Bloomington Progress, Volume 18, Number 43, Bloomington, Monroe County, 24 December 1884 — Page 4
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A CHRISTMAS LEGEND.
oe axons time, two chudnm By the asms of Tom and BeBo With their kind, tadolsent prenta In this tbrtrtag town 8d dwell. Belle ni a gentle creature. Tom m noisy, rmnptag' lad rvUe was always good and patient Tom. per contra, verybmd. And his ru''.i, unseemly conduct Made hta parents only sad. When his fat her laid to Thomas Tommy, dear, I do protest," Humus would reply, deriding, -Cheewlt, pard pull down your vestt; Or, it mamma mildly pleaded With her naoghty. froward hoy. He would, scorning her entreaty. So new methods to annoy. And, with intonation vulgar, Jcery calmly, "What d'ye soy r But not so his pretty sister. Gentle and obedient Belle. Whom, for her discreet deportment Everybody loved so well. Daily hied she to her lessons Never absent, never late, Sever pounding the piano, Sever swlncing on the gate; Ijet them grease her nostrils niirhtty, And her castor oil took straight. Eanta Clans came like a shadow, Creepfnir in and Boating outfound the senile little Bell Followed hex unseen about gaw her goodness to her parents Ever dutiful and mild And old Eanta, thus observing. Stroked his hoary head and smiled. Saying, "On the Christmas morning 1 will not neglect this child." Out into the noisome alley Good old Santa Clans then strayed to, the naughty little Thomas With a (fans of hoodlums played. And, engaged at tow amusement. Dealt in exchucattons badEven swore, while Santa listened With countenance most sad "Ah,' he siehed, "there will be nothing C hristmss morn tor yon, my tod." Christmas came, and Bella's stocking Boomed with presents rich and rate Peanuts, dolls, confections. sashesCostly articles and fair. Language tails us in describing Bella's gratitude awl joyBut in little Tommy's stocking There was neither cake nor toy. And poor Tom too late repented He had been a naughty boy. So be warned, O little children. For each bright December day Santa Clans, like ghost or shadow, WttrrtwR too at work and play;
So good deed is anrcmemberud -
No kind word is heard with ;
Good and bad arc justly treated On the merry Christmas mors Good folks' stockings burst with fullness Bad folks' stockings hang forlorn.
win say exactly the same thing of your
grandma's mince pies.
Grandpa Waterman was a very nanu-
,mn man. and very handsome he
looked that day in the drees he used to
wear, the knee-breeches, with silver knee-bookies and' shoe-buckles, the raffled shirt, with raffles at tho wrist, and his snow-white hair drawn back and braided in a short queue, and tied with a black ribbon. He told us how that morning "some little rascals" had awakened him at
daylight singing: under his window. They had found out Grandma's "weak
ness," he sail, and somebody hail tout them (he suspected it was Aunty De
light herself i how the "warts sang in England on Christmas morning; and so they had sung this vorse, which I suppose Aunty must have taught them. It is a very old verse that the "waits"
used to sing many years ago :
We have got a Uttle purse Hade of stretching leather skin; We want a Uttle of year money To line it well within." And Grandma was so charmed with the singing mid all that she gave them such a handful of silver as must have stretched their purse a good deal. "We children were grouped at the foot of the dinner-table, with our "Heart's Delight" to look alter us, which she did br civintr us unlimited goodies
and laughing with us at all our nonsense. "Why is Aunty like sperm oil?" asked WilL
Ho ho! I know; that's easy j enough!" cried Kate, with her mouth j
full of turkey stuffing. "Because sue s
Delight of the house, of course."
Yu can't sraess this, HI bet," saul
Alec. "Why cant Aunty look black: at ;
pencd. It stood nearly quarter-of-a mile back from the road, and was
reached by a drive which swept in a sliirht curve to the front door and then
by the dining-room windows, to tho west
door. The front dining-room window came to the floor and was a big bay, all glass, a beautiful sunny window,
opening in summer directly on a grass
Plot- .. . . . , T
As 1 said, just as Aunty ana x nr about to break the wishbone, there was a sudden tumultuons jangling of bells, a rush, a scramble, a crash, and a horse's head and fore feet were thrust into the dining-room throngh the baywindow !
MOTHER GOOSE'S CHRISTMAS. BY MBS. A. M. DUZ.
Said Mother Hubbard to Mother Goose, "Vhnt
troubles you, I pray. ! That you sigh and look so sorrowful? 'tis not .
your usual way. I Said Mother Uooso to Mother Hubbard, "1 ?avc . nn inclination j To give my numerous family a Christmas ucle- j
But ah! dear Mother Huobard, my case it is a sad one! I have no house 'xj ask them to: yon know 1
never had one. ) Said Mother Hubbard, with n smile, "When one hno friends in neec. I
Then is tho time to be a friond, and be a friend indeed. Behold my Iiouko! You're welcome to't; pray use it bk your own
Bo nimbly with tho presents did he hopp rtj - skip and run That he nimbly made mistakes irttli them, and oh. it was such fun! For Simple Simon got the shoe, and thoush he could not do it. He tried as hard as ever he could to put both foot fntn lt
Aud Jack and Jill the wheelbarrow got, and then both of them cried. For uclther wished to wheel the other: both i refeired to ride. And Boy Bluo got the cradle, and rocked himself to sleep. And the pretty little .trook that was intended for ISopccp That present did not come tc her; she got the silver bell. And (iieat Joel; Stout, who saved the eat from drowning in the well, Oot liny P.hio"8 horn, and puffed his cheeks, and un thai horn blew so
A YEAB'S DISASTERS. Record of the Notable Mishaps Involving the Destruction
of Human Life.
