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L. N. Lisle, Plaintiff, !
7. Z. Tootle, James Doniphan. John Don.
iphan, NJ. iris A. Reed, John T. Murphy.
and ThOmas W. Evans, Defendants.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Estate Of Andrew J, McGowau.
Deceased.

Notice 10 hereby given by the undersigned, Ad.
ministrator Of the estate Of Andrew J. MCGOWAN.
deceased to the creditors Of and all persons hav.
them, with the necessary vouchers, within ten
months after the first publication Of this notice to
the said Administrator at his ONCE in the town Of
HALEY. Alta county, Idaho.
Dated at HALEY, idaho, March 20th, 1891.
8. D. BOONE,
Administrator of the Estate OF Andrew ].
McGewan, deceased.
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Joseph II. Beamcr, Plaintiff,
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James Doniphsn, John DoniphaD, T. E.
Tootle, Morris A. Reed, and John T.
Murphy, Defendants,
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In the gray dawn of the early morn !

In the gray dawn of the early morn
ing, Marjory, cuddled close within the
protecting circle of her new friends
arm, reached up a timid, little hand and
touched her cheek.
"Sayr' she whispered, shyly, "do you
think he's come YETI"
"Who?" asked her bewildered bed
fellow.
''Why, Santa Claus. 1 don't think l
can wait much longer to see-I don't
think | can"
"Try 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.
"Ohl" the child cried softly, "oh"
The next moment the little voice burst
out into the happiest ripple of song,
without words or tune, but it seemed as
il any one would know it was a Christ
mas carol.
II declarer' said Miss Priscilla, WHIP
ing her eyes on the pillow-case, II de-
clare, it makes me think of that hymn,
Break Forth into Joyr"
The chubby fingers were already
diving into their stockings, and unity
ing puzzling knots, and each new dis
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-01-01
In Kris Krlnrle,s Land.

The German Christmas has supplied
US with two of our best-lknown Christ
mas oustoms-hanging up stockings and
attaching gifts to sprigs of pine, called
Christmas trees.
From tho German Christmas also
come Santa. Claus and Kris Kringle-
The latter is a corruption of Chris
Kindlin, or Christ Child. of whom they
have the beautiful fable that with his
own hands He places Christmas toys
and sweetmeats in tho stockings OF gooa
children, while those of bad ones re-
ceive nothing but small birch ROD
placed in them by one Pelsnichol-hf
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 abiect misery on the iaoe
of some poor little wight, who, having
been disobedient or otherwise naughty
on Christmas eve, finds only birch roo
in his stocking, instead of bon-bons anu
playthings. The dread of getting the
rod from old Pelsnichol on Christmas
keeps many a German child in order 81
the year
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NOT FRUITLESS.

A man who has spent busy year sits
down for a little retrospect. He falls
into a moody frame, and in tone of
regret says: II 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 lilium 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 a round of the same duties,
and seems to be wholly ruthless" 1t
was his time now, and looking up cheer
lily, he said: Not so, my dear. Do
you see that tree over there, that
noble oak? Well, it has stood there
these many years, moro than you
and / can tell, and its life
has been almost wholly without variety.
Each summer it is crowned with foliage,
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covery vas greeted hY a little inbilee

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 ont of the window. But Mar
jory found something that puzzled he-
"a long, black stocking hanging over
the back Of chair.
"Why, it's big like yours, NAMING
how FUNNY And there isn't any thing
in It'll"
''Yeth, there ithI' lisped Tot. "Tum-
pin round and hard. Ooh, look, NAM
maw And the first ray OF sunlight that
struggled into the room cleaned on o
gold piece in Tots hand.
Miss Priscilla had disappeared into q
deep closet and was fumbling round 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 q
fearful voice whisper: "You have been
SO good, SO good to me. dear friendl /
wish l could thank you"
There, there, child Don't say an
other word. I've been a rich. selfish
old creature, but I'm going to reform.
And we've all made such a good begin
ming this morning that l really think
this is going to be the first merry
Christmas l ever hadi There, don't say
another wordr-H. A. Hall, in Interior.
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HOLIDAY HINTS.

