Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 December 1908 — Page 6

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™F AN American, who had not seen much 1 of the world, should awake on Christmas — morn while a German, A. French, English, Italian, Swiss or Danish Christmas celebration was in progress in his Fi ® vicinity, he would imags ine himself within the exclusive confines of a home for the mentally 7 incompetent. ■■■■■■■ The American Christmas is a matter-of-fact festive occasion. People begin buying presents a week before: they present them Christmas morning and the next day return to work, the entire affair forgotten until the following brings the season around again. Not so in the countries across the water. They observe every tradition in the mother lands; they plan for weeks and the festivities which mark the birth of Jesus Christ are carried on for a week or more. The Christmas tree in Germany is allowed to remain decorated far into the next year, extending over a period of several months. Unique ceremonies grace the Danish, French, Swiss and Scotch Christmas celebrations and that which the Teutons foster have been handed down from ages. In Mexico one of the treasured customs is the breaking of the Pinata, a tradition being connected with the little ceremony which ushers ( in Christmas day. A queerly con- । structed effigy of a woman is hung ।up in a corner of a room and a child ! blindfolded, armed with a stick, proceeds to dislodge the old woman from i her position close to the ceiling. When | the feat is accomplished the presents | contained under the covering of the । dress of the figure are distributed, i The beauty of that little game is

। the uncertainty attending the possibility of the , woman being dislodged and second, the uncertainjty as to whether the less favored of the family circle will draw any presents from the treasure , store beneath the skirts of the woman. I Christmas, of course, is observed only in Christian countries, but some heathen, in fact, nearly all of them, have one day or another on which to receive and send presents to their friends and others who are not friends. In countries ruled ( by absolute monarchies, the rulers are sometimes afraid to open their gift receptacles for the reason that oftentimes treasonable persons inclose fancy little bombs not marked in the invoice. Os course such undesirable persons do not have any more Christmases to celebrate, affairs being ar,ranged in that manner if they are caught. I While the Christmas idea is practically the ! same in most countries of the globe which observe the day, there is a great variety of presents and a certain nation’s desire for gifts made in wide variance to that which the next, door neighbor believes in. Germans as a rule give the children presents, most of which are made in this country, while Americans are always particular about buying the babies toys marked “made in Germany.” A Frenchman told a clever little story at a Christmas banquet in Paris a year ago, which ran along on that line. He was enamoured with a beautiful young lady whose home was on Rue de Bouievarde. She was of artistic taste so he studied her desire in painting creations for three weeks before Christmas. At last he came to the conclusion that probably an oil painting by a noted French artist might please her. He took special pains to hunt out a store where he might procure one. He did and put several weeks’ salary into the gift. He had it delivered Christmas morning and received a cordial note of thanks from the young lady, who unfortunately had not thought to purchase anything for him. This, of course, was embarrassing to both parties, but that evening while fondling the creation in his presence she happened to scan the back of the portrait. It said: “Made in Hoboken, N. J.” She was in the midst of thanks and an embarrassing explanation of why she hadn’t sent him a present, when she noticed the birthmark of the oil painting. She stopped, and they haven’t spoken to each other since, according to the story. All of which goes to show that the value of a gift more than the spirit which the giver exhibits

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is taken into consideration by some persons. The young man. probably, was sorry for the abrupt termination of his friendship with the young lady, but perhaps it was for the best. That was his version of it, anyhow. Most English speaking nations celebrate Christmastide just as we Americans do, but each has its little self-made variation. In Italy they celebrate with a grand dance, as a rule, and they take great pains to be attired in gaudy raiment. The Danish are very deliberate about their Christmas festivities and great fetes and gifts are the order of the day. The Swiss are fervent in their worship of the Saviour on that day and the little children dressed for gala affairs parade the streets in order that their parents may look at them and compare them with the “kids next door.” Many persons who have read much history and ■who have been able to persuade themselves that the present century is all wrong as to the date of the birth of Christ, are skeptical as to whether we should observe the sacred day when w r e do. Estimates as to when Christ was born extend clear from June to January 26. Prior to the fourth century Christmas was not observed on December 25, for there was no period of uniformity in observing the day among the early churches. The skeptical persons who have studied the thing from end to end say that on December 25 it rained in Judea and then attention is called to the Biblical statement that shepherds were watching their flocks when Christ was born. Now how could they watch their flocks when it was raining? is the argument of the unbelievers ■ that December 25 is the correct day of feast. One person who is not skeptical declared that perhaps they didn’t have sense enough to come in out of the rain in those days. But of course that is no argument. The chances are the calendars have been changed so much that the original December 25, if hunted down, would be found flirting with May 1. Os course the correct day upon which to worship has much to do with the feeling of Christians in the matter, but at the same time, if the event is properly observed the time of observance is but a detail. Many good churchmen who seldom attend church on Sundays find Christmas an excellent day to attend church because it only falls on Sunday once in seven years and it doesn’t break in on their weekly holiday morning nap. Millions of dollars are spent every year in every country of the globe for presents. It is declared in mercantile circles that the United States in