A Ghastly Catalogue of Accidents by
Flood and Field, on Land and Water,
Sinking Ships, Colliding Trains,
Exploding Wines the Chief Causes of Death.
and
OUR HEART'S DELIGHT;
The Things That Happened on Christ
mas day. BY riUXCES A. HUMPHREY.
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It was the night befo.c Christmas,
Iftrtt t who sin "grandmamma now,
was then a somewhat discontented,
fairr-loyinir littie gypsy of nine. I was
standing by the west window watching the sun as he slowly moved on to his
setting. 'Yes, I wish something would happen besides stockings and goose and blazing pudding,' I said, petulantly. "IVs been just that and nothing else all my life. (By "stockings" I mean, of coarse, the stockings we children used to hang on Christinas Eve by the side
of the nursery fire-place.) Papa laughed. "Such a long life, too, Gypsy!" he said. "Nine miserable years, isn't it? By and . by, pet, ycull be glad of the years wherein nothing happened." "Prapso!" I replied. "Bat I just wish I coald see Cinderella or Jack's t.a.wttalfc nr mrnathing. O, papa, aren't the Arabian Nights true? Bel says Ciey're staff, but I believe in the singing water and talking leaves, and I just wish we conk! find that enchanted city von and I. nw where everybody
has been asleep ages and ages, and we'd waka the sleeping princess and she'd
show ns the diamond trees and we'd
pick lots and bushels of 'em why don't jMmmiiAi always grow on trees any
way? and and O dear, 1 wishsomeOrinc would happen!" and down
Inrnwd the. son behind the hills, and
mw. called me a "romancer" and whisked me to bed. That night I
dreamed that a big roc's egg hung oyer
grandpa's dining-table and it was stock inii nf ftiamrmds and titer sparkled and
glazed so that wo didn't need any other lights. Christmas morning dawned clear
on.! frosty. On ThauksKivrng Day
alw&Ts dined at Grtndpa Cush-
iug's, and on Christinas Day with
(irandna Waterman. It was capital
sleighing and papa drove his span of
ham. sad I sat on the irons seat witn
him. It was ten males to Grandpa
Waterman's, and as we drove up to
v Am there stood Grandpa, and
Uncle Ned and Will and Tom and
Kmia and Bose and Faith it nut
worth while to go over the whole iu r MnsinB: there were fifteen in
JL Dear Grandma stood m front of all the rest with Aunty Delight just behind her. Now we children never called any of oar aunts "Aunty- but Aunty Dejight, and we had all sorts of pet V names for her, uch as "Heart's Defiant." -Delight of My Eyes," and -Pansy," which is "Ladies' Delight," yon know. Cousin Will, whowas v. aiaa nf tm cousins he was five
UP www. - vears older than I, used to say the name just sotted her, because she had purple lights in her hair just as the pansy has, and black eyes soft . tho imc at the oanar, and a sunny,
; sparkling face just like the pansy's
'. face when it looks np w tne sua, ami there is another old-fashioned name
for the pansy, "None-so-pretty, ana that I alwam .oul suited her best of all.
Tl,o i . ihn lcnen winter
11UO ; f air had giver, m an excellent appetite :M tar aim tw..i.. jinnor. Grandma
.Waterman's mother was an Engliah-
oman, and irrandnsa tried to eep 19 Mne of the old Enortah traditions con-
IwrninK ChnstmaH. She always had a
m goose staffed witKt RBDles on ner
jihriatmaa tahlA mrloin of
'vSbast beeL to wt..l. i-ddnd the
: Z, ' " nuw -
sncan tarjkey, and that disn oe-
chtidren, and f all cnU-
'Canth thoes tho good, I thpose,"
lisped Todc lekin.
O. pshaw! give it up!" saidiJei,wno
never could juess a conundrum.
"Because she's always De. Light,
said Alec, triumphantly.
Perhaps yon do not think these con-
nndrums very brilliant, bnt wo did, and
we laughed so that some of Kates
'atnmnjr" oent down the wrong -way
and we had to pat her back before she
could catch her breath.'
Aunty looked her loveliest that day. She wore a crimson cashmere, with
crimson and creamy roses in her hair.
"O. where did you get those lovely,
lovely roses?" I cried out the moment I
caught sight of them. "Tom brought them from the big Tom's conservatory,'' she said, nodding at Uncle Tom, "and he arranged them in my hair, too," giving her head a little tow to let ns see. She wore some of Grandma's beautiful old lace, that Grandma's mother brought over from the old home in Warwickshire, England, and she had a nrettv wild-rose bloom in her cheeks
as .she often had. Grandpa, as he looked down at ns from his end of the table, remarked that "Delight seemed to be in her element," vhich meant, I suppose, that she was never happier than when surrounded by her harumscarum nephews and nieces. I can never bettin to tell you what we
ate that day. Everybody knows what young folks' appetites are. The turkey was delicious, the savory goose better,
end the chicken pies better still; and we ate on and on, and our appetites did not seem to lessen, although it was
nearly time for the blazing pudding to
enter.
