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THE BISHOP-s GUEST.

A CHRISTMAS STORY.

The snow had settled on the west-
ern cOuntry like a white cloud, and the
keen north wind had frozen it over
crisply. The air had the touch of win-

 

ter, and the breath of Jack Frdst was
‘ everywhere. The Diamond Central,
the fast express on the Northern Pa-
cific, a trifle late, and speeding rapidly
to make up its lost time, was whirling
past mile posts and flag stations on’ its
way westward. It carried, besides its
mail, express and baggage cars, a smo-
ker, a day coach and a couple of sleep-
ers. When they stopped at Bismarck,
a. man got out and Went into the tele-
graph oflice. He wrote his telegram
slowly and without a qualm. He had
telegraphed to Miles City just before
leaving St. Paul. This second mes
sage he sent to make doubly sure:

“Mary is ill. I am going to see her.
Send mail to office. How is \Villie?

J. W. BROWN.”

He addressed it to William Martin,
Medora, N. I). Z It read easily to the
men who received it:

“I go to Denver. Money 0. K. Train
No. 2. Three in‘ express car. Bill
Thompson on engine.”

Then he went back over the slippery
platform and climbed in on the end of
the sleeper. He was well above the
average height, and broad and square
through the shoulders. His jaw .was
clean cut and strong, his chin clipped
at the corners, where a long,‘ jagged
scar ran from it down across his
throat. His eyes were indolent and
curiously luminous, his brows heavy
and brown. He stood smoking idly,
his mind full of the outcome of his
many days of skilled investigation. He
had shadowed the money step by step,
from the bank to the express wagon,
from the station agent to the train
agent. And then he had sent word to
Miles City, so that the men could get

- down to Medora; from there they
could reach the chosen point on horse-
back. The day had seemed endless to
him. He knew the men were waiting
impatiently as he, and he felt sure
they had cursed him for his tardiness.
He shrugged his shoulders wearily,
looked ahead of him, and he saw a
high, curiously shaped car, which they
were backing to meet. After it was
coupled and they had started, he could
see into it, and he caught a glimpse of
the bishop’s tall figure. As he leaned
forward, interested, he saw a Christ—
mas tree.

He was a man of impulses, and he

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sible; and once on a visit in the cast I
. I Spoke of it in a. sermon, and after-

ward two men whom I knew came to
me and said they would build it, and

,they made it as complete as they

could, bless them- I take it from town
to town, and have service in it. And
today I am trimming a. Christmas tree
for the children at Medora, where I
am to have services temorrow. May
I ask your name, sir?”

“Brown,’ ’ said the man slowly.
“John Brown. Can’t I help you trim
the Christmas tree?” ,

“I shall be indebted to you if you
will,” said the bishop. “Shall we be-
gin, or will you finish your cigar here
first? I have never smoked in the
chapel.” .

“Surely not,” said Mr. Brown. “I
will throw it away, or we will begin
at once, It interests me more than I
I can tell you, this car. It seems more
like practical Christianity, and that is
what the world needs.”

He and the bishop worked together
cheerily. IIe draped the frosted moss
and the strings of popcorn carefully,
a hundred thoughts in his head. He
could fairly see that eager group of
men, drinking, smoking, cursing, wait-
ing, probablyplaying poker to pass
the time. And here such peace—such
restful peace. .

Brown fastened a tin trumpet firm-
ly. "I fancy your Christmas will be a
happy one, for you will be surrounded
by those with whom you have worked
and lived. And I shall have no one
to even give a Christmas present to,
unless you will let me give this gold

The bishop thankedhim warmly.

“Now I am quite content.” he said.
“I needed one more gift, and I .wanted
it a very nice one. It is for a little
girl who is very ill and who cannot
walk, and she longs for a large dolly,
with flaxen curls and eyes. that open
and. shut, and this will give it to her—
poor little Florence—”

“Florence,” he said, “is that her
name? I should like to give you this
too, for her. Will you get her some-
thing else she wants?” '

“I am afraid yen are robbing your—
self,” said the bishop. Brown smiled.

"I am not robbing myself,” he said.
“I earned that quite honestly by writ-

I would like the little girl to have it,
because—Florence is the name of that
one woman who has tried vainly to
make a better man of me.”

“My dear sir,” said the bishop,
“Florence was the name of that one
woman .who died long years ago.”
They looked at each other silently, and
then Brown said:

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crossed over and opened the car door.
The bishop turned and faced him.
The car of the bishop was famous
throughout that western country, and
as well known to the trainmen as the
bishop himself. Through the courtesy
of theroad it was taken along the line
_ free of charge wherever the bishop
wished to hold his services. It wasx
the bishop’s own idea, and a novel
one.

