St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 December 1891 — Page 8

Jniicpendcnt. A Local Newspaper. Non-Partisan. W. A. ESDI.RY. PUBLISHER. Entered at the Walkerton Postoffice at second class rates. SJiiJoscription : For One Year . . ■ .81.50 For Six Mouths 75 F‘>r Three Months ...... 40 If paid promptly in advance a discount of 25 cents on the year will he allowed. XA cross n arked with a blue pencil on the margin of your paper indicates that vour term of subscription to this paper Ims expired. If you are in arrearages please set! Ie at once, and notify us promptly if you wish the paper con tinned. Walkerton. Indiana. Dee. co, ism. THE HAIR TV hen not properly cared for, loses hpctgpei crisp. harsh. and dry, and falls out freely with every ' combing. To prevent this, the best and most popular dressing in the market is Ayer’s Hair Vigor. It removes dandruff, neals troublesome humors of the scalp, restores faded and gray hair to its original color, and imparts to it a silky texture and a lasting fragrance. By using this prepaiation, the poorest head cf hair soon Becomes Luxuriant Rai beautiful. All who have once tried Ayer’s Hair Vigor, want no oilier dressing. Galbraith & Starks, Druggists, Sharon Grove. Ky., write: “We believe Ayer's Hair Vigor to be the best preparation of the kind in the market, and sell more of it than of all others. No drug store is complete without a supply of it.” “I have used Ayer’s Hair Vigor with great benefit and know several oilier persons, between 40 and 50 years of age. who have experienced similar good results from the use of this preparation. It restores gray hair to its original color, promotes a new growth, gives lustre to the hair, and cleanses the scalp of dandruff” — Bernardo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain. After Using A number of other preparations without any satisfactory result, I find that Ayer's Hair Vigor is causing my hair to grow.”— A. J. Osment, General Merchant, Indian Head, N. W. T. “Ayer’s Hair Vigor is the only preparation I could ever find to remove dandruff cure itching humors, and prevent loss of hair. 1 can confidently recommend it.” — J. C. Butler, Spencer, Mass. “My wife believes that the money spent for Ay. -’s Hair Vigor was the best investment she ever made, it has given her so much satisfaction.”—James A. Adams, St. Augustine, Texas. Ayer’s Hair Vigor sr Sold by all Druggists and Perfumers.

HAZEL’S CHRISTMAS PRESENT How the wind did blow that 24th day of December! The papers said it was a north wind. However th:u mav have been I do not know, but if it was a north wind originally it had become sadly mixed, since starting out. as to the points of the compass, for now it blew from all directions. if । @ ■ w /w .- A W /■■ a =sbs^ A gentleman ascending the stens of a handsome stone mansion shivered as a blast struck him. and hastened his ‘steps to reach the shelter of his house. Not until he had applied his latchkey did he become aware of the fact that there were other step" than his upon the stones. He turned and beheld two small, very small, figures—a bov and I a girl—laboriously mounting upwsud. I “Hello there! where did you come from?” he asked in astonishment, looking down at the two midgets now Standing beside him on the doorstep. “I want to see Miss Hazel,” said the boy, panting for breath after his late exertions. “Oh, you want to see Miss Hazel, do you? Well,” with a sigh. “I only wish Miss Hazel could see you. But as I want to see her. too,” throwing open the door, “I’ll see what I can do for you. John,” to the servant, who came forward to relieve him of hi?.

iVLHai’i IV ivmiv mill ill’, overcoat, ‘is Miss Hazel in her room? ’ ‘•Yes, sir,” was the reply. Mr. Ravmond turned to the children with a smile. “Now, if you'll follow me,” he said. “I’ll trv to get you an audience with her majesty.” The children eyed him doubtfully; they did not understand his banter, but they trusted his face. So, still clasping each other by the hand, they followed him down the richly carpeted hall, through a silken-draped arch, into a smaller hall, then through another arch into a marblc-navcd ante-room. Thence they went into a room that looked like fairyland—it was so full of flowers. There were two persons in the room. One.a middle-aged woman, was sitting before the lire with her back to the door, The other, whose j

