Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 December 1886 — Page 4

PISE CGl'YFV DEMMiliT. T^ulvliahetl Every Thursday. BKTKttSlirW'. - - - INDIANA A BALLAD FOR CHRISTMAS. The bells are loud, the bells are sweet along the winter laud; The trees are bright with frosted sleet, aud like mailed warriors stand; » _fThr wind sings down the southern slope of w vallevs lying wide. AVhei w. like a line of silver scope, the narrow rivers glide. v The sea-birds cry with boding call serosa the shining sand. And on the cape the lighthouse tall a sentinel doth stand. And fierce and high the north-wind roars down front the forests drear. And bears far on the distant shores the leaves made brown and sere. Far out it meets a ship that sails from distant tropic seas; Her masts have braved the stormiest gales, and wooed the softest breeze. Around the bleakness of Cape Horn her outward way she bore, '' Aud met the radiant light of morn on Cal- « 1 turnings shore. Across the wide Pacific's waves she sailed to fair Cathay. Below bee course the coral caves stretched tor long leagues away; She beard the tiger growl his love on distant Borneo; Aud swift before the tempest drove, where swirled Antarctic snow. Now with her weather-braces taut, and royals snugly furled. She comes with orient fragrance fraught up from the under-world; Thesnnrays on her canvas gleam, the seas before her part. She sees the light of welcome stream from out her waiting mart. The cold wind shouts, and in the North a black line rises slow, Tbe trumpets of the storm blaze forth, and high the white-caps grew. And dowu the gray and cloudy West the red sun lingering fal s. While weirdly o'er the ocean's breast loud I ring the sea-gulls’ calls. Below, the dark slope of the hills the sunlight slowly fades. I And sad the sobbing tone that fills night's deep and sombre shades: Tbe slars pale front the cloudy sky, the storm-roar weights the gloom, The cyclone notes at e wild and high, and sing a song of doom. To-morrow brings tbe Christmas tide, the welcome and the cheer That in each loving home doth bide, grown dearer every year; The hearth-fire now is bright and warm, aud glad with crackling song. While out at sea the windy storm grows jubilant and strong. The brave ship breasts the sturdy blast, and nears the echoing cape; Fierce breakers on the reef are cast, deep gloom the low rooks drape. Why shines no beacon from the height, where, like a giant ghost. The lighthouse through the sobbing night frowns on the dreary coast? No voice can pierce the sullen roar that fills the foaming reach, Where stern waves hurl their ioy store along thei sodden beach; The helmsman watches for the star that from the beetling steep Should show the harbor's frothing bar, and light the pathless deep. Two points away he heads the ship, straight for the reef he steers. The tierce waves bv the dark sides slip, the wind is loud with cheers; . Death waits atuid the yeasty wrath that lies the reefs along. His bomy fingers point the path wheredangers thickest throng. But lo\'e has seen the gloomy tower aud love, , ■ is death’s strong foe; Aud where the shadows deepest lower, and winds the loudest blow, With brave heart spoeds a winsome maid, she gains the lighthouse stair, ». And soon, amid the windy shade, out-shines a golden glare. The weary helmsman sees the sign, her own betrothed is he: He flings aside the stinging brine, and bears the helm a-lee. And cleariug through tho driving foam the ship obeys her wheel, " - While on the reef the breakers comb ten fathoms from her keel. Bin r loud, O, Christmas hells, ring loud! the . morning splendor wakes. And through the rifted mass of cloud the atnber glory breaks; ' The sunlight ripples through the town, the seff-birds wing their wajf Where, with sails furled, ana, anchor down, a ship rides In the bay. V. Oh, love is stronger far than death, the souls of men are his; Gloom fades before his fragrant breath, grief dies beneath his k ss: Who dares for him will deeply drain the wine within his wells. The maiden's heart has lost its pain, ring loud. O Christmas beds! —Thomas F. Collier, in Youth's Companion. HER FIRST “HELLO!” What Came of Bessie’s Telephone Message.

