Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1892 — Page 7

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c Ti -F*s> |, > \v\ '“““ I A Happy New Year. I Coming, coming, coming! I Lluten! perhaps you'll hear I Over the snow the bugles blow ■' To welcome the glad new year. I In the steeple tongues are swinging. I There are many sleigh-bells rinsing, I And the people for joy are singlug, K— It’s coming, coming naar. I flying, sighing, dying, I Going away to-ulght, I Weary and old, its story told. 1.1 The year that was full and bright; I Oh, hall wo are sorry It’s leaving; I Good-by has a sound of grieving; I But its work is done and Its weaving: I God speed Its parting flight! I Tripping, slipping, skipping, I Like a child in its wooing grace, I With never a tear and never a fear, I And a light In the laughing face; I With hands hold out to greet us, I With gay little steps to meet us, I With sweet eyes that entreat us, I The new year comes to Its place F Coming, coming, coming! I Promising lovely things— I The gold and gray of the summer day, I The winter with fleecy wings; I Promising swift birds glancing, I And the patter of rain-drops dancing, I And the sunbe mu' arrowy lancing, f Dear gifts the new year brings. I Coming, coming, coming! I The world Is a vision white; I From the powdered eaves to the soroI brown leaves, I That arc bidden out of sight I In the steeple tonvues are swinging, I The bolls are merrily ringing, I And “Happy Naw Year® we’re singing, L For the old year goes to-night Is-Harper’s Young People. BABY DEB’S GOOSE

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NHRISTMAS is Just “as much Christmas at the Booh Island ; light-house as it is else i n (world. j And’ why not? ?There are six chilidren there, though, .and a mother and a father; and if they cannot make a . Christmas, then nobody can. Why, Baby Deb

I ■ '**■ alone is material enough of which to make a Christmas, and a very rollicking, Jolly sort of Christmas, too; but when to her jou add Tom and Sue and Sally and Ike and Sam—well, the grim, old light-house fairly overflows with Christmas every 25th of December. Ah, then, if you suppose that that cunning old gentleman, Santa Claus, does not know how to find a chimney, even when the cold waves are pelting it with frozen spray-drops ten miles from land, you little know what a remarkable gift he has in that way! And the Christmas dinners they have there! The goose—the brown, crisp, Juicy, melting roast goose! What would that dinner bo without that goose? What, indeed! But once—they turn pale at that lighthouse now when they think of it —once they came very near having no goose for Christmas. It came about in this way: Papa—ah, If you could only hear Baby Deb tell about it! It would be worth the journey. But you cannot, of course, so never mind. Papa Stoughton—the lighthouse-keeper, you knowhad lost all his money in a savings bank that had failed early in that December. A goose is really not an expensive fowl; but if one has not the money, of course one cannot buy even a cheap thing. Papa ,Stough ton could not afford a goose. He said so—said so before all the family. Ike says that the silence that fell upon that family then was painful to hear. They looked one at another with eyes so wide open that it’s a mercy they ever could shut them again. “No goose!" at last cried Tom, who was the oldest. “No goose!" cried the others in chorus. All except Baby Deb, who was busy at the time gently admonishing Sculpin, her most troublesome Child, for being so dirty. Baby Deb “No doose!” after all the others were quiet. That made them all laugh, However, when Papa Stoughton explained how it was, they saw it as plainly as ho did, and so they made no complaint. Only Tom fell a-thlnklng, and when the others saw what he was doing they did the same; the difference -being that Tom was trying to think what could be done to get the goose anyhow, and they were trying to think what he was thinking about, so that they could think the same. u All except Baby Deb, of course; who being only four years old, gave herself very little concern about the thoughts of others. Her own thoughts took all of her time. “We must have a goose," said Tom, ‘ —fCml” gasped his audience, moved 'W mingled amazement and admiraL Tom looked at them with great Tlrmness and dignity. “Ever since I was born,” ho went on, “we have had a roast goose for Christmas." 'MCver since he was born! It might have been a hundred years before, ffom Tom's tone and manner, and the audience was tremendously Impressed. "And," continued the orator, “we must have one now. We will have one now." 1

