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CHAPTER II.

MULLINS AND htsEs.
What has this conversation (which act
Wait little
Christmas story, for in fact, they had
no Christmas at all, and it was impos-
sible that they should have had, and they
ought to have known better. 1t is writ
ten to be read after Christmas, when the
bills come in, and the indigestions,
and the doctors, and you ana your
wife have come TO an understanding
about the current expenses, and the
Christmas brightness and the Christmas
snow have given way to a raw, diphthe-
ritic fog and no end of slush. Read it
then.
And now they ought to have known
better, as / said before, for they were
MULLEN people and there is nothing in
mullen that can pfoduce rose. AS re-
CARDS manners, morals and ideas they
might be American velvet-plants- hey
were. But, as regards sterility of re-
sources and the figure they cut in the
world and the estimation in which they
were held, they were mullen people,
growing on very bleak hillside, too
And always haunted by the desire and
intention to grow roses! The ordinary
mullen accepts the situation. But these
human MulleinSLr-4- eY would behave
like roses. They were always outwittiny
Step-mother Fate. However she snubbed
and twitched and set them in corners
they were ready for her. Take away
carpets and they stained their floors wal
nut brown. Deny them bureaus and
they transformed a packing-box a dollar
looking glass, two cigar-boxes and some
old cbiDty into Arasc a blp Sppi
them away hungry from the greasy table
of their iodging-house and they smuggle
slices of bread, buy three cents worth of
butter, make toast over their wretched
little fire and turn the whole into revel
which they talk of with glee. There is
a caniankerous good nature, an abomi
nable Cheerfulness about them. They
will not accept the situation and consider
themselves disinherited. They have
every new painting and engraving by
heart. They visit the art sales. They
know just where they would place
the inlaid cabinets and rugs of
ShiraZ and the prints of Hogarth.
They will not see that they have no finger
in such pies. They are continually
trying to put by money for artistic treas
ures, when the ends of their income will
not meet. Such Stupidity AS said an
altar of roses woman, of similar mulleins,
"They live in a world of their own"
They will not see themselves as others
see them, Talking of art, and stamped
indelibly with Poverty, her mark! Con
demned for life to fiat beer, and dream
ing of Amontillado, in Venetian glass,
They could not be made to see why it
was so impossible to grow at least one
little rose from their stalk, just one!
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PRovIsIoss.-Pork - sls-75G19.oo.

PRovIsross.-Pork - sls75G19n. Lard
i2S Gl4c.
ST. LOUIS.
LIVE STocK.-Beeve--Fai to choice. 81 5Os,
600. Hogs-Live, e.. .2s67.00.
BREADsTUPFs.-Flour-XX Fall, s47Jd,s 90
whest-No. Red Fall sl.054G1C7. Corn-No.
2, New. 6sl3 G6gc. oats-No. , 55a4 q SIC. Rye-No
/, s1.c2Gl03. Barley-No. 2. sl-S0GI.35
PRovIsIoss.-Pork- si9 25Glg 81. Lard
-i2.Gl3c.
MILWAUKEE,.
BKEADsTUFFs.-F FlOur-Spring XX, s525G5 So
Wheat-spriug No. /, g2lz esc No. =, s8sef
s9c. Corn-No :, 5ll.IG5s. Oats-No. :, 51a
51lc Rye-Eo l, gsfg98c Bsrey-No. 4
81 LIS aGI.sg
DETROIT
BEEADsTUFFs.- sl.f5fGI I5l5
Coru-7Oi417lc. oats-S4a 9571sc. Dressed Hogs
8 25a.s.40
BREADsruFFs-W Wheat-Amber Mich.. SLID
GifoH; No. Red, s10eHGi1o. Corn
High Mixed, New, 7ohG7oAc. oats-No. :, 555l
G56c.
CLEVELAND.
BKxADsTUFFs -Wheat-No. ! Red, SLING
liz; No. > Red. sl.o5lGII6. Corr-yevy,
7IG172c- Oats-s713 9t5sc
BUFFALO
LIVE sTocK.-Beeves - si75Q6,0O. Hog--
Live, s6.@0GI.I5. SheeD-s st75g5.51.
EAsTLIBERTY.
LIVE SToCK.-Becyes- Best, 81. 25656.75; me
diam, s5.75T6.O). Hogs - Workers s6.yy8
6.75; Philadelphia, S700G5 10 SheeB-Best
81 Op46 30; medium. s5OOH5.75.
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F0RTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.

