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The Wingham Times, 1894-12-21, Page 2ka 01111.16TMAS JOYS. UV 1 . R. Atili�IixrxI WK. Draw up the chair about the logs 'That sparkle bright and gay;. That in gqnnint flowers on the wall in madcap frolio play. Oh, toys all erirru'k to the winds, For this is Christinaa day. -.r What it the chilly winds without About the ohltuney blow And high ugainht the trusted panes Make minarets Of snow When A.lhristuias cheer this uozy nest With oorntart sets aglow 1. The hapny child upon the floor, With footings lusoious ripe, • Plays with the ret' toy annual Df ourio;la spot or stripe Wbale'cietin within his little heart The ivir.13 of spriogtivaa pipe. Be maims beneath his loaded tree Beside,the inglenook, ,Alive \vats candies, blocks and drums And ti.inv a picture book ;Front dila. old Santa Glans, who came Last night -but bush --oh, look! • �. lila NV IN GHAM TIMES, DECEMBER 1, 1894, all at O11(e tit the absurdity of setting in her blue eyes. And cider ! A the dinner diahee afterward. lite • such a gigantic bird before a angle whole quart in the big white pitcher 'father washcdl and Ebenezer Green ersoll gigantic d when be saw a platter •--extravagance which could only be. wiped, wishing the directors oftllc. person, • ' as large as the table taken down justified by the recollection that it bank could see• Mina, and the young fall . closeth mother's was Christmas day, feet tripped briskly to and fro until :frons the where his 1i otlt blue and white Canton china was And now the father laid aside the everything was in its place, clean; as ;stored he fell into as silent fit of apron. The cook vanished; the head clean couldli be,. It was a ;ictal laughter. of the house appeared. He laid the t frolic. ' • The woman nodded grimly, with pale mother tenderly to the table, 1 Then they dreaasecl up around, the a quick appreciation of the situation, and the children followed, prancing fire. The big lobes had gone it u n dltuul. apt x t. 'Tis funny, I declare," she • said to their places around the large table Mr. Green's, cellar not many minaates presently, pausing as she reached the which nobody thought bare or poor- before jimmy had worn a path ! door with the great platter in her ly set forth. There came a pause for through the snow to the house next lams, `'but the funniest part of it all a moment—tile little heads, brown, door. It was story telling time, and 'is that the little feller is cookin' this black and flaxen, were bent silently in the cheery glow on the hearth the !minute nett door where they've got over the plates while the father ask- father poured out his soul and told six months to fill beside their own. ed a blessing and thanked Goal for how he had been thrown out of work 'Tis hottest In'un 1" his goodness in keeping them all to- by the closing of a factory; hots hard "Next door?" Ebenezer glanced gether and giving them so, many he bad tried to find another' place, up inquiringly. comforts. And then he took up the but to no avil, and how all they had "Yes, in the cottage on the east carving knife as he gazed anxiously to live upon was the sum his clear side." at the turkey. The revel was about wife earned by sewing and Jianmy s I"Why,. it's tumbling to pieces. to begin. pittance from the market. And the " ' rts.n't fit for anybody to live in." Ebenezer Green turned away, with wife, in her turn, told howbrave and a sigh. The bell had sounded in his patient he had been, with a loving owe dining room, and standing on glance that made liim blush with the threshold of the apartment be pleasure. _• bent a fixed stare on the table, Ancl Mr. Green 'promised that he where there were flowers and silver • should have something to do by and cut glass, and on the side table, New Year's day and gave his word smoking hot and *owned till be upon it, feeling for the first time how crackled all over, loomed up the much happiness a rich man has the mighty outlines of the prize turkey. power to create. For one pian ! • Then it was his turn. The ebil- • All at once the oddest idea popped dree gathered at his knee to drink into the head of that one lean. If in breathlessly his tales of travel by he bacl stopped to think about it, land and sea, of strange countries he nothing would have happened, and had seen and people 4.1e had known the prize turkey never would have queer, quaint