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I,OR SALE = CORNER LOTS AND =. IL AND
l. li,sq ll28, lSc. per 81. it also number of
squares half squares triangles and single lots and
Sc, which will donble in value III a short time.
1871 IHOS. A. MITCHELL. Oh Z st
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IOR RENT-BY THOS. f. WAGGAMAN, REAL
I ESTATE BROKER. 9l7 81. NV
STORES, sc.

Store r'm 116 Fnw.S l25 Hall, Y. ave bet. 18th
Store r'm ll14 NV. 100 and 18th SITS. Nv: rent.
Hall, I'd q. 18th & SITS. 50 day, $50 night.
Recommendations re and dwell .1:}0 I'D
Store and dwell 2U01 81. n. W., 3r.............20
1ith st. NV, 9r...... 80 Store r'n cor. 1st&
Store and dwell. NV. SITS. n.w-.............15
9TH and hsts Stable rear 81 Es-w-.-.lO
5rs...............20 Stable rear 81 II stn. ". 10
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1920 Conn. trearl. 80 1922 Conn. trear) $50
IS Z. U. HOLTZMAN. 9th and + stsnw
1NOR RENTING NEW HOUSE, NEAR DUPONT
Il circle cabinet uIHutels electric BELLS &c. one
rooms and bath $50. the other II rooms and bath
600 A II. sEMMES, room 90, Kellogg building,
14lO + St 10 Inn
1,rOK RENT-VERY LOW tBY PARTIES LEAVING
Il CItyJ Eleyantly Furnished l.-roOIn House near
Dupont circle, from Feb l D with telephone, china
linen and cooking utensils. Apply 936 + st fl ct
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L'OR SALE = LOTS EMBRACING FRONTS OF
Il over 5000 it, Mass ave, Il, 9th. 18th and Sth
SITS Sc. no better Investments on the market.
f6-.}t THOS. A MITCHELL, 9:}4 4 at
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IGOR SALE-1O,000 SQUARE FEET OF GROUND
i fronting Lincoln park: IA great bargain if sold
this week. THOS. A. MITCHELL
a
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

INOR SALE-BRICk YARD WITH ABUNDANCE
Il Of Clay Of the best quality; transportation of brick
can be made by water rail situation and satisfac
tory for sale given upon application to W. H.
BARSTOW, 6l5 9TH st. IL. W. f7-lw
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During the. Holidays.

The best part of the holiday season.
perhaps, is the opportunity it gives for
home gatherings and the family re-
unions that IN these busy days are all
too few. Many a young man finds time
to get back to the old hcarthstone and
sit down in the dear home circle who. if
the holidays were omitted, would be
kept strictly at his tasks. All the
schools are dismissed, boys and girls are
at home, teachers likewise are of duty,
and, with no care pressing, in thousands
of places parents and children have
happy times together for which they
may thank the festive season. There
are other unions and reunions, all of
them pleasant and helpful, but there is
hardly any such Joy to a youth in this
world as that of getting back to the fire.
side where he was reared. There is a
rest there for him, a perfection of peace
such as that, no matter how prosperous
he may be in his pursuits, never come
to him any place else. And greatly to
be pitied is he for whom no door of the
early home is open, or against whom it
is blown shut by the pitiless storms that
have beset him.-United Presbyterian.
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"There, tell me about it l didn't
lno,p xon had anY children"

s'There, tell me about lie oAu"
know you had any children.
She heard simple story OF the brave
little mothers struggle to make nest
for her birds; and how, at last, finding .
position in the city, she had placed them
in a boarding-school where they would
be we'll cared for, and where she could
visit them every Sunday.
1--WE try to make that do for all the
week." the little woman added, with
smile, land when a holiday comes we
spend the whole of it together. And l
thought, Miss Hopkins, perhaps you
would let Marjory sleep with you to-
night"
Five minutes later Miss Priscilla was
standing alone before the fire, wrinkling
her forehead anxiously; for, somewhat
to her own surprise, she had consented
to care for six-year-old child all night.
She! who had never held one in her
arms, who looked upon children as be-
wildering mysteries!
"What shall do if it cries?" she muir
INJURED, ''or has the Group, or falls out
of bed, or wants doll, or-you're fool.
Priscilla Hopkins"
But when Mrs. Clark appeared at the
door that evening, with little, curly
headed, white-robed figure half hidden
in a great shawl, and gazing with big.
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NOT FRUITLESS.

