Weekly Orlando Herald. (Orlando, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1895 Page: 2 of 4
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The Orlando Herald
JOHN MARKEK, Pob.
Orlando, Oklahoma
We don't think silver dollars should
lie made heavier than they now are.
They are hard enough to raise at pre
tnt.
One of the army of tramps remarkei.
"Times are so hard that It requires
hard work to get along without work-
ing."
Gotham society has taken to grand
i»pera just as it did to the horse show.
Both afford superior advantages for be.
tng seen.
Peffer Is to make war on the congres-
llonal funeral. Th»~re is undoubtedly a
demand that they be lesB expensive and
more frequent.
Prof. Brooks, of Geneva, N. Y., has
|ust discovered his twentieth comet.
Wouldn't you think the professor's
eyes would ache?
A Colorado philosopher suggests to
I'ncle Sam thai "ho buy Cripple Creek"
ind have no further troublo about the
1100,000,000 gold reserve.
The pl&.n-iJothrs detactlve is almost
as successful us the private species in
the matter if shooting Innocent citi-
zens, says a Chicago paoer.
Some of the friends of the candidates
for 1896 are now worried becnuse "the
dark horses" don't prance out on tho
kack and show their suits.
Another "divine healer" is said to
have arisen In the cast. The "divine
healer" gives promise of becoming as
plentiful as the ward heeler.
Senator Peffer suggests more tears
and less champagne at congressional
funera's. Peffer doesn't seem to catch
on to the congressional Idea.
The best estimates i-how that Uncle
Sam has, outside of the treasury, $475,-
000,000 In gold. That which he has been
sending abroad will start back one of
these days. We can hustle along until
then.
Bears are reported to bo more numer-
ous In the Okefenokce swamp, Georgia,
this year than for many years past.
One farmer living near the swamp had
sixteen hogs killed by bears within
seven days recently.
There Is one encouraging sign in the
record of the past 100 days -over 14,-
000,000 bushels of corn have been
shipped across the Atlantic. It will
open a great market, which will not
close, even when prices advance. This
Increase in corn shipments is very en-
couraging. A foreign market for our
corn has long been sought. Cheap
corn has made it.
St. Louis boasts of lodging houses
where the gueit3 3l?ep on chairs and
rest their heBds on a rope. When It is
time to wake up the proprietor strikes
the rope with a club. w hich has much
the same effect or the sleepers as a blow
from a b'lly. Sometimes this method
falls and the rope Is cut and the sleep-
ers allowed to sprawl on the floor. Af-
ter this confession it is to be hoped St.
Louis will make no further complaints
at being called sleepy.
From the annual report of the regis-
trar of the treasury, lately made pub-
lic, it appears that the number of bonds
issued last year was larger than the
amount issued in any other year during
the last decade, and there was also a
gain in the number of bonds canceled.
During the last fiscal year there were
Issued 80,362 bonds with a value of
$195,445,950, and there were canceled
43,072 bonds with a value of $108,-
165,200, making the value of the total
amount handled during the year $303,-
611,150. The total amount of unissued
bonds on hand at th\end of the year
was greater by $83,60 >500 'ban at tho
beginning.
The Statist remarks that If Russia
could export 10,000,000 quarters of
wheat a year from the crops of 1889 to
1892. which averaged 31,600,000 quar-
ters, she could have exported twice that
amount in each of the last two years,
the crops of which amounted respec-
tively to 43,000,000 and 48.500,000 quar-
ters. But the exports were only about
15,000,000 quarters, leaving a surplus
of 10,000,000 for the two years to be
added to the current crop, which is said
to be little above the average from 1889
to 1893. In spite of the surplus Rus-
sians are not selling freely at present
low prices; the Government makes
loans to the farmers on easy terms to
help them carry their grain, and It sup-
plies them abundantly with informa-
tion regarding the condition of the
wheat market of the world, so that the
Russian producers and exporters are
not in haste to part with the grain they
have.
Judging from the latest accounts at
hand from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire
is in a perilous situation. Its officials
have shown that they have lacked
either the ability or the inclination to
prevent wholesale massacres, or to
maintain sucn a degree of internal or-
der as the circumstances of modern
times demand of governments.
In selecting your Christmas presents
this year don't forget that the advert
of the new woman has given the meek
and lowly suspender a much wider
•phere of usefulness.
* vV'r.
