THANKSGIVING DAY IN OLDEN TIMES. ' • ____ Thanks wo give for friendship old, In our hearts, oh! still may we, For Love's blessings manifold. Looking back o er life s rough sea, l'hanks for all that time has brought, Keep and honor while we may. All the kindness it has wroughl; Thoughts of thee, lhanksgiving Day. ~,.. P«v clc - ni Va* Cv n HE week before \\y Thanksgiving the Wjsewing circle in our village met at Jlrs - Nl,tbau Tuck " r .-T^gs. —er's and there was c •. a full meeting. pi u though everybody ' {.' was very busy \ f| cooking for P)\ P)\ Thanksgiving. The Tucker, house was redolent with spiee and mincemeat. Mrs. Tucker had told sev eral confidentially that she did not ; know how to have the circle. The j members were most of them late, with l!y> exception of Rebecca Todd. She ; is a widow and lives alone and has j nobody to cook for. except herself,and | besides she was invited to spend : Thanksgiving with her brother. Rebecca Todd is a very fast sewer, ! and she had a missionary apron r.l- j most tin {shed by the time the others arrived; she had talked every minute, too. Mrs. Todd is noted for her con versational powers. She politely gave an inkling of the topic under discus sion to every newcomer, took up the threads, as it were, for her inspection, then proceeded. Everybody, with the exception of Maria Fopkius, listened respectfully. Mrs. Todd is considered a very smart woman, and besides she is well to do, has the linest house in town and the best furniture. Maria Hopkins, who has her own opinions, listened rather contemptuously; once in a while she sniffed in a way she lias, and she screwed her forehead very tight over her sewing. She lias never liked Rebecca Todd since they "DII> TTIAT SIX-MONTH OLD BABY no TO MEETING?" SAIL) MAIUA, WITH ONE OF HER SNIFFS, AND MBS. TODX> ULARED AT HE It* were irii'ls together. Mrs. Todd talked, . "M| talked; scarcely any one else said word. When the last comer, Mrs. l'i ml. i-.ra>-. entered she had just lie : in ri'biie i; Thanksgiving e\perl <• nt hers, which she considered re i .aide, a '.Maria whispered.she eon -1 most experiences of her own, "i iiDiild think sin- would be astou I because they never put the day !■ v;.s ln.i-ii jnto the almanac, t . lieaiaie the weather frotu," wlita- Im n d Marin, and the minister's wife, v.i i sat next h'T and is considered too ,\oimw and guidy by some folks for a tU'ttiitter'H wife. giggled, and then was so seared because she had that site turned pale. "I was iusi saying," said Mrs. Todd, \ .y politely, to Mrs. Stephen l'eilder grass, who is tall and meek and slides into the tirst chair as If she were un worthy to sit anywhere, "flint every body has Thanksgiving*, but I thought that not eve ybotly had had Thanks giving! thai seemed to stand out *pe t ail ThHllksKlvillgK, lis It were." Mit. IVuderg rait». who U always afraid t» speak before more than two. bowed soleiniiJ.v and eoltireil up and iliiutl, and looked as If she had done r-i i l ilting awful every Tliatiksgivlug I lay of her life, and Mr*. Todd went on sewing all the tluie a* fan: a* she ■ oiilil drive Iter Uecdle. "Yc»," *ahi she. "I have had it* good ThNuk«i(lvii>gs a* anybody; always a turkey ami cvcrythlUK togo with I', c: I my relatlotii. vi»liiug me. <>r else ii > vUltlug my rthitloiw. but I don t I '-member unit e luau one tt|ici inl 'i ..»iliktfci'■ stand out. as it were. Thnt was the iirst one when I ever cooked the whole dinner myself without any help." wllv - lf i',V° ost twenty pound, tliot I Methuselah Green then went back to the hay, , . . wAsPCI Where lie chuckled an luffed lit t split. jk J I SC t'rceii, be at me?" r-r... IrCcr • " But once 1 wus h< 11•:'i" him mend th stun wall When Pa bro't Methuselah Green to the An' he savs to :ne, "Looka there. 