Don't expect to find brown-stone
front in your stocking .-Phila. Call.
Never look gift-horse in tho teeth.
1t is also wrong to look Christmas
giftin tho price-mark.-Somerville Jour.
The man who economises Christmas
for sake of New Years blowout takes
time by the forelock just 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 dumb horn
and drum many of us wouldn't be so re-
signed TO having Christmas come only
once yeaE-Judge-
When some men give thoir 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 10 ma an empty stocking, he
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-
caped Thanksgiving Goblet gobblel
goblet
Experienced Gobbler (sadlyl NV
son, do not let your life insurance policy
lapse. Christmas is comingl-M unsey's
Weekly.
Starting on a new year it is we'll 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 10
do, even though the hours are too prec-
ious to waste in thinking about being
and doing.-S. S. Times.
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nnrinr the HOLIDAY.

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 young man finds time
to get back to the old hearthstone and
sit down in tho dear homo circle who, IL
the holidays were omitted, would be
kept strictly at his tasks All the
schools arc dismissed, boys and girls are
at home, teachers likewise are off 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 youth in this
world as that of getting back to the fire.
side where he was reared. There is
rest there for him, 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
carly home is open, or against whom it
is blown shut by tho pitilcss storms that
have beset him.-United Presbyterian.
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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 il would
do any harm. All foolishness, 1 think "
"Do you?" said Mrs. Clark, brightly.
But it's such pleasure to watch them
when they find the. stockings in the
morningl Let me see, here's Noah's ark,
that goes in Tots stockings and the lit
tic elephant in Marjory's. Then here
is toy watch for each of them and a
stick Of candy, popcorn ball and big
orange to cap the climax. Why, it just
reaches the topl How fortunate there
isn't any thing more!" laughed Mrs.
Clark
But somehow, Miss Priscilla's spec
tacles grew quite misty, and she 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 bravo and
cheeryl
''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 tho children
love them and couldn't afford new ones
this year. must run back to Tot now.
l am 80 grateful TO you, Miss Hopkins;
hope Marjory won't disturb you. Good
night"
Goodnight" answered Miss Priscil-
la, and then she won't back to tho fire
and stared hard at the little crimson
stockings, glowing in the freight
''I'll do it-soI" she said at last, de-
cidedly. Softly leaving. the room she
called down the spealSing-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 olt into
the night.
The stores were dazzling with gas
light and the air was sweet with the
odor Of pine branches, but the gay fes-
ICONS OF bunting were not in half so
happy fluttor as Miss Priscilla's fool
ish old heart How hard 1t was to de-
eide between blue eyes and brown,
wax and bisque, and blue or gold tea
setsl And should she get nuts and raj
sins, or candy, or purple and white
grapes? Miss Priscilla couldn't tell, so
she ended by getting them all and
trotting homo as fast as possible. with
her arms full of delightful looking
bundles.
"ArrahF" cried Katie, when she
reached the kitchen, Whatever has
come over the ould lady? Bless me
starsl ef she didn't hev a tay-set, a
little stove an a wagin' an two illegans
dollsl An she were tip-toeing roun'
like Saint Nick himself"
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.Tbero. tell me about it. l didn't

"There, tell me ABOUT IL. uiun
know you had any children"
She heard a simple story of the bravo
little mothers struggle to mako a nest
for her birds; and how, at last, finding
position in the city, she had placed them
in boarding-school where they would
be we'll cared for, and where she could
visit them every Sunday.
eve try to make that do for all the
week." the little woman added, with a
smile, "and when holiday comes We
spend the whole of it together. And /
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.
Shell 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, cor 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, andgazing with big,
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The big New York clearinghouse
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 holiday trip, and Miss Hop
kins could hear the chamber-maid call
ing blithely to the grocer boy, that
"shed be ready-oh, by seven o'clock,
sure!'
Miss Hopkins pressed her wrinlxled
cheek against the window pane, and
looked down into the dull, city street,
with its patches of dirty snow. A hard,
bitter feeling orept into her heart.
There were SO many good times and she
mot in 'em." The ledger 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 row of back-yards. Per-
haps her heart was quite as heavy, for a
tear splashed suddenly on the window
sill.
al don't see any other way" said Mrs
Clark, looking at it, meditatively. 81
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 1 can help it, so cheer up,
my dear-we'n 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.
~ camel thought-that is, / want
10 ask great favor, Miss Hopkins, y
stammered her visitor. 81 have prom
Used 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; it
is too cold for Marjory to sleep on the
floor and So urs. Clark faltered, but
the elder woman gave her no help and
she finished abruptly, with little trem-
Bile in her voice.
Miss Hopkins watched her in q puz-
zled way, till her near-sighted eyes
caught the glimner Of a teardrop; then
she pushed forward chair. saying, not
unkindly:
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lntmyth, the friend Of the children, the

