Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1902 — Page 10

' ' By LESLIE JAKES < !! — • i i P»rSflW, K»i. >«v < - ‘ !

It was the big doct-r who found her, misshapen and saffivtng. i.i h«T father* gloomy shop. In spite of its noise and dust. Jinny preferred the shop to the tiny back room, because the customers sp-.ke kindly to’ bit and made her f rget the ache in her hack. When they gave her candy enough to start a make believe shop on the narrow wind >w ledge, ahe sold it for pins to the children in the dingy court, just because she loved to watch these straight liuiied. bright eyed children caper about as She knew she never I could. When the big doctor brought her to the hospital, be said to Nurse Powell: I "I’ll leave Jinny under your special; care. Miss Powell. I am greatly inter-> ested in tier case. The expense is be-! Ing met by one perfectly able to do it. ' and she is to want for nothing ” And thus were the gates of an earth-1 ly paradise opened to Jinny of Borden's I court. First there was the cunning little room, all her own. with pictures on the wall, and the whitest of iron beds with shiny knobs on each corner, and a bright red wrapper. woolly and soft, with knit slippers to mteb. Then came the pretty young ladies of the Flower mission with their nodding blossoms and occasional glasses of' quivering jelly. Sometimes the big doctor's nieces brought their dolls and spent an hour at Jinny's bedside. and happy Jinny was permitted to hold as ‘ long a* she liked the marvel jus Florette, who could walk and talk like a real baby and whose dr -sse* really and truly came fr m Paris But in Jinny's mind all these things faded into insignificance when compared with the big doctor and Nurse Pow< 11. The-e two formed a j int divinity before which Jinny bunted the sweet incense of childish devotion. Nurse Powell Lad obeyed the physi-: dab's gem-rous instructions to the letter—at first from a sense of duty and later because she learned to love the patient little sufferer. And the big doctor? Even Nurse Powell. who knew his deep interest in his woik. v ondered at the attention be lav-", ished on this deniz -n of the slums. Os- , ten wli n his rounds in the hospital were over and be had time to spare he would come L-.-k to Jinny's room for a chat, and Jinny, ter great black eyes set in a face of ivory whiteness, would I smile happily from one to the other, the j big doctor who crd- red medicine that eased the pain in her lach and the nurse whose gentle han I could smooth’

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i away wrinkle* in her forehead when the pain was at its worst. Sometim -s when they sat thus Jinny was vaguely conscious that the big doctor was talking to her. but looking at j Nurse PowelL But Jinny did not know how. years before, when the big doctor. I fresh from the medical school, had been | bouse physician in the city hospital, he ; had met a sweet Yaeed ••probe" doing i her first night duty in bis ward. The I brad nurse bad looked scornfully at the slender figure and the trembling hands, but the young liouse physician had said: “Give her time. She'll get her bearings after a bit.” Nurse Powell bad been grateful for his cheerful em-ourageifieut and the many kindnesses which lightened her burden during that first awful year in the big wards, but when he asked for something more than gratitude she could not give it. Now bead of the nurses' stiff at a sanitarium, sbe sometimes grew a weary and wished she , had learned to love the big doctor whose i brown eyes seemed still to follow her at ■ h<r duties. Then her heart would say: j "No. no.' His work would always come i first, and 1 would be second. Bee.des. I I wonder if he has a heart! When 1 see him undertaking those horrible op erations without the quiver of an eyelash. I think be has no feeling" | And so this nurse who could unflinchiWly assist at the same operations waited inconsistently for love to come into her life, a love that would be al! tenderness and thoughtfulness, a thing apart from the scenes of suffering in which sbe moved. It was one afternoon when Jinny had ! been almost a year at the hospital. Ini the morning the big doctor bad said: i “I've changed the medicine again. Mi** ' Powell. I don't like that rise in temper- ! a tore. If you note a tendency toward coma during tbe afternoon, send for me at once.' But Nurse Powell did not hare to send for him. He came of bis own accord. just a* the afternoon drew to a i close J nny Lad been sleeping rest- ■ les«’y. god when sbe opened her eyes ‘ with an expression of weariness that had not been there since she came to 1 the hospital the big doctor and Nurse f Powell were Bitting on either side of her little bed At the foot lay a gayly illustrated copy of Mother Goose's rhymes which Nurse Powell had been reading aloud before kindly sleep came to tbe small sufferer New Jinny pointed to it with a wan smile “I've had tte funniest dream! I went to Mother Goose's land. way. way ; off. an’ she >.a* such a funny ole woman. an’ ste was right glad to see me! An' ste says. ‘Little girl, would yon like to stay with me awhile?' An’ I ’ aays. ‘l’m obliged to you. ma'am, but I can't stay long.' An' then she brings out the puniest dress, purtier than my j red wrapper. an' she says. ‘Little girt would you like to wear that?' An' when I see the little *t:< k alt tied with ' I ribbons I knew it were little Bopeep's; I dress, an' 1 out it on an' chased them I i