They al most stopped breathing. "I have a plan." They shuddered and drew nearer. “Wo all must contribute!" “Ob!" In chorus. “Do you want goose, Sue?* “Yes, indeed.* “You, Sal?" ' “Yes." I “Ike?* “Do I? Weill’ “Sam?” **Ycs sir.” “Me, too,” said Baby Deb, with great earnestness; for it was clear to her that it was a question.of eating, and she did not wish to be left out. “Os course, you, too, you daisy dumpling,” said Tom. “Now, then," ' he continued, when order was re- i stored, “what shall we contribute? | I’ll give my new -sail-boat. That ; ought to bring 50 cents.” “I’ll give my shells," said Sue, heroically. “My sea-mosses," sighed Sally. “You may take my shark’s teeth,” said Ike. “And my whale’s tooth,” said Sam. The sacrifice was general; the lighthouse would yield up its treasures. “All right,” said Tom. “Now let’s tell father.” And father was told, and for some reason he pretended to look out of the window very suddenly—hut he did not, he wiped bis eyes. And Mamma Stoughton rubbed her spectacles and winked very hard, and said: “Bless their hearts!” “And what does Baby Deb contribute?” said Papa Stoughton, byway of a little joke. “I dess I’s not dot nuflln,” was Baby Deb's reply, when the matter was explained to her, “’cept ’oo tate Stulpin.” Oh, what a laugh there was thenl For if ever there was a maimed and demoralized doll, it was Sculpin. But Baby Deb was hugged and kissed as if she had contributed a lump of gold instead of a little bundle of rags. Papa Stoughton and Tom were to go out to the main-land the first clear day to buy the goose; but—alas! —a storm came on, and they were forced to-wait for it to go down. It did not go down; it grew worse. The wind shrieked and moaned and wrestled with the lonely tower, and the waves hurled themselves furiously at it, and washed over and over the island, and no boat could have lived a moment in such weather. If a gqose be only a goose, no matter; but if it be a Christmas dinner! —Ah, then! Yes, they had good reason to feel dismal in the light-house. It was no wonder if five noses were fifty times a day flattened despairingly against the light-house windows. Yes, six noses, for even Baby Deb was finally affected; and, though sbe did not know the least thing about the weather,, she, too, would press her little nose against the glass in a most alarming way, as if she thought that pressure was the one effective thing. It took some time for Baby Deb to realize the importance of having a goose for Christmas; but when she had grasped the idea she became an enthusiast on the subject. She explained the matter to her dolls, and was particularly explicit with Sculpin, with whom, indeed, she held very elaborate and almost painful conversations. One thing became very certain. There was very little prospect of clear weather within a week, and it lacked only three days of Christmas. The others gloomily gave up hope, but not so did Baby Deb. The truth was, she had a plan, and you know when one has a plan one has hope, too. Mamma Stoughton had only recently been having a scries of talks with Baby Deb on the important question of prayer, and it had, occurred to Baby Deb that the goose was a good subject for prayer. It was a very clear case to her. The goose was necessary. Why not ask for it, then? The great difficulty was to find a secret place for her devotions, for the family very well filled the light-house, and Baby Deb had understood that

/ < ’£s«k\ v. * k WkxS om c —-*- ■ < \ < «0H! PLEASE. DOOD LORD, SEND A DOOBB." praeyrs ought to bo quietly and secretly made. The place was found, however. Just In front of the light-house was a broad ledge of rock, generally washed by the waves, but at low tide, eyen In this bad weather, out of water. The other children had been forbidden to go there because it was dangerous, but ho one had thought of cautioning Baby Deb. So there she went, and In her Imperfect way begged hard for the goose. Christmas Eve same, and still there was no goose. Baby Deb was pus- * , p