It's no use.' said Dick to me in an
9sMa. "I never can eat pudding and
four kinds of pie and have a speck of
appetite left for almonds and raisins. (Dick's appetite was something fearful.)
Oh, oor Pauiiy and onr Hose, Hum nffvar mind the snows.
They blossom sweetly every day. and all the
year around. -Through spring; and summer showers XU . In h&vA nar flowers.
And irises the winds with antumn leaves so
thickly strew tho ground. Tom. who had been silently eating
turkey for some time, burst out sud
denly with this verse, greatly to onr
delight.
Oh oh, Toml" cried X, is that ex-
ex ex
Tempore," said papa, coming to my
JANUARY. Tho long- chapter of Iho year's dlsasiors involving the destruction ot human life opened on tho 2d day of January, when twt-nty-sivon men woro killed by a railway collision at Toronto. Canada. Tho otlior ac
cidents durlntr January which wo havo
thoujrlil worth rovordinir aro as tolloiva: Thirty-two nuns and pupils in tho llOMttn
rmlilli foment, at Kellevllle. 111., burnc I to
(loath. Seven men killed and twolvo I11J1 rod
by an explosion of Ore-damp in the Forfay coal mine at Arras, Franco. Two hundred ( hinese lost by tho wreck of the sloainer limit Tunn. frtm Hhanirhai for Honff Kong.
Hail wo y train caught f.vo from oil on tho
tnii-k. near Bradford, Pa., and eight per
sons fatally burned. Elovon lives lost in a coal-pit at Cwroamma, Wales, by the break
ing of a cage rope. Steamer City ol Colum
bus, from lioston for Savannah, wrecked in
Vineyard Bound; 0110 hundred lives lost A
family of eight persons burned to death in
Lenoir County, North Carolina. Hark
Emma and leu lives lost on the Now Jersey coast. Ten men killed by 11 colliery
explosion iu Fran, and a dozen by a simi
lar aceidont in Eugland. Ton men drowned
by tho upsetting of a raft at Carthage, 'lonn.
Loss of three Gloucester Bsnlng sehooners,
with flfty-slx men. Fifty-nino lives lost by
an explosion in n Colorado mine. The ship
Simla, with twenty soul-, lost in tho English
Channel, and a steamer goes down on the Wc-leU coastthe loss of lifo by tae two dis-
astcis numbering thirty-six.
kllked and forty seriously Injured by a railway accident near Manchester, England, Fivo men killed by tho explosion of a locomotive boiler at White Haven, Pa. lJghfcning struck the farm-housoof Nathan rflUor. near Maryvllle, Kan., kllllnsr four daugh
ters whilo asleep.
AUGUST. Steamer City of Hcrfda burned at Ha
vana; no lives lost. Transfer steamer
Belmont sunk in a Morm near Evans-
vlllo, Ind.; sixteen l-.vos lost- Sovcnloen mon suifocatcd in an underground canal at Hraye, France. S?ovon colliers
bni-nod to death in a mine at Shamokln, Pa.
Fivo people fatally poisoned nt Plie!byvillc, Ind., by eating biscuit in which arsenic had
been put by mistake. A ga'.o on tho New
foundland coast causes considerable loss of life. Foven men killo i by an explosion in a coal-pit at Paisloy, Scotland. Ten men belonging to Orion's Circus perish in a burning sleeping-car ncardrroioy, Col.
. MJSTUCTOX.
BY JOHN B. T1BB. To the cradle bow of a naked tiBa, Benumbed with ice and anew, ' A Christmas dreun tmnnaht saddcnlr A birth of mistletoe, The shepherd stars from their fleecy cloud Strode out on the night to see; The Herod north wind blustered load. To rend it from the tree.
Bnt the old year took it for a
And blessed It in hl hrsrt: "With prophecy of peace divine, Ijet now my onl depart,"
SEPTKSIBKK. Destructive Ore in Cleveland, Ohio. Nine persons; killed In an uccident on the Mexican
Central Hailroad. IHstlllory explosion, Pokin. 111. several killed. A, rapid rise in the Eau Claire and ( hippewa rivers, destroying over $1,01)0,000 worth of property. Nows from China that tho province of Kiang-Soo had bcou inundated, and seventy thousand lives lost. Fifty-two lives lost by tho sinking of the Hritish gunb;:at Wasp, off Tory Island. Seven persons killed and much property destroyed by a cyclone In Allegany County, X. Y. Twenty lives lost by a Are in a sulphur mine In Sicily.
OCTOHEK. Sixty persons killed by a raliroad accident
in India. Over 30U uvea lost ny a uurncane
FEBRUARY.
Thirty-nvo people drowned by tho break
ing of tho leo at Thesis, Austria. Six children burned to death at Crockett, Texas
vnrtr natives killed in West Africa by an ex-
ilou of gunpowdor. A cyclone sweeps
iionr"hi. M'ssisslimi. and tho Carolinas,
killing upward of 400 pooplo and destroying a vast amount of property. Ten lives lost by
the foundering of the bark Ada uarton, ou
St. John, N. H. Six jer3on killed and eight wounded by tho fall of a raliroad train
through a bridge near Indlanapo'.is, ind. Gasoline explosion in a store in Alliance, Ohio; eight porsons killed. Nows from Cc-
runoa, Spain, of tho sinking 01 11 spaniM vessel and the loss of nineteen men.
