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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1900)
T waa a little Christmas tree, with can ines mi agiow, THAT LITTLE 0HRI8TMA8 TREE. T JLAnd golden bail and sliver stars, a bright m,. ...".ua nining row. . , Tht children dauced around It, and clapped , M their hands with eleei . t ..... And not a child was happier thau the little mrisima tree. Dut next week, stripped of all Its gifts and casi into me yarn, It murmured with a little slghl "Now, sure ly this Is hardl- , To glvo delight for but that night And then to be forgot, Would seem to be for any tree A most unhappy lot t" But Ned and Ted snd little Fred soon spied It wnero u lay. .... ,, "Hurrah!" they cried, "A must! We'll sail and sail away, And far across the Arctic seas Our gallant ship shall go To find the seals and polar bears And Jolly Esquimaux." A plank their shin, a sheet their sail, the happy tree their mast, . These bold explorers northward turned, ana sailed away so fast That soon o'er unknown lands thert warea The banner oc me tree. Tho staff that proudly bore it Was the little Christmas tree, What afterward befell It would take me long 10 ten; , It once became a fairy wood and dryads awcu; , And once a prauclng, coal-black steed. With a noble knight astride: And once a dark and gloomy care Where bears and Hons hide. i . . 7vjvTm i.ir n nn I AUTU'O ntfUT il-Uiuo. A mast! where ekes Out He when, one day, there wandered by raCKCU HtllTl'iuil. . '1 . ik miin Phrtsttnas tree and B.l n me i"'" .... - dragged It nome wim ju A merry blase ne ainuiru. With Its welcome warmiu And the cold bare room was fragrant With the odor of the pine. vlphni.. Helen Standlsh Perkins, In St. Nicholas. )CsOCXXXXXXXCCsXVXaNXC(0 A CHRISTMAS LEGACY. BY MRS JULIA TBUITT .ISHOP. tocoocxocxooxooxoc - - HE neighborhood would have been la very pleasant one, everybody U said. If it had not been for the Bensons. Long residence in the neighbor hood had not made the people fonder of them. Jeremiah Benson was a wrinkled, sour-looking old man, as far back as the oldest Inhabitant could remember, and his sister, Miss Minervy, wns even worse The very children were afraid of them, ' nnd made no inroads on their orchard 01 melon patch. At church the people gath ered out in front in sociable groups after the service was over, but Jeremiah Ben son and Miss Minervy passed out silent amid thv crowd, and had no cordial greeting from any one. They simply did not "mix" with their neighbors and af ter one falls into that habit, it is uot easy to break It. The little minister, who preached !n the church at the cross-roads, looked on himself as a brave man when he ap proached Jeremiah in town and asked him for a little help towards gcttiug the orphaned Murray children to their uncle In Springfield. Jeremiah repulsed him sharply, and told hjin that if Tim Murray bad taken care of what he made, instead of spending it in bar rooms, his children would not be dependent on chnrity. "But no," he said bitterly. "He had to stnv 'roun' the corner croc'rles in town while his young 'uns growed up to insult honest folks goin along the road. So Jeremiah turned his horses' heads towards home, for he had been absent several days. Miss Minervy was in the kitchen when he arrived. "Well, it's time you was gittln back, was her dry greeting. "You needn't wonder if you find everything at sixes an sevens. "Why what's wrong?" asked Jere miah. "Well, In the first place, there's them movers that ye let camp down by the spring the woman s dead. She was bur led this nioruin'. The man says she was sick when they came. This ought to be n wamin' to ye, never to let campers settle oil this place again." "She wns left a widow, an' her brother was takln' her back where he lived, so he could take keer of her," was Jere miah's explanation. "Take keer of her ! He ain't got sense enough to take keer o' himself!" retort ed Miss Minervy with scorn. "I wlsht he'd hitch up an go along, wherever he's a goin'." Jeremiah looked thoughtfully out of the window, towards the leafless oak trees at the foot of the hill. The canvns-covercd wagon was still down by the spring; he