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mead. shipments 300 head; market active
and firm; best steers S JJa5 so: fair TO good
81 s0aS 10: Others 81 Olai 20; stockeB s. 0Ja3 49,
Gamers g 2ia1 20; cows 50 0Oa3 80. Hogs, re.
celps ~ cog hePdi shgments 500 head market SS
Z o.; prime light s75aa7 a. Sheep, receipts
1000 head; shipments 200 head; market steady;
mixed 81 L0ai IS; western g 4Sa5 10; ycarllng
wotheR s. OOa5 ~; llmhA IS g5a6 IS.
EAST LIBERTY, Pa. Jan. i7.-Cattle receipts
$50 head; shipments So heHd: market active at
yesterdays advance OF a quarter over last weeks
price. Hogs, receipts $50 heads shipments
1900 head; market slow: phllRdelphiRs 81 5ja
1905 fair 10 best Workers. 81 SCAT rs; pigs very
dull at 81 l0a0 y. Sheep, receipts 5000 head;
changed.
cIHclSSAri o., Jan. iZ-Hoss strong aud
higher ut 81 90; receipts 1000 head; shipments
400 head.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-18
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Tie Features of tho Money and Stock
Markets,

hnFkota.
NEW YoRx, Jan. l7.-Moncy on call eay at 2Is
ask per cent last loan ~ per Centclosed offered
at az per cent Primo mercantile paper 54aGiS
per cent, Sterling exchange quiet at 81 SEA
4 sTsl, Sales were 4is,OOO shares,
The upward movement In the stock make.
shows signs OF having eliminated today. at
lcast there was little urgency TO tho demand,
mud while little pressure OF long stocks WINS seen
the ibGArs Hn1 Traders were moro active, and
were looking for soft spots upon which TO mako
an impression. Tho selling was more pro-
nouneed In 81. Paul, Rock Island aud Chicago
Gas Tho coal stocks were specially strong Ia the
forenoon, Lacknwanna making specially sharp
advance but tho others did not respond, though
rising iraclionllly Later IN the day Reading
was heavy on the announcement that this was
the last day II would handle the Cox Brothers
coal. The bltumlnOus coal stock showed mono
Of their late marked strength. although tho
president Of tho Hooking Valley announced
that tho prospects for a bltumlnous coal com.
binatlOn have improved. Hooking coal lost
good slice Of It's LATE advance. showing net de.
cline OF aS per cent at the close OF tho day.
Manhattan was again q feature, and was moved
rapidly backward aud forward over range Of
something oyer per cent Tho only marked
advance was In sugar. The market closed strong
and firm.
Railroad bonds were active.
NuNnN Hall
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yanced, the realizing became generous, cables
began 10 come weaker and some 81 che early
puyen eommeneed 70 let 60 andSthere was q
grad ual decline.
the market keeping within closer limits, with
she volume Of business smaller and moFe Of a
local character,
In oats the trading was largely In the way OF
aud sold corn some time ago at 100 difference.
ipFoylslons dun, weak aud lower,
Flour dun,
wHIAT-ca.h No, spring 7s5ia1G7sei No, Q
s1 .ls sDG s sS ss y ' sasi 81
CoRN-Cash No. 2 4S,{c; January 4asSRls94a
ti%sio' February %sIsali9Saiiri May 411sAis5'a
So fSD'Sly 4'-''''''a'' p'S' '0''4''4
RYE-No 2, size.
bARlBY-No. 9 DC
FLAIsRgl-Sl 1ak,
TINoTHYsEEp-sl9l.
MESS PoRE-CaIh 81 81 gSal7 50; January SIS lOa
IS S5alS l0i May SlS 81 Nails SAILS 57If
LAgn-C Cash Si1GS; January $40 65al0 72)ga
1905; May $40 bgal0 6lllo 90
SHORT RlBs-cash q 90; January 50 40a0 G21Sa
0 30; May 81 6OaO 72IslO 62JS
.sIiogiDiRs-s aEaiOO5i short clear $40 Goa
WHIsRY-sSS
BuTTEn-Ffrmi creamery 22aSSci dairy 221S9c,
Elds-Strongi fresh &c.
PHlLGpElPH4, Pa, Jan. T,-Flour firm,
Wheat weak No, 9 rod January 70a7S14c Feb
TuaFy 1OIsa1gt1o; March s0Nasl1sc. Corn easier;
No. mixed January, February and March b2a
62kc Oats dull and loweri No, = white Janu'
AIRY A9)<aiSIfG; February 4l53ai9c; March lga
t2ke: Proyistqns firm, Mess pork sie %; family
$40 OOa2l 90. Eggs firm; Pennsylvania trsls 400,
CINCINNATI, o., Jan, l7,--FlolE steady, Wheat
strong; No. 2red 13o; receipts 500 bushels; ship,
ments $500 bushels Corn firm; No. mixed
tSc. Oats slrongi No, 2mixed sc, Rye strongat
CSC. Pork firm at 80 Is. Lard quiet at sl075,
Bulk meats quiet at $40 20. Bacon strong at
81 30 WhsSky steady al ga otheEs I'M
changed,
BALTIMORE, Jan. l7.-WheAt easy; No. rcd
spot aud January SJ1{aSlo; February SlNSlAc;
May SSIkaSi1u Corn mixed spnt 5t4c; January
blSGa59I4c; February 5lIaS2o; March 6ll4a5lkc;
May 62sASc, Oats gulOti No. 2whito western 4la
i2c: Rye firm, Hay firm and steady, Butter
and ceiIeo arm, Eggs uncertain at 400
ToLEDo, o.. Jan, l7.-WheaI weak aud lower
No, cash and January 75NG; May S0Iso. Corn
dull and steady; No, . cash iSc; May 47eSo Oats
dull, Rye steady ut G0C, Clovcrseed dull; prime
cash January s. s.; March $50
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-18

