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THIRD PART.
TALE OF ft
Howard Fielding Tells of a
Thanksgiving Bird Which.
Would Hot Eoast.
A FEW INYITED GUESTS
Entertained by Conversation Instead
of a Gobbler With
CRANBERRY SAUCE ON THE SIDE,
The Head t.f the Familj Endeavors to
Assist in the Kitchen.
0'LT ONE WAT OUT OP TIIE DILEMMA
t Kill EX TOR THE DISPATCH.!
Ve were to have had dinner at 1:30
o'clock Thanksgiving dinner a year ago.
Half a dozen guests had been invited to eat
turkey ith us, and had accepted with an
enthusiasm which led me to order a very
large bird of our butcher. I told him that
if he attempted to impose upon me as he
had a few days before, in the case of a
chicken which he represented to be of ten
der years, but which in reality was the
oldest rooster on Manhattan Island when
Eendrick Hudson sailed up the bay I
would call upon him Friday morning, and
fix him so that he couldn't distinguish him
self irom his own sausage meat at 13 cents
a pound. I then took the turkey and his
ante-mortem statement regarding it.
By 1 o'clock on Thanksgiving Day our
guests had arrived. There were Mr. and
Mrs. Leland, who were boarding then, and
were naturally glad to come to a nice-homelike
place such as our flat, where
at least the meat is carved in full view
of the audience, and they can see plenty
The PoUr Was Hot
to eat, even if they do not dare to ask for
as much as they want There were two
lady art students, cousins of my wife, who
are studying painting with Sisrnor Tomalli
(and one, I tear, with Mme. Fowler, the
complexion artist). The party was com
pleted by two bachelor friends who had
come on my assurance that the festivities of
the day should oe opened with Manhattan
cocktails all around.
Endeavoring to Make It Pleasant.
In the interval before dinner I endeavored
to make it pleasant for these people, while
Maude at the other end of the flat, was mak
ing it very lively for our cook. Presently
Maude came into the parlor again with a
cheerful smile for our guests. I know that
smile; I have seen it a great many times. It
is good enough to deceive strangers with,
but it always informs me that the dence is
to pay in the kitchen. "When Maude smiles
that way it is an even bet that the cook is
shinning down the rear fire escape for her
life. As soon as the conventionalities of
high society would permit, I asked Maude
privately what was the exact nature of the
calamitv.
'Howdy," she whispered, "the turker
isn't donel That stupid cook has let the
fire get low, and dinner will be late. Keep
these people's minds occupied with some
thing while I go out and hurry things up."
I did my best to occupy their minds, and
ii they would rather have had turkey with
cranberry sauce than my conversation I am
tot responsible for their lack of intellectual
appreciation. Presently Maude returned,
smiling even more sweetlytlian before. I
began to be afraid that the fire had gone
out entirely. Hastily excusing myself I
went to the kitchen.
"Well, Norab," said I, "what's the mat
ter with the turkey""
"The tur-rkey do be all right," replied
this discriminating descendant of Fin-Ma-Cool,
"but the oven's as cold as a shtone."
A Sadden Change of Mind.
"The fire needs to be stirred up" said I,
and grasped the poker. Then I let go of it.
A galvanized iron poker can maintain an
appearance of perfect calm while nourish
ing the most violent and resentful emo
tions. "Why in the name of Sam Hill didn't
you tell me the poker was hot?" I yelled.
"Because ye found it out immajetly lor
yeself," said Korah, with asperity.
I wrapped a handkerchief aronnd the
poker, carried it to the sink and plunged it
iito a large pan of water. The water -was
boiling hot. Apparently the oven was the
He VTarnt Mattde by Sijnt.
onlv cold place in our entire culinary system,
and" this reflection brought my thoughts
back to the turkey. I cooled the poker
with water from the pipe and then attacked
the fire. I uave had as little acquaintance
with kitchen raqecs as is possible in a tate
of matrimony, but the man who makes them
could not find their hot spots with more
thoroughness and dispatch than I did on
this particular occasion. If the turkey had
been .-is well done as my right hand when
all was over, I should not have hesitated to
order it served Bandages concealing lib
eral daubs of glycerine and cold cream or
namented the wounded member when I re
turned to the parlor.
