*J"HAM KSGIVIN*
H, THE wind la
Through the
wmOQ ( l branches of the
A trtts so bleak
and bare;
/ \ IVI And the sky looks
kinder threat'nln' and there s Jest a
hint of snow.
And November's writ his name most
everywhere.
Eut the bright red fire's a-roarin' up the
bit? brick chimbly flue,
And the old house Kinder wears « happy
grin;
•What .s the odds about the weather when
the loved ones grit together.
And it's jolly o'd Thanksgivln' come ag'in'.
There's a turkey full of stuftin' that's a
plctur' fer the eye,
There's a puddin* that won't hold an
other plum;
There's cel'ry and there's cranb'ry sass,
there's mince and punkin pie.
All settin' thtr* a-holl'rin' ter yer:
, "Come!"
£7lhere's mother, who's been countin'
up the days fer weeks ar.d weeks,
And me a-feelln' young as twenty-four.
And there's welcome runnin' over jest like
dew drips off the clover.
For it's jolly old Thanksgivin' come once
more!
Oh, it's good ter be a child ag'in, if only j
once a year!
It's good ter have the children round the 1
place.
It brings yer back the old sweet days in
mem'ry allers dear.
Ar.d kinder smoothes the wrinkles from
yer face.
Our boys and ga!s are back at home with
children of their own.
go iet the fun and frolics now begin;
We old ones' hearts are cheery, though our
eyes, maybe, are teary,
For it's blessed old Thanksgivin' come
ag'in!
—Jt.e Lincoln, in Philadelphia Saturday
Evening Post.
A H^sGl\/l yTORY'
Pliam James Titus, I
iino 11 n ted mail j
of the Gunnison
country with an unwelcome compan
ion. The companion had joined him
at Yoe's ranch, where he had been
staying for a month, bracing up a
degenerate lung. Titus hated a
"lunger," as he opprobriously termed
the invalids who made Colorado mel
ancholy; and, anyway, Titus was a
man of prejudices. He covered more
grc und than any other mail carrier in
the whole state, and the snowbound
pass that would daunt him, the height
which would make him giddy, the
path he would not venture, the storm
he would not face he had yet to en
counter. His critics might have
claimed for him more bravado than
■wise courage—but Titus did not care
about critics. Talking was one of the
superfluous arts at best, according to
Bucking Titus.
That was one of the two reasons
why he objected to Bernard Ander
son. his companion. Anderson would
talk. He exclaimed about the glory
of the mountains; he thought it
while to make comments
"upon the splendor of the autumnal
foliage, and he even went so far as
to say what he thought about the
mists that entwined themselves
around the cruel front of the Old
Man's mountain—that grim wall of
granite whose canyons knew the
blackest tragedies of all the moun
tains in the country round about.
Anderson was stupid enough to relate
some of these tales—though they were
ancient history to Titus.
But the second reason for dislike
which Titus entertained for Ander
son was of a more serious nature.
Anderson had been four weeks un
der the same roof with Claribel Yoe.
As for Titus, though for two years
past he had ridden over the pass like
the wild huntsman, thinking only of
the face that he should see in the val
ley beyond, lie had never so much as
known what it was to press her hand
or to sit opposite to her at table. To
be sure, she had brought him out hot
coffee now and then or bidden him to
sit beside the fire, and on holidays
hud given him a true stirrup cup, yet
he said to himself with endless itera
tion that she cared nothing for him—
that she had never noticed him any
more than she had 20 other men.
All men were chivalrous to her.
How could they be otherwise? She
ccaxed sociability out o{ the solitude
ar.d made a home in the wilderness
ar.d tenderness in the country of
granite rocks, and there were warmth
and light and cheer in her dwelling
among those bitter snows. Perhaps
Claribel Yoe had ceased to be a mere
■woman and become something sym
bolic to the men who knew her—the
adventurers who passed along the
cruel road to Tin Cup.
Anderson, taking the unnecessary
trouble to pick the way for his horse
—who was an old mountain climber—
talked cheerfully to the mail carrier.
"it's an experience that a city man
like myself is sure to remember to
the last day of his life, you know.