15ill, farm Jest peep at them beech nuts way up in T' help him an' Jabez do chores, tlict tree. I don't think 1 ever seen sich a thin man. .Test look at them punkins an' squash. His lingers wuz nothin' but claws, Jest look at thet turkey; ha's fat, an' 1 in His cheeks near the top were jest chuck thin; ( tt full of bones, Thanksgivin' time's comin' b' Gosh. Like the Indians tliet Uncle Si makes; . , , , , An' his feet, stuck in cowhides, went Thanksgivin' time come an th turkey clump when he walked, wuz killed i .lest th' way that an' ol' wagon shakes. Die pies wuz all made an the sauce. I felt kinder bad fur a man thin ez thet, Methuselah sez t nie, "J'i'l. kin yer eat.' But ic tweren't no use to keep in, And 1 sez to Methuselah. "Course. So the night when he come here I went I 'a bro't all the farm hands ter dinner up an' sez, thet day. "Mr. C.etn, wuz vcr alwus so thin?" Hut before sittiu ilown he looked rounu. An' asked each one what he felt thankful Methuselah Green he jest leaned back for most; and laffed, I"«r a minnit there wusent a sound. Then he winked, and he sed, "Wal, I Then Methuselah riz in his seat an' he swoxv. sed, Wus I alwus so thin? Do tell, wanter "1 km offer up thanks thet I m thin. know? I've bin tramin fur tins sinee October Why, I alius gits thin about now." fifteenth, . H He let down the bars togo after th' cows, An' 1 wish to the lors you <1 begin. An! he wouldn't say anythin' more, * Arthur 11. rolwell. Till one day in th' barn, we wus pilin' th' . .- H "Y- - V An' .i turkey walked sn at the door. I # You jest orter seen our new hired man lie lea .-.d on rake an' lie looked, '■* " A G l reen. efty biCd '" Methuselah ftlßig ' '// "But th' best way t' see 'cm is cooked." j ~ j I r-. m • "When I wus a boy, not a great spell ago, L-,. ,<£--£* 112 ■ . ji£ Kur. 1 cal'late, a month eh'rv fall, . ?■■■ r-' «l"l 112 I ! ! I'd -kin out of eat in' whenever 1 dared, '! i' l*!i''' I' "'j'' "I nuppone that wan .lie tlrnt Thanks giving after you were married," wild Mrs. llctiry Mlxtcr, who in a very gen- U'i'l, sot'i npoketi woman; abe adiuircn MIH. Todd very much ami trie* to lie Ultimate with Iter. "No, it was not." .Mr*. To«llx moiithn old. I wanhed and drckitcd little Snuiniy that mom iuif. too. and I wanhed and drenned brother lli iiry'v twtnn hi* wife witin't Utile t» do much, aud nhe had a run around on her thumii and I curled lit tie Minerva'* h.tir tu two tow* of curl* I dressed five children that morning, besides all the rest." "Did that six-month-old baby goto meeting?" said Maria, with one of her sniffs, and Mrs. Todd glared at her. "No,' v said she, "he didn't. My sis ter began early -with her children, training them togo to meeting, nut she wasn't a fool. I had that baby to take care of. besides all the rest, and he was teething and terrible frac tions. I had to keep joggling his cradle between whiles. Then I had to put on father's collar and cravat for him, and do up mother's hair, and heat the soapstones for their feet; they had to go three miles in sleighs, and it was pretty cold. After they were all gone, I tell you I just flew. There was the turkey to cook, and it had to be basted every fifteen minutes—mother wouldn't look at a turkey that wasn't basted every fifteen minutes; didn't think it was fit to eat—and there were all the vegetables to be got ready and the chicken pi's to be baked—mother didn't think a chicken pie that was baked the day before it was eat was fit to be looked at—and there was the pudding and the pudding sauce to be made and 1 lie table to lay. Then there were seven beds to lie made up and everything to be dusted—mother was dreadful particular. Then I had the hens to feed and the eggs to get and fresh sponge cake to make, because mother didn't think it was good un less it was baked the day it was eat; then, to cap the climax, 1 had to make some butter. Mother had a little cream, just right to churn, and I knew she hated to have it wasted, and so I made a pound and a half of butter, besides all the rest. Then in the midst of it all Sophy Briggs that was—she lived next door, and her folks had gone to meeting and she stayed at home on account of having a cold came running ill with her linger cut to the bone, and I had to do that up ill coltwtthn, ami KIII' hailn't luore'u itmii' IK? foro I burnt my own ilnicer llfilni; out the turkey to haute. mi I'vi* «oi iiu* KI-ar of It now. Well, I llve«l throtiKli It. nnil that dinner WOK all on 11 it' (111 ill* at 11! o'tioek, wht'ii t ht-y uot In>iin' from ini'i'tlntf, ami :ni' In my lii'Ki. all reoily to In lp them out ami ink.' oft tin' I'IIIIIII'I'II'H llilniiK. Well, as I wan Haying, that ThankMiilvlUK him alwa.VK Htfiiii'il to nil- it ■|ieeial one, anil Uliul of NIIUHIK out. IIK It were." Mi», Toiltl i»t 11| i| ii'tl ami lookeil arniuiil IIK If HIII' we ft' waiting for ail miration, "I tall thai a Thanknulvliii; to lie re iiii'inl't'iett." Mll |tl Mr- llenry MUler. lu her uenteel way. "I never hearil of kiii h a ilay'K Murk, ami yon >u jruuitu, llM)," We all rfllei'tetl that we hail never • IliUe mi* tlilnic like It. thnuifli We !