TUESDAY, Dec 2.-.Senate-Thc bill
reported by the Finance Committee providing for
the resumption of specie payments in 1879 was
passed after considerable debate by ayes 32, noes
Adjourned
HouSe-Resolut ions were adopted
calling for report Of the sur
Nrv Of the Tennessee and Hol-ton
Rivers: authorizing the WAYS aud Means Com
mittcr To take trstimonyiu New ork in relation
tn Pacific Mail affairs o.. The Navy Appropria-
tUu bill lSlGOunW1 was pas ~cd e.. A bill was in
trOdu"ed excluding Chinese immigrants from the
benefit Of the Naturalization act. Adjourned
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 23-.SeHate.-Sena-
tor Carpenter was elected President pro tenn of
the Senate by "a vote Of % to Is, and returned
thanks for the honor conferred The joint rcso-
lutiuu for adjournment until Jan. > was pass ed
The Naval Appropriation hill was referred
..- Executive session. and adjournment until
Jan. >.
WOuSe-The Committee on Elections
reported III favor Of snyder, the sitting member
from Arkansas. which report was unanimously
cunCurrcd in An adverse report wa- made on
the bill authorizing Illinois to select 357 OO
acres of .'ublic laud- The Senate Finance bill
IN the special order for Jan -. Messrs
COburn, Albright, Cameron. Buckner and Luttrcll
were named n the select committee on Alabama
affair Adjourned 10 Jan. ,.
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GOOD NIGHT

WHEN We have sassT3ood- night,
And shut the door.
Oft, till the taper's light
Is spent, once more
All the days deeds-~e do,
With JOY or pain:
All the days mirtk and rue
Comes back agets-
While the dim taper's light
Wanes more and more,
And we have said Goodnight,
And shut the door
Now the Year sayr Goodnight,
And shuts the door:
FADES the fire, wars the light,
Nanes more and more.
Harx, how the midnight bells,
Tolled mournfullv.
Moan out their LASS farewells,
Old Year, TO thee;
Once they with gr At delight
Hailed thee before
Now thou must ssy Good night,
And shut the dosr.
Once. we shall say Goodnight
And shut our doer,
While, a. the taper's light
Wanes more and more,
just ere asleep We fall
Go dream of dnyl
We shall retrav"s Il
The Years To- say.
While the dim Ia er's light
Wanes more an more,
When, with our l'st Good night,
We've shut the door
But, when we've said Good night,
And shut orr door,
Oft dream We what delight
Morn hath IN store;
And, when the Old Years done,
We, ere We SLEEP
Trust that the Neys Years sun
Better doth keep
Than aught Of true delight
We knew before.
Glad. with our last Good night.
Well shut our door.
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CHAPTER ".
PARASITES AND NUIsANCEs.


Hitherto | have introduced these peo-
pie as They" That was from cowardice.
Seldom has writer more Objectionable
personages in hand. The Mulleins were
three: mother, daughter, and son. |
have read recently that women without
money were very nearly in the position
of parasites" also, that "a woman's
business is to amuse and serve man. and
make his life agreeable, and when not
so engaged she is nuisance" The
mother and daughter in question were
without money, and there was no "man'
as an excuse for their existence; and not
even the entireness of love, in which
they lived with the Boy and he with
them, can altogether atone. | assure
you feel it; but then what would you
have? This is not Christmas story
but a story of aggravation.
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House.-The Committee on Election
Proclamation by the President Relat.
ing 10 fairs in Mississippi.
" A-IuNGTuN, Dec.
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THE MiRkETS.
DEcEnBER -, 1874.