CHRISTMAS
great and Joyful a festival as Christ-
mas, It showed, she added, a lamentable
lack of religious feeling to prefer such
a request. She pointed out that pov-
erty, sickness and death were sent by
God himself, and that the true Chris-
tian should submit to them, not merely
XMAS DECORATIONS.
Nod-
W« llavo Copied tlie Customs of
Christian Countries.
Among the votaries of the early
Druids there was a superstition that |
the houses should be decorated with
Rome of the newest double-breasted
coats for winter are worn with ermine
waistcoats in England.
without a murmur, but joyfully, kissing | evergreens in December, in order that
I the rod in remembrance of the gracious I the Sylvan spirits might enter them
declaration, "As many as I love I re-
Scotland yard is so called from a
palace built for the reception of the
kings of Scotland when they visited
London.
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T was a stormy
Christmas Eve, and
the little town of
Tromsoe was com-
pletely enveloped
In the ermine man-
tle of mid-winter.
Snow had been fall-
ing all day, and as
the night ap-
proached, large flakes were still be-
inx driven hither and thither by the
furious wind, which bowled and roared
In the chimneys, shook the carefully
closed windows, and died away in the
distance like the last despairing wall
of n lost soul.
In one of the most miserable houses
of a wretched street, in the worst quar-
ter of the town, a woman by the dint
light of a flickering candle watched be-
side the sick-bed of her last remaining
child. She was weeping bitterly, but
strove to stifle her sobs for fear of dis-
turbing the fitful slumbers of the suf-
ferer. As the furious tempest shook
the dilapidated tenement, she trembled
as If she already felt the dread presence
of the Angel of Death. No Christmas
fagot blazed on the miserable hearth,
the happy voices of laughing children
and kind friends had for her long been
stilled, and the cold, sorrow, and pov-
erty which reigned within seemed but
a counterpart of the desolation without.
Behind the lowered curtains of the bed
could be heard from time to time tho
short cough and labored breathing of
the child, who at last, suddenly awak-
ing, raised herself on her elbow, and
looked across the room, where, as In a
vision, she again beheld the Christmas
trees of her earlier years, with their
accompaniments of tapers, bon-bons,
toys and golden stars, gleaming amid
the darkness of that somber room. She
was a young girl of twelve or fourteen
years of age, and the sweet, pale face,
although In the last stage of emacia-
tion, still retained traces of delicate
youthful beauty.
With her dying voice she still con-
tinued to talk of the fete-days of long
ago, when she was a rosy, healthy little
child, and her brothers and sisters,
Eric, John, Anton, Hilda and Bertha!
crowded around her with their pretty
Christmas offerings; when her father
danced her on his knee, and her mother
sang sweet iullabys by her cradle.
Those days seemed far away. Eric and
her father had perished in a shipwreck;
then, one by one, the others had fol-
lowed, till death had left behind only
the grim sisters, sickness and misery,
as the sole companions of the widow and
her child.
The vivid remembrance of past hap-
piness had brought a strange light Into
Greta's eyes, and soon these childish
reminiscences gave place to hope. She
spoke of the spring which would bring
back the birds and llowers, and in giv-
ing life to all else would surely not en-
tirely forget herself.
You know, mother, the doctor said
that, when the roses came, my suffer-
ings would be over. Will the roses
soon be lu bloom?"
"I have seen some already," replied
the mother; "the governor's wife and
daughter had them in their hair when
I saw them get into the carriage, but
those roses, I think, only grow in the
hot-houses of the rich."
There was silence, broken only by
Greta's short cough. All at once, carried
away by one solitary fixed idea, such
as so often haunts the brain of the sick,
she began to talk again about the roses,
to pine sorrowfully for their posses-
sion, and by alternate beseeching, coax-
ing and commanding she at last in-
duced her mother to go out In search of
some for hor.
The poor woman left the bedside pos-
sessed with the one desire of pacifying
her child, and traversed the streets with
weary steps, debating in her mind what
excuso she would make on her return
for not having procured that which she
felt was entirely beyond her reach.
With bowed head and sorrowful heart
she kept repeating to herself the words
of the physician, so full of hope for
Greta: "At the coming of the first
roses she would suffer no more;" and
well as she guessed the mournful mean-
ing of the prophecy, she could not help
being Inspired for an instant by that
spirit of hope which buoyed up her
child. Quickening her steps, she took
tho road as if by a sudden inspiration
toward the governor's house, hesitated
as she reached the brilliantly lighted
mansion, but at last, taking courage,
knocked timidly at the door, which was
immediately opened by a man-servant.
