Franklin Sentinel newspaper, 1900, Part 390

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FRENCHMEN AND SPORT.

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M. Thiers ha'rd game shooting. Grevy shot like a Jura peasant, and before he rose to the presidency of the 1 republic .iked to hring hack a full bag to his cock.

Mac Mahon's manner of shooting was manly and unaffected. He hated bar- tues, which he inoked upon as massa- eres. One just fire ! straight forward without taking aun. and the game feil on the gr un'

Carn t. a mathe: at'cian and a man of etiquette "kell the battues. They eft n thing to chance an if'e to per- sona sk". Given the number of birds and fouling pieces, one end a ways 'e, th. am uni that w . d figure in the tablica. \. The tho avis the French word descrip;'ve of the sh a of birds laid out by the gamekeepers .n . c par- ng of the forest d' the end of the dax. Sometimes it nelunes for-footed as we .« feathered ga ne. and is quite à pictu e

M F . x Faure was a great slanghter. er of guine. IL.s mn. s'er of 'he gime preserv . was Maj. Lagaren e ( \ng 'te. Bibi:w .r-en-and no # :5 mert. Presic . Faure boasted .' .ast year of his fe that in the snow + ry season put 't in doubt whether the relatives [ that ba just ended he fire ' : sh is. of a deceased person can claim dam The sh t'ng in president .' reserves zus i n para" -: alleys, In which gone is driven by beaters. The sports- nien waze away, Things are arranged to enable the chief guest to k"'l the greatest nomber. When there is no quest of mark at a president al chasse the president does the greatest execu- tion. The late emperor's gun was a .- ways first in the Compiegne preserves. un ess when another crowned head was with him. ages for representations to which that person might have objected if I'v. ing: and the lin its, if there are any to the uses which way be made of the likeness of public celebrities have not been authoritatively defined. But that a living person who desires pri. vacy is entitled to it, an ought Ic he pro !. . ted against the invasion of il by the unauthorized publication of his portrait, is a principle which it is de sirable 10 have established .in these days of intrusive cameras and multi tudinous half-tones.

Over in Boston and thereabout thex are telling amusing stories about the Cuban teacher:

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English. receiving Instruc tion there. One day the teacher! were invited to some sort of an even ing function, It happened that short ly before the hour for the assembly some ladies who were in front of thal house were politely approached by a group of male Cnbon teachers, who with their hats in their hands, stood bowing. "If Vol. please, dear mad ames." said their spokesman. "we are invited at this house to- night.

11€ wish to attend We were been on at excursion, to the distance, and have not the time to go to our house Si that we wear. as you see, our day dress. Perhaps you can tell us If it would be perin'ited to us to go to the reception in our day dress? If it would not, then certainly shall we take the t me lo go to our house an. put on our night dress! The Ind es assured them that they would much better to go as they were than to put on their night dress, and they bowed gravely and gratefu y and withdrew.

Neglectfal of His Opportunities. "They say he's rather dull." suggest- ed the girl in blue.

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THE SENTINEL, TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 18, 1900 .-- SUPPLEMENT:

Christmas

1900

The Litle Lord Jesus is born King to day.

CAROLERS, chanting a song of pure gladness, Worshipers, sounding a joyful refrain,

What are these tidings that conquer earth's sadness, Echoing softly o'er city and plain ?

Hark to the winds and tho waters replying, Jubilant, gladsome, their song seems to say, Over the winter world floating and flying :

The little Lord Jesus is born King to-day !

FAR, where the Bethlehem valleya lay sleeping Silent and calm in the peaceful moonlight, Came there a hurst of high melody sweeping. Rhythmic and tender, one wonderful night ;

Clearer It sounded, the silver stars brightened, Softer, their brilliance faltered away.

Louder, the plain with fair angel forms whitened- The little Lord Jesus is born King to-day!

SHEPHERD.S. on guard where the tired flocks were resting,

Started at sound of the wonderful song,

Wise men rejoiced, as, thelr long-held faith testing, Sweetly triumphant 'twas carried along:

Sages and tollers alike knew the glory Of mualc and angels and heavenly ray ; Listen | We still hear their worshiping story: The little Lord Jesus is born King to-day !

