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! Christmas
They Turned the Course of
a Man's Life
By F. A. MITCHEL
The otber day I beard a man my
Id a bored tone of voice: "Christmas
la coming round again, and we've got
to endure the usual Christmas racket,
I suppose. The man of family must
make a hole In bis bank account, and
the bachelor must stick to his club,
for If he makes visits on his women
friends they ask to be excused from
seeing blm because they're working
hard preparing for Christmas. They'rt
all makiug things which take up a lot
of time aud which they can buy at tbi
stores for a few cents each. If the
bachelor tries to solace himself with
a magazine or his newspaper Christ
mas stares him in the face In big let
ters. He goes out on to the street and
sees no end of Salvation Army Santa
Clauses ringing their everlasting bells
I'm always sorry when Christmas is
coming and glad when It has passed."
If that man's whole life had been
turned from bad to good by Christmas,
as mine was at a critical period, he
wouldn't talk that way. Christmas, 1 1
admit. Is not the gladsome season to
me It Is to many others. It is a solemn
season, a season for thankfulness, re- j
membering. as I do, what It did for mo j
I never hear the bells that usher In the |
day that 1 don't feel a great awe at
what I escaped and a great comfort at |
what I gained on one memorable
Christmas.
ty
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I wasn't born with * silver sjkxmi In
my mouth. No, Indeed. I used one
made of baser metal and, though It
would hold plenty of food, there was
very little food to put In It. But, not
withstanding the poverty in which 1
was born, I was a dreamy child, con
stantly bui'ding caatles for the future
which my Imagination iund>> all tht
more beautiful in contrast with my
miserable surroundings.
At seven years of age I lost all help
from others and was obliged to rely
solely on myself. Would that I oould
obliterate all remembrance of those
days of suffering when I was selling
newspapers by day and sleeping any
where I could find a place to sleep In
by night. My Imaginative disposition
rendered me unfit for work that was
distasteful to me, and I made little foi
food, clothing and shelter. But I
learned to read, and with reading I
picked up writing and other bits of
education. One thing astonished my
comrade gamins. With a piece of
chalk I could draw pictures on a flag
stone that were very like the objects
I represented. What surprised them
most was that my dogs ran, my horses
galloped, my men walked. As for my
policemen, they actually hustled theli
prisoners to the station.
The gifts of the poet and the artist
do not enable them to feed and clothe
themselves, except In rare Instances,
and I as a child not only failed to de
rive any benefit from my talent, but It
indicated an Impractical disposition.
When I came to be eighteen years old
I was more than impracticable. I was
not a worker; I was considered lazy,
but I was not lacy; I simply conld not
force myself to work at that In which
I did not take an interest During a
season when I got a chance to attend
night school I showed myself to be
one of the best scholars In the class.
When I was on the threshold of
manhood I was In despair. I have not
the heart to dwell on the suffering*
that led me to Join the criminal class.
I will only say that one day before a
Christmas, while passing before ?
bouse into which boxes and bundles
were being carried, I looked in through'
the windows on which evergreen
wreaths were hanging and could see
a Christmas tree at one end of a room
where biased an open coal fire. The
sight of so much comfort maddened
me, hungry and ragged as I was. with
no hope for my future. It occurred to
me mm u i coum u?w? mm. u< <.^
and carry away some of the articles
being taken Into It I might sell them
for money with which to buy some
thing to eat
While I was thinking of this tht
front door opened, and a little bo;
about five years old came out with his
nurse. lit was bundled up In a fui
coat, fur cap and mittens and was be
lng taken out for a walk. The num
was a tidy girl sixteen or seventeen
years old and as she (Missed me looked
at my rags, then up Into my disconso
late face, and a pitying expression
came Into h?r features.
T reasoned myself Into the delusion
that this prosperous faintly would not
miss one piece of silver that would en
able me to boy a food meal and that
I would steal this once and neret
again. Thnt same night when all In
the family were In bed 1 went around
the house. Trying the windows, and,
finding them all locked, I took a knife
out of my pocket with one broken
blade In It and, cutting away the putty
before a pain of glass, removed It and,
reaching In, turned the catch. Then,
cautiously raising the sash, I went In
on the ground floor.
I found myself In the kitchen. There
was enough tight coming from street
lamps outside to enable me to movi
about without stumbling, and I passed
through a pantry to the dining room.
I tried to And a piece of ?liver on the
sideboard, but none was there, and the
drawers had been locked. 1 passed out
Into a ball, and a dim light above told
mo (hit probably the gti bad' beat
turned low on the npper floor. I went
up tbero and fo ind some of the bed
worn doors ojten. In one room Irttt
which the lowered gas jet threw ?
faint light I could see a child'* crib. I
went on tiptoe to the open door and
recognised the cMid I bad eeefi leavta*
tbe house that Mime afternoon.
