THE
Their
Gave no gift back.
—From Harper's Weekly.
The Co
HEN the original John
Pemberton came to Mas-
sachusetts to fight In-
dians and to enable his
descendants to become Dames and
Daughters and Sons of all manner of
things, it was In a way that little be-
tokened such future glory. It is sad
to record such things of an ancestor,
but as a matter of fact he was fairly
smuggled in from Virginia, where a
political difference with Governor
Berkeley had led to his enforced re-
tirement; and so little was his pres-
ence desired in the Puritan colony
that only because of his splendid mili-
tary ability was he allowed to remain,
For he, being by all accounts a spirit.
ed parity, gave the blue laws no more
attention than if they did not exist,
and in face of indignant public opinion
insisted on keeping Christmas after
the fashion of their common mother
country.
But with King Philip and the Nar-
ragansetts waging war it was impos-
sible to spare one who was both a
fearless and a skilful warrior; and be-
sides (so say the ancient annals) his
gins brought their own punishment;
80 terrible a one that the most ortho-
dox stood aghast, for his eldest son-—
his heir and his pride—married a red-
headed witch, the daughter of a Dutch
emigrant, who had died just as his
vessel touched port. There was no
doubt about the witchcraft. She
gay garments of a strange cut,
sang, in an unknown tongue,
of an unearthly sweetness that held
passers-by spellbound pear her tiny
cabin; she had wondrous skill in herl
and simples; and, lastly, to clinch the
matter, there was the red head. But
the younger John, who had traveled,
only laughed at the tales when he
took her for his wife in deflance of
the world, and of his father to boot,
who, in spite of his own contumacy,
desired no dealings with sorcery, and
who cut off his son with a shilling.
But one thing more went with it—
namely, the old man’s sword; for the
son, though uninvited, came to the
funeral and took it down from its hook
on the wall, declaring that of all the
sons he alone, as cldest, had the right
to wear it. And later, when he, too,
was dead, his daughter, being frivel-
pus, as became her parentage, melted
up the gold hilt and ran it into beads,
and this deed added flame to the fami-
ly feud, which did not die out, as do
gost feuds, but burned on for two
long centuries. For in each generation
the head of the one branch of the Pem.
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qn
wore
she
songs
bertons made a formal demand for the
heads as a lawful and just right, and
sae representative of the witch Pem-
bertons, as they are called, as the eld-
est line, scornfully refused; so that
the quarrel was constantly renewed,
and would have probably have flour.
ished indefinitely but that, through in-
advertance, the eldest son of either side
was entered the same year at the same
college, and both of them being strong
and athletic, they were thrown much
together and wrestled themselves
into a mutual respect which gradu-
ally ripened into friendship.
And thus it came about that the
one introduced the other to bis sister,
Damaris Pemberton, who had come
‘Wp for commencement week. Now, Da-
maris was a sight to see. By a strange
run of fate every girl in that line is
born with a red head, but in Damaris,
when the sun shone upon it, it was a
halo of glory. And her complexion
was dazzling, and her blue
great stars, and her dimples came and
went; and, in short, if her ancestress
had been like her it is no wonder that
2 man threw up lands and money for
Red Js
In the gathering dusk John thought
he saw a slender form run past the
casement window, Then just as he had
decided it was Imagination there came
a tap at the front door—a sudden ris
ing and falling of the old brass knock-
er-—-s0 slight a noise that It failed to
call the butler.
After waiting a moment John Pem-
berton himself strolled down the Lall
and opened the door. No one was
there, though the mark of a small foot
was clearly visible in the snow on the
docr-step. As he stooped to look at it
he saw beside it a little square pack-
age, directed in fine printed letter “To
Colonel Pemberton, with a Merry
Christmas."
“Eh, what's that?” sald the old man,
when John returned to the library.
“Left on the doorstep? Perhaps It's
somg sort of a practical joke, though
who would think of playing it I don't
know. Open it, my boy, and let us
see what it is."
John Pemberton cut the string and
removed the brown-paper wrapping;
inside was the daintiest of parcels
done up in pale green tissue paper and
tied with ribbon. Wondering, he un-
rolled the paper and found an old case
of carved ivory. As he put his finger
on the spring the led flew back, and
with a loud exclamation the Colonel
leaned forward to stare at Waa wis
surely one of the strang presents
ever made to a grim and sedrred old
veteran of war—no less than a string
of gold beads!
The father, with the beads held in
one limp hand, gazed with down hung
jaw at his son, who in turn gazed
with like astonishment at his father.
Then there was silence, for what
time John's heart gave some two hun-
dred thumps against his ribs, and the
Colonel stared into the open fire, un
consciously toying. with the strand of
gold that had caused so much trouble
The old warrior knew when be Was
conquered. He was pot one given to
half-way measures. He looked up at
gaid he, “will you order the
out?
asking no quest
later, withou
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“John,”
carriage
John did,
A few minutes
other word being
~Harper's Bazar.
thought, and so before long he told |
her, and they agreed that the feud |
was nonsense, and became engaged,
her brother consenting.