dimes jingle merrily into their little tin boxes. Behind this generous giving is a superstitious belief that amid risks like these it is well to propitiate Fate all you can. For Fate is a relentless old machine, and when once its wheels begin grinding, no pow’er on earth can stop them. The “Rule of Three” is । centuries old. You may hear of it out I on the ocean, in the steel mills, in the

railroad camps, and down in the mines. And you find it up here on the jobs in the skies. “Believe it?’ said an old foreman. “You bet, they believe it.” “Do you?’! asked. “Well,” he said, “all I can say is this: It may be a spell or it may be because of the way the whole crew is expecting it. But anyhow, when two accidents come close together, you can be sure that the third isn't very far off.” —Ernest Poole, in Everybody's.

’ ^SBbBBB » i k 'll > r .Lt u! aw '• 7 * proporHon to popula .. national distributor t,on ,a the bipgest There are many plftß- - England and co ncerns in fine themselves excl FYance which confacture of gifts sue ,sively to ,bp manu ‘ only during the las are birth of Christ. R< ^ration of the day which should b« iß ; deß bp,ng 11 hol ’’ of Jesus Christ, it to worship looked forward to ? a da { which is big gource of profit by mer c h ^ts as a In other counU J , there are many f as ~ n America, dies enacted beJ ™ ll Christmas tragewhich some folks ° f J be d ‘ s " ke , cause of the thor ^ k ® to Kifts and be- I in omitting some ’tenes^of others make it a rule, a ‘ *^ ,enda ’ Some that they have decL, advertise it well, to the immediate fH lo co , nfine «i f ts „„„„ „.<n circle, so that none will take oftA ’ x . , ... . .. Tense if thev receive no gifts from the”. /L. x • . . . friends. Os cm,™!' “ ,hcrl ° ‘■‘’r"" 8 " notified of the eh, thß ,° n ' 3 " h " ... . mge in the routine are careful to scrat . .... . .i>. e i ...i u. ch off the names of the friends who h« . ..... ve eliminated them so that when Chris no needless entbari maß co "’ es there ,s The poets once . . .. gift, but the spirit “"= 11 13 not ,h * Iso Don't look . mouth." There a ‘ s'? horse J”, J. 1 ?’

, xu • . , re dozens of little Christmastide axioms of that 1 dnd whkh are used and misused toward the end of th? year That first saying has been clever] shjfted about {n this manner: It is not the but tbe which the giver putteth into ti ® „ The proper Christmas spirt the pulpl .s tar from 'hat which f()||ow ou( )n selecting presents. Mother c( , . uun - . ‘ . ... .. , mntries exhibit less interest in costly gifts than d( . . „ , . • » .1. u >es America. Travelers in countries of the old w , x , . . , orld have been surprised at the great number of „ , . . ‘ . , , . . . Christmas presents which are home-manufactured. „ . , , r- , , , . e m Several weeks before the glad event, the fam , . x . . , , . Ilies sit themselves down in their rooms and start, , x , _. . x ... T .. secretly, work upon the Christmas gifts. In the cou . . x . x . . ... . ntry districts of certam parts of America this cust Qm ig stm retained Long a Temperanc g Wor k er . “Mother” Stewart, who die , x , ~ . ... ti recently, was 92 years old. She devoted her lif . x . x ... , eto the temperance canse. Mrs. Stewart establish^ ... „ . _ tt • i c iOTc ! d the first M.C. T. U. in Ohio at Osborn in 1873. . . „ , , , . . . In 1876 she visited England and organized the firs; w p TT . .. . country. Following the civil ! ’ 7 .’ / / x . , • xu yar she lectured extensively in the southern stat . . „ , ' -s on behalf of the war sufferers. , Five years ago “Mother” Sb . . , x . . . . . ~t ‘wart became interested m the teaching of Al- , _ , . . , x , ~ x , . xander Dowie and visited Zion Citv where she . , . , . , .. . remained one yenr, since which time she lived w’ T , ... „ i, friends at Hicksville. Until five years ago sr .. . . „ . . „ . , , , 7 „ resided in Springfield, 0., where she led in mi x ’ ’ . . r ly temperance ciusades. Scarcely a woman m j . ... . . x , „ . . x menca could boast ot the praise from pulpit at ... x . x „ Stewart i < ,rejß “ ke Moth,t Sees Great Future 1 r<)r SiberiaMore than 500,000 persons . ... „ „ ■ . o-t • • smigrated from European Russia to Siberia in 190 _ ” ‘ . 7. Vice-Consul Chanler of Dalnv reports, and of ... , . , . .. .. , . this record-breaking number fewer than ever befoi . , . x , , . „ , . . . . -e returned to their homes. Everv colonist arriving . . , . ’ m Siberia receives 37 acres of land free, paying x ~ „ . x , , , . .. x . no taxes the first three years and only half the n , x . gular taxes the next three. Siberia imports $10,000,000 „ ‘ . . ~ worth of goods by caravan from China annually, , x ..; , . ■ almost entirely tea, while Siberia exports to China x . , , only $(50,000 worth of articles annually, and many . / • . . ~ „ of these originate in European Russia.

