THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT BELLEFONTE, pa. NOVEMBER 20 1902. A Ti JAI {id FUL THANKSGIVING AVAAAAANAANANVAY NK] wuld enjoy Mis, Jo ne down into the B DON'T feel as | sh this Thanksgiy el Nisbett, | bask of QSSY, Spitzenbergs as i fly vault and taking it had “Then, band, who had ob the open fire, "you de nothin’ to be thankful for harnsome a turkey as ever and 1 don't ow of a had nicer p on that ar lat!” “"Tain't cranberry in","” sighed Mrs “What is It, then? er, 1 should thought the last frost would ha’ the for you pretty fairly. Them artemisias by the | front door black, and the old maple is losin’ as if they | ' gaid cheeked n fam as If red were apple n't het huge aisarn It's flapped, I've corn v Ip inl been a skull: Sarepta,” Just hus ; log observed thrown a nt as year when pkins turkey or pum a8 mukes Nisbett, Ef it's cold weath pkin Thanksgiv pies or S088 ha' done business is scorched its leaves Joel seratehs pha Dis was a se of th » scarcely hen says an vouldn't over say nd the old lady's face vely as it sounded “WN hy, “It is Constance wants rn os of help.” Bhe on } or to see If vou dot . 0 fair little and roa with while ber blue stood apparition the November wind eyes sparkled as if they. were twin sapphires hidden away under her long, dark lashes. She wus neither blond nor brunette, but a fresh cheeked girl, with nut brown halr, skin like the leaf of a damask rose, a straight. refined nose ‘and lips as ripe as a red crabapple, though by no means so sour. Generally she had a demure sort of gravity lin. gering about her face, but when she did lnogh a dimple came out upon her cheek and a row of pearly teeth glim- mered instantaneously, In one hand she carried a bunch of late sutomn flowers “Bee! cried, holding them up “1 ransacked Aont Constance’s garden for these. | knew that big vase on the mantel needed something, and, with a branch or so of scarlet leaves, I'll have a royal bouquet to help you keep Thanksgiving.” Mrs. Nisbett took the fair oval face between her two hands apd kissed the ‘fresh little mouth wget down. Lida,” she sald, “1 wasn't a-caleulatin’ to have no sech fixin's up, "but you've sech an way, child, I ean't never say no to you.” “But you're golng to keep Thanks | giving,” ¢rted Lida, throwing off her {outer wrappings and dancing up to the Looking glass like a little gaie of wind, | “because you invited Aunt Constance {and me to dinner and because your son | ts coming home.” in the doorway all flushed she ———— “Yes, child, yes,” sald Mrs. Nisbett, subsiding once more into the mournful key from which Lida's sudden appear- ance had momentarily aroused her, “Joel's got the turkey shut up in a coop, and the bakin’ 's done, and I'm , Just a-fixin’ them apples, and" — JOh, oh,” cried Lida, who had flut. tered to the window, “what glorious red leaves speckled over with little drops of gold! May | make some wreaths for the wall? Oh, please say yes!" Mrs. have Lida apron ple the would “no” to in, old ma Nisbett said been hard work and the girl full of the tree, window the glaring summer fading upon ss when the autumn came, Mrs. Nisbett looked with the graceful little hearth rug, when “yes It {to sny SOON Came sprigs of the whose shadowy days and the dead rough owered gold upon the shine of on the | the high beaped logs lost itself in her and made sparkles in her | bright hair eyes, as the wreaths and trails of au- tumn leaves grew rapidly beneath her deft fingers. “Lida,” sald softly, dear!” Lida looked up. “l saw your Aunt Constance yester day, but there's somethin’ reserved about her, and y didn't like to ask about you—whether you had decided to gO out not: because, my dea I were talkin’ thought what a » you here” she “Lida, my A8 4 governess or r, Joel and and it wou 1 we both ight, comfort Id be “To have me here? We're alone, fancy our Aunt y, If you i D ’ gone! girl want to get married en I could ba’ took such a sight f with her? Oh, dear, dear! world was all doen tix of the et's prediction of sno and brilliant as the dying smile f Indian summer iy 11 o'clock Mrs. was dr her best silk browning be next day, weather . pa in sp dawned essed In cap, with the utifully In the ov ry tarts doing turkey en and the cran it to themselves veil as to thelr maker, the table gh he pad with crackling tes dressed w cred ith coro % Aunt Con- miden Indy of un » the bedroom ber coiffure a late an age, sto NE miass arr in a blue rose in nging Lida, dress with tumn her halr, tripping