A OF PRAISE,
SONG
When coldest winds are blowing,
When shortest day brings longest night,
Whe icy streams are flowing
Then in the shelter of the home
We know the joy of living,
And in the cheerful fireside glow
Find cause for true thanksgiving.
When spring returns with sweetest breath
When birds are gayly singing, .
Relief and gladness bringing —
Then in the leafing of the trees,
In verdure new and tender,
We see the work of Providence,
And hearty praise we render
When summer's dreamy days are ours,
And in the vales and mountains
We view the beauty of the flowers,
The gleaming of the fountains
Then from the glory of the hills,
From splendors wide abounding.
From all things warm and bright and fair
A call of praise is sounding.
But chiefly when the autumn comes,
With all its weight of treasure,
And rich reward of care and toil
Bestows in fullest measure
A myriad orchards, fields and vines,
Proclaim to all the living,
“A loving God supplies your need,
Oh, praise Him with thanksgiving!”
Mary J
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ONGLE RICAARD'S DINNER.
A THANKSGIVING
When Aunt came
room that morning, I could plainly
that there was something on her mind;
the family had evidently con
missioned her to h something
with me. 1 Knew the uncon
scious air she tried to assume,
conduc
Porter
STORY
Louisa into the
SE
Very
ve
it by
and at
once began to review my
the past week. For a wonder [ conld
think of no recent sly
call down upon my heat
pleasure, and 1 accordingly awaite
her opening with some interest
“Well, Dick.”
Louisa can't help patronizing people,
and I forgive her—"next
Thanksgiving Day."
I couldn't see her drift,
“Your has a letter
Uncle Richard has invited us
to his place for dinner.”
I breathed asily
“Oh,
Louisa, 1
frighten me that way agai:
from manner
had discovered somes
that t
know, but
Aunt Louisa
and i
evidently decided totake the bull by the
act of mine like
the family dis
she began unt
Thursday
s0 |
nother
more «
that's it, is
really must
your
here is anything
then
stood
horns
“Oh, Dick
You know what I want
“I won't.”
“0O-0-h, Dick!”
Th in a very
eed,
“Now, unty,
able. Why should 17 Would yo
Of that was a very
question. I might have Known ti
would say yes, and she did
“I would do whatever
decided was for the best,
“Very
ily here assembled decides t
one decline the kind
Aunt Louisa
dow at the
but I don't really think sls
watched the little clock on
Don't let's chat
Will you go
Come,
dizgusted
d
don’t be iu
Course
well. The portion
hat
fry vd
SREY 3
looked out of
tation
fhe
of
firs t snow
plece and tried to calculate
seconds it would be befor
again begin
“But, Dick, it's the fi
Richard has invited us t
twenty years.”
i) i had
Once a year
“You deserve
first
Oo hi
Mive
a
MOSK a ze
it, Dick You
you did put cayenne pepper in h
box.”
“Twenty
chosen to
of cayenne pepper on
since! I'm afraid he'd force
my throat at dinner.’
“But, Dick, he'll
family If you don’. t
“No,” 1 assented,
“But don't
be many more ”
dies and then
Aunt Louisa didn't know what then
But I did.
“And then his brother's wife's sis
ter's children will get his money unless
we patch this up. Why don’t you say
fit?
“Dick, you're perfectly
Yott know I have no such thought
None of us have, I'm sure we have
all been very fond of Uncle Richard for
all his ecentricities.”
“Ob, he is is he? 1
imagined that he is a perfect model of
what an affectionate uncle should be
He never forgets me, I am sure.”
“Now, Dick, don’t be sarcastic,
such a time we should show-"
“Do you mean,” I asked, “at Thanks
giving times in general or when one
on
years ag
Tex
And
little packa
birth
as?
gend a it
Overy dns
it down
never forgive the
go."
“he won't.”
care? There
‘hanksgivings before he
you wont
shocking!”
eccentric,
At
uncle?”
“1 menn when the season of Thanks.
giving comes round.” Aunt Louisa
looked me full in the eyes, and was
really impresive in her manner.
know, Richard,” she went on
of us are perfect, but at this time I
think we ought to try, at least, to be
grateful and forgiving and a)! that, I
really do.”
