Wn as cov a a THANKSGIVING DAY! { With grateful hearts let all give thanks, _ 4] lands, all stations, and all ranks: * And the cry comes up along the way, For what shall we give thanks to-day? For peace and plenty, busy mills, “’The cattle on a thousand hills,” For bursting barns, wherein is stored The gold-a grain, a precious hoard: 5 Give thanks! ¥or orchurds bearing rosy fruit, For yielding pod and toothsome root, And all that God declared was good Jdn hill or dale, or fleld or wood: Give thanks! For water bright and sweeet and clear, A million fountains far and near, For gracious etreamlets, lakes, and rills “That flow from everlasting hills: A Give thanks! i For summer dews and timely frost, { "The sun's bright beams, not one ray lost, } For willing hands to sow the seed b And reap the harvest, great indead; | Give thanks! ae i . For hearth and home—love's altar fires— For loving children, thoughtful sires; i For tender mothers, gentle wives, { "Who fill our hearts and bless our lives: Give thanks? For heaven's care, life's journey through, i For health and strength to dare’ and do, i For ears to hear, for eyes to ses Earth's beauteous things on land and sea: Give thanks! -M. A. Kidder, BESSIE'S THANKSGIVING. BY KATE M. CLEARY. r ¢Yes; and I-—heard.” - . “Oh, don't-—don’t mind, dear!” sald Mrs. Dotty, soothingly, putting a hand that looked like wrinkled ivory on the girl's arm. “Ho is just a cross, soured, lonely old man.” “I do mind 1” Bessie passionately cried. Oh, I do! I sha'n't stay here! I sha'n't be an expense to him any longer, I will go away somewhere!” Bhe broke down in a fit of bitter weeping. ‘‘Now, Miss Bossie, dear, you mustn't cry that way: you really mustn't. I loved your mother before you, and I love you." But the poor, little, old comforter was almost crying herself, Years before, the Kirkes were the people of wealth and position in that part of the country. But one trouble after another had come upon the house. First, the wife of the master died. Maud, the daughter, married a man whose only crime was poverty. He was a frail, scholarly man, quite unfitted for a fierce struggle against adverse fortune. He fell ill and died. A year later his wife followed him, leaving their child to its grandfather, Godfrey Kirke. To the latter had come the final blow when his only son Robert, his hope and pride, had run away to sea. Then in the house, which since the death of the mis- tress had been a cheerless and dreary place, began a rigid reign of miserlineas and consequent misery. Bessie broke from her friend and ran upstairs and into her own little bare room. There was no fire in the grate, though the day was cold with the pene- trating damp of &¢ wind from off the ocean. Shs went to the window and stood there looking out across the flat brown marshes, to where the waters MOST diffident and modest knock it was. | Perhaps because | it was so very diffident, so very modest, irritated | all the more the | peculiarly alert nerves of Mr. Godfrey Kirke. “Oh, come in, come in!” he cried. An elderly woman entered the room. Bhe had a small, pale withered face; a kind face, though, pleasant, gentle, $Bhe was dressed in a worn dark gown. The net fichu, crossed over her slender shoulders, was clasped by an old-fash- foned medallion. “To-morrow will be Thanksgiving- eve,” she said; ‘‘I wished to know if I aight prepare for the day after.” An originally handsome apartment, this in which the old man sat, and it had been handsomely furnished. Now | both the room and its belongings bore | the mark of creépiog poverty, or ex- freme penuriousness. The master of the ouse, seated by the center table, scemed to share the character of the room. He, too, had been handsome once. Now he was expressive only of age and in- digence, from the threadbare collar of his limp dressing-gown to the tips of his thin and shabby slippers. s‘Prepare what?” he growled. “Why s turkey, sir; or a pie, or—or $ bit of cranberry -sauce, sir —" He looked so fierce, her words died in her throat. “Turkey! And where do you sup- I