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Libra, feel that the frail tenement
will hold her but little while longer.
She feels it, too, and, nesting close,
tells me Of her gratitude.
81 couldn't do much for you, dearie,"
thus she pet-names me, "but what l
could, did. And when die"
80, Crutchie," wall.
81 want you to promise me to put
something in my hand. hope I'll live
till New Years, dearie, cause somehow
it 'u'd mean more Meh. If die afore,
and it amt too long, keep me till New
Years, dearie. if you can"
scarcely hear, so great is my grief;
but recollect, afterward, what now
promise her.
'And, then, the last thing, dearie,
open my Grimm's Fairy Tales, and
you'll find something that I've wrote
there"
She lives until New Years eve. 1 al
low no hands but mine to touch the
dear, misshapen body, but place it, my
self. revcrcntly to rest.
With choking sobs bid Keith fetch
the book she loved so well; and, as he
goes to do my bidding, place the satin
bag she asked for in her nerveless
hands.
Keith comes to me, at last, and to-
gether we open the message from the
dead, and read:
"DEAR AEGLE UPON ERTH. stoled the mon
n.y. YOU find II in tho Satten bag 1 tolcd you to
putt in ny Iiaad Istolcd II causc I was Trade
your Eusucn you'd iii hissclf with 50 much
monny to spend fer drink. vas goan to Eepo
1t til new years and then Civ it 1acl, and make
him promuss to do Right. take it Now and tell
him how it was. goa bless you bottle
'from
"CRUTCHY."
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put it-an save this fiver-in the desk
upstairs, and tomorrow I'll bank it,
bright and early. And now must leave
you. Promised to meet my benevolent
patron at the club, and talk over new
idea"
Ike" but close my lips in time.
should be criminal to suggest such an
awful possibility as has flown like u
devil into my brain. "Good-by, old
boy, and don't stay too long away, for
Crutchy and are slim battalion to
cope with any burglarizing foe"
That long, long night my searching
hand touched an empty pillow. Keith
does not come home. The morning
dawns. Crutchy crawls downstairs,
looking white and haggard; evidently
she has slept as little as have l. At
noon we hear the stopping of a vehicle;
my husband is brought home. We pay
the men for their services, and turn to
face our grief. The money has been
too much for him-his tlattering friends
too seductive; we see it all, Crutchy and
!, and sit there, silent in our anguish.
Next morning Keith tells the story
that we, being women, intuitively
know. He gropes his way upstairs,
sober, sad, suffering, and has not had
time to moro than cross the room when
may Heaven save me from ever again
hearing the sound l now hear--there
comes shrek that resembles the cry
of lost soul. rush up the stairs,
while Crutchy follows slowly.
ITS gone! The moneys gouel I'm
robbed!--rm robbed"
fall upon chair, stunned; nor dc
l seem to awaken FROM my stupor for
hours and hours. Officers of the law,
detectives, all who can aid in the search,
come and goa bafhedlo The none,
is not to be found, nor any trace of it
But the shock and my apathy arous,
my husband. Like one touched bv ,
powerful battery, he springs into new
NE, and swears, by al that nc hold,
holy and dear, to have done with strons
drink. And know that he means it.
But Crutchy grows thinner as the
DAYS shorten; and when the sun enter;
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A FEW RESOLUTIONS.
Make Them by All Means, But Don't Tt
Your Girl About 1t.