STILL to the thinkers and toilers who need Him Comes the dear Christ-child when winter is drear, Still, through His "little ones" we all may feed Him, Clothe Him, and shelter, and cherish Him, dear.

So in the silence which follows earth's sadness, Waiting, In faith, till the night pass away,

Angels shall come, with their message of gladness: The little Lord Jesus is born King to-day !

ETHEL M. COLSON.

RESURRECTED CHRISTMAS

By Elvira Floyd Froemcke

N ONE of those misty, gray evenings so common to December, a certain street corner was suddenly enhv-

Ened by a gay whistle, a boy, a bundle of hund-hills and a bucket of paste. . With the cold gaze of the electric eye npon him, the boy plastered a bill upon the tall wooden po.e, and then stepped back to gaze admir ingly on his work, and to give an extra dab or two at the loose edges which there- upon clung to their support in approved artistic style.

Three women were approaching from dif ferent directions, and, thinking to do a good stroke of business for his employer by attracting attention to his advertisement. he whistled very shrilly and quite off the key, as he slowly picked up his pad to leave. One old lady stopped and exclaimed, im- patiently:

"If you must whistle, why don't you whistle in tune?"

The boy only laughed good-naturedly aud took himself off in haste, hut the two women approached uttering little expres- sions of surprise and pleasure; for they Were old friends, and at the very moment of meeting each had been thinking over by gone days, when their lives were closely in- terwoven.

"Well, here we are," gayly exclaimed Es- tellu; "three graces in ungraceful attire! Did you ever hear such a fearful whistle as that boy had? First he took me off my feet and then I frightened him iuto finding his. Do see hlu run," she added, as the youth disappeared round a corner.

"Are you going home?" she inquired They simply answered: "Yes," and all turned to read the poster that had seemed to draw them together:

PROF. WENSEL Lectures

Tuesday, Dec. 14, and Thursday, Dec. 16. PSYCHIC MEANING OF CHRISTMAS

"Well!" they all exclaimed, "what does be mean hy that !"

"It seems to me easy enough," said Penel. ope. "It is having the spirit or soul of the season within. 1 used to think of these things once, but Christmas seems a dead Beasun now. Funny, too," she laughed, "when I have here under my arm: 15 proof sheets of Altou's new Christmas story. which I am to correct this very night."

4 "Andl," said Estella, "never celebrate the day now; though I min teaching six new Christinas carols to my pupils, and have an anthem in my music roll to practice for Christinas service in our little church "

"And 1," puffed Urania, "have ten pounds of dried fruits for the Christmas mince pies. It all goes to those greedy boarders of mine, and I am too tired to know what Christmas means in these days. It is a dead! anniversary and practical people have out- grown it."

A flare from the electric lamp sent a Miss Verplanck's hoarding school? Biess me, girls, it will be 50 years this ('hristmax! Surely you remember it?"

light over the three keen, intelligent old faces, and revealed three hands clasped closely and sympathetically. They were all well over 60, and their faces bore marks of Borrow, courage and well-fought battles. Penelope and Urania were what the world calls "old maids" (loving friends wouldl have another name). In youth Penelope bad hud family, home, wealth and rose; now all these had passed from her. She was merely a book canvasser when "the firmi' required her services, or a stenographer or proof-reader when that sort of work pressed. Her "home" wus a back room in a shahhy house, on & dull street in th . sleepy old city; her ouly relative, a hrother. remained. He, alas, was hopelessly insane ; yet the brave woman supported him, al. ways spoke of him as "my weak-minded brother," visited him on every holiday, unu

strove with love and gifts to recall the poor wandering mind. In this duty she never failed; remaining as loyally true to him as to her young lover who had been drowned at sea 45 years ago.

Urania had been an only child, mother less from lurtb. Iler noble old father had laid down his life for his country on tl battlefield of Gettysburg, and, after mourn- ing him so sincerely many years (axested by muurerous impecunious relativesì, she awak ened to the fact that her ntoney was spent her house mortgaged, and she wits on the Verge of ruin through their "care and sy mi pathy." She plucked up courage, swept hel house of kinsfolk, and went practically inte the business at winch she had played tor long. She was plump, rosy and motherly. with great soft hands, a tender heart and a kindly spirit -- a great contrast to the pale. ethereal Penelope and the shght, nervous Estella, but her very dissimilarity was at attraction to the others, their different characteristics serving to draw out the best side of their natures.