people in far off played a part in a story. But, for places,_ whose custom and history once in his life, the old man acted sounded like the most entrancing of upon the spur of' tbe nlmmement. He fairy tales. The baby drew nearer hurried out into the hall, put. on his and nearer and finally climbed upon coat and hat, opened the door, slip- his knee, listening with her great peel back into the dining room and blue eyes wide open. When it was acicled wealth brings inereaase of "Well, folks moved in a. month or :Mere -comes the plillnpand luscious goose so ago resptable looking, but I So savory and brown' guess their are atlou xis poor as can A goal.a promise on xa dish, • v l: and he helps ,•,clown be. 1 . a out of 1 oPp Our Ca,t.S and fear to drown, And plat+., on our trinimphant brows I a> the house handy as a. woman, .A rt::ll though sleeving orowa, tic' she takes in sewing. There's a Come. let ns carte hitt' wh,ls he's hot Iparcel of children, and I don't believe And hreathing fumes of spice, And pile the pungent stuffing high Upon each juicy slice. And in dream shallops lightly rift Through flowery paradise rid afterward we'll =While twilight shade d when we bree'• •,3 the blazi who v they ever have a good square meal among 'em. Think of em setting `down to -day to that mite of a tur- lkey!„ • onr pipes I And Ellen chuckled at the pie- anpear, ture. wishbone frail, : "How do you know: they have that h for ns all !turkey?" demanded e old gentle - 'ear. ; man, more impressed than he would ,,naa..z,„,e,,., ' have liked to own by the curious coin - TURKEYS. ' cidence which had kept the two fowls ' still near neighbors. orious Christmas"The boy told me that brought e and blue skies ours last night. It seems he chores .sty air that whisked for the market sometimes, and they g nares and filliping cave him the.little tlxrkey when they toy bloomed like pea � itstbeing there eough . n't Buts land's sakpect e s out, apid a stream of "I smell something "burning.” . She d along pthe streets in the hurried Win a flutter of anxiety. A mor imaiinable, for, bless Christmas dinner of Gall dinners to be as Christpla:; day, and spoiled! low with the Her master rose and slowly crossed h and good will the hall. He bad been a. handsome • man in his day, and though his hair cungsters 1 ent hurrying had whitened and, his shoulders rd with skates slung over bowed under the burden of years lie shoulders of thexew and glit- was still an imposilg figure. He g pattern especia y delighted in had few acquaintances in the town Santa Claus, for fide as the ice and was regarded with awe, princi- s tale ringing of till noontide bells pally on account of his wealth, ad called up visions sof turkey and which was reputed to' be fabulous, stuffing, filum rennin and mince 'but not a little becauseeof a somewhat pie which no mortal ' 1oy could re -'reserved and haughty fair. prize turkey, but I want you to help sist. j He made his way deliberately to- )ale eat it, for I'm very lonely over .As for the little girl in the new ward the sitting roon'i, a spacious, there all by myself. Can I come hoods and mittens anti nluffe they- comfortably furnished apartment, 1x1 ?• had found 'in the chinney place that with windows looking out upon the morning, between vanityand appetite shabby, weather beagen cottage in they steed irresolute at their own which the other turkey was to end front gates, such happy,rosy, chubby , its ° mortal career. Sure enough, creatures that every bo'.ly smiled in- there were unmistakable signs of crisp, chill air. The spirit of good • voluntarily at sight of teem. occupation about it. will stirred in his heart, and forget - The policemen ona. the corners The neglected garden bad been slapped their arms about like wind- :put in order, the broken gate repair- mins- to keep thcroselveas warm,grinn- ` ed and rehnng, and a general air of ing from ear to ear just because it; neatness gave a new interest and g WAS Christmas day. Anover all attraction to the little house ton,, pealed the joyous musiolof the bells empty and unnoticed: The shades *carols that found an (the, on every were drawn high to let in all the lip. warmth of sunshine of the happy Even the houses wore a gala air.. holiday, and Ebenezer Green could Wreaths of evergreens] hung in all see what was going on in the room the windows high and low, and the as well as if he had been