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princely house, and ours decidedly was
not princely house. Perhaps you
liked it better if you We're only one
fight up; but when you We're very
tired and your music pupils had played
out of tune and out of time, and had
demanded to LEARN q piece" when
they could not play the scale of c
without laundering, it somehow
seemed a very, very long way to the
fourth fat left, and the entrance
looked dingy and uninviting, and you
grew to hate the sight of the rows OF
brass bells and letter boxes with the
names beneath them. Still 1.-THE
Plantagenet' was not SO bad. as low
priced fiat houses go, and if you were
a poor little music teacher, with only
a deaf and very grim old aunt as a
natural protector, there were times
when you were thankful for your tiny
little home.
But this special Christmas felt lone
~ and depressed and heartsick. dis
piritedly bought a big green wreath
and some princess pine at the corner
grocer's and decked the little parlor,
while Aunt Barbara looked on in 81
lent contempt. Aunt Barbara: disap-
proved of ''fxings," considering them
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snatched the paper from her hand and
putting on my eyeglasses read: "Mr.
r. Johnston"
could only sit in the midst of the
things and gasp. Finally / said: cit is
Mrs. Roy's boarder. Don't you know,
she has Mr.. Johnston come to board
with her?"
Mrs. Roy lived in the fiat below us,
and remembered her boarder's name
when she mentioned it, because-just
because-Rob's name was Johnston,
too. How l used to tease him about
his plebeian name.
"WH0se boarder?o asked Aunt Bar
bara, with her hand at her ear.
''Mrs. Roy's,'' I shouted, gathering
the edibles together ruefully and bend
ing the chickens fat legs in my effort
to pack him in as he came, and pouring
the doughnuts over him, and feeling
enough of child to have good cry.
You see it was all the Christmas
had. I tied up the box as best
could and started down the stairs with
plain my mistake. It was very heavy
for me. And I had eaten this strange
mans cake, and his apple, and bit of
his chickens breast! No, I never
would confess that!
There was good deal of talk and
laughter in Mrs. Roy's apartment.
They were jolly, cheerful people. How
prayed the man might not be there,
too!
i knocked at the door of the private
hall, and held the box tightly, in my
embarrassment. Some one opened the
door and the voices were hushed inside.
The box fell on the floor, the dough-
nuts rolled down the hall and do not
know where the rest of the things went.
'Rob!' / cried, starting back.
''Kate!" that dear old voice said.
And then he had presence of mind
enough to shut the door and come out
into the hall.
I tried woman-lilze to recover myself
and my dignity.
''I-I opened your parcel by mistake,
explained, with an assumed attempt
at hauteur.
$50 see," with an amused glance at
the recumbent chicken and the scat
tered doughnuts.
sand thinking it was mine,'' con-
: tinued, thinking my cousin had sent
it, because am short-sighted and did
not make out the address
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HOLIDAY CHEER,

Beware, young man, lest you spoil
the happy Christmas season by giving
yourself away to your best girl.-N. Y.
Herald.
When the Christmas fires glow brightly,
Let there be no fear:
For there's one thing sure and certain,
Hose OF all lengths will be
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mamma christmas eve)-"Why are
you turning your stocking inside out?"
Johnny-''Cause Santa Claus always
puts everything on the inside of my
stocking, and l thought if I had the
inside on the outside 1 might get
more. "-Harper's Bazaar.
do you think Charlie loves me,
mammal" asked the fair young girl,
anxiously. "Certainly he does. Haven't
you noticed that he always wears the
gloves you bought him for a Christmas
present, though they are two sizes too
large?''-Judge.
remember, Johnnie, what you real
ly are depends a good deal on what
people think of you and expect you to
BE-" eyes, sir" "Now, you want to
be considered a good boy, don't you?"
Yes, sir ''Why?" '"Cause Christmas
is coming. Washington Star.
The principal Christmas problem is
to extract variety Of pretty presents
from limited financial area, and the
amount of wearing brain work spent
on the solution would solve the tariff
question if it could all be gathered to-
gether and applied.-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Ella-Are these slippers for Carl?
Winnie-Yes.
Ella-Why don't you embroider his
initials on them?
Winnie Mercy, it, is two whole
weeks until Christmas, and who knows
who I'll be engaged to by that time?-
Inter Ocean. ....
Christmas should be the home festi-
val because the coming of Christ has
changed altogether the position of
woman and has put in their proper
light the rights of childhood. Hence
forth the wife and mother is the
chief figure in every home, and little
child is in the midst thereof. Louis
vile (KY.) Home and Farm.
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AT THE "CHRISTMAS-T