sheep ail roun' the field, an' it never hurt my back ■ bit. An' I tried on lots O v clothes. Little Miss Muffett's ruffled bonnet, an' Mary. Mary Quite Contrary’s big bat. an' the Queen of Heart’s long train, an' Mother Goooe, she says. ‘Ain't you havin' a good tlma. 1 little girl? “An' 1 says: Yes, ma'am, thankee, ma'am, but I guess I'd better be a-goin'. Y-«i see. my big doctor 'll be roun' pretty soon. an be ll miss me If 1 ain't :» my cot. An’ Nurse Powell will bring my bread an' milk, an' there won't be any little girl there to eat it.' An' then Mother Goose she says. All right, little girl; jus' jump on my broomstick. an' we'll be down there in a jiffy.' An' here I am. an' I'm glad, fur tbe bed feels so comfy, an', sure enough, my big doctor is here." Tbe great black eyes glowed won drous bright as they met the big doctor's gaze, and he spoke very gently while he stroked her land, now thin and transparent. “Does your tack ache after your long ride on tbe broomstick. JinnyT’ “Ob. no! The ache's all gone. There ain’t been any ache all day." Tbe big doctor looked across tbe bed at Nurse PowelL but she was gazing steadily through the open window. And something bright and clear, like diamonds. shone on her long lashes. A weak, piping voice raised again. "No, I ain't achfn’ any place today, only I'm dreadful tired. An' every osce in awhile you an' Nurse Powell go a-slippin' an' a-slippiu' away from ' me. an' then I feel like 1 waa a-siippin' i too. 1 wisht Nurse Powell would sing. Then p'baps I'd go to sleep again." Nurse Powell's quivering lips tried ' to form the notes of the nursery song ■ Jinny loved l-est. but something r.se in her throat and choked the melody. “I wisht—you'd s.ng-that—sleepy 1 aoug.” Tbe tired voice trailed off into silence. but not before tbe heavy eye* were raised appealingly to those of the ■ white capped nurse. The big doctor sc- med to rouse L:mself as from a detain. He leaned over ! and clasped Jinny’s Dervekss band in his great, warm one and then in a dear tenor voice began to s.ug: “Sweet aid lew sweet and l:w. Wind of the western sea." The music floated over the cot past Nurse I‘oweU, through tbe open door and down the corridor to the ward, where other sufferers heard and marveled. and over the face of Jinny stele an expression of infinite peace. In that distant ward men who bad been bottling with death turned their faces toward the sinking sun and felt that even amid pain it was good just to lire, and in Jin: y'a little room all was silent. Nurse Powell was kneeling beside tbe bed. her face bidden in the pillow. The little hand sbe still ‘ held was strangely l.mp and pulseless. Then a strong arm raised her to ber feet, and sbe looked straight into tbe 1

I soft brown eyes that bad followed her al! these years patiently, steadfastly. “Gertrude!” “Henry T Later, when she raised her bead, she turned from him to tbe quiet figure on the cot , , "I almost wish sbe knew-sbe loved j us both so well" And the big doctor whispered gently. -1 think sbe did know, even before you did.” The Changed Grt«aly~ There are numerous reliable state ments of grizzly I .ears having attacked men. but nowadays the grizzly does not seek out his human victims, as there are credible statements that bis forefathers used to do. Neither does be lie in wait and, pouncing upon a hunter, tear him into bloody shreds in delighted fiendishness, as the Old time stories used to te!L Tbe change in the grizzly’s disposition is likened by veteran hunters to tbe change in the character of the white cousin of tbe grizzly, tbe polar bear of the arctics. When the stations for the Hudson's Bay company were established, tbe diaries of the men there o.ten referred to the fright of attack by |>olar bears. Many a navigator in tbe arctic seas has . been clawed and chewed to death by polar bears. But for nearly a century the polar bear has not been regarded as so very fierce, and nowadays it is looked upon as a cowardly Beast. As sociatiou with armed men has modified tbe polar bear's disposition —Outlug- _______. Breaking It Gently. Editor-Mr. Plumduff, you must make a little change in your column tomorrow morning. It takes up too much space. < 'ut it down by one-half. Mr. Plum duff—Yes. sir. “Then the other half won't need any spec..:l heading. Remove the heading.” “Yew. str.” “And it needn't be spaced out. Run It ci jse and in small type.” "Yes. sir.” TL.it will make It take up about a third of a column.” Yes. sir." ' And then it can go in any part of the paper wherever there's room for it?” “Yes. sir.” • “And if there isn't room it can be left out ?” “Y yes. sir.” “And-it hardly seems—er—worth while to keep it going, does it?' “N no. s’r.” ■ You're right. Mr. PlumdufT! Your resignation is accepted." Oor IHstocraey. "She claims. I believe, to be descended from a king.” “Yes. Before her grandfather struck it rich he was known as the poker king of White Hoss Flats."—Chicago Record Herald.

