Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-12-28
TWO HOLIDAY GIFTS.
BY GEO. r. PARRISH.


country can produce.
The Monthly Recorder was then a
new publication, and as the impress.
sion had gone forth that we paid fancy
prices for articles suitiug our needs,
poems and stories, essays and reviews
flowed down upon us in one vast uu-
b.oken stream,
Every mail brought its offering to
swell the tide, every hour its addition
to our mountain of manuscript. ! re-
member it was Christmas Day-never
mind the year-bright and cold, and
still outside, with the little lances OF
bright sunlight sparkling along the
snow, and the frost painting our win
dow-panes with strange, fantastic fig
ures. Now and then the cheering
music of the Christmas chimes came
stealing into the room, and ! could
hear the voices of children calling in
the street below. 1t was Christmas
Day to them, with all its rest and Joy
Christmas Day, with its peace on
earth, good will TO men; but to me it
was the same as ever, only longer, as
sat there working, hour after hour,
reading, reading, reading love-stories
till the very sight made me sick, and
poems until the lines ran into each
other in one confused blot of color
They were piled high up on the table
in the morning, but they are thinning
out little now, and it is high time,
for the sun is pouring in at the western
window, and stretching out like great
golden hand halfway across the dark
floor. where the waste of papers lie
strewn in such confusion.
am growing tired, and longing for
q breath of the crisp, pure air outside /;
but lust rs ! push hack my heavy
chair | chance to notice n smaller en-
veloye among the others, and glimpse
of writing with which | have grown
familiar. | draw it out from the pile,
and hold itup to the light.
"Ips not MS" | muttered; " must
be they forgot to send her q check.
No, it's something heavy and hard. &
The next moment it was opened. "By
Jove it's n picture burst from my
lips.
And 80 it was, the photograph of a
woman-not beautiful one, but q
young, strong, vigorous face, lit up with
such full, earnest gray eyes, and a lit
s'e puncn pl Psns'es o"uSh' w III we
HeaNy oo,ls vi u"'N M, IIiu "'VS
ltoill ''lo wv plo"u lol1l,o'u ~ /" SIN
sle sup VI 'i"'lo" i i t'o' "
to trust for ever, and, charmed 10y its
eAIi es''o'i' l etV iooN.us ~ - Wil'" VIC
suhoe"in, "oIS'Is up""iu' iSlt "croSs
my knee anu ~, D@'ne4 Vue nan III y
uoou OF CORY neH ! no 4s a. the &C,
CON P"9y my uo'o NllcI uaI H1'teIe l
w tne ~ N'oop'ie, = l,'NNe" IL up
an" 'e"" ''e'o ''''ip'9 ""l"S'
CRY, December 2lth IS.
W.. PbWjp RomiaY, Editor, liouftly Rc.
,sr5sr;
DEAR SR-You have shown me so much
kindness in the past, and to-day it occurred to
me tEat even v ! s'l5I continue to use my "o" De
S b. men I5V w w , ~ sg' ~ 's lures
Of your magazine.
trusting inat It 'e'R please you and oe ac-
., 1 .,.5, ,,., !,r,,oE, , "r'se'"'s sU'
InIAN l,-<ro
-,
Nou'u nc "VVSptou' res she coulu
rely ON .h"', 9u4 Ue ,'l.,; 700 For
one year hau tne WORK OF her pen
iouha space IN our columns me hrs'
one sent 20 us ! remember we'll a
Simple niue story OF Gauence ana re-
"efGInut a srons enort, huI u con-
@l9ea something IN II 10 interest me,
anu as olnerS ioHo"eo' th&I interest
increased bu' All To no aVaii so lar as
personal knowIeuge Went II was at
|9{s the same LlIa9 June that
toid me nothing; ana only IN some way
suggested tai, iair women, ana as
sucn l nad pictureG her' AS such