Estella had lately returned to the old town where all had lived in their early girl

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

hood, and she brought a spirit that stirred to life many tender memories. She had had her sorrows. Widowed and made childless in the second year of marriage, sbe had to face the world und turn the art that she adored into a packhorse to sustain her life and carry her over hard bridges.

Now the three had met, and-well, they felt young again, and acted so.

"Three old pieces of ilrittwoul toughened hy the tide," snad Estella. "Too old to cel- ebrate anything, even a day antique as (Christmas."

"I have heard that driftwood makes & beautiful fire for warinth and color," said Penelope, softly,

"Yes," added Urania, "and au open fire in so comforting. Three logs and a pair of well polished andirons="

An nuexpected laugh rang out; Estelia was certainly forgetting nerves, and cold, age and infirmity.

"Do you remember," said she, "that aw ful t'hristmas we were forced to spend at

"Well, I guess we du," chimed in Pearl ope, "I was exiled because of scarlet fever at home; you because your mother and futher were called to London, and dear Urania, here, slayed lest we should be un- happy; hlene her!"

"Yes," added Urania, with a slight luals, and do you remember the feast au Extella's rovmu? How you knitted something soft and white, and Estella played minor things on the piano, till a teur dropped on one ol | the apples 1 way roasting for supper, anil how yon stuck your knitting needle in that apple, so that I should swallow my own teur. Then how we danced the Highland schottische, till little Miss Verplanck put her ! head in the door, and said, with that little

cough of bels: 'A little less noise. young ladies, if you please ' "

"Let ns du it all over again," cried Estel. "Come to my rooms on Christmas night at five o'clock. I'ramta may send the cooked 1a chicken; yon, Penelope, shall arud the unts mint cum! es, and I will do the rest "

Prof. Wennet did not become richer i pocket through these ald ladies, but it, as he saul repeatedly in his lerture, spiritual towards always found und enriched him, he must have bern in affluence after this taght People wondered why U'ranis laughed su much, one bald hoarder saying some one nuist have left her a fortune Another thunght she must be on the lookout for a husband after which astute coperture hp give extru attention to his haar und clothes, aud tied his scarf with wundtous cate

Penelope worked with auch real thal b.t employers were surgurred. Our day she hummed a little tune to herself, at which the intor partner remarked:

,"By Juve, there's plenty of courage and work in the ohl girl yet."

Estella spent every spare moment in mak ing her two rooms beautiful and anmach- lute. She had ceased to grumble about the cbmoney place being draughty, It was Do longer "an musatisfactory heater and quite out of date." It was now glorions, such u perfect ventilator and so cheerful.

On Christhis day she was prompt at church. The anthem passed off capitally. Everyone was pleased. She visited the chil

" TIMEt" CRIED PENELOPE.

dren's ward in the old hospital, and was so tunus and lovely that the pale little crea- tures stretched out their hands to ber, and Hanghed a little with their hoarse pain- jaden voices. She had emptied her pockets of pennies to the beggars that hevet her homewerd path, and at three o'clock in the øtternoon hal dusted every article in the quaint room to a fine polish.

Two great broad windows overlooked a sloping hill and the roofs of many houses. Beyond lay the great gray ocean. A side

window was shelved from top to sill, and filled with potted plants that bioomed pro- fusely and overran the ugly red clay that inclosed thetn.

Across one corner stood the piano. was the only really new thing at hand, and its polished surface took on shadows of the ancient grandes, about it, as if in apology for its presence here. Opposite the Hower window was another recess filled with book shelves, where goodly reading was to be had between the shabby covers of many an old treasure.

A few easy chairs and tables lay cozily thon1; and the great brick fireplace with its brass anchirons and high old mantel shelf was the heart und core of the roomt.