A MAN’S NECKTIE. Whit the ’lantaar nt It. Arran**, n-.rnt Tell. TO One Woman. "1 wouldn't attempt to judge a man by uis coat,” she said gravely, “but 1 would not hesitate two minutes to ju. ge u rn i<y Ma necktie. It is an ai-i:,o-t infallible guide. Os course there are exceptions, but the character and intellect of mo-t men can be told by ! I.e way In w.iicb they tic tueir ties ] Nov. take the overclever mat., for ex ample “Tbe t.e of the genius has afforded I much 'copy' for t:.e pen of the satirist ‘ a..u tl.e pencil of the caricaturist, but in real ty any little peculiarity or idio syi.crisy it dressing is generally Ue outward and visible sign of vanity rather than of personal untidiness. The average man. with iu ordinary share! of Intellect, se.dom knows how to tie a tie as it can be tied and is tied by men with no intellect nt ail. He may! possess a Channing selection of the best ties which Broadway can supply arid does not in the I”8*t look eccentric —nay. rather, he often wants to be ffs smart in appearance as i>osslble. but somehow he rarely acbiac i-s bis object Directly you se<- a really beautifully j tied tie (except in the cases of military ui*’u and actors, with whom it is a part of tbe training) which never moves out of place, following faithfully tbe little idiosyncrasies of contemporary dandyism, you may be fairly certain that you are nut face to face with an undiscovered Shakespeare or an embryonic Goethe. Os course, in the case of a rich and important jiersoiiage. tbe lesser details of the toilet are usually! left to the valet, but even then I defy a man of real brains to keep his tie at the exact angle for any considerable time. At dinner you will generally find that by the time the soup has arrived ■ tbe evening tie has shifted its position or become obliquely set. This could probably Im? easily avoided, only it hap pens that the way in which a man wears hi* tie indicates pretty accurate-: ly the wearer’s intellectual apprecia-1 tion of trifles.—Toledo Blade. POINTED QUESTIONS. Pnt Yourself In the Other One*, rinee nml Answer. The great task of sound ethics Is to| stimulate the social iniagiuation. VVe must lie continually prodding our sen*- ' of social consequence to keep it wide' awake. Wp must be risking ourselves I at each imint cf contact with the lives of others such pointed questions a* i these: How would you like to be the tailor i or washerwoman whose bill you have neglected to pay How would ycu like to be-tbe customer to whom you are selling these ‘ adulterated or inferior goods? How would you like to be the investor In this stock company which you are promoting with water?

How would yon er whose tun., a „d toolJ'” the you are wasting nt , .. e Und KH to loaf and shirk e ’ dufes you all . !i:li(] to 1 How would you lij . , ' or saleswoman in , b . b “ ’be are reapin- < xt rj .j. e ing harder <-oi.d l ri., lls t j ia J? s ' trade and ti.e , h ., rk(>t .. , tht ' ( adopt? Ott P ( How would you liko tobe ., W or weaver or e tb Mok« You pay and tll „ ~o n “by » you impose? uns of How would you like to be th . noss rnal v ., c d tie all bv using v.,. 1r J, lter temporary < ... THE CARiBS OF Fierce uh „ , ■ Tbelr Ma„ Enllng A ree. r.t colonial rt c; , , h ~ of Dom.hica is interesting V ,. rv J Ml terious is the origin ~f tl „ ages, now nlmo-t .x: „. t, wl„> ..?W possession oft,., e V island* w hen tbe !lr . t u lr „. “into that silent se U .’ T | lvv distinct M0ng01:.,,, eharaet,> r would be Lard "'di'tH.g.iisbararlhiW fa nt from a < l,:„es. . al,] Sl)n “O ty years ago a t'binaniau who 3 drifted to H0m,,,,, am . hr,.,] th( ■ to lie bis own people and ,i,„ rriwl pure br.-d (’aril, worn;,:,. The result* child showed „o d-v.j.na f,.,;,. ,l ie tive type. ■ Today they have dropped their ma .H eating ways, but in the sixteenth cen-M tury they scour, d t1,.. Spanish main iaM search of human food, and f r ., ra p wto M Rico alone are said to have taken morel ; than s.o<ii) men to be oaten. Spaniards, I ret, I mt. hmen, ne-1 groes. or Arrowaks. w. re all meat to them, yet these < ,r ,s seem to have shown prefereme so, u rtaio nationalities. Davis, for inst,<„.-e. in his "Hia tory of the Caribby Islands," tells us that “the Caribbean* have tested of all i tbe nations that frequented them and , affirm that the French are tbe most I delicate at.d tbe Spaniards are hardest • of digestion." Latiorde also, in one of i his jaunts in St. Vincent, appears to j have overtaken on tbe road a com- ; municative Carib who was beguiling | I tbe tedium of his journey by gnawing at the remains of a boiled Luman foot. I Ifii® .gentleman only ate Arrowaks. ' ! "Christians," he said, "give me tbe bellyache.”

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