have added

joys t<

ouh echoes in the hearts of people. "Merry ' Christmas!" many fond and to; '

of family gatherings, and memorials of love, of feuds forgotten and friendships renewed, of old forms faded from earth and of happy and fresh young faces Tho celebration of this holy tide has bo oume almost universal in a land where mistaken notions of religions duty - frowned upon its advent Bnt tho riers of sect-have melted before gonial breath of Iwtter feeling. No regards it as a dereliction of dnl mark withreligions fmtivitire tho aa

tho inception of Christianity. On this day the happy are rendered happier, and t the nniortunate are bloascd by chrrity, which on this occasion be- _ it of th© hour wo wish a merry Christmas to onr readers, one sud all I ■ There la eomperiaatlon in xll things, is there Is no worldly gain without leas, so them is no wordly loas without some gain. If the winter season la sold and trying in ite ontdoor nspfe/yat it enhances onr borne enjoy-' te and domaatsc feelings ot famdorand social joy. The fireside circle, the social gathering, the gay dance, the instructive lecture, the Jong evenings • ading, tbwa are delights only the dearly prised because the wind: e and tho storm beats outdoors, a drown the rude voice of old Boreal with a gay carol, and the cheering aalntetior to every reader of a wish happy Now Year.

tendril

the sawmill

years for fifty cents a day. In tbe spring in the same year,' I took my pack tipot my back and started for the town when I now lire,Natick, Mass., one bnndred miles away, and that journey cost me just $1.25. I worked there at shoe making, averaging fifteen honra a day, and the last week's work I did at tho baueh was for five dollars a week. Out of this I paid fifty oepta for pega and two dollars for board, so that, I had loft just *2.50. I have bottomed fifty-four jpoira of men's shore without aleepi: that for a little more than fifty cents.

" I lent my money to a man in

ton, and went to tho academy at 'Con-'

cord, N. H. I.hod been there only ei (three f) months when the man to whan I had tutrusted my fortone failed, and. lost it all. 1 was so reduced that, al though I owed for two or three weeks,

board, I was abeolntoly unable to pay it, or even to take a letter from the pool

office without borrowing money t the postage. Rut a friend invite

to remain and board with him, and pay him when I was able. Bo I stayed

through tbe term, and in the t

earned money onemgh to pay him by

irking a

w the m

“The Half.” Tho Chiotgo Tribune aays apromlnci nigs in Illinois, who is Juriverually e

ho was travoting a lonely rood in the southern portion of tlid Btuto on horse bock. A branch came athwart his face, and knocked off hia spectacle". Without his spootedeatiw judge wasps blind aa bat. He could not think of hi* Jonrnsy nntil he had " ' he slippvd big 1 the hridl* in oi

to spectacles. The search wt heard the howling of prairie . . horse plunged and snorted; ,1110 remained hidden; the lawyer in despair. Finally, as tbe wolves almost at his heels Jie leaped upon

ed horse, and, tangled found what ho had long sought

e he found Item His friends beard aad to tins day

rime

tuultuouH," replied t! fortebly fill tho hall" It is proposed by the provincial H-giH-lataro of Buenos Ayres to portion ont in small farm plots some 13,000 eqt)r.rc leagues of government lands in the South ,d Wrat, sud to sell them at chea. - tft-i to agricultural immigrants. A Brooklyn man, who had tho toes o' impany for *5,000 damage*—81,000 per foe. The company denied resjionsibility in tola, bnt Uio jury awarded the plaintiff 8500 as * memento of the

encouraged to hope that if it pleases Providence to spore his life for another half century (he is only sixty-fire) he will be able to oomptoto bis task. set in with unwonted aeverity. As airly as October 20, the street traffic w*nconducted almost entirely on rtumor", tho snow being deep enough and hard enough for sleighing, and travel by tramway had booome well-nigh impossible. Of the 5,000,000 Jews e*tim»t*d to be on the face of tbe globe 120,000 sre assigned to America, 48,000 to Franoo, 300 to Ireland, twenty-five to Norway. One ont of every seven inhabitants of Poland, of every twenty-five of Hamburg, Roumania, and Austria, ore Employer—“ Good mi

I'^WiltiM

how

t old

•Well, si

ith tbe old woman lodgings of iny own. (Pause.) But I won't see her —ut(!" Employer—“ Ab, perhaps that'swny you moved away 1" Kentucky paper claims that Fayette county has brought more money into the her stock, has exported to ora blooded stock, and imported more of the first and puree: blooded stock than baa any other county in America, or than has any territory of tho known world.

set from the place where be picked it ip. Tho lees right a man'has to a paper he more he is expected ty misplnoo and ample it, or lay it on tho edge of aomciting from which il may toll to the

loor.

Be oarefulbow you i

lady in Wor-

r, Mass., prossod a uumlier ol s of tho silver maple opecira with a hot iron, anti . shortly afterwords her

Mr. Henry Alecs Bankey, of London

boose which he used aa a smoking-room in the evening, and had always n brougham ready af hia door to start off when he saw .the glare of a fire from his —■-«. p or many years he went in the city unless prevented oIwUoUnb. Lately his wu house burned down. There api^enrellad in the pnblio drools of tbe United States 8,000,000 hildreh. In the last fiscal yeor the - - ‘ 14,600,000.

rice report an Ingres n In publie school income of *1,232,000, and in attendance of children 164,000. Tbe total ram

| ration waa about 874,600,000.