ntmyth, the friend of the children, the
old gentleman OF snow-white beard, be-
novolcnt disposition and invisible move
ments. In some of these countries
dread parsonage is supposed by the chill
dren to follow ia his wake, person,
either male or female, who is prepared
70 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 tho
thunderstorm, and Freija, the goddess
Of spring.. Y. Mail and Express.
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NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.
,ranv Arc Made, but Few Are Kcpt-fet
IL Is n Good Habit

srauy arc Made, But Few are hcpt-Aes
It Is Good Habit.
Looked at in a philosophical light,
there is mo special reason why tne iirss
day of January should be different from
any other day. 1t is not the actual Pc
ginning of the year; the twenty-hrstday
of March, the first day Of spring, more
fitlv 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 diner
ence. As matter of fact, we used 10
celebrate New Years day, prior to l7oS'
thirteen days later than we do now, on
account of the change in the calendar,
which took effect in that year. Inc
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 tho 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 q solemn character, but
among northern nations 1t has always
been the occasion for the highest dem
onstrations of merrimont and conyiv-
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 diary on the first OF
January and abandons it on the first of
February, but it is question whether 1T
is not beneficial to keep diary even but
one month out OF twelve.
What possible harm can there be
in proposing to be good2 In consider
ing crimes We always take into ac-
count the Intention of the deed. The
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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 it-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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sob any thing oldfashioned had best pass
out and diet"
And then / leaned back smiling aud Quit.
self-satisfied,
And closed my cyelids slowly. whom, 10 the,
opened wide
In sheer amaze and wonder. and would yov
know the causof
saw before me standing. tho form Of Santa
Claus.
But. oh so strange and alterodi In cloths,
Of --latest style
And not at oil the Santa I'd dreamed Of az
the vhiIe.
But still recognized him, and said: 81 didu4
You come out from the chimnoy-twas yer,
dull Of me-"
"The chimney said he, grufly; Il beg Of yuu
to know
chamber down no chlmneys; stopped tha,
long ago"
said: "Your load was heavy you're tired;
won't you restf"
"Ohi no." he answered, grandy my goods
were all expressed"
"You must have found It pleasant-the sleigh
ing, sir. mean.
The roofs are much more snowy than have
Indeed !r-his air was lofty-"'tis not the
present mode
To drive o sleigh. / travel by the elevated
road"
Twas all so strange it chilled me, but stlI
said: Now, please,
You won't forget to send US one Of your
Christmas trees
The children love you dearly and try to be 20
good"
He said: mo trees hereafter, I'd have It IN.
derstood
"In fact. the time is over for Christmas
should say
Those very old-time customs have really
passed away.
We want the very latest, dear madam. you
and /.
And peace, goodwill and Christmas are Of
time gone by"
And then he seemed preparing to take his
leave and go.
But do you think let himf called ogi
bravcly: mo-"
ran to him and begged him. between ny
sobs and tears,
To leave us blessed Christmas, just as In
former years.
To change no little custom; TO take no par
away;
To leave us dear, old-fashionsd. 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 us OF old,
He had pack upon his back as full as It could
hold.
And as he beamed upon me heard his rein
doer prance,
Then sly old Santa gave me a smile and
roguish glance.
81 wish you Merry Christmas" thought !
heard him say.
And when I tried toenswer him hed vanished
quite uwayi
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AND DOING IN HIS ARMCHAIR
"Ah," unused the good st. Nicholas,
~ think understand.
And he smiled merry little smile,
And coughed behind his hand.
"'Twas on 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:
al grieve to see your pain,
But II 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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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
Now Year, it viii be your own fault
Golden DAYS
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CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE.
Little People Across the 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
zest In Germany, in Sweden and Nor
way, in Russia, in France, and, in fact.
all over Europe, wherever the Christian
religion obtained a foothold, the ami
versary of the Nativity is observed with
rejoicing and feasting. The ceremonies
are not greatly unlike those of the En-
glish-spealring people, though, ofcourse,
modified by the'traditions and usages of
each country. st. Nicholas under
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A REAL CHRISTMAS.
How Miss Hopkins Enjoyed Her
First Merry Holiday.

iHi / wish it
was all over for
another year,
whispered Miss
Priscilla Hop
kins to a spar
row on the tele-
p h on g W ire.
just why she
should wish the
merry Christ
mas day passed,
Miss Hopkins
h erself could
h a ly have
told.