/ é OM MATTHEWS and his sister Josie were walking leis- urely along the lane which led from the lower pasture, up through the cornfield, to the house. They were walking slowly and - talking. Tom was sixteen years old—aslim, light-haired boy, with an interesting face. Josie was two years younger, and being much like Tom, und a girl, was of course, pretty. It was Tom who was talking. “I am going away,” he was saying, “and I am going to be extinguished. I am not going to stay on a farm all my life. I can draw letters now as good as those on some of the signs in town, and I am going to be an artist, and extinguished.” The two had by this time entered the cornfield, It wasautumn, and the cornstalks had all been cut away, leav- ing scores of great, yellow pumpkins that, in places, seemed to lie so thick- ly that one could hardly pass between them. A little later they would be gathered and shipped to New York nice dresses and presents, and every- thing, like those New York ladies wear." Josie's eyes brightened, and then grew dreamy. She wished almost that she might go with Tom. How nice it was to be a boy. Then she walked around to see what it was that Tom was doing so industriously. With a final flourish at the end he arose, and the brother and sister, standing side by side in the October afternoon sunlight, read: ‘I Will be Extinguished.” Tom landed in New York about the middle of October, I am quite sure there were tears in his eyes, however, when heatlast said goodby to his mother and sister; and Josie, I know, wept bitterly, though perhaps her grief was not altogether hopeless as she remembered the silk dresses that Tom was to send. Mrs, Mathews kissed him tenderly, though she said but little—she had grown ac- customed to parting. Tom's first day or two in the city were spent in looking about. As a matter of fact he did get lost a good many times, as Josie had prophesied, and would probably never had reached his boarding house the first day at all, duced to two dollars now, and he was eating barely énough to keep him alive, He continued to go to the sign of the big pumpkins for his meagre lunches, as being the one place in all the vast city that had for him a flavor of his home. Finally, when he had but a dollar left, he spent more than balf of it for a shoes blacking outfit, and mingled Printing House Square. This was a sad end to his dreams, Instead of painting pictures or beauti- ful signs, or even marking boxes, he was painting boots. He was able, how- ever, to earn enough to pay for a cheap lodging, and be able to eat as high as three ten cent meals a day at the sign of the big pumpkins. Thanksgiving came late that year. The day before was cold and sloppy, and no one wanted a shine. Tom crept disconsolately down Fulton street to his supper. He had a little money. By dint of economy he had accumulated nearly two dollars as a sinking fund. Perhaps unconsciously he had saved it for a purpose which he did not confess even to himself, As he drew near the cheap little eating house with the big golden pump- kins in front, his eyes suddenly grew dim and he trembled all over. The light streamed out on the pavement, and in its radiance, he read oa one of the great yellow rinds the fatal words he had himself wrought three months before on that beautiful October after- noon, with sweet sister Josie looking on. “I Will be Extinguished.” He bad learned long since his wrong use of the word. In fact he had mis- givings and looked it up before he left home. But it did not seem to him City, some eighty miles away. The Mathews place was famous for its big pumpkins, and the amount received each year for this crop was no small addition to the income of the little Connecticut farm. Sometimes during eorn cutting Tom had amused himself by scratching sen- tences on the big yellow rinds with his thumb nail, giving play both to his imagination and talent for lettering, besides feeling that these words would go soon to the great city and be read by people there who were really a part of its bustle, and who saw every day the wonderful sights of which he had only read and dreamed. These letters, etched lightly on the ripening pump- kins, hardened over with a white crust in a few days, and became very dis- tinct and easily read. On one he had inscribed, **What Do Youn Think of Me?" on another, ‘‘This is My First Visit,” and so on. Finally, the desire to behold for himself the sights of New York, and to seek his fortane like Dick Whittington, and others of whom he read, had become a resolve, He had revolved his plan over in his mind until it seemed perfect, and fame and fortune already within his grasp. TOM LEAVES THE FARM, had spoken of it to Josie now for first time, and charged her to say yet to their mother, who widow, and who, with the help sf Tom and the hired man, ran the Josie felt the weight of the secret, she believed in her brother. She her elbows now on one of the pumpkins half as tall as herself, g her chin on her hands thought- Tom, meanyhile was laboring “It's a good time to go,” h saying to her, “the 2 ; without the aid of numerous