hither and thither as light footed and helpful as half a dozen household fal ries merged while Mrs. Nis bett stood regarding her with a loving eye, murmuring to herself: “Well, well, It seems like it was the Lord's will to deny us of just what we but if 1 had a daughter | was like Lida” was into one, most want, could wish she As the old kitchen Mrs. Nisbett, looking from the window, gave a little cry. “There he comes—there comes Joel, and, as 1 live, him! Lida ran luto the bedroom. When she returned, Mrs. Nisbett was clasped in the arms of a tall, handsome wan of four or five and twenty. “Lida.” sald the proud matron, striv- ing to disengage herself from the affec. tionate clasp, and-why, what's the matter?” For Stephen had dropped her hands with an exclamation of surprise and | amazement, and Lida stood there glow: ing crimson, “Lida! Why, mother, this Is a sur prise indeed that you have prepared for me!” “1 prepared!” echoed the astonished old lady, “Well, when I'm ten times as much surprised as you be! Lida, what does this mean?’ “It means,” sald Lida, with a demure smile—she was beginning to recover her coattered self possession "It means that this is the gentleman | am to be married to!” “Stephen!” erfed Mrs, Nisbett, “is Lida to be your wife?" “She has given me her promise to there's the boy with that effect, at least,” sald Stephen, [things do happen!” her | boughs kept veiled with cool shadows | tenderness | figure seated | | for at least the day, and last |! and | 10 ] clock struck 1 “this Is my son Stephen, | that's a good un, | | looking proudly down upon his lovely | tittle Hance if It dou't beat all how queer Mrs. Nis you've heen “Well, wid ‘And (OO me these 8X never knowed it Ldn you teil me? face radiant pelghbor her Hvin and 1 didn’t weeks why drenmed that never Nte mn, ey betrothed western the that adopt d when ejaculated he to know uty good years alled him son to us Sr sON, But what y8 been a Old Stephen's wife? Lida KDow woman, do you say to Mrs. Nisbett Leart clusped to her in she ejaculated, “this Is ikfullest Thanksgivin' 1 ever New York Dally News. RULES FOR THE FEAST. lived to see! Menu, the A Thankegiving About With Sug- Turkey. Thanksgiving dinner Bountiful is expected to pro hicago Record, but n of we family home In many cases to look after, a few sugges Yarious nl d gestions is not only says the ( COMmpPRnY goodies cold, sult. f Bhell a stuffing » are raised irket now Tr as extrava 3 cut ds of Lineg, leaf 3 th salt) Ongn saucepan the ham to cool a mains put it in of the tu re is cooked: aside he Ix wl} eatly A BEARNYARD DRAMA, The Victim's Dream of a Horrible Revenge, Rooster—~8o you will steal my corn, will you? Oh, you needn't strut around here as though you wer? the only one in this menagerie, Turkey~Oh, | don't know, You're not in It with me just now. [I'm the popular thing on the walk at present, tooster— Well, madam, stretch your rubber neck up over my head all you want today, but Just you wait till to orgow! When your skinny legs are being dragged to the execution block, I will look on at your gory expiration and from the bottom of my lungs will crow for victory! Turkey (taking two struts coopward and landing In the center of the stage) Aye, aye, sir! But lUsten. Death hath ts rewards, and to sacrifice my self at the aliar of revenge Is more glorious than life. What If my beaw toons wings shall switch the dust from out the cracks of the kitchen stove? Walt till my vude and helpless form les stretebed upon the platter of the feast! Then shall revenge come to me, for never yet was one of our tribe sac rificed at the altar of Thunksgiving that the merciless gourmands did not ro o'erstufl themselves that nothing In all the world was worth the having for three days In advance, Revenge! My friends, revenge Indeed w sweet! Detroit Froe Press, most Blend | over a | Stuff the crop : then sew both | | chance 0 PRT | THE INDIANS’ THANKSGIVING wt In obrRervance I1E Inter and it Thanksgiving day Is Just as In wong the res as In college great football ied to occur, says the Especially this West where In Pwr tense these days un ervation Indians OWNS here is the to years enjoy un of Civiiized of inte ile find LA y of universal g portunity FL i no m nt in this da ood cheer than do these same dusky redskins it Is a day of fea ling, with a ich sport only comes once a year m nowadays, when they have had forsake the scalping knife for the Their wild rebelled at he Idea of work, and it has been