IT'S christmas tide again, and now the bells
Ring out once more the Christ.Child' 8 wondrous
glory,
And the large heart of this wide world of ours
Grows glad anew while listening to the story.
o time of Christmas, for the Christ Child
named!
o happy Birthday Of the Fathers Son!
Thou hath sweet errands for the world to do,
God grant it does them gladly-every one;
And when-thy mission DERIVE turn to greet
The gift Of q New Year to this fair earth,
God sends HIS grace upon it, that our hearts
To noDler thoughts and efforts may give Dir tn
And may He help US, that we use the ''cheer'
OF Christmas-tide to make glad New Year!
Chris tan at Work
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The Spirit of Christmas.

Song-swept across the year it's spirit comes
With frost and rhine,
And lays its stores of wealth in happy homes
Sweet Christmas time
Unknown the feeting hate the transient frame
Of scorn; but sweet,
Like incense burning in the sacred fame,
Its face we meet
So ph9nix-like 1t comes we know not how,
But deeply feel
That to its sacredness we can but bow
But humbly kneel
We ask me what it isl cannot tell
But first it shone
When on the shepherds light from Heaven FELL
Nbr fell alone.
When flashed the light upon them on that
morn,
Down frcm above,
The blessed Saviour of the world was born;
He brought it-Love.
C. NJ. Duguay, in Ohio Farmer.
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somehow, to my tired eyes, as
she sat upright by the table knit
ting, in immaculate white cap and
apron. She was such good woman!
knew if had had the smallpox she
would have stayed unhinchingly by my
side and nursed me with conscientious
care. She looked after my bodily well
fare, and have no doubt she loved
me, but of the small coin of everyday
gladness and companionship she had
not share, and she could no more un-
derstand the hopes and fears and va
carries of rather imaginative young
woman than could my gray cat Walter,
sleeping peacefully in the corner, and
you would no r""e, in my place,
have thought of kissing or caressing
Aunt Barbara than, a refrigerator. She
looked at my tissue-wrapped parcel,
and shifted .suspiciously.
81 hope you haven't been buying
flowers, Kate? Do I smell roses? The
butcher sent in his bill to-day. It was
one dollar and sixty-nine cents too
much. put on my bonnet and went
around there and gave him piece of
my mind. We will buy of Prodgers
after this. There, believe those pota-
toes are burning!' And she went
hastily out to the kitchen.
laid down my roses listlessly, and,
! without taking off my hat and ulster,
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"I OPENED YOUR PARCEL BY MISTAKE"