Make Them by All Means, But Don't Tell
Your Girl About 1t.
Resolves That you will lead an up
right and noble life.
AS you will promptly break this reso-
luton it will ease any qualms of con-
science you may have at breaking any
others.
Resolves That you will speak moth
ing but good of your friends.
In this way you will be able to learn
very shortly how very few friends you
have.
Resolve: That you will never drink
again.
Then for a couple of weeks you can
tell your friends that you break your
good resolution merely to drink with
them, and they will feel very, very
happy.
Resolve: Not to marry.
If married already, point to this reso-
luton at the end of the year with pride.
If female (Which is to be hoped you
are mott, tell all the men about it,
Resolve: That you will be prudent
and economical during the entire year.
If you are not all will be well, for
you will probably have to be economical
next year to make up for it.
Resolve: Not to tell your girl of your
New Years resolutions.
She is probably trusting young
thing and 1t will rend her heart to learn
that, after all, you are not actually di-
vine as she had supposed,-Life.
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There are no times so appropriate for
this wise and linking meditation as be-
ginnings and endings-the close of the
year when reason has action, with its
lessons and promptings, behind it, and
the start, when purpose has action, all
fresh and unsullied, before it.
After duly considering the old year
let us turn tolthe new, this volume of
three hundred and siXty-fve pages,
everyone Of which we shall fill with
some sort of record. AS we wish il to
be satisfactory one, let us aim to
make the very best of life; remember
ing that we were created in the image
of God and that, through His promised
strength, we are able to do all things
well that may be given us to do. In
order to attain such success, however,
we must keep, each day, the resolutions
made at the dawning of the year, and
make the very best possible record on
that day, thus opening the way for an
improvement on the morrow, and so on.
The year 1898 will be made memora-
BILE to posterity by the Columbian ex-
position, in which the nations of the
globe unite to celebrate the glorious
results achieved through the constant
and persistent efforts of one man. Let
us not, then, while garnering the wis
dom harvested from this great interna-
tional exhibit, forget the lesson taught
by the devotion of Columbus to his life
purpose.
Having formulated and crystallized
our New Years resolutions, let us ever
be mindful that, as johnson says: Hell
is paved with good resolutionsy and,
unless we have resolution enough in
our character-good solid resolution,
compounded of will and wisdom, and
the mixture thoroughly permeated with
the grace of God-to H0e them, they
will only go to improve that pavement
which is already kept in very good re-
pair.
We must not anticipate failure, but
advance in the assurance that on New
Years day of 1894 we shall be able to
review with qualification the individual
and collective strides made during 1893.
MARY M. PRICE.
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being keen, I feel instinctively that
Keith does not impress her as have
hoped-as / have been sure-he would.
As If to find an answer to my Uniformed
question in his face, look at Keith.
God help me!-the answer is there
speaking from the dull, bleared eyes,
from the lax, unsteady lips, from the
red bloated cheeks, from the breath
but let what I have named suffice!
"Odd little beast-comic-make good
model"
"Reith!"
But the eyes have closed before my
cry is ended. With o moan turn and
kneel before Crutchy, her arms around
me, my head pillowed upon her hollow
little breast.
From whence came that mysterious
influence that brought together two
atoms for mutual good-Crutchy and
me? In the hours, the days, the weeks
that pass, no mother could console me
as does this crippled child. The hid
eousness Of inebriety is no new thing to
her. Her face is a barometer. fall to
reading, and confident am / that hope
is near il smile be in the ascendant.
1t is smiling often Of late, for Keith
is working pretty hard now upon new
picture. Crutchy is his model When
his hands are steady the bright eyes
grow in radiance, and all their dazzling
beauty is caught upon the canvas;
when they tremble and lose their cum
ming then Crutchy comes to me, and
there's nothing can do but bless my
little New Years gift.
My small inheritance is all gone
Keith's money nearly so, and shorter
commons than those to which we've
either one of us been ever used, is quite
the order of our present day. Our last
domestic takes her leave, and Crutchy
and ! vie with each other in the culina-
ry art.
'Rice is cheap eatin', and slice o.
toast. Teas too excitin' to the nerves
-n
"And depressing to the purse, eh,
Crutchy?'
The picture is finished. Keith takes
it to the exhibition and comes home
elatc 1t is accepted and will be put
upon the line" The demon of strong
drink had not been seen for weeks.
Crutchys face is aglowwith happiness,
and am coming to my old, gay self,