can get the money to spend on rkey? And pie! To make ns all sick, and bring doctors and doctors’ bills down on me! And,” with a saiff of Risgust, ‘‘cranberry sauce—the skinny stuff! No, Mrs. Dotty, A bit of bacon and some bread will be good enough for poor folks like us-—good enough.” . His housekeeper, for that was the un- #uviable position Mra. Dotty occupied in Godfrey Kirke's household, resolved to snake one last appeal. Son, come mv, come x!" HE CRIED. “But I thought perhaps on account of | ‘the child,” she began. “The child—the child!” he repeated, irascibly, *‘I'm sick of hearing about Jer.” Indigoation made Mrs. Dotty quite “bold as oa S **Bhe’s your own granddaughter, sir, “That’s what she is.” “Well, I didn’t ask for her, did IT 1 imever wanted to adopt her. What right had her mother to make such a hand of herself by marrying Tom Pe rett, and then ccme back to die here, and leave me her girl! Eb? Bhe's an espamd, 1 tell you; that's all. An ex- nse Pe The Lord help us, but he's getting ! worse than ever!” murmured the womaa, as, with a bang that was downright dis- Feipacitu, she slammed the door behind “You-—you, Miss Bessie!” "She started, as she looked up, snd saw [Raseio Barats stain so neat hor: She -h little thing, of ‘about seventeen. She was clad finan ill- “A horrid day,” she said, with a She put on a short old Astrahan jacket, a little felt hat and a pair of much-mended cloth gioves. Then she The dusk, the dreary November dusk, was filling the room when the old man, plodding over his accounts, laid down his pencil and rang the bell. Mrs. Dotty responded. Mr. Kirke kept but one other servant (if Mrs. Dotty could correctly be termed a servant), and she absolutely refused to enter the protest. ing presence of her master, “Teal” “Yes, sir.” The meek housekeeper withdrew. Teun minutes later she brought in a tray on which were tea, bread, butter, two cups, two saucers and two plates. Mr. Kirke poured oat his tea, shook a little of the sugar he was about to use back in the old silver bowl, added carefully a few drops of milk aad cat a slice of bread, “Batter has gone up three cents in the last week,” he said. *‘I can’t afford to use butter.” S80 he munched his bread dry, with a sense of exaltation in his self-imposed penauce. He would not opea the ter. Bat, somehow, the rank tea tasted ranker than usual. Sarely the bread was sour. And the gloom outside the small circle that the lamplight illumined seemed singularly dense. What was wrocg! What was missing? What was differeat? He paused, his hand falling by his side. The child—-as he and Mrs. Dotty bad always called her—-the child was not here. She used to slip in so quietly, take her seat, and when her meager supper was over, glide away just as softly. Yes, little as he noticed ber, she was geverally there. He rang the bell sharply, “Where is shel” he asked Mrs. Dotty, when she popped in her mild old head, There was no need to particalarize. Mes, Dotty cast a swift, searching look around, “Isn't she herei” Without waiting for & reply, she turned and ran up the stairs to Bessie's room. There she knocked. No answer. She opened the door, went in. The room was empty. Hastily she descended the stairs, “Shs is not in, sir.” “Where is shel” “I don't know, sir." Impatiently Godfrey Kirke pushed his chair back from the table. “You ought to know; it’s your busi- ness to know. But it doesn’t matter-- it doesn’t matter in the least.” Down to Hanna in the kitchen went Mrs. Dotty. “Did you see Miss Bessie?" ‘‘Yes'm. Passin’ westward a couple of*hours agr—yes'm.” “Oh!” Mrs, Dotty breathed a relieved sigh. Bessie had probably gone to Rose Dever's house. The Devers lived almost a mile away. Asa storm was blowiag up she would most likely stay there over night. About ten o'clock Mr. Kirke's bell again tingled out. Again Mrs. Dotty appeared before him. ‘‘Has the child come inl" ‘No, sir.” “Do you know why she went out” I suspect, sir.” “Well, speak up.” ‘She overheard our conversation to. iy pat of it” “Nothing of it,” with a very angry flash from very