"What do you want, my good wo-
man?"
"To speak to Madame Patemon."
"I cannot disturb madame ct such an
hour of the night."
"Oh! I implore you, let me see her!"
The servant repulsed the poor
mother, and was about to shut the door
in her face when Madame Paterson and
her daughter, with roses in their hair
and on their bosoms, crossed the hall,
paused to question the servant, and
then approached the widow, who briefly
and tearfully told her pathetic story.
"O, madame! O, mademoiselle! I
Implore you to give me one rose, only
one, for my dying child! God, who gave
His son for the redemption of the
world, will reward you."
Madame Paterson shrugged her
shoulders with a mocking laugh, and
passed on. Her daughter, the brilliant
Edele, remarked that her father did not
buy roses for their weight in gold, to
throw them away upon street beggars.
The door closed, and tho woman
turned toward her home. On passing
the Church of Sainte-Brltta. she per-
ceived the clergyman's wife laying
large bouquets of roses on the altar, full
blown blooms of rich red, as well as
branches of exquisite buds of blush,
orange and pink.
The lady formed a sweet picture as
she bent over and arranged the floral
treasures sent her by a rich parishioner
of her husband's. Her blue eyes spar-
kled with delight, and her voice was
soft and silvery. She was the mother of
six lovely children, and tho widow felt
that she would surely pity her in her
bitter grief. Full of these hopeful
thoughts, she entered the church, ap-
proached the altar, and preferred her
modest request for one rose wherewith
to gladden the eyes of her dying child.
Madame Neils, although by no means
devoid of kindly feeling, was proud in
her own way, and had determined that
Sainte-Britta should be the best deco-
rated church in the town. In what she
mistook for pious enthusiasm, she for-
got that the only true temple of God is
the human heart—that a charitable
action is moro precious in his sight than
tho costliest earthy offerings which can
be laid on his material altar. In the
ardor of her outward devotion, she for-
got that Chrlsthad himself declared,"In-
asmuch as ye have done it unto one of
the least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me," and in her mistaken
zeal she avowed that it would be little
less than sacrilege to rob the altar of
God of even one fair blossom. Upon so
buke and chasten." She offered to
call on thu following day for the pur-
pose of exhorting Greta to submit to
the will of God with entire resignation.
The mother had now lost all hope,
and was returning to her home in a
still more desponding frame of mind
than that In which she had quitted it.
She walked on as in a dream, scarcely
noticing the fast falling snow, while
longing with an intensity bordering on
agony that she might have been able
to procure even a few common flowers
for her Greta. But none were to be
found. Even the snowdrops hid them-
selves in the bosom of the earth, and no
primrose nor violet would be seen for
months. Thus sorrowfully musing,
she continued her walk, and in a few
minutes would have reached her mis-
erable home, when by the light of her
lantern she saw a few green leaves
peeping from the foot of a hedge which
enclosed a garden in the neighborhood.
Stooping down, she scraped away the
snow with her hand. Yes, there were
leaves, large and lustrous, under which
she found a few green blossoms, some
full blown, others in bud, but all pale,
small and without color, perfume or
beauty.
"Ah!" though she, "as there were no
roses to be procured, these little flowers
have been sent that my child may be
spared the pain of knowing that there
are hearts so cold and hard that no
woes of others can soften them, and
who care for no sorrows except their
own!"
As she hastened onward, the deep-
toned bell struck the hour of midnight
and the joyous Christmas chimes broke
and thus be kept free from the blast
of the cold North wind and the frost,
until a milder season renew the foliage
of their usual haunts,
tree is really from Egypt
palm tree puts forth a branch every
month, and where a spray of this tree
with twelve shoots on it, was used in
Egypt at the time of the Winter sol-
stice, as a symbol of the year com-
pleted.
Who does not know the poem be-
ginning
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall,
The holly branch shone on the old oak
wall,
Years ago over every man's door in
England hung a sprig of mistletoe at
this season. There still hovers a mys-
tic charm about the mistletoe, and
many a girl now, with a thrill of ex-
pectancy, places a branch of it under
the chandelier or over the door. Ac-
cording to a former belief, when a
girl is caught and kissed under a
mistletoe a berry must be picked off
with each kiss, and when the berries
have all been plucked the privilege
ceases.