3 never felt such liberty in all my
life. Faith, I've seen no paper that
was not a week old before I got it,
and I m as ignorant of my business as
you are. But I'm glad of it. I'm
rested clean through to the boues.
And then the people at the ranch!
Why, .Tim Yoe's a man in a thousand!
I've seen smart men, but he's got
more practical sense and courage
crammed in his head than any man
I ever had the pleasure 01 meeting.
As for Miss Claribel, she's an eidel
weiss here in the snow,"
Bucking Titus gave a fierce lurch
at the saddle bags, though they
seemed to Anderson to be adjusted
quite correctly.
"Ilow a girl can grow up in such
surroundings as hers and yet have
that soft voice and charming accent
and all those adorable little ways of!
hers is more than I know. And fclie |
manages the affairs of the house per
fectly. It doesn't matter how many
drop into dinner, she always seems
to be prepared for them and to make
them welcome. The servants are at
her feet. I thought I'd seen some
mighty tine ladies in my day, but 1
confess I had to come to the Gunnison
country to see the finest of them all.'"
Bucking Titus spoke. He was a
hero in his way and had known gre«t
dangers ana had had combats with the
elements and with wild beasts and
wilder men but he spoke like a sulky
schoolboy.
"if you think so mighty much of
her,"' said he, "why don't you take
her out of the Gunnison country?"
Bernard Anderson threw back his
handsome head and laughed.
"Good-by!" cried he."l like the
idea! I'll have togo home and think
the matter ov«r. If it seems likely
that she will fit into the life there—
who knows?"
A "cotton tail" scudded out of the
drifting snow before the men, and
Anderson shied. Fortunately his
horse stood steady. As for Bucking
Titus, he sped n bullet quick as
thought, and the little creature gave
one last leap and lay inert. The
mail messenger dismounted and
picked up the pretty beastie.
"It will do for Aunt Dolly's stew
pot at the boarding house," said he.
"Bu,t this is for you and he cut a
foot off with his k .ife and handed
it to Anderson.
"Thanks!" cried the young city
man, delighted. "As like as not it
will bring me the eidelweiss of the
Gunnison snows. Eh, Titus?"
"As like as not." responded Titus
through his beard, anu he.put spurs
to his horse.
Two days before Thanksgiving
Bucking Titus started on his itinerary
with the full intention of timing him
self so that he would Vie invited to
I eat turkey at Yoe's ranch. This was
j before he had reached Bixby's, where
| he looked over his mail while he ate
j his breakfast. The process of Iook-
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'THE DOGS ARE HOWLING FOR THEIR SHARE AND PARSON HAS TO SAY
GRACE YET."
ing over the mail was always inter
esting to Titus. Folk diet not have
so many letters in those snowbound
solitudes but that all took an interest
in their going' and coming; and Titus
was honestly anxious to learn what
Xancy lliggins wrote home from
Ouray to her mother; and he waited
till old man Sessions had opened
Frank's letter from Xew York that
he might find out how the boy was
getting on and how he liked his job.
So when he saw a letter addressed in
a masculine hand to Miss Claribel Yoe
and bearing a Cincinnati postmark, he
knew Just as well as if he had read it
that the handsome young Anderson
had magnificently concluded that she
would "fit in"to his comfortable life
and surroundings, and had written to
tell her so. Titus cursed him for a
puppy. He hated a man who made
confidences, and any man so loose
of soul as Anderson, who blabbtd his
affairs to any chance companion,
seemed to him something less than a
"natural."
''But she's bound to like the pretty
boy," he thought. "He's the kind
that takes a woman. Somehow, the
nicer a woman is the bigger fool she
marries."
And he said to himself that he would
make no effort to eat turkey at Yoe's.
But it may have been that his horse
was fond of turkey—no, that is wrong,
for there were two relays between Bix
by's and Yoe's. Indeed, upon reflec
tion, it is absolutely impossible to tell
just why it was that Bucking Titus
drew rein at Yoe's ranch at high noon
of Thursday and blew upon his horn
like a warder of an ancient port.