A Countess Leaves Her skin to Camille
Flammarion to Blud His Newest
Hook,
Paris Cable 10 New YorE Herald
NJ. Camille Flammarion, the well
known astronomical correspondent OF
the Herald, was some years ago the
guest at the country seat OF a certain
count and countess, whose name he de-
Hires to suppress. The countess was OF
foreign origin, Her husbands seat is
in the department Of Jura.
She was dying with consumption,
and became deeply impressed with NJ,
Flammarion'a accounts Of his scientific
flights to siderial regions, She became
imbusd with tho theory OF the plurality
OF inhabitable worlds, and this enabled
her to wait the inevitably fatal termina,
ton Of her disease with calm resigHs-
ton, perhaps with hope that death
might only prove q translation to Mars
or some other planet or celestial world,
STRANGE PACKAGE.
In the due course Of time NJ. Flam.
mariOn's visit came TO mn end. He re.
turned to his observatory at Juyisy and
forgot in the absorption OF astronomical
studies all about his hostess at the
chateau amid mountains OF the Jura.
Some time ago package arrived at the
observatory accompanied bya letter in
black edged envelope. The packet
and letter were received by Nine, Flam-
marion, who on examining the con-
tents found that the package contained
largo piece Of white skin, very thick
and most cold to the touch. The letter
read as follows:
FROM HER BEAUTIFUL SHOULDERS.
"CnER MAITRE-J'accomplie lei 10
veu dune morte qui vous q etrauge.
ment aime. Ellie ma fault jurer de vous
iaire parvenir le lendemain do ga mort
Ia peau dea bellies epaules' quo yous
avoz 81 fort admirees 10 soir dos adieux,
a.t.elle dit, OF son desir est que vous fas-
siez Keller dams cette peau 10 premier
exempiafre du premier Outrage ne yous
qui sera public apres So mort. Je vous
TRANSMITS, cher maitre, cette relique,
CONNIE j'ai jure de le faire."
DEAR Sir-l hereby carry out the dy-
ing wish Of woman who strangely
liked you. She made me swear to send
you the day following her death the
skin from those beautiful shoulders
which youso much admired the even
ing you were bidding her farewell. Her
desire is that you have bound in this
skin tho first copy Of the first work that
you shall have published after her
death. / forward you, my dear sir, this
legacy as had vowed to do.
The letter was signed by a well known
medical practitioner OF the Jura.
nRR WISH ACCOMPLISHED.
"As a matter Of tact,n said NJ. Flam.
marion, chad admired the beautiful
shoulders OF the countess on the even
ing last saw her and when she was IN,
a decolette dinner toilet. What was
to do with tho strange legacyP I was
tempted to send it back, but on reheC-
tion determined to carry out the wish
OF the dead woman, whom | remem-
bered with pleasure. Accordingly 1
sent it to tanner, who worked on 1t
for three months, and he sent 1t back
beautifully prepared. 1 have just had
my last work-'Torre ct Ciel-bound
with it. Here Is the volume"
The binding Ia not onlyunique, but
neutrality-suspicious.. stamped
in gold letters the words:
souvenir dune morte."
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-18