policemen. The address of this boarding house had been given him by a neighbor who had once visited the city, and Tom found, by counting the money, and making a mental calculation, that he had barely enough to keep him there three weeks, He must there- fore set about securing a position at once, Artists and their studios were quite different from what he had imagined, and no one seemed anxious to engage an assistant. ©One man with a French accent cferad to take him as a pupil at a (rate of tuition that would have nsed up Tom's capital in a few days, to say nothing of board. Most of them hardly noticed him at all. At the end of a week he grew dis. heartened by his unsuccessful efforts to become an artist and had modified his plans. He would bs a sign painter. But somehow his efforts in this direc- tion were equally disheartening, and three days later he descended still farther the sliding scale of art. He sould make letters so well, he would seoure a place as box-marker in some mercantile house. “Let's see how you can mark,” said one man in the shipping room of a big house on Pearl street. Eager to try, Tom took the brush and dipped it into the marking-pot. Then he made a few letters on the smooth board placed be- fore him. The brush was big and mushy, and different from any he had used. He was took anxions to succeed. His letiers were ragged and stiff. The man beside him took the brush. ““This is the way to mark,” he said. As Tom watched the ease and rapidity with which the graceful Jetters seemed to fairly flow from the soft brush, he turned sick. “You will make a marker some time, but you need practice.” His artistic dreams had vanished. Hesimply wanted work—any kind that would bring money. The next morning he got his break- fast at a cheap little place on Fulton strest, where there were always a lot of big yellow pumpkins out in t to serve "hi ° Shia Jers us ofiva as he could, se the pumpkins re. Ef ALA t was on that he earned his + A snow saloon -k cents to now to be so wrong either. The tears streamed out of his eyes so he could not see. ‘‘It was a true prophecy after all,” he thought bitterly. “I am extinguished, sure enough.” He wiped the tears away and looked among the pumpkins for others with his work on them. He found two more. He would like to have fallen down and kissed them as Columbus did the ground at San Salvador. Bat he was too hungry for sentiment. While he waited for his supper within, a boy that he did not know sat near him laboriously reading a letter. Tom ordered pork and beans, becanse they were cheap and filling, then suddenly remembering and growing reckless, he added a piece of pumpkin pie. While he waited he glanced side- wise at his neighbor and unconsciously read the first lines of the soiled letter: “Dear Son: I hope you are well—" Again the tears filled Tom's eyes until he could not see. Just then the waiter brought their suppers. Ex- perience on the street had long since made Tom friendly with other boys of his class. When he had eaten a little he said to the boy beside him: “Is your home outside of the city?" ““Yes—ten railes—out beyond Ho- boken.” “Anybody besides—besides your mother?" “Yes, I got a father what's sick, and two little twin sisters, Mother goes out washing, end I sell papers over here 50's to he’; along.” “Po you go home often?” “Not very. It costs iifty cents every time, but 1 go once a month, mostly, I couldn't go last month ‘canse I saved my extra fifty sents for a present to take to the twins to- morrow.” Tom miotioned to the waiter, “Bring another piece of that pump kin pio,” he said, with almost of trinmph in his voice, * ] kins that pie is made DIRECTIONS FOR THE ONLY PERFECT AND FROVER WAY TO DO IT. N every State in the Union the national bird for this one day is not the eagle, but the turkey. Dedicated by the first Pilgrim and Puritan settlers of New England as the bird of grateful signifi cance, many generations of American cook- ery have made the proud gob- bler the symbol of what has become a thorough na- tional festival, proclaimed by the President and all the Governors of the States. The long sermons and the long faces of the colonial days have disappeared. But the turkey re- mains- -a toothsome and triumphant survival, full of a savory satisfaction and a juicy joy, whereof the popular palate promises never to grow tired. Next to the art of cooking this glori- ous bird stands the art of carving it, and the amateur who is this year called upon for the first time to offici- ate over the Thanksgiving piece de resistance may do so with great suc- cess if he follows the directions as given here: NO. 1— REMOVING THE LEFT WING. Place the fork in the breast of the turkey as shown in eut, having one prong on each side of the breast bone. knife parallel with and close to the neck, just above where the left wing joins the body, cut downward, eatch- ing the joint, A slight pressure severs the cartilage, and a single 7 “iy “ = Sy —— 7 J JOINT. the carcass, and cut with the carcass, NO. J.