Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 December 1896 — Page 3

SUc ¥ifer (tountg fmocrat H. Mel'. STOOPS, Kditur and Fioprlelor. PETERSBURG, - - INDIANA. —.- ‘ . — ■AT THE SUPERSTITIOUS CLUB. Sales Enforced Regarding Sneezing, Mirren and Reading. “Girls,” said the president of the Superstitious club, “didn’t one of you -<#!t€M£2£ ?*f “Miss President,” said Mabel Sweet* rising, “I snoze.” “Sneezed, you mean. And did no member sav *God bless you?" The members hung their heads and ’the president continued: “It is a very solemn thing to sneeze ’sometimes. I read once of a girl who ■sneezed just as her lover proposed to her and ,it nearly broke up the engagement. We will now. if you please, recite the ‘Rhyme of the Sneezer’ in concert.” Sueeie on Monday, sneeze for danger. Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger. Sneeze on Wednesday, sneeze for a letter. Sneeze on Thursday, sneeze for the better. Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for sorrow, i Sneeze on Saturday, lover to-morrow. Sneeze on Sunday, trouble seek. For ’twill happen all the week. , j “Miss President," said Grace Wilson. ' “w hat will happen if we cut our hair in the dark of the moon?" “Miss Seeretry, look up that rule,” suggested the president. The seeretary examined a formidable , set of books and reported: "Any p^rl who clips the ends of her hair in the dark of the moon Is liable to ; lose all her good looks. Mem.—A girl who would do such a foolish act is not eligible to membership in the Super- ! atitious club." Ci “Miss President.” “MissSweet”. . “I hare been using a cracked mirror Is there any penalty?” “Yes; you w ill have w rinkles. 1 supposed every member of the club knew that!” \ “I opened a book upside down this morning!” Vlhd yot^, ntteti ot to re:yd anything ir it ?v “f did not." “jbh. then you are all right. Put if you had attempted to'read one word of the reversed page you would soon have overheard some very disagreeable pews of yourself." “f found a lucky penny yesterday.” said Mabel Sweet, handing a dilapidated bit of copper out ,for inspection. When nil had wished on it the president handed it back to 1 er. ■'Keep it, dear." she said, sw eetly, “we me going to have a hord winter.” Resolutions were then passed that no engaged girl should ere* **»tnm a ring if the engagement was broken, the worst possible luck resulting if-shedid. The club then adjourned in a hurry to « rijoy an lee cream treat nt the expense of Sadie Clark, who was fined for calling the president “a mean old thing."— Chicago Times-llcrnld.

AN INTERESTED LISTENER. And the Mail Who Talked Tuo Load and Top MnfL A reporter describes an interview between two old college chums who met by chance in a New York street car. Their experience suggests anew the importance of discretion when one talks in public places. The bigger one was accompanied by j a pale, delicate man w ho bore a sacred expression, while the other ex-collegian, one of those fellows with a stentorian: j voice, was alone. The tho friends shook hands effusively, and then began an exchange of r**n. ni^cences. in which such , fragments as “Don’t you rentetnber the ; *>? game at Princeton?” and “What's l ecojne of .lack So-and-So?” were distinguishable. Then the one with the voice became mere person^! in his remarks. “Do you remember, old man, how you always intended to be a doctor? ‘ Ha! hit! you don’t look much as though i you took your own medicine, I can tell von. ‘Faithful unto death,’no doubt, is your motto, lln! ha! I’ll bet you enjoy cutting off legs and arms and taking out old ‘insides’ and putting in new ! ones. I say. haven’t you killed oft more than you’ve saved?” The pale, scared man was sinking rapidly into a faint. The big man braced him up* and, turning to the one with the fog-horn voice, said: “For heavenVsake, be quiet! I’m a professor at the Johns Ilopkins hospitnl. ahd this is a patient I’m taking there for an operation,” The fog-horn voice and its owner nearly got killed trying to got off l>yfote the car arrived at the corner.— Baltimore Telegram. yuii* jd«iminL The man with the long hair drew himself upland folded his arms after the manner of a tragedian. “He is no gentleman,” he said, referring to,a man who had been under discussion. “He called me a liar.” “What was the provocation?” asked the man whose hair was not so long. “There was none whatever. 1 had just told him that 1 was a musician, and j he—” “Ah. that explains it,” interrupted the man whose hair was not so long. **He was quite justified. I’ve heard you I?loy myself.”—Chicago Post. la Kstrvmlty. ; “Have we had a protest from anyone ; recently?” asked the sultan, as he lit a fresh cigarette. “No, your majesty,” replied the gruud vizier. ) “No, nation has deigned to cry out against the continuance of the Ottoman empire?” said the sultan, scowling “None, your highness.” “Then have some more Armenians Ailled at once. 1 will not be neglected In this shameful manner."—Pearson’s ^/Weekly.

OOD WILL, to men! Good will to men!” O. loud and high, O, sweet and clear. The ion; rang through the dazzling space In that wintry time of year.