“I beg your pardon, sir,” the man
said, “but I was so interested in the
Christmas tree, and I thought, .per-
haps, I might lend a hand.”

The bishop smiled at him cour-

teousiy. . .

' “That’s very good of you,” he said.‘
“It is quite an undertaking alone.”

“What a curious car,” his companion
said. “Is' it a movable church?”

“You have never heard of my car?”
the bishop said. “That takes my van-
ity down apeg or two. So many news-
paper men have written of it and so
many magazines quoted it, that I had
begun to feel myself quite famous.
Ah, well, pride goes before a. fall.”

His companion laughed 'quietly.

» “I am probably the one man who
hasn’t,” he said. “Won’t you tell me
about it? I feel interested to know
about it and you.”

"Come back into my little study,”
- said the bishop, as he led the way.
“You see when I firstlcame out to this
western country I was a young man,
and too full of hope to recognise dis-
couragement; otherwise I should have
failed. But, God be thanked, I weath-
ered those years; and terrible years
they were, before these cities and
towns had sprung up like mushrooms
and this great railroad laid its path.’
Travel was well-nigh impossible in
those days, and travel I had to, and as
best I- might. Do you know I had then
100 points to reach, within the year,
and I walked and rode in the saddle
and drove my ponies to them all? So
.1 have grown old with these people.
I have eaten and slept and wakened
with them. Smoked their cigars and
drank their whiskey and eaten their
bacon, and, perhaps, I may say they
. are a bit fond of me. They “seem a-
huge family of unruly children‘to me,
and I try to be a lenient parent. This
car-wa‘s the dream of my heart in
- those early days, and I never dared
hope it would be realized. Then,
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“Those tin Soldiers weigh that limt
down; shall I change them ‘2” '

The bishop was charmed with his
new-found friend. He proved intelli-
gent and sympathetic, and a famous
listener—so he talked to him of his
work. '

“This will be a happy Christmas for
me,” he said, “because I have such a
splendid Christmas present for my
people at Medora. The money to build
their church, $2,000, I have raised it
all myself, and I am very proud to
have it. This summer while I was east
I begged it from my richer friends,
and they were good enough to be in-
terested. And just last week I got the
last of it, and I have it all. I suppose
it_ would have been wiser to have
taken them a check for it. But I had
a fancy to put the money itself 'on the
altar, and so I had them give it to
me at the bank in a few large bills.
And I will confess to you that I feel
uneasy to have it about’me. So when
we stop again I think I shall go for-
ward to the express car and ask
Maney, the express messenger, to keep
it for me until we reach Medora.
Maney is a vestryman of mine and a
good fellow. It will be safer with

him.”
A curious new sensation shot
through Brown—a sensation that

made him dizzy for a second. He had
grown so interested in the bishop and .-
his Christmas tree that he had forgotten
the rest. “Perhaps you are right,” he
said,” “but if my opinion would
carry any weight with you, I would
advise you strongly to keep it your-
self. You hint at train robbery; it is

. always the express carthat sufi'ers,

and nowadays trains are wrecked and
robbed frequently.” ,
“My dear fellow,” said the bishop,
“you alarm me., Of course, if you
really think so, I will keep ithere.
It would break my heart to lose that
money; it was so hard to get.”
“You. aren’t going to lose it,”"Bro-wn
said; “of course not. 'The people are
going to have their church and the
children their' tree, and the little maid
—Florence——her dolly. . But keep the
money here with you. This is a wilt.»
country, a rough country, and win
knows?” . .
“Perhaps I had better hide it,” said
the bishop. ““In my. shoe, eh ?“ _
’ Brown smiled indulgently. “Surc-

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ly." he said, “that's quite an idea; your
shoe by all means.” ‘» _
h The bishop unlaced his shoe and laid
the flat package against his foot.

.“I wonder,”.Brown said, “whether
you will ever know how glad I am that
I met you, bishop? You will, at all
events, never know how much I have
learned to like you.” ' '

“My dear boy,”
“how nice of you. It’s so pleasant to
be liked, and I am often lonely
enough. As for you—if I were as
young as you are, I would not be alone
at Christmas time.”

“I think you would if you were me,”
Brown said, slowly.

all * It: It It *

The train had stOpped for water
and the conversation of the Bishop
and his‘guest ran along in a desultory
way for some moments.