Ten Jaees appeared at the front win
dows and the door. There were t>he
three dogs, and the two Chinamen, and
Danny Cuinmings from over the range,
awl hvans, the Methodist missionary,
and Quivey, the engineer, and Yoe.
blond and glowing as Olof. and Clari
be:, with mountain berries in her yel
low hair and a smile of welcome in her
violet eyes. Bucking Titus turned a
, trifle giddy and reeled a*> he tried to
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1900.
walk to the door—but. that, no doubt,
was because of the cold. Yoe brought
him a hot »rlas* of goodly drink.
"You've hit it in the nick o' time,"'
cried be. "The turkey is just coming
out of the oven, and it's been sizzling
mad these lust two hours because you
wasn't here to help eat it."
Savory scents and liot-oven sounds
emanated propitiously from the kitch
en. Bucking Titus tried to be gay. and
made a good deal of noise as he got out
of his bear cont and unbuttoned his
leggins. But his heart was trembling
like an aspen in a storm and he felt
.sick—like a man who hears the ham
mer that makes his gibbet. He delayed
pusillanimously for about five minutes
before he pulled out the letters. There
were two for Yoe and the fatal one for
Claribel.
He tried not to look at the girl while
she read hers, but finally he had to
steal an upward glance. Her face was
flushed a little and she was smiling.
An invisible hand of iron came from
somewhere and griped the mail car
rier's throat. He leaned his head upon
his hand.
After a minute the girl came over
and sat near him, her letter in her
hand.
"You seem really ill." she said, softly,
looking at him with a glance of friend
liness that almost broke his heart.
"Was it so very cold?"
"Xot so very cold. You'd better
write the answer to that letter before
1 go so I can take it on with me. Or
yon can fix up a message and I'll wire
if you like."
"You are uncommonly good. Mr.
Titus, but there is no haste." The ac
cent was dry.
"Kb?" gasped Titus, stupidly.
The girl broke into a radiant smile.
"Are you so anxious to get rid of
me?" she whispered.
"Good God. no! Are —are —you —"
"Am I going of 013' own free will?
No; so there!"
The mail carrier leaned back in his
chair with a sigh of indescibable relief.
The Chinaman brought the turkey in.
It was .*1 lordly bird, and the hungry
mountaineers arose at its entrance—
one rises when a king enters!
"Anything else you want to know?"
whispered the girl, archly. Her eyes
were dancing, her lips parted, her
cheeks crimson. She was tempting
past resistance.
"You know there is something else
I want to know," came back the whis
per. He caught her hand with a cruel
• clasp. "Do—do you—Claribel, do you
ever think of me?"
"Sometimes. Thursdays." (Thurs
day was mail day.)
He dropped her hand, and witb a
white face walked toward the table.
She caught at his coat, unseen by the
others'. lie stopped and faced her, his
eyes piteous.
"1 think of you some other da 3's, too,
Mr. Titus—most other days."
"Claribel!" There was a beseeching
inquiry in the tone.
"All other days, Mr. Titus."
"Claribel!" This time it was joy
thnt s.hook his voice.
"Come, come, come!" called l'oe to
them above all the racket of laughter
and talking and shuffling of feet. "The
dogs are howling for their share, and
parson has to say grace yet. Get to
your places, you two hack there!"
They went to their places, which
happened to be s.ide by side.—Chicago
Tribune.
A JUST CAUSE.
"For what are you thankful?" the father
inquired
Of his dutiful son, Master Freddie.
The boy hesitated, and then gave a wink:
"Oh, just because dinner is ready."
Objects of Pit}-.
"hiving- in a flat isn't so bad."
"Why not?"
"We are always invited out to din
ner on Thanksgiving day."—Chicago
Daily Kccord.
He Spent OTfr SI,OOO,
Mr. B. A. L. Thomson, the Atwood huCd.
rg, Chicago, 111., wrote, August Ist, 1900:
1 have been troubled for live years witb
Azema, went to different watering places
,lid baths and tried many remedies sug
gested by friends and eminent physicians
it a cost <if over $1,00(1, all of which had
done me no good. At the suggestion of a
friend 1 decided for a last try to give your
Lotion a trial, with the result that it has
cured me, and I hope this letter may be
taken advantage of by some poor unfor
tunates, knowing it will cure them."