Fifty fishermen on tho Caspian Sea earrioa
out on tho ice and drowned. Tho 0O3ds la
the Ohio River this month were tho worst
over known. At C.ncinnatl the water wus
.vor soventv f.-ot dean. Among the disa
trous Incidents was tho fall of a larso board
ing-house In Cincinnati, billing fourteen tho inraatoj. Nlneteeu minors kilied by a
Brc-damp explosion four miles from union town. Pa. Seventeen passenger.! killod by the oxpioeiou of tho boiler of the iteamer
Kotsai, from Hong Kong for Macao.
A NEW SANTA CLACTS. BY 3'-RANCES I.EE. The hens would not lay. The white Leghorn, the black Leghorn, the Plymonth Rock, and the Doraiiaque ate corn, and scratched up tho garden seeds, and stood around as though the whole Ashley family plowed, ami planted, and baked, and boiled just for their pleasure. "I'm not going to keep- these hens. They are simply eating their heads off, and it doesn't pay. We will have a chicken pie," said Pa Ashley. "Don't you do it, ma, will yon ?" begged the Boy. "Don't yon know, pa, they were getting acquainted with the new turkey to-day! They, might begin to lay to-morrow." But nothing was farther than oggs from their feathered hea(f.s. In fact, I they srjent the next day, ijfhilc the fam
ily was gone to meetm.ar, m sneiiing
ay'
in Iceland. Ton soldiers burned to death in "J T . . a Ore nt the royal palaco at Copenhagen. At ' and eating green peas, thofcgu taey Had ... .. ,.,1 . , . t ... . -.1. iT,nm
Esseg. Austria, lourieon cnuuren, 1 to lUUip tt iwi iw nu
playing in a boat on the river Uravo, capsizea It and all were drowned. Ten men drowned i at Chlcaga by the washing away, during a ( gale, of a hut in which they were lodging, j Ex. Gov. Moses sentenced to three months iu ' the Dotiolt Penitentiary for forgery. Fivo . mon killod by a powder mill explosion an j Cummlnsvillc, Ontario. Twenty-seven no'- ' sons killed and 400 injured by a cyclone in I Catania, on tho island of Sicily. The Japanese ! inn nt Vnlmhim, nnd Tnkin wore visited i
viv.ua j 1 .
by a terrible typhoon; In tho latter cit excuse to be found why tney OKI EB 3,000 houses were wholly or partially de- 1 &nj dd not lay on each pariwsumC' stroyed; twenty peopio were killed; the ; aitJ h and loss of life at sea was appalling. Six tnt-n . . . , . , killed by a boiler explosion at Beltrami, : itj had their reward. Minn. A storm on the coat of Lower Call- j "Ma," criod the Boy, as lio came run-
fornia wrecks a steamer and seven sallies j ninar in one daj", "well have some eggs
craft, the loss of life reaching nearly 100. . nQW j tne 0u hen makos out gOOil
Eighteen men suffocated In a coal mmo at vminir!.own. Ohio. Sixteen persons tranipl id I
Those wretched beoKars 1" said Pa
Ashley. "I can't keep thorn, and won't, anyhow." "Why, yo-. don't expect the hensi ivill lay Sundays, do you, pa?" pleaded tfc Boy. So the days skipped by, one after another, and those hens never went into
a pie at all, for there was always o
to death during a panto in a Glasgow tbeati-r, caused by a cry of Are. Several vesstiia
wrecked and many lives lost by a hurricane
in tho Bahama Islands.
NOVESIBER. Nino persons slain by a boiler explosion in
a Now Orleans sugar house. Six men die at Sunburr, Ont,, from eating pork affect 3d
...t.k . .I.i.ln . . nit mi. TMII1 ITIM't , Tl ri 1 1 1 ' II t .
'l drownmg 1 Pie-Crown, tilting her head thw wa,
twolvo passengers and wounding forty, ana wiai, anu mum; lw" " w Seventeen live? lost by the sinking of ao j as though she were saying, Shall I,
American ship Andrew Johnson, off tuo , wnt T?'
coast of Brazil. Mine mon arowneu uy i.
boat
CONGRATULATIONS.
"Tom has a fatal faculty for verse,"
said hi, papa. Tm dreadfully afraid
hell be a poet"
"Never fear," replied my papa, yearsll take it ont of him." Bnt thev haven't! You'd lie sur
prised if I should tell yon who Tom is.
"Tom." whisvered little r aith. sue
sat between Tom and me, so I heard her. "Do yon like Rose better than met Faith was Tom's little sister, and, oh, how she did love him! She used to be quite jealous of the rest of ns sometimes..
Such a time as there was you may
imagine! Some of ns ran shrieking
from the room. For though the creature had stopped and was looking very
much surprised, as well he might,
there was no knowing what he mignt take it into his head to do next Had it been Christmas Eve instead of Christmas Day we might have thought it was Santa Clans, who had made a mistake and was coming that way instead of down the chimney. But nobody ever heard of Santa Claus being belated; he is always prompt on the minute at every chimney in Christen-
Ttnairlm. he dosen't drive a
linrae: he drives reindeer tandem.
