Q 3 [ l "iy gh Wolul Thanksgivin, By Aaror, Harland: a3 $31 J000000000000503000000000 ‘ “a Thanksgiv- the country. spent ing” in And in grims’ holy day has de- generated into an 'Arry It was decided country box among the hills, where wo had onjoyed four idyllic summers, andl there keep the hoary old festa as Yaukee pro-Raphaclite aquarellos tell us it shoald be observed. Snow fell two lays before the im- portant Thursday. All the better: Tt would havo been gil the best had the tage. No sleigh was in waiting; not | & living creature was in sight, and the | station was locked. | moaned up and down the valley, and | the unsympathetic sun was hardly a yard above the hills. Pacerfamilias ‘shouldered the two-year-old baby and j led the forlorn procession ‘*‘across 'ots’ of unbroken and stiffening snow. We snow selves the walk was a mile Jong. were wet up to the knees with : entrance to our grounds. It was shut fast; vo answer was bine reek arose from chimney. The this instant, Whence Came Tarkey., Despite the query, “What's in a name?" more than one conjecture will rise at the festive board, How did Mr, Turkey get his name? The turkey, it must be confessed, is rather unfor- tunate in the matter of names, It was introduced into England about the year 1541, and, not knowing where it originally came from, the folks there thought from its manners and appearances that it must be a Turk, and so called it a turkey bird. But not only was the poor bird de- prived of ita birthright as a native American in its English name, but so ignorant were the so-called men of science, supposing a turkey was some sort of guinea fowl, they called it meleagris—so it happens an American bird is a Turk, and a turkey is, in name, a guinea fow!. The tarkey be- longs to the family of scratehers. All of you have seen turkeys, so a de- scription of the bird is superfluous, You remember the livid blue head, of the plumage, each feather with a velvet black margin, and the long tuft the neck. The tame turkey is sometimes white or parti- colored, and varies in color. Phe wild turkeys are all the same color. Some avimals and beasts improve housed and could read ‘“‘Snow-Bound” over blazing logs answering roar for roar, the “grand old harper’ smiting and {wanging the caks and hickories of the grove. We took the 9 o'clock train from the city. It was crowded, mainly with ons sori and condition of men. Lach of them was presumably going to the old hemestead—gray, yellow or whize, backed by the invariable red barn— **for Thanksgiving.” Some chewed orange peel to tone down their breaths to the decorvus prejudices of the old folks at home, others inhaled bad cigars in the “smoker,” and brought the evil incense intoour car, At least two-thirds munched peannts and strewed the oor with the shells. One and zi alked loudly and laughed boisterously. A red-hot stove at each end .{ the car brewed tho reek of whisky, tobacco, orange peel and 1oasied peannts into a nuisance. +t was an accommodation train, halt- ing a. every ‘‘turn-out” ‘rippers moved by filial piety or farm- house romance rnd poetry to maintain the traditions of the day. At the end etandstill, A coal train had been wrecked and must be cleared away be- 0 the exact centre of an uncomely ex- pause of fields covered with sodden snow and eriss-crossed by blackish sone feuces., Now visible for over = mile on all sides of us. half a dozen mean huts knotted into a sort { settlement about some railway coaling sheds, and ‘wenty dis- reputable loafers lounged from them to iuspect the wreck and our train. The one sort and condition of men af- filisted right speedily with these, and whereas paterfamilins made divers abortive excursions in various diree- tions in quest of a draught of milk and slices of bread for his hungry chil- dren and a reasonably clean spot where materfamnias might retire for awhile from th: sowing strife of tongues dashing against the becalmod train, it was but too evident that mounutsin dew and Jersey lightning were to be Lad for good fellowship and for money. All bablbled, wore or less tipsily, of the day we wore celebrating, drinking to it with every imaginable form o’ cxplotive, and some that, until tha“ unhappy hour wera ¢uite unimagin- able by materfamilias and her terrified younglings, The average American's one idea of a holiday is license, and the one idea increased and prevailed as tho hours dragged by. We were halted at 10.30, At 3 tho rails wero freo aud the celebrants of the honorable anniversary tambled tumnltously into thoir seats, the one idea uppermost, All over the broad and teemir breasts, recking wita richness, to the earver's blade, cranberries had bled by the million; pumpkin pics ' mud plem puddings had sur ‘eited the tens of thousands of sensible people who bad stayed at home and feasted eonventionally, Since onr early break- fast wo had eaten justone water cracker ece; wo wero lame with long sit- , sickened in body by foul air and in soul by foul language. What was left of spirit and hope re- vived with each mile loft