“The train is stopping for a long
time,” said the bishop. Brown nod-
ded; his throat was parched and dry.

“I wonder why,” said the bishop,l
and just then the conductor of the rear
sleeper came in.

“It’s a hold-up,” he said. "They
have gotten the engine and express
away. W’e must make an effort to fol-
low them.” "

The bishop’s face was full of anxi-
ety.

“How terrible,” he said, “and to
happen right here in my working line.
Let us go at once to the aid of those
poor fellows; they may be killing
them.” , -

“They’ve no time for that," the con-
ductor said. “\Ve were carrying a big
sum of money—they evidently knew
that—and that is what they want.”

“We ought to hurry,” Brown said.
“Wait just a moment. until I can get
my revolver—it’s in my valise.” He
delayed them a moment or two easily.
Leaderless and exoited, no one knew
just what to do, and when the little
body of men got started he knew the
others were safe. But as they saw the
missing train, the engine moved slow-
lyybackward to meet them. They were
soon talking wildly, shaking their
heads over the shattered remains of
the once sturdy express car, and lend-
ing a helping hand to the dazed ex-
press messenger. Maney was able to
sit up, but he was speechless, and of
the robbers there were only the marks
of their horses’ hoofs heading for the
river. The train moved on toward Me-
dora, and Brown went back to the
bishop’s car with him. The bishop was
much overcome.

“My dear boy,” he said, “what a
dreadful thing, and how nearly I lost
my little all. How can I ever be grate-
ful enough that you made me keep the
money?”

“That is one of the few good im-
pulses I ever had,” Brown said.

“It is the beginning,” said the bish-
op, "' will you not say so?”

“I will remember,” Brown said.

At Medora they parted. The bish-
op’s car was laid ofi.

“Do not fOrget me," the bishop said,
"and thank you for the Christmas tree
and everything.”

“Good-by,” Brown said;“buy a very
large doll for that little maid.” And
he watched the bishop’s car eagerly
until it was out of sight.

And some days later, in one of their
numerous retreats, he met with the
others to divide the spoil. Their plan
was to go over to England or Aus-
tralia, where the notes would not be
recognized, and could be easily ex-
changed. They were loud in their
praises of his shadowing, proud ’of
their own success. They divided the
money up fairly and put each portion
in a flat canvas bag.

Brown looked at his slowly and then
hercounted out some notes and threw
them on the table. They stared at
him.

said the bishop.

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“That’s yours,” he said; “divide it
up among you.”

Rawley looked at it.

“Two thousand dollars,” he said,

“for what?” We divided up square.”

Brown nodded.

“It’s yours, I said,” he continued,
“because there was $2,000 you might
have had but for a bit of foolishness
on my part. It makes little difference
just how you missed it, but you did.
Of course, you would never have
known it, but you remember the old
saying, ‘honor among—’ And now
there is one more thing. I-am booked
to help you in your Virginia raid. I
want to be let off. And as a. fair ex-
change, I offer this.”

He threwthe bag with his share of
the booty on the table.

“Let that buy me off. I haven’t
gone crazy, as you may think, but I’ve
had all I want of this, and I am think.
ing of. turning, honest for a. change
There isn’t any need of my making
promises to secrecy. You all know me
well enough, ‘ and you’ve been good
pals to me, and I sha’n’t forget it.. Go
your way, and let me go mine. Per-
haps some day I may come back
again.” ..

After he had gotten away from them
he thrust his hands into his pockets
joyfully. D

“Free,” he said, softly. “And now—
Florence! That good old man said
women always forgave. I will go back
and learn to repent and to care, and I
will stop drifting, and perhaps after a
while she will forget those past days
and venture with me into the future.
To think of, it (his face lighted up radi-
antly) those days that I have before
me, all my own.”
=As he stood there thinking, behind
him was the darkness, and ahead of
him the glare of the city; the future,
its possibilities, its chances, its peace.
And between them a shadowy path.
But as he looked uncertainly, the
moon camebut from under a cloud
and shone brilliantly, throwing a flood
of silver light everywhere. As the
shadows faded, the road to the city
lay clear and unswerving, and he .
turned and walked ahead into the”
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International Cricket.

LONDON, Dec. 9.—-At the annual meet-
ing today of the secretaries of the county
cricket clubs, at Lords, fixtures were ar-
ranged for the Philadelphia cricketers, be-
ginning at Oxford on J une 7, against the
university eleven, and ending at the Oval
here on July 29, with a. match against

Surrey.

