Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1902 — Page 2

CHRISTMAS

O Christmas, Merry Christmas, Is with us once again, With memories and greetings, With Joy .and with itspalu, *— A minor In the carol, A shadow In the light, A spray of cypress twining With the holly wreath to night. And the hush Is never broken By the laughter light and low, As we listen In the starlight To the bells across the snow. 0, Christmas, Merry Christmas, 'Tls not so very long Since other voices blended With the carol nnd the song! Could we bnt hear them singing As they are singing now, Could we but see the radiance Of the crown on each dear brow, There were no sigh to smother, No hidden tear to flow, As we listen In the starlight To the bells across the snow. 0, Christmas, Merry Christmas,. This never more can be, We cannot bring again the days Of our unshadowed glee, But Christmas, Happy Christmas, Sweet herald of good will, With holy songs of glory Brings holy gladness still. For peace nnd hope may brighten And patient love may gtow. As we listen In the starlight To the bells across the snow. —Frances U. Havergal.

NELLIE'S PRESENTS.

BY PAUL INGELOW.

NELLIE hik! Lucy Shermnn were cousins, and attended the same boarding school. Their parents had been abroad for a year. As Christinas approached they received letters from their mothers, and were told they might arrange vacation week as they liked—they could go to Warrenville and stay with Uncle and Aunt Dallas, or they could go to Milton and put in the time with Uncle and Aunt Winston. Nellie was silent and thoughtful over the problem. Lucy was all excitement and impetuosity. “That's easy,” she proclaimed. “We’ll go to Warrenville, of course.” Nellie said nothing, uud the voluble little miss rattled on. “Shut up with prosy old Uncle Winston a whole week, and hum-drum Aunt Jane, and sick and ailing Eliza! Why, Nellie, Martin Dallas wrote roe they had a new automobile, and were getting ‘just •well’! Warrenville is so lively, and they have a big house, and servants. We’ll go straight to our room and write them we’re coming.” “I want to think a bit about it first,” demurred Nellie. “As if there was a choice! Oh, surely, Nellie, you are not thinking of spoiling ■ nice holiday by going to those old-fash-ioned, humdrum Winstons? Why, they live like hermits. And they’re poor—they must be, to make no show, and you’ll get no presents—they aren’t that kind.” “I’m not exactly thinking of presents,” announced Nellie. “What’s Christmas for? What are jou thinking of, then?” “Why, I’ll tell you, Lucy; mother has often told me how good Aunt Amanda was to her when she was sick once, and 1/ we both chose Uncle Dallas, they might feel hurt. Besides, poor Eliza is a helpless Invalid—so lonely, so little of gladness, or change in her life. I’ve quite made up my mind.” “You will go to Milton?” "Yes, Lucy.” You big gump!” cried her cousin, and flounced out of the room in high dudgeou. Milton and Warrenville were only ten miles apart. Two days before Christmas Nellie and Lucy boarded the cars. The showy Dallas rig awaited Lucy, and Nellie experienced a slight pang as ahe glanced down the bright business etreet aud thought of the tine Dallas mansion. She could not help but compare the dull little hamlet of Milton and the humble Winston homestead. She found but little change in the Winstons. A rough bob met her at the depot ami blunt old Hiram Winston looked ns homely as ever, but he tucked in real warmth about her with the immense buffalo roix*. When she got to the house Aunt Amanda greeted her with her usual primness, arid her invalid sister, Eliza, only looked paler and thinner than ever. There was no mistaking it—the place was dreary, And the set ways of Its inmates were chilling to youthful spirits. Nellie cried a little as she pictured Lucy in the gny gas lit parlor of the sumptuous Dallus home. Then she bravely resolved to see if she could not brighten her surroundings, instead of Inflicting additional moodiness. With earliest daylight she was down in the kitchen helping Aunt Amanda. She arranged a dainty tray for poor, invalid Eliza. She made them all smile, telling humorous stories about school; she fed the chickens and bustled about, jolly, useful, happy, and bad the satisfaction of hearing her aunt tell Eliza, “that child is a regular sunbeam.” She read to Eliza, she sang for them that evening, and, ns her uncle expressed It, “mude the old cottage organ just hum.” In fact. It was n successful day, and the next one was just like it, and Nellie could see that every hour she was winning more and more love. There were not many preparations for Christmas. Eliza was working on a curious frame of stamped leather, nnd Aunt Amanda was ranking a silk affair, which she said mysteriously “might” be a pincushion. Uncle Hiram went down town Christmas eve, but to Nellie's disappointment brought back no Christmas tree, no inviting parcels, nothing of the suggest)veness of Yule-tide. Nellie’s heart rose, however, as she fciassd them all good night.