faded eyes, ‘except that she vowed she would be an expense to you no longer.” “She did, shi” pa a.” . “Well,” grimly, “I hope sha won't!” The child had a sulky fit. She was i ly at the house of some neighbor. would return when her tantrum had puted otf Bop he told Si. sat in his lonely room after midnight, listening, listen When be flually went to bed it was smoky, blinding fog, began to creep up from the Atlantic. “If you don’t nfind,” said Mrs. Dotty, making her appearance with a shawl over ber head, “I'll just run over to Devers’ and see what is keeping Miss Bessie,” “Do!” he answered. Bhe had spoken as if the distance were not worth considering, but it was quite a journey for her. When she returned she looked white and scared, “‘She isn't there —hasn't been.” “Hark!” said Godfrey Kirke, holding up one lean hand, “That is only the carrier with the flour.” “Ask him if he has seen her?” Mrs. Dotty went into the hall. instantly she returnad. ‘‘He has not. He says there is the body of a young woman at the town morgue.” “What!” Godfrey Kirke leaped from his chair. “He says that the body of a young girl was found in the East Branch to-day.” Godfrey Kirke sank back in his seat, Mrs. Dotty smiled a hard little smile to herself as she closed the door and went away. Bue knew how many friends Bessie had. She shrewdly suspected if she were not found at one place she would be at another; and she was malici- ously and pleasantly conscious that she had given the hard-hearted old man a genuino scare. Long the latter sat where she had left him. Thinking. For the first time in years he was thinking, sadly, seriously, solemnly. ThanVsgiviog-eve! In his wife's time the house used to be gay and cheerful on that night, so filled with com- fort and bright anticipations, so odorous with the homely fragrance of good things in the kitchen, so delightfully merry with the brisk bustle attendant on the mor- row’s festivity. Now it was desolate, dreary, darksome with depressing and unutterable gloom. Whose fault was iti His! decided Godfrey Kirke, as savagely relentless to himself in this moment as he would have been to another. His! Almost HE BAD THE WEAPON IN HIS RAXD. when his devoted wife had drooped and died under his ever-increasing arrogance, dictation. His! wben Maud married the first man who offered himself, to escape from her father's pretty rule. His! when Robert mn away to escape the narrow obligations and unjust restrictions laid upon him. His! when the child Lis dead daughter had left him could no longer endure his brutality, or accept from him the scant support he so grud- gingly gave. His fault—all his! Ia those lonely hours the whole relentless truth dawned upon him, as such truths will dawn, in most bitter brilliance. He dropped his head on his hands with a oan, He looked wround the dim, shabby room. He looked at the dying fire in the grate. He wondered of what use would be to him now his twenty-thou- sand in bonds, his eight huadred acres of meadow land, the money he had out at interest, He rose in a dazed kind of way, a shadowy purpose taking definite~ ness in his mind. He wished he had been better to Besse; he wished—but what was the use of wishing now? @ here could be but one satisfactory aasswer to all his self-condemnation. A shot from the revolver in the drawer yonder, that he had always kept in readiness for possible burglars. He rose. He moved toward the table. His figure cast a fantastic shadow on the wall. The tears were streaming down his cheeks. There might be thanksgiving for his death, though there could never have beea any for his life. Hark! « He bad the weapon in his hand. He started nervously. Was that Bessie's voice? He turned, dropplag the revolver with a clatter. Yes, there she was, not three feet away, fresh, fair, damp, smil- ing. “Jt is the queerest thing,” she said, coming toward him as she spoke. felt—badly—yosterday, and 1 went over to Mrs. Farnham's to see if abe coald get me work. I met Mrs. Nelson, and she askod me to go home with her. Dicky was ill, and she wanted me to