The Thanksgiving Turkey. 'My itcxi," Huid Miotic** Fox, •You're CIUIIIMV ** XN OX, Tl* now ThHiikHgiving limo, Tin* merry toll* wU chime; liut we tuu> ditii vM, While Ikdib v.il curve A Jim in- turkey on In* Initio; thet hiiil, ii you ere nlii*. You're HO luxy, For piny so ernxy; N- fpitne you ovci lnotjuh*- No chicken ever cuiifchl. For t* time ol 11 u • 1 .muk giving Or for our dully living.'' Young Foxy frit ijuito xad, When rnllod a clutmtv loci An ♦ jiixt nt night, With nil hi* might, fir run to Funnel I>olihVn yard, And found the tuikey oil Inn gu ml. Without n word, He choked the bird; Then proud y dung Idtii on hi* heck, And took lor home the nhoriwt track "(lIMKI boy, my son* You are no ox; I'm proud of you," mud Minim**® Fox. "Oi name and fnuie vou lite the winner, And wo have got I'll oik^^iring dinner; While Farmci I>:IM niui ln three tun. Must dine U|* i nil ancient hen." BEHIND THE CHIMNEY. A niAN'KSIII VI Ml STORY. It was Thanksgiving foremen, and can it I*-? Yes. it wa tliirty years ago! Lou Hempstead and I had visit ed the pantry to see the |i-s which had baked the day before in th big stone oven. "There's mince, apple, and pump kin'" said I,ou, in a voice full of r> lish. "And two little turnovers!" 1 ex claimed, quite sure in my own mind who would eat tin m. Then we came back in time to watch grandmother :ts she turned the turkcv before the tire. The fireplace wa built of great stones, and was so deep and broad that many a tine I ha I sat In one corner of it on a little stool watching the log'* burn and crumble into coals. Hut this day the Pre was too big and hot, and the long crane hi Id throe or four iron pots, all bub bllng and steaming, ready to cook the vegetables for dinner. There was .1 tin "baker" before the lire, and in that Lay the turkey in a pan. slowly brown ing. and smelling so good, we little girls thought. Father and mother had gone to meeting to hear the Thanksgiving ser num. and Aunt Ann was busy setting the table in the "keeping room." Ing Isw of seventeen when he went to sea. That was more than two years before, and they had not beard from him for a year. I knew grandmother felt anxious about him, and that tears < ame into tu-r eyes when be was mentioned, but 1 wa- a thoughtless child, and had not taken il to heart myself. "When he comes home he can make another," I said. "I'd put it right back. Maidie," said Aunt Ann, as she turned awav to get out the best spoons. lint I thought I would play with II a little while lirst. and I kept it in my band when we shut the drawer. Then Lou and I went up garret to Ind the kittens. There they were. Utile heaps of fur. asleep in the dusty aonshine. We roused them up for a Iridic, and made thetn beg and hold out their paws. '1 hen we wanted something they could roll about, and I put the little carved wooden ball down on the floor, only meaning to leave it there a minute till Lou got a spool out of her pocket. Hut the kittens were so full of play, they sprang at it as quick as a flash, ami rolled It along the floor towards the lioard partition. I ran after them,' and caught them both, but I eould not ffnd the ball. "It's gone through that hole in the boards," said Lou, w hen we had search ad behind boxes and barrels in vain. "Let's go around and get it," I re plied. The Imard partition separated the great dark space which waa nearly all •arupied by the chimney, built of huge rough * tones, whose foundation rest ad on the solid earth, far below, but which, though lessening in siz to wards the top, was still so large there by the garret stairs that it seemed like a stone tower. On either side, be t ween the chimney and the garret par titions, was a dark, narrow, cavernous space, where the projecting stones made a foothold, and where broken chairs hud been stowed away, making a sort of barricade. The darktie.-s was almost blackness as we looked in from the t< p of the stairs. "Your aunt Ann will scold if you lose that ball," said Lou Hempstead. "You don't know, she isn't your aunt; you're only third cousin!" 1 re plied on the defensive, but secretly uneasy. 1 peered into the dark opening until my eyes became used to the gloom, and I could see, past the broken chairs, two or three pus es of hoard resting '>ll the stones, and at the very farthest part al most was something that might be the hull. "1 see it! I'm going in after it 1" I exclaimed. "Don't you do it ! You'll get killed !" said 1.011. "Hut I pushed in by the chairs and reached the lirst board safely. There 1 stood, leaning against the chimney, till I could see belter, and then 1 peer ed along on tin-next liourl. Yes, that surely w.is the woi MII-ll carved ball a!" must at the end, half under a cobweb. 