G | | | i — . i | i o 9 { x — Bh T dark when was Miss basket on Arm, Came the corner ket to buy Thanksgiving dinner, The hasket was ab surdly small, but Miss little herself, and when n th © counter od blink it mar she O ing in the brigl light, head at ) seemed to be grinning at them both “Well, Miss Mattie,” it the market in his 1 “I see your mind is key this time, but ju this b I'll plump little « sefe this morning, that's th Miss Mattie.’ Miss Mattie and rubbed over il of her hand a silver taken it with mue little 1 given her wher herself she ¢ calls her el Ww the Had . called ot man, asket off for Cap'n Lawson's and show vou inck e Very n SIf five-cen to something s it seemed a dishe all her h APY past not to have Thank nving. and so she had a ing of real pity for warm and snug her soon to go tumbling into the | clashing, jingling coins tossed by the butcher's fingers, perhaps into the pocket of that ho rible apron it Miss recovered herself to say, cheerfully ““Oh, thank you, Mr. Simmons don’t you think ducks are a ial on § in f 1eap Aid about or greasy with blood-stains on trouble, what with the stuffing and roasting needing to be after and basted regular? 1 my mind to ng simple, don’t know anything tl or n 2 and someth at's easier go relishing than lamb chops Two lamb chops is about what thought of, Mr. Simméns. You know there's only me.” Mr. Simmons had not seen the five ore assuring Miss Mattie that tite and strengthen you up all over.’ “But you'll have to take Mias Mattie laid in his big hand, “‘or I'll have to make change, and change is scarcer than hen’s teeth to-night. You might have company unexpected, you know, snd an extry chop would come in handy.” Miss Mattie laughed =o genially that the market man ventured to slip 8 sweetbread and a bunch of yellow celery into the basket on the sly. He would have loved to put in the duck, but that would have looked as if he suspected her reason for not buying it, and, bless you, he knew better than that. Some people have feel ings, though their faces are red and their hands coarse and greasy. Miss Mattie wont very happily down the street. She had lighted her lamp before she went out, and a cheerful little ray smiled encouragingly at her as she came to the gate. All the other windows in the weather-beaten old house were black and empty and looked to the lonesome little woman as if all sorts of hobgobling might be Jioping out at her from the gloom be- ind them, for Miss Mattie's neigh- bors had gone away on a Thanksgiv- ing visit and taken the whole family At least they said ‘the whole family, but at the very moment Miss Mattie came to the gate a member of the fam ily was huddled up in a corner of the | doorway, cold, hinngry and munch per ! plexed to understand what had become | | of all his friends and why, in spite of his pitiful plea, no one eame to open | the door for him He Miss | Mattie and ran hopefully to meet her, | had a stiff heard limping as he came, for he leg. “Why, Mattie, 1 »W h your min Miss To v Barnes,’ said tooping te ] ad, ‘yon don’t mean to y 0ff to Thanks HAY Well, if 1rhitiess giving and left yi beeind 111 1 ever! How dreadful-—thot and you a « To but he had Misa Mabie nnte i valuable tid-bits, for Miss Mattie had very little to offer him She baked | her delightful little puffs of bisenits, | and enjoyed them immensely, finding | psalm and went in a little chirrapy HPArrow She brongeht basket and flushed over the unexpect- | but took it kindly as neighborly The ! and plump and all | in the small | bit of goodwill Mrs. Morrison, just up and watch the What a toothsome dainty | this would be for her, and what a de | light that she should be able to take | it to her as ent to church, yes, and some of the eelery, too, for a rel 13h The chops were transferred to a | plate on the elf. the swedibread | wrapped in a fine old napkin and laid back in the basket with the host half | of the celery, and the biscuits Miss | Mattie had saved for dinner | “The cold bread she she Ww ah will go just as well reflected, and pri hap with chops, pared for chunreh with ag had not low of piness such as % Ie known ina long time it helped to a real feeling of thank thought pecially when she fulness, os { Mrs Morrison, and how please: the unexpectes | to herself her own door af had ith Nhe « how when Sally | rison had eomin: on be- | Ing alone Thank Day, he had sured her 1} Tommy Barnes, w ho WAS 51 end with her, the ress he ng ympany ins 1 m the next door, AWAN s] untruth ! ful untruth, “I hope 't ay she said, smiling wa IO 8 A JA * at Tommy, who ser on the braided rag, Mor dinn q 1 ii Old Miss or, 1 shouldn't AWAY, Ald § 8 arcely ti abou i trotted her biscuits in a pint : 1 . ip ; ¥i hadn't atarved, | i I never conld Cian 3 dare got doy abide around vietnals v She put Tommy gently on the floor, | crumbled some bread into the bowl of { broth, wooled Car efully { down for him to eat “It's pretty rich for | she said, as she made out with toast and tea it and set it anyway,’ her supper me It was perhaps well for Tommy that he took an early promenade next | morning around the back yards of the | neighborhood, and secured several | This Face all So Glam, Cat it and sance it and give us all some, From lean skinny Joe to Tom Fat; For ‘tis Thanksgiving Day and this face all 80 glum, Was never cut out for one hat ~Thomss Sherwood, put these chops { al #0 I0TReW she on the Her perplexe i ey the sing from the we dt on i . + 11 WO Smal, gaa ved 101% and wi Ungrate But into the attie righteous 3 that Tommy 1 the fanit afte: wrath ve must have beer an was temptation in his nything could have been further out of his way than that shelf, I don’ * ahe added, dolefully At that minute Tommy Barnes waked from his nap, transformed him- self into a camel, yawned in a fright. way, i i claws on the rug, mg into which had been braided