A Most Discouraging Task.
Maude escaped immediately, and I was'
lett to entertain the party. It was, most
discouraging task; they all looked o
arudfullv luiugrr, I imagined that their
cheeks were already sunken with famine.
TURKEY
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Suddenly the clock struck 3 with start
ling distinctness I never knew that clock
to strike so loudly before. It usually had
a faint, far-away sound, but on this day it
talked. "One, two, three, and no tur
key yet," it said. Then, through
the wall came the sound of another
clock striking 3 in the next flat,
Afterward the clock just below us, on the
second floor, struck, and then Mrs. McGog
gin's large cuckoo clock on the fourth floor
chirped a few merry notes. I had never
known that the voices of these various time
pices were audible in onr flat; but, indeed,
there had never been such an awful silenoe
there before that I could remember. I
imagined that I could hear clooks striking
all over the city. Everybody seemed to be
listening. I tried to say something, but
out of about 2,000 things, which came to my
mind, there was not one which did not sug
gest food or time.
Presently one of the young men began to
tell a story which he had read in a morning
paper. It related to a gentleman named
Bringing the Turkey Home.
Smith, who was trying to starve himself to
death in a "Western penitentiary. Then the
other young man contributed an account of
the adventure of a poor sailor, who, after
floating nine days on a rait in mid-ocean,
became so wild with hunger that he ate up
the grappling iron which was thrown to
him from a passing vessel. Cannibalism
was the next subject introduced, and very
lenient views were expressed regarding this
practice.
The Tot and the Kettle.
At this point Maude appeared and I had
momentary hopes that we were going to
dine; but she quickly let me know by a sign
that the turkey was not done. I endeavored
to communicate to Maude, in the same man
ner the information that she was decorated
with a narrow black stripe running down
one side of her nose, evidently resulting
from a too intimate inspection of the quality
of the coal which had been foisted upon us
by a dishonest dealer, under the false pre
tense that turkeys could be roasted with it.
I remembered witn awful sinking of the
heart, that this was our first day's trial of
the new kind of coal which I had strongly
recommended and she had distrusted. She
did not understand my signals, but in a few
minutes she anproached me and said, in a
hurried whisper: "Howdy, there is a great
black smooch on the side of your nose."
"There's another on yours," said I, and
then wc both made aimless assaults upon
our faces with our handkerchiefs and tried
to assist each other by various cabalistio
signs.
Another half hour passed and still there
was no sign of dinner. All the clocks on
the block strnck once. Maude was in the
kitchen again. Presently I heard her
moving about in a little room which is sep
arated from the parlor by sliding doors. We
have a system of secret communication from
this room. Leaning in a graceful and easy
attitude against the frame of the loldiug
doors I could hear what Maude was saying
in the other room, but it was not audible to
the others.
Very Agreeable Intelligence. 1
"That turkey will never be done, "'she
said. "It's what you call hoodooed. And
there isn't another single thing to eat in
the house, and no time to coos: it, even if
we had anything."
This was agreeable intelligence, but I was
forced to receive it without a change of
countenance, for I was facing our guests,
and indeed was obliged to talk all the time
in order to cover the sound of Maude's
voice on the other side of the wall.
"There's only one thing to be done,"
whispered Maude. "I shall simply die if
we have to keep these people waiting any
longer. It's nearly 4 o clock."
So it was; and I knew that if those clocks
got started again they would destroy the
last remnants of my self-control.
"You must go out and buy a roast turkey,
Maude continued. "Get it from a restau
rant and hurry right back with it lor those
people are simply starving. I'll be in
there in a minute, and then yon run out as
fast as you can and get the turkey."