Estella land the fine thin old rleth care- fully on the round, polished table, garnish ing it by pinning little sprigs of holly ou its satiny surfare.

She placed U'rania's chicken by the warm hearthstone, and on a stool near by laid a basket of ross apples and a pile of bread with the great toast fork on guard. With much pride of manner she turned out a glass of crab-apple jelly into an old glass dish. and flanked it by another dish of brandied peaches.

"That will surprise the girls," she said. and laughed a little as she showered Penel- ope's lavish supply of candies in every con- ceivahle littie receptacle she conlil findl.

Estella looked queenly. Her black satin zown was old, but she had drawn over the patched waist a fichn of soft yellow lace, sint fastened in its folds a bunch of pretty old velvet wall flowers, Her hair had a trick of curling itself into proper places. and a glint of its old auburn tint was in its white sheen. Her eyes were bright and her cheeks rosy with expectancy

Toward five o'clock the shadows grew heavier. Day was almost gone. Estella went to the widow, louked out a moment of the sen. "Even the great deep is quiet to-day." she said, "and there is no poor lonesiy Estella this Christmas."

She drew the curtains, put a fresh log on the blazing fire and hurried to answer a timid httle knock that came on her door. As the gust uf air rushed in she looked up to see Penelope and Urama with hoods off and hands extended, whilst they sang in nasal tunes the old street waif's: "I pray yon. merry gentlemen." Estella laughingly whirled theig into the room, suying: "I am lismayeil "

With many loving kisses, wishes for "merry Christinas," and soft little words, they were ilivested of wraps and fury and finally nestled down into easy chairs with the restful spirit of the hour floating lightly on their tired senses.

Penelope began knitting some soft, Iluffy white thing that grew and grew in ampi tude; and Urania, after examining the prep- arutions for supper with pleased anxiety, busted herself with toast fork and apples Estella wandered about the room idly for awhile, saying a few words, and now and again touching the cheek or hair of het old friends with the tips of her shght fin gers, Then, finding her wrat at the piano. she drifted off into the land of music and vestasy. n golden-haired chud, softly beck oning the way.

Penelope und Urania kept a quiet nccom paniment with needles aml fork, and up the chunney tiny flame spirit- danced, whole the cherry logs sang a tune all their own As the last notes of "Chopin's Lament" fell on the nir, a great tear splushed down Irania's soft cheek nud fell into the shows heart of. the last roasted apple.

"Time!" cried Pepr ope, though her own eyes were mont, and she drave her knitting needle straight through the unsttspecting

Estella sprang up and came laughing to the lireside, Then up jumped the others. and, singing the "Kre! Row ," danceil about Ite table as in their school days.

For their night before Christmas Is Just Mix mouths long.

L'aruly n Wells. In Judge.

Indispensable.

Mr. Bilus-What are you going to give Bessie for a Christmas present? Mrs. Billus I think I shall give het & tull length nurtur for her room.

Mr. Billus That settles the questill cally enough for me. I shall give het a tough and durable flour rug to go to the front of it. Chicago Tribune.

A MAID OF BERMUDA.

HY F. H. LANCASTER.

(Copyright. 1900, Dally Story Publishing Co.) It had been six months since Iluroid lolromb, much elated by the responal bilitir. of his position, had landed on the hat of coral rock known as the Bernandus He had been ment in a semi-official eu pacity to examine the magnificent font ng dock which Great Britain had built upon this tiny possession of hers, which IR "20 miles synare and the home of the largest floating dock in the world."

The fortifications were built in the good, solid English fashion, and the garrison with two regiments nf infantry made the society of this miniature world pleas- antly gay. Holcomb had the friendship of the soldiers, having rendered sume serv- ire to one of their ollirers whom he had met abroad, and he liked them, for they were u get of hearty, loyal fellows.

That was before a certain maid of the Bermudas came upon the scene. A charming English girl, with fine flaxen hair and wide open eyes of trusty blue. She was the only daughter of a retired naval officer who had made his home ont the largest of the 305 talaud> and lived in a quiet little home not far from the cause- way which makes the two largest islands as one.

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Franklin Sentinel newspaper, 1900, Part 390

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Number of Pages: 436

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