>Ui| '.vurkeil hard i i'.imh on Thuuk»uiv!tn ' Day, and wo all felt Impressed, all ex cept Maria Hopkins. She sniffed— "How long was that before you were married, Mrs. Todd, may I ask?" sakl slie. Rebecca Todd looked sharply at her — l "Much as ten years," said she. "Why?" "Nothing," said Maria, but I could see that she was figuring in her head. After a while, when Mrs. Todd was talking about something else,she broke right in. "I've got something to say," "I reckon she'll take the prize." said slio. "You were seventeen years old when you were married, Rebecca Todd, and now you are trying to make it out that you were only seven years old when you did such a day's work as that." Itebecca Todd colored as red as a b?nt. and a kind of quiver seemed to go all over her, but she looked Maria full in the face. "Well, what of it?" said she. "I don't believe one word of it," said Maria. "You can believe it or not, just as you're a mind to," said Rebecca Todd, "but I'm telling it, and I was never known to tell a lie in my whole life." Well, Mrs. Todd's special Thanks giving lias divided our sewing circle. Half side with her, and half believe she told a wicked lie, r.nd it not fit to associate with us in mission work. To this day nobody knows whether she really bad that special Thanksgiving, when slie was seven years old or not; but the sewing circle is divided, and this week, before Thanksgiving, one part meets with Mrs. Ilenry Mixter, and the other part meets with ME.— Mary E. Wllkins, in the New York World. An Undersized Turkey. The Smart Boarder—"Mrs. Smitliers, that turkey is not done." Mrs. Smitliers "Why, Mr. Stump, I'm sure—" The Smart Boarder —"No, I mean not done growing."—Judge. Cliestnut St tilting l"or the Turkey. In making chestnut stuffing for tur key peel the chestnuts, scald tliein and remove the brown from underneath the skin. I'nt tliem into boiling water; cook slowly for about thirty minutes. Drain anil then mash or chop. To one quart add a teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of butter and a quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper. Stuff this Into the turkey and tinisii as you would with other dressings. Trullles or mushrooms may be added.—Ladies' Home Journal. In Clover. We're invited out Thanksgiving Every single year; 1 think we never in all our lives Have had Thanksgiving litre. Of course, it is very pleasant Going with father and mother: Hut just one feast is so little to have Then wait a whole year for another! And the next day our dinner's so common. And 1 tnink of the day before. With turkey and duck and ice cream and tarts, And l'n sorry 1 didn't cat more. I'ut this year I'm going to bo jolly i 111, It.-11 you. I'm in clover! We're to have Thank-givin.: lice a! home. And won't there be lots left over! —Youth's Companion. Iter Ketlect lon. "You must not eat too much," said the small gill's mother. "If you are careful, you will be perfectly well to morrow when so many other little children are sick." "Yes," answered the small girl. ",-'.nd then wouldn't 1 be dreadfully out of style?" ■ . .--I ! "Monte folks stuff-' their turkey Tim i ibey cook li, but I stuffs initio after U'l cm. UINI " DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: Everyday Religion—Tt I* Oood In ItiiKlnefiß nn be devoured by the lions Rough executioners of the law seize him and hasten him to the cavern. I hear the growl of t'.e wild beasts, and I see them pawing the dust, and us they put their mouths to the ground the solid earth quakes with their bellowing I see their eyes roll and I almost hear the fiery eye balls snap in the darkness. These mons ters approach Daniel. They have an appe tite keen with hunger. With one stroke of their paw or one snatch of their teeth, they may leave him dead at the botfom of the cavern. But what a utrange welcome Daniel receives from these hungry mons ters. They fawn around him, they lick his hand, they bury his feet in their long manes. That night he has calm sleep