AT ONE END OP THE LINE. one looking down the long, brilliant street, could have doubted that it would be Christmas to-morrow. It was not alone that in all the shop-win-dows were displayed their gayest wares; not that, here and there, before some great plate-glass front, the eager crowd jostling each other for a closer view of some elaborate decoration appropriate to the holiday season; nor yet the wagons piled with evergreens, redolent of the balsamy breath of the spruce or pine, were creaking up and down, driven by comfortably tippeted and mittened countrymen. But on the faces of all the people, there was the happy haste and indefinable expectation wh ich belong) toChristmas-timo alone, of all the year,' The frosty air itself seemed breezy with secrets. If only every body would be still for a moment, one ght' might feel sure ol hearing them centering from all points, as if in the focus of a great whispering-gallery. “Bing! ding!” went the car-bell*— somebody was getting on or off at every crossing. Opposite passengers eoud scarcely see each other over the breastworks of parcels of all shapes and sizes. Those who were forced to stand, having hands to spare for the straps jostled each other unmercifully in the attempt to keep their uncertain footing, yet what; would have sometimes provoked an an gry frown, caused only a smile or good-natured ejaculation. “The world seemed too full of Christmas peace and food will to admit even the trying lades of impatience or discontent. So much for the day outside, but in the private offioo of “Eliot Diosdale, Wholesale Toys,” It was quitedillerent The room, finished and furnished all in dark woods, was growing dim already, for high walls early shut out the light of the waning afternoon, and the gas was not yet lighted. There was nowhere any suggestion of comfortable indulgence—much less of holiday festivity. Even the great rows of ‘books stoo l shoulder to shoulder, like soldiers under drill. The proprietor sat upright he straight-backed chair, with elin bows thrown slightly backward and fingers locked across his breast—a man apparently of forty, or thereabouts, with a head finely molded and features meqnt to have been mobile and kindly, hut ^hich seemed, somehow, to have stiffened with long repression. “A hard man.’'’ he was called—bearing no reproach, indeed, of treachery or dishonor in business relations—but cold, aelf-eontained, intolerant of human weakness, unsympathetic with sooial or domestic joys. “Wifiy does he go on making money?” people askedv sometimes. “What good Is it to him, or any body else? And he has neither chick nor child in the world!" Could It be possible that some question, like this was passing through his qwu mind, aa he sat untouched by a ray of the light^*nd cheer without? He bad begun to wr te a letter, but had atopped, strangely enough, midway of the date, “December 84.,r Couli it be that some tender reminiaoenoe of other Christmas eves had stayed his band? The old homo, the father and mother now-covered hillside, the

marrying against a a will He n ad cruelty and wUMully estraytd himself so long, that he knew not now If she were alive or dead—was it some memory of these which held him still and silent in his darkening room? Eliot Dinsdale was of tao discerning mind to be self-deceived. If he felt himself aloof from the happy commerce of the season of good-will and cheer, he knew that it was because he had willed it so,—if other hearts were closed to him, he, himself, had shut, the doors of his own,—if he were unstirred by the generous impulse of the time, he could remember when he had driven from him the angel who would fain have thrilled the waters of his soul with the Divine trouble at healing. Btut, whatever his musings may have been, there broke, suddenly in upon him, the ring of the telephone call at his elbow, familiar, yet strange, with an odd hesitancy in the sound, the cadences of a timid or unpracticed hand,- quite different from its usual sharp, peremptory summons. Turning quickly, he raised the receiver to his ear. lit AT THE OTUEK. Startled from her sleep by some unusual sound, the child sat upright amid the blankets which had teen carefully wrapped around her. A mass of fluffy, yellow curls fell about heir warm, rosy cheeks, and her great violet eyes peered anxiously into the dimness of the bare little room, of which her own childish beauty was the only adornment. Her red lips parted: '-Mamma! mamma!” There was no answer, and freeing herself from the encumbering wrappings, she clambered down over the bedside. Her pretty mouth was quivering, but she would not let herself cry aloud. “I tink my mamma’s gone to the bakery,” she said with a little sob in her voice.