Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-02-04

. tos - -. on Earth, to Men Good VIII
q. pJ,.nsued down the stately ais,es
, ~, 49, : Fps, and the time is here. OnS
al,ar Christmas eve: once moT
o,.aa oraars ~ pulpit are wreathed with eve,
chor;sT onee more the voices of ~
S,ora ,e.sls rise to the vau lied roof. ono
eved orn o slender, pale faced, brown
sr"a,s ys~ 4 ganlst sits at her post. her whit
.hlssa evokiDg wondrous mnsic fror
sro sroSv 80 Ptarl keys. But the face has
ia. fdset beauty, the dark ewes n sadda
ss,iaaan 1Ja snan OF old, and for the sill or,
,o,,,., S-aOrvS y other days her dress is deenes
tootn aota 'hg' plain of make and poor y
Inc last piece is surO-soro,b;u,
granu and old, and trinmnbont. LIN III
gooq night, Miss EnnlebarptH rHs' = anC nnC
and Down the - stsirsV sTsV ngster N.Y. saoyiaSs awiaS
n ". - sWeil, but fingers after thew hsve
Is her custom and ss hev
.Ua. nss.lus aoat over the KEYS. and beT evoa a
1ssN less oR .ne music. she is thiT king of an '
oISl and - fIhnristmas eve, three years ago.
h1 hess.s1 eI Mther and lover who stood
Dy St theIHide that night. ''O
She has lost them both-the lovo- 4bo,,
~. n1vsl.eo near OF or see since; the father
One year ago. A great financial crisis
had e0ne had involved sbreNd LAWYER sT
Englak = and swamped him. He had
kkNu under the blow. and In
zee months after he was dead
Pile had never forgiven
ii - g Iarrv srrs's -
scrupl great vantage. ;iaan 4 a, Your .I,.
titterl cessful business bawe S,ao been y nel, |.
beggag offer induceP Hatton is married
long 4, to some wiser wo-
man, lien I'm gone you may earn
your uylng as best you may"
Ihe3 nad buried him, and Katherine
had eRsned her living bravely and well.
For years she had played the organ of
st. Phllps as a labor OF love. Now it
becamea labor of necessity. Her salary
as orgsnist and half a dozen piano pupils
gave hr all she needed, and lite went
on, somehow, and Christmas had come
again-
She dreaded Christmas-the old pain
and sIngg.e seemed to come back
atresh She. did not regret what she
had done. Better loneliness and pov-
erty tnan il-gotten gain-better lose
her lover forever than become the wife
OF nian capable of wronging the living
and the dead. She had lost him, but
she had not ceased to love him. While
she deolored his sins, her pure prayers
followed him in his reckless wanderings
over tle world.
She left the organ at last, and slowly
qultted the church. Unlike that other
Chrsi mas, no moon nor stars Shone.
White, soft, ceaselessly, the snow fell.
She put up her umbrella and hurried
home the home of boarding house
took Ger belated and solitary supper,
and lel up to her own little sitting
room A fire burned in q CRATE, and her
| xiane .isole relic of former splendor-
\ Stt5. with some new mdsic upon
it. B6re sitting down to her long
I pracse she went to the window and
iookedout. All the world was white
and bill and ghostly, and faster and
faster the snow was falling. AS she
stood he tall, dark figure of man
opened the gate and came plowing
through the snow to the front door.
"One of the boarders," " she thought,
debated as / was. How cross Mrs
White will be ?"
| She left the window and went to the
piano. Before she commenced her prac-
tice, and half unconscious)y, she began
softly to sing the old anthem:
Hark the herald angels sing
Glory to the newborn king,
Peace on eaTth--and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled.
Then she stopped, conscious that the
door had opened, and that he intruder
did not advance.
Come in," she said, land shut the
door, please there is a drau-"
She stonned with q low cry. but he
took her at her word, shut the door, and
came forward.
"I have come back, Katie" he said.
"Will you forgive me and shake
hands P"
de took both her5 without waiting
for leave, and held them fast.
81 only reached America yesterday,
he went on. "All these years have
been in Europe, trying to forget you anc
be happy. and / had neither forgotten
you nor been happy. You were right
az. ksyrong- / have come back tc
ned ts, ask you if you have
NO. you P'' she repeats. nj.
- ~ sh Oh. my Harry my
~ ~ no longer
:. ~ Se and the little ones are at the col; OLD
neh Tead, and the drunken husband
has drunk himself to death. I ried t.
paiter with my duty, Katie, before
went away-I sought out Rose an,
prohefed her a portion of hel father
fortune. She was proud, as you tol,
me sac would be, and refused it will
scoIn. am poor she said, almos
starving, but l will not take as favo
Irom you, Harry Hatton, that which i
my T1ght. Keep all. or give ALL KEEP
al, nate, and, if l could have forgotten
you might have kept all to the end
bu1 loVe you so well, my Katie, that
ask 5.e nothing hut you for the rest of m,
me. we will be poor, but we will b
togeIher. Say you forgive me, Katie
you have not said it yet.n
one said it then, holding him close
1er happy tears moistening his alread,
damp coat-collar.
iou and / are to spend Christina
WIN kose." he says, presently, that frs
transport over. She's Jolly littl
soul as ever lived, in spite OF all he
tfoulnles, and right glad to have don
WIN matrlmony forever. Who know
ous llat, alter eight years of it, you ma,
ecno her sentiments
- think / will risk it, though" sal,
MISS En- glehart, looking at him, hand
some, and big, and brown, with adorin
eyes. Oh, Harry! to think | did no
Bnow you, striding through the snoy
up TO the gate. / was Just thinking
with ever so little Of pang. that n,
git would be mine this year, while a
the time the best and dearest of a.
CN4sistmas boxes was coming to me owe
th. snow"
christmas has brought you you
lover, and New Year shall bring 20
your husband" said Harry.
And New Year did.
"What luck did you have tishlr
Yesterday, Breckenridge g askeda Ca
weston gentleman OF well-known IN
ueeunious character who owes ever
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