A man who has spent a busy year sits
down for little retrospect He falls
into q moody frame, and in a tone of
regret says: 81 worked all the year
through, but there is hardly any thing to
show for it; my work has had no perma-
nence." But good spirit was beside
him and she said: My dear, do you re-
member those flowers that grew right
out there? Those roses. petunias, hello
tropes, geraniums, and most of all,
that beautiful ilium auratum? Well,
they are all gone. Not one of them had
any permanence. You can not find even
stem to tell that they existed. And
yet, they were beautiful while they
lasted, filling the air with fragrance,
pleasing the eye of all who saw them,
and they are remembered still by many
persons to whom they were messengers
of gentleness." And the moody shadow
seemed to break away from his brow,
giving place to smile and air of salts
faction. But later in the day, after all
the work was done, and she was weary
heaving sigh, she said, sadly: my
life is just round of the same duties,
and seems to be wholly Ruthless" II
was his time now, and looking up cheer.
lily, he said: "Not so. my dear. Dc
you SEQ that tree over there, that
noble oak? Well, it has stood there
these many years, more than you
and I can tell, and its life
has been almose wholly without variety
Each summer it is crowned with foliage
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covery was greeted by little jubilee
from the children and grateful glance
from their mother at Miss Priscilla,
who, somehow, seemed always to be
looking out of the window. But Mar
jory found something that puzzled her
"a long, black stocking hanging over
the back of a chair.
"Why, it's big like yours, mamma
how funny! And there isn't any thing
in it!'
"Yeth, there ith!'' lisped Tot. ''Tum-
pin round and hard. Ooh. look, NAM
MAP And the first ray of sunlight that
struggled into the room CLEANED on a
gold piece in Tots hand.
Miss Priscilla had disappeared into a
deep closet and was fumbling rou. i for
something, which for some reason could
not be found; perhaps because her
nightcap had bobbed down over her
eyes. But the next minute two arms
were wound around her and she heard a
fearful voice whisper: "You have been
so good, SO good to me. dear friend! !
wish l could thank you"
''There, there, child. Don't say an
other word. I've been rich, selfish
old creature, but I'm going to reform.
And we've all made such a good begin
ming this morning that I really think
this is going to be the first merry
Christmas ever had! There, don't say
another wordY'-H. A. Hall, in Interior.
The Globe-republican., 1890-12-24
In Kris Kringle's Land.
rAsv" I THOUGHT

The German Christmas has supplied
US with two of our best-known Christ
mas misunderstanding up stockings and
attaching gifts to sprigs of pine, called
Christmas trees.
From the German Christmas also
come Santa Claus and Kris Kringle.
The latter is a corruption Of Christ
Kindlin, or Christ Child. of whom they
have the beautiful fable that with His
own hands He places Christmas toys
and sweetmeats in the stockings of good
children, while those of bad ones re-
ceive nothing but small birch rod,
placed in them by one Pelsnichoi-lit-
orally nicholas with the fur" that is
St Nicholas dressed in fur.
1t is rare sight in a German house,
hold on Christmas morning to see the
expression of abject misery on the face
of some poor little wight, who, having
been disobedient or otherwise naughty
on Christmas eve, finds only birch rod
in his stocking, instead of bon-bons and
playthings. The dread of getting the
rod from old Pelsnichol on Christmas
keeps many German child in order all
the year.
The Globe-republican., 1890-12-24

In the gray dawn of the early morn
ing, M.rjory, cuddied close within the
projecting circle of her new friend's
arm. reached up timid. little hand ana
touched her cheek.
"sayr' she whispered. shyly, do you
think he's come yet?"
"Who?" asked her bewildered bed
fellow. ,- !,
s.Why, Santa Claus. don't think l
can wait much longer to see-1 don't
think can"
ssTry and wait till mamma comes with
Tot. Lie down and I'll tell you story"
coaxed Miss Priscilla.
Luckily for the success OF the story,
Mrs. Clark tapped at the door just then,
and with bound Marjory was standing
upright in bed, her eyes fixed on the
fireplace.
.'Ohy" the child cried softly, "Ohr'
The next moment the little voice burst
out into the happiest ripple OF song
without words or tune, but it seemed as
if any one would know it was a Christ
| mas carol.
"Ideclare!" said Miss Priscilla, wip-
ing her eyes on the pillow-case, Il de-
clare, it makes me think of that hymn,
Break Forth into Joy!"
The chubby fingers were already
diving into their stockings, and unity.
| ing puzzling knots, and each new dis
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ant myth, the friend of the children, the
old gentleman of snow-white beard, be-
nevolent disposition and invisible move
ments. In some of these countries a
dread parsonage is supposed by the chill
dren to follow in his wake, person,
either male or female, who is prepared
to lecture bad little children on their
evil ways or seize them in his invisible
arms and spirit them away. The myth
regarding this dread being is probably
a survival of the old pagan idea Of the
good spirits and the bad spirits, or per-
haps, of the legend about the annual
conflict between Thor. the god of the
thunderstorm, and Freija, the goddess
of spring.-N. Y. Mail and Express.
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HOLIDAY HINTS.