A few minutes later, when I got out into
onr hall, the cook was waiting tor me with
a large platter.
"Blast the platter," said I. "Do you
think I'm going to carrry a turkey through
the streets in that thing? I'll make them
put it into a paper bag."
"If ye do, it'll be shtone cold when ye get
back again," said Norab, "and wid the
oven as it is this day, it'll freeze before we
can warrum it."
But I declined to take the platter. If
necessary I would buy one at the restaurant.
By that device I should have to carry it
only one way. I remembered with joy that
there was a restaurant right around the
corner. True, it was the worst one in our
ward, and any turkey obtained there would
doubtless be tougher than an ostrich, but I
determined to risk it rather than increase
the distance which I must travel.'
Excited a Great Deal of Interest.
Unhappily they had ao roast turkey to
sell. All their (owls had been consumed
by their patrons earlier in the day. I tried
several other places with equal success.
Time was rushing on. Every clock which
I saw in a store window was at least 20
minuted fast, just because fate was deter
mined to scare the life out of me. Finally I
fouud a whole bird for sale. I bought him
and a roasting pan to carry hiro in, and a
few extra giblets for luck, and anything
else which the cupidity of the proprietor
could suggest.
It was I dare not say how late, whan I
returned. The turkey had excited a great
deal of interest on the way. 1 had had it
covered with a cloth, but that had blown off
at the first corner. Then the small boys
had followed me and all my acquaintances
had met me; and when I sneaked up into
our flat I felt aslf I had stolen the turkey
and killed the man who cwned him. Also
the roasting pan was getting hotter instead
of cooler. It bad burned through the
cloths by which I bad been at first pro
tected; and, altogether, I was in a great
and perspiring hurry. I burst into our
dining room with the turkey. I sup
posed tbnt the room would be vacant; but
in fact all our guests were assembled. Our
own turkey was on the table. He had ex
perienced a change of heart while I was
away, and Maude, in desperation at my de
lay, had framed some absnrd excuse tor mj
absence, and had posted Nora in the hall to
tell me what the story was, and prepare me
to enter gracefully. Of course Nora had
gene into a trance in some other part of the
premises.
In the face of this alamitous exposure
Maude and I made a full and humble con
lession. I told the whole truth tor the
first time in my life, and, do you know that
it has since become a habit with me? Try
ityourselt next Thanksgiving Day, and you
will have a new and unusual cause 'for
Thanksgiving. Howabu Fielding.
Truly a Royal Gift.
Many and splendid were the presents re
ceived by King George of Greece and his
Qnecn Olga to celebrate the occasion of their.
golden wedding. -Uic uzar ana uzarina, the
King and Queen of Denmark, the Prince
aud Princess of "Wales, and the Duke and
Duchess of Cumberland made a collective
gilt. It consuls ot a magnificent dinner
service far 68 persons in solid silver
overlaid with gold. Each piecethere are
TOG plates and 1S1 dishes bean the siono-
gram of the King and Queen,
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THE PITTSBURG
THE
FOR TWENTY TEARS
The White House Occupants Have
Proved That There Is a
PROFIT IN BEING PRESIDENT.
Mr. Harri-on Has Saved Bather More Than
Half ot His Salary.
CABINET MEMBERS NOT SO FORTUNATE
cconRnsroNDiircz or the mspi.Tcn.1
"Washikcton, Nov. la President Har
rison will probably take more than half of
his salary with him when he retires from
the "White House on the 4th of next March.
An outside estimate of his expenses, past
and prospective, during the four years of
his term leaves a balance of $100,000 from
the $200,000 which he will have drawn. No
President since Grant has ever lived up to
his salary. There is really no reason why
he should. The Government provides a
house for him, furnishes it and supplies
the servants. Even the barber who trims
the President's beard is a salaried employe
of the Government.
When Grant came into office the salary
of the President was only 525,000 annually.