stay over night. Bhe sent youn note, At least she sent the hoy with it, but he lost it, and only told her so this alternvon. As soon as I knew that I started home slone—although Dicky was no better." “Yesl” said Godfrey Kirke. He was listening with an unusual degree of in- terest, “And to-night, when I was almost here, (Nelsons' 1s quite two miles away, i eid Her a amazement. What made he paie cheeks so bright?! What excitement had blackened her gray eyes? “‘And--a gentleman who was coming L “Father!” ae Then they were clasped in each other’s ($7 back Trem the wns fot good, father. And 1 chanead to find my little niece Bessie lost out there in the fog. A | young lady, I vow! And I was think. ing of her as a mere baby yet! Just | think! She tells me Charlie Nelson wants her" “No?! Well, Charlie is a fine fellow. He can have her--a year from to-day.” Bo now you know why the Kirke homestead is dazzling with lights and flowers, and why it resounds with laugh. ter this Thanksgiving; why old Godfrey “ponent!” “waren!” wears a brann-new suit, and a flower in his buttonhole; why Robert, in his rightful place, looked so proud and pleased; why dear, busy little Mrs, Dotty beams benignly; why Bessie, gowned in snowy, shining silk, thinks this is a lovely old world after all; why Charlie Nelson is so blessedly content, and why in each and every heart reigns supremo Thanksgiving. The Ledger, —————————— Thankszivinz Roast Pig. Take a choice fat pig six weeks old, not younger, though it may be a litho older. Have it carefully killed and Trim out carefully with a sharp, narrow bladed koife the inside of the mouth asd ears, crt oul the tongue and chop off the end of the snout. Rub the pig well’ with a mixture of salt, pepper and pounded sage, and sprinkle it rather liberally with red pepper, and a dash outside, too. Make a rich stuffing of bread erumbs bread stuffing de rigeur for pig, though you can put half of one and half of the other inside of Mr. Pig i somebody iusists on loaf bread stuffing, If you use corn bread, have a thick, rich pone of bread baked, and crumble it soon as it is cool enough son it highly with black and red pepper, sage, thyme, savory ] | onion—just enough plenty of fresh butter; moisten with stock, crean., or hot water. Stull the pig well and sew it up closely. If you have a tin roaster and cpen fire, the pig will be roasted by that much better. If you have not, put the pig in a long pan and set it in tf oven, and wen OTT 18 us to handie, sea- marjoram, to favor even leave the stove door open until the pig begins to cook, gradually closing the | poor, so that the cooking will not be | done too fast. The pig must be well { dredged with flour whea putin the pan, | Mix some flour and butter together in a | piate, and pour about a quart of hot water in the pan with the pig when it is Have a larding-mop in | the plate of flour and butter, and mop {the plg frequently with the mixture | while it is roasting. If a roaster is used, set it feet from the fire at first, but to move it nearer and nearer as the pig cooks. Baste it frequently with the water in the pan betweenwhiles of mop- ping with flour and butter, To be sure the pig is done, thrust a skewer through the thickest part of him; if no pink or reddish juice oozes out it is done, and ought to be a rich brown all over. When the pig is done pour the gravy in a saucepan and cook it sufficiently. This will not be necessary if the pig was cooked in the stove oven. The pig's liver may be boiled in well salted water, pounded up, and added to the gravy, which should be very savory and plentiful. The pig should be invariably served with baked sweet potatoes and pleaty of good pickle and sauce, either mushrocm or green pepper catsup, for despite his toothsomeness, roast pig is not very safe eating without plenty of red pepper, — Good Housekeoper. about two continue Au Informal Ropast, “I suppose,” said Mrs. Brown. ‘you would like me to wear a new dress at this Thanksgiving dinner you sre going to give?” “Can't afford it,” growled old Brown. “As long