Don't expect to find a brown-stone
front in your stocking.-Phila. Call.
Never look gift-horse in the teeth.
It is also wrong to look Christmas
gift in tho price-mark.-Somerville Jour.
The man who economises Christmas
for sake of New Years blowout takes
time by the forelock just a week too
soon.
Talk about oil trusts, rubber trusts,
coal trusts, etc., as much as you like,
but what we want about Christmas is a
turkey or goose trussed.-Boston Cour-
Ter.
If the man who devised the dumb
piano would only invent a dumb horn
and drum many of US wouldn't be 50 re-
signed to having Christmas come only
once year.-Judge.
When some men give their wives a
little pin money to buy Christmas re-
membranes for the children, it seems
much larger than when they spend
twenty dollars rafting to win two
dollar turkey.-Judge.
If any child gets up on Christmas
morning to lind an empty stocking, ne
will feel as bad for time as the man
who carries an empty sleeve. and the
men and women nearest him will be so
guilty that they ought never to be for
given.-Judge.
The Young Turkey-Well, we've es-
capped Thanksgiving! Gobble! gobble!
goblet
Experienced Gobbler SADLY = My
son, do not let your life insurance policy
lapse. Christmas is coming!-Munsey's
Weekly.
Starting on new year it is well to
accept this teaching from Emerson;
Write on your heart that every day is
the best day in the year: No man has
learned any thing rightly until he
knows that every day is doomsday."
The close of year is a poor time for
good resolutions, but it is an excellent
time for good actions. 1t is late for
planning, but it is just right for per-
Torrance. Now is the time to be and to
DO even though the hours are too prec-
ious to waste in thinking about being
and doing.-S. s. Times.
The Globe-republican., 1890-12-24

and then each autumn the winds sweep
it all away. But the birds sit there and
sing, the cattle gather under it on sultry
days, and children collect about it to
picnic on their holidays. There is
nothing of all that there now, but what
a help has the old tree been, and how
many pleasant things could be told
about i-how noble an object it is, also,
in the wintry landscape" The parable
was not without its meaning. The good
mother returned the smile of the be-
nignant father, and together they sang
at their family worship of the loving
kindness of the Lord.-United Presby-
terrain.
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hang the little stockings here tonight"
With two such pleading eyes shining
at her over an armful of packages, Miss
Priscilla felt she could hardly refuse.
Him, yes. don't know that it would
do any harm. All foolishness. think.
do you?" said Mrs. Clark, brightly.
''But it's such pleasure to watch them
when they find the stockings in the
morning! Let me see, here's Noah's ark,
that goes in Tots stockings and the lit
tie elephant in Marjory's. Then here
is toy watch for each of them and
stick of candy, a popcorn ball and big
orange to cap the climax. Why, it just
reaches the top! How fortunate there
isn't any thing more!" laughed Mrs.
Clark.
But, somehow, Miss Priscilla's spec
tacles grew quite misty, and size took
them of and wiped them once or twice.
The little packages were so very small,
and the little mothers way of laugh
ing at her poverty was SO brave and
CHEEKY!
"Have the children any dolls?" asked
Miss Priscilla, pinning the stockings
with her own fingers to her cherished
plush lambrequin.
| Eyes, two forlorn, little relics. Tots
has lost its head, believe, and Angeli-
mas arms are gone, but the children
love them and l couldn't afford new ones
this year. l must run back to Tot now.
I am so grateful to you. Miss Hopkins; I
hope Marjory won't disturb you. Good
night"
Goodnight" answered Miss Priscil-
la, and then she went back to the fire
and stared hard at the little crimson
stockings, glowing in the freight
"I1l do it-so!' she said at last, de-
cidedly. Softly leaving the room she
called down the speaking-tube for the
chamber maid. Good natured Katie
readily promised to ''mind the child a
bit" and, while giving numerous eau
tons. Miss Priscilla arrayed herself in
bonnet and cloak and started out into
the night.
The stores were dazzling with gas
light and the air was sweet with the
odor of pine branches, but the CAV fes
: toons of bunting were not in half SC
happy flutter as Miss Priscilla's fool
ish old heart How hard it was to de-
eide between blue eyes and brown
wax and bisque, and blue or gold tea
sets! And should she get nuts and raj
! sins. or candy, or purple and white
J grapes? Miss Priscilla couldn't tell, 81
she ended by getting them all ani
} trotting home as fast as possible, will
her arms full of delightful looking
| bundles.
"Arrahr' cried Katie, when sh,
reached the kitchen, Whatever ha.
come over the ould lady? Bless m,
3 stars! eft she didn't hev q tay-set. ,
little stove an wagin' an two illegan
dolls! An she were tip-toeing rouu
like Saint Nick himselfy.
The Globe-republican., 1890-12-24
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.