Xet several of Grant's predecessors had
been able to save some money. Buchanan
left a fortune of 5200,000, Lincoln 575,000
and Johnson 550,000. Probably the poor
est of the Presidents was Jefferson. He
would have been bankrupt if Congress had
not appropriated 523,000 to purchase his
library. Madison left a very small estate,
and Monroe died poor. Washington, as
everyone knows, married the rich widow
Custis, and his estate was worth more than
a'quarter of a million. John Adams was
worth perhaps 550,000 at the time of his
death, and John Quincy Adams had man
aged to save about the same amonnt by
prudence and economy. Van Burcn did
not draw a cent ot his salary during the
four years of his term, but drew it all in a
lump sum, $100,000, when he went out ot
office. He left an estate as large as that of
Washington. Jackson lett a large landed
estate. Polk left 5150,000. Fillmore was
a rich man, and some of his money, like
"Washington's, came to him bv marriage.
Pierce saved 520,000 out of his Presidental
salary.
A Uttle at a Time.
"When President Harrison came into office
he was worth perhaps 550,000. He had ac
cumulated this money little by little in the
practice of law. His old law partner, Mr.
Miller, was worth perhaps four times as
much, but he accumulated this money by
fortunate speculation in real estate. Gen
eral Harrison never had tne faculty for
money making; he never seemed to see any
HUNDREDS
ARE TAKING IT
Come and see the fine Furniture, the dainty Lace Curtains, the handsome
Carpets, the large assortment of Bedroom Sets, .the Lamps, Dinner-Sets and
scores of other things you need to make home bright and beau$ftil. f i.
MtMMIIWMfc
THIS ARTISTIC SIDEBOARD,
In Solid Oak, width' 3 feet 6 inches, with Beveled Plate Glass Mirror
17x30, only
$23.50
A SPECIAL IN CHAIRS. ,
We place on sale on Monday morning 300 Dining
Room Chairs in Solid Oak,' Spring Seat, Real Leather,
best finish, a genuine bargain at
-$2.50-.
AN ADVERTISEMENT
Is like a Retriever, it is
worth what it will bring.
We make ours tell, every
time. But then ours are
true, and truth is mighty.
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thing outside his chosen profession, the law.
But he lived modestly, and ont'of the large
fees which he received from time to time he
pnt by a little until he had accumulated
enough to invest in some mannfacturing
property -in Indianapolis. The estimated
value ot this propertv (which the President
still owns) was 540,000. In addition to this
General Harrison owned the house in which
he lived.
Since he came to "Washington the Presi
dent has been drawing 5160 a day from the
Treasury and he has not been able to spend
one-half the amount. He bos to buy the
food which goes on the White House table
and pay the old colored mammy who cooks
it; but the other expenses of the Execative
Mansion down to the purchase of matches
are provided for in the annual appropria
tion bills. The total expenses of the Exec
utive Mansion are about 5130,000 a year.
There is an appropriation for the care, re
pair and furnishing of the Mansion, the
care of the green bouses, improvement and
maintenance of the grounds, fuel, gas and
then the salaries ot the employes of the
executive office and the steward", the mes
senger, the doorkeepers, the watchman and
the engineers of the establishment.
"A Moderate Contingent Fund.
The President has in addition to this a
contingent fund of 53,000, which he may
spend as he chooses, without rendering an
itemized account to Congress. This is the
only contingent fund except the contingent
fund of the State Department, for which no
account is demanded by Congress.
A fair estimate ol the President's ex
penses in the "White House during this ad
ministration places them at $12,500 a year.
That would make the total expenses of liv
ing during this administration 550.000 for
the President and his family. The long Ill
ness of Mrs. Harrison, with its constant at
tendance of skilled physicians and trained
nurses, may have made an extra expense of
510,000. TbeTresIdent contributed to the
campaign fund of two years ago 52.000, and
to the recent campaign fund 510,000. Presi
dent Harrison has some poor rela
tions one of them a widowed sister
living in Indiana to whose support
ne nas contributed lor many years.