much as u storm-blown vessel rights
herself upon n calming sea.
"a ig bp Of nfft.nptinT
in the great art exhibition. Crutchy's
pictured eyes go to the heart of GER
tain dealer. Keith, though offered a
pretty penny, holds to fixed price,
and one night fetches the great sum
home with him.
"My little woman shall have her old
servants back again; and Crutchy shall
have her wheeled chairr' cries Keith,
fourishing flstful of bills.
Full of our joy, we women indulge in
little dissipation; steaming coffee, and
such chops as Keith affects, are set
upon our lately frugal board
"And what color shall be the uphol-
STEERING of the wheeled chair, Crutch-
llins?' asks our hero, helping himself
to another juicy chop.
81 must sleep on that" says Crutchy,
the quaint.
son the color of the chair? Hal ha!
Well, little woman, it's not everybody
that has SO many thousands in the house
over night-indeed it isn't the safest
thing imaginable TO thus entertain this
sort of visitor--d did outsiders but know
Of it! However, I've been carefully
mum, and we're comparatively safe, I'll
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work upon ones sympathies; and l
move on through the darkening twi-
light of bitterly cold New Years eve,
until the sound Of a persistent stump,
stump" beside me, and the sight Of
pair of eyes, hollow, yet radiant, light
ed suddenly into starry reAectors by
the coming of their owner into the
glare of an electric lamp, cause me to
stop at once.
1t is o girl, perceive; q girl upon
crutches Her rags are manifest, her
cloak farce; a tattcred bit of scarlet
wool is wound about her head, and in
each naked, red hand is grasped the
cross-piecc of @ rude crutch.
"Buy my last paper, IN? All about"
but what she says chills me more than
the biting night winds. From her blue,
childish lips comes glib enumeration
of crimes no child should lsnow-crimes
from which a seasoned sinner might
we'll observation-disclosures Of most sa-
tanic nature-and yet | feel that her
own utterances touch herself no more
for harm than do the foul waters
the waxen petals of the lilies they up
bear
"Who are you, child?' ask.
"Crutchy. Won't you buy my last
paper?"
eyes; but that's not enough, IL"
stammering, because / feel that I am
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about to do one of those very foolish,
impulsive things imputed me by my little
world at large-'I should like to buy
yOu."
"Me?"
'Yes. Are you forasale, Crutchyp"
Not reg'lerly acrosJ n counter m"
rejoins Crutchy, in quick response to
the suspicion Of drollery in my mood.
Its go@ as 'u'd be sold, m, if you was
to buy me. I'd go dirt cheap, though,
and aoiilia'"
cts bargain" laugh, and down
the brilliant street we tramp together.
Hell be glad if l never come back"
vouchsafed my new possession. "He
hates me- Men allus hates women,
doesn't they2"
glance down at Crutchy in surprise.
But the surprise vanishes as l note the
child is older than thought-a great
girl, in fact, but not in stature.
who is he, Crutchy? The clerk to
whom must render payment for my
new purchaser"
He's grandad but he can't sell me.
'Sides'-and the starry eyes close sufli-
GENTLY to twin!,le-"he'd be too drunk
to make changed"
am already glad that have bar
gained for Crutchy. My intuition never
fails me, however mad, at times, my
impulses seem, like my new little
bundle OF ready responses but how
about Keith?
Keith laughs when, at home at last, l
tell him what I've done; calls me all
sorts of fond, nonsensical names, and, a
little later, leaves me with my "odd
idea" to go to the club.
You'll not stay long, Keith?" l ask.
Cant promise, dear, really. There
are lot of fellows of the legion to be
on hand tonight"
"of the legion, Keith-that old Pa.
risian mob?"
Hal haI-'mob'! You're not Jealous
OF the legion, are you. little woman?'
/ am. But pride will not allow me
to be candid, Let him go to his
legion-am l not his first thought, for
va ViiOnS Gay ilOlClElduSt
"Cantholi has anew idea"-all things,
to Keith, are, in some sort, "ideas"-
and he means to parade it. "Big canvas
weird subject-'Ring of Death or
something of the sort
II like your style SO much better,
Keith"
"What-'The willows green, the peb,
5les white, the stream line of glim,
mering light'?"
For shame, Keith Where did YOU
find that, you"
"on the floor. Debris from your desl,
presume. Allow me to continue
The low hills wrapped in purple mist
the mountain tops the sun ha.
kissed"
Keith! Keith! Go to your legion
are You utterly without hearth"
"She asks me that who captured il
Oh, come, little W oman, the rhymes ar,
not SO bad. I've heard worse"
Keith sleeps so late next morninl
That have time to make n pilgrimag
to bazaar where ready-made clothin,
is obtainable, return with divers pacl,
ages, and trick out the flotsam washe,
TO me by destin VS. waves from the oceal
OF life, before m y husband makes his ar
pearance.
AS he enters the room call Crutch
and formally INTRODUCE to her IN
lord and master. She lifts her grea
bright eyes, and, it would seem, take
ms measure at a glance. My ,sens,
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'CRUTCHY."