Many Are Made, Hut Few Are KOpt-Yet
Il L. . Good Habit
Looked 1T in philosophical light,
there is no special reason why the first
day Of January should be different from
any other day. It is not the actual be-
ginning Of the year; the twenty-drstday
of March, the first day Of spring, more
fitly deserves the honor. But the wis
dom of our ancestors is in the selection
of the day, and it probably will never
be changed in Christendom.
Practically, the date makes no differ
ence. As a matter of fact, we used to
celebrate New Years day, prior to 1752,
thirteen days later than we do now, on
account Of the change in the calendar,
which took effect in that year. The
Russians still preserve the old-style
calendar, and the Hebrews keep New
Years day based on the Mosaic chro-
nology. The date, therefore, makes lit
tie difference, but the day is of consider
able Importance. AS far back as history
runs, it has been the custom to mark
the death of the old year and the birth
of the new by appropriate ceremonies.
In ancient times these ceremonies
were of rather a solemn character, but
among northern nations it has always
been the occasion for the highest dem
onstrations of merriment and conviv-
iality.
Putting aside these features, we may
very appropriately regard New Years
as the day of good intentions. A great
deal of fun has been poked at the boy or
girl who starts a diary on the first of
January and abandons it on the first of
February, but it is question whether it
is not beneficial to keep diary even but
one month out of twelve.
What possible harm can there be
in proposing to be good? In consider
ing crimes we always take into &C
count the intention of the deed. The
The Globe-republican., 1890-12-24
AND DOING IN HIS ARMCHAIR.

AND DOING IN HIS ARMCHAIR.
"Ah," unused the good St. Nicholas,
~ think understand"
And he smiled a merry little smile,
And coughed behind his hand.
"'Twas OF that busy Christmas eve
When all was in whirl,
This doll was given to boy,
This soldier to girl"
And then aloud he gravely said:
ST grieve to see your pain,
But il you'll stay with me year
All shall be we'll again.
Next Christmas eve, my children,
When you are well and strong,
Twill put you in the stockings
Where you really do belong"
u. McDermott, in Youths Companion
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The big New York boarding house
was almost deserted. All of the thirty
boarders had scattered for the holidays,
except the invalid on the parlor floor,
the crusty German professor, old Mr..
and Mrs. Brown. and the pretty, power
ty-pinched young widow on the fourth
floor. Even the little music-teacher
was off for a holiday trip, and Miss Hop
kins could hear the chamber-maid call
ing blithely to the grocer boy, that
''she'd be ready-oh, by seven O'Clock,
sure!"
Miss Hopkins pressed her wrinkled
cheek against the window pane, and
looked down into the dull, city street,
with its patches of dirty snow. Ahard.
bitter feeling crept into her heart.
There were so many good times and she
mot in EN-" The lodger on the fourth
floor back was leaning against the win
dow-pane, too, but her cheek was pink
and smooth, the room very tiny and
cold, and the view from the window
limited to q row Of back-yards. Per-
haps her heart was quite as heavy, for a
tear splashed suddenly ON the window.
sill.
II don't see any other way" said Mrs.
Clark, looking at it, meditatively. ~
dread asking her-she is so stiff and ST.
lent and we've hardly exchanged doz-
en- words. But my babies shan't be dis
appointed if can help it, SO cheer up,
my dear-we'll have a merry Christmas
yet" and she nodded brightly at the
tear-stained face in the mirror. Then.
running down the long flights Of stairs,
she knocked at Miss Hopkins door.
''Come in" called Miss Priscilla, turn.
Ing with surprised air, as the door
opened.
II came-1 thought-that is, I wan,
to ask great favor, Miss Hopkins, y
stammered her visitor. 81 have prom.
ised my little girls that they shall spend
Christmas with me, and that Santa
Claus will visit them here; but there is
only room for baby in my single bed; i,
is too cold for Marjory to sleep ON the
floor and So" Mrs. Clark faltered, bu,
the elder woman gave her NO help and
she finished abruptly, with . little trem
BILE in her voice.
Miss Hopkins watched her in . puz
zled way, till her near-sighsed eye.
caught the glimmer Of q teardrop; the,
she pushed forward chair, saying, NO
unkipdly:
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track of human life-a resting-place and
new starting-place. Be sure you start
right, and in the right direction, if you
would have Happy New Year. Cast
aside your old enmities as we'll as your
old faults; resolve to be as good as you
know how and resist temptation as long
as you can.
Then, if you do not have Happy
New Year. it will be your own fault
Golden DAYS
The Globe-republican., 1890-12-24
A REAL CHRISTMAS.
How Miss Hopkins Enjoyed Her
First Merry Holiday.