Tne President has paid 5500 a year for his
pew at the Church of the Covenant and
5100 a year for his old pew in Doctor
Haines' Church, in Indianapolis. Alto
gether the incidental expenses of the Pres
ident have been some 53,000 a year, or
$12,000 lor the four years ot hts term. The
President's traveling expenses have cost
him nothing, and his hotel expenses have
amounted to very little during his term,
as he has been a guest at nearly every place
he has visited. His cottage at Cape May
cost him 510,000, and although that may be
considered in the nature of an investment,
it is not at all likely thafhe will ever get
his 510,000 back from it "Counting that
among the expenses of the administration,
they add up as follows:
White ilouso expenses $50 000
Cape May cottauo 10,010
Individual expenses 12,000
Mrs. Harrison's illties; 10,000
Campaign contributions 12,0:0
'Total $34,000
The President will have drawn 5200,000
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from the Treasury by the fourth of March
next He will take with him from the
Presidental office then about 5106,000.
Some ot this money is "already invested,
the President went into a real estate
deal recently with Attorney General
Miller. Mr. Miller is a shrewd
business man and he picked up a
bit of property in Indianapolis recently
lor 540,000, which pays about 12 per cent in
terest. The President asked him for a half
interest in it; so 520,000 of the President's
salary is invested there. About eight
months ago the President purchased from a
well known Indianian a piece of improved
property worth 500,000 from which he is
now receiving an income. So the President
is well provided for when he leaves office,
and he will not be compelled to rely on any
fund contributed by his political friends or
on- the practice of his profession for an
income.
The President comes out of office in-ihis
respect a great deal better than anyone who
went in office under his administration.
Without exception the Csbintt officers have
found their positions expensive. The cost
of living in Washington is greater than it is
DAY
FINING ROOM
This being Thanksgiving week we shall make a spe
cial display of furniture for the Di ning Room.
-M)0ES YOUR DINING ROOWN
Need brightening up a bit an odd piece of furniture here
and there to take away the bare, dull look?
Spend an hour in our furniture forest and you'll see
many a suggestion of the articles needed and be more
than surprised at the small amount necessary to transform
that apartment
Put it in order to receive friends op Thanksgiving
Day. Think about it to-day; act to-morrow.
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in almost any other city of the United
States perhaps, and the members of the
President's Cabinet have to maintain hand
some establishments. Probably the least
ostentatious of the Cabinet people has been
the Attorney General, Mr. Miller. He has
had a house in a fashionable locality next
to the mansion occupied by Chief Justice
Fuller on Massachusetts avenue but it is a
small house and he has done little enter
taining in it
The Cabinet Not So Profitable.
Nevertheless Mr. Miller estimated re
cently that he would go out of office 515,000
poore'r than when he came in. It is likely
that the luxury ot a. Cabinet position has
cost the other members of the Harrison
Cabinet more. The only member of Mr.
Cleveland's Cabinet four years ago who
lived within his official income of 58,000 a
year was Attorney General Garland, and
he lived in a frame cottage and took no part
in any social entertainment.
The members of the President's family
will sutler more than the President himself
from the change in the condition of their
affairs next March. General Harrison's
family has always been something of a bur- I
OFF!
An immense assortment of the newest, brightest and freshest in everything
that pertains to Houserurnishings. You'll find our reputation for LOW
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den to-him. Bis sen Russell especially has
given his father much anxiety and has' cost
him a great deal of money. With the best
intentions In the world, Russell Harrison is
not a good business man. He made a fail
ure of his ranch in the West, and he seems
to have been equally unsuccessful in others
of his business ventures. His newspaper in
Helena, Mont, was seized for debt as soon
as the result of the election became known
in that city. It had been run as an organ
and for the" benefit of certain people in the
Bepublican party in Montana. As soon as
its usefulness as an attachment of the ad
ministration disappeared its friends disap
peared, too.
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rating Salt and the Leprosy.