Act on now neutrality-suspicious.
tho liyor, stomach and bowels through
tho nerves. A now discovery. Dr. Miles
Pills speedily euro biliousnoBs, bad
taste, torpid liver pilcs. constipation.
Unequaled for men women and chill.
dron, Smallest, inlldest furestl Fifty
dosol, 25c Samples froo, at The Logan
nfttp ca "a
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@. 7. Moore & Co., prominent drug.
glsts Of Newberg, Ore. say; "Since
our customers have become acquainted
With the good qualities OF Chamber.
iain's Cough Remedy, we sell but little
Of any other kind. Chamberlain's mo.
dicines all give good satisfaction" For
sale by druggists. p&w
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NEW YoRK Jan. l7--Plg Iron quiet: American
az Ipn5 o0ffR S qa sG, sa nGE " Lead
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.xS gsansylvanls stations.
Y!ggll8g!Yalla lines
Trnins fe,,n ~ fjenttaI flnaa 2


ricEEr OEYfcEs At PENNSYLVANIA HfAff1s o.
WATI.n H., fQqr OR u, hvElrfH "a, Wilneltgol
At hcLUhE HOUSE WltNlttEn, AND At I'm
PENraYLVANtA hIATfON, DRfpQEfonF,
RnuruvTrr aYHfgM-" PAN ffkNpfr HoUfrH
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Atn a recommended BY phy1ieiana
AZ wholesome. II IL tho laleit tonic,
and CosgtAye's b tho best
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NEW YoRE, Jan. III Petroleum certificates
were neglected entirely at both exchanges to-day
and no news Of importance was received. The
close was steady Of yesterdays qu Citations. Sales
4lS,00O barrels.
OIL CRY, Pa, jan. l7-Opcnod ut 53lkc:
highest 6Sl%c. lowest 6Ic: closed al 63ISc; sales
1900 barrels; ClearlnCes $1,000 barrels; snip.
merts ll8,0l batrels; runs BglSg barrels
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Philnd dolphin Live Stock Market.

Beef and Cattlo-The market was stronger aud
receipts and a good demand, Tho supply Was
exceedingly small, owing to n delay III ship.
ments, caused by the sNvero weather and heavy
snow storms. Among tho rccoipts We're IN.
Cluded ?22 head for shipment TO London per
steamer Missouri
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Hogs-The market was flrner, and prices were
fully 10 higher In sympathy with the west.
Demand was good and receipts were very light
We qnot,: Good Western, lie; other western,
l0l8aiU1fc
Fat COWS were dull at glatc.
Thin cows wero steady at SAILS
Mich COWS were IN fair demand at s9jR50.
Mich calves were In good demand ut base,
Dressed beeYes More firm Ut 6AQc.
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Extra .,.,,,.,,,,.,, r.. Common.,.....,, 4IIai5,c
IedIG@"""..,, i4asGc Fat COWS i ..'.".. gNaic
sheep--The market was very firm, with light
receipts aud good demand Prices ruled very
firm for both sheep and lambs,
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OHIO RIVER RAILROAD %.


on md after Monday. December 10 Pasonget
Trains will run as follows; SDatN tDAlly kt'
rlri SUNDAY. Central TllnO.
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GRIM pUp BEAUTIVUL

a Countess Leaves Her skin to Camille
Flammarrion to Blnd His Newest
hook,
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RAILWAY TIME CARD.