as you have the turkey well dressed you will pass muster.” Judge. The Thanksgiving Turie;. As Thanksgiving Day walks down this way I'he strutting turkey is ill at ease: “I'm poor as the turkey of Joh" says be; “Tough and unit to eat, yon wee; 1 gobble no more of my Agree, Lest some poor fellow should goools me; * And a purkay buzzard I think I'l bs, or the preset, if you please,” - Binghamton Bepuolican, Cause for Thanksgiving. Sunday-school Teacher — ** Willie, have you had anything during the week to be especially thagkinl for?” Willie-=**Yes'm, Johnny Podgers sprained his wrist and I licced him for first time yesterday." Burlington Free Press, A Thought For the Season. He in whose store of blessings there may be and yet to U Will have his own THE JOKER'S BUDGET. JETS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, A Saburban Clock Superiority After Bomething Definite Well Up i» His Part--Why Cert’nly. A SUBURBAR CLOCK. Caller—Land sakes! How late it is! Mrs. Buburb—Oh, you mustn't go by that clock. It's two hours fast. Caller—Why don't you set it right? Mrs. Buburb — Horrors, no! Don't touch it. SUPERIORITY. Mamma—Why de ysa put om such airs over that little girl? Wee Woman—Her mother hasn't gst bought teeth like you has. AFTI'S SOMETHING DEFINITE. Miss Flyppent—When is your birth Miss Elderkin Miss Flyppent {| was born on June 30 Old style WELL U'P IN HIS PARRY. “Don't worry sbout that, dear. He does it beautifully.” News Record. Chisago A LIBERAL HUSBAXD. ‘““You have a charming home, sir, and i to say so, you have a most amiable wife,” “You're right, my friend; I refuse my she will tell you Come, open your mouth, Mary, and show the new set of teeth I bought you {European Ex BO yesterday,’ < hange, WHY, CERT XLY. Chappic—TI"ll bet you ten dollars I cas Done—lend me ten dollars vy. deal boy ww York Herald, A BASE SLANDER. Folks after the sermon, so 8s to box. h 1 y § yn It 8 5 Dass manner The ii to oaonte li tio CONTI DUlIon wis | start so early brells rot get — Now York Week - 8. Whipler ai you 1't know, ATTRACTION THE . Winthro; Prunells WW ill for your money. Prist No have Ruy, 80 1 can't Ix Prunelis— But what else could § ila MYSTERY OF A KNIGHT. First Pullman Porter—-Golly, chile, but f had a time : Second Pu mattah? “Thought I los’ a shoe, Looked fo’ it high and gub it up an’ waited fo’ de passenger ter Kick.” “And did he “Huh! Reckon he didn't. virerhit BION liman Porter—What's de aen low Come out {1 hicago News Record, ONLY HALF WAY. Algy—Mr, Banker, I think | have been in your employ to be entitled to an in- crease in salary, Bunker—1 agree with you partly, Mr. Bliffers, I think you have been in my You can go.— { Exchange, HE WAS EXTRAVAGANT, Mrs. Bronson-—What, been getting Charley, you're too extravagant altogether. Mr. Bronson (penitently)~-TI'm afraid And 1 won't do it again. Truly, 1 won't. Mrs. Bronson (breaking into tears) {Chicago News, OXE OF MANY, Mr. Flightie-~Mere talent ix not ap- preciated nowadays. Oh, if I only had Wife—Genius isn't what vou need, “Eh? What, then?” ‘Horse sense.” SHOCKED AND INTERESTED, Jeannette-~Terrible, that about Nora, it! She has married just for money. Gladys—Well, did she get the money ? Jeannette Yes, Gladys Yes, it's terrible. How did she manage it ?—{Chicago News Record, AN UNFAILING TE=T, Foreign Visitor-~Is that college a really fine educational institution ? American (proudly) —Is it? - I should say it was, They've got the most idiotic college yell to be hedrd in the whole country, sir—yes, sir.