WIN giits LOT IIlc lar S sl- ho"i = ,ot5or
am the glad New Year.
Listen, O world to the song sing you
SwcctCr music can never be
Open your hands to the good bring youi
Open your souls to my prophecy,
,,
"Wohuorlui Sn'ps tnol, lois pclu'o"'
nave "rllIcu tho "iuc SOUS Vi, ...,..,
Shall speedily find your shore
The dreamer Shall walk in fields olysian,
Right shall be lord Of wrong
The seer snail give you his truest vision,
And the singer his sweetest song
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Nouiu thoubHv9 " nav '' e'o"iHe
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Shaving Them or

Jagway-How do you feel over Christ
mas, old man?
Travers-Very poorly. find I am
obliged, as a matter of necessity, to
give my creditors a Christmas dinner.
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We're feeling blue about the gills,
For now this man of gall
WIN fill his pocket full of bills
And make his New Year call.
--Tudpn
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CRUTCHY.
A Story Of Two New Years.
BY EVA BEST.

U Y IN y l q S I
paper, mp"
T h e voic e
has the tremu-
lous quaver Of
the professional
mendicant, and
moves me not a
whit. They are
all alike with
their stock in
trade, til cir
whines, their
pleas, their art
full endeayors to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-31
CHECKER COMBINATIONS.

The Scottish great battle for the cham
pionship starts Monday, January 2, 1898.
Surprises, such as the Wyllle-J ordan, Sea-
right Mckelvie, and Jordan, the English
wonder OF 1892 may occur.
Jordan, the English champion, was de-
feated in a team match by the London
champion, F. Tescheleit. Score, TO 0 and
drawn.
At the present rate of issue, j. P. Reeds
Weekly Journal will take three years to com.
plete the 80 numbers.
Mr. Lovett, the leading tonsorial artist of
Mansfield, Pa. is quite an expert checker
player, and the recognized "boss of the
town."
Chicago and Allegheny cities have the
checker 81 cups .p that give their members to
the rules or they are not IN it,
James Wyllie, worlds champion" fin
ished his engagement at Dumbarton, Scot
lRad, about December l. 81. +. McAteer's
foreign correspondent has the news Decem-
Der q, only two weeks behind the exchanges.
eve are the people"
Checker players visiting Tarentum having
any time to spare should call on Mr.. Hans
bury. His barber sh p is nearly opposite
the Opera House. He made q good record
by defeating his opponent in the team
match Nav 30.
Mr.. Wright's challenges are about to re-
suit like those he issued in 1886, on the eve
OF his proposed visit to Europe. We ewere not
interested in the game in those days, but the
ItrJ, Field and Farm for 1886 will show the
same parties involved Barker, Reed, Schaf-
fer, and John 7. DenVir.
1t is with feelings OF extreme regret we
learn of the death of Samuel John son, follow
ing so closely on the death of his lamented
father, Jesse johnson, one of tho leading
checker players of the county, whose death
was lelt keenly by the boy, who has so soon
followed. The last move in this world
comes at all ages 1t is to be hoped he kne W
the move to win.
Mr.. H. LJackson, writing to headquarters,
remarked he found I HE DISPATCH on file in
different checker resorts. The self-styled
"People's Only Checker Medium" does not
find much Iavor out West.
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NEWS

The Indiana State Chess Association held
its fifteenth annual meeting from December
II to u at Logansport. The first prize and
the championship for Indiana for the ensu-
ing year " ere won by c. o. Bellard. Herr e.
Lasker and Mr.. j, NJ. Showalter, OF Ken
lucky, played two match games, the first
being won by Lasker and the second by
Showalter. Owing to the indisposition OF
Lasker the third game was not played. The
prize was divided by consent of the players.
DIR. Gold, the famous Vienna composer. al.
rived in New York few days ago. 1t is said
that he intends to reside there.
The first intercollegiate chess tournament
between Columbia, Princeton, Yale and
P. M, at the Berkeley School Armory, New
York City. DR.. Chauncey M. Depew pre-
sented the challenge cup. Following was
the pairing for Tuesday:
Table. White. Black.
No. 2-Bumstead Yale, VS. Dickie. Princeton.
No. S-Libslre. Columbia, VS. Ewing. Princeton.
no. 4-Sklnner, 1aIe, VS. Wilson, Harvard.
Hylnes, Columbia, defeated Ballou. Har-
yard, in a Ruy Lopez alter 80 moves, and
Ewing, Princeton, defeated LIbaire. Column
moves.
Tue pairing for Wednesday was as follows
Table. White. Black.
No. l-Hymes, Columbia, vs. Bumstead, Y ale:
No. 2-Dickey, Princeton. Eallou, Harvard.
No. S-Libare, Columbia. VS. Wilson, Harvard.
No'4-Skinner, Yale, VS. Ewing Princeton.
Las1er won the sixth game, A Q P open
ing, in the series of hbition games at the
Franklin Chess Club, Philadelphia, against
Ii. G. Voigt after 46 moves.
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Courier.
GAME NO. 41s-BRIsToL.

