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,4ItKieif ee4 I 2 dvertising J oj Printing In busy Beasons bringa you your shaie of trade; advnrdaint in dnll CAB. r N Is a very import ant factor in bnsineBa. Poor pricting re- sons brings yoa jonr slime, and also i ntsci no credit ca ft gorI 1 basineesbonBe. Let ns do yoar Job t 2 PriutiDg we fraarantee it to be in every way satisfactory. tbat or the merchant who "can't af- 6 ivrd" to adTertise. Published on Mondays and Thursdays Established 1868. Vor,. XXXIII. ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY. DECEMHKIl 22. 1902. No. 99 JOSEPHSON'S ! A 1K fl i Stttti - . . A . 1 1 Biff On the ist of Jan., 1903, we celebrate the 25th anniver sary of our start in the general mer chandise bus iness in Rcse burg. In 25 3'earswe have grown from the humble beginning so many of our old pioneers remember un til we are now the largest house in our line in South ern Oregon. This is due in the greater part to adher ing to the plan of Strait forward, honest dealing, and b y avoiding Our 25th anniver sary special sale which we will hold dur ingthemonth of Jan., and will be adver tised later, will be char acterized by special values and prices which you will do well to examine: - art sole agento lor Bntterick Patterns Thompson's Clove fitting Corsets Dr. Beed Cushion Bole Shoe lor lien The Flortheim She Black Cut Hosiery White Cat Underwear The Giizzlr Eat Knppenbeimt'r Guar-ai.,t-d Clothlnf Each of the above lines is eerlesa and pre-eminently above imitators, vl which there are many. Oar fancy work department is one of the mopt folly equipped to be found iu stamp ed linen, cushion covers, silks, flow, cards, braid, etc. When you select a dress pattern from us, besides getting best possible val ues for your mon ey, you cau have i t shrunk and sponged free of cliargi by our new process spotless steam sponger. :: r. Ladies and Men :: Furnishings Clothing Hats, Shoes Millinery an. General Dry Goods JOSEPHSON'S THE Big Store !evg! 'o0i ra'fiht to the great chair In the chin - nnlrl.T, " " ' Yo-0?-55& ney corner. She rapied her owt BOOKING- FOR :: $ - A TA I AY best shawl ahout hlin and chafed hii SANTA CLAUS KV A c i HOW BABOUSHKA ; f-- It SHP3 i if the TWO , if i HARDWARE - . JEAMETTE H. If I nm evkii.s an asylum for the lit- ". biding tb.-lr tops in a misty veil. A? HC f V V J J fi "mii H mlv - TA lnTTMn THE WAIWnRTH AY ,IM,l,.',beK;ud. "I Lave to work hard the air waa full of whlrliu-flak.-H. A? ' " EE WN L Yi 91 1 UUllI ' ' 11LC ' ' t" VfS to kwp him am! uiym-lf from want A St'tii-h were rapidly cover I up the hroivn Yd . - 'J Cipnj If .1 A A? ' X ' nierclia nt has promll me work, earth with a carpet of white and ol.lit- ?6 1 I B i 1-4 13 3T" . 1 19 'I , jo mnTOT run i ; v vi t",1 lui 1 lnust uot l,ri"s 1etru,iii- Taong tue twit UP the njoumam id ?I L 1 J I Tj iA i 1$ -1 It CilRIST CiIILD trvvz- It it:"ie wou,J takc to ,"uhof my -.r.. it. vi-ritiwivo . ?i Hirillll. Kill Tlll'a. rtr f IIA rilkl.I.k Tha 1.11 " ! w , VJaM i NIGHT was falling fast, and the aiiow was piled bih against the outer walls of tlie hovel where a poor nrou Jik (peasant) named Ka to rn lay dying In a little village In fur away Russia. Katoma knew that he was going to die. It wa Christmas eve, but there was no gladness In the season for him. His wife,, whom he had loved very dearly, was already gone. For three consecutive years now his crops had failed. A few weeks before the wolves bad devoured his last cow. If he had been entirely alone In the world he would have said to death, "Come; thou art welcome!" Bnt there was one other, h; boy Oesip. The Idea of death became ter rible when he thought of leaving his boy all alone with not a copeck to bless himself with. When I tell you that it takes 100 copecks, to make a ruble and that a ruble is less than CO ceuts, you will understand how dreadfully poor Ka toma was. He could not die peacefully for think ing of Osslp's future. His dim eyes turned fondly toward the pillow by his side, which the boy's thick black hair almost covered. Ossip lay motionless in sleep. The sick man put one feeble band upon his tioy's smooth forehead end silently commended him to heav en's tirw The house was very stilL The hour was late. Ossip's healthy, regular breathing was the only audible sound. If only kind heaven would raise up one friend for his lioy out of the millions of good people this big world swarmed with, Katoma felt that he tbonld not mind how soon he was laid away un der the frown soda. - . While his hand rested on Osslp's head and his heart was CUi-d wiih these anxious thoughts tlte ;oor of