1 took a step or two farther, and set my foot on the second board. Then I liHikisl mi ami down into what si eiu ed an abyss of darkle --, but tar below wis a little gleam of light. lor an instant I stood wondering what it could be, and then I took another step reaching my hand to gra-p the ball. The board tilted under my foot. I fe't myself dipping in'• > the h rror of larktu I lic.xid Lou scream, and I <-liit-ln-1 despairingly at the rough stones beside me. in that wav 1 • steadied myself, ami tlnn I -hut my eves till 1 got confidence enough to steprautiuu-ly backward and mover my fo ding on the first plank. It vv.i sueh a relief when I felt l.oii Ileiii|>- stcad catch hold of my dress IN bin 1. "I'll hold on and pull, Maidie'" she -aid, in n terror-stricken voice; but by that time it was easy work to crtvvl , 1 ;e-t the chairs back to the stair-top ' again. "Hut the ball is lost forever now!" 1 -aid. ruefully, for even a-s I slippi-l, I had 1 card it bound off among the stones. "Never mind." said Lou.coniforting. I>- "But I 1/0 mind." I replied, "for I shall have to tell grandmother, and that will make her tlunk of I'nile i.ib-s, and she'll cry Anyway.though, 1 won't tell her till after dinner," 1 added. J.Oll smoothed my dress and hair, and then we went down -airs. No bndv had missed us. and Aunt Ann was ju-t setting the chairs around the table. "Dinner's almut ready to take up. girl-," she said, "and, Maidie, there's your father and mother coming now." The chicken-pie, the biscuits and butter and jelly, were already on the table, and we ran to tie- kitchen t-> see Aunt Ann take up the turkey and grandmother dish the vegetable*. "The turnips are ma-hed and the onions are seasoned." said grand mother. "I'm just going to take up the JH it itoes. For mercy's sake, Ann. what's this?" "I don't know," said Aunt Ann; "it isn't a jsitatn!" Wo pressed closer. "(Hi! oh! it's the wooden hall!" 1 cried. "It's the wooden ball! I hst it down behind the chimney, and it fell into the potato-pot!" I looked up and there was a little open space where the chimney stones above projected unevenly against the boards of the kitchen w all. And that was where the light had crept through. Grandmother said afterwards that she left tho lid off the potatoes just a mo ment while she went to the dresser to get some salt to throw In. so they would b iil white. Hut at the time of the discovery, all she said was, "Giles' hall! I'oor liny! where is he now?" In a trembling voice. I was sure she was going to cry, and I felt so had I ran out past mother, wo wa* talcing her lionnet off. th. uigh the door and down to the ga And I leaned against It and cried myself, for what with the terror and excitement and reaethm of the whole thing, 1 was all unnerved. I did not hear a quick step that came up i the road, nor see the tall young man in ■ blue who approached me. till 1 felt his hand on my shoulder, and looked up to nu-et his bright eyes shining down upon my tearful ones. "Aren't you my little niece?" he ask i ed. gaily. 1 "Oh, I'ncle Giles! I knew you i wasn't drowned!" I exclaimed; and - then he lifted me on his shoulder and I took me to the house In triumph. Then my dear, precious grandmother had no need to shed any more tears, ' except for pure happiness, and the; day I was a day of thanksgiving Indeed. — ' Youths'! 'om/ianimt. A ({I I Kit lIUtHATION. .% •• Old Sen rnitUlii'a llotiar Ifttillf Out l Mii|vrrrka. There is a queer little nook down on the coast below >anta Barbara, into which a reporter found his way a few days ago, it is the wreck of a vessel, |trrhed high anion;,' the sandhills ii|nm ! the I'alos Verde* ranelio upon the shores of >an I'edro hay. It is tint lioiii" of a vivacious, eccentric individ ual, an old salt named Captain.). I', .lanes, who ho.i-.ts of having met and vanquished, single-handed, the repriv sentativis of the lllost powel fill monopoly on the Pacific cutest. "Come and see iny miiseum," said .lanes to the reporter, who was weather hound on San I'edro wharf, with the mercury stea lily crawling up above the one hundredth decree. "Jt is a ipiccr i place, hut I ain't ashauieil of it, and its cooler down here; beside, I want to show you my lawsuits. I have . twcnty-cight of them, all of them nail- ( isl upon