Philai Philadelphia is e 'P h,a ‘ , „ homes for large ? h< ;„ Cy ° e ,> . families, and is famous for the scar . ’ . ... „... , , . city of cheap and illventilated tenem / „ ... ?nts. Down in the Neck even at tl , . a three-story housi " s rent marble window si ’ wlth , marMe st™p- ... Ils and caps, marble door sills, caps , . ... . , , and jambs, marble vestibules, marbk _ , , , , . , . fireplaces and mantels, marble wan ” f ... iscoting, etc., for a few dollars a mon ______ th. T^ey can conqt : . ~ er who believe they cpx.—Virgil. 7

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. OPTION LAW IS UPHELD | Plummer Dissolves the Restraining Order Against Special Election, Declaring Recent Act to Be Constitutional. Wabash.—Judge A. H. Plummer of the Wabash circuit court held the county local option law constltutionI al; that the county council does not i need to make an appropriation for an । election before the order is made, and | dissolved the restraining order issued J against the county commissioners which forbade their proceeding with the arragements for an election, dated i for Tuesday, December 29. Immediately steps were taken by the attorneys for the saloon interests : to appeal to the supreme court. As soon as the decision was read the county commissioners, still in session, proceeded to arrange for the election. the. -first decision by an In diana judge upon the constitutionality of the Indiana statute passed by the legislature in special session. Concluding his ruling Judge Plummer said: “The licensed saloon is a ■ dangerous business and demands reg- , ulatlon. Courts have held that the I legislatures have power in restricting : and in giving police power to regulate i the saloons, and they have the power, ‘ also, to prohibit the sale of liquor. I believe that the Indiana legislature I has the right to pass a law prohibiti ing the sale of liquor in the state of Ondiana and that law would be constitutional and valid." Is Charged with Fraud. South Bend. —W. B. Hoyt, brother of the late Charles B. Hoyt, the playwright, was placed under arrest on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He was arrested at Logansport and brought to South Bend. The charges against Hoyt were filed by members of the stranded "Midnight Bell" Company, which played in South Bend and neighboring towns. From the girls he collected $25 for wardrobe purposes. One cent and four collar buttons were j found in his pockets. Breaks Frybarger Will. Richmond.—lt required but two ballots for the jury to decide in favor of the plaintiffs in the MartinChitwood case, which has been on trial in the Wayne circuit court for almost two weeks. By its decision the jury breaks the will of the late George Frybarger of Fayette county, who left an estate of the probable value of $12,000. Prays and Finds His Coin. I Shelbyville.—Rev. Jacob Hines, j who is a supply minister residing in the northern part of the county, was working for Hiram Alexander on his farm a few days ago when he made the discovery that he had lost his pocketbook containing $l6O. He prayed the entire night and the following morning found the money. Files Report of Shortage. Michigan City.—The auditing firm of Marwick. Mitchell & Co. has filed its official report with the commoun council on the result of its investigation of the city treasurer's office. The company also submitted its bill of $5,890 and agrees to settle for $3,500. The amount of the shortage, as found, is $13,466.50. Complete Book Examination. Bloomington.—Wallace & Sutton, the expert book accountants who have been making an examina- : tion of the records at the courthouse iin this county for the last three | months, have completed their work and turned over the report to the . county commissioners Saturday. Backs Option Law; Gets Job. Franklin. —In giving out the po- । lltlcal plums for the coming year | the Johnson board of commissioners, ; Democratic, chose George I. White, the Democratic representative who at the special session of the legislature voted for local county option, county attorney. Refuses to Pay Road Subsidy. Frankfort. —The efforts of the I Clover Leaf Railroad Company to I collect a subsidy of $55,000, voted to it by Center township in which the j city of Frankfort is located, came to I a termination when the county com- ■ missioners finally decided the tax i should not be paid. Has No Need of Receiver, i Shelbyville.—Judge Hacker of the | Bartholomew Circuit court has decided the Liberal Publishing Company, with George M. Ray as editor and manager, does not need a receiver, and he sent word to the plaintiff’s attorneys here to that effect. Face New Jail Proposition. Anderson. —A special session of the county council was called to decide the question of building a new jail. It is th desire of the members to feel the sentiment of the public before appropriating SIOO,OOO. Wood Hears Rate Complaint. Evansville. —Judge W. J. Wood of the railway commission heard I the complaint of the folding bed manufacturers of this city, who say the railroad companies discriminate against them in rates. Street Blocked; Road Held. Lebanon. —Paul O. Tauer, a Lebanon florist, was given judgment for $2,500 against the Big Four Railroad Company. The damage suit was based upon the blocking of a street by a Big Four train. Sought to Burn Her? South Bend. —Mrs. Jacob Williams i in a suit for divorce filed in j the circuit court charges her bus- i band with saturating her clothes with ; kerosene with intent to burn her ; rHv&