by the window again, looking out over
the peaceful city under the starlit sky,
and again my eyes were dim with tears
tears of happiness this time.
For Christmas had brought exquisite
hope andgladness to two hearts atleast
in ''The Plantagenet. Anne Reeve
Aldrich, in Detroit Free Press.
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day, when with gifts and
kind words we seek to make
merry the hearts of the
young people. In orthodox
families there is a beautiful
custom Of building the era
die in one corner of the
room, where, in moss of diff
ferent colors, are presented
the plains on which the
shepherds watched their
fiocks by night. The little
woody sheep, the dogs, the
wise men from afar are all
represented. and above the
cradle, where the Christ
kind lies, comes down the
light of the wondrous star in
the east. On Bonded knee
the wise men show their
alteration Of the child.
''The building Of this moss
cradle and the whole scene
is done by the mother and
father. though sometimes
the children are allowed to
take part. The tree is
usually placed on a large
table covered with a fresh,
white cloth and set in the
middle of the room, and in
the dressing of this only the
parents are present. Then
on Christmas Eve when it is
dark the children are all as
semblea, awaiting in joyous
expectation the sound Of the
bell which will be a signal
that the tree is ready. At
last it comes, and with hap
py hearts the children enter
as the doors are thrown open.
Beneath the tree heaped on
the table III little piles are
the useful presents.
'"The children form a line
about the tree, the Oldest
first, carrying the baby, and
last of all the little one just
walking. At the piano sits
the mother, who strikes a
chord, and the oldest then
goes slowly around the table
to discover which of the gifts
is hers. Ii she pauses be-
fore the heap intended for
her the music is soft and
slow; then as she gradually
nears it there comes a great
crash of sound and the ex-a
element is intense. This
goes on until each has dis
covered his or her presents,
yba,, the father calls them
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wicked waste of money as we'll as
traps to catch dust.
Then on my way home Christmas
Eve, in fit of reckless extravaganza,
stopped and bought couple of red
roses at a florists. How gay Broad
way looked, filed with merry-hearted
passers, happy children hugging Christ
mas parcels to their hearts, and hold
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Ing oASA o w CiASAA SAASSAy
young mothers hands -
everybody with a box or
package that doubtless con-
tanned a gift for husband,
wife, sweetheart, friend
somebody.
It was rather hard to re-
fleet that in all this great
city there was nobody to re-
member me this holiday sea-
son, and then I smiled, for l
had forgotten that in my
pocket reposed a silk muller
of a brilliant and impossible
hue, presented by my dullest.
pupil, Miss Anabel McGib-
bon, who had toiled three
months over one simple ex-
ercise and still flatted tri-
umphantly when she should
have Sharped.
I turned ont of bright
Broadway into a dark side
street, having still several
long blocks to traverse. /
opened the tissue paper eau
tiously that protected my
precious roses from the
frosty night air and took a
deep Inhalation to cheer my
tagging spirits. If only
Aunt Barbara were different!
Ii would have been SO pleas
ant to plan some little sur
prise for her. but I had tried
it on her birthday and in
Cured her serious displeas-
ure. She thought holiday
keeping nonsense, and pres
ent-making on such occasions
inexcusable folly. However,
| determined to have q little
Of the holiday spirit if I
could, and l bent down and
inserted my key in the big
door at "I'he Plantagenet's'
entrance, climbed up the
three steep flights of stairs
and sank down breathless in
the little sitting-room.
Aunt Barbara had evident
~ been arranging the furni-
ture. The chairs stood stiff
and prim against the wall.
The bits of bric-a-brac were
placed in straight rows on
the mantel. The books on
the table were at right an
giles to each other. All
was neat, spotless, orderly,
but oh, how unspeakably
dreary! Aunt Barbara her.
self looked like the room
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All He Wanted.

Papa, :" said little Jack, 81 only want
Eve things for my Christmas: Choo-
choo cars, choo-choo cars, choo-choo
cars, choo-choo cars and choo-choo
cars. Judge.
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QM THE PlANTAGENGE.
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CHRISTMAS in GERMANY.

How the Holiday Is Celebrated In the
Fatherland.
Christmas in the Fatherland, with
all its attendant ceremonies and
pretty little customs, is thus graph
cally described by Fraulein Kotzen-
burg:
"Christmas in Germany is children's
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to him and taking on his knee one
child at time has them repeat the
little verse or sing the song prepared
for the occasion. Before good night is
said the children cluster round the
mother at the piano and join their
voices with her own.
son Christmas day there is roast
goose or venison for dinner and plum
pudding for dessert, with big slices of
cake made by the bakers only at this
season. These cakes, baked in squares
nearly three feet long, and plentifully
stuffed with raisins, currants and cit
ron, do not resemble the dark fruit
cake of England and America. The
stuffing Of the goose is prepared in the
same manner as mince meat and is
quite sweet. Around the rim of the
dish are placed boiled chestnuts, which
in Germany are served as vegetables. !"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-10
NmusemenIs.