- There was no window out of which to look, for the little light in flhe place entered through a ifew panes let into the dingy ceiling. The child dragged a heavy chair across the floor, and climbing upon it, pulled down from some hooks upon the wall a worn shawl and a little scarlet hood. She pul on the hood awry over her curls, fumbling patiently at the strings with her small lingers. "I’m ’fraid it’s m a had knot,” she murmured, dolefully, at last proceeding to wind the large shawl around her in fantastic fashion, arranging it with infinite pains, and holding It fast about her shoulders. Opening ~ the door she went out into the passage, where at the head of a long, narrow stairway, another child was standing, who stared at her in stolid silence. “Biddy Malooney, I’m just goin' round the eorner to the bakery to meet my mamma,” explained the small lady, with dignity, as she began the perilous descent. More than one passer by looked for an instant at the curious little figure emerging from the street-entrance of the tall tenement-house, and trailing the fringed ends of the heavy shawl behind her over the frosty pavement. But no one paused to question her as she hurried on, looking about ait first eagerly and hopefully, but with, a growing air of perplexity and trouble as she came into the broad, unfarailar streets. At every corner she paused, looking vainly up and down. Her little bare hands were chilled, the people jostled her, and a careless foot set upon her quaint train, tore away the fringes. Her lips were trembling again, and tears strained at her eye-lids. Suddenly her attention was attracted by a pa*r of glass doors through which a cheerful light was streaming. She climbed the broad flight of steps leading up to them, and vainlv tried the heavy latch. Somebody inside turned the knob, and started in surprise at the odd, little personage who entered. With the swift intuition of childhood, the moist, blue eyes read the kindly features, and a brave, trustful smile lighted up the little face. “Do you know where the bakery is, that my mamma’s gone to? ’C-ause I can’t find her!” The bookkeeper sat down and drew the child upon his knee. He had one of his own at home. “Who is your mamma, my dear?” “Why, mamma’s just mamma! And I’m Bessie.” In a lower Sone: “Papa’s gone to Heaven!” “Do you know where ydu live?” “ ’ Way up-stairs, 'cause we’ve moved. It isn’t a nice place”—oonfidentiallr— “but don’t tell mamma, ’cause it makes her ory. And Biddy Malaoney’s mamma don’t wash her face!” The young man laughed, but the mirthful sound ended in a low, perplexed whistle. “I shall be oft’ duty soon,” he said to himself, “then I will' take her around to- the police station," He drew a chair in front of the radiator and set the little girl tenderly down. “I’ll help you find your mamma,” he, said, “but you’ll have to wait a little.” yWill you, really and truly?” 'VReally and truly 1” “Well, then, I'll wait!” She settled herself demurely upon the cushion and began an interested scrutiny of her novel surroundings. Evidently the maxim “Never interrupt” had not been impressed upon her childish mind, for she began a running fire of questions which sadly interfered with the addition of a long column of figures, upon which her companion had resumed his work. i The telephone suddenly became an object of wonder, and she clambered from her perch for a nearer inspection. “What’s that?” “A telephone.” “What do you do with it?” “I talk into it.” “Who is it that you talk! to?” “Somebody up stairs.” “Show me*how you do it.” “Well, see here then. I turn this handle—so—and that rings a little bell. Then I take this thing in my hand—so —and hold it dose to my ear while I am talking. Do you understand?” “1—guess so. And does the somebody up stairs hear yon?” “Yes.” i

"1’ioase tain into it now. “Oh, I can’t now. There’s nothing to say.” “What did you sav when you talked into it the last time?” “I said—let me think. I said: ‘Shall we send the hundred wax dolls and the ease of Noah’s arks that Green & Co. ordered?” The child’s eyes glowed hike stars. “A hundred doilies!” she cried. “Has the somebody upstairs got a hundred dollies?” “More than a hundred— a thousand.” “Really and truly?” * “Yes.” She came closer, pulling at the sleeve of her new friend. “Is it Santa Claus upstairs?” she asked, in an awed whisper. The young roan laughed—a jolly, ringing laugh. . “A good joke!” he said, as if to himself. “Santa Claus, Indoed!” The child drew back, offended. “Nobody but Santa Claus could have a thousand dollies,” she said in a hurt tone. He stooped penitently arid kissed her cheek. “I wasn’t laughing at you, Pussie. It roust be. Santa Claus.” The little girl »7,id no more. Some weighty question was revolvingjir* her small conscience. The young" mm touched tho porter’s call-bell once and again, without response, and growing impatient, stepped into another room, leaving the rihild alone. Her eyes were rivlted upon the mys'erious instrument. om|or if I could! I linklooultjj!”