“Hang up your stocking, dear,” suggested Aunt Amanda. "And get up in time—ha! ha!” laughed Uncle with puzzling heartiness. “Hope you have a good time—ho! I 10! We'll keep time to some good old tunes tomorrow—ha! ha!” He strangely emphasized “time,” and Aunt Amanda frowned at him as If he were betraying some cherished secret. * * * • • • • A singular thing happened the next morning. Christmas morning it was, of course. Nellie was amazed when she woke up. The old clock down stairs was striking eight! And she had calculated on getting up at six! The house was very still. She glanced at the bedpost where she had hung her stocking. Something was in its toe. Eagerly she investigated, to bring forth the “pincushion” Aunt Amanda had so patiently made. Before •he could inspect it she saw resting on the bureau a portrait, surrounded by Eliza’s leather frame. It was a picture of her mother when a girl. Often Aunt Amanda had showed it to her—treasured fondly by the sister. Nellie shed tears of tender gratefulness. Nothing could have pleased her more,

TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT GRANDMA’S.

and the pretty frame enhanced the gift. She dressed hurriedly, and ran down the stairs, tq meet Elizu with a gladsome Christmas greeting, and to learn that early in the morning a sick neighbor had sent for Mr. and Mrs. Winston. Before breakfast there was an Interruption. It was Lucy. The Dallas driver was a nt some miles up country after sogie young people, and Lucy had arrange! to be dropped here, the vehicle to cali for her ou its return. She was bubbling over with holiday small tnlk. She exhibited a Ince -'ollar Aunt Dallas had given her, “all the style,” and a ring her elder cousin, Kate, had presented her. “What did you get, Nellie?” she curiously asked—“nothing, I suppose!” “Oh, yea—something beautiful,” answered Nellie. “Come up to my room and see.” “Humph—only that!” shrugged Lucy, ns she inspected the portrait. “I told you they were mean, and poor!” “Why, Lucy,” snid Nellie, “I prize poor Ellzn’s gift dearly." "Well, I wouldn’t! I like jewelry gifta, and that," nnd Lucy twirled the cheap ring on her finger. “Wlift’s this?” und she pounced on Nellie’s other present. "Only a pincushion.” “Only s ” With a scream of wonder and delight, and then with an envious frown, Lucy chanced to undo "the pinenshion,” Inside, nestled the moat exquisite little gem of a watch she had ever seen. The happy tears rushed to gentle Nellie’s eyes. Her heart was full to overflowing. And just then, from below sounded the hearty, chuckling tones of Uncle Hiram, returned: "Where’s our little sunbeam? It’s time to find out how she’s enjoying her Merry Christmas!” Grateful Nellie was down the stairs In two Jumps, her arms clasped about the dear old fellow’s neck, as she sobbed joyously Into his enr: "Oh! dear, dear Uncle Hiram! I’m the happiest girl in all the world, this Merry, Merry Christmas!”

Packages by Mall.

In sending Christmas packages by mall do not writ* “photo,” “printed matter,”

“calendar,” or any other descriptive phrase on such packages, for all phrases make the package first class mail, and letter postage must be paid thereon. Holiday packages should have no writing whatever on the wrappers except that which strictly pertains to the return card and address. It will be well to recollect this warning if you do not desire to make your friends pny extra postage on the packages that you may send them by mail.

COMING OF THE NEW YEAR.

We Should Enter It with Courage* Hope and Resolution. The homely maxim about not crying over spilt milk contains one of the best suggestions ns to the proper spirit with which we may enter the New Year. We cannot change the past, but we can bend all our energies toward making the future better than the past. The frame of repining and discouragement is fatal to good achievement, but the temper of courage, hope and resolution almost guarantees it. We are all of us tempted to a dismal mood when we reflect how different things would have been with us if we had not made this or that mistake, or met this or that misfortune. It seems as if only a narrow margin prevented our being to-day in much happier conditions. But there always is an illusion about such reasonings. The error we made was probably the outcome of a natural tem-

pier or of a long course of habitual action. We could not have done otherwise w ithout being different in personality and character. The affliction that came to us did not rise out of the dust; it was a part of the providential ordering of life. Except ns to deliberate sin, our regrets nbout the past have little foundation in reason. Many things must have been different to have their outcome other than it is. We have less to reproach ourselves with than we often think for. The main thing is not to quarrel with our conditions, but to keep our purposes high and pure.—W utchmati.

Christmas in the Nursery.

A Month of Celebration.