bh'thb - lNsf
NEW YORK
I1rr,~.- NiGdlu. upland. liagbl4s.c.
LIVE STOCK Beef Caule-S $40 gplt13.n. Ho..-
Dressed, $50 So. Live, s67sG1oO. Sheep
Live sa0oU65o
BRhApsrUyFs F1our-t,ood to- choice, s5.epE
s.ru, white wheat extra, s. 6egsI5 Wheat-No.
, Chicago slll&l.1S; No. , Nurthwesleru.
sI12.Ji i35s; No Milwaukee spring, slI4G
llrs Rye 81 to6c Barley Al 45Tfsa. Corn
Mixed Western, s76sSc. Oats Mixed West
cru. rs.I7uc.
TRuy1,roSs-Pork- New Mess. ssas7t,a
s..n Lsrd-l3's Gly &C. Chee-e-t=s,gl-4c
Wool.-Commor 20 extra, 43G65c.
CHICAGO.
LIVE sroCk Reeves Choice. 8 7srs o..
good, st1sG5.s0; medium, 81 2sFI75. hrtcL-
er-' stock, s2-7SsSi q; stock cattle, 5000
S6a. Uogs-Live. g. SS,E5o. she,p-taood
10 choice. S4.505t515
Provisions Butter Choice gofs7c. Egg
Fresh. 4G25c. Cheese-Ncw York fscr1r,.
'58l5'sc: Western, 1f4Gisc- PorA-New
Mess, sls.7SBls.Sn. -sI5oaEi8J5
BaEADsrUFFs.- Flour-White winter ,vt-s.
s42sgnsl. spring eStrs, sAC0I;60 Wbea,
Spring. No. , sels6sel.c Corn-No. = To-.
CSC. oats-No. : Sst1G5S4.c. Barl.-No
{, sl.27l1l 27Il. Rye-No. ,, es 9sc
wooI.-Tub-washed. 45G5-o.; fleece, washed
i094sc.; fleece, unwashed. s7GsSc.
LUxBER-Flrst Clea-. ss21oGS5o: Second
Clear, sI6.0GsOOo; Common Boards. al. COG
1900, Fencing, sl2on11soo; "A" Shingles
s3oOG8.25 Lstb. sR-coG2.2a
CINCINNATI.
BREApsTurrs.-F7ou--s s5ocSs5 81 Wheat Re-
sl0S1l.l0. Corn-New. 6aEt70c. Rve-sl oaal 10
oats-5saoc. Barley-No, :, sl.s7gl.27rs.
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CHAPTER Ill.

THtIH CHhIsINAs-FENEH EH
Now that you comprehend them, you
will not be surprised to hear that these
people, VINO were in want, had resolved
to keep Christmas.
And you will add almost of yourself,
that these are precisely the sort of peo-
pie who are sure to take the Christmas
fever, and to have it hard, and to whom
its wreaths and tapers and carols are full
of meaning and delicious charm-and
you would be quite right
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He Had Seen Kings Before.

one of the Chronicle reporters was re
quested on Saturday last by friend to
Join him on a visit 10 the depot to wit
ness the arrival of the king of the
kanaCs.
: No, sir, not much,' growled the re-
porter
' Have you ever seen a king in your
travels" inquired the friend, marveling
SomeH hat at his short answer.
Yes, sir replied the reporter
was once guilty Of seeing three kings.
Then, after a moments pause, went on to
say And they cost me $50, sir. Those
were war times, however"
His friend suggested he must have
been in bad company.
Well, | don't know says the re-
porter thought ! was in pretty good
company at the time called to see
those three kings in company with three
queens, another king, and an ace spot.
and have never had any desire 10 see one
of the royal family since"
His friend saw the point Saif he
passed and shutilcI vu sst...5,-a
Chronicle.
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CHAPTER Y.
THE LITTLE WOMAN AS A BUYER.

The little woman, who has slipped out
quietly, comes in and sits down by the
window, although it is cold. She has
been trying to buy Christmas-wreath
with her six cents, but there are none To
be found at cheaper rate than shil-
ling apieCe.-L0utse Il. Fuyaiss, in Ap-
plet0ns Journal
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CHAPTER VI.