—[New York Weekly, OWES HIM MUCH. “You see that man crossing the street 7 Well, I am greatly indebted to him, and indeed I can't tell you how much I owe him, Due thing is certain never can im." He must be your father, since there no other man to whom you can be ford.” TOO EMALY., Miss Lakeside—80 you are engaged to Charlie Bmith! Well, I would not be in your siioes! Miss Murrayhill—I dare say not, dear, They would pinch you terribly, A BEAL HERO, “I love you 80,” said Chapple dear (The chawming little feliahl), ““1 @o out in the waln for you Without my new umbreliagh.” ~! New York Herald, A WITTY JUDGE. In court ime Lawyer (pleading for the defendant) I propose to show there is no man living 10 18 more pretentious, more bombastic and more corrupt than the plaintiff ia this case, Judge You forget yourself, sir, RET HIM RIGHT. He—One has Hips and see that Kisses, She —On the contrary, the kisses are for my intended. — {New York Herald, only to You are look at your intended for TWO WAYS OF %G IT. “1 think,” said Miss i Wa 5.2 { Oldbach, 1 think she's s Mr, for Sweete to too young i YOu. : “Well haps she is.” “Yee” sald Miss mmart, old fer her.” “1 am, am 1?” said Mr i red wave passed over his | frown clouded his { don't know what vou ut {New York Press said Oldbach, sn iiling, *‘per- 3 ‘vou are 00 Oldbach, as a face and a dark “I gucss you talking about.” brow: DEFENSIVE Are vou Wye’ Yes, if they' 1 have an MEASURES, Bonds urers, footing figs fous Coupons re dude's fig- ures, aurnter. the horses “ Huge Find it ¥ 1 % than it did before? Tavs any better I'm driving 8 street ANG UP STYLE tice that Miss Pompadour rushed upon her forehead © & bang up way | of dressing “WH 4 the ia ile pe of « off ec?” ' he said, * but i the coffee York Press. is Weak. CURIOUS FREAK OF NATURE. | The Imprint of a Human Face Upon a Baby's Hand. hamiew of R h a curiosity which is This is a 3-week- hose right hand bears the im- face. The face occu- ie palm, and is a8 drawn on porcelain, of a little child iying asleep, with the eyelashes drawn in fine dark lines on { the full cheeks. The mouth seems to bs slightly parted and the lips are delicatgly tinted, {| The baby palm contains this | singular portraiture is the child of Clarke | Osborne, a thriving merchant of Rose- { burg, and Mrs, Osborne declares that the { face in the infant's palm is thet of a little girl she lost about three wonths before | the baby's birth. Relatives and intimate | friends also profess to be able to see a | strong resemblance to the dead child. : | When the baby was first pat in its | mother's arms, she J oked at the hands, { and with a loud ery fainted sway, buton { coming to herselk extibived the little | creature's hands to the attendants, who saw at ogce the etrasge dikeness to the dead and gone sister. Nrs. Osborne was {at first much frightened over the singular | circumstance, bul sv last became con- | vinced that this strange portrait was sent {to comfort her. Physicians say, how- | ever, that the mother's caresses of the dead child impressed the unborn infant, who merely repeated her mental pictures of the little girl as she last beheld it, The image on the palm was much clearer the first few days of the baby's life than pow, and is thought to be grad. ually fading away. The family are very sensitive on the subject. and have re- fused to show the child except to rela. tives and most intimate friends, but a dime museum manager has already made propositions, which have been declined, Philadelphia Times, SAHA bh, 8 C, seburgh tiined as i It is the countenance about three vears oud w hose = Sunday in Western Cities, They have an American Sunday in St, Louis, It Is the same as what we in the East call a European Sunday. But it becomes apparent to whoever travels far in the United States that the only Sun- day which deserves a distinct title is that of England, New England, and the At. lantic coast. The Sunday of Chicago, San Francisco, Cincinnati, New Orleans, St Louis, and most of the larger cities of the major part \f our land is Euro- , if you please; but it is also Amer ican. In St. Louis the theatres, grog- geries, dives, “melodeons,,” cigar sf candy stores, and refreshment places every kind are all kept wide The street cars carry on r heaviest trade, and the streets are crowded then as on no other day of the week. On the other days the city keeps up, in a part, the measure of its o 1d ity, a survival of ver Sd Sng steambonts, The numerous re- sorte--the variety and music the dance-houses the beer-gardens, b out with a pron gets by w It was mentioned in a late Cranberry