one of the market on the corner was a thing of busy people in it. beauty and a joy forgive`)•, with piles Busy they were, for the table was of crimson cranberries, golden pump- spread with a clean white cloth, and kills, silver turnips, celery. apples, the father, with a troop of exeited pears and nuts heaped 3picturesquely children to help, was at that instant behind its frost etched planes of glass, engaged in the thrilling occupation -arid the whole framed With graceful of taking up, the children's dinner. • festoons of ducks and 4hickens. The another, pale, thin and sweet It was a triumph of 'art. No won- faced, was evidently the guest of der the passers stopped in spite of honor, ensconced in the one comfort - their hurry to gaze upon it for the able chair, with a cushion at her thousandth time and fall to speculat- back and watching the proceedings ing as to what had beome of its two with a charming smile,; half amused, crowning glories—thebiggest turkey half melancholy. ; on record and the smallest—which The eldest boy, a tall lad of 12, had hung there side by side for a who did the chores ,at the market, week past in a contrast at once the filled the glasses with water fresh joke and admiration of all beholders. drawn from the well. Two gleeful Popular belief held that the mon- little girls danced in with dishes of titer, the 30 pounder, had been pur- potato and turnip, and a brace of chased by old Ebenezer Green, the chubby youngsters in much patehed rich and crusty bachelor who lived trousers trotted after with the bread by himself in a big house on the and. butter, to assist hi the serving of outskirts of the town, for he was the sueh a feast. only person who could have afforded And last of all the father appeared to buy it in such hard times. But in the doorway enveloped in a big the little one! There was hardly white apron, to be greeted by an up - More meat on its tiny carcass than roarious shout of delight. For he on a spring chicken. Who had a bore on a plater ---ole me, such a tiny family small ocnugh;to get a Christ- platter l ---the crowning splendor of Mae dinner out of that? the day, the turkey, .`done to a turn s 1 whenMr. Green c acral at the uddan fx set- and 'smelling more; d than e,e asking ellcious d>z . leen brei been,1 Eben t'r' Green gg p '� i 1lialoa�elf the very questioal as he sat ever a turkey smiled before, as the it to blaring fn,burning brandy. Weekly TA,lxe �.11'btitco.--�•�:'ho Tates and Globe will be sent to any address And the fath .. and another loon- inarra or tato United states from now by the fire that vc;r+g• •-�lcaon, now whole family unaar�mously agreed. c Canada tlfn :3 watchin the .;'nll:i,+° Imp up the There was gl"avy, too, in a funny dared how their neighbor had ever tif.7anuary 1st, 1806, for on dollar, pay- &imne now turningto lance at. china pot with a la a handle,and got his reputation of being stiff and Able xn adtranna, the woman who presided over the who pot brought that in ' feeling thim- roud. Never bad so delightful a " Sttbscribe for tack TxM s and p g` g 1t ekeeping laying the table for his portanee of the occasion to the ut• guest descended into. their modest Weekly Globe. 41 a y r, s were a ace on ear n. Your 'Neighbors,. You have, neighbors of some • sort either pleasant or unpleasant, good or bad, riche or poor, kind and ob- liging or hateful • and disagreeable. Don't judge thein too Itarsbl'?' o3^ draw your conclusions too quickly , You think; you know them. Yes., no doubt, you do. But how much do you know of them; bow numb of their own. personal joys and sorrows, how mucic of fondly eherishedl hopes long since faded; of golden apples turned to, ashes ere they touched the Ups; of 'bright dreams that wunle to be only dreams, or castles in the air? How mach do you know? What: can you tell of theirsorrows, their get or shame? They will not drag the skeleton from the closet, and show its ghastly, grinning face to their nearest neighbor. They will not be likely to parade their own faults before you, *nad they will hide the weaknesses of those you have no interest in, lint who are clear to them, just as von would your own. Some signs of kappi'3ess you may have seen, but think not you see the sun when only one sml1 ray has ap- peared. They laugh d sing? Yes, certainly. But in hon l many cases the merry laugh hidek the aching heart! The song, which to you sounds so joyous, may give place to heart -breaking sobs when none are near to hear. Idle curiosity has no place here, but it would vbe well for us all, instead of being s bound up. in self, to take a little n*re 'genuine interest in the inmates or the house across the way. Don't envy your neighbors. If they have riches you may be sure Character Convinc There is; nothing like 'tharaeter. Character is<more than controversy. 