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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
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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
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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
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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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