some precious old garments dear to Miss Mattie’'s heart. foo much to have insult added to injury, smd springing from her chair, she cuffed Tommy in such vigorons fashion that three or four hearty blows found their mark before the astonished sinner could withdraw his claws and bound ont at the back door, left ajar in the search for the chops. At that instants resounding knock on the front door sent Miss Mattie's heart to her throat with a sudden leap, ms if justice were already coming to take her in hand for nnrea- sonable cruelty. When Miss Mattie was peacefully pattering about, unconscious of the oriel trick fate and Tommy Barnes had played her, Mrs. Deacon Giles was surveying her husband with a dis- tarbed and tearful face, “You don’t mean to tell me,” she ain't comin’ at all, and you and me has got to eat this big dinner alone? tend to it. Oh, you needn't to look as if yon thought it was a judgment. Josiah T wonldn’t be such a hipper- orit as to pretend to be thinkin’ of spiritooal things when I was wonder- i in’ if Barah Ellen would remember to baste the turkey. Seems to me they might let us know sooner.” “But I told ye, just it was a church, grams like the mother, be fore stop folks from ou rush round Mercy sakes! nl “The and get somebody else "Twon't like all “Didn't reem to be anybody to ask Mis" Morrison Marthy I drove round by the Morri n, why didn’t y ) Beem Fhanksziving and mn Was O ne Miss ) 1g disposition, and, thou i i h as vid { basket under the seat, was go r un A as very wisely conclu fed that the and Barnes, ral prine fair ty Hosrisoros Minne; iples a Foot Eves kno Souls dwell ind Minds live with clouds encireling roun i thy blessings weigh! give thanks! On Desert Air, Winthrop— ‘If Freddie is going to spend Thanksgiving with his grand that tin horn.” Mrs, Winthrop—*‘I spoke fo him deaf.” The Kid's Harvest, Now he iz ae pleased as pleased can ho And has no cause to sigh, With all his heart he says: “To me Thanksgiving time is pie.” The Turkey on the Wall, Rs i E opening of the chest. i nut burs, J The leaves, yellow and gore, Told beyond a persd- venture That Thankegiviag Day was near. But, to my childish fancy, The surest sign of ail, Of the nrarseas of Thanksgiving, Was the turkey on the wall. iainly told the story hat we had not long to wait, For the path from wall to table Was very shoft and straight, It hang all plump and golden In the pantry near the door For a day or two before the feast, It And then waa seen Do Wore, NOTES AND COMMENTS, ® he proportion of killed to the nim. ber of rallway travelers is one in 19.000,000, England has in the United Bt France | one in sles and 2 A400) i) ZN CHM EMM), one in Benin the went const A fy x} ( iy, ch few Brit captured the City of on oniy a months ago fore thi sh it, wa known ood, 18 now It has chief Ink nun ivilized council of and golf law-abiding and « British residency claim Washi 10 A woman in ngLon the power ite any inters disorder means of conc vision the patien her upon ive declare Gh correct antiy increa we foreign coun- difference be- inflicting sensible on our commerce instance. it need but be pointed out that exchanges and our reports during the Christmas se inactive anid abroad revives again, y ealebrates her own Christmas - ‘he Russian press has taken the mat- up. and is urging the ghvernment to take in hand a reform which must ultimately be inevitable. Commodore Melville proposes, in order to test the question of trans. polar currents, to send adrift a num- ber of specially constructed casks north of Behring Strait, and then at- tempt to trace their ~course, “Cer. tainly.” says the Philadeiphia Press, “the experiment is worth trying, and it would be fitting were the money raiged in Philadelphia to furnish the casks. As to sending them adrift, the United States Government vessels which will be called upon to do active duty in Alaskan waters ever before might well aid work. In favorable summers a run north of Wrange! Island is but a pleas. ant excursior and under very favora- bie conditions the casks dropped off so far north as to insure that they would follow the Jeannette- Fram drift.” is growing lOsses cite one our i- most abroad are business * nen than A bulletin for October from the of statements accidents to on the railroads and in the mercantile establish- if Massachusett for eight Hl ® teppether ments { vears. including 1%, which makes f ble sh ng ion ne if total formida torie killed of the Wrecking Business. E nfrequents 4 Eh © nf ( the outgro idea On an u -gaving service is wrecki are ng-master yoliu among nteers and in ¢ land. on exceptional occasions do we realize are. When a great ship, with hundreds of from the Jaws wonders, but these steel and the in their the ” fi aried, and are vest strongest-hearted me ar Only what their services really he is rescued t wily rid SHEETS, of death the Wwq men. with the muscies of eagle take 1b i hans: whenever { Ae to bring in some poor fishermin or to gather up the scattered remnants of some unim- portant marine industry Wrecking has been reduced 1o a science, and the appliances and methods employed in this work are among the most in- teresting constructions ever designed by inventive genius paese eve, ry ives or gO out Roosting in a Tres Like a Bird ames Conwell, aged forty-two years, was brought to Elkton jail and placed ‘in charge of Sheriff Mackey. He is a emall man, with dark hair. has been | living in a tree on the Battle Swamp road and made a nest of leaves and | sticks which covered him completely. | Hig strange actions were noticed by | people passing along the road and his | arrest followed. He says his home is in New Jersey and that on September | he escaped from a Philadeiphia hos- | pital. Since that time he has bean sub- | glsting on tomatoes, corn and appies §
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