—SLICING OFF THE BREAST. ways. That shown in the ilinstration removes it in slices parallel to the breast bone, as indicated by the dotted lines. in slices by cutting crossways. NO. 4.—REMOVING THE OYSTER BOXE, Place the flat of the knife against the vertebrm connecting the pope's nose with the carcass and press the the bird. When the knife reaches the place indicated by the dotted line turn the blade, and the leverage plate. After removing the oyster bone turn the platter and remove from the right side the wing, the leg, the breast and the oyster bone im the same manner as on the left side, XO, D—~REMOVING THE WISHBONE, Place the flat of the knife against and, keeping it pressed against the carcass, sweep it toward the neck. This removes the wishbone. NO. 6—8EPARATING THE OTHER BONES, The dotted lines show how to re- move the pope's nose, the two Lunes to which the wings are articulated and the broast bone, The latter is re. moved last of all because the fork is never taken ont of its original posi. tion in the breast bone until that bone is separated from the carcass. A Terrible Blow. Just as J. Tark and family are about to leave for Canada to escape the annual of their race THAR UL # PHILIPPINES’ MINERALS. fold, Sliver, Copper, Coal, Iron, Marble, and Other Valuable Deposits, Admiral Dewey has forwarded to the Navy Department a memorandum on the mineral resources of the Philip- pines, prepared at the Admiral's re quest by Professor George ¥. Becker, of the United States Geological Bur. vey, Professor Becker made exten sive researches and consulted all the avallable anthorities, Only about a score of the several hundred islands, he says, are known to contain de- posits of vasable minerals. He in- cludes a table showing the mineral bearing islands and their resources. This table follows: Luzon—Conl. gold, eopper, lead, iron sulphur, marble, kaolin, Cataanduanes, Sylvan, Panaonn-—Gold only. Marimduque—Lead and silver. Mindoro gold and copper. Carraray, Batan, Rapu Repu, Sem. Arara, Coal only. Masbete—Coal and copper. Romblon— Marble, Bamar--Coal and gold. Panav--Coal, oll, gas, gold, iron and perhaps mercury. Biliram-—Sulphur only. Leyte—Conl, and perhaps cury. Cebu fron, Mindanao platinum. Sulu Archipelago Bohol and Conl, Negros copper, oil mer- Coal, gold, copper and Pearls. that of Washington but not of the Welsh or Pennsylvania coal. better be characterized as a carbonized lignite likely as much sulphur as iron Hable to spontaneous combustion and injurious to boller Neverthe less, he pyritous highly plates, Rays, when BEAMS fare avoided and the lignite i { ly handled, forms a valuable f { especially for local consumption, How “ Yankee ™ Grows. amused,” sald a New lately made a the term “1 was really | Orleans citizen who has visit abroad. “to notice how > o Feet r and further from f the real thing. further away he habitat o In New irk a Yank be a mont or M that the name than to the pe Seis t BY oe It ¢ native of Connecticut, Ver ingen ple to be any one from th Here in New prety and ‘Northerner’ and or fist includes nearly Mason koe' less are Now comes the more real absurd part of it line with While auite in { have just remarked { although I was ferred to asx a ‘Yankee’ by natives who i wanted to In several extra pleasant ‘I know State.” 1 tried 1 soon got tired of I was sure to be greeted by a of amazement. ‘But | thought from explain at first, but that. stare all | know.’ be the usual protest, Later on 1 met a very intelligent hotel {| keeper, at Berne, In Switzerland, and {in the course of conversation he re marked that he had an extremely agreeable countryman of mine stay ing at his house the previous season, ‘As you are both Yankees,' he sald, ‘yon may. by chance. know him’ ‘Where does he live?” 1 asked. ‘in Buenos Ayres’ replied the hotelkeep- er."—New Orleans Times Democrat. Possibilities of the Arctic Circle. The close of the century discloses for the first time In the werld's his tory a practical purpose to develop { the resources of the Aretie Circle. The | discovery of gold in the Klondike has sent a flood of Immigrants into a ter ritory which waz supposed to be al most uninhabitable, And sow scien tists of Great Britain are making a careful investigation of enormous de. posits of iron ore, some distance from Stockholm, Sweden, within the area included in the Arctic Circle. your would less extent and of the greatest possi. bile value to the iron industry of Grea! Britain, which is rapidly finding itsell unable to compete with the cheap pro- duets of American ore. These Swed igh deposits are gaid to be among the { most valuable ever discovered on eith- er continent, Following the discovery of gold in Alaska, this may be taken as an ind cation that the mineral wealth of the Arctic regions may ultimately lead to the establishment of a large popula: tion in those parts of the world near. est the North Pole, which have hither. to been little explored. because of their inhospitable climate. An ingen. fous philosopher has outlined the the. ory that the sreclons metals of the world will be found In greatest abun. dance in the Arctic regions, because. when the world was a molten mass, re: volving on its