“Good win to m«n! Good will to men!“ Ah. who sits wan and wistful there. No Christmas Joyance In her soul. Upon her Up no prayerT "Good will to men! Good will to men!*' In the rich place the tones made way. The pictured saints leaned down to hear. Green-wreathed for Christmas day. “Good will to men!" O, lady fair! Xn splendor weeping thus apart. How strange it seems a ragged boy Should have so glad a heart. For hungry are the helpless ones Who look and long for his return; And bare the chamber where they sit. And low the hearth fires burn. “Good will to men !** The meaning pierced, Though selfish impulse barred the way, X>eep to the lady's Inmost heart. That shining Christmas day. And dimpled children, cherub-fair. Who into Heaven had .slipped away. Seemed whispering to the mother there Thoughts meet for Christmas day. Of little ones who moan for bread While Christmas bells ring merrily. "O, give to them,'* one seemed to say, * “As once you gave to me." Then to herseif that lady said: “For my lost babes I've sorrowed long, Tnere comes a cure for aching hearts In that sweet Christmas song." She called the singer from the street. He sang it o'er and o'er again— "Peace on earth to all who mourn; Good will, good will to men!" Through lano and alley, side by side The singer and the lady went; And, strange to tell, ho was her guide To measureless content > Within her stately rooms no more She sits and sighs the hours away. The pictured saints look down and see Sweet children at their play. —Mary F. Butts, In Youth’s Companion.

7# M m V E PLANNED it one day— my brother Sam and I— as we sat under a harvest apple tree. We agTeed to scrape and

save aim uuy iainer a suver mother a new eh awl for Christina*. Bam wm 13 and I two years younger, and we were the bou2i of a farmer who couldn’t afford luxuries. We couldn't llope to flo it all by ourselves, though we did get enough together for the shawl. Our unclee and aunt* and cousins chipped in, and the jeweler threw off $4 on the price of the watch, and on the day before Christmas old Santa Claus had the watch and shawl and father and mother hadn’t the slightest suspicion of what was in store for them.1 Sam and I had sold apples, embezzled eggs, disposed of old plowpoints, hoed corn for the neighbor*, gathered ancj sold hickory nuts an<! worked varioita#other schemes to get that $1S shawl <and we had a right to feel elated and Proud. We had the articles hidden in tjhejjay mow at the barn, and about once^an hour we had to go out there and take a look at them. It was growing dark on Christmas eve when a stranger on foot turned in at our gate and asked for lodgings. He was a well-dressed, keen-looking man, and the fact of hia being on foot and the village tavern only two r^les away, ought to have set father to thinking. Mother eyed hlmsusplclously.butwhen the naan said he had rheumatism, and that he expected to pay for his entertainment, father invited him in and appeared to think that it was all right. Xot so with Sam and I. however. We didn't like the looka of the man, and when we discovered that he used profane language and chewed plug tobacco we put him down as a bad man. After supper the man told father that he lived In Cincinnati and had come to look at a farm on the Six-Mile road. lie made an effort to be entertaining and agreeable, and though he succeeded with the old folks Sam and I couldn’t give him any credit. There was a bedroom off the parlor, and It was arranged that he ahould sleep In there. Also that Santa Claus should leave the giffa for father and mother on the parlor table after he had gone to bed. Sam and I would hang our stockings In. the kitchen. The man excused himself about nipe o’clock and went to bed, and ten minutes later the watch and shawl were on the table, and mother had promised pot even to look in. We hustled off to bed. and bj halfpast nine father and mother came up. “Do yon s’poae that feller heard about the watch and shawl?** queried Sam. as we got Into bed. “How could he?** **I dunno, but I believe be Juat came here to steal ’em. If he was goin’ to look at a farm on the Six-MUe road why didn't he get off the train at Grafton? TO bet you he robs the house and clears out before morning!** “Let’s tell father!" “He wouldn't believe ft, and H would only scare ma." We talked the matter over for a fca minutes and than fall aataapw and the

old dock down In the kitchen wee striking IS when Sam nudged me with his elbow and whispered: “That fellow is robbing the house!** “How do you know?" “Because I can hear him moving about. There—don’t you hear that? We’ve got to go downstairs and stop him from taking that watch and shawl!" “We dasn’tl" “Yes, we dast! 1*11 go first, bnt you come along! Bobbers always run if they hear anybody, and-maybe he’ll get ac&rt off before he gets the things." We slipped out of bed and drew on

had been taken away from the stable* aud we had returned to the house, “boys, I thank ye a thousand time* over for this watch, which is somethin? I've sorter wanted for years, but let me jest tell ye that ye both orter be taken out and licked fer not tellin* me about that robber till ye had him safely locked up. Don’t ye never do sich a thin? as that ag’in as Ion? aa ye live on the face of this airth." “And, boys," added mother,with tears In her eyes, as she hugged the shawl and us, too, “I not only thank ye as much as father doee, but I say ye did jest right in not wakin* us up; Fd have

tl WITH THE WATCH IN HIS HAND.