face was turned toward the door, was a young girl of about 15. She was reclining lazily in a huge velvet chair, with her head resling against the back. One slim hand hung' over the arm of the ehair, while with the other she caressed a large black eat that was dozing contentedly in her lap. But the sound of footsteps in the rfiom roused her. and she turned her head and Jooked toward the door. Looked, did 1 say? Ah. no; appeared to look, for she was blind. Well might her father envy the poorest workman, passing the house with his bright-faced daughter upon his atm, for the most | humble that which he, with all his . wealth, could not get for his darling. ■ They were poor in money lie knew; I and yet even they were happier than his daughter, lie tried to put away such thoughts. lie tried to remember what night it wuq mid crossing over to Hazel’s ehair, said as cheerily as he | could: “It is only I, my lady. And 1 have brought you two visitors.” "Who? ’ she asked in astonishment. Visitors were rare in her solitary life. • Don v ask me,” he said gayly, "Tney may be elves from fairylaud for I know. 1 only know 1 found Win on the steps like two belated T’rownies, and they said they wanted to see you. so I brought them in to jour ladyship.” "It’s Mrs. Dickson’s little boy with the sewing. You know she promised to send it to-night,” said the woman, who had risen from her seat, nt the entrance of Mr. Raymond. She immediately relieved the boy of a bundle which he had carried. Meanwhile the ‘ little girl, attracted by the sight of the i cat, had crossed the room; and, laving i her hand on the soft fur, said softly; i ‘ Pretty, pretty kilty.” "Why, who are you?” said Hazel, turning her head in Hie direction of the voice. "Why, Tom, 1 didn’t know yon had any sister.” "She ain't my sister.” said Toni, sturdily. "She’s my cousin. Her mother died and she’s come to live witn us.” "Oh, look, look,” said the child, ex« eitedly, tugging al Hazel’s sleeve. "Look at the kitty open her mouth.” "1 can t look, dear,” was the sad reply. "I can’t see.” "Can't see the kittvf" with a long t^mh. —; —j “Nor Tom?” * .XT.. - * 1. • ~ U

! “No. dear, nothing.” With a sudden impulse sh^ climbed up on the arm of the chair and laid her soft cheek against Hazel’s. “Oh, poor, poor,,girlie.” 1 Hazel put her arm lovingly around the childish form. “If yon were my sister, dear, you ' would see for me. wouldn’t you?’ she ’ said, attempting to laugh. Her father, standing on the other side of the tireplace, started at these last words, looked quickly at his daughter aud then at toe child beside her. When he turned again to the tire there was a determined gleam in his eyes and he said, inwardly: “I’ll do it, and for Christmas. Queer I never thought of it before.” The next morning as Hazel was sit- ' ting alone before the lire she heard the sound of little feet crossing the floor. Nearer and nearer they came until they stopped beside her. Them somebody climbed up on the chair, two soft arms stole around her neck, and a voice she recognized as that of her child visitor the night before said: “I’ve come to be your sister. I’m your Christmas present.” Shall I lift the curtain once more and show jou a pretty scene from a

New Hampshire farmyard? Under a spreading elm sits a girl literally covered with daisies. Daisies in her hair, daisies on her wrists and neck, aud iu her lap a heap of daisies which her deft fingers are converting into wreaths. It is Hazel. But iiow changed from the pale-faced girl who sat so listlessly before the tire on that Christmas eve. Aud would you know whose band had wrought tlie magic change? Ah, approach the bunch of pink, so industriously pulling daisies oif yon grassy slope, push back the sunbonnet from tli« tlusuvnl little face, aud lot the woudevful fairy stands revealed no other than “llazM’d Christmas Vreseut.”— Lulu Watts.

County 'l't’easnrer Stover, in the re- > port of delinquent taxes collected, shows a personal rw- trd as a tax collector that is indeed surprising. Last I year from the third Monday in April to the first Monday in November, with the assistance of his collectors, he suc•eeded in collecting delinquent taxes ,.r or: on

o the amount of $5,8/2.99. This rear, from the third Monday in April to the first Monday in December and nearly entirely through his own efforts, he collected $10,082.47, a surprisingly large collection and one exceedingly •reditable. Mr. Stover deserves much credit for his success in the collection >f taxes from delinquents.—South Bend Times. No doctor's bills presented to the families who use Simmons Liver Regulator. _ The worst attacks of indigestion Simmons Inver Regulator never falls o relieve.

