The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-25

'-irts Of the crowd. Every one faced
"A. IN that direction, but the laughter
had ~ueared. Yuba Bill, however,
sent h. after him. Eyes, in hospi-
| tai Fun. It it? - amOosin place!
Try it Ste - here, and in five min
utes, by the iiv. 0ky, III qualify you
for admission and = rye you a cent?
He stopped, gave iug glance of
| dissatisfaction around HIN. then, lean
ing back against the bar Aned 10
some one near the door, and san dis
gusted tone: you tell those galoo>
it happened, Bracy. They make
siclw
Thus appealed to, Bracy, the express
I messenger, stepped forward to Yuba Bits
/ place MS nothing particular, gentle
men, he said, with a laugh, only 1t
| seems that some man called Spindler, who
! lives about here, sent an invitation to the
| father of these children to bring his fam
| lily 90 Christmas party. 1t wasn't
! bad sort OF thing for Spindler 10 do, con
sidering that they were his poor relations,
/ though they didn't know him from Adam,
| was it?' He paused; several of the by
| ISLANDERS cleared their threats, but said
/ nothing. "At least" resumed Bracy.
1 that's what the boys up at Red Hill.
1 ore, thought, when they heard OF it, Well
/ as the father was in hospital with
broken leg, and the mother only a few
/ weeks dead, the boys thought it mighty
/ rough on these poor kids if they were done
! out of their fun because they had no
one 20 bring them. The boys couldn't af-
i lord to go Themselves, but they got a lit
/ tie money together. and then got the idea
/ of sendin' 'em by express Our agent at
/ Red Hill tumbled 10 the idea at once but
! ne wouldn't take any money in advance
/ and he would send 'em C. O. D.. like
/ any other package. And he dis, and here
/ they arel That's ali! And now, gentle
men, as I've got to deliver them person.
/ ally to this Spndler, and get his RECENT
/ and take off their checks, / reckon we
| must toddle. Come, Bill, help take 'en
| upi'
Hold on" said dozen voice. A dozen
hands wer thrust into a dozen pockets I
] grieVe TO say some were regretfufly emptv
| FOR IL was a hard season in Rough and
! READY. But the expressman stepped be-
lore them, with warning upHfted hand.
NOT a cent, bOys-not a cent: Wells
Fafso Express Company don't undertake
/ to carry bullion with those kids at least
4 on the same contractr He laughed and
theh looking around him, said confden-
ua"y IN "a lower voice, which, however
| was quite audible TO the children: There's
| as much as three bags of silver in mar
/ in the coach, that has been poured. YES
/ just showered upon them, ever since they
/ started, ana have been passed over from
! agent to agent and messenger TO messen-
/ ger-enough TO pay their passage from
here 10 China! It's time to say quits now
But bet your life, they are not going to
that Christmas party poorr'
he caught up the boy, as Yuba Bill
lifted the little girl to his shoulder ana
] ont
the loungers in the barroom silently and
/ aWkwardly followed, and when the bar
Keeper turned back from putting away
! his dtcanters and glasses. to his aston
ishment the room was empty.
sphndler's House, or "spindIers
| Splurge," as Rough and Ready chose 70
cal II, stood above the sediment on a
/ deforested hillside, which, however 10
venged itself by producing not enoneb ,,ao,-
citation 10 cover even the few stprn.
That were ineradicable. A large wooden
| structure in the pseudo-classic stt,le a
| fected by Westerners, with an inconprno,ls
/ cupola, it was oddly enough relieved b,, =
still more homogeneous verandah extendine
! around its four sides, upheld by woode1
| Dorie columns which we're already nic-
! turesqueiy covered with Towering vines
| and sun-loVing roses Mr.. Snindjar -
10
me same contractor who had upholstered
! the gilded barroom of the Eureka saloon
and who had apparently bestowed ~
! same design and material inpartlau, -
! each. There were gilded mirrors ali -.
1 the house and chilly marble-topned taty,a..
/ gilt plaster Cupids in the corners 80,
1 succeed lions lin the way evervv,t,,--
/ The tactful hands of Mrs. PYjca -,
screened some OF these with season e.
laurels, fir boughs, and berries. ana Ma
/ impaired slight Christmas flavor 70 49,
/ house. But the greater part of her ,,,,o
/ had been employed in trying 10 eui,'i,,-
/ the eccentricities Of Spindlers amazinc, ~
latious; in iranquilizlng Mrs. "An,,t,,
/ Martha Spindler-the elderly cook bsgoro
/ alluded to-who was Inclined 10 regar7
I the g!lded splendors OF the house 81 n,
/ dicatye OF dangerous immortality. ~ -
! straining Cousin" Morley Hewiett f-.,.,
/ considering the dining room bum as
bar for intermittent refreshment.' ana j,
/ keeping the Weak-minded nephew Pr
/ ney spindler. from shooting al bot,5s,
/ from the yerandah. wearing his uncl.,.
clothes, or running up an account ln bts
uncle's namc for various articles al ~.
general stores. Yet. the UNLOCKED FOR a.
rival ~ the two children had been fbo
one great compensation ana diversion ~
her She wrote at once % her niece (.
brief account ~ her miraculous deliver.
Hncf % think these poor children dron-
ufd tom i1a skfs here 30 make our
fhrsfmaf party possible, 40 gay nothing