our trousers and socks, and descended the stairs, which led up from the family sitting-room. Only two rustics, ignorant of the peril of such an undertaking, would have done as we did. When we got downstairs we found the parlor door wide open, the room lighted, and the stranger stood at the table with the watch in his hand. We had crept down so softly that he heard nothing. He was fully dressed, even to his overcoat and arctics, and as we watched him he pocketed the timepiece and removed the wrapper from the shawl. Sam’s idea had been to raise an alarm, or perhaps rush in on him, but as we cowered there and watched, a sense of helplessness came over him, and his teeth began to chatter before mine did. We were about to creep back to the stairs, when the man turned the lamplight almost out, and came into the sittingroom, and made for the outside door. He passed within a foot of us, and why the thumping of my heart did not catch his ear has always been a wonder to me. He unlocked the door, passed out and softly closed it behind him, and we heard him going down the frozen path to the barn. I was for going upstairs for father, but Sam drew me across to the si4« window, and pulled aside the curtain and said: “He’s got the watch and 6hawl and is now after that span of horses.” Let me explain that about the fl. ?t of the month the sheriff of our county had taken possession of a span of fine horses, supposed to have been stolen, and they were being cared for in our stables until the owner should turn up. The stables were in the basement of the barn and half underground. The windows were very small and the door a stout one. This door had no lock, but fastened with hasp and pin. We watched the man until he opened the door and entered the stables, and then Sam said: “Yes, he’s after the horses and I*m going to do something.” “We must call father.” “If we do, the man win kill him, for he hasn’t got nothing to fight Yrith! Ypa< stand right here and hold the door a little open for me." “What are you going to do?" “I’m going to shut him in the stable. Don’t holler nor run away, for I’ll be back In a minute.” Out Into the snow and eold dashed Sam. It was about 300 feet to the barn, and being in his stocking feet he ran like a deer and as noiseless as a eat. He found the floor shut, and it did not take him ten seconds to lift up the hasp snd slip the pin through the staple When he came back we ran upstairs and aroused father and mother, and just as wa all got down, we heard the man kicking on the stable door. He had both horses ready to bring out before he discovered that he was locked in. From the rumpus he made you would hare thought that he was tearing the whole ham down, but it was useless to kick against that door. In daylight he eould have made his way up through one of the feed-racks, but he had used his last match and had to go slow in the darkness. We routed ont the neighbors, sent for the sheriff, and in about an hour the door was unfastened and the fellow Invited to come out. He had strapped mother’s new shawl on one of the horses for a saddle, and father’s Santa Claus watch was ticking away in his vest pocket. Why he hod no weapons I never eould understand, for he turned out to be a professional bone thief and a desperate man. but he had neither knife nor pistol. He was marched off to jail while the roosters were crowing for Christmas, snd San and I were in court later on when he was sent to poison for five yean. “Boys** said my father, after ths mm J

had a fit and father might have tumbled downstairs, and there's no tellin whoM a-busted up or wholg a tumbled into the cistern!” BAM‘S BROTHER —Detroit Free Press. Origin of SaiO Clans. As for Santa Claus himself, he^-has. surely a guarantee of immortality, if ever a creation of human fancy and domestic affection did so. He has a history—much of it legendary, we must confess—which of itself makes him a noted character. He seems to be a composite personality, uniting the Boy Bishop of old times in England, the Christ-kindlein of Germany—the Christchild who came down the chimney on Christmas eve to fill the children’s stockings—and the St. Nicholas of the Fourth century, who, having inherited a large fortune, devoted it to the relieving of distress, and sometimes the necessities of those who in some distress of evil fortune became embarrassed, cur reduced from wealth to poverty. The reindeer and the sleigh must be of a far northern origin. Thus the orient, Britain, Germany and Scandinavia, appear to have each a hand in creating a )>ersonality which is so dear to ua all because it represents what is most simple, kindly and beneficent in the more intimuTe relations of human life.—Chicago Standard., A CHRISTMAS DELUSION.

Susie (angrily)—8Lr, what right had you to kiss me? Tom—I was laboring under a delusion. Susie—Explain yourself, air. What delusion? Tom—The same one you were under, the mistletoe.—Brooklyn Life. A ChHHmas IlleMl ngAs the Christmas bells are ringing thelt chimes of peace and love. And the voices of the angels come floating from above. Oh, Thou “Who art in Heaven." for our Mttle ones we pray Thy tenderest, sweetest blessing on this their Christmas day. And to us. whose hearts are glowing with gratitude to Thee. That Thou hast spared our darlings, with their sunshine and their glee. Wilt Thou send Thy doily presence^ give us patience with our love. Give that wisdom. Heavenly Father, that can come but from above. And the power to do our duty by these precious ones, we pray. Be the longed-for Christmas blessing which Thou aendest us to-day. —Good Housekeeping. Not That Kind of Boy. Visitor-—Johnny, are you making great po pa rations at your Sunday school for Christmas? Johnny—I'm not going to Sunday school now, ma’am. Visitor—Not going to Sunday school? Johnny—Nome. I quit lost Sunday, I don't want folks to think Tin one of these hays that's only good dinin' the holidays. Ill start again after Christ bum la ow.—Chicago Tribuna.

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