LOCAL RRIEFS. —— —••— Simmons Liver Regulator always cures and prevents indigestion or dyspepsia. A gray beard on a man under 50 makes him look older than he is. The - best dye to color brown or black is Buckingham’s Dye for the Whiskers. L'he South Bend Times slates that i the circuit court bar docket just issued .shows nil With probably the fewest I criminal cases in years. There are but five of such cases. The number of civil cases is ninety. An eight-year old boy named Kwi- i l atkowski was literally cut to pieces bv a freight train on the Brand Trunk railroad at South Bend Tuesday forenoon. He was indulging in the dang-1 erous pastime to which most boys arc ! given, that of jumping on and off the I train. Death was instantaneous. Oh, dear! ChrHmas is near, top hM for toddy, and too cold for beer. Gnc^ 4 on the New Year we’d all better swe®' 1 to drink nothing but cold water clea^ What! do you jeer! t'an’t be don? , here? Then let’s go to Dwight, the ; Devil to fight, Dr. Keeley's bi-chloride of gold, sure death to rum, soth a ysay. ; There’s hope for the rum-cursed, : there's freedom for the bum-cursed, I and death to wine, whisky and beer.— Chesterton Tribune. \ V\ x "I t’dnk it is ton bad yon cannot stay at home with Boy’ and me so-lay —of ail days in the year, Cnrislmas Day.” "But, little woman, trains must be run Caristmas Day as well as other • lavs, and I must run mv train Christmas Day as well as tiie rest of the bays. Mustn’t 1? You see that fair, don't you?’’ “Yee-q bm”— 3 '"But me no huts,’ as that nc’or-cbrw said that night at the Opera-House A* Atlanta. I) > you remember? Yob* have a good lime, B >y’ and you; ••• j your turkey and mine) pie, but tm | you save me a whack! And

shone before. I’ll give it a reg y. Christmas trimming.” H And so, taking wile and “Boy" n one large loving embrace, with a push to his lantern to settle it well into tat bend of his arm, Tom Lansing weg. swinging up the road on his way to tfe Cutting.at the mouth of which he woi»l jump on his train when, in a few miautes, it would pass. He was fireman on that train on the Chattaboochie and Upton Railroad. Everybody on the road, from the Superintendent to the boy who sold the newspapers ami broken-candy, knew aud loved Tom Lansing. And when, two years before he had brought his little brown-haired wife from his New England home, and had set up his modest roof-tree at Sunset Cutting, in the little cabin, half-log. half-shingle, with its adobe chimney bending and swaying up its side like a rough miniature of the leaning tower of Pisa, everybody on the road rejoiced in Tom’s happiness aud -"ished mtn luck. And when, in a year. “Boy” came, that boy was—almost from the moment of his arrival—the most important personage in a circuit of twenty miles. It was not often that Tom swung off his train at the depot, two miles above

the Cutting, and trudged that couple of miles over a rough, stony rohd for the sake of enjoying just eight! minutes with bis littlu wife and “bor.” Usually he contented himself with swinging his lantern from hisl train, and gladdening his eyes with the answering gleam which al ways | Hashed back to him from the little Icottage j porch. I But this was Christmas time,Lind the little browu-haired wife had gift a box from home, away off in New and how could she and the n ' joy “mother’s mince pie” r>'i! Hilly was duty. :il<l I n > sing s duty took him down

bit of road to liis train. | Christmas beamed warm aiw J at Sunset Crossing, ami notwd bright ing Tom's absence, which wOithstaudsad drawback to the enjoymOdd be a sure, Margery, Tom's brjßjt, io be little wile, intended to m tk>, V n-haired feast with the “goodies” ;■ a little bren sent to her from her hahich had New Hampshire hills. iu tbe So she had hung out thej If and called in ome of her mH tch-strinw help her to do honor to lies rhbors to* Christmas cheer. W. - njo tber‘s But all day long, as sho^ q her little home, making h® en t about preparations, a something hospitable —seemed to be beside henw a presence She saw nothing, she hoaf but surely she was not alo»d nothing; A footstop seo-n d Io fall bosia e She knew not whence. 1 ~ Ami aii day long sir w «h" Pathos a hushed, expectant ail g conscious In the midst of some bus al)oUt her . hold task sho would find If |mllse . mg.pine still and ostenu sta „ ( |. not tel for what. g. she could But Margery prided her ® eminently practical. Sl< , f o „ bei imagination and less supa , , mn;. a—with scant ceremony. | iml)ross io^