'elle fact is that when you get per - feet things, you do not want language.. What does, the Psalmist say about nature? He says it has. no speech or language, and its voice is not heard, Dia you think the su11, wants any syllables to toll us that it shiners? Do you thunk that the morning star needs to bring a letter of roeoxn- mendation with it? Does the sky need any schooling in language to toll us that it is large and beautiful ? Does the sea need to be taught to utter that it is pure and deep ?• Does the puarple heather on the mountain side, the golden gorse on they coin - mon,, the red rose in the garden, do • they meed to practiee rhetoric when they are beautiful and sweet ? Nature does not need any voice. Wherever you get perfection you de not want all alphabet, and you do net want a grammer, and yen do not want a dictionary. Wherever you. have embodied perfection it dispenses with utterance, it stands, out in its. own magnificence and convincing- ness. And I say it will have to be the same with the church. We have got some splendid philosophers to de- fend our faith, and eloquent preach- ers to expound our faith; bu"t if ever the church is to attract the world, it will be a question not of logic, but of life, not of controversy, but of cbar- acter, Nature impresses men with a dumb eloquence, with a silent beauty, with a music without words, and the church will have to do the some; then will it charm and amaze an unbelieving generation.—Rev. Wk,_* L. Watkinson. took up the platter from the table. her bedtime, she laid her .cheek upon cares. Would you change your Oh, but that was.. a monstrous his in a soft caress. humble state for the greatest splend- bird ! Thirty pounds ? Fifty ! Old She loves you, she said, and in a or, if you could know secret grief ? Ebenezer fairy* staggered antler its burst of laughter was led away—not Ab, . no ? If their 114me is more weight as he cautiously picked his far, for the house *as very tiny. beautiful than yours. ;[ God and themselves alone know -vhat passes there; it may be a hous4 of an, of sorrow, or of shame and crime. ache, Sore Throat, i'onsiiftis anu Deaf - Don't ,;et curious and cast sly ness. 60 cents, At Chfeholrn'p Drpg glances. You will never guess just Store• right; but be contented with your If a person were to ask a railroad own lot and believe Gdd knew best When He put you where you are. Store.ally for a free pass for a goat These are old nrovei�bs but true what form of table talk would his nevertheless : " All is not gold that request naturally take ? Why, this. glitters," "Every rose '"has a thorn" of course, please pass the butter. Every heart knoweth its own bitter- ness," `; If your neighbors are not to your liking, don't draw yourself into a shell like a tortoise, but be friendly and social. Lend a helping hand. Remember if you could see the'inner lives, all might be explained. Am I my brother's 1 eeper ? It is an old question, asked first by Cain, but the world bas not cl"one asking it yet. A desire to escape responsibil- ity and live for one's self is abroad. It cannot be done. The old law, "" No man liveth to hiraself alone," has not failed yet. We .re creatures of influence; helped or hindered by each other. Do lour best to ha, e charity, 1 merciful aid helpful, Learn to be p , and some one will callybu blessed. Don't make your circle too select and too shall, but stretch. it out until none are left out in the cold, friend- less and forsaken. Let not one in your neighbor's house go to destruc- tion, because their neighbor took no interest. Were you too "select," The preacher eonsidered the "rush" " high-toned," or selfish'to reach out of modern life and the strain of try- a strong, friendly hand ? ing to do more than botily strength is equal to, to be a principal cause of this evil ; but although, it is very easy to believe that over-exertion either in work or pleasure may pro- duce the effect, as a hatter of fact I