ried; the others were gloomy. Still Baby Deb would not give up. It would bo low tide about seven o’clock. She knew that, for she had asked. She would makb her last trial. She had hope yet; but as the others knew nothing of her plans, they had absolutely no hope. To them it was uertaln that there could be no Christmas goose. i Seven o’clock came, and Baby Deb crept softly from the room and downstairs. She opened the great door just a little bit, and slipped out into the darkness. Bcally did slip, for it was very icy on the rocks, and she sat down very hard. However, she was very chubby and did not mind it 1 She crawled cautiously around to the big rock, the keen wind nipping her round cheeks and pelting her with the frozen drops of spray. She knelt down. “Oh! please, dood Lord, send us a dooso. Wo wants a (loose awful. Won’t you, please, dood Lord?’ Thud! fell something right alongside of her. “Oh! What’s dat?” she exclaimed, putting her band out. “Why, it’s a doose!" she cried, with a scream of delight, as her hand came in contact with a soft, warm, feathery body. She forgot to give a “thank you” for the goose; but she was thankful, though not so Very much surprised. She really had expected it. It was a heavy load fob Baby Deb, but she was excited and did not notice it. She made her way into the light-house, and, step by step, patter, patter, she went upstairs and burst, all breathless, into the sitting-room, crying exultantly: “It’s tummed, it’s tummed," as the ! great g lose fell from her arms upon i the floor. Well! if you think they were not , surprised, you know very little about the Stoughton folks. What they said, nobody knows. They all talked at once. But by and by Papa Stoughton had a chance to be heard. “Where did you get it, Baby Deb?” he asked. “Why, I p’ayed Dod for it!” answered Deb. “Paid Dod?" exclaimed Papa Stoughton. “Paid Dodd?” chorused the family. “ ’Es, ” responded Baby Deb, convincingly. “Dod—ze dood Lord. I p’ayed to him. He sended it to me, des now.” More questions and more of Baby Deb’s exclamations revealed the whole |[|W.L-|• II iral ILjr i / \ I hit's tummed, it’s TUMMED " story. Funny folk, those Stoughtons but they spent the next ten minutes in wiping their eyes and hugging and kissing and making up new pet names for Baby Deb. Papa Stoughton did say to Mamma Stoughton that night, as they were going to bed: “A wild goose. It was blinded by the bright light, and broke its neek by flying against the glass. And, after all, who shall say that ‘the good Lord’ did not send it?” At all events, not a word of explanation was said to Baby Deb, and no one contradicted her when she said at dinner next day: “Dod’s doose is dood.” —St. Nicholas. Christmas in Midsummer. Wouldn’t you think it funny to see Christmas come in the middle of the summer, to have no ice and snow on the ground, and nothing to remind you that it was winter? Well, away off on the other side of the world I Christmas does come in the middle of summer. In Australia on Christmas morning the children say, “Oh, dear! how hot is. Ido wish Christmas came in the wintertime." For when it is winter here it is summer there, and when yqu are lying under a shady tree in July, the Australian children are running around with winter clothes on, blowing on their fingers to keep them warm. But whether it comes in summer or winter, wherever the English language is spoken, it is a time of jollity and "plenty, of tender feelings and kindly gifts, of “peace on earth and good-will to men.” New Congressmen’s Babies. The new member of Congress from the West is one of the characters of the , i capital. He wears striped trousers, old- I I fashioned black string necktie, a slouch , I hat, and tig boots. He is earnest and I studious and a good deal of a jnan. Cne thing that I like about him is that he brings his wife to Washington with him —his wife and baby—and is proud of them and they are proud of him. I have in mind one young Congressman who walks to the Capitol every session day with his wife by his side and hla baby in his arms. The trio go in on the floor, and baby is perched upon the statesman’s desk till the hour comes for clearing the floor. Then wife and baby go up into the gallery and sit all the afternoon or till tne session Is over, wall h- j ing hubby and pa; a legislate. It is only while the new Congressman is very new that he does this. He soon gets over It, and then wife and babe are left. In the background or perhaps at home in the far West.—Washington letter. It is announced that a New York ■thief is a descendant of Henry Clay. This cannot elevate him to the plane of the morally pure kleptomaniac. If he teally descended from Clay, the descent has been too great and rapid to leave any room for pride, and if ho didn’t descend from Clay he is untruthful as well as light-fingered, and not bettering his case at court. Victoria says so many poets are putting forth their claims for those butts of wine and that pension that ! she will not appoint a new laureate just now.