axis, the tendency of all metals was, naturallyy toward the axis or the poles, and that when the plastic mass solidified, the gold and gllver were concentrated near the Poles, . Once npon a time, as the story used to run in a newspaper office in Phila. | Aelphia, It became necessary at the last moment to remove two names from a list of that occurred to the man that revising the paragraph. When in print, his invention—a F syllables, worthy of Rittenhous Square—so pleased him that for the rest of the summer In appropriate paragraphs he carried his phantoms as the American custom then was from watering place to watering place By autumn they amused his acqusing ances as much as they did him, and ic due course they elected to pass the winter in Philadelphia, where they went often to large dances, dinners and entertainments in general. In a few months thelr inventor had so well established them socinlly that he be gen to find their names in lists of guests sent to him for publication by hostesses, who wished to persuade the town that they had everyone worth having in their drawing rooms. Buch of flesh and bviood soon brought vexatious questions to his door, and he prudently sent his phan- toms Europe, where the busband dled. and the wife chose to dwell per manently.— Boston Trang wript, semblance io Wrong Mca at a Wedding. Talking about singular coincidences, there are a clergyman and a physician living in Philadelphia who bear iden- tical names, but pever heard of each other until last Al time the physician received a hinrry eall for no time starting It was quite n week, that his services and lost | for the given number. little away from where his office and on arriving be | was considerably surprised to find the {| house indicated lighted up and appar ently filled wi distance is located, th guests, On entering the haliway he was met by a middle woman, who semed to be greatly astonished ss his appear- that her daugh- evening. as the Lad failed up, A megsenger to find him, and pot knowing the had directed the boy to look mis aged ance, She ter was explained to be married that and, 0 show { lergy man hed she dispat« {i boy { address {it up In take, The pi | fuse apol | to depart the directory; hence the after wiving pro was about mn, reg gles for the error, wl 3 # args y Wien a gen and be the WAS as hall belsted pune bad fall on route leman 5 3 sisted up th into the He { divine, and explained hi Lo wie [e way proved % lack of { tuality by stating that a h be had dved while sprained ankle. tendered r jnsisted t, and limb 1 to the rious cirenm. ght io ward told doctors them The story was after and the two 8 greater attraction while they » and bridegroom. stayed than the Straight Tips for Bargais Hunters 1. Get without 2. Follow the c1 left everybodys like -p =~ up before sunrise and your breakfast owd, always keep ing to the 3. Elbow evYery- wih lower tne there thing 4. Begin | Things where Take always forgett lasoment are than else elevator seventeenth to wait for 5. fo floor, your change 6 Take elevator back to bmsement, i always leaving your purchase behind yon 7. Begin all over again, RB. Keep this for four or five hours, until you are ready to fall in a faint, J Lo rest a bit ng last up instead of taking time fo and eat a sensible Jittle | something, just bolt a couple of choco- late eclairs and drink a mixture of two or three kinds of lee eream soda. 10. Begin where you left off, only don’t buy anything the rest of the day. Just go in for samples, ete, 11. leave your umbrella some. where or other—where you can’t pos- sibly locate it later 12. Keep this up until keep it up any longer. 13. Be sure to leave your pocket- book on the trolley and all your pack- ages in the train and 14 Last, but not least—do the same thing all over again the following Monday. Criterion you oan't A Derelict Church in London. There is a derelict church in the Charing Cros road, the existence of which will be news to most London ers. It is called by the title of Sit, Mary the Virgin, Desertion seems to have taken place because the fabric was erumbiing away. Of late nobody has cared to own it. no funds being available to keep it in repair, and the public suthorities have been obliged for the safety of passing pedestrians to undertake some precautionary work. They are naturally anxlons to discover an owner, and have sum. moned him by notice on the door of the edifice fo make good the stroctural defects: but if there is really an owner he is scarcely likely to place himself In evidence and assume considerable pecuniary Hability, The old place will no doubt have to be remobed alto. gether, As some of the walls thivaten to fall at any hour the council has elinrged itself with the duty of shor. ing them up, and will daly file the sc count against the missing owher.— Liverpool Mercury. Solitude's Solace. “Yea, there's some consolation in everything!” remarked Robisson Cru soe to the brisk young reporter along with the rescue party. “You see, 1 had nobody on the island to say ‘A told you sol "New York Journa.
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