ACADEMY OF MCSlC-S-The Black Crook.
AMBERG THEATRES 15-Poor Jonathan.
BIyOU THEATRES :2O-A Texas Steer
BERKELEY LYCEUM-5-Lecturc Reading
BROADWAY THEATRE-s-The Crust Of society.
CASINOS :1S-Adons.
COLUMBUS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
DALYS THEATRE-s-A Lesson In Love.
EDEN MuSEE-The wsfh In Wax.
EMPIRE THEATRES rs The Girl Left Behind Me
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-s l6-Diplomacy.
GARDEN THEATRES :i5-The Poet aud Puppets.
GRAND OPERA HOuSE-s-Gen da .Lough
HARKI0AN'S NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Aspirations.
HARLEM OPERA HOUSES l5-Janc
H0YTs MADISON SQUARE THEATRES :so-A Trip
70 Chinatown.
INTERNAL MUSIC HALL-s-Vaudevie.
ROSTER DIALS-e-s-voudevile.
LYCEUM THEATRES :30-The Guardsman.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-2-S-Ba mum Bailey
Circus
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN CONCERT HALLS 80
Concert
MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSES 10 Don Caesar de
Balan.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF Decentralization.
PALMEE'S THEATRES :oo-Lady windermereb Fan
POLO GROUNDS :30-Baseball.
STANDARD THEATRES l5-The Arabian Nights
STAR THEATRES :1S-Brothcr John.
TONY PASTORS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
UNION SQUARE THEATRES ;l5-Hamlet
ItTH STREET TliEArRE-s-Thc Span OF Life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-10

case its decision Of the foregoing ones leaves any
thing else to be determined, the treaty provided
that joint commission of American and British
investigators should go to BehIing Sea. study
| the life and habits of the seal. examine the
methods under which the sealing industry is
pursued, both on land and in the water. and
report to their respective governments their
| agreements and dsagreements as to all the
| facts of the case. The treaty provided that
| their reports should not be made public until
| they were submitted to the arbtratOrs Or until
it appeared that the contingency OF their being
used by the arbit,atOrs could not arise. That
contingency, Of course was decision in favor
q the American claim OF jurisdiction and
ownership. Great Dritain's present effort is to
get the report of this commission, or at least
her part of it. before the arbitrator ut once.
Sir Charles Russell claims the right TO do this
without giving heed to those clauses Of the
treaty regula ing the order in which the Court
shall proceed to the determination OF the issues
before it, Especial care was taken by our Gov
eminent in making the treaty to arrange this
matter of order. If our rights are exclusive, it
is certainly none of the Courts nor of Eng
lands business what regulations may be neces-
sary to the protection OF seal life, nor what
facts these Investigators may have discovered.
All that is our business and the diplomacy Of
President Harrison and Mr.. Blaine has made it
mandatory upon the Court to decide the main
issue first, and to give no heed to the evidence
on which the secondary question is to be de-
cided until it shall appear that such secondary
question exists for its consideration.
The object of the English agents in under
taking to put their supplementary case before
the Court at once is easy to understand. Mr.
Baden-Powell and DR.. Dawson. who prepared
it, collected variety of statements from the
masters of the British Columbian sealing fleet
going to show the harmessness of their pro-
cecdings and the cruelty of the methods pur-
sued OH the islands. None OF this is evidence
in any proper sense of the word. 1t is mostly
pure fiction, and the purpose of getting it in
now is to produce an effect on the minds of
the arbitrators in their consideration Of the
fifth primo question: relating to our rights
in equity. This, however, England is by no
means entitled to do. She had and embraced
her chance to say what she wished to or could
say Oh that issue in her main and conferences.
There her evidence was in its proper place.
where our agents could duly examine and
answer it. TO thrust forward at this time a
vast bulk Of testimony prepared COR another
issue, and as yet unconsdered by our Govern
ment, and positively declared in the treaty to
be admissible only in case the Court decides
against the American claim of jurisdiction, is a
plain violation of the explicit terms of the |
treaty. Mr.. Carter was justified in asking Sir |
Charles Russell if he had come there to teach |
the Yankees sharp trick.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-10
BRITISH TRICKS At Paris.

Great Bitains representatives before the
Behring Sea Court of Arbitration at Paris have
raised contention designed to confuse the
Count. According to the terms OF the con-
venion under which the Court is assembled its
chief duty is to find answers to five questions.
Four of these relate to the extent and character
of our rights in Behring Sea, so far as they
descended TO us from Russia. The fifth relates
to what may be termed the equities of the
existing situation-that is 10 say As to the ex-
tent and character Of the rights apperaning
TO us in so far as they may be derived from
our peculiar relation to the seal as the owners
Of the islands wherein they breed, and from
the nature of the sealing industry. Following
that article of the treaty in which these oues-
tons are incorporated there is an article pro-
yiding that if the determination of them and of
our claim Ct exclusive jurisdiction shall leave
tho subject in such position that the concur.
renee Of Great Britain is necessary TO the
establishment Of regulations for the protection
# the seal. the arbitIatOrs shaIr then determine
what those regulations shall be, how they shall
be carried out. and over what portion of
Bebrng Sea and the Pacific Ocean they shall
extend.
In order to provide the Court with the ma.
terial for the solution of this final question, in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-10