Paoa and Uncle Tom sprang to the
horse's head and began to back him, while the rest of the uncles went ont to
see who could be driving behind such a crazy horse as that They found a
sleigh with a single occupant a young
man, who was very much mourned that he should have entered Grandpa's house in such fashion, though he did
not know Grandpa's house from any
other, as he was a stranger. It seems that just as he got to the entrance of Grandpa's grounds, one of the reins parted, and the hors-3, following the guidance of a single rein, turned and ran, and, of course he the young man) conld not help himself. During the hubbub Aunty went off up stairs with Faith and Toddlekin to
console and comfort them. For Dick, who was a tease, had told them that
very likely the horse would eat up all
the raspberry; tarts for, saiti ne,
Horses are uncommonly f ond of rasp
berry tarts "
Her blakrir plant
i a sprig ol tiolly in
tno nioa hmim JV? tllft
FW TVJ V i declare, he , J
xm ar a-
" Of course not, sweet," Tom replied. "Bat X had to have something that
rhymed, yon know. J aitn wouldn't
anyway. I tried it And jraitn was
and went on sucking her
chicken wing with great content
Dear, loving little Faith! happy,
happy times of long syne! My dear children, let me whisper a bit of wisd om
into your ears. Be content with the
haony times that are, don't be wish
ing for something better.
There were always a surprising num
ber of wish bones at Grandma's ChriBt-
nwa dinner, and we sometimes wondered
whether she did not provide extra ones
ss she provided extra " stuffing. " Each
of ns who had a wish-bone always
insisted upon wishing with Aunty De-
lhrht
I wish I could have as many chances
to wish as Aunty does,'' I said to Bel,
because everytlunK yon wish with a
wish-bone is sure to come to pass, you
know." "What a child yon are!" was Bel's reply. Bel was only thirteen, bnt one would have thought sometimes she was thirty by the way she patronized me and called me "child." That day I found a gooso wish-bone on my plate and was just about wishing with Aunty; I had thought of my wish, which was. of so arse, that something "would happen," and was waiting fot Aunty to think of hers, for, as sho fays, "it was of immenso importance -iih the rhrht thing," when some-
iflr tttd happen M
I mwm wll you iust How.
situated sO'-roB'
The First Christmas In America.
The chronicles of the Pilgrims, de-
scribinff their arrival in Cape Cod bay.
in December, 1620, refer thus briefly to the first Christmas spent by them in
America:
Monday, the 25th, being Christinas
T)nv. we besnn to drink water aboard
But at night the master caused ns to
have some beer; and so on board we
had divers times, now and then, some
beer, bnt on shore none at all.
Wliat was done in Plymouth village
the next Christmas is more fully de
scribed in the quaint language ol uov
Bradford:
"On ve dav called Christmas-day, ye
Govt called thorn out to worke (as was used), but ye most of this new company excused themselves and said it went asainst their consciences to worke on
ve dav. So ye Goyr told them that if
they made it mater of conscience, he
wonld spare them till they were better informed. So he led away ye rest and
left them, but when they came home at
noone from their worke, he found them
in ye streete at play, openly; some
pitching ye barr, and some at stoole-
ball, and shuch like sports. So he went to them and took away their im-
nlements and told them that was against
his conscience, that they should play
and others worke. it tney matte yo keeping of it mater of devotion, let them kepo their houses, butther should be no gaming or revelling in ve streets. " dfk& SKssy like a cWlle ill
1 have no family bnt my dog; we livo hero I1 alone. And my cupboard's at yonr service; yoo will al
ways find it barePlenty of room; I would advise to hide tho pres
ents there. "Oh ! is It possible any one can be so sweet and kind? Such unexpected goodness I little thought to find! With heartfelt tears of gratitnde, do I, dear Mother Hubbard, Accept the offer cf your house, likewise accept yonr enpbotrd. One other favor; will yon kindly take a pen and
ink. And write the. list of presents down, while I sit by and think? Thanks 1 Now let's see there's Simple Simon, he must hive a pie; He wanted one some tune ago, but had no
money to buy. My two hard workers. Jack and Jill, a waterpail they luck; For ever since taey fell down hill, their pail has luul a crock. Uttle Boy Bine wants a new horn, and says if I will buy him A louder one, bell keep awake. I've creat mind to try him. The Woman who makes broth present 1 have fnnnd her-
The one. I mean, who has that flock of little children round her. It must, be inconvenient housekeeping in one
ltne
And I havo bought the mate, for with her family
in two. That over-crowded woman may know belter
The Bachelor living by himself shall have a new
wheelbarrow. Made wide enough to hold a wife; his other was too narrow. The Baby in the Tree-top needs another cradle BecaiiseTyou know. Its old one broke in falling
nflT the bouffll.
That Horner lioy a fork I'll give, then, should he find a plum. He'll get it by a better way than putting in Ills
thumb. Creat Jack Stout, who saved the cat from drown
ing in the well, I wonder what that boy wonld like; perhaps a silverb. "11. But Johnny Green ehallbe shutnp a nay from all the run. And In the lady's chamber stay until the party's (1 nn M
Thus Mother Goose's wisdom all tho various
While the o-ilier helped the matter on with will
ing heurt and hand. "Now, Mother Hubbard," said Mother Goosoi -whnt -vn v would vou nrouose
Of making bum that every gift unto its owner
toes.' By stocking! on the mantel, or by hanging on a
tree? Or would you trust to Santa Clans to dolt faithfully?" Said Mother Hubbard, -"In cases where I'm
l.tlnl altogether.