The new Town Courtroom is nearly
ready for occupancy. On the main
door leading into the court room the
following lettering apnearsé “Town
Court Room, for Count Oliicials Only.”
The spectators and others reach the
room through another door on the op~
posite side of the landing.

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Sample free. Large bottles 50c and 250.

 

 

Street Commissioner Kellogg swill as
soon as the weather permits lay a drain-
aze pipe on Smith' street. The new
crosswalk at the foot. of Mill Bill will
be finislel as soon as possible, and a
curb and gutter laid on Brook street.

Baby's B st . Friend—filamen—Newt Dr,
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The last will of the late Mrs. Mary C.
Cam.) widow..of Jonathan Camp, was
read after her funeral yesterday after-
noon. It is said-that the btquests are
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Jvacry Mother: Knew Her Li‘tle Ones
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BRIDGEPORT, CONN., May 3, ’95.—-—Dr.
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Yours respectfully, Mrs. Harry Browne,
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It. is said that the New York Herald
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Madame Callias Bey, whose husband
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be better known as the widow of P. 'l‘.
Barnum.

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“I believe Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
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When used as soon as the first symptoms
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Weed, Druggist.

Patriotic General Couch isn’t much
of a. politician, nevertheless, there is
some very deep pipe laying hard by his
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Silva-m ls a Perfectly Sale llemelly lu Ilse.

 

REPORT BY 1H3 DISTINGUISHED CHEMIST,

PROP. llEllllY A. IOTT, Pllll. LL.D., Bill,

~ Fellow of the London‘Chemica} Society,
Member of the American Chemical Socmty,

Chemist of the MedicoLegal Societ ,

Author of numerous scientific works on cod,
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" NEW YORK, Octoberzz, 1895.

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“ It is not the office of the chemist
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Ican say that the properties of the
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“ I have the honor to sign'myseli,

Yours respectfully,
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The uudcrszgucd booing purchased lbe Plumbing‘uud Tin-

m'ug business formerly conducted by Wm. ‘ P. Holmes at W0.
7 Water met, and filled lbc same as a first-class Plumbing.
Sleom-filtlug. Gas and 72'um'ug Establishment, respectfully
solz'czt u sburc of public patronage . ' ‘_ .

All work will have our personal supervision and inspect.
ion, and be executed wile promptuess and thoroughness. .flny
cue wanting firsl-class work done at the lamest prices, will do

well to give us u call.

We will cheerfully estimate on all

Plumbing, Gas-filling, Slczzm-fillzug, Yin and Sheet Iron work

of every dcscn'ptzous.

,flll jabbing will be attended to promptly. Hot air and

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Leave South Norwalk Daily at6 P. .4.

Leave Norwalk Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5 P. M.

A BICYCLE FREE.

 

. We shall give away a High Grade Bicycle on
the evening of December 24th,,just in time for

Christmas.

Every cash purchaser of 25 cents’ worth will

receive a coupon.

SO. NORWALH HARDWARE 00.,

South Main Street,

South Norwalk.

 

OU read this advertisement. If it had been
yours and others had read it, how much

good it might have done.
and we» will do the rest. Rates on application.

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WILL REOPEN

'SEPTEMOIllLZA 1896.

ALL
APPLICATIONS

For admission should be
made at Hillside at an
early day.

 

CHEAP-FUEL

Owing to- many of the factories having
been shut down, we have a large accumu-
lation of first class coke.

We offer the same during the month
of December at six cents per bushel at the
work 5, or eight cents per bushel delivered
within either city limits, in not less than
twenty-five bushel lots. Extra for car-
rying in. .

The llorwalk- Gas Light company.

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Raymond :2 Son.

Buccassorsto GeorgeH.fiaymcndl

Furniture Dealers and General Funeral
Directors.

l6 and 48 Main Street Norwalk Ut~

Residence, Berkeley Place, ,_
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HOLIDAY GOODS.

D. FEINBERG.

DEALER IN ' '

SOLID GOLD GOODS

AND JEWELRY. ‘
Loan Office. _

Repairing of Fine Watches'and Jewelry
' Neatly Done.

164 Washington-St, So. Norwalk,
' [on the Bridge]

‘ D ’ ale Unredeemcd Pledges” Clocks
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Piano Lessons.
. BGE W. BRADLEY (don hter
A? oifglfiqate Wm.n.'N.sh.lgiies 9 cent -
an satisfactory instructions on the Piano at
'her home No. 193 Main street. -