Arrival and departure Of trains on and sisor %,
eember vs. 1907 EXPLANATIONS oF RRFEREsrs
AAkAS QpAllyi tSundly excepted; tNoldaY
exec pod; Saturday excepted; lSundY oniyf
nsalnnlaY OnlV EailArn slalfllarl Mimi ~
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Tropical FruhI-Iemons, g 76 per box; ba.
nlnaS, 81 00a2 % per bunch; oranges, Maslna
s. y, Florida Sc 2ja9 Is.
Vegetables Cabbage. home grown, s! 90 per
oSos Gas Si poF qSUSs IS wd pSF p SsaS
81 80 per barrel
FssSI Fs4Qs-APpIeI. 50 Ooa2 % per barrel;
Crnn berries So OF per box
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draiH-Wheal, sixty pound test, 100 pOr bush.
el Corn, per bushel, ear, from store 80,
0als, out OF store Western crop, S5p per BUSH
eli homo grown, 83at6c,
EQnE-Fancy roller mill winter wheat, wood
at $50 per baFreli paper 50 q per barrel; sprng
wheat Niunehaha 81 6i In sack, 81 6i per barrel,
old wheat, Famous, o. Is IN sack, 81 20 In wood.
Galaxy s. Is IN sacks, 81 o. per barrel
Fset-Feed II plentiful, bran bringing SIS per
TOM mlddlings SIS per ton. Hay, bAled 81 per
Ton, IelAll; loose. 81 OOAl2 90 per ton.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-27
DR.; Hale's Noah's Ark.

In my hoyhood every school in Boston
was opened on Christmas day - every
court, every shop and all the market.
The business of the banks and of State
street went on as on any other day.
The first Chritmas present 1 ever had
was Noah's ark. It was given me BY
J. Van G. Throp, a distinguished eugrayer
Ia cousin of my fathers. It was ex-
planned to me a child of 3 or 4 years
old-that he was of Dutch family and
had lived in New York, that his customs
were therefore Dutch, and that this was
the reason why he gave his presents on
Christmas day iuseead of New Years.
In this cared less than for the present
itself, which was done up in white paper
and somewhow appended to my stock
ing. It could not have gone into it.
Edward Everett Hale.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-27

They might have observed them in
the large cities but they certainly did
not no, II the little place whore v. were lo-I
Gated.
So it was not until We made our
home in Brooklyn that ever knew
Christmas was q holiday. Then we
were often invited to Christmas dinners
and after dark parties Of friends used to
come over and. spen nd the evening with
US. All Of this was after my New Eng
land egirlhood, and appeared very strange
to me.
! think nk the first Chistmas day / really
remember was When, in our Brooklyn
home, we set up q Christmas tree for the
little twins Alfred and Arthur.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-27
MINN, WEDNESDAY I1EcENlBER:

much upon its absolute wealth as upon.
the yearly distribution Of the yearly gain
Whatever can be said Of the people of
the United States, nothing can be more
truly said than that the distribution Of
the proceeds of united labor and capital
has been among them more even and
fair than anywhere else on earth. There
have been great accumulations Of capital
necessary for the worlds. developement
all over the universe, but in the United
States, all this has leen accompanied by
the nearest approach to general distribu-,
ton that the world has ever seen. This
has not been allowing to the tariff but
the tariff has been the foundation of it.
Labor organizations have played a great
and useful part in this distribution. Men
In general who employ labor are no more
naturally disposed to pay high wages
under tariff than those who exploit the
laboring men under free trade, but the
tariff, by giving steady employment un-
der the influence of sure market by es-
tablishing the organization Of industry
under the factory system, has given to
organized labor the material to work up
on the fund of which it has demanded
distribution = fund so great that
it could never have been equaled or even
approached in the comparatively isolat-
ed life which the unprotected industries
taken alone have given us as a people.
Protection has established the clusters
of great manufacturing and working
centers which have given railroads the
possibility of existence, which no. scat
tered population could ever have Great
ed.
The railroads, which these greae manu-
featuring towns and their need of trans
portation of freight have built, t,are sourc-
es of enjoyable wealth which are not
confined to the protected industries, but
are spread through all the business Of the
United States end insure to the comfort
and happiness of all the people.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-27
TIRs 7 CHRISTMAS.
Prominent American Give their Recollec-
tions Of an Early Christmas,
Interesting Stories Of the Childhood Feel
ings Of Great People.

) ~ FsEss fsEE {
The following are some of the recollec-
tions Of noted men and women of the
first Christmas that they can remember.
The articles are taken from the Minnea-
polls Journal of Saturday.
a Story Of the Southland.
I had the customary experience Of Vir-
ginia boys in the old homes Of by-gone
days.
Stockings were hung up in the bed
rooms Xmas eve and filled with candies,
nuts. oranges, etc., by Santa Claus, who, !,
leaving his reindeer and sleigh outside,
came down the chimney while we were
all asleep.
We somehow always walked up Xmas
morning at the first glimpse of day. and
Immediately attacked the good things in
the stockings and then ran for the tab
les in the room upon which had been
tastily arranged the presents. The re-
mander Of the day was spent in show
ing these. to everybody on the place
eating sweetmeats until we were sick,
and blowing horns until our breath was
exhausted. The bad boys never found
the threatened switches in their stock
ings, but enjoyed the holiday just as
much, and perhaps more, than the good
boys. s
These merry makings were kept up a
week. During the festivities the negroes
did no WORK, except the house servants.
and they only what was absolutely ne
cessary.
Everybody for miles around seemed to
be singing:
Let the wide world wag as it will,
Well be gay and happy still.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-27
GEN. BAKER Prosecuted,
A Minnesotan's Unpleasant Experience at
the Close of the War,

Gen. James H. Baker of Mankato,
Mimi, registered at the Grand Pacific.
If not the hero of Judge Tourgee's :.Fool's
Errand," Gen. Baker was the Western
counterpart or the twin of the Virginia
immigrant who tried to settle down South
in Kuklux times. Gen. Baker was a
prominent citizen of Minnesota when the
civil war broke out, and the fortune Of
war cast his lot near the wind-up in Mis-
souri, as provost st-marshal of the state.
There is no finer country spread out on
the face of the earth than is fashioned in
to metalbearing and forest st-covered hills,
fertile valleys and grass-grown prairies
in .'poor old Missouri At the close of
the war Gen. Baker took up one of the
best farms in Central Missouri, bought
and reclaimed it from the decay into
which slave labor had permitted it to
fall. f. :
1t was at time when the G Confederates
we're coming home, tired Of the war,
whipped, ragged and hungry. Gen. Ba-
ker's coming was welcomed throughout
Cooper county and all Central Missouri.
He was flattered and cajoled by the stay
at-home Southern sympathizers. and the
returning Confederates besought his ia
vor. For time there wasn't more
popular man in the river counties of Mis-
souri, than James II. Baker.
But the season Of his popularity was
short lived.
With the stains of march and battle
still upon their butternut jeans. the Con-
federates sought. to be taken into full
fellowship as citizens, just as worthy and
l.potent as uthe - Dutch" and other
Unionlsts who had kept the state il, the
Union. Gen. Baker kept quiet, remained
at home, attended to his farm, planted
seeded and harvested. But the ex-Con-
Iederates were not content with his
course. They cajoled and persuaded him
to become as liberal as Carl Schurz, B.
Gratz Brown and others had been sc.
Iduced. Gen. Baker came out radically
in favor of a probation period for all the
treason-att stained vote claimants of Mis-
souri,. And then Gen. Baker and his fam
ily were subjected to a species Of perse-
cution and intolerance that made the
gallant soldier, who had never turned his
back on the armed enemy, fee from q
SOCIAL ostracism less bearable than Ku-
klux violence, though even the latter was
threatened. The general returned to
| Minnesota a wiser man, and to -epent 81
his afooIs Grand I among people who,
since he came back, have honored him
time and again with public office high up
Iamong thasf foremost men Of the state.
IChicago Inter Ocean.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-27
Robson's Mother Memoriies