behind us, Materfamilias told stories to the con- fiding innocents of the sleigh drive would have from the station, the dinuer and fire and fun awaiting us at bome We had managed to get off a slog: am to onr caretaking gardener at 11 o'clo sx, ordering Jum to send to every train nntil we came and to keep the dinner hot, At 4.8" we sligited at the shably lsttle stauson nearest our idvilic ous themselves off upon a Thanksgiving spec of their own baby began to sob, and silent tears glazed the purpled cheeks of tho eldest girla, “This is the tassel upon the cap of the climax!” said their mother in deadly calmness. “We ill go to the bouse and break our way in. Since starve we must, we will starve in our beds, under plenty of blankets,” She wok a child by each hand, patorfamilias reshoulderod the weep- ing baby, and we pulled our feet out of the congealingsuow, A plantation of everyreena hid the turn in the path at which we had our first glimpse of the cottage. A weak ory from the children, an astonished snort from paterfamilias, a devout ejaculation from the mother, broke into the gusty air. For royal banoers of smoke, tinted by the glowing west, streamed from every chimney, each window was stained by scarlet firo-gleams from within; Frank, oar faithful watchdog, bounded from the poreh with a bay of welcome, and at the joyous yelp the front door was flung wide. i Our felegram Lad arrived in good | reason; the sleigh had gone to meet us | by the road, and, being a little behind i time, had missed us, who camo soross ‘ola, Whilas our trusty retainers made | Lreathless explanations the odor of roast tnrkey was borne to ns upon the flood of warm air pouring through hall and doorwey. Dinner would be on table by the time we could get our reives into dry clothes, Never did anothor dinner taste so good: nover was wood fico more jolly than that in which the chiidren roasted chestnuts, aud bhesile which pater- fatiilias smoked the cigar of content, aud matorfawailiaz dreamed aud moral ized. To the koma nook, “‘curinived snd closed and wirm,” came the shout of the wind-god, a very pagean of re- juicing for mishaps overpast and for the abundaul compensations that crowned tho ootgeiag of our one eventful ‘Thanksgiving Day, New York World, Jackeonville, Pla,, ita a raocesstal ; ostrich farm, the only ome iu the | United Staton outside of Culiféenia, and become larger and finer-looking animals when brought under the dominion of mankind. This {s not the case with the turkey, which has deteriorated, having lost weight and beauty by being domesticated, A Novel Ldes. The hostess of a iast-year's Thanks giving dinner secured enough yellow gourds to put one at each of the doze covers in simulation of toe Thanks. giving pumpkin. Each of these gourds held a tiny, growing fern in its little clay pot, the color effect around the table being extremely good. THE TURKEY'S LAMENT. I'm a melancholy turkey--sad am Fora i of awful terror Arawsth nigh. How I dread the smell of ple, And the cakes and tarts piled high, For I know that I must die Thanksgiviag Day. What avail my srarkling eyes, just like jot, Or = slim and stately neck, proudly set) hough my glossy feathers shine, On my flesh will people dine, And pronounce me lescions—fine, Thanksgiviog Day, How I Nien 1 had been hatebed some ether Chigken, goose, duck or dove'd be torrod— pre: Any fowl but what I am, EE eaaia Sam. ur I’ “ Thanksgiving Day. with Marie Antoinette! How hat datk and bloody axe haunts me jut floon on neck ‘twill desoend, Minke of —~ mddeon end, Was a sadder rks 6 ar penned? How I sympathize sen dubbing Martin. a NOTES AND COMMENTS. One of the most striking features of the war in South Africa is the ignor- ance about the Boers which is man- fested by the British army staff, ‘Luncheon is a superfluity, as any man will discover if he will try doing without it for the period of one month,” says the New York World, It is found that wireless telegrams tre likely to become confused if sev- sral are transmitted at once. Mr, Marconi can hardly expect to have the sends a message, Statistics show that Germany leads ‘he world in the publication of educa- sional works, the arts and sciences, pelles lettres and travel; France in aistory, poetry and the drama; Italy 4 political economy, and England in aovels, Of course: An American syndicate snd will preserve it as it is, with trenches and block houses, Then they will probably put a fence around it sud let you in for 10 cents, Cuba is learning things, ——— And now the scientists have dis- with, i xrobe will be infesting chloride of time and things like that. 5 safe from it, It is the opinion of a German ocu- substitute ink or an As a and I'he latter Lave been introduced in Twelve inch guns of an improved guns in the three new The new *“‘Kearsarge’ thirteen inch the present, and it is her success which has led to an unhesitating ap plication of the superimposed turrets, Among the new adventures in the agg industry is that of marketing of he egg Ly weight, The Dominion f Canada has aiready