with his head pillowed on the warm necks of the tamed lions. But not so well does Darius, the king, sleep. He lias an attack of terrific insom nia. He loves Daniel, and bates this strategem bv which he has been con demned. AH night long the king walks the floo". He cannot sleep. At the least, sound lie starts and his flesh creeps with horror, j.e is impatient for the dawning of the morning. At the first streak of the daylight Darius hastens forifh to see the fate of Daniel. The heavy palace doors open and clang shut long before the people of the city waken. Darius goes to the den of the lions; he looks in. All is silent. His heart stops. He feels that the very worst has happened, but gathering all his strength, he shouts through the rifts of the rock, "Oh, Daniel, is thy God whom thou servest continually able to deliver thee?" There comes rolling up from the deep darkness a voice which says: "Oh, king, live forever. My God has sent Hip angel to phut the lions' mouths that they have not hurt me." Then Daniel is brought out from the den. The dema gogues ate hurled into it.and no sooner have they struck the bottom of the den than their flesh was rent, and their bones cracked and their blood snurted through the rifts of the rock. and. as the lions make the rocks tremble with their roar, thev announce to nil ages that while God will defend His people, the way of the ungodly shall perish Learn first from this subject that the greatest cri. .e that you commit in the eyes of many is the crime of success. What had Daniel done that he should be (lung to the lions? lie had become prime min ister. They couhl not forgive him for that, and behold in that a touch of un sanctified human nature as seen in all ages or the world. .So long as you are pinched in poverty, so long as you are running the gantlet between landlord and taxgatherer, so long as you find it hard work to educate your children, there are people who will say, "Poor man, I am sorry for him: he ought to succeed, poor man." But alter awhile the tide turns in your favor. That was a profitable in vestment you made. You bought just at the right time. Fortune becomes good hu mored and smiles upon you. Now you are in some department successful and your success cliiHs some one. Those men who used to sympathize with you stand along the street, and they scowl at you from under the rim of tlieir hats. You have more money or more influence flian they have, and you ought to be scowled at from under the rim of their hats. You catch r. word or two as you pass by them. "Stuck up," savs one. Got it dishonest ly," savs another. "Will burst soon," says a third. Every Jtone in your new house is laid on tlieir hearts. Your horse's hoofs went over their nerves. Every item of vour success has been to them an item of discomfiture anil despair Just as soon as in any respect you rise nbovc your fel lows, if you are more virtuous, if you are more wise, if you are more influential you cast a shadow on the prospect of otli crs. The road to Jionor and success is with in reach of the enemy's guns. Jealousy sivs, "Stay down or I'll knock you down." "I do not like you." says the snowllake to the snow-bird. "Why don't you like me?" said the .snowbird. "Oil," slid the Bnowflake, "you are going up and I am coming down." Young merchants, young lawyer*, voiin • doctors, young mechanics. > -iin; artist-, young farmer:!, at certain times there ai tho • to sympathize with you, but now that you are becoming a master of your particular occupation or profession, how U it now, young lawyers, young doctors, young artists, young farmers, how is it now? The greatest crime that you can commit is the crime of suecess. Again, mv subject impresses me with the value of tlecisi. :i of chain ter in any department. Daniel knew that if he coii tinut d his adherence to the religion of the Lord he would be hurled to the linns, but. having set his (ompass well, he tailed ri/ht on. I'or the lack of that clement of decision of character, so < niinent in Daniel, many men are mired for this world, and ruined for the world to come. A great many at forty years of age are not 112 tiled in any respect, becau- • tln v has • not lien able to make up their minds. I'erliaps they will go west; per haps they will go east; perhaps tlnv will not; perhaps they will go north; perhaps they may go south; pcihaps tl|-v will not; perhaps they may make that invest ment in ival estate or in railroads; pi i haps they will not. They are like a steam er that should go out of New York har bor, marling tor !