could just see the ton of It. Miss Miner Ty expected that he would immediately go down the bill and request the camper to move on, but he did not do so till late that evening. Jeremiah stayed a long time. Dusk came, and dark. At last she heard Jere miah's step a shuffling step, as pf one feeling his way. Presently the door opened and Jeremiah stood there with a big bundle in his arms, "Minervy," be said, and stopped. "Well!" replied bis amazed sister. "What In creation have you got there, Jeremiah' "Minervy," said Jeremiah again, floun derlug helplessly. But the bundle answered the question for Itself, for It all at pare began to wrig gle, and at one end of It appeared two ragged little shoes; and at the other end JEIIKMIAII STATED A 1.0X0 WJIII.K. came up a tangled, golden head and a dimpled, 2-year-old face. "Jeremiah! Whose child Is that? And what are you doing with it?" "It's the dead woman's baby," said Jeremiah softly, and he came nearer the fire nnd sat down, with the baby on his Wier. "Jeremiah, you go right straight an' take that child back to that man," com manded Mis Minervy, "Ho's gone, Minervy," said Jeremiah feebly. "He's been on tho road mcrc'n two hours." "An' where have you been with that baby all this time?" "I've been In the barn, Minervy," con fessed the culprit, In deep humiliation. "I I kep' a thlnklu' I'd come In pretty soon." Miss Minervy wns filled with righteous wrath. But tho baby suddenly kicked merrily at her with both feet, wriggled down from Jeremiah's arms, nnd with a laugh threw her arms around tho neck of Brutus. "DIs Is my doggie!" she, snld. "S'poiiln' we feed 'er, Minervy," sug gested Jeremiah, with caution. Miss Minervy must hnve been very an gry, for she merely stood and glared at Jeremiah. But he noticed, after nwhlle, that Miss Minervy had gone to the pan try, and he softly rubbed his hnnds. How the baby laughed, and kicked, nnd ate, nnd fed an occasional handful to Brutus, who did not care for bread and "An wa ought to fire her better chances at learnln' than what w n had," Miss Minervy went on. "iou'to got to take holt now, Jcremlnh, an' show somo Int'rest In the school, for we'll want the best one thcro Is by the time she's ready to stnrt." "My, Mlnervyl" exclaimed Jeremiah, In! helpless amazement. "An' It's not only for her," said Mis Minervy, kindling with enthusiasm; but wo'll want a well-trained class of young men for her to select a husband from." "Great Scott, Mlnervyl" was Jere miah's feeble ejaculation. Jeremiah found her the next morning, standing In the door, In the clear winter sunshine, nnd wntchlng tho baby and Brutus careering about the yard, the baby shrieking with laughter, and Brutus disgracing himself by frisking like a pup py "We've had our breakfast," said Miss Minervy oh, that exultant "wo"! "An I'm going to town as soon as I'm done," snld Jeremiah. "Not uot after that cnmpcrl" cried Miss .Minervy, faltcrlngly. WANTS JUST A FEW" THINQa K doesn't want so very much At Chrlstmss time this year! in. i rtT little I ilma To boyish hearts so near. He'll be content with Just a few Of all the hosts oT toys That Christmas morning ought to bring To all good little boys. He only wants a rocking horse, A train of cars, and engines, too, That round the playroom roll, A fireman' ht, a mull nd bat, And pollie patroh He speaks about a Noah's ark, With animal" a score. ,.., And koprs that Hsnta'll bring him that, Though he bring nothing more. Of course he'd like some building blocks, A hammer nnd some tacks, A watch that ticks like papa's does, A spade and a pickaxe. I know he'd like bicycle With real rubber tlresi A great big kite Ihst soars up high He ardently desires. He slso wants a "Mother (loose With pretty pictures In, A big brass cannon on two wheels, Home soldier made of tin. He doesn't want so very much. 5!5 PARIS INTRODUCES THE ELEO TRIO ENGINES. jrc jiuMuuau iii ii iiinrf " t i r j- i in .1111 ii ii l ii w I I m ' 1 1 1 at . t-ti i. ai m sr T js&?m?3 . Htvil&mB-zt&SiS&ZL IIHIIIIIU III 111 I MWXIIRi l-fc5SSSiaSSSRSSa . trie B Wr HIT TllTITIH SWWT hi nil 1111 I M Ml nil III III 1 EfiSC 50CSSSSttSM I'rovo Orent Time Fitver nnd Prompt KxtliiU'iUher