tli hovel oiKned softly. The inouj'k turned woudcrir.g eyes in that direc tion, and there, coming noiselessly to ward him across the beaten '.irt!:cn floor, was a tall woman with soft brown eyes full of pitying tenderness. She came close to the Iwd. on Os.s!p's side of it, and, looking down ujion the sleeping child, she muttered: "Perhaps this is the one at last." Katoma looked at her anxiously. - "Whence came you. good mothr, and what seek youV Across the sleeping boy she an swered softly: "I have come for Ossip. They toll me In the village that thy days were numbered, and I knew that Ossip would need a friend. I -will love and uauto, little one, and what doest thou lu-re alone iu the bitter nighttime?" At which the child's tears flowed afivsli. aud U'tueen her sobs she told the kind,' sft eyed woman how she had levu traveling with a great coin pjtuy of men aud women who were leaving their own village to seek a bet ter kind across the seas our own blessed America, I make no doubt and how, when they had encamped for the night, her aunt, who van the only relative she had In the world, had sent her into the woods to gather fagots to put under their soup kettle, and how she had wandered so far that she had 1 : 1 i : A w 4, ft I- wm brother answered sadly: "Alas, that I know not yet I was seeking the tiearest town to ask coun sel of the priest. ItalHHishka laid a kind hand on tho boy's a nr.. "Put eure away from thy young heart. Thou hast found an asylum j for thy crippled brother. He shall travel no farther on the frozen Toads, i Santa t hins. When her He shall be my own little Petrut.hu. I . mother had gusie to h-av- lave a tiny truckle IhhI into which he will lit to a nicety. Such as I have, dear ehilil, I make thee welcome to In the Christ Child's name." The night was but very little older when the three children, Ossip, Vasa- j The snow was falling on the moun tain, hiding their tops in a misty veil, and the air was full of whirling flakes, ficu were rapidly covering the brown earth with a carpet of white and oblit erating the trail up the mountain side Where trudged, or, rather, stumbled, along a grotesque childish figure in a man's rough Jacket, the sli-eves rolled over and '.' -VO over to let out the muall Ti 1J brown hiiiitl.s while the -dge of the nml, on a line with her heels, left a trail in the snow. A red hood cuveml the child's hi ad. dark curls eplug out urouiid her face, uti.l la the fearless, wistful eyes shuiic a new light. fr Itorothy was going to find llssa and Petrusba, fed. warmed and comforted, were sleeping the cere free Sleep of Innocent childhood. Only the tall lad and naboushka sat by the ntvils, because there was no bed left for tbc-tu. "Tell me, good mother." the bey said, looking straight into her kind eyca, "why arc you so good to all children? Tour fame has gone abroad." Itubotishka did not n newer bun at once. When she did, her voice sounded as sweet and solemn as church chimes at vespiT time. "Yes. I will tell you, my son, for you are Hearing your owu years of respon- J en a Miort time hefiirv. they had carried her lip the uiouutniii. and lii-l and Santa I 'la us were al ways M4H'i:iti-il fiigethiT in the ihil.l n mind. So. If Hod lived lip there. San la Claus could not tie far away. Thus reasoned lit tle l'orolliy la the hours when Iht f:.t!i-r was on working In the mlnw and She was li ft alame niih h.T rug doll in !he little o'.Vt; brown In it Which nerved find fUnta as shelter and home. "Sauta i'bus may not now mother has gone," the liitle gill said, "aud it must be near Christmas so I will 11 ud him, and perhap he wtl take me to hi reindeer sleigh to see mother and Cod." Utile Itorothy paused In her tast laus. come hre Mouuy, anu u wm oe wen tor you Ml or swenplng the one room of their Urn In Pfwwl tlm th u.lmn lon I " "' a"""" aioe I'l that an opportunity once lost Is lost 1 . - V- v.. I ML I Hi VE COME FOB OSSIP." care for him as though he were my very own. I am called Baboushka, and J keep ray promlMJS.M Then Katoma, the moujik, died hap py, for he knew that Baboushka was a friend to all little children, and when the gathered Ossip close into her moth erly arms when the end came the child teased weeping for his dead father. When Baboushka and Ossip were well on their way to the old woman's home, In the next village, they heard pitiful sound of weeping somewhere on the tree shadowed side of the roah The old woman stopped at the sound. "We will go and see who is in trou ble, Ossip. Our eyes and ears should always le kept well opened so that no sign of distress may escape us." Guided by the sound, they came to