He looked lalgbty pretty lyln*
asleep, one arm nnder his cheek sad
bis chubby little flsta doubled up. At
tbe otber end of tibe room wa? ? bed. tc
which, I supposed, hla nurse waa sleep
lug. One Christnaa present had beer
given him, and he bad taken It to bed
with him. It waa a tin born. It mad*
me wince, for if be should wake up
and catch sight of me it would be a
flne medium with wtych to aronae th?
bouse.
Suddenly a clock without began to
atrlke, and bells all over tbe city waav
ringing In Chrtiitraas day. I should
have thought of my critical position
but Instead I was Impressed with tbe
ringing of tbe Nils. Tbe most solemn
thing In tbe world la a tolling bell, and
the most gladsome la the aound of
bella ringing for some Joyful event
I was standing listening to tbe merry
Jangle when the boy began to stir to
> hla crib, opened his eyes and listened
Intently. He had evidently been aroit*
i ed by the bells. Then he sat up and.
i seizing his horn, began to blow a blast
| that abould have caused me to beat a
hasty retrent. But It didn't The bells
without and tbe born within were ao
typical of Christmas that In my ap
prestation of tbe ushering In of the
day I forgot tbiit I stood, as It were,
at tbe door of a prison cell. 1 heard a
chuckle in one of tbe rooms and a
man's voice call out:
"Merry Christmas, Benny! .Now, go
to sleep again and give Santa Clatia a
chance to como down the chimney
and fill your atocklnK."
But the boy's mother couldn't keep
away from him., and the first thing 1
knew a woman In her nightdress
came through the ball. I started down
atalra. but was too late. She gave th*
alarm. A man sprang Into the ball and
before t had reached the lower atory
seized me. He was Mg and strong,
while I, wenk from want of food, wat
unable to resist
The horror of my situation did not
affect me as one would suppose It
would. A jail hasn't the terror Xo)
one wbo cannot feed himself that it
has for one who doesn't know depriva
tion. I resigned myself to my fate.
The man. seeing that there waa little
to fear from too, took me Into bit
library and turned on the lights. Then
he stood looking at me. Tbe Christ
mas bells were still ringing without,
and It seemed to me that they were
a deterring Influence upon my capiat
to turning a fellow being on this blest
ed morning over to the police. How
ever, he mastered hla repugnance and
started to a telephone when in walked
Benny in his nightie. He atood look
lng at me for a moment, then sakl:
"Oh. I thought you waa Santa Claus"
"Run back u pi fairs, aonny," said the
man.
"Who is he. papaT"
"One wbo stole into the bouse to take
your Christmas gifts from you."
The little fellow looked very sober
"What are you tolng to do with him?"'
be asked of bis father.
"Send him to Jail."
"And he won't: have any Christmas T"
"No. Wicked 'persons dont deeerve tc
have any Christmas."
"I've never hiid a Christmas, " 1 said
despairingly, "but thus far I'v? Mvei
spent one In jail. I am starving and
came In here to get something I could
sell so that I might buy a meal "
Tbe man looked at me Inquiringly
i'erhape there v, as sincerity In my face
that moved him.
"Your first bcxglary?" he asked.
"I have never stolen a penny in mj
life."
No great time bad thus far passed
since I was discovered, and the belts
were still rlngtag. They were beating
against this man's heart
"You can go," he said presently.
"And, papa," put in Benny, "can't I
give him some of my Christmas gifts T"
"Time enoug'a for that tomorrow,"
replied the father, then to me, "If
you'll come here about noon lH hav*
a talk with you and sec If 1 can do
anything to help yon."
"Can't he have a part of our Christ
ma* dinner?" anked Benny.
To tills the father paid no attention,
but, opening the front door, told me to
(TO forth. saying to me a* I passed out:
"If you're sincere you'll come bark to
morrow; If you're a hardened criminal
I shall probably never see you again
Go before those bells stop ringing."
"Goodby!" cried Benny. "Coma to
dinner."
I did return to dinner, and I found a
friend. He dared not at once trust me
In his bouse, but he gave me a position
as porter In his place of business. It
was not long before he discovered that
I possessed a gift more enduring than
any that could be given at Christm**
my artistic faculty? and be sent me to
an art school to study That wu years
ago, and I am now prominent la my
profession. Be, any la a young man and
cornea often to my studio. We are
strong friends. I tell him that be saved
more than my life. Hanging to tba
wall of my artist's den la the tin horn
which waked tils parents on Chrlstmaa
morning and l?i to my regeneration.
But the Chrlstmaa bella. I have
heard them many a time alnee they
awakened in me a conscience, quick
ened the spirit of mercy in the man I
had come to rc>b and snatched me from
the life of a criminal. No matter where
I am on Christmas morning, bow tired
and sleepy, whether sick or welV I am
awake before the dawn listening for
them. And m?ver do t hear them but
my heart is filled with the bleseed In
fluence of the child who came on an
errnnd of merry to all men.