she wispered. She moimiiM the tall ! writing stool, as if drawn by a spell. Her breath fluttered, her eheeks grew j scarlet. She laid her linger on the tiny ! knob, she turned it, s artmg and trembling at the uniamiliar signal, then, growing more bold, she unhooked the receiver and hid her small, pink ear in its depths. 111. BOTH KKPS MEET. “Hello! Who is it?” in a deep, bass voioe. came thrilling aloug the wire. “O, Mr. Santa Claus!” tremulously. “It’s only Bessie! The man’s gone - just a minute! He laughed at me—but I do want a dolly so! Mine’s all broke to pieces! I asked mamma, hut she cried, aud said she didn't ihink Santa Claus knew where we lived this Christmas. Please, Mr. Santa Claus, if you’ve got a thousand dollies, w on’t you give me just one?” Thero was a sound of returning steps, and the frightened child almost fell from the stool in her haste. Flushed and panting, she regained! her chair just as a sharp r!ng at the telephono summoned the entering bookkeeper. “Who called me just now?” came the voice of his chief. “Nobody, sir!” “Nonsense!” The wire seemed fairly to snap with ind gnant denial. “There was somebody, 1 tell yon!—a ohild!” The young man glanced at h s small visitor almost in terror. “There is a little girl here, sir—a lost child,” he stammered, “but I didn't know—I was out for a moment, sir!” “I think you were! Hold! I’ll come down.” A minute later the proprietor entered. His face wore a peculiar expression of excitement, but the book-keeper was not to receive the reprimand which he dreaded—Mr. Hinsdale scarcely glanced in his direction. The gaslight threw into full relief the figure of the little girl. Her loosened hood had fallen, revealing the golden glory of her hair, and her great blue eyes were ra:sed, eloquent with an appeal. He stood still gazing at her, and his face grew deadly pale. Slowly the color returned, and with it a wonderful change passed over his stern face. “The child’s lost, sir, and just wandered in here,” explained the bookkeeper. “I’m going to take her around to the station. I went out to call the patrol and --” * “Yes, yes, I understand! Never mind that! Who are you, little one?” he asked in a strange, softened voice. “I’m Bessie, and I want my mamma!” “Bessie what? Can’t you tell the rest?” “Why, Bessie Eliot Gray!” answered the child, wearily. “He tyud he'd hud my mamma, ami I am so fired!” The bookkeeper rubbed his hand across his eyes in amazement. Was he asleep or waking? Could it be his stern, reticent employer, who had bent to his knee upon the floor before tho little vagrant from the street! “He is busy. Would you go with me to find her?” What a swelling flood of tender, remorseful memories rolled, over Ei'ot Hinsdale’s soul, while tho childish eyes slowly and gravely searched his pleading face! He almost held his breath. In some dim, unreasoning fashion, it seemed to him that his very destiny hung upon her verdict. If that pure, young son! surrendered itself to him in trustful confidence, he would accept the | omen that a new day of good will and ! peace might arise upon his selfish, bitter ! past. The blue eyes paused at last, looking straight into his own, holding, compelling his gaze by the power of their inuoeenoe. A light like sudden sunshine glorified, iier face, her lips parted in a smile that showed her tiny teeth in a bewitching row, and with a swift, wordloss impulse she threw both her soft arms around his neck. “Thank God!” he murmured reverently. Then to the ohild: “Let me get my coat aud hat, then, and we will go.” In five minutes, he was ready for the street. In his hand was a great box. “Shall we look inside " first?” he asked, as he lifted the child to his