a stone where, wailing and shivering In the darkness of the winter tiigbt, they found a little girl scarcely as large as Ossip, who was not at all well grown far his eight years. Baboushka knelt down by the child and. gathering her cold little feet into a warm clasp, muttered: Terhaps this Is the child." Then she said aloud, "What is thy SHE TOOK THE CRIPPLED BOT IX IIU A EMS not been able to find her way back to the camp, and how she feared the wolves would devour her before any one should come to look for her. Then she told Baboushka that her uanie was Vasalissa. Ealwushka clasped the little wander er t her great motherly heart. "That. Indeed, the wolves shall not, j my diar little Vasalissa. I cannot give thee back to thy aunt, for I know no better than thou dost where this great comtfuy of men aud women may be camping for the night But thou shalt go home with Ossip and me. Thou shalt share our fire and our porridge, and all that Is mine thou shalt share with Ossip. I can keep the wolves of hunger aud cold away, and If thy aunt comes to claim thee she shall find thee rosy and happy." Then Vasalissa quickly dried her tears, and wiih her hand clasped In Baboushka's she trudged cheerfully forward until they came to a tiny little cottage si-t Icick from the road a short distance. Iu its one window a lamp was burning brightly. The window and the lamp belonged to Baboushka's cottage. She pushed its unlocked door ojien, and the chil- dren entered with lier Into a clean swept, well warmed room. A large clialr was drawn close up to the hearth. As liabousuka entered she glanced eagerly at this chair, aud again she muttered under her breath: "I had bojcd he might have come while 1 was out." "Good mother," Ossip aked, "why Co you leave a lighted lamp in the win dow when you go away?" "So that," she answered, "should any one go astray in the cold and the dark he might find his way to my poor cottage. And now let us see if the beau broth has kept warm all this time. I made it beforo I left home in the early morning hours so that If any wander ers found their way hither they might uot leave my roof hungered." The bean broth had kept warm. She bade Ossip throw a few more fagots under the pot and set Vasalissa on a Kiool In the warmest nook. Then she brought three bowls, filled them with tiie bean broth and put them on the table. Over them she asked a blessing. Before her own wooden spoon had made two journeys from bowl to lip sue heard a timid knock at the door. She ran quickly to, answer it. A tall,! pale lad stood outside. In his arms be i carrh'd a small mite of a boy, ubout whose shoulders was wrapped a worn and soiled woman's shawl. The tall, pale lad looked into the fire lighted room with longing eyes. Ills teeth chattered with the cold ns he asked: "Good mother, may we sk shelter for the nlgbt? The cold bites bitter bard, and my little brother I'e trusha is but a sickly cripple." Then Baboushka opened wide her door with an eager hand and fast beat ing heart Perhaps, at last, this was tliu child. What she said aloud was: "That lndiH.'d thou mayest. But why rt thou abroad on such a bitter night with the little one?" She took the crippled boy In her sirong, lovlDg arms and carried him forever. "Many years ago I was selling my bouse in order when three men stopped at my door with a great piece of news. " 'We have seen a radiant star In the east,' they said, 'and we know that the Christ t'hild must be come. Ieave thy In 1 Mr. Come with us to find him and to do him hoiir.' "Hut I vent them away with word of foolish impatience. Se-st thou not that I am si tting uiy house iu orxh-r? ; Go thi'U to where tlie star lieckm-.n- thi-e, and I will follow at some more convenient time. I can sec Its Ilj;bt without thy help.' ' "So they went their way and left Dt to go mine. But when the time came that I found it convenient to follow the star clouds obscured the heavens, and tin-re was no star to be seen, and to I knew not how to s-ck the t'hrlst Child. "I have been seeking him ever since, np and down in the land. Whenever, wherever I M-e a little child I think perhaps I have found the One I seek, and my heart yearns over him. Ent Uot yet have I found the Christ Child. Whose face must shine with the radi ance of the ftir I lost." With tears of sorrow wetting her eyelashes Baboushka fell asleep in her chair. She had filled all of her bed With cold and friendless children. Aud as she slept a tender hand seemed to dry her tears and a loving voice to whisper In her ears: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these little ones yc have done it unto me. They