•!..an I the next diiv should change for Havre de Grace, and the next for Charleston an,l the next fur Boston an I the next for Liverpool These men on the sea of life everlasting Iv '.Hiking ship and mal nig no headway. Or they are like a mail who starts io build a house in the Corinthian style and changes it to Doric, nud then completes it 111 the loiiic l the tune of all stvles of architecture. Young man, stall right and keep on. Have derision of character t hsraeter » like tie- gohltim It n| 'l ouijuiii; it is magnificent while standing turn, but loses all it* beauty 111 flight 11.>>v much decision of character in order lint llicw young iiini may be Christians' Their old it»* ti Mies make s*rva«lie Huts* al then*. Tin) fcu oil t* i»;jli* .1)4 they 11•.t invite thrm. They nrordipoy that tic Trill give out. They wonder if he is not trcttinor wings. As lie passes. they grimace and wink and chuckle and say, "There goes a saint." Oh. young man.have decision of character. You can afford in this mat ter of religion to he laughed at. What do you care for the scoffs of these,men, wfio are affronted because you will 11go ti> ruin with them? When the grave cracks open under their feet, and grim messen gers push them into it.and eternity conies down har.l upon their spirit, and con science stings, and hopeless ruin lifts them up to hurl them down, will lliey laugh then ? I learn also from r.iy subject that men may take religion into their world'v busi ness. This is a most appropriate thought, at this season of the year, when so many men are starting out in new enterprises. Daniel had enough work to do to occupy six men. All the affairs of state wire in his hands—questions of finance, questions of war, of peace: all internatioual ouss tions were for his 'settlement or adjust ment. He must have had a correspond ence vast beyond all computation. TIITP was not a man in fill the earth who had more to do than Daniel, the secretary of state, and yet we tind him three timco a day bowing before God in prayer. But to have religion go right along 1 v ihem all through life, to have religion looking over their ahoulder when they ar religion to help them when thev are sick and when the shadow of death conies over them, they would like t.- have religion as a sort of night key with which to r.pen th»» door of heaven, hut religion under other circumstances they take to bo imperti nence. ICow, my friends, re.isrion never robber? a man ot a dollar Othe. - things being equal, a mason will build a better wall, a cabinet maker will make a bettet chair, '.t plumber will make a better pipe, a lawyer will make ft better plea, a merchant will sell a better bill of good?. T say. e.l her things being equal. Of course when re ligion gives a man a new heart, it does not nropopo to give him r. new head or to mtelleetualize him or to change a man's condition when his ordinary -tale is ail overthrow of the philosophical theory that a total vacuum is impossible, but th•• r-ori letters you have to write, the more bur dens you have to carry, the more miles you have to travel, the more burdens you have to lift, the more engagements von have to meet, the more disputes you have to settle, the more opportunity you have of being a Christian. if you have a thousand irons in the fire, yon have a thousand more opriortunities ot serving (rod than if you only had or.e iron in the fire. Who so busy as Christ,? And yet who a millionth part as hol\ ? The busi est men the best men. All the persons converted in Scripture busy at the time of their being converted. Matthew at tending to his custom house duties, the prodigal son feeding swine. Lydia sell ing nurple. Simon l'eter hauling in 'lie net from the sea, Saul spurring his horse toward Damascus, going down 011 his law business. Busy, busy Daniel with all the affairs of state weighing down upon his soul and yet three times & day worship ing the God ot heaven. Again. I learn from this subject that a man may take religion into his politics. Daniel had all the affairs of state on