And then came the deluge.
John's father, old Pemberton, near-
ly went off his head with rage when
John informed him of the engagement.
“What,” fumed the Colonel, "my
only son wed the daughter of that |
wrong-headed lawyer! Let them be |
gin, in common honesty, by restoring
their unjust gain and I'll consent to
done, never!”
“Unless she gives up those beads, If
you marry her I'll" The father left
the sentence unfinished, but John read
his meaning, from his hardening face,
“1 shall marry her,” John returned,
briefly and firmly.
“Very well” And the old warrior's
face grew cold.
But though for love of her he had
defled his father and announced his
firm Intention of cleaving to her, he
found that he had leaped over one ob-
struction to their marriage only to hurl
himself against a greater. Damaris,
who had a fine spirit of her own,
would have none of him on such terms,
“If the Colonel comes to me himself
and begs me to honor him by accept.
ing his son's hand perhaps I'll think
of it. But not before,” she sald,
Try as he would John could not
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the swiftly falling snow.
Damaris heard them
| am the house there were cardiac
beatings as excited as there were
without. She flushed to the soft color
of a sunset cloud when they appeared
before her, the father coming forward,
and John hovering about the door to
awalt developments. The Colonel
spoke before she had time to say a
word. “My dear lady,” he sald, with
coming, Co
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“iY DEAR LADY,” HE SAID,
STATRLY DrowiTy.”
Christmas gift, which, however, as Is
appropriate, I hope that you will con.
tinue to wear.”
He held out to her the old case of
earved Ivory.
“But they are yours,” she sald, con-
fusedly; and from beneath her lowered
Lysinhes a glance fluttered toward
“They are yours," the Colonel Insist.
ed; and she took them. “And also I
beg that you will honor me by con
senting to accept my only son, and
that you will come to my old house
ng its beloved mistress.”
John moved up to her and possessed
himself of her hands. “Father gave
you the beads, and you took them,”
be said, softly. “And he also gave you
me, Am I taken, too, dear?’
Damaris raised her eyes, and crept
closer: and John drew bor inw W's
Arms,
And go the old Pemberton feud came
to an end on Christmas night.—Wom-
an’s Home Companion.
I wonder how many old womse
were who baked and baste
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broods to con
bire
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for the
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The Christmas Turkey.
If you were to set about to
upon your method of cooking a turkey
you would probably do It in this wise:
with belling water, and steam
bird for two full hours.
would rub it all over with the beat
butter, dredge it with seasoned flour,
which the steaming was done, which,
purpose,
the basting until the flour has begun
to brown, or to have too much bast
ings in the pan at once, which prevents
the possibility of good gravy-making,
or to fail to turn the bird judiciously
go that every part is equally and even.
ly browned; In short, to be satisfied
with anything less than a “pleiure”
turkey, ready to fall to pleces with
original tenderness and rich with ac
quired juiciness and flavor from por
fect cooking. —Ella Morris Kretschmar,
in the Woman's Home Companion.
fellow stole n horse, or he woulda't be |
hanging on that wee tedulae
NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND.
There was a maid In our town
As wise as she was fair,
She went to a peroxide shop
And bleached her raven hair,
But when she saw her hair
A piebald charger's mune,
She walked into another shop
And dyed it black again,
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MENTAL INSOL ENCE.
“Do you
and the survival of the fittest?”
“I do,” answered the candid
“I have
those subjects to glve
my scientific
belleve in
to.
them."—-Washington Star.
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‘Bternal vigila
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boy does,
Smearer—Well, I have been engaged
to paint an allegorical plcture of that
sentence, Now, ean you suggest a
idea for “Eternal Vigilance?”
Dauber—1 can. Make a picture of a
man keeping an eye on his umbrella.
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Every school
LITERARY
KET.
gnid the fair girl
THE MODERN
“Yes “Adolphus
“Is that the young man who pro
posed to you?” asked Miss Cayenne.
“Yes, He knows ever so much, and
*”
“That's very nice, my dear. But be-
ing you try him on up to date slang.”
Washington Star
A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE AT HOME.
“Why is it, Mr. Blinkenham,”
jolly little match-maker asked, “that
yon have never married?”
“Well, I'l tell you,” he answered,
“In all my life I have never really
foved morg than three girls, and al
though they returned my love—of
course you understand that I didn't
love them all at the same time——it is a
singular fact that in each case their
parents objected to me.”
“Pooh!” she exclaimed. “I don't
think much of a man who will let par-
ental objection stand In the way when
“Perhaps not,” he went on regret.
; “but you see my father and
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