wtre homeless, and ye took them In. They were hun gry, and you have fed them. They were cold, and you have warmed them. Tho Christ Child is In thy own heart" And on that glad Christmas morning Baboushka awoke with a great rnace In her soul, for she knew that she had found him she had been reeking far and wide. I .. ZiM Jt- V' 1 the ashes to l.ake, that hT fathers uper might 1 ready for him. she ha J wrapiMil henelf in his old coat, douutil her red hood and started out to find auta Clans. It chanced that day that one of tie mine owners was down from the city on a tour of Inflection, and. having ieen Iturotliy ou, a previous trip, le hail, "remembering anoth er little Ctrl who was rut i happy on Christmas ev ?. Inmght down a Chr'at- mas box for Horutby and so strolled along with Iiit father as he started home ward, that he might gVv It Into the bauds of the little maiden herself. But when they reached the brown hut iKirothy wns not there, and when re peated calls brought l to 4i answer the two me a. 1 alarmed, started in oppia- ihic uirevuous iu eeK u r, Mr. Golden following the almost obliterated pa h up - the mountain side, where, a mile bcyoud. be found the little one il tuost buried Iu the falling snow, and as be stooped to lift her in his arms n!u otooJ murmured drowsily, se- Ing the kind face bending over her: "Dear, good Mr. Santa Claus, I want" When she opened her wistful, dark eyes again, the same kind face was beading over her as she lay ou her cot in the little brown bouse, her father holding her iu his arms, while besile her was the most beautiful doll of whicli she had ever dreamed, aid, clasping It close to her heart, lit.le Horothy asked with reverent Joy, tbe dark eyes filled to overflowing: "Dear Mr. Santa Claus, is you Gxl too?" CALLIE BONNET MARBLE. IT was a brilliant holiday store, the windows and the shelves aud the cases ablaze wiih filigree and thronged with dolls 'and ilishes and engines aud trains and skates and sle.N, and hobbyhorse that galiiH-l. 8ij.l cows that nioo-d and mice th:it ran, and and every thing, aliwilutely everything, that ever eutern the most rapturous Christmas dream. In the center of the large show win dows, fronting ujion the gay street, Ktmid two soldiers. They were by all odds the fniet soldier in the store, much sujierior to the permnel com posing the difT--reiit troups and regi ments aud ctiuiiun!e3 stationed here and there along the aiMes. The pair were made of tin. to be sur; but they were of heroic stature, eight inches tall, richly uniformed In black and yellow, and could 1' wound up so that they would prvst-nt arm several times In succession. The other soldiers, ioor things, were ojiii'i!i-d to remain the whole time at a "carry" or a "right shoulder" with out relief. Naturally the two soldiers were proud and of aspirations reaching be- ov ' 1'i' v - is: y: LvjJr '' ft: hr mm . J" f ' ("- J Vi" . . , Mr. Raota i Claus." fTRAfiSFORMATlON I -.7 :; SYAfTHUS l iBt'FDlCK :TZ1 't- a. t-t --- ' r ky'.'VttxM J. Bur - 9 cwrua wds an U Earth was a desert toote weary, way S ik songless of the world inert djwcrf iui thuimg XOne ChtisUtiatdiY. Of Christmas Then, like-'the Lelds made green Thea every tu By 'running brock. That dance Hope am and all the world Found roice. 'New courage took. Burst fo, Earth was a gloomy place. V ii. - - A dreary way. Until the Star arose On Christmas day. Then fled the world's des The heart's dread oig, A Saviour came to earth An4 4 or Jim ItnUti ..-..v.m WC - I 4 1 ,4 ."LaC JTT y to MM mm 7M ultin I and with the Win's) rth in song) f ff ffl I r ij M n ' T II A tl VtM OH, TO OCT AAT IKOM THIS ErEUXAL Ol'AKU MotNir yond their prt'iit narrow quarters. They pined f-r a wider sphere. As they stood and stared with sUtti. fixed gaie through the plate glass Into the gay street they talked togf-ttwr in toy lauguage, and none, not even the niot versatile linguists among the people passing and npas.-;ng. knew thftt they talkinh "Oil, to get away from this eternal guard mount over a lot of frippery!" Sighed the oue. "With all my heart agreed the other. "The luouotouy is frightful." "I'd give half my soldiT to receive orders to report to some little boy." coutinued the first "Oh, for a changer "But the majority of little boys are so rough and careless," responded the secoud. "1 understand they scratch you aud bend you and otherwise mal treat you- without cause, and soon you're doue for. I prefer duty of a more quiet instructive nsture. where I may teach by means of my deport ment rather than by violent action." "Well, I should eujoy a hard driU nnd a tussle, I believe," asserted the first "Our orgauism is too fine for such active service, my lad." iudulgently corrected the secoud. "What scratches aud dents? No, no. Give mo a post of more elegance, whore my uniform will be treated as It deserves." Christmas day had been over and goue a mouth when after their separa tion the two soldiers again encounter ed one another, but this time in a great heap of rubbish at the city dump, where the dump niau had unwittingly thrown them out. "Hurrah! Hello, old chap!" exclaim ed the first soldier delightedly. "Hello!" returned the second, with rather more reserve. "Goodness! Been through the Seven Years' war?" Well might he put this query. The other soidler was a perfect wreck. He had lost an arm and a foot his head was sharply Inclined forward upon his chest, he had only one eye, his body was twisted askew, his gun was bro ken, his cap was missing, his features were battered and distorted, and ns for hit; uniform of black and yellow there was hardly a spot of paint ou him! "I I'vo been having in; tussle," an nounced the first, with a cracked laugh.' "But you why. you evidently fouud Just what you were looking for." "Yes," explained the second, "I fell Into an excellent post It was .tho bands Of a little bor. sure noiifh l.nt he wasn't allowed to hurt me. See, I . haven t a mark on me." And be ex ' hfbiteil himself oroiHilr S True, he was still i:i dress parade Condition. "Thunder and Mars!" chuckled the first. "And look at me! lo you mean to say that yoa never were stepped on.'- "Oh, no," replied the second. "1 didn't lie around on the floor. I was put away j:it as soon as he was done playing witu me. His mother had made him a very orderly little ly." "So you iiever stayed out all night In the hall or In the middle of tlie sit ting room?" "Never," said the spick and span sol dier. "And did he shoot at yoa with hi rubber gun ever?" "Never," said the spick and span sol dier. "And be didn't bite you to- see bow oft you were?" "Never." said the spick and spaa sol dier. "Or drag yor about among the chairs with a string?" "Never," said the spick and span pol dier. "Or sick the terrier on your "Never." "Or take yoa to bed with him and roll on you?" "Never. I was always placed on the shelf in the closet." "Or kick you or whack you or throw your "Never. Watch I can present arms as well as ever." "Ur ki VOU and hnr ma with 71 his might and cry for you when he was sick lb rough eating too much canuyi "Never. He used to forr-et nv n tirely fr days and days. Did your uny reauy tlo all that to you?" "Yea, all that and more." answered the batltTMt soldier softly. "And did he kiss you, you say?" asked the spick and siao soldier a bit wistfully. "Yes; be kicked me and be kissed me," laughed the first "And did you enjoy It?" pursued the second curiously. "I had the time of my life." declared the other. "How did you find things up to your expectations?" The spick and span soldier hesitated; tlu n be replied: "rosslbly. I can't complain. But but somehow I grew dreadfully eu Buiod. I almost longed at times for more excitement more energy. We got tired of one another. After a day or so we exhausted all our programme of proper exercises, and he was so cau tious of wearing me out that I was laid aside, and-aud. finally, here I am. I don't suppose he even knows that I'm gone." "Dear me" mused the other. "I'ra glad my little boy was not like yours. Of course there are the knocks: but v y t f t tv -w jr aT ra i i t ' j. f r lira VXTEBAXS HEJtT. h. our companionship was sweet! I bet he's eryiug for me at this Instant poor chum! Still, It Is as well that I am carted to the dump. I am old and disfigured and a back number, and I wanted to go before he would cease to ndss me." The spick and span soldier was si lent. "HI. yi!" soliloquised the veteran, with a sigh and with a chuckle, stiffly rolling over on bis back. "I'm pt re pairs, but It was sweet-aye. It wns worth It! I-havehad-the time of my life." And w'th his one eye he gased through a chink In the debris uo at t!. stars. t-.m." J. D. HAMILTON, President TITLE AL OTQCt cbO.OnO &c. Hamilton, sectary. GUARANTEE AUD LOAJt COMPANY ' Office in Court House. Have the only complett set of abstract books of Douglas C'ouuty Experience :: :: Write us ::; Strictly Reliable BLUE PRINTS OF MY TOWnSKIP in THE ROSEBURG WIDISTRICT FOR 50 CENTS V, j ii v . v- A A K SPRAY P D P S J Priming Shears, Etc 5f Churchill Woolley's y i A A 1 I I i s 'A s s A X ?f.v.N-x:x-v All that can bs found in A A I i i - i t f? fr ?. A A . H A i a ANY First Class Furniture i and Carpet House 3 it A. 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