Among the ancient Britons the
mistletoe that grows on the oak tree
was the kind held in favor. Because of
Its heathen origin It is not used often
in church decorations, a fact which is
referred to by Washington Irving in his
It is said that English has become
the fashionable language of the Rus-
sian court. The young czarina now
The Christmas | Russian very woiL
where the
The largest sponge ever sent to mar-
ket was from the Mediterranean. It
was ten feet in circumference and
three in diameter.
A London firm lias nearly ready an-
other edition of "Beside the Ronnie
Brier Bush," making 60,000 copies in
less than a year.
Backsliding has already begun when
the heart stops praying, "Thy King-
dom come."
Mentally only, man is the superior
animal.
Economy is half the battle of life; it
is not so hard to earn money as to
spend it well.—Spurgeon.
Every good and commanding move-
ment in the annats of the world is the
triumph of enthusiasm.—Rousseau.
To endure is the first thing a child
ought to learn, and that which he will
have most need to know.—Emmerson.
I wonder many times that ever a
'hild of God should have a sad heart,
1 >■« "J *» nomiigiuu ti * IUK 1U ma . . i , . . - _ .
Bracebridge Hall," where he has the I <'on*1<lerlng- " hat the Lord is preparing
learned parson rebuko the unlearned I
clerk for this very thing.
In Germany and Scandinavia the j
holly or holy tree Is called Christ's !
thorn, because it puts forth its berries
at Christmas time, and therefore is es-
pecially fitted for church decorations.
mmm
lor him.
True politeness is perfect ease and
freedom. It simply consists in treat-
idg others just as you love to be treat-
ed yourself.
Until we are willing- to do all in our
power to answer our prayer we do not
pray.
The man who can learn Irom his
own mistakes can always be learning
something1.
No matter what a man says in church
you know what kind of religion he has
when you know what kind of compa-
ny he keeps.
HI? I? THE T^IS TV-kT
HAPPY/v\oRN n' pt-
WHEREIN THE 5o^J oF /HEAVE/sl'5
ETERNAL KING.
™EJl.MA,D VIRGIN MOTHER BoR/JV
OUR GREAT REDEMPTION FROM/\BOVE DID)
» BRING. .-r- / .
* i7^FoR 5° J^E ^OLY ?AoE^ ONCE^
DID 5ING. • .j
V^T/HAT HEOOR DEADLY
>j Forfeit should release
CHRISTMAS MEMORIES.
AND WITAAHl? EATAIER WORK
VJ,?A PERPETUAL PEACE.
MI LToN
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>11 her ear. Kneeling reverently on the
snowy ground, the mother's heart went
jp in gratitude, and she prayed the All-
Merciful One to look with pitying eyes
on her sweet and cherished Greta,
pressing the humble flowers to her
bosom. In another moment, she had
risen and passed onward with her
treasure.
As she drew back the curtain to offer
the dark leaves and little green blos-
soms to her darling, she made a discov-
Bry which startled her. They had
given place to large, exquisite white
blooms tinged with a delicate pink.
"Roses! roses!" cried Greta, "O,
mother, who gave them to you?"
"it was a Christmas piesent," replied
the astonished mother.
At the sight of these lovely Christmas
roses, the dying girl bowed her head,
and softly kissed each precious blos-
som. Then she fell back on her pillow
with a sigh. "The light that was never
on land or sea" came into the beauti-
ful blue eyes, and her lips half-opened
with a radiant smile. The prophecy of
the doctor was fulfilled. The roses had
appeared, and her sufferings were
ended. Her pure young spirit had
passed upward in one ecstatic burst of
love and thanksgiving.
Since that time (long ago) the plant
which grows under the hedges, beneath
the snows of winter, has continued to
produce beautiful white blossoms and
retained the name of "The Christmas
Rose," which was given to it by tne
good women of Tromsoe.
Remember
That good health, strong nerves, physical
vigor, happiness and usefulness depend
upon pure, rich, healthy blood. Remem-
ber that the blood can ba made pure by
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
The One True Blood Purifier, f 1; 6 for
Hood's Pills cure biliousness, headache. 26o
I World's Falrl HIGHEST AWARD. {
IMPERIAL
i <3tranum i
j Many competing FOODS?
::have come and goneCj
?hecn missed by few orj
5 none the popularity of this |
;F00D steadily increases!\
Sold by DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE I
John Carle & Sons, New York.