have seen more arbitary emper and nervous arritability in pe ple leading a duiet life with no sped '1 interests r p to engross them, than in those whose time is actively occupied. -A middle n course, doubtless, but we should Over went the frets rs, and the never forget that ample occupation nuts and raisins, the apples and and varied interests aro by far the pears and grapes, the mince pies and best preventives of that morbid, self - the plum pudding from the great centred state of feeling from which way over the ice and snow toward the cottage door, and he couldn't even spare a handl to knock. The tee of his boot managed to snake a good, smart rapping, however—a sound so unwanted that the father ran hastily out, with the children trooping in his train. Good clay, gasped the visitor, quite Her childish voice eoulcl be heard prattling on while th elder sister inac'e her ready for 1 ed, and then the group outside feel into silence, while the little one knelt beside her crib and murmured the dear familar words of her Now I lay me down to sleep." Oh; that was a haPpy Christmas out of breath after his herculean ef- day ! As it drew toward its close forts. Good day, and wish you Ebenezer Green linger ed in his sit - merry Christmas'. You don't know ting room, bare and ei ipty after that ane, but I'm your next door neigh he had reit so full of 1 vc and cheer- bot Ebenezer Green. 'I've got the fel content. The e leaped and ' andthrewits 1�fei1 light into flared g the shadows round his chair. Ho felt the baby arms siill around his neck, the dimpled baby cheek press- ed close to his own;, wrinkled and seamed with the cares of the world, and when the chimes`' rang out at midnight soft and clean, the old man bowed his head, and for the first time in many a year hexa breathed a little prayer.—Buffalo News. No Equal to It. As a cure for Frost Bites, Chilblains, Burns and Scalds, Chafing, Chapped Y Inflamed Breasts, Sprains, fiends, � , Wounds, Bruises, Hagyai'd's Yellow Oil ib the most reliable remedy on the market. Come in ? Well, the father saw in a trice how it was, and he opened wide to let in the turkey and its bearer, not to speak of a rush of ting the disparity of wealth and poverty between thenehe felt only a waren throb of sympathy for the soli- tary old man. The 'nether stepped g forward, kindly gentle in a simple courtesy which would hive become a palace. You need not have brought your dinner with you, sir, slit said, smil- ing. You are quite welcome to a share of ours on Christmas day. Jimmy, put a plate for the gentle- man, and John, turning to her hus- band, do not let him hold that heavy platter. Oh, what d turkey ! He must have been raised in a land of giants. So once again it chanced that the big turkey and the little one were side by side. The cot$age was very soon a scene of riotous enjoyment, for Ebenezer's spirits rdse at a bound and he felt like a boy' again. He sent Jimmy back with ;ie. note to his housekeeper, who th ght be had suddenly become m, when she found not only him it the turkey gone. Good Temper. I lately.heard lin admhktble sermon on good temper, the reverse of which happy state of mind was most truly said to cause such an enormous amount of avoidable misery in life. Catarrh relj.eveia, in 0 to 60 minutes.— One short • iiuff of the breath through the Bld'wer, supplied w'..th each bottle of Dana's Catarrhal Powder, diffuses this Powder over the surface of the nasal passages. Painless and delightful to use, it relieves instantly, and permanently cures Catarrh, Hay Fever, Colds, Head house to the small, and the children, who had not had a good square meal for weeks, sat down to a board fairly groaning under the weight of the good things on it. . The little boys ate till they could barley see. The little girls we'e nearly dis- tracted between admiration of the pink roses nodding in the tall vase on the festal board and astonishment disagreeable manifestations of temper most generally spring. ; A Fatal Attack. A, fatal attack of crow, is a frequent occurrence among childen. Every hu b wade bykeep. household s o Id e g d p ing liagynrd's Pectoral Balsam at hand. It breaks ,up colds, coilghs, croup, asthma and bronchitis in•a remarkable manner. holiday tea* ---a feast, alas, of loll- most, but the baby, toddling along household before. K. D. O. 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