The following interesting game we take
from the Glasgow Herald. 1t cannot fail to
be Interesting, considering that one OF the
contestants was blind.
Most of the experienced checkerists in
Glasgow have seen, or ut least heard of, Mr..
William Bennett, the blind draught-player,
and many have found him no mean toeman
across the checkered board. He has for
some three years back, however, been exer-
cising' his abilities as u draught-player in q
new role-namely, conducting games by
correspondence with an opponent in Can
ada. But we will leave Mr.. Bennett to tell
his story in his own graphic way:
Some three years ago (writes Mr.. Ben
nett) received q letter from Mr.. ID. Stewart,
q Glasgow gentleman, who took farm in
Manitoba, stating that Mr.. H. Norman, OF
Winnipeg, wished to play match of four
games at draughts with me. AS had often
PLAYED with Mr.. Stewart in Glasgow, to keep
up correspondence with him l agreed to
play a match with Mr.. Norman. After
nearly three years play the match has just
been finished, the four games ending IN
draws. As 1 believe there have been few
matches played at so great a distance,I i send
you one of the gameS-the Bristol-as there
is not much book play in it."
GAME NO. 2679-BRISTOL.
Nnrman Whfte-Mr Rennett
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-31

Services conducted at the Allentown Mis-
sion (Baptist) as usual at P. NJ, in charge
OF Rev. William II. Walker, Jr.
First Christian, Mansfield Valley, Pa, o.
II. Philips, ,pastor-Morning. pictures From
an Old Album, Abraham in Egypt;" evening,
"Half Hours with the Apostles, the New
Birth"
Rev. T. II. Colhouer, ID. D., pastor Of the
Methodist Protestant Church, in Knoxville,
southside, Pittsburg, will preach on next
Sabbath at 1870 A. M, on the Importance OF
"The Necessity of Present and Personal
Conservation to the Service of God" This
evening New Years eve) a watch-meeting
will be held when Rev. I. Wilmer Colhouer
will preach on "The Lost Times" Meetings
will be held every night next week in this
church commencing at 7:S0 P. NJ. Seats free
and welcome to all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-31

by the composer, that particular variation
becomes unsound, for solver may adopt
the optional attack and so fail to realize the
full merit and beauty OF the design, unless
lows then that q dual cannot prossibly dis
count a problem by more than the value OF
the intended continuation, which it may cut
out, and not even that, should the idea De
To sum up the importance OF an optional
attack is determined by the value of what
it causes the solver TO lose absolutely:
Hence, should a choice Of attack be found
against defense, which, in any event,
brings out nothing of value, the dual is OF
no CONSEQUENCE
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Southside Services,

Trinity Church, Sidney street-Special
Sylvester services on Saturday evening at
7:3O.
Mt Washington United Presbyterian, r.
H. Hood, pastor-l0:30 A. NJ, 1888; How Old
Are Your 7:3O P. NJ, Gods Marching Orders
Go Forward"
Walton NJ. E., W. P. Turner, D. D., pastor,
will preach in the morning on bringing
Sinners to Jesus" and in the evening on
"Revivals." Revival meetings to be held
during the following week.
Second Primitive Methodist, Golden
street, Rev. H. j. Buckingham, pastor
Services at lo:5O A. NJ, GLOW Have on Fared
During the Old Year. 1927" and P. NJ, New
Year Promises" Christian Endeavor meet
ing at O'Clock sharp, conducted by Mr.. w.
j. Lester.
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DUALS.

In the first installment OF an essay OH
duals by Mr. F. ii. Iced in a recent mum ber
of the american Chess Monthly, he writes
"a good chess problem is. so to speak, an
intermedium employed by the composer to
ing manner the powers of the pieces acting
Ill combination. In order to secure attentive
consideration . problem is usually placed
before the solver unaccompanied by its
soEntion, and If the defense can be so
played that mate can be forced only by
using every attack designed by the COM
poser the problem is sound: that is, it serves
Its purpose as q vehicle for the communica-
tion of ideas, for III order to comply with
the stipulation the solver must recognise
all the composers designs or IDEAS
But II there be any attack lead.
ing to mate as required, which
can be substituted for Q line proposed
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The Talk of the Town.

Recently Mr. Marvin, the famous cracker
man of Pittsburg, introduced to the trade
another new biscuit, one OF the very best we
have ever had the pleasure of tasting.
For table dainty we never saw its equal
The name of it is Fay biscuit. Our word 1or
ii, it will fill long-felt want and will be APP
preciated by all classes, from the society
belle" to the ''street sweeper's daughter"
There is no greater blessing than health.
and the way thereto lies through the Marvin
drnnf
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e5 Per Cent Off. a5 Per Cent Off,

The above cash discount from the plainly
marked prices on all Christmas goods viii
answer equally we'll for New Tears gifts
This discount includes all kinds of fine brio.
a-brac, art pottery, pictures, paintings, vi
emma and Dresden art novelties in bronze
onyx, silver, plush and leather, also onyx
pedestals and stands and all sorts of holiday
fancy goods. KAUFMANNs,.