of l'lmiics-Nnlse nuil Hustle of Horse mid Htcuiii Aupuruttis Katlnct-Hcscrllitlnu of Muchlnea. In PiirU olcctrlcUy lm kiiIhwI nil other victory over liorso ami mU'iiih jiuwur. Tho ,llro (H'imrtnu'Ut la now ubollMhlni; horMos from all thu lltu un jrluo hotuua of tho city and I hi'IIIiib lis old-fiishlontil att'ani llru viiiftiion to country towna. It Is u HtraiiKO ttlKlit when tho llro nlarm soiuuls to st'o tho poiulvrotiH doom of tho uiikIiio Iioiihch lly oimn and front It iMiiiTKo tho inoilcrn electric llio ciiKlnu ninnuwl by only two wiiioiirH. TIiito la nono of tho old atainpliiK und (liiMlilui: of llery hUhmIh. Itnuatlont to 'rush dovvu tho crowdisl nrcmiuii to tho Hcriu's or coulliiKratlon. IK'iv iiKnlii, of 'coiiritc, I tho Hiicctaclo of thu Iohh or occupation to u lot of bravo ft'lhnvH. Thu MiabU'-koopors and the kimim havo been driven out. Instead there In a bIiikIo eiiKlneer ror each vehicle, whoso sole occupation 1 to keep IiIh auto-en- I Klncs In trim during tho loiij; lelstiro liouiH betwi'cn II res and to uiaulptilato ; them when the tire alarm huiiiiiIk. Tho engine and the hook nnd ladder hurry to the (Ires In much quicker tlmu thu n thu fiiMlcHt horsen could havedouo. All the old ditsh or wind, almost uncoil- ! trollablo liorses, driven by u man who seem on the point or being drugged from his sent; tho confusing Hounding i H...i i..tiiu i .1 Ul !tll tltli. irviin iiiiii piitjiiiiii, lit lliu siippeurs. eursliiK ofdrlvera nnd street passengers, taken unaware nil this Ik a thing of the past. Instead tho trim electric lire engine wonds Its way with 'comparatively little noise and consplc- sons may bo lylnir t.nconiclon. coino by amoko, mul t Bard jj accldontH to tho Uretnen Tho bl ladder Ilea WK, muM nlmoHt horizontal condition on n J truck ami la rnlswl to ln mil m,! tllctilar holKht by electricity n,n 'bllllv of ihiu i.i .... . 11,0 ii . .. " "''i""uiH is rcml nlilit ,,H,twl.lli. . .. 'villi liapa M "Kiuiisinii posslblo Tho muulclpnl ntilhorltloa nru iJ pleaM'd over tho hum Vlltlllll .....I believed that tho Inltlittl vo will b08 .I.-.! iu mi mo iiiiko ciiich or Ui tlueiit. YOUNQ HERO'S MISFOflTUrJI U llenrliiu mid wer , I ! lltlp.lne.. PMt A ainootb-faced young man, tr na an nrrow, and dressed In n,0 ut,f of a prlvnlu In tho United Htntes at Hlepiwd lip to tho tlt'Hk nt tlia I Donechntid tho other day nnd rcglit im vjiiHiicn iiiipeier, l'orlliiiu. Mnl in... ...... ,ufl iu yuii wish mo Ainerlcnit or ropenn phinV" luitilrcl the clerk, Ills ctiHlomary proresHlonul n'U Kieetlni;. Tho soldier shook hi bend, ploke, a bit of paper anil wrote i n, ami iltiuib." A brisk eorrcspoud began between the hotel innn nnd vnlo Kappeler, nnd this is t10 wn Hottllvr told his Htory, snya tho Orlennti TlineK-Democrnt Knpimler wns In I'limto,,',, fail rojclmcnt, the Twentieth Knnkas, was n member or Couipnny A. He to thu lMilllpplneN nnd saw active Vice until otic dny, nrier a rorccd m and much exposure In the rain, s thing went wrong with i)J0 y0imR vnte'a head. Everything turtle , beforn III oyen nnd his musket droi from hi Imiid. Ho whirled nboutj ten in tne grouna unconscious, 'IM... t.-lll,.!...... . mi ii.j.uMn m-iv iieppering al at tno ivnnsa Doya nt the time l peler fell, and It wns Hiippowl by comrade that he had been woundc AUTOMOBILE KIHK U.NINU KQUU'MKNT. milk In the least, but ate It with a cheer ful readiness that stamped him a gentle man at heart! Before you could thluk, the baby, nnd Jeremiah, and Brutus, and the floor, were all strewn with bread and milk, and the strangest thing nbout it was that Miss Minervy did not say a word. And then, nil at once, the baby laid her golden head against Jeremiah's rough sleeve, and with a sleepy yawn, went off to dreamland. "Ain't It funny? She ain't afraid of us, Mlnervyl That's what took my eyes the minute T seen her for she leant out o' the wagon au' laughed right In my face!" Miss Minervy turned hastily away; nnd when he noticed her again she was mak ing up a, bed on the lounge. She even found the bundle of clothes that Jere miah had dropped at the door. Then, with a painful flush on her face, she bent over Jeremiah and dressed the baby for the night and