Palmer's Lotion has l>eon before the pub!ic
over 50 years and has effected thousands
of cures. If your druggist hasn't it, send
tr> Solon Palmer, 374 Pearl Street, New
York, for samples of Palmer's Lotion and
Lotion Soap.
He Snurrd In Two Keys.
The night clerk of a kading hotel of Wash
ington, 1). C., says that last winter a south
ern congressman came to himand demanded
that his room be changed. When asked
what displeased him, he replied, angrily:
"Well, that, (ierman musician in the next
room and I d'on't get along well. Last night
he tooted away on his ciarionet so that I
thought I never would goto sleep. After I
had caught a few winks I was awakened by
a pounding at my door. 'What's the mat
ter?' 1 asked. 'lf you please,' said the
German, 'dot you voufd schnore of der same
key. You vas go from B flat to G, and it
spoils der moosic.' "
The Ccimn.R of 1000.
A booklet giving the population of all
•ities of the United States of 25.000 and
over according to the census of 1900, has
just been issued by the passenger depart
ment of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. J'aui
tailway, and a copy of it may be obtained
by sending your address, with two-cent
stamp to pay postage, to the General Passen
ger Atrent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway, Chicago, Jll.
*IOO Kenurd SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
dis*tse that science has been able to cure in
nil its *tagcs, and that is Catarrh. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Hall's ( atarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature fn doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure,
bend for list (»' testimonials.
Address !•'. J. Cheni y & Co., Toiedo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
T'su.'il Way.
Bobbs—Too bad about Xobbs. Lost all cf
his furniture because of a fa.se alarm of
fire at his house.
Dobbs —But if there was no fire, how
could his furniture l>e destroyed?
"Well, you see, Nobbs lives in a suburban
town where they have a volunteer tire de
part men t."—Baltimore American.
What Shall We Have for Dessertf
This question arises every day. Let us an
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healthful. Prepared in two minutes. No
boiling! no baking! add boiling water and
set to cool. Flavors: Lemon, ((range, Rasp
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It is the easiest thing in the world to
tee that wealth is ,i curse—so long ;•> the
oth r fellows monopolize it. —Chicago Daily
Newt.
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New rule of the Don't Worry dub: If you
are hungry, don't try not to worry about it,
but try to get something to eat. —Atchison
Globe.
To Cure a Cold in One Ilay
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists tef und money if itfails tocure. 25c.
"A thief stole all the harness from mv
stat > .ast night!" "Didn't he leave a
truce?''—St. Louis Republic.
L.i»ue*s I'niLlly ItlcClolue.
Moves the bowels fcach day. In order to
lie healthy this is necessarv. Acts gently on
the liver and kidneys. Cii.es sicli head
ache. Price 25 and 50c.
Laugh, and the world Ititighs with you;
weep, and it laughs behind your back.—
Town Topics.
Cou£;iiinj£ Leads to Consnmptlon.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at
once. Goto your druggist to-day and get a
sample bottle free. L ,-ge bottles 25 and 50
cents. Go at once: decays are dangerous.
If it was not for the Australian ballot sys
tem a good many men would not make their
mark in this world.—lndianapolis News.
PI-o'h Cure for Coiisumption is an infalli
ble remedy tor cough* ar.d colds.—N. W.
Samuel, Ocean Grove, X. J., Feb. 17, 1900.
"Do you know what I did with my old
wagon?' "No." "1 sold it f< r a hearse.
And now people are just dying to get to ride
in it!" —St. Louis Republic.
Sweat niii fruit a<Ma will not discolor
goods dyed with Putnam Fadeless Dyes.
Soul by all druggists.
The traveler in a desert is a well-wisher.
—Chicago Daily News.
Drugs have their uses, but don't store
them in your stomach. Beemnn's Pepsin
Guin aids the natural forces to perform their
functions.
Cenuirce
Carter's
Little Liver Pills.
Must Bear Signature of
Sec Fac-Slmile Wrapper Bellow.
p— — ■■■ ii—».<
Vcrr small and as oasy i
to take as soger.
ft a DTSTQ'O HEADACHE.
LtArll trio for dizziness.
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information from the doctor, who, therefore, is unable to
accurately locate her particular illness.
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