the wall, and ea h one repre sents money." The "queer place" was found hi a dry arroyo, or sandy guleh. upon the north side of >an Ihslro harisir. It is a handsome, sipiare house, with a piazza extending all around it and a tlagxtafT surmounting the whole. \t a distance it presents the appearance of a ta-ty little hotel and o\. r the top can he seen pa,nte I upon the -.tern of some wrcckisl ship the words "Ocean Villa." It is only when one enters . the neat little enclosure about the house tha' i' trie- cha a tcr is oh- r - able. The li .use and its w hole sur roundings are made up of portions of J wrecks. The garden feme, the plants, the ornaments nil around bear tha .gri- ■! the se.i. I he hou-' is a co'ii hitlat.on of bulwarks, hulk lie, elI"- k ers and cabins Th<. prinripal room is the cabin of >:ue lir-t class ship; the r.x'.ii above it is the cabin of a bark. The kitchen i the galley of a wrecked merchantman, and each and all of tie many u;>artnicntx ar- citle r ( " abuts, w !o-elho'ises or sik;ng g.illeys trans;, rr—l from some dismantled craft wrc kc' ujm.h the I ay. No tw < r'Miins are alike mu all are construct "I so as to pr -. r.c their original up ! (-.trance on tie shij. they Wife built upon. Nitiio ar- sini-s 1,• l in nitural wimnls atul s..uic are a.st ashore during a *oiitliea-ier alsnit three y.-iirs ago. The interior walla are covered with marine curiosities gathered by sailors in all portions of ttie world. The collection of hand work made by sailors is perhaps the best on this Coast. The modi-Is of ships and quaint • art ,ngs are splendid. The most remarkable curiosity of all is a large star formed out of legal docu ments from the courts and sheriff's ; office, and naibsl upon the wall. I "Those papers." said Captain lanes, in explanation, "are my lawsuits. I keep j them on exhibition like an Indian does his scalps. Those are suits I have had brought against me by the Southern Pacific and by General Phim-as Ban ning to drive rnc away from this spot. ( I hate defied them all and have 1 wliipjss) Vm I atn here yet and there's my l>ats, those three little i sloo|s anchored in front of my house. 1 own this land antl the water front, and all I have about me is paid for. When me and my wife came here w-e bad not a dollar, and wo lived In a lent i made out of an old sail. Vow lam independent and next month shall starv a newspaper, the .Son Pnlrn fihip i ping tiujelt*. I am no scholar, never went to school; I atn a sailor, but I have made up my mind to grow rich with San I'edro."— Santa liarbara ( ''al .) lwUjvniimt. Position Is Kverythlng. •■What do you think of my picture?" asked an amateur of an old artist as he held It before him. The old man looked at it a moment and replied: "Stand a little further off." The am ateur backed away with a gratified look. "A little farther, please." The I amateur hacked over near the open ( door and the old man kept his eye on ( the picture. "Still further—another ( step or t4o, please." Hy this time the > amateur was out in the hall etill holding ( up his picture. "Now shut the door." Tba amateur obeyed. "There," tloat ed the voice of the old fellow over the transom, "it looks !>etter In that post* tton than In any other ; please keep It I so until I get the door locked." And . the amateur didn't get down stain soon enough not to hear the chuckling laugh of the old gentleman on the In r side Merchant Traveller. ' HCIKNTIFIL' HUKAPM. 1 I By careful measurements, Prof l>. P. JYiihiillow has determined the root and the leaf an as of the Indian corn ! plant to be approximately equal. The lad observations indicate that I wo are distant from the miii about !1'2.7 ur years the number of eggs will 1- d n unshod by twenty, and in In r ninth year sin will lay at most tl to be very danger- us It is difficult to cure, and often causes extreme debility and had health. < hum k'-ej-ers, forest' ers, and tln-ir assistants dn-ad it ex treinelv, ami say that a dog which re reives such a w.iun-1 usually dies from , gangrene or mortification of tin-sore, however slight it may m--hi at first. If he recovers, the result is almost equally unsatisfactory; the dog becomes paralytic in the wounded limit or ep.leptie, or if he has Iss-n a wise and intelligent creature, he now lieeotnc* p< rf'-etiy stupid. The author of I "Nether Ia-haU-r" wan [*ts nally ac quainted with a line-b.king young man. an assistant for<--ter, wh>. in helping to take a dead stag off a lull pony's hack, wa- ( üb-ntally w..umbsl in the leg by one of the tinm. lie did not think much of the w "tind at the time. It was an ugly. ragged gash. ! but not deep, and he had more than i once had iitucli more serious wounds which had healed at once easily "by the first intention," as the do tors say, This wound from the (lea*! stag's horn would not, however, heal; none of the salves or ointments or healing tmsliea i merits of the glen had the b-ast effect u|on It. It always Ix-eatne the longer the wrse, and when Mr "stewart saw tlx* yotiftg man he was on his way to (ilasgow to sis* if the skill of the doctors there could counteract the dire effect of the Rtag'a horn.