The HoneS •€ Europe. Judge a country bv its horses. In visiting the different countries of Europe we were constantly imnretiscil by the practical utility of the horses. Every country has a national breed that they have for ages learped to consider the best of all breeds. The liberal importations from these coun- | tries has greatly improved the practical utility and value of our horses immensely; but large as these importations have been it is but a drop in the bucket for the improvement of our 15,000,000 horses. We must con- ’ tinuc to inijjort more good draught and conch stallions and marcs and 1 carefully grade up to the required size, style and quality, the American draught horse as our national breed, to meet the requirements of modern Industry commerce. Franco produces the light and heavy draught horses and the milltary horse, or, as wo call them, coachers, all of which they have developed under government direction for more than a hundred years. A great many racing stables of thojoughbreds are maintained in France by the wealthy nobility as the horse of luxury for sporting; cheap ponies and donkeys are often used for milk and peddler carts by the peasants. Belgium breeds chiefly the one horse — the Belgian draught and heavy draught horses —which they arc so wedded to from the nobility to the peasant, that they all believe them to be the best in the world. Dogs are extensively used for milk and vegetable carts Germany breeds chiefly army horses and small horses, has no draught breed, exports thousands of cheap small horses to England and France in exchange for hundreds of draught horses. England, the great lover of good horses, has the greatest variety of horses. The shire is their great agricultural horse and the cart and lorry horse of the cities, the mares for the farm, the geldings in the streets. The hackney is the riding and harness horse, the Cleveland bay and the Yorkshire coach horse is the coach and business horse. The hunter is the military and hunting horse, and the thoroughbred is the racing horse; ponies and donkeys for the children and for mining. Scotland has her one breed, Clydesdales, which they proudly believe to be the greatest work-horse of the world; their agricultural horse is chiefly the mares and young horses, the geldings for the streets. A few hackneys have reluctantly been introduced. The harness horses are chiefly imported from North and South America, Germany and Russia. Turkey and Arabia produce horses for hunting and racing, and for military use. Russia has millions of small, cheap horses that need to be improved to meet the wants of civilization; they are great lovers of racing. Italy produced only horses for racing and the army of inferior quality. America is destined to be the great horse producing country of the world, collecting the best breeds of Europe to improve our native horses up to the standard of excellence of modern civilization to suit the markets of our own country and the European marketo ax well. Th.- Modern Singing Voice. Sims Reeves, the great English tenor, has been giving public expression to his views of the singing methods of to-day. What he finds lacking in the modern singing voice is a strong middle register; what he dislikes in it most is the mode in which the upperregister is forced. He says: “Modern songs, for sensational reasons, are made to end on a high note. Think how many voices Wagner alone has ruined! ano other compos rs, too, by overinstrumentation.” Mr. Reeves, as a vocalist, naturally objects to the voice being ..overborne by the orchestra. It is uot surprising that he prefers the cantahile to the declamatory opera. In the latter the voice is used only as a.'part of the dramatic scheme; it is only one of many instruments. In the cantahile opera the voice is made supreme, the orchestration merely feeding and assisting it* Mr. Reeves’ principal desire, as a teacher of singing, is to restore the tenore robusto. He says: I “To me so many of our tenor voices have an effiminate quality—they are disagreeable, illegitimate.” This is undoubtedly true. Many. of the tenors ot to-day are of the order of tenorine; there is nothing manly about them. They sing from the head, not from the chest: too often they seem to have no chest to sing from, and Mr. Reeves’ mission is a commendable one. There are plenty ot fine voices about, but their owners frequently do not know how to use them, and from the prevalence of the bad method rarely succeed in giving them distinction. A Profane Bird. One day an old lady had cause to severely reprimand oue of her maids. This so irr tated the girl that, as a i wind up to the recital of her wrongs I in the hearing of her fellow-servants I and Follv, who happened to be with 1 them, she exclaimed passionately: “1 wish the old lady was dead!” The parrot lost no time in showing off its newly acquired knowledge when next taken into the drawingroom, to the alarm of its elderly mistress. She at once consulted the vicar, who kindly volunteered to allow his own parrot, which could almost preach a short sermon, sing psalms, etc., to be kept for a short time with the impious one. ■ To this end they were kept together in a small room for a lew days, when the ladv paid them a visit -in company with her spiritual adviser. To their intense horror, immediately the : door was opened, the lady’s parrot ! saluted them with the ominous, “I . wish the old lady was dead!” the I vicar’s bird responding with all the solemnity of an old parish clerk, “The Lord hear our prayer!'’ How She Supports Iler Family. Mrs. A. J. Pyle of Richmond, Va., owns and manages the largest dyeing and scouring establishment in the South. , l est a widow with a family to support, she took up her husband's business and has managed it with subh success that the custom of the firm has more th in doubled, and extends throughout the Southern States, including Florida and Texas.

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