introduced a of eggn by weight. The act provides that ‘unless otherwise agreed upon between the buyer and seller, eggs shall be sold by weight, and the weight equivalent to a dozen shall be a pound and a hall,” which is equal to fifteen pounds to the “long Lun- fred,” which is 10 dozen as demanded by the British market, aud must now considerably exceed that amount, Considering that use in manufacturing has been found for every pound of a ton of cornstalks, it may be roughly imagined what value mestic and exported wealth by utili zation of material much of which was formerly looked upon as worse than It ix, iess0n perhaps, the most impressive given for value of the by-product. The Amer- grower is changed at once CAN corn industry. Convict labor is in demand in benefit of the state. lessees of convicts paid the state only $11 per head yearly, but the new law in addition to securing humane treat ment for the prisoners, has resulted services, of the convicts were farmed ont for less than 8100, and one lessce has victs to another contractor at a hand- some profit, - i. or sell for a song, fit for agrienltural purposes, but then are considered worthless, The discovery that we owe our alphabet, the very foundation of our civilization, to a people of Chinese affinities, is rather dampening to our pride of race. But that is not the only thing in which the Mongolian in- teliect has been the pioneer of pro- gress. The Chinese were the first printers, aud it was they who first invented gunpowder and the mariner’s compass, Is it possible to mention four possessions of our modern civil. ization more ubsolutely fundamental than the alphabet, the printing press, the compass and gunpowder ? ———— Among the many incidents and phases of life in France set forth in the special cabled letter from Paris observes the New York Herald the most curious perhaps is the case of a mar: who on the occasion of his son's wedding called himself a baron. Be- ing put on trial for this false assump. tion of title, he explained to the Jury that his purpose was to make a - Hant match for his children. *‘“Men don’t care for titles,” he said, “but they have such in the eyes of the women,” The fact that he was sequitted would indieats that jury did not take a very serious view of the offence, but the hunge for titles in republican France and the reason assigned for it are very suggestive, ————— In order to save the beautiful trees which it is necessary to remove in constructing the buildings for the Paris Exposition an ingenius method has been devised by the engineers in charge of the enterprise. Trees, roots and the surrounding earth are inclosed in heavy plank bins built around them, and are then bodily lifted into the air and kept suspended there until the excavations and build- ing foundations are completed, when, if there is room, the trees are let down into their former positions, The plan has been found to work ad- mirably, and it is so simple snd prae- tical that it might be adopted wherever it is necessary to disturb trees in the The Indiana State Geologist in his annual report says that daring the last five years pipe lines bave been extending toward the heart of the natural gas fleld, Until now the center is less than 150 square miles, All the gas producing roek is now more or less effect on all parts. This is 150 pounds. Petroleum will prob. portion of the rock and while it Juste An ambitious colony of Mormons is Jit) Alberta, h I { the far North was started a few years x iy in the Northern wilderness, Their town, which they named Card. flourishing, having a factory, a creamery, mill, a saw mill. # graded public school, Four towns havebeen established, and esch has its school from a railroad, the colonists are prospering, and find a for their products, among whieh last year was 100,000 bushels of wheat, gay is n onists into first sion, Cleese I8 quite market Of Vra tised, and the col Although their principal pursuit is farming, they find oppor- tnnity for sociability, Each spring the population of Cardston moves ent into the fields to begin the farming operations, and during the sammer FIMOTR, apart, Do not despise the hen. The annually earns more than the total value of the cotton crop, and is still elucking cheerily away as THE JOKER'S BUDGET. Do You Know Him? Chere Is a man in our town . Who thinks he's wondrous wise; And when there is an argument He 1s willing to advise, But when there's labor to be done This man, with smile so bland, fooks wiser yet and shakes his head, But he never lends a Land, How She Lost Him, He— Positively, you're the first girl I aver kissed, Bhe—1 felt like it—New York €om- mercial Advertiser, Worth Seeing, “Billy, your wife is a very stylish firesser.” “Stylish? rook.” Wait till you see our — Consistent, | Dyspeptic Patron Kee here, this cof- Hees cold. | Waiter—S8ure! This is a quick-lunch | joint, If the coffee was hot yon { wouldn't have time to drink it.