It is my way to ask advice from the Old Man in
Leather. Tts just about bis lime to call. Ah! here's the
very man! And as he i.tood before them there they told him all Un plan. "Now, i nay advine us, sir," they said. "What
way 'would yon propone Of nmkiiut sure that every stf t unto Its owner goes By stot kiegs on the mantel, or by hanging oh a tree) Or would you trust to Santa Clans to doitfaUt.fnUyi" Til- Old Mm in Leather clasped his hands and gazed with earnest eyes On empty air in silent thought. Said be, "I wonld advise. Not stockings on the mantel, nor L- .n0n on a tree. Nor wonld I trust to Santa Olaus to do It faithful! v. Among vour family is one whose motions are so quick, I'm sure you can depend on him. I allude to "Kllmllln IllRk.
"Sou, ma'am, in quiet dignity can by the eupboard stand. And he the proseuts can bestow, as you may give command." "Oh, ;hankii, sirl thanks'." criod Mother Jwec. "Wlia', Jndirmcnt you display Said Mothe.- Hubbard, "I told you so! Jjtnew iiud a way !" Jf was jo'
1 hat everybody stopped their ears, and besKed Mm not tf) do BO.
The Bachelor got Simon's pie. "O pie so sweet
and nice! What can I, can I do?" said he, "to fcesp you 1mm t,hf mififi''"
The Old Woman not the pretty crook, and
ennnted it sreat eaiu.
"Oh, thank yon, thank you, ma'am!" she said
"fnp irfrlnir me this cane!
Jack Horner got ths water-pail, and toot a seat
And the Tree-Top Baby got the fork, and hurt Itself, and cried. But these mistakes were all set right, aad also
cATOrnl more.
And the party was a jolly one, as has been said
The Cat kept such a nddlinp 'tw as enough to
make you smile, And the four-and-twont v Blackbirds were siuainrr nil t.tin while.
The dancing ended with a grand tluxM- banded
mlnnet.
A very slow and dignified and stately minuet.
The three who stepped so daintily this minuet together. Were Mother Hn'3bard, Mother tioose, .uid tho rtlrl Man In IfJLthpr.
They held each other's tiuKcr-tlpa in ways the mrtr. unlit
And made deep bowa and courtesys. uuto the
tuft, mil rhrlit.
The music for the miruet was someth.ng very xrand: For King Colo sect his fiddlers three fiom out
thA nwnl linild.
The dancinir and the Addling were applauded loud and long; And the festival it ended in a simultaneous
UA11C
And then the coinpanr went home by way of
Barley Bright, But 1 have never heard if they got there by can
die light. ... . The Boar's Head.
luck! I've found Plymouth Bock on her nest " After that shore was no trouble about eggs nor about keeping the hens. "I think," said Grandma, one fine morning, "tliat old Cropple-Crown has stolen her nest somewhere, bnt I ara bothered to pieces to find ont whore."
"Cluck, cluck, cluck," replied Crop-
At Queen's College, Oxford, the old custom of serving a boar's head at the
nbri'stman dinner is observed. The
usaere, according to tradition, comment
orates the bravo act of a former stu-
dnt of the colleKc:
While walking in the neighboring
forest and rewUng Aristotle's work on
loirio. he was suddenly attacked by a
wild boar. Tho furious beast rushed
oiven-niouthed noon the youth. Ho,
with a happy presence of mind,
crammed the volume into the boar's
month, crying. "Gravum ext (it is
Greek).!" and fairly choked the savage with the sage. The following are two of the stansstis of tho song which is
sung as the boar's head is brouo;ht into the college dining-room: So dreadful this brisjle backed foe did appear, You'd have sworn he'd got ths wrong pig by the ear. But instead of avoiding the mouth of the beast, He ramm'd in volume, and cried '(irweuin till" In this gallant action such fortitude shown Is, Am proms him no oow ird, nor tender Adonis: No armor but logic, by which we may f .nd. That logic's the bulwark of body and mind.
The Undertaker's Grief. Friend "Why do you look so low-
spirited to-day. l'ou are usually so
merry. Has busiQess dropped on t
Undertaker "No, business is aoout
the samo as usual."
Friend "Then what can be tiio matter? You look very glum !" Undertaker "J always feel badly at this season of the year. I can't help it. All the other business men are raking in cash hand over ftst with their big holiday advertisements." Friend "Well, you aro a large ad
vertiser yourself." Undertaker "Yes, I know; but Jlioy have such a grt advantage ever mo that 1 am not uble to keep from, wore" Youse I ,f
MARCH.
One hundred and ilfty-four Uvea lost by un
rxpl3ion in a colliery at Poealionta?, a. Thirteen peopb. buried by a snow avalanclw
in r tah. Fifteen peoplo killed oy a simnur accident in Colorado. The ship Homtii.? founders at sua, and the crew of ninetoon
I perish.
ATSUI.
The town of Cakvillo. ind., destroyed by a
cyclone, and ttvo persons killed, btorms in
Alabama, Georgia and Pennsylvania caus
.m.nt destruction of property and kill sou: e
twenty iicoplc. Fivo men killed at Port Ar-
ttur, Canada, by nn explosion of dynatnlto
Thirteen lives lost by tbe burnina: ot a
n .) i hfirtnnoocnce luver. m
Ccorgia. l.os of the steamer Daniel Stein
mnnn oil Halifax; 134 p30plo drowned.