--( hamt*rs Journal. l isten. Boys 1 Wordsworth savs. "The Boris Father of the Man." and the Cleveland, (Ohio) Farmer offers this good advice to aspiring Im>vs: The highiwt attainment for you, my boy! Is to he a man. This world is full of counterfeits. But It Is a grand thing to stand upright in defence of truth and principle. When persecu tions come, some hide their faros until the storm passes hy; others can le bought for a mess of pottage. From such an one, turn away. But stand hy 4 a friend; lie a man; do not run away when danger threatens to overwhelm him or yourself. Think for yourself. Bead good lsHiks and read men's faces. ; The eye Is the window to the soul; tiaa jour eyes and hold your tongue. If op|Mieition come* meet it manfully. If success crowns your efforts lear It quiet ly. Do your own thinking and keep your own secrets, worship no man for hia wealth nor his linasge. Fine feathers don't always cover fine birda. Be sober, lie honest, be just in all your dealings with the world; be trua They will sell you for money or popularity; don't trust them. Wear but one faaa and Ist that be an honest one, PKARLH (IK THOUUIIT. Anger and haste hinder good conn, sol. Ridicule dishonors more than dis honor. No solitude is so solitary as that of inharmonious companion ,ip. One ungrateful man does an in jury to all w ho stand in m-ed of aid. Kiridm n is the only charm permitted to the age.l; it is the cxjiietry of white hair. lix|icrii-riee is a torch lighted in the ashes ol our liojsm ami delu sions. There is no greater (b light than t. la; conscious of sincerity on .-elf-exami nation, Ooniparison, more than reality makes men happy, and can make them wretched. j We should seek more of the practical i realities of everyday life and b-x of the ether' al. We must consider humanity - .i man who continually grows old am! alw ay, learns. Wondrous is the strength of cheer fulness; altogether past calculation It • power of endurance. It is so easy to meditate on a far-oil hcroi-m, so lifSi< ult t cut oft i l.'ti self-indulgence quite m ar at hand Losing silver to Hnd Gold. •"he old and feeble atel the 'll - li.el almost to lift ln-r into th* ear. v b hobbled t*i a•- at and (b-js>s iting her i undle on the tloor, yr' ■ <-i'-1 to fumble in ln-r j> - ket f.-r ln-r fan Aft'-r m icii searching sh' j r -lm- 1 a quart- r. w Inch she handed to tia* < on duetor. lb- returrnsl the (\ange to her trembling lingers, but 1-'fori -!>'• could put it Hi h'T pocket, a piece |r -bably a ditin f< -11 to the lb --r and was lost oetwe tit! " slat- at lor feet. In vain d.d sin- try to timl .t. It j.a m (sl 10-r to i• tj 1 w, an l, w •(, .i b . of resignation, lo g.r.ett uji. A tail man dr--s.-i ttr b.a- k. -at f.i it.,* her, and Wat* In 1 10-r mt'-ritly a-slo-b-;n<-1 l-ai-k in lo*r s.-at. 111- haml w<-nt t-- hi- jss-ket, then, st s-ping f--rw ltd, appearisl t" le 1 i.:rig for the 1 .-t coin, and with an "Ah. here it is madam," he slret- 10-i In- h.ni l to th<- floor and raising it ibjs->-itsl tlo money in her la; lb r-• and imme diately left the car. The oil woman la- koned to the conduct r ami, si --w -ing bitn a five dollar gold j i'-cc, ;isk(-i if he h;el nt gj\en it her ! y mistake. 11. a--ur--! le ihe had given lor two dimes. >he e--uld not under stand how- she ante by it, but a few of the pa-sengcrs culd, an , a- -lo- put licr hand to her face to hide the tears of joy that dimmed 10-r eyes, some <-ne whisjerisl the strang'-r's name- II- is one of the best known philanthropist in New York, a uo- Isr of a fain iy nob-l for many years far and wide for its countless gr Y-,ri. Tribune. Composition of the Mad-tone. >e\ or al instance- of applying the maers recently, and the t'-stim.