The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 33, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 December 1908 — Page 8

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SISSISSSSSSSSSSIS!!!!!!! Irqm.o UT J 1 1 1 I A SHERE once lived on a plantation a miser so mean and stingy that even his pigs were eternally disgruntled, while v his geese hissed at him as he passed, and his hens cackled derisively at the very sight of him. He never paid, any body more than half of what they were entitled to, and even the mosquitoes avoided him in disgust as having a hide like an automobile tire and with no more sustenance beneath it. No man, woman, child or beast was ever fed by him without rendering services in advance for more than the food was worth, and his neighbors were afraid to shake hands with him for fear that he would steal their finger-nails. He skimmed his milk twice, made his decayed apples into cider, and when his "horses got so old they could not work for him any longer he killed them and made them into glue, and then used the glue to stick another mortgage on some neighbor’s house. Os course everybody hated him worse than they did the fever and ague, but he did not mind that much because in one way or another he kept getting money and that was revenge enough for him. Now, half a mile away from this man’s house was the little cabin of old Ike Clay and his old wife Sally. Ike was so poor that even the mice -c6uld not afford to board with him, much; as they liked him, and his poverty xi as generally due to the fact that as soon as he got. anything he would give it away to the first one who asked him for it f for Ike and Sally lived in the belief that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Also they were very humble and religious and devoutly believed in everyday miracles and that the , Lord would feed his children even as he did his sparrows and fishes. And up to this time it had always turned out that way, but now the day before Christmas had arrived and the cupboard was as empty as Ike’s pockets, and Ike’s pockets had nothing in them at all but holes. But his wife’s faith was unwavering and she filled the pot with water and put it on the stove that it might be hot and ready for the offering when it came. “Where our Christmas offerin’ is a-goin’ ter come from I shore don’t know, but the Lord works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, and I don’t reckon he is a-goin’ to ferget we <uns,” she said, confidently. But as the day slipped by and no special Providence befell them Ike began to become a trifle nervous —not that he doubted Providence in the least, but because he feared it might need a gentle reminder at this season of the year wheel there were so many dea'. “Go Away!” mands being made upon it. So he decided to make a little special effort of his own. He knew well enough that it would be a waste of time to ask the miser to him a goose or gobbler, but he had a faint hope that because of the season of the year the old skinflint might perhaps soften enough to give him credit on his wellknown honesty. So he set forth in the gathering dusk and sifting snow upon hrs mission and in a little time was tapping at the miser’s back door. * For several minutes he tapped away and scuffled his . feet and at last the miser came forth —not as a man comes forth, but in the manner you would expect, to see a miser appear, first a nose and then a foot and then a hand and finally the rest of him, as if he grudged even his presence, and stood frowning at Ike through the gloom. Ike’s clothes were ragged and flapping in the wind and his toes were leaking from the end of his shoes, but the smile on his face was cheerful and would have made a friend of any one except a miser who loved no nAn or Woman or child or beast, and whose sou! was shriveled an,d warped, and whose c®nscience was as tough as the hoof of a horse. , .4... -. '

“What do you want?” he asked in a voice as disagreeable as the sound of filing a saw. 8 Ike took off his hat and his bare head began to bob conciliatingly up and down like the bobber of a fish line when the fish nibbles at the hook below. “I has come to see yu’, Mistah Skimpum, fo’ the reason that I am most pew’ful hungry an’ because there is no meat in we-un’s cabin. And because this is the evenin’ of the most blessed day in the whole world when the good book says there should be peace on earth and good will to man, I am a-goin’ to ask yu’ to do "me a mighty favor.’* “I haven’t got anything to give,” interrupted the miser, hastily. “And I don’t believe in Christmas giving, anyway. It is merely an excuse for beggary. I wish you would go away.” Ike’s head bobbed again. “Yes, sub, but I am not begging. I’ll do yu’ two days’ hard work to pay yu’ for a turkey.” “I don’t need any he’p. I do my o#n work.” “Yes, sub, I know that. But if you’ll loan me a turkey for a couple of days I’ll work for somebody else and pay yu’ in. cash.” “No, I wouldn’t trust you. And, besides, it the Lord wanted you to'have “Didn’t I Tell Yu’ Sol* a turkey he would send you one without your begging for it. So go away.” Ike took a step backward with quiet dignity. “All right, suh, I reckons yu’ is correct. Thank yu’, suh,” he said, and then went plodding homeward empty of hands and as hollow inside as an old bee tree, the wind nipping at his bare toes and howling after him like a wolf, and as a matter of fact the wolf of hunger was very close to him indeed. But Sally did not despair when she heard his story. “That offerin’ is shore a-comin’, Ike,” she asserted, as she put another stick on the fire to keep the water in readiness. “I don’t know jest how we-alls is a-goin’ to get it, but I feels it a-comln’ in the air. And jest yu’ mark what I tell yu’.” Then they sat down together by the bare table and listened to the wind. And, my, how it began to howl! Away off In the northwest a great storm had been brewing that.day and now it was approaching them like a giant in a rage. And as it passed along it came to the home of the miser and with a growl fell upon it. It gripped the house and shook it as a terrier does a rat, roaring down the chimney and whistling under the door until the shingles flew from the roof like feathers and the bones of the cringing miser rattled together in his fear. Then it pounced upon the fowlhouse, and cuffing off the roof blew with all its breath within, and in a second the night air was filled with flying fowls that flapped and squawked as they went sailing into the distance like puff balls scattered by a blast. Over in their little cabin Ike and Sally heard the uproar and fell upon their knees in prayer. Frightened though he was Ike did not forget his hunger. “They say it is an ill wind that don’t blow anybody good, dear Lord,” he began. T“And I prays that out of this heah mighty gale will fall a few grain from yu’ bounteous store.” And scarcely was the prayer finished than there came a. fearful gust and the crash of a heavy body against the door. And the latch broke and ;the door flew wide and upon the floor there .fell with a thud a ten-pound gobbler, wind-blown and ruffle t d to be sure, but fat, tender and soul-satisfy-ing—the very bird, In fact, that the miser had fattened for his own sharp teeth. Sally arose and held the hig bird high in her hands. Faith, charity and happiness illuminated her lean face until it shone as from a light within. “Didn’t I tell yu’ so, old man,” she, cried, exultingly. “Didn’t I tell yu’ I felt it a-comin’ in the air? Bless the good Lord, for he shorely works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform.” (Copyright, 1908, by Wright A. Patterson.) Good Cause for Gladness. “Alas!” sighed the moody man, “there is no gladness for me in this joyous season.” “Tut-tut!” said the optimist. “Surely there is a ray of sunshine f-or you, as there is for all of us-if we but look for it?” “No,” replied the moody one. “I have not a single friend, and no relatives with whom I am on speaking terms.” “Cheer up, then,” advised the other, with a shade of envy In his tone. “Can’t you be glad because you will not’have to buy any Christmaa prestttar

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