MARKET ET-woMAN-sAUL AND DAVID
SIMPLE SUMS.
And now YOU are waiting to hear
Mamma Mullein's business-that is,
you want to hear Anything about it. |
trust it shall not shock you. She was "a
market-woman; not that she brought
eggs and butter and fruit to market
Had she done that she might have been
rose-woman instead of IA MULLEN
woman, and this story could never have
been written. But there are SO many
sorts of markets-as a market where
your nice fresh ideas will bring fair
price. OF this order of market-woman
was Mamma Mullen. She was liable to
ideas There are some people who re-
gard such person with suspicion, but,
though desirous to please all readers, /
must give my personages as find them.
Ideas are often good for checks, but they
more frequently stamp the man or
woman subject to them as dangerous.
The world is like Saul. 1t accepts the
thought, whether in writing, marble,
pottery, painting, politics, warfare,
preaching, inventions, no matter what,
as the Hebrew King did Goliath's head.
But it never forgives the David. 1t
"eyes" him; from that time out look out
lol JaNellns! DeE pdIuon, nave
shunted the story off the track; but only
to show you how Mamma Mullen some
times made money and sometimes fail
ures.
Two and two make four. You see, of
course, that Mamma Mullen, who was
already in the habit of conveying ideas
to market, was specially desirous of a
brisk holiday business, and wrote night
and day to secure not two but a dozen
strings to her bow: Thus: For the Pop
utar Cro,oquiU a Working Idyl." For
the ETcetsi0r a . Carol" For the CHtgA0H
three appropriate articles. For the
W0rkstdnd "A Little Preach About Ba-
bies." For the H0lfdt0n Review"
For the Kaleidoscope the prose version
of The Cow Jumped Over the Moon"
Then She figured il out. thus:
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A STORY OF AGGRAVATION.
In MGltitudinOus Chapters.
CHAPTER l.

THE AMERIC M vELvET-PLANT.
MY dear" saia Mrs. Scroggs, "you
must get me at once an American vel
vet-plant.' have been reading its de
scription. 1t is charming"
my dear" said Mr. Scroggs, there
are several growing out there on the hill.
Which shall transplant for your"
Scroggs.
1.-The American velvetplant' is the
mullein," said Mr. Scroggs
"Pshawm said Mrs. Scroggs
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JOB "oRI.
' Come, old man, YOU get off herer

Come, old man, you get off herew
The gray head was still on the seat,
face hidden by the wrinkled hands, and
the conductor laid his hand on the old
mans shoulder, shook him gently, and
said:
Come, wake up, old man" One of
the hands fell down, the gray head
moved to one side, and the conductor
started back
He. is dead'' he whispered as the pas.
sengers crowded up
Uncle Jack had gone to the poor house
at last, but only for burial-Dtrott Free
Press
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because in the presence of good mediums he
had seen a well-formed hand, which belonged
to 10 living being, come up from under his
cl Ar and write message on slate which he
held on his lap.
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As train on the Saginaw Road had
nearly reached the junction, the other
day, an old lady suddenly shouted out
Stop this keer-stop herr A passen-
ger wanted to know what Was up, and the
old woman ran up and down the passage
way and exciteGly exclaimed: Where's
the man who runs these keerss I've left
quart bottle of cold tea at Detroit :"
The train didn't back up.
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SoNiE OF the Connecticut people are
complaining bitterly again OF the way
paupers are imposed upon the towns of
that State through the law of Massachu-
sets by which poor persons receive
passes over the railroads They are car
ried as far as the State line, where their
fare is demanded. and if they don't pay
they are put off the train, and of course
become a charge 10 the town where they
happen to be left.
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The other day Binghamton girl
offered to let a countryman kiss her for
five cents. al gad!" exclaimed the
youth, that's mighty cheap if feller
only had the money"
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Now THAT the winter season is fairly
upon US" is an expression which hasn't
been used in over 1000 newspapers this
winter
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AN Eastern girl who tried to describe
a lump of coal weighing 500 pounds said:
Its as big as mothers evershoes,n
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MANY child goes astrsy, not because
there is want of prayer or virtue at home,
but simply because home lacks sun
shine
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tNN tVu huu".
After riis es1feeiatian Mamma MGllIeia
wrote with more spirit than ever; and
the inventor of the dodge came out in a
new character, as "The Filial Fib." He
discovered that all well-regulated boys
spent their evenings in unceasing efforts
to attain a good writing-hand.
Also, that his only hope of achieving
that desirable result was in copying each
evening till bedtime numerous pages of
his mothers manuscript.
Whereupon he acquired his title of the
Filial Fib, and, let US hope, the good
writing hand.
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cisco, departing by the early train are to
be awakened by means of an alarm bell
over the bed, to be sprung outside the
door by the hotel porter.
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to be expended for winter clothing, and
for the Christmas-rose-ten do lars might
be spared for that and there was THAT
two dollars, YOU know"
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CORN AND HOGS.