At the Pan Congress some evidence wci
given in support of the statement that the ex
cessive consumption of salt is conducive to
the production of leprosy. It was stated that
among the blacks in the Antilles, who eat
salt-cod-fish'daily, leprosy was much more
common than among the whites and hal.
breeds" who indulge in a more varied diet
carpet:
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We never sold so many
Carpets and so much Floor
Covering generally as we
have this, season.
THERE'S II REASON
FOR IT. -
The cause is plain. We
reiterate what we. have so
often said, that there is no ,
parallel to our stock and as
sortment in the city, and our
prices are not matched.
Newest Designs,
Best Styles,
Choice Colorings.
CREDIT
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Is objected to by some. They like to pay cash.
Well and good, we'll do better, for them on that basis
than they can do in many strictly cash stores. But
credit is a great convenience to others, and theyget
it here.
EASY TERMS.
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PAGES 17 TO 24.
A WILDCAT RAILWAY
That Promised to-Be the Most Power
ful Corporation in the West,
ONLY A T0EN PIECE OP PAPER
ind a Feiv Files Noir Left as a Reminder of
, the Ohio Company.
POLITICAL CHA5GES CAUSED TEE ESD
rconiasroxDZjfCE or the Di3iMTcn;i
Cantox, O., Nov. 19. TherB nu found
the other day among the papers of the lata
S. S. Stone at Cleveland a ragged and torn
three-dollar note issued in 1840 by the Ohio
Bailroad Company, onco the most powerful
corporation in this part of the country.
'Sow the sole remains of what wai to be the
first railroad in Northern Ohio are a feir
piles, visible near Sandusky, and this torn
piece of paper. The history of the mam
moth project trill prove as interesting to
the present generation, no doubt, as it was
costly to several score of leading capitalists
in several States. The Ohio Railroad Com
pany received a perpetual charter from the
State Legislature on March 8, 18S6.
It started with a capital of $4,000,000 and
was granted the privilege of issuing paper
money in addition to constructing and
operating a railroad. Nehenial Allen, who
was then a State Senator, ensineered the
scheme and after the organization of the
company he was eleoted President. The ob
ject of the company was to ouild a railroad
Irom the Pennsylvania State line in
Ashtabula county to tbn Michigan
State line. Concerning the construc
tion of the road were several pecu
liarities. Instead of the road being graded
and rails laid on sleepers, as is
customary, piles were ariven in the ground
and sawed oft at the requisite height to
make the road level. Stringers were laid
on these piles, and to them were attached
the rails. According to tire charter of
the company, it was to do all timber work
and equij the road, while the State
qbligited itself to fnrnisli the iron. The
timber portion of the road was only built
tetween Ohio City and the Michigan Sta'e
line. It Btarted on Lorain street, in Cleve
land, and ran along the lakeshore. Several
immense viaducts were being considered.
They were never constructed, for before
compa'ny was ready tor the work, the gov
ernment at Columbus changed, and the new
body refused to fulfill the State's part of the
contract. The company could not raUa
enough money to buy the iron, so the work
was stopped. For a time the company did
a banking business, and had the repuatiou
of being one of the ra03t solid companies
in the West. Finally it was dissolved.
Tax cntef dependence of those liable to
sudden colds is Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup.
EXPRESSLY TO SEE OUR
STORE AND GET POSTED.
What is more pleasant and
cheerful than the homelike
tick of a clock, and what more
beautiful ornament for a par
lor mantel can be found than
any one of the numbers of
pretty and artistic styles we
to-day show in Clocks ?"""""
They're cheap, too. Re
markably cheap, you'll say,
when you see them.
NT FORGET
That we have all kinds of
Curtains,
Portieres,
Shades
and Fixings:
You'll not have to go out
side our store for anything I
needed in the home.
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JUST PRICES.
LORD MACAULAY t
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Said: "Advertising is to business-
what steam is to ma
chinery. " But the machinery
must be right and the steam
properly.applied. Ourstock,
which' is our machinery, is
right
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