—Cath- jolic Standard, Remnant Refreshment. | “What do you think my boarders { call bread pudding 7 “Goodness knows.” “They call it rag-time dessert.” | troit Free Press, De- Missed His Vacation. Patient—You should have gone into the army, doctor. Doctor—Why so? Patient—Judging by the way you | sharge your friends vou would be able { to completely annihilate an enemy. Subtle Flattery, Hicks—How did yon ever manage fo borrow $20 of that stranger? Wicks—Oh, easy enough. He's a Philadelphian, you know, and when I began talking with him I asked him if be wasn't a New Yorker. —Somerville | Journal, Cause and Effect “Why were the neighbors all rushing to her house the other night?’ “Thought she was yelling for help. { Come to find out she was only trying to repeat a verse she had picked ap at the grand opera.” — Detroit Free Press. The Two Points of View. Old Morgan—If you knew how hard it is to get money together you would aot be so eager to squander it Young Morgan—If you knew what fun there in spending money you wouldn't give your life to saving it. — Boston Transcript. Iw Had a Reason for it. Blobbe- What hascome over Biones? | He's so insufferably stuck up that one | scarcely dares speak to him. Slobbs—A second cousin of his was otice shaved by the same barber who trimmed the whiskers of a man whose wife's sister's step-uncle went to school with Dewey, able after all. It this country there are more than 000,000 chickens, which produce an- nnaily about 14,000, 600, 000 eggEn, These eggs are worth to poultrymen and farmers $175,000,000, while the 350, each entire $130,000,000, Assuming that hen is worth 30 cents, the brood foots up $1035, 000,000, All the cows in the country only amount to a numbers, them that they ought to supply all can consume. In fact, the number of 1,830, 000,000 egge, worth $20,000,000 are imported in Britain every vear to make up the deficiency of the home supply, Large numbers of eggs are also imported into the United States the poultry business seem practically One of the Troubles ofa Rich Man, According to his own admission, Henry Willard, one of the two sur viving brothers of the three who were for a third of a century, is in fajling health, although he is active as a cat on his feet and has every appearance of robust vitality. Henry Willard le one of the wealthy men of Washington He retired from active business several Years ago-that is to say, he retired as much as he could. A day ago a friend met him on the street and inquired about his health, “I am feeling badly,” was the reply. “I do not sleep well. 1 toss all night 1 do not know what I am going to do.” Thinking to “jolly” him the friend re marked: “If IT were as comfortably fixed as you, 1 think I would sleep soundly. 1 certainly would not lose sleep from worry." “I am not so sure of that,” rejoined the old man, and his volce took on a querulons tone. “1 am not so sure what you would do if you were ia my place, Why, just think of it! Sap posin’ you had from $500,000 to $1, 000,000 lying idle in the bank all the time, and had to worry about investin' it. Maybe you wouldn't fiud it sc blamed easy to sleep as you think Just think of it—all that money not carnin’ a dollar! Chicago Post. Tommy's Question. Ronny radmin, may ask a ques. tion Grandma What Is it? A Brilliant Finish. “1 saw him kiss you just before he was leaving.” said sour-visaged aunt, and she said it in a regular dull- thud tone. “Yes, auntie.” “Well, 1 can realize that it would be | the last thing he would think of.” and ! she rallied out though she had scored every possible point. the as Her Pleasing Fault. i “I hear that you are calling on Miss Perkliegh pretty regularly.” i “Yes s “Thought you used to say the only thing she could do with any success i was to sit and giggle at nothing” “1 know it. She's still that way. | Keeps so busy at that she never has | ime to play or sing rag-time songs.” — Chicago Times-Herald. : Misled by the Sign. Sergeant Brown-—-Halt! you can’t go in there, Private MeGinnis—Phoy not? Sergeant Brown-—Because it's General's tent, blockhead. Private MeGinnis—Then, phoy in the deuce have they got ‘proivate over the door?” the Willing to Assist, The gradual accumulation of wealth in a few hands” said the rich young man, “is a serious problem.” “True.” replied the poor girl, “but in individual cases the danger may be at least partially eliminated by securing the proper assistance in disposing of what accumulates, There are, you know, some fields of human endeavor in which woman is preeminent. Chi. cago Post. Becoming Densely Inhabited. Hiram-If 1 had any desire to ex- plore around the Polar regions, I be lieve I'd try making a trip to the South Pole. Silas~Why not try the North Pole? Hiram—Oh, there's been s0 many other fellows gone that direction lately that a fellow wouldn't git very fur without being overiatied by. sushe re ——. Pefoct. Toppers has just got up a new that ought to make his fortune, There's no trouble in understanding It. Longbow-—How's that? Whoppers—It rans through a pho- nograph.— Puck, of microbes lute the ark?-Brooklyp
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