- ny of the patients is that in every < .v the stone has absorbed the jsiison. It is a popular ls-lief in some j>rt.s of the country that a person who pmauus one of these stones is artned against all venomous creatures; but the savants agree that the loadstone j nothing more than the concretion foand in the stomach of the deer, and that It ha- n<> niedi- al properties xvhat ever. I'rof. Holmes, the Atlantic CoivHtution says, dissected one the si/e of a hen's egg, and found its nucleus to 're a jwrfcct white oak acorn. It was covered by four layers of phosphates and carbonate of lime and iron and some silex. There were two Impressions, apparently made by the teeth of the deer Iwifore swallow- j ing the nut. Acorns are a favorite food of Carolina deer. In another specimen I'rof. Holmes found the nucleus to be a bullet. Kronen Meat. Meat Is now frozen in Sydney and sent in refrigerated chambers by steam ers to London. The hulk Kira (4e.no ' va is fitted up with the freezing appa ratus in Darling harlmr and can ac commodate the carcases of 10,000 sheep or 1000 bullocks. The cold is produced by compressing air. cooling it, then permitting It to suddenly ex paml. In this ways tmnperature of 72 degrees l>elow zero is obtained in a few seconds. This coid air is then let Into the freezing chamber where the carcases hang. A sheep is completely frozen In thlrty-elx hours, a bullock In live or six hours. The frozen carcases are transferred to the freezing rooms of the Orient steamers and conveyed to Kngiand, at extra cost for freight and freezing of 3d. per pound on the price of tks meat In Sydney. STORIES OF FORTL'ME. tl*>w m Wmirr Well BNAIIIF AN OH Wrll AND MM oil Wfll M UALCR %Vrll "Thlk about tumbles in the price of oil," Hiti'l a veteran operator on the Bradford Petroleum Exchange to u newspaper <-orrespondent the othei lay, "nothing like tic- one of th- win ier of 1 >-< hat been known in tho i-iijijern 'lay- of the trifle. Toat was the winter iha .!<•*,•■ Hcvdrick put down the up] Farmer*' are! Meehanb *' "•ell, or rather the company that he formed p ' ;t >lown, arrl that wa* the irst company ever ferried to develop , the oil territory. The welicarne m g<>od for alxnjt kito barrel* a 'lay, and half of it couldn't be taken ' are of, but ran down the < e#!. m a pgular (1 >#L *>j 1 w;t* oil then, an I wan worth fl'i a barrel. Pitt-burg was the only mar ket, and we bad only or" way to get "il there, ami that wa* by running it in barge* <1 wn the Alb-ghany river from ' iil (it v. ' course it was neeev -ury t-i have freshetto tran*j>ort it in thi* way. The winter that !I<-rdri''k n k hi* well the river \*a* fro/en over, but he wa* leiim i to get some oil to J'.ttsbiirg il<- succeed#*! in cutting away thro igh, and ran ten I'iit boats down lie old all his oil for i a barrel Ihe nevt d a thaw set in, and in t\v i day* the riv-r broke up. Then the baa', began to run. and .n a short time the m wa- ovr ' • '-1. and Hi !'-•* t all a weei. oil w a v-ihtig at it -.i irrel "The early day- of oil pro taction w • r<- attends*) by many <-urious inci !'n" • Site I Jl- had drilled a w • 11 'low at • the third - in 1. but found nothing l it water, and th <• ■ days' continuou rig li >1 to 1 ririg anything <1 •• t , the surfa .*" he a 1 ari'l'irifl the well in leg .t. j |,e next day a ri'-igti r of his. who was operating on an adjoining b am-, nuns over to -ee the i.-g well owner, and info; :uel, but up rt t,he • f the water j' my rig had lied w.th water and I reduced ri" ni<>re oil ■ ihe re-ult wa- that the man who ewti'sl the producing well hirssl the I'-* for" ina'e opera'-t ■ keep hi* ji ;rn; going, t r which he paid him #l"a we k. Tie pr luring well wa* thus rest >r#*d to its former condition and thing- w rued satisfactorily for ■•ivm, n'Us. when suddenly n<-day the *•11 that hail been yielding nothing ! it water 1 • gan pumping ml. and the ne that ha! ye) led >..] n turn Ixv-ame a water w'lL The changed situation re*ult<"l iri a law ut. whn h wa* won by the owner of the well that had first yielded m thing tot water." How a Pig Made a President. About this tune in knot* about the sunny corner* and around depots and hotels, when j>litial stories are in • rder. you w ill occasi nail} hear soma • •Id stager remark that "a pig onoe made Andrew .laikvri president" It w as never my fortune to inert one who could remetnler how itV*m<* alniut, but in a copy of the Afn+rinun Trartltr for 1 lercnilor lit, ],}*. Wing volume IV., No. -'•<>. I find ali the particular*, which 1 copy for the Wnefit of the .So ciety for the I'erjadnation of Old Morie*. It appears that away back in the