with difficulty that the government gents have made farmers out of the oung braves, A day of rest and musement is considered good for thelr Detter nature, ities are willing ting, playing and big dance at night. to nature much the gov au that and ernment Thanksgiving | time for the nation iNChes, rds of the who tare wi ng field guns ted rout ashes of Ue Suan and medicine out no chase ride have thelr ears thes be whatever. The by an amount while excitement grows intense in the camp. The smell of fresh blood makes the squaws wild, as It were. After all of the cattle have been shot down then the killers give a sig pal which means that all of the tribe are at liberty to rush forth and secure their portion. A half beef is awarded to each squaw., The beef is cleaned and cooked on a tire on the open plain, while the medicine men dance their ap proval and the warriors sing in their glee. The feast follows, with more dancing, and the whole day is thus spent, ending late at night with a final gorge men ringing in Kill the for Is @accompan of wild yelling, teeta to beasts oatlie life led undue False Faces, Thanksgiving time is the busiest sen gon for the manufacturers of and deal in masks aud false faces. The fan tastionl andes and the old cust wanking and dressing for amusement on Thanksgiving day keep ap from year to year in many parts of the country, so that the quantity of false faces sold at this season is evor mous. The manufacturers make it a point to get up new sivies, and this yer browules, “yaller Kids" parrot visages aud many other noveltios will be on sale, Masks of prominent men and the foremost political leaders are made by some manufacturers. and large sized false hands, noses, ears, ote, ard also new and amusing. Se lected, ers corte pm m ol 1 THANKSGIVING it ++ POETRY ANNAN ANNAN, {i $ 4 l Kv & | ‘ | far and wide, " 1} n her's side, forehead, you if years, 1 gladness, tears, Soliloguy of a Tarkey, And y but bh ha®ked b3 New Yor And 1 ve got 10 bx Sad Time For Them Of what ate the © Out nd er wit rke 1 Ars A N Thanksgiving Trust, lord, T give thanks year, thou knowesl, my tions failed back with soo flatled My oe felt oft tears guerdon years Last best ambi My irgings of defeat was on the sharp salt wash of | No blessed the tireless toll of i Fast in the snares my helpless feet were | tied Yet - my woes thou didst with me abide Lord, 1 give thanks! «Susie M. Best In Lippincott's His Preference. “What portion of the fowl do you pre for? “Oh, anything but the Napoleon, sir!" “What do you mean?’ asked Carver, with a start “I mean 1 do not want the bony part’ Detroit Free Press An tnknown Quantity. pearched through the lexicon onoe and again, And her face wore sad lines of misgiv- ing “1 was seeking.” of pain “The Spanish for our word “Thankmsgiv- ing.'’ fhe she sald, with an acoent «Poston Journal. Not In a Good Set, nl" exclamned the mother turkey, “1 would prefer my children not to as. sociate with those incubator chicks.” “Because they are so heedless and don't know how to feather thelr own nests inquired the duck, “No, it isn't that so much 1 have brooded over,” replied the turkey, “but there's something so artificial about them.” However, when the incubator chicks heard this they thought of the funeral baked meats of Thanksgiving and re wurked significantly, “Death levels all duke" --New York Journal | Leave Bellefonte Leave RA ILEOA. 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TYRONE ~WERSTWARD $hiam, mrive at Tyrone i1 05a m, at Altoona, 1.00 pm; at Pittsburg 5 + A m Leave seliefonte 1 Wop m: arrive at Tyrone 2 2% pm; at Altoona 2 10 p m ; at Pittsbur & f ym Leave sliefonte 4 44 pm; arrive at Tyrone 600; at Altoona st 6 50; at Pittsburg at 10 46 VIA TYRONE~EASTWARD Leave Bellefonte 9 53 am, arrive at Tyrone 11 06: at Harrisburg 2 40 p mat Phfladel- phial 4 4 m ellefonte 1 06 at T at pm arrive 22pm: at Harrisburg 645 pm; deiphia lO pm Leave Bellefonte 444 pm, arrive at 600;at Harrisburg at #45 pm VIA LOCK HAVES ~EABTWARD, leave Bellefonte, 9.32 a. m. arrive at Lock Haven, 10.80, leave Williamsport, 12.40 pn Arrive at Harrisburg 1.15 p.m. at Philadel phia at 6 2%. m Leave Bellefonte 106 p m, arrive at Josh Haven 210 pm; at Willlamsport 2 Bim Harrisburg, 500 pm; Philadelphia 7 2 pms and Buffalo 7 pm Leave Bel lefonte Bib p.m. arrive at Lock Ha ven, 9.15 p. m.. leave Williamsport, 1.35 a. m., arrive Harrisburg, 4.15 a. m., arrive at Philadelphia at? 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