| have my doubts as to whether Christ
mas briRgs as much pleasure as pain. The
children Of the rich, or fairly prosperous,
may get a little fun out of it, but after all
it is simply repetition Of the s.toys and
joys Of their every day life; but for the
children Of the poor there anything
sadder. than q ssmerry' Christmas? They
see the show WindoWs filled with toys
and Illuminated picture books but their
little hearts must throb with envy at the
thought that these things are not for
them, but for the velvet-robed little ones
of the rich. Why does the snow-clad
Santa Claus with his beautiful toys stop
50 long at the chimney Of the boy whose
play-room is always brim full Of lovely
hons and elegant elephants and only
give 9 hurried thought and a pound Of
cheap candy to s Poor Joe''2
I don't think I enjoyed my first Christ
mas. had rare fun. out Of its anti ciipa-
ton. but the reality was q sore disap-
spointment. Several vel dressed boys,
bigger iggg than I, and with handsome sleds
'a1l and high-runn skates, boys with high
noses and futed liars, who let me play
with them when they could get no one
else, told me marvellous stories Of santa
Claus nice old fat man who travelled
alone al night II 3 great sleigh filed
with golden toys and candy canes and
silver monkeys which he let fall into the
chimney Of the rich and poor aliilke
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-27
"A Famous Funny Fellow.

The first Christmas can remember2
1t is like remembering a dream; the vi
sions you dreamed get 50 mixed up with
the thoughts yeu had when you awoke,
OF the things yon find before you fall
asleep; tradition and fact,experlence and
narrative are SO commingled in mans
recollectlons of Christmas that sometime
! have an idea that my first Christmas
happened two or three hundred years
ago. But the first one of which 1 have
a distinct, vivid remembrance was print
ed on heart and brain with a bitter dis
appointment. | was about 8 years
young. My father was a bookkeeper in
the good old times when day laborer
worked 12hcurs a days. farmer 1O,a mer-
chant 1S to 30, a salesman as long as he
could keep awake, and bookkeeper %.
except in busy seasons such as Christmas
and when they were taking account of
stock, when he sold goods at the counter
all day. posted the books ALI night and
came home in the morning only to get
breakfast, and then get docked for lost
time if he wasn't back at the store by
half past seven. Well, that Christmas
eve my father. remembering that he had
to play Kris Kringle for his children,got
away early, about two o'clock in the
morning, think, in order: to make his
purchases. But the little town of Peora
had gone to bed nobody up except
few other bookkeepers. Unhappily he
kept books IN a dry goods store which
had no toy counter. Next morning all
the children were up bright and early,
shrieking "Merry Christmas" and charg-
ing on the line Of hanging stockings.
Christmas ran principally to yarn nit
tens and comforters that morning. No
books, no toys. And apples! Kris
Kringle filled up with apples. They
were commoner than pebbles; there were
barrels of them in the cellar. Applesl
For Christmas! Iwouldn't have eaten
one, no, Motif I'd been dead sure it
would have kept me out of school for
weeks. wouldn't have eatenit. After
breakfast there was an explanation that
by the way was the death blow to the
Kris Kingle myth and we got our toys.
But that didn't count; that was after
breakfast, and Christmas was more than
half over. That was a Christmas to re-
member. To this day, if | am on the
streets late at night and see, through
some lighted counting room window,
lonely bookkeeper, bending above journ-
al and ledger, il makes my heart ache.
Robert j. Burdette.