Sort n person killed by a railway aen'.lnnt at CiSCO. TcX. Eight IDCn
lose thnr live by a railroad accident at Serautou. Pa. Fivo children burned to death at Gadsden. A!a. Many people kll ed
and maimed by a lire and panic In a theater
at Bucharest. Fifteen llv03 lost by tno witck . . '. . .... . . l. T.. .. ,1
oz tho Danish oar aiub, iu iuv mmuu Islands. live persons drowned while boating
in tho Hudson Hiver, near Sing Sing:. Col-
rctnii in mid-ocean between steamer state of
Florida and bark rone ma. Both vessels lost
and 185 1 ersons drowned. More than forty
ikhsam killod bv the falling- of a train or
ear into tho river near Ciudad Heal, Spun
French banker Panuebot run down and sunk
by Norwegian bark Venus; twelve raen
drowned. Fourteen inmates of van nuren
County Poor House, near Hartford, Mloh., hiirned to death. Explosion of powder u:ag-
azino or San Antonto, noar Havana: twentyone persons killed and many wounded. Kx-
tnnslvo forest Ares in New l'oric, wow jeriwy.
and Pennsylvania, burning: several villages
and many square miles of timber land; a number of persons perished in the flames.
HAT.
Five men killed at Waterford, N. ., by
the explosion of a bleacher In a straw-board mill. The French brur Sonorine foundered ofT the great banks or Newfoundland, the crew and passengers, numbering sixty-two.
perishing. The British ship Syria wrecked on tho Fiji Islands; sc venty passengers, all
coolies, were drowned. .By collision between
freight aud gravel trails on the Baltimore .m.t nhln Hailroad. near OonnellsvUlo, Pa.,
fourteen laborers were killed. Several shocks
of earthquako through aut the peninsula or
felons. As a Minor, several villages toj
damaged; many houses wore destroyed: and
too persons killed. Nineteen lives lost by tne
foundering of tho ship Alantinc off tno Mag
dalen Islands. Tho Lottom of tho ferry boat
nt St. Alberts, P. Q., broko through, causing
ilin drawnlnir of seven porsons. By tho
explosion of a boiler in tho Whitney Msrblo
Works at Gouvorneur, Y. Y., sevou men woro bin,,i Ton women woro blown to pieces and
two others wounded by un oxplosioaof dyna
mite at a factory in Ayrshire, Seotiana. nvo
perrons killed by a boiler explosion at uu-
buquc, Iowa.
JUSU. R'ovon men drowned mi a 11 cod, caused by
a cloud-burst, in camp on Frenchman's Creek,
Colorado. Schooner Six Brothers and lourtoen men lost off Newfoundland. Eleven men drowned at Thompson's Falls, Montana. News from Groonlaud of the loss of the Danish brig Klcnit aud ton of her crow. Two Americana und twolve Mexicans killed in a railroad aiioldxnt in Now Lariido. Several persons fatally Injured
the
.-.anafoin rf n. lwat near Halifax. N. S
Several porsons killed by a boiler explosion on an Alabama River steamer. An unknown j
disease, supposed to bo caused by a long j drought and the consequent drying up of t j
springs and brooks, carries os many pcoi'ii ;
in Southwest Virginia, xwonty persona ;
drowned bv tlio einkiiiir of tho steamer i
"Wo haven't got anything again! your setting, you old simpleton. Shoo, there! Scoot along, and let's see if you've fixed up your uest as it ought to be," continued Grandpa. "Cra-ik? Cra-ik!" replied tbe sim
pleton, setting that fcot carefully down
UrUWIIUU J WW cmai'M - Durango, in tho J2wr!ish Channel. Sov.m j and cautiously lifting the other.
mon Killed by a lioilcr oxploslon at Elisa-
betitown, Ky. Eljrht men killed byn rail
way collision at Kenning' Station, Toon.
DECEMBER. A vessel founders in the China .sea, a jd
sixty Chinese And a watery grare. tne
schooner Mary Joseph wrecked off St. .lonns.
N. F and tho passengers and crew, thirteen
in number, drowned.
The Chris ttn as Tree.
Where are you going now and why
don't you go there? I can't stand foot ing arouad all day watching yow. Come, hurry up!" complained Grandpa. Cropple-Crown fluttered over tho fence, then she flapped into the haycart, and flapped out again. "Cluck," said she, hopping upon an old stovo that, was stored in the shed. There sho
. , ! stood, clncking and shifting from ont The custom of decoration by green ,
nlants and flowers m aU sorts of testa- ; . ..