“But, my dear Aunt Loulsa, I've
nothing to be thankful for. None of
my neighbours have been killed"
“Richard, I do not care to hear such
affected cynicism--such cheap twad-
dle!” and Aunt Louisa glared out of the
window worse than ever,
“You don't undertsand, my dear
aunt, and by not understanding, you
bétray, I will not say an ignorance,
only an unfamiliarity with the Thanks-
giving Day literature of all time, If
you will refresh your memory, as I'm
sure you can, you will recall the scene
of the hero in his sumptuously fur
declaring that he
has nothing to be thankful for, and
little match girl who has come into the
all his neighbours killed by a terrific
explosion of gas in the next block, The
hero then has so much reason for grati
that he out to buy the
girl a and
the story to a close by marry
that
auntie,
starts
tude
new pair of shoes
brings
her and discov she is n
that
heen
ing ering
great heiress, 1 repeat
none of my neighbours have
killed.”
Aunt
window
I felt h
had
and 1
looked of th
noting
ved
Lonisa still out
and
urt, It
made an e
did like
utter
said
mir
SPE
!
not
ian
inhuman
all
f Wis ey
and you
our ’
prospects
in
that she
ident
in a temper, and being conscien
opposed to talking to an
I determined to end tl
“]
me. I
a rich uncle,
sr ke,
think
aunty, yvou'l have to excuse
consent toad
tn never ;
even
in order to
Hi
his brother's wife's sister's cl
it's immoral
far as 1 am concerned
kedd up
don’t
“Yes, somebody he ple
SEmebody
hing about, Why, I
her name, and goodness kK
}
er she lu
ago know
anys
+1 ant
i Gaon
know
18 even tl
por
Aunt Louisa
root in a that
way
here are some womet
w more |
qd about
rhtened color
Aunt
to the
Lounisa's ©:
Hose A nd
I've told her so
to lose hier
uldn’t
1 Know
shootin
riliew 1 the neigl »
Miss Merrihew has no right
i Ki
I
I
ow het
her “Daisy”
ve Ons
lives some
hn
t when
ith a
t
¥
an
ad 1d
ht Pd ak
Houg
Imrd’'s to
a
ond
ith Jack
» SHpped
pend
ol
nor:
ith of
vd sit
made
the de
wk
Jack
more
but 1
bla med
int spotted cur got in
off
aver
didn’t say so
1%
than half me, because
front of my
gun
i it went
B
to tear around like mad to get us ready
dinner. Miss Merrion
the day before
ut Jack got it. and then began
for had been
from her uncle's
who lived, it seemed, on the next farm,
and had invited the whole crowd to ent
dinner with Jack explained
that her uncle to aqueer
old duffer, but good as the piles of gold
he had, and he could warant
have a frolic
It happened as we rode to the house
Miss Merihew's had
ridden over with some of her visitors
us the way-—was jogging al
ong beside mine,
Miss Merihew is always handsome,
but I don’t think she ever looked quite
so handsome as she did on that horse,
| I blessed my stars that | hadn't been
dragged off with Aunt Louisa to spend
the day with some crabby old bachelor
uncle
ought to leave me, I'd ask Miss Merri.
hew to
Overs
them
seemed er
i
we'd
horse-—she
to show
| that Thanksgiving Day is a great
institution? It's =o American, you
know, and I love anything American,
| and"
| “Miss Merrihew,” I Interrupted, “1
lam American, and if you think that
{ you could-now could yon?”
“Oh, Mr Hartwell, I-really-*
“But couldn't you, now. 1 have
worshipped you always, It seems,
and if you can't do any better than to
love me for my Americanism I'll go
round wrapped in the star spangled
banner, As for Thanksgiving Day
we'll observe it the year round-—-maybe
tvithout the turkey, but w will be
Thanksgiving just the same!”
Miss Merriliew's horse was very chose
to mine. Her hand went out and rested
held my rein,
“Pick.” sald, “this
business?"
“T'o be
it's no new
“What
some
she I¥ serious
sure,” I replied, “but then
thing to me.”
do
haste
“I mean loving you
member when 1 first met yon?