HER
HALLOWEEN
Br F. A MICHEL
I Etkel Aurhhiclrw* <*#?
yeara old. an age when girls art fond
of fancying what the man whom thej
aha 1 1 marry will be Ilka Oa Hal
loween nhnrilj before dart ?M etnerg
ed from her father "a fferehona* with
a rlew to going to the river near by
to put In operation a Utile plan of her
own to flrnl oat aomethlng about her
future husband. She had no me wood
en dlabea. art me taper* and a boi of
matchea.
Ethel knew all the young men la her
neighborhood, and It aeetned probable
that if abe married she would be
oboaen by on* of fliem. for no onaalao
aver came to that region She did not
expect to look Into a mirror and aee
reflected there orer her ahoulder the
faoa of a at ranger She only hoped In
know which of three young men of
her acquaintance would aak her to
marry b!m. She had no reaaon to aup I
poae that any of them would aak her.
bat In caae any one did ?be wlahed to
know which It waa to he
A new moon atond In the neM which
abe took pains to aee- It being lb* flrat
time? orer her rlgtit ahoulder In her
time the* little au|?erstlt|on? equated
for mop? than tbey do in this realistic
age, and she felt quite mr? that If
abe saw the moon over tier left about
der abe wouldn't hare any Inrk during
the montb. I la r|ug seen It aright. abe
passed on ov?r a Held, then through a
wood and stood on the margin of tb?
rirar.
Now. It happened that Philip It rook*,
a student In a college situated acroaa
the state Una and distant an hour's
journey on a train, had !*en caught a I
few weeka liefore hating freshmen and
was rustli-atlng at a little town on ,
tha river a few miles above where
Farmer Aurhlnrlo-is lived The soph*
more bad beeo studying on thla very
afternoon and shortly before Ktbel i
bad emerged froui her borne bad
palled down the streiim In hla wherry
for exercise and rerrentlou In tbe j
gloaming
The first tblng Paul knew be M?
a lighted taper pausing him. 8nr
prised, he ceased rowing and eyed It '
wondering what it meant. He turned
bis face upstream and saw another
lighted taper a dozen yards ahead and
another still farther op tbe river. !
Then tt anddenly oecarred to him that
It muat be Halloween and aoma
girl was trying to find ant which of
three young men she would marry.
Giving a few back stroke*, be
dropped down bealde tbe taper tkat
had floated farthest and blew it Mt
then, not desiring a rival for tbe an
known maid's favor, picked op tbe
second and the third taper and Mew
them otrt at a breath Then be palled ,
cautiously on upstream with muffled
rowlocks.
Ethel, standing on tha brink, saw the
first taper go oat and remarked to
herself, "tt lant Fred." Whan aha
saw the two remaining tapers go eat
at once aba exclaimed: "It Isn't any
of them, rm to he an old maid "
Wben about to return to ber home
she glanced up to tbe aky and aaw
tha new moon Juat paaalng ant of
?lgbt in tbe weet 8b. appealed to It
In the following worda that bare been
familiar to lada and laaales for may
years:
"New moon, true moot tall unto me
Who my true lover ahall be;
The color of hie eyee. the color of hi*
hair.
The color of the coat tbat be (hall wear
The day he marries me."
Not dreaming tbat >07 one waa near
to tear (ht. abe spoke the word* In a
ton# loud ? rough to be readily beard
In tba surrounding stlllnee* What
wee ber surprtae to bear a rotca com
log frota oat la tba rlrer;
"Niw mono, true moon, tail unto ma
Who my true lore aha!! be;
The color of her eyec the color of her
hair,
Tba oalor af the draaa tbat aba ehall
wear
Tba nlvht aha marries ma."
Ethel *tood mat* till ah* beard
tba aonnd of oara, and Id another mo
meat the dark farm of a man sitting
Id a narrow boat appealed. Tba boat
grated on the pebble* at ber feat, and
tba man atepped 00 abore and aald Im
presalrely:
"My future bride, I greet yon."
It waa not eo dark, tba two being
close together. bat what the* could
distinguish each other There la no
neater aid to tbe Imagination than a
ft learning and each pictured tke other
Inordinately beautiful. It may be aald
truthfully tbat Etbel waa fair, and
Phn, If be waa not good, waa at least
good looking. He waa not lacking In
audacity. and. ateallng an arn aronnd
Ethel' a walat he earn eat ly Imprinted
a ktaa upon ber Hp*
No one could erer And out bow Ethel
Aflchlndom met the young collegian,
who from Halloween waa a fre
quent visitor at b?r borne. HI* visits
extended over a period of three year*,
when be waa graduated and entered
hla father's counting mom. Thea he
came to tbe country and took the
farmer'* daughter home with blm. It
would be naeleee for ber hnabaad to
try to convince her tbat the moon bad
nothing to do with their anion, foe she
maintain* stoutly tbat the moon beard
ber petition and arranged tbe whole
affair.
ritOFEBMOffAf. ('ARM.
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