laid her In the warm little bed. Jeremiah was restless, and was always peeping Into that other room to sec that all was right, or getting up In n violent hurry under the Impression that he heard the camper's wagon coming back after the baby. At last some slight noise In the other room wakened him from his first doze, and he dressed himself quick ly and took Miss Minervy by surprise. "Anything wrong, Minervy t" ho asked as Bho started back guiltily from the side of the baby's bed. "I was afraid I hadn't cover.ed her enough," she snapped. Jeremiah went meekly away, but not to sleep; and In less than an hour he caught Miss Minervy again, nnd this time she did not start from the little bed. "I was afraid I'd covered her too much," she said sUnply. "Can't you sleep, Jeremiah?" 'Not a wink," he replied, drawing the coals together and starting a blaze. "Neither can I. I've been- thlnklu', Jeremiah. I'll go to work inakln' her something to-morrow. I've got a lot o' things i can fix over for her. "That'll be greut," murmured Jere miah. "No," replied the unblushing Jeremiah. 'T don t think be went that way." "Jcremlnh," she said, with a strange note of appeal In her voice; "to-morrow's Christmas." The little minister and his wife, look ing out of tho window that day, were amazed to see Jeremiah drive up to the gate and come up the walk with the springy step of a young man. "I been a thlnklu' about that Murray family," said Jeremiah with embarrass ment. "A crowd o' children you said, didn't you? an' somo of 'cm babies, maybe! An' you want to send 'em to their klnfolks at Springfield? Well, I've brung along a check a little check " Ills voice bad trailed off and lost Itself, but the minister had him by both hands, and was saying something that made bis own eyes moist something about the fatherless and the widow. "Why, Mr. Benson." cried his wife, "what good fortune has happened to you?" "Yes wan't It good?" he exclaimed ra diantly. "See that baby bed out In my wagon? An look at that doll's foot stick In' out o' that bundle. They's they's goin' to be a stickin' on our chimblcy board to-night! We've Jest come Into, a legacy, Minervy au' me. Them campers left us a baby!" He turned away with a sudden rush of feeling, but at the door he looked back and proclaimed proudly: "An' It ain't afraid of neither one of us!" Jerry's Soliloquy. Maw sez Sandy Clans won't come 1)18 rear, buz ue s on ae bum: nez lie iuhi uiv juu ru so He won't have no stuff t blow in on mo rer presents but Don't seem's ol' Handy'll cut In wld any ploy like dat Guess maw don't know where she's at. -Will Frost. May Christmas always puzzles me. Belle IIow? May I don't know whether I should be thankful for the things I didn't ex pect or disappointed about the things I expected and didn't get. Just a few little things; A poodle dog, a tubby cat, A little bird that sings, A pony nnd n nouy cart A few such things as these A shiny sword and leather-belt, A trumpet and a drum. Some candy nnd some gum, Only a few things, but these few Arc everything he sees. I'M I i A Pickaninny Plaint. Us chlllun needs tno' civil rights. He white folks gotter make some laws, 'Case some ob us, on Christmas nights (Ills clean fohgot by Santa Claus. Washington Star. Hl Hound of Pleasure. "Dickie, did you get anything on Christ mas besides skatcti?" "Yes'm; got th' croup." Chicago Itcc ord. 'NEATH THE MISTLETOE. Bho lingers 'ueath the mistletoe. With blushes all her features glow; She's Just been kissed with vim, and so She lingers 'neath the mistletoe. Haro Chrlstmas-tlnic. as von wu inn Comes only once a year, and so Hue lingers 'neuth the mistletoe. II. II. Sauuicnlg, ulty through the crowded thorotii;li i fares. All that warn of It approach Is the coiiNtnnt ringing of a loud elec bell, which docs not vary even when the iinHsniro Is obstructed. The 'police, however, ure Instructed to arrest 1 the driver of any vehicle that does uot at once respond to the electric jvnraliitf 1 "Much Time In Hnvcd. There Ih much time saved nt the en glue house by thu dispatch with which the new machines can bu manned and started, und, of course, there Is a great suvlni; of time en route and on