I hoped she did, wasn't sure
ther it at the Charity
but that time
however
“Well,' 1
rose tha
you mean?’ she asked
in
Don't you re
whe
ball or not
She didn't
Wis
it was about
on, “vou lroppec
i i
I pilckad |
and 1
has arrie t ever sinee
» pocket of
Dick,
Ones
Ss not to hn
nt Louisa
alder
“Iaon't
HOW BEADS ARE MADE.
in China and Venice Children Count
Each One.
jinedas are na
the mid
Ww
prox C82 18 Le masking
ke
those used
store. The brawny workmen seize a huge
wedge of the “metal,” as the molten glass
between their blow.pipes, and
they grad.
a long swinging
When it has been reduced to the
proper size for the beads about to be
made it i1® laid away to cool, after which
a workman comes along and, in a won
fully deft manner, chips it into fragments
of uniform size
Often for small beads are not
mich larger than a grain of wheat, but so
carefully is the work done that little cylin-
ders are rarely eracked or spoiled. The
are now picked up by boya and
placed in a tub with sand and ashes and
stirred up carefully. In this way the
is called
after it has been blown hollow
ually stretch it out into
rope.
these
pieces
thus preventing the danger of the sides
fisttening together when heat is applied.
They are next placed in a skillet— just
stich a one as the housewife uses in trying
eggs<and stirred over a very hot fire un.
til the ragged edges where the pieces are
broken from the tubes are round, giving
As soon as
they are cool the ashes and sand are
shaken out of them in a sieve, and tn
they are separated according to size by
other sieves,
They are taken next (© a long table,
around which a flock of boys and girls
ure sitting. If the glass is colored, ns it
often is, the piles of beads on the table
suggest a rainbow, with every hue from
jet black, through red, green, yellow and
blue to white. Each child has a needle
and thread, and, by long practice, the
beads are placed on long strings with in-
conceivable swiftness. And the children
keep an exact count, too, s0 that the
manufacturer knows just how many beads
he is sending out. The threads are then
tied into bundles.
THE JOKER'S BUDG
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
Brotheriy Differences--He Was Ob.
tuse--1t Would Do--Wrong Im-~
pressions~-Etc., Etec.
BROTHERLY DIFFERENCES
i;
“The brothers don't speak to each other
now, you mn
GNM
What is ¢
Phe
hurech
$Y
he trouble between them?”
different
y've €f 103 i
would
Dastinb
would vor
‘You
Miss
ier,
and
each of
No
they act as
SOMETIING IN A NAME
‘1 wish you would give me a name for
a rew brand of butter,” said a dairyman
0 A customer.
“Certainly, ’
“If it is like the last you sent m
suggest ‘Sampson.’ ”
the customer
I would
answered
THAT WAS DIFFERENT.
Wife-Say, dear, why don't
she bill the doctor sent around ?
called for it two or three times.
Husband That's all right
afford to wait,
Wife-~Well, you didn't seem to think
he could that night you were sick
you
ile
pay
has
He
can
HER PRIVILEGE ASSRETRD.
“What is the use of talking about going
to the theater when you know it 1s
late *" asked Mr, Bimberg, petulantly.
“Well, can’t 1 have the satisfaction of
wanting to go’ retorted his wile.
THOUGHIFDL WIFK.
Mr. Blinks—It's very kind of you,
Maria, but I'd rather buy my cigars my
self.
cheap,
Mrs. Blinks~1 know it's cheap, but I
thought there met be one good one in the
seven.
RECKLESS OF EXPENSE,
Painting Instructor--Ze young
puts ze paints on too thick,
Mrs. Newrich-—-Oh, never mind that,
professor. Her father's got money enough
to buy barrels of it if she wants it.
PROOF OF EDUCATION.
James-1s Miss Snowball a graduate of
Vassar?
William She is.
“1 thought she was.
lady
going off.”
EQUIVOOAYL COMPLAINT,
Mary and John sititing on the sofa,
Cense your flatteries, or 1 will put
my hands over my ears
John (wishing to be complimentary j—
Ali, your lovely hands are 100 small,
FATHERLY ADVICE,
Duughter—This piano is really my very
wn, n't it pa?
Pa
i
And
me, can 17
“Certainly,
Yes, my dear.
8 when I marry 1 ean take it w
my child; but don't tell an)
It might spoil your chances.
2 y
DIDN'T OCCUR AGAIN.
A Magnate's Rebuke That the Con.
ductor Remembered.