She just hrus >e t them from her niiml with the curl thought that she •■felt so ‘queer,’ she imped she was not going to get homesick over mother’s nnnce pie. In due time the neighbors came, i They enjoyed the pleasant Christmas feast, petted "Boy,” drank Toin's health in egg-nog, and then went to ■their several homes, well contented with their hearty, homely entertainment, and left Margery and "Boy” alone. •‘Boy” was tired and sleepy, and so, 100, was Margery. She quietly envied • Boy,” as she sat in her comfortable ‘•Boston” rocker and crooned him to sleep, and she could not help wishing she had ‘‘somebody” — “somebody” I meaning Tom—to do likewise to hem But she had laid her baby in his cosy cradle she left her sleepy mood beside him and what with washing up the best eainn and putting away the silver —all wedding presents and only to be used on holidays—and setting the little ; home "to rights,” il was almost time I for Tom's train before Margery knew j what she was about. J Exclaiming against her own tardi- ' ness M ^‘ery bustled about, trimming ' to III! In reatlinHSS to give W'mn a rousing bright swing for Cbritnnight. •Vith the lighted lantern in her hand । Margery took her place in the porch ! and listened for her husband’s train. ! Yes, it was on lime; she heard it com- - Jb J < S e felt the dull, vibrating pulse of the earth; she heard ih" faint, distant .'(•ream of lite locomotive; yes, here came the train, out tnrougii the mouth of ihe Cati ing. But ilmiixt the night was clear and brig <L. and the whole country for mi e.s around lav clear and visible, the train was dim obscure, as though a c'ou I ora mist enveloped it. Baer as she ini.fht, M trg TV could

not seethe hi*.i Light. which u-mally cast its bro.i I. li 'i ce gle uns so many ' S "J 1 '” 1 the du-ky piihjiefore it. fX Cz Ihe reliance cn w. jp p ,. „ ' l ‘ e s<ijb H<‘ smiled upon her. arm wYCu ‘‘a? gesture lull of yearning love, he ’ i stretched forth his arms towards her. ~ Then, darkness fell upon the earth, afar and near, and l orn and train were gone.

strar.go. chill c iim fell umm M irgerv. A weird silence, a silence not ot earth, fell upon her. She could uot t link. S ie could not feel. She simply was. Mechanically she turned, passed into her home, and walked straight to tiie mantel-piece, where the clock stood. She held her lantern high over her head and scanned the face of the clock with close attention. The clock had stopped at 9 45. ♦ * * * ♦ Special Despatch tn the Chattahoochte Times, Dec. 26, 1890. Th? evonin r tr tin on the Chattaboochie and Upton It ilra >1 b i l a narrow escape fro u asxoui accident last night. J.i t as t i > t. .in enter? 1 Sunset Cutting the engineer, from so.no tin explained cause, eoinbleteL lost eontrff of the engine, and the train, an u:iu idly he ivy one, went; rusbin ” on to wli it seemed certain destructi >u, when the fireman of the train seized the throttle, an i by an almost superau nan effort brough: the train to a standstill. Pao shock of the sn I le n stopping of the tr d i w s so gre it the lire n m, Thom is Lan- ; ig bv n line, w.s t .r > va fro n the cab ar ill ntly kdleL Tae neci.lent occurred t .. o'clock. —Dr mi: tit Mirror.

RESOL UTTORS. Chicago, Dec. 17 '9l Bennett Medical and Library . Society. i W hereas - Our dearly beloved ami highly respected fellow student, John , Steel, has been unexpectedly taken from us, be it Resolved: That we as brothers do express our deep regret and extend our heartfelt sympathies to his bereaved family and relatives, and be it Resolved: That Bennet Medical College has lost one of their most dili gent, energetic and pains taking stui dents, an I be it Resolved: That Bennet Medical and Library society, of which he was a member, feels keenly the elk ct of the . demise of one of its most hearty co op- । erators, and be it Resolved : That our lecture rooms ' be draped in mourning for a period of । thirty days, ami be it Resolved: That a meeting be held in the hmer amphitheatre of the colI lege building in memory of our de parted brother, ai d be it Resolved: That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the secretary of Ilie Chicago Medical Times for publication, ami be it further Resolved: That a copy of these ! resolutions be handed to his gliefstlichen wife. i J. P. Corey, Committee. • B. S. Hint. / Gr. . W. Mcßatrick.

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