Perhaps no uution or religion enjoy* New Y’ear’s day more than the Chinese. They celebrate their feast in the early part of February, und the festivities last a month. Beating of drums and firing cf Crackers, with decoration of bunting and flags, usher in this day, when the people visit their joss houses, worship their gods, and with oriental ceremony shake hands with “A Happy New Year.” In preparation for this event a Chinaman tries to square his accounts with all the world, and a'Chlnaman who owes debts at the beginning of the New Year forfeits his right to be called a gentleman.

FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR.

A R E W E LL, Old r Year, farewell to f you; You've been fog many a day A friend most tried, a friend most true— And as we bid you our adieu, We give our heartfelt thanks to you, And speed you on your way. We've had full many a merry time Since first we met. Old Year.

you've sung for us the Christmas rhyme, And rung for us the Christmas chime, And many a Joy at Christmas time, you brought with hearty cheer. , you crowned the woodland banks with bloom Of roses red and sweet—yon gave the violets their perfume, Ripened the cornfield's tasseled plume, And filled the mill-wheel s running slum% To grind the golden wheat. Yoo brought the yellow daffodil To blossom In the spring— Strewed cuckoo-flowers on every hill, And cat-tails by the rippling rill— Aud taught the lonely whip-poor-will His vesper song to slug. T Yon turned the Ivy's green to red, The maple leaVes to gold— Purpled the clusters overhead, And showers of ripened nuts you shed, When fallen leaves lay thickly spread

Above the forest mold. And if you gathered some fair flowers That blossomed on your way. You bore them to a fulrer clime, Where neither cold, nor care, nor Time Could blight them In their golden prime, Or touch them with decay. And ah! you brought, Old Year! Old Y’ear! One tiny baby flower To nestle on Its mother's breast, And close Its blue eyes Into rest. When song birds seek their crade-nest At twilight's shadowy hour. And now. Old Y’enr, farewell to you! We grieve to lose you so— Y'ou've been a frleud both tried and true; And as we bid you qur adieu, We give our heartfelt thanks to you, Aud sigh thut you must go. —Helen W hitney Clark.

How Mistletoe Comes to Be.

The story of how the mistletoe gets on the trees is a inoat interesting one. Covering the mistletoe twigs are pearly white berries. These come in the winter season, when food is comparatively scarce, and hence some of our birds eat them freely. Now, when a robin eats a cherry he swallows simply the meat and flips the stone away. The seed of the mistletoe the bird cannot flip. It is sticky and holds to his bill. His only resource is to wipe It off, and he does so, leaving it sticking to the branches of the tree on which he is sitting at the time. This seed sprouts after a time, and not finding earth —which Indeed Its ancestral habit has made it cease wanting—it sinks its roots Into the bark of the tree and hunts there for the pipes that carry the sap. Now the sap in the bark is the very richeet in the tree, far richer than in the wood, and the mistletoe gets from its host the choicest of food. With a strnnge foresight it does not throw ite leaves away, as do moat pnfnsites, hut keeps them to use In winter, when the tree la leafless. —Ladies' Home Journal.

An Afterthought.

"John," asked Mrs. Torkins, tearfully, "do you remember the present Mrs. Page gave me last Christmas?” “Yes,” replied her hueband; "what of it?” “I am almost sure I have east it 8a hag this year."—Brooklyn Lit*