DENY LICENSES TO APF LICANI*. County Commissioners Need No Remonstrances to Bar Saloons. Tipton.—Tipton remains dry, without the aid of the new county local option law, but by the authority of the county commissioners, who have refused to grant licenses to all applicants. There were two applications for licenses in this city before the board. The applicatipn of Howard Dickerson was withdrawn before it reached the commissioners’ verdict at the costs of the applicant. The one of George Stephens went to a hearing and the interest in the case caused the courtroom to be crowded. Stephens was all right so far as personal qualifications were concerned, but the board followed its procedure of previous meetings and refused the license. Application will be made by several dealers at the January term, when a new commissioner takes office, and meantime Stephens will appeal the case to the circuit court. Judge L. B. Nash has succeeded Judge Elliott of Kokomo to the bench and may take a different view than his predecessor, who sustained the commissioners. Burglars Steal Stage Money. Logansport.—After cutting out a pane of glass, picking locks on two doors and opening a showcase containing a collection of old coins, burglars escaped with what appeared to be several thousand dollars in currency. The robbery was in Alford & Co.’s cigar factory. The roll was made up of stage money and confederate currency. Fifty dollars in real money, in an open cash drawer, escaped their attention. Wears Out Burial Robes. Columbus. —Among the healthiest children in the Bartholomew County Orphans’ Home is Edgar Parsley, one year old, for whom Matron Brown made burial robes, so sure was she he would not live when committed to the home. At that time the child weighed but four pounds. He has completely worn out the robes in which it was intended he should be buried. Fines City's Laziest Man. South Bend. — Charles Sessions, declared to be the laziest man in South Bend, has been fined SSO and sentenced to jail for 60 days by Judge George G. Feldman. The punishment is the maximum for vagrancy. Sessions is 30 years old and although he has always lived in South Bend, he was unable to find a single person who would say he had ever seen him work. Superintendents Plan Meet. Fort Wayne.—Factory superintendents and other officials employed by the General Electric Company’ in all parts of the country will meet here and a committee of ten superintendents from the different branches where lamps are manufactured by the company will visit the big Holman street plant here. Wanted for Fraud. Brazil. —Officers searched for E. D. Miller, an attorney of this city, who is supposed to have left the city several weeks ago for Brussels, Belgium, to visit his father. Miller is wanted here on the charge of having defrauded Edward Byrne of this city out of S4OO on a lapsed insurance policy. Want Money for Probe. Wabash. —The county commissioners, following the report of the Wabash grand jury, asking them to order an investigation of the public records, has asked the county council to appropriate money for a nonpartisan and thorough investigation. Local Option Wins. Wabash. —Because of an error in the injunction proceedings by’ saloonists to prevent a county local option election the commissioners ordered the election for Tuesday, December 29. This makes Wabash county the first to vote under the new law’. Says He Wore Out Whip. South Bend. —Charging that her husband, Monroe Strickler, is so inhuman that he has beaten their child with a horsewhip until the whip was worn down to the butt, Cora Strickler has filed suit for divorce in the St. Joseph circuit court. Would Catch Horsethieves. Warsaw. —Samuel Anglin of Warsaw, secretary of the National Horsethief Detective association, organized a branch of the association in Chicago Saturday. It. is said many of the horses stolen in Indiana are taken there to be sold. W. H. Robbins Hit by Train. Greensburg.—W. H. Robbins and family were struck by a Big Four passenger train in this city while crossing the track in a closed buggy. Mr. Robbins suffered a broken leg and was also badly' bruised about the face and head. Alleged Robber Gives Bond. Noblesville.—Glenn Sherrick, who, with Leonard Fisher, was arrested at Indianapolis on the charge of robbing the Funderburg store at Westfield, was released from the Hamilton county jail on S2OO bond. Fairbanks Sells Stock. Noblesville. —The First National bank stock of this city formerly held by Crawford Fairbanks of Terre Haute and Ben Freiberg of this city was sold to Thomas Hussey and others. Big Elevator Threatened. Terre Haute. —Fire in the sheller room of the Bartlett. Kuhn & Co. elevator gave the entire fire department a hard fight, and for hours threatened to destroy the entire plant. The damage to grain and machinery j is estimated at SIO,OOO. Train Kills Monroe Farmer. Bloomington. —Stephen Coan. 55, a ; farmer living f.. 0 miles northwest »1 the city, was instant!” killed by tr.e i Lafayette accommodation t ai'. ■ ■ tin I Monon.