hand, yet a servant of God. He could not have kept his elevated position un less he had been a thorough politician, and vet all the thrusts of officials and a*l the danger of disgrace did not make him yield one iota ot his high toned religious principle. He stood before that age. ne stands Tiefore all ages, a specimen of a gidly politician. So tncre have been in our day and in the days of cur lathers men as eminent in the service of God as they have been eminent in ihe service of the state Such was Benjamin F. Hut.'er, attorney general of New York in the time of your lathers; such was .John Mc- Lean, of the supreme oourt of the I'niteil States; such was George Ih'iggs. of Massa chusetts: such was Theodore Frelinghny sen. of New Jersey—men faithful to the state, at the jaine time faithful to God. It is absurd to expect thai men who have been immersed in political wickedness fo thirty or forty years shall come to refor mation, and our hope is in the young men who are coming up. that they have patri otic principle and Christian principle side by side when they come to the ballot box and east their first vote and that they swear allegiance to the government of heaven as well as to the government of the United States. We would have Hun ker Hill mean less to them than Calvary, and Lexington mean less to them than Bethlehem. But because there are bad men around the ballot box is no reason why Christian men should retreat from the arena. The last time you ought to pive up your child or forsake your child is when it is surrounded by a company of Choctaw*, and the last time to sut render the ballot box is when it is sur rounded by impurity and dishonest;, and «.l sorts of wickedness. Daniel stood 011 a most unpopular form, lie stood tirmly. though the dema gogues of the day hissed at him and ti. d to overthrow him. We must carry o'.iv religion into our politics. But there are a great many men who are in favor oi taking it into national politico who d> not see the impor ante of taking it into city polities, as though a man were intelligent about the welfare of his neighborhood anil had uo concern al out his own home. My subject llso impresses r.i" >vit!i the fact that lions cannot lilir f a good lean. .So 111111 ever got into worse company ih. 1 Daniel got into when lie was thrown int > the den. What 1 rare la-.r.el that fair young 111 would have L .11 tor tin ,ry monster*! 1 liny hi.l plunged „ t him. lie cou. 1 not have climbed 1111 1 a niche beyond the reach of their paw or the snatch of their tooth. They can e pleased all around about him, r.s limit 1 ' hounds at the will known whistle «■ onie b. HI tiding to In.; tect. m need not got 1 Nuiaidia to get many lions You all li o had them alter you—the lion of limn ~1 distress, the lion ot Giekucss, the boa of pi. v oution. You r.aw that lion ot financial panic putting hit; mouth >1 11 to tin. eai'lh, and he roared until all the banks and all the insurance companies quaked. With his nostril b- scattered tlm .shin on the domestic hearth. YOll havo had trial after trial, nustiituue alter mii-fortune, lion alter lion, utid yet tn y have never hurt you it you put your tru«t in God, and they never will hurt > 1. I hey thd lioi hurt Daniel, ami they cannot bun >ou. 1 lie IVmans used t> ih.ok that spring rain tailing into •ei :•« would turn into pearls, and I have to 1. ;| you li'ut the tears ot sorrow tin 11 11.;.> prcciot.s semtf when they drop into Gil's bottle. Yon need bu afraid of n». ung putting your trust in God. liven . ith, tha. monster lion whose den is the world's sepulchcr and who puts lu» paiv down annd thousands ot millions ot 1 10 (bail, cannot atlnght you. W hcii 111 old en tunes a man was to get the liouois . ( knighthood, he va compelled togo 111! ly armed the night hctore among the tombs of the dean tarrying a *Oll "t spear, ami then a(ui-tt the day broke he Mould cunt turth, laud amid the sound <>t count and great pfi.ide he would get #!«• honors of knighthtiiil. Vud sci it »ill l>« with the I'hristi.ili in till night iM-lore heaven as fully armed with »|>ear and helmet o| »aU ,t«.ii he will wait and wttilt through the darkness until the 11101 mug dawns, mil tin 11 lie will tiki* the honor* i*t healnf amid that gre.it thrum with lio.vi lufi« streaming <1 cl il.,\ ut »aj-