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. German Grocer Murdered by Robbers in Sonth Bend—Terre Haute Churches Open Campaign Against Saloons— Murder Case at Evansville Ends. The negroes who murdered John M. Konnsmau in his grocery at South Bend while trying to hold up the place, were seen running tpw’ard the railroad tracks and it is supposed they escaped on a special freight train which went west on the Indiana, Illinois and lowa road about that time. Konnsmau was one of the best known German residents of South Bend. He was getting ready to close his store when the negroes entered and with drawn revolvers tried to hold him up. He resisted, fighting the jobbers with a broom so fiercely that he succeeded iu forcing them to the entrance of the store. Then, foiled in their design, they turned on him and fired three shots, which lodged in his neck, left lung and just over the heart. Konnsmau fell to the floor dead. Widow Adopts a Physician. Mrs. J. S. Slick, an Indiana woman, nnd the widow of Judge Slick, who was once on the bench of the Forty-first Indiana Circuit and later a member of the Wabash Circuit bar, has adopted Dr. Woodruff, a practicing osteopathist, who formerly resided at Huntington. Mrs. Slick is 50 years old nnd Dr. Woodruff is 35. Mrs. Slick went into court and asked for authority to adopt him. The two have gone to California. Judge Slick was afflicted with paralysis for ten years. He died at Wabash three years ago. Dr. Woodruff was one of his physicians. The two were very close friends. Mrs. Slick has considerable property. Begin War Aga nst Saloons. Sunday was set by the Terre Haute Ministers’ Association for special temperance services, and several speakers were sent to the city by the State AntiSahxin League, but some of the Churches refrained from participating because they fear thut what was announced as an educational movement only will develop into an aggressive movement by the church against the saloons. Some of the ministers gave the newspapers an assurance that nothing more than an educational effort was contemplated, but the chairman of »the temperance committee stated that the services were to lie the first step in an effort to enforce the saloon law. Murder Trial Ends Suddenly. The State has entered a nolle prosequi at Evansville in the case against Wilbur S. Sherwell, ex-policeman, charged with the killing of Fannie Butler, a mulatto woman, after his trial had been under way for a couple of hours. Sherwell was tried last Goto Ist for the murder of Mrs. Georgia Bailey, but was found to be not guilty. He is now at liberty under $5,(XX) bonds. The State will id raw a motion very soon to quash the third and last indictment against the prisoner. The arrest of Policeman Sherwell, with the evidence that' immediately accumulated thereafter, was the most sensational on record in southern Indiana. Shows Deficit of $13,100. The investigation conducted by Elias Scott, deputy treasurer of Wabash County, into the books and accounts of John B. ltose. former city treasurer, was completed the ot}ier night. The result of the examination confirms the accuracy of the figures of Expert Cridley, who made an investigation a month ago in behalf of the city aud found a shortage of $13,100. Hose, who aided in the second investigation, says he can account for $7,500 of the shortage. Poisoned Cider Almost Fatal. Cider which coutnined embalming fluid nearly caused the death of John Childs, H. M. Fliat and William Nett. The men were cutting wood north of Kendallville when Mr. Hartman, a farmer, gave them some cider taken from a barrel which was once used by an undertaker to hold embalming fluid. Flint's condition is critical. All Over the Btats. Fort Wayne Elks have temporarily abandoned building project. South Bend police have been ordered to smash all the slot machines. Fire did $ 10,000 damage to the newspaper pluut of the Daily Truth at Elkhart, owned by C. G. Conn. Robbers blew open the safe of the postofflee at Vevuy, securing $340 in stanips nnd money-order blanks. Pearl La Follette, aged 13, died In Indianapolis ns the result of a dose of carbolic acid given to her by mistake for a gargle. W. 11. Hickman, for six years chancellor of Depauw University, Greeneastle, will tender his resignation and reenter the Methodist ministry. Mart Ilurhniis, n wealthy clubman, was shot twice by footpads. He was driving In a desolate part of Elkhart when attacked. He was ordered to halt and did not do so. The wounds are serious and may prove fatal. Mrs. Adelaide > F. Allen, duughter of United States Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, was granted a divorce from her husband, I>r. Horace I>. Allen. Jr., by Judge McMnster in Indianapolis, for failure to support her nnd cruelty. After a session lasting a week the grand jury returned 104 indictments at Shoals. All the men named are chnrged with selling their votes at the last election. The names of the indicted men nro not made known, ns no arrests huve been made. As soon ns the warrants are served the men will he plnced under bonds to appear at the February terra of court. The organization of a company to deal in Indiana coal lands nnd the purchase for $45,000 of the coal under 400 acres of land near Terre Haute, by President McDoel and Director Dlcknson of the Monon Railroad Company, is taken to indicate thatytlie road, which hns hyen getting some of the Indiana coal traffic by way of Greencastle, will enter the field direct. Muncle public school teachers are planning a visit to Washington in the spring. Clinton people keep their chickens in the house nights because of chickon i thieves.

Mil ■— 111. ■■■» Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Bf. Chicago to the Northwest* Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville, and French Lick Springs. Rensselaer Time-Table, In Effaot June 29, 1902. South Bound. No. 5 Louisville Mall, (daily) 10:55 a. an No. 33—Indianapolis Mull, (daily).. ifflp.D. No. 39—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p.m. No. 8— Louisville Express, (dally).. 11:25 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p.m. No. 31—Fast Mail 4:49 a. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mall, (dally) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk acooinm., (da11y),.,;. 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a.m. No. s—Mall and Express, (daily)... 3:30 p.m. •No. 30—Cln.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p. m. (No. 38—Cln. to Chicago 2:57 p.m. •No. 46 Local freight 9:65 a.m. •Daily exoept Sunday. (Sunday only. Hammond has beeu made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Frank J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel. President and Gen. M'g’r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M’g'r. OHIOAQO. W. H. Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

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