VISITS WITH Tending the Turkey. Jones had intended going to meet the company expected for Thanksgiv-

ing dinner, but Wednesday at the office had been chaos and there were still two stories to write when he hurried across town to get his suburban train. These stories had to be in the hands of the printers Friday morning. Wednesday evening he was to escort his wife and a party to a Thanksgiving Eve ball and of course, after the company came, there would be no time to write. So it was arranged that Jones should stay at home Thanksgiving morning and get those Twr stories on paper while his wife went to towm after the guests. “Now. Henry,” she admonished, “I will be gone a long time, and I want you to be

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sure and watch that turkey’." Henry promised. "Oh. dear, I just know you won’t,” almost sobbed Mrs. Jones. “You will get so interested in the plot of those stories that you will forget all about the dinner and let it burn!” “Why, my dear. I —” “Yes, Henry, I know your intentions are good, but I am an experienced woman, and you know how many times I have had to say, I told you so!’ ” Then she went away to the train, a trim little figure in brown in a becoming magenta hat. Jones sat down to his typewriter and began working out a grudge of long standing. How the keys rattled as he let the narrative he was producing run from his finger tips! One of the stories was finished and the other begun when he chanced to think of the baking turkey left to his tender mercies. “Whew! I mustn’t forget that or Mrs. Jones will never forgive me,” he exclaimed, dashing into the kitchen where the aroma of roasting meat greeted his nostrils! Throwing open the door of the oven, he discovered to his horror that the turkey seemed to be burned fast to the pan! He tried to pry it over with the basting spoon, but the bird would not budge! Jones grunted his displeasure and attacked the gobbler with the carving fork. The best he could do was to lift the pan from the bottom of the oven w'hen he endeavored to roll the turkey over! “That thing has got to be turned somehow,” he mentally anathematized, grabbing the pan in his bare hands I and attempting to haul it onto the floor! With a cry of pain, he let the pan slip and stuck his burned fingers in his mouth, soot and all! M hen Jones fixed the furnace he wore a pair of old gloves. Remembering this, he dashed madly into the j cellar, donned the gloves and once more attacked the offending bird. i This time he managed to get the turkey from the oven, and setting the I pan down upon the spotless floor, he ' proceeded with a fixed expression of revenge, to turn that turkey on* its other side! I And just as he had jerked it loose and flopped it over, he heard voices in the hall and Mrs. Jones approached. Grasping the pan by each side he made haste to replace it in the oven. In some unaccountable way, a drumstick caught, the pan slipped and just as Mrs. Jones opened the kitchen door, a look of suspicion on her face, j that rascally turkey flopped clear of the pan, sped straight under Jones’ feet and deliberately tripped him up! | “Are you riding the turkey to water? ' Mrs. Jones asked, scornfully, as Jones floundered about on the kitchen floor! And then the humorous side appealed to her and her shrieking laugh brought a half dozen guests just in time to see Jones disappear up the back stairway toward the bathroom! Inasmuch as he closed the door i promptly and locked it, none of the | party ever heard just what he said, but they imagined enough to do justice to the occasion! o o o Flub Dubs. We cannot all own automobiles. The rest of us have to belong to the “quick and the dead” class. We cannot all lead the band—but. by jing, I’m takin’ lessons on the big bass drum. If all were star actors who would 1 drop peanuts into the pit? Many forgive, but it is only mother who forgives and forgets. Clock Made of Straw. A shoemaker named Wegner, living in Strasburg, has a clock of the grand father shape, nearly six feet high made entirely of straw. The wheels, pointers, case and every detail are exclusively of straw. Wegner has taken 15 years to construct this strange piece of mechanism. It k< eps wc-iis a white vest-—Galveston News