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Choctaw. Oklahoma & Gulf R. R. Co.
HIIORT LINK BRTWRKN THE WERT AND EAST.
THE NEW WAV. THE SHORT WAV.
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With its glossy, dark leaves and bright,
red berries, it is an attractive decora-
tion for the house.
The Jews used to decorate at their
Feast of Tabernacles with evergreens
and flowers.
The laurel was used at the earliest
times of the Romans as a decoration for
all joyful occasions, and Is significant
of peace and victory.
In some places it is customary to
throw branches of laurel on the Christ-
mas fire and watch for omens while the
leaves curl and crackle in the heat and
flame.
The evergreen tree is a symbol used
as the Revival of Nature, which as-
tronomically signifies the return of tho
Sun. Hung with lights and offerings,
the tree has for centuries been one of
the principal characteristics of Christ-
mastide.
Till': CHOI 'TAW I.INK
Eur further luforiuutio
r .J. I\ Iloi.ui
-si iikm's ninl freight mo* Ing Into or out
ma and Indian Terr I tor leu.
r ticket* read and freight is routed via
all on any railroad Agent,
Trattle. Manager.
Rout ti Me Aleiter, I. T.
I'raxfm* I. (Iowkn, Pren'tdc tien'l Mgr.
Philadelphia. I'a.
THE A Fit MOTOR CO. does half the world's
\~inf!iulii business, because It haH reduced the cost of
Wnd power to | o whitf It wa.s.# It has many branch
bouses, and supplies its goods and repairs
k at your door. It can and does furnish a
- better article for less money than
r others It makes Pumping and
Idoarec., steel, (jalvanlned after-
'Completion Windmills. Tilting
r and Fixed .Steel Towers. Steel But* Saw
Frames, Steel Feed Cutters and Teed
l tlrlnders. i in application it wilt name one
of these articles that it will furnish until
January 1st at i/:\ the usual price. It also makes
Tanks and Pumps of all kinds send for catalogue.
Factory: 12th, Rockwell and Fillmore Streets, Chicaxo.
DRUG STOCKS
l.hum, well selected Stock of llritKB with fixtures.
WILL SELL CHRAP FOR CASH.
Address Frank lln»lie.v, ViSt N. Emporia Avenin
WICHITA KANSAS.
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The Fat. of » (ilft.
On Christmas morning I gave her,
With a reckless impulse, my heart.
The gift had a loving savor,
And she took it in kindly part.
But it was a present and, therefore,
I'm afraid It lies on the shelf;
It was something she didn't care tor.
And something I wanted myself.
The Trump's Christmas.
"Silas," said Mrs. Ulogue, wiping her
tear-dimmed eye with the corner of her
gingham apron, "this is the anniversary
of the day our son William disappeared
from home after you reprimanded him
for staying out late o' nights playing
pool or something."
"Yes," assented her husband, sharp-
ening the carver preparatory to dis-
secting a nicely browned turkey. "It is
exactly ten years since he went away,
and without just cause, too."
But don t you think you were a
little hard on him, Silas? It was only
3 o'clock In the morning when he came
home, and boys will be boys."
"He made a mistake In goin' away,"
replied Silas, clipping off a wing: "an'
1 guess no one knows that better than
William by this time."
Maybe so, but I had a strange dream
about our absent boy last night, and
something tells me that he Is coming
home, like the prodignTson, and I have
put an extra plate on tho table, at I he
place where he always sa . lim
PARKER'S
_ HAIR BALSAM
Clear,.r, and beautifies the hair.
I rmnotci n luxuriant growth.
J*ever Faila to Restore Oray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cuic'i «rnlp di(«>A*es & hair falling.
flOe.and <1.00 at DrimguU
VARICOCELE C^ED
Rupture and Piles no pay.
WHY DON'T YOU BUY CORN?
PIIODI t'KHH, poll ynui'products and write to ii« for
Information how to make l>ig money on tha pen.
eeptU in the |iurehaNe of corn on margins. Inform**
t'on ami IkmiI. .,n ..peculation vhkk, I. F. VAN nilkbl
A CO., *31 LaHallr St., «
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Jytdluiaat war, l^adjudicathigclaiiUB, attjraiuce.
I Morphine llahit. Cured in 10
to 20 Nnjiuy till cured.
DR. J.STEPHENS, Lebanon,Ohio.
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