the spot of the Ure, as electricity proven a stronger pumping power than Hlcnni. The new machines of the Paris llro department were the center of nttrnc Hon at the International congress which wns held ut Vlncennea. Three types of the electric lire automobile were exhib ited. There wns an electric hose en glue, an electric tool wagon nnd a hook and ladder. On the hose engine there Ih a large water reservoir with n capacity of 150 gallons. The entire weight Is Icsx than U.OOO pounds. The electric motor which propels the vehicle Is transformed na booh 'as the placu or lire Is reuched Into a pump. There Is no need or wnltliiK until the llru pint; ou the nearest corner Is unscrewed ami thu hose adjusted to It. There la enough wutcr In the rcHcr voir to begin work, and often n bluze Is extinguished before tho reservoir Is replenished. The rapidity of the new fire lighter Is IncreiiHed by the manner lu which the rubber hosu Is wound around n metal reel. The hose around tho apparatus Is always llllcd with water and the pressing of a button unwinds It auto matically, so that tho firemen's task or handling It Is greatly facilitated. In fact, tho only thing to be done on tho npot Ih to open tho stop cock of the mouthpiece of tho hose nnd direct It ou tho llamcs. Prompt Work nt I'lrca. While the engine Iiiih begun Its work the auto-hook and Judder, manned by six Blalwart fellows, Is busy providing for a fresh supply of wutcr. Tho lire men have tho big bidders, Having ap paratus and the uumcrouH extinguish ing paraphernalia ready for any emer gency. Tho llro hose Ih Htippllcd with threo different mouthpieces, by which the pressure or tho water can bo regu lated; one or them pours out tho wutcr at tho rato or seventy-live gallons per uiinutc. An excellent arrangement with tho now nutomobllo llro wagons Is tho elec tric lighting, which Is ndjusted bv wire alongside tho hose. This Is of great Im portance, ns orten It Is necossnry to throw light In dark corners where per- killed. But when the enemy mi en oIT nnd Kappeler wn picked up I carried back It was found he tial been lilt at all. There was not a nfl on 111 in. but ho did not recover HCinuHUes. mo was put Into a col the Second Reserve Hospital nt Man and In that cot he lay for n whole i "I wim unconscious for four wcel tho deaf and dumb innn wrote. when I ennio to I round a I ted CI nurse bending over me nnd giving whisky and medicine and putting! on my head. I saw by the motlofi her lips that she was speaking to but I could uot hear a word she I soon discovered I wns dear and gradually I lost tho power or spej for, us I could not hear what I was Ing, I could not form tho words. Inst I entirely lost the power of spf und I hnve been deaf nnd dumb since." Tlioy Piled It On. "They do things their own wny tifl Now K.iglnnd," snld tho trnnip onl park bench ns ho gazed nt a biff pooping through the shoe. "Kor BUincp, up In Now Hampshire I crossing n Held when a bull took n me. As ho wns nbout to pick me ui lib) horns I dodged and ho went fully against n treo and broke his ncck." "Well, what wns dono?" wns asl "Why, they arrested me for trcspl On top of that they charged me 1 Inciting a bull to mischief. Then 1 1 held for tho worth of tho bull, audi foro they got through with mo I wnj Jail ror cloven months. I'd haVoj nnothcr month If thcro hadn't bee slip. When tho bull broke his neck I fanner's wlfo fainted nwny, and tj meant to tack on thirty days inoril pay the farmer for her lost tlmo wl unconscious." Washington Post, Pimiuuutlo Tillies. Pneumatic tubes for carrying i sngCH aro an old story In the lard Kuropenu cities. But tho largest! iitu tlii'i-i' those In London, nro 1 three Inches In diameter. It Is onlJ tho United Stntes that tho wholo Ifl of letter mnll Is handled between fill nolntfl. In Now York a tube rcnclfl to Brooklyn Is thrco nnd a half ml Inner nnd olirht Inches in (llnnietcr.i lowing tho pnssagO of a pouch contifl Ing GOO letters Iu nuout soven minus i A nmllintl will do without nn orW ,!. i.iib lonir necdeit, in oruer w i n wedding present or send flowers funeral. t ,h linmn thcro Is S0H10 OHO ' walks off with things that belons it. " I tU6 OUIUID.