knee. He cut the strings, unwrapping with deft fingers fold after fold of silken paper. Ah, the cry of delight that woke the sleeping, silvery echoes, when the last was reached and the wonderful, blue-eyed, flaxen-haired, waxen beauty was laid in Bessie’s arms! “Then you were Santa Clans!” she cried, when she conld find her breath. “But yon aren’t old or funny. Where’s yonr fur coat and the reindeers, and why don’t von come down the chimney?” “I was struck all of a heap,” said the book-keeper, that evening, rehearsing the story to an eager audience at home —“for he tied on her little hood as handy as a woman, and wrapped her up and carried her out in his arms, | dolly and all. But, when he was fairly outside the door, what did he do but tarn back and oall to me: 'A merry Christmas, Mr. Holliwell! Buy something for the baby’s stocking!’ And. as I’m alive, he tossod me this gold eagle!” A slender, pale body, dressed in thread-bare black, was conversing with flie official, in tones distraught with anxiety, as Eliot Hinsdale, with his little l|narge, walked into the nearest polioo station. “Mamma! my mamma!” _ The lady turne I. and with an inarticulate cry snatched the child to her breast. “Mamma! mamma! don’t! You’ll break my dolly! And here is Mr. Santa Clans!” The mother looked up—a startled wonder grew in dilated eyes—a wave of color surged over her face and left it pale fts ftsh©s« “My brother Eliot!” He rather saw than heard the whisper that parted her lips. “It is I, Mary!” He bent his head, speaking too low for other curious ears. “The child trusted me! Can you forgive—for her sake —on Christmas Eve?” —Mary A. P. Stansberry,, in Interior.

The Camera in Medicine. It is now suggested that photography UMy become a useful agent in medical diagnosis, disclosing symptoms of diseaso before they are otherwise perceptible. In a recent negative of a child the face was shown as thioklu, covered with an eruption, no trace of which could he seen on the ohild until three days afterward, when its skin became covered with spot* due to prickly heat. In another recorded case, invisible spots were brought out on a photograph taken a fortnight before an attack of small-pox. —Arkansan Traveler, —The marriage laws of Pennsylvania, framed to prevent hasty marriages, have been in operation a year. They have had ohe certain result, they have increased the revenues of the Jersey pars ins who live near the Pennsylvania line. One parson stayed borne during his summer vacation, and made some $300 in tees, Another has cards, giving his residence and minute direct ions Iba* to get there, distributed on all tho ferry boats plying between Philadelukia and Camden. huladelphia (hit. —The fence law of Georgia, which, In,s had Jthe effect of keeping hogs from, n awing unrestrained thesugh the ■ woods, has also had the effector greatly increasing the number of skunks in the ] State. Hogs are particularly fond of i y oung skunks, and devoured many of them when the woods were open to I titock.—Atlanta CoHiUiuttitH.

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ISAAC T. WHITE. <$RE1>'K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. SELLER, cfc WHIT13, "Wholesale Druggists AND DKALKR# IX i*aints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass an|) surgical instruments. No. 105 Main Street, ' - - - Evansville, Ind. 1884. TECH 1884. OSBOUN BROTHEES ' Have remove1! to their elegant New Building on Main street, where they have » large and splendid line of _ „ BOOTS AND SHOES, For Men, Women and Children. We keep R. L. stereos* and Kmtaersoi,** brands of Fine Shoes. Petersburg., • - - » Indiana.

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