III! l wish it
was all over for
another year,"
whispered Miss
Priscilla Hop
kins to a spar
row on the tele-
p b one wire.
Just why she
should wish the
merry Christ
mas day passed.
Miss Hopkins
b erself could
b a r dly have
told.
The Globe-republican., 1890-12-24

Ea26laal!gelgA
: '!: 5aHrA o4os s;;lSl55@y
! ! !
" busy talking,
for hours,
Christmas
OF all the great.
SX& improvements
IS until-willy you
M.S SNAAf11 believe!-
NZ.t felt quite dull
WN and drowsy,
~ and said,
'twixt yawn
and sigh:
" Oh! any thing oldfashioned had best pass
out and dier
And then 1 leaned back smiling and quite
And closed my eyelids slowly. when. 10! they
opened wide
In sheer amaze and wonder. and would you
know the cause?
saw before me standing, the form Of Santa
Claus.
But. oh. so strange and altered! In clothes
of latest style.
And not at all the Santa I'd dreamed Of all
the while.
But still recognized him, and said: 81 didn't
You come out from the chimney-'twas very
dull Of me-"
" The chimney said he, grufay; II beg Of you
to know
Iclamber down no chimneys; I stopped that
long ago."
said: "Your load was heavy. you're tired;
won't you rest!"
oh! no." he answered. grandly, my goods
were all expressedr'
"You must have found it pleasant-the sleigh.
The roofs are much more snowy than have
ever seem"
Indeed his air was lofty-"'tis not the
present mode
To drive sleigh. travel by the elevated
road"
Twas all so strange it chilled me, but still I
said: Now, please
You won't forget to send US one Of your
Christmas trees.
The children love you dearly and try to be so
good"
ne SdlO. NO trees hereafter, u NiNc IL uus
derstood.
I'm fact, the time is over for Christmas. I
should say
Those very oldtime customs have really
passed away.
We want the very latest, dear madam, you
and 1,
And peace, goodwill and Christmas are of a
time gone BY"
And then he seemed preparing to take his
leave and go.
But do you think let him? I called out
bravely: Nor
I ran to him and begged him. between my
sobS and tears,
To leave US blessed Christmas, just as in
former years.
To change no little custom; to take no part
away;
To leave US dear, old-fashioned, beloved
Christmas day.
And then for just an instant. my eyes were
very dim
With tears, and when cleared them saw q
change in him:
His face, twas round and jolly, his clothes
were as of old.
He had pack upon his back as full as 1t could
hold.
And as he beamed upon me heard his REIN
deer prance,
Then sly old santa gave me smile and
roguish glance.
IL wish you Merry Christmas I thought
heard him say.
And when l tried to answer him he d vanished
quite away!
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Hard Up.

"Lend me flyer, will you, Bill?"
II can't, old fellow. I haven't even
paid for my wife's present to me yet
Munsey's Weekly.
The Globe-republican., 1890-12-24
CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE.
Little People Across tho Ocean Who Hav
santa Claua.

Little People Across tho Ocean Who Have
santa Claus.
England is by no means the only
European country to enter into the cele-
bration of the Christmas festival with a
zest. In Germany, in Sweden and Nor
way, in Russia, in France, and. in fact.
all over Europe, wherever the Christian
religion obtained foorhold, the ami
versary of the Nativity is observed with
rejoicing and feasting. The ceremonies
are not greatly unlike those of the En-
glish-speaking people, though, of course,
modified by the traditions and usages of
each country. st. Nicholas under a
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lust Like Him.

" What queer Christmas gift! Pa. eco
The monkey Charley sent to me.
IT'S strange such An idea should strike him. "
" Oh, no, my dear. It Is just like htm."-Judge.