slow cooling OF the mass. collects in small pock-
cts in the metal as graphite. the familiar lead
of our lead pencils. lie, first devising crucible
that would endure greater heat than other chem
lists had been able TO employ, was able to use
still higher temperature than they $500 de-
grees FahrJ and then by cooling his mixture
under exceptional pressure he obtained what ne
soaght-a still denser form Of carbon In crystals.
Part Of his product was graphite and part black
diamonds; but he also got translucent particles,
which stood all the tests OF diamond. They would
scratch q ruby, burn at the right temperature
and showed the true structure under O microscope.
Foreign scientific papers have contained brief
notices Of NJ Moissan's work OF late: but an
extended notice is afforded by writer in Tho
Nineteenth Century for April, who not only
supplies interesting particulars. but also points
out That the Frenchmans achievement confirms
an opinion, long held, that "in steel and cast
iron the carbon Is not simply difused through
the iron. but enters with it into some OF those
combinations in definite proportions, which, like
all solutions occupy an intermediate position
between real chemical compounds and purely
physical mixtures" Some light, too, Is thus
shed upon tho origin of diamonds found III
meteoric iron. and uron various geological PROB
lens Other sciences than chemistry are ad-
vanced by NJ. Moissans success
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-10

TRANSFORMATION rates. As he was addressing an
audience made up largely OF men interested in
railroad corporations whose ratcs mad been
cut BY the Legislatures of the "est ana South
TO a point where they can hardly pay fixed
charges. ne possibly thought it best to leave it
TO their own generosity to come To the further
relief of the West and South by hauling their
products to market for nothing. They also
want good money and plenty OF it," This
will be recognized as ga long-felt WANT every
where. lie omitted to point out any method
of dit ibution other than that OF Jesse James
and the dalton boys" which is open to the
objection of being crude and hasty. They
arc also enormously involved in debt" a.
shown BY tie census. This was no news, how
over. to many of the audience, who hold
Western m oitgagcs. but whose sympathy for
the debtors is slightly qualified by the knowl-
edge that the state Legislatures Of the West
and South have found an easy way out OF COM
plications of that sort by acts Of cOnfiscation
called relief bills. Finally Governor Stone says
they have not got their fair share of National
banks. What he wants, we presume. for the
West and South in this particular is the privi-
lego of issuing bank notes upon the same
principle and basis as that on which he fOated
his huency at the Board of Trade banquet
without any reserve and no visible assets.
Governor Stone is a breezy and refreshing
orator, even if his speech is "homn'v and
undiplomatic."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-10
TWELVE PAGES.
TIE NEWS TETS MORNING.

Tofeign-Thc strikers at Hull attacked police
and troops escorting crews for two Wilson Line
steamers about to sail several mon on each side
were injured q gunboat has reached Hull; j. ii
Wilson proclaimed the intention to have gen
eral strike. - The Viking ship for the World
Fair called from Christianja; the caravcl Santa
Maria reached Havana. - An earthquake in
Eervia caused the loss Of several lives ard
wrecked many buildings.
Domestic.-The President, Secretary Gresham
and Senator White spent quiet day at Whining
ton, home Of Ambassador Bayard. - An aero
lite struck ard broke the arm from the statue OF
John Brown at Oseawatomie, Kan. r. Chicago
botelkecpers and others are charging extortionate
prices for accommodations during the Worlds
Fair - President Roberts Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, spoke in high terms of MIR. Harris, the
new president of the Reading.
City and Suburban.-WilNam G. Robbins. OF
F1atbush, shot himself at tho Clarendon Hotel
BROOKLYN. Yesterday. - 1t was found that the
thrust shaft of the Hekla had broken in man.
ner similar TO that Of the Umbria, and the state
ment that 10 Normande offered to take off the
HeLla's passengers was denied. - Typhus
patients who have lodged in police station at
large.
The Weather. Forecast for to-day: Fair and
slightly cooler weather, with increased cloudiness
and possibly light rains in the afternoon. Tenn
perature yesterday Highest. Sc degrees lowest,
as average, 80 Is