A Bicycle that Fits Into a Valise.
A Fren invents
thal oan |§
nag Carriea,
unfort whenever the
if the
wheeliman
} al
HCAKS
in diameter,
ssn tiiNICAtes
being nearly
bar is in two parts,
When
in
whi screwed
bar unscrewed he
rari s
pa ! .
machine is two
oward packi The
handles
sacidie
taken
packed ni i VA
3 5.4 by
The
chine is 18!
are
ir pieces are then
measuring 23 1.2 in
a little more than 8 2.5
weight of ma
4 pounds If the wheelman
breaks down on the road he divides
machive into four pisces and balances the
parts over shoulder with a padded
strap provided for the purpose. The in-
ventor insists that this is a great deal bet
ter than having hold a crippled ma.
chine and trundle it. The machine
can put together or taken apart in
about two minutes
104
ches hy 1
the
inches whoie
nis
lis
to
up
he
To Reduce and to Get Flesh.
In large cities, says Womankind, mid-
dle.aged women throng the gymnasium
and physical culture schools to learn how
to reduce the too abundant flesh and keep
off the rheumatism which is too often
an accompaniment. The woman who
does her own housework has most of her
muscles called into exercise every day,
over exercised; still much relief can be
received by sponging every night after
lotion: Two ounces of spirits of ammonia,
hol and one quart of rain walter.
The woman whose face and throat are
thin can remedy the thinness by frequent
bathing in cool water, and before retiring
rubbing in some good cream. In rub-
bing the wrinkles should be be rubbed
against, so as to rub them out; it is as much
in the rubbing as in the cream. A nice
bit of soft white flannel rubbed several
times daily over the face will be beneficial,
and she whose double chin detracts from
her good looks can, by judicious rubbing
downward, get rid of the superfluity.
AAS SH A SRY
Recent estimates indicate that
Arizona has now an Indian popula
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WORK AND WORKERS.
The strike of the tin-plate workers at El-
has ended, the mills starting
The Haute Labor Union
solutions
Ferra Contral
re confidence
eV. Debs's loyalty to
Brist
Xpressing
trade unions,
Rhode Is
indefinite
sin, and 1400
with orders
SOTA
8 ADMISSION.
Minister Hatoh to Ask That the Islands Be Accepted
as a Territory
Hr
ing 10 advil no-
' bark CO. 2, in
iland,
un of
Lave
ward the
miest whi
f Mr. «
Males wh
ration astie, wats
nited
FP WRS DRY
maj
ngthy sossi
Hawaii
One Cabinet
netructed
RICH GOLD FIND IN COLORADO.
bringing specimens
the
largest vein over dis vein as
visited the
AYOrAQes
IV
described by persons
spot is 1.000 fect across
on the surface 88 to the
the claims
i the
region has been
ory sustains hava
been up ground 8 new
found which
anything known in the world.
Senator Teller recently made
bearing
eclipse
a quiet visit
filled with enthusiasm
He says itis a big propors
to the region and is
on the subject,
tion.
UNCLE SAM NEUTRAL.
Powers.
The Administration will not take part in
pel Turkey to keep its promises to institute
reforms in Armenia, Neither will it assist in
splitting up that country in the event of the
Sultan's failing to keep his promise,
Such was the decision reached at the Cabi-
net meeting. The situation was then thor
oughly disoussed, Minister Terrell's course
was pronounced entirely satisfactory, and
American interests, it is beliovad, will be cota
potently looked after by him.
—- I. ————
ARABS DEFEAT TURKS.
Forty-Pive Thousand Rebels Besioge Their Foss Af.
ter Three Battles,
The Iman of Sana, the capital city of Ye
man, Arabia, at the head of 45000 Arabs,
armed with repeating rifles, has defeated the
Turks in three fights,
The latter are now confined to Sana, which
is a walled clty about five and a hall miles in
circum lerenoe,
—— ———————————
Thirty Persons Killed.
A report by Baku has been received in St,
Petersburg, describing a desperate encounter
which took place recently between a band of
daring robbers, who were trying to cross
from the Persian frontier into Russia, and
the customs guards assisted by 300 (nhabi-
tants of a small Persian village. Thirty Per
sinns wore killed nnd wounded as a result ot
the fighting.