vals is as old as history, and of course ! the use of evergreens at Christmas ;
needs no explanation, nor is the custom ; . ; , Btnv., wh.uirni
any less Christian because it is of nn- j tebinj. , to go on her nest and dnW
memorial use among pagan nations, i . . . . does it to .dte ai
The mistletoe, however, had a unique
'There is no living creature that will
pester the life and worry tho patienco
of a bodv more than a setting nen, f
place. The Celtic pHples and tie Druids held it in the same veneration
that the Bomans did. It was used by ;
the Boman3 in religious ceremonies, and it may have been the "gohlan imnffh" of the infernal regions. Tae
Druids gathered it against the festival of the winter solstice with great solemnity, the prince of the Druids cutting it himself with a golden sickle. It was used as a charm against evil spiri ts,
and excellent medical properties are j ascribed to it It was supposed to pos- : uwa the cower to preserve from
poison, and the mystic property of giv-
ing fertility. Kissing under tne misi .e- . toe" may havo had reference to this n-;
cient belief. There was a tradition
that the maid who was not kissed und er a bough of mistletoe at Christa&as wonld not be married during the following year. There was once a notion that its heathen origin should exclude it from the Christmas decorations; but this found no favor with the young paople at any period. On the contrary, they took good care that it should be hang, and that it should have plenty of
berries, for the cciomony under vras not duly performed if a berry was not plucked off with each kiss, and oonsenuontlv the supply of berries deter
mined the number of kisses. It did
not need the Roman use of the plant to
reeommend such a preventive of ;ho
state of oldmaidisin. Some trace -sue two of nreen bush decoration to tho
original branches of vervain ainong'Jte
Romans. With Komnus ana jurutas the vervain was a panacea for every ill, and they believed, above all, tliat it "conciliated hearts wluch were at variance" another goo-i office of any plant in the Christmas season. The Druids only venerated the mistletoe that grew on the oak, bnt the common mistletoe (Viicus album), with its
pearly berries, is gathered from the
. it... . ir ..- nf u t t-rtin nr.
Burlington and Missouri Bniiroad. rcaths hawthorn, tho old apple-tree, the uino, from lhrhtnhis rcporiod iu Now V'ork, j , ., fir na from other trees. Of
Pnimsvlvnnia. Ohio, und Wisconsin. Twouty-
Ilvo icrsoiH killed by wo iiroaaIng of an engine axle ou the MancbOKtt r and Sheffield Hallway. England. Forty persons overwhelmed und drowned by a water spout In Uussian Turkestan. Fourteen meu killed by the premature oxploslon of a blast near Tampioo, Mexico. Thirty pooplo killed by tho exjilosion of a powder-mill iu Italy. Abridge across the river Vistula, in Germany, upon which many pooplo wow standing, was swept uway by a Hood and twenty of thorn woro drowned. Six Italians drowned at Seiners, N. V., by the upsetting of a boat JULY. Steamer Amsterdam, or Notherlunfls and American Navigation Company's lino, wrecked on Sable Island in a fog; thrco passengers lost. Twenty - four miners killed by B colliery oxploslon in British OoUiWl"
and the fir, and from other trees. Of
late years this parasite has been scarcer than formerly, and efforts have been made to propagate it. This is done by cleaning off the bark under any joint of a young tree with the moistened thumb, and then pressing the gl.itinous berry on the cleaned place till it adheres to the bark; it will begin to show growth in about fifteen months. It is an obvious suggestion that in sections of the country where the statistics show a falling off in marriages this plant ought not to ba let die out Charles Dudley Warner, in Mart'of'a
Magazine. AVe must all exnect to make a mis-
tv0 now and"'" T; our mistakes teach niaivr lease could be learned
knows it and just does it to dawdle Iwf fool ! I'm 'most a good mind to let bf-t go, chicks and all," said Ocandn shaking his hat at her till she aouneej off the stove with a squawk. Bnt even Grandpas get diacoiirafp sometimes, and finally he went fii'l look at the new Jersey calf and grri neighbor Blake his opinion about-ifcl weather. When he went back if shed. Croople-Crown had diaappoeres
I - ... . It .MMCtjU' '.4
i and ws seen no more iu mwuw.
After danner, as uranapa bbs in , -. arm chair with a newspaper over his , head and his eyes closed "jnat to rest ' them, ho wasn't sleeping'-'-tiie Boyrushed in like the west wind. ".Tve f found her out! I've found where-Cropple-Crown is setting!" Grand;' paper rustled off upon the oor. "What! where! How did yen Ind her?" said he, springing up as thengh ho bad been nineteen instead of irnety, "I was hunting after my ring. I've lost it some place and Ma said if I lost this ring I shouldn't have another. I think it must have slipped oft whan I was feeding oats to Katy. but Tve. searched the manger all through and felt, in Katv's mouth and I would give
anybody my new anihmetio to fhid it for me. So I look every place J think of. But what do you thinkt Come on, Grandpa! You cottlidn guess in a thousand Tears, " ' If that is the case, I wont try then," said Grandpa, picking up the cane he always carried, "just for company ' and following after the Boy, who lea the wav to the shed and to the very utof"- -
around which Otopple-Crown hairs K wandered in su ah un uncertain as d pre yoking way. The Bov lifted the griddle. "There!
what do yon think of that for a hideplace?" he asked, triumphantly, "I guess she heard Pa say she had. got to
be baked, so she thought she'd (et. mto.
the stove herself to save wouwe,
Well, 1 never edd!" declared Gi-n-.
na. neenine in nd asscovenag tne .
47 ' 4 a. w - , speckled head and crimson cres t of the
stowaway.
And nobody crer did! CroppMK
Crown came ant every day to be fed.
but how she got ont and ut nobody
ever saw. There was out one way, ws.
drop herself liko Santa Claos downA through the stove-pipe hole ir
scratched ont again somehow, in tqe : same way. But there she ra arl j there she staid, for tho eggs were so ; near the door, iu their nest of aalies, 1 that it couldn't bo opened without their
rolling ont, untU at Hst the eggs Oega
to peep, when tho stove, ie t ie wh bird-pic, vas opened and out came
fluffy white chickens; and new are peeping and peeking and wta'
about each on its own two yei
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