From carefully conducted expert
ments, by different, persons, it has
been ascertained that one bushel Of
corn will make little over ten and
one-half pounds Of pork, gross. TAX
ing the result as a basis, the following
deductions are made, which all our
farmers would do we'll to lay by for a
convenient reference.
When. corn sells for 154 cents per
bushel, pork costs II cents per pound.
When corn costs II cents per bush
ell, pork costs 2 cents a pound.
When corn costs % cents per bushel,
pork costs 8 cents a pound.
When corn costs 33 cents per bush
Of, pork costs 4 cents pound.
When corn costs so cents per BUSH
Ell, pork costs 5 cents a pound.
The following statement shows
what the farmer realizes on his corn
when sold in the form of pork:
When pork sells for 8 cents per
pound it brings rs cents per bushel
in corn.
When pork sells for 4 cents per
pound it brings 80 cents per bushel in
corn.
When pork sells for 3 cents per
pound it brings As cents per bushel
in corn.-Jo,.r,sal of Agriculture.
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INCREASED c CONSUMPTION OF WHEAT.

An able writer in the London
Times, on the annual growth and con-
sumption of wheat, says: "1t is prob
able that the importation by Great
Britain the coming year will be little
if any below ten million Of quarters,
if the home harvest turns out to be as
large as the highest estimates. In
ali the estimates as to the probable
demand and supply, an important
item in them has been overlooked.
This is the annual increase of popula-
ton in countries where wheat is the
principal bread grain. The San Fran
cisco Journal Of Commerce places this
increase at 100000 per annum, and
estimates an additional increase Of
100000 persons who change from
rice barley, rye and maize to wheaton
bread. This being allowed, 48,000,-
900 more bushels of wheat will be
needed this year than last"
We have no doubt that the annual
consumption Of wheat increases more
than 50,O0O,0OO bushels in Europe
and America. Wheat is as cheap in
Nashville for horses as timothy.
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Some time since party of ladies
and gentlemen went on a tour Of in
spection through Durham Cas-
tie. The "lions'' were shown
to them by an elderly female of a
sour, solemn and digni6ed aspect. In
the course of their peregrinations
they came to the celebrated tapestry
for which the castle is so famed.
These" said the guide, in true show
man style, favored with a dash Of
piety. to suit the subject, and point
ing to several groups of figures upon
the tapestry-'these represent scenes
in the life of Jacob" "Oh yes-how
pretty y said young lady and with
a laugh, pointing to two figures in
somewhat close proximity, she con-
tinued, 81 suppose that is Jacob kiss
ing Rachel?'' "No, madam" respond
ed the indignant guide, with crush
ing dignity, ''that is Jacob emestling
soith the angel" The young lady SUBJ
sided, and offered no further exposi-
tory remarks, but groaned under a
sense Of unworthiness during the rest
of the visit. -Draecer IN Harper.
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The Scotchman furnishes us with
the following illustration of the camel
and gnat religion of some of his coun-
trymen, but'it is quite as common
here and everywhere else as in Scot
land. A traveller says: "Sunday
morning at the hotel at Dumbarton,
l had just got up and rung the bell
for some hot water for shaving. A
waiter answered my call. I want
some hot water if you please I said.
And for what do you want the wa
ter?' For shaving I said. Ye can
ma have hot water on the Lords day
for sic a thing as shaving said the
waiter, horror struck at the idea. l
insisted again but with the same ef-
feet. Ma, Na,' said he, 'ye Gamma
have it, Necessity is the mother of
invention it's said and this aroused
mine. I thought that if could ar
range this order in such a way that
it would not affect his religious scru-
pies he would bring it directly. I
therefore proposed that l should take
some toddy, and told him to bring me
the material for making it, consisting
OF whiskey, sugar and boiling euater.
These he brought without the least de-
muir. gave him the whisky, which he
drank, and / used the hot water !"