THE fULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. Cynthia White Pest By VINCENT Q. PERRY Mcl'lure Nowspupor Syndicate.) Willi ii (jiilck Jerk Horace Ruiigster pulled Ii!m line from Dm water, and Hu ll Clll'll out Willi dlSgllNt. The fish, If I Imtc IiikI been one, hud got nway. Three hours without u catch It wiih enough to umioy a man with norinul (l, rves, iinil Horace wiih fur from Hint. l, drew In hU line angrily mid nt t,i;iplcc to wind It up, hut Homcthliig ti:i 1 gone wrong with his reel. Thllt m;is tin InHt Ktriiw. He Hut down on roi'U mid nwore. 'ln Hound of the word startled him. 1 1 . - had not hwohi for years. HU nerves were certainly making u wreck til i ii. The solitude of the place whh iiL'-Tiivatlng lit in, too. They Inid told him the Hlmple camp life, with lotH of fi-lilng, would iniike a new mini of him. Hindi bosh! Why, there wiih hardly n thing about It thut did not iniike him fi'i l worse. This wiih the second duy, mid he whs going to iniike It IiIh Inst. To be gin with, he IiikI IiikI trouble pitching hi tent. The storm In the night IiikI K t 111 m iii keeping out the mill. Ev .cry eriK'k of the hushes or Hound of the birds In the trees caused him to sliirt uiieiiHlly. It wiih tienrly iih ncrve r.icklng iih iiii afternoon session with the fourth-yetir class. The thought nf the fourth-yetir girls Irritated lilin Hie i C They hud been the cause of hi breakdown, be felt eonlldeiit. For months he IiikI looked with dread on Hie hour each nfternoon that be was forced to trai-h them inntheniulleH. They were Just Hilly, thoughtless girls, nnd would not have been ho bard to put up with bad It not been for their ringleader, Cynthia WW.e. Without exaggerate Cyiitblii was the worst girl he had ever IiikI under bli tuition. Her 11111 In object In life Heelilcd to be to torment Hie professor nf iiiatbeiiintlcs. Something nlwnys tin I up for her to urgue' about or laugh over. There was always some thing for her to ridicule, and she nev er missed an opportunity to make him feel menu perhaps because she was mi large mid lie was go small. Ah he sat there thlitklng it over, Hor me made up his mind he bad been foolish. It would have been easy to have arranged for her dismissal from Hie college. Why hadn't he done It? There was something be liked about C.miIIiIii. In spite of everything, 'flic spirit of fun behind those twinkling Muck eyes of hers appealed to li 1 Ml, nnd the warmth of her laugh made him leiig for something something that was not In his life. Suddenly the laugh sounded close be side him. He nearly toppled Into the water from the shock It gave htm. He turned quickly to confront Cynthia, a little vyny off, her eyes bulging over with merriment. After rubbing bis ejes to make sure be was seeing aright, Horace smiled forth a greet ing. Kven the pest of bis life was wel come In that solitude. "oh, Mr. Simgstcr, you look ho fun ny there," she laughed. "If the girls could only see you In your bare feet!" "Heavens!" Horace tried to hide his feet behind a log. He had forgot ten that be had taken off bis shoes and sucks to wade a creek. "Don't he alarmed," she smiled en couragingly, "I am going to take off my "lines, too. One can't llsli well with hi 1 1 ies on. How do you like my cos tume?" She was clad In khaki from head to foot, and her hair was hanging In curls over her sholililcrs. He bad never re alized how beautiful she was before. "Jove! Yon look peachy," he mur mured, admiringly, not realizing that Jin bad used the word "peachy" for the (list time since he bad got his degree. That encouraged Cynthia to take a Mill beside hliu. Not thut she needed encouragement, for she would have sat there sooner or later. It did not take Horace long to forget that he was a college professor ami she was a mere student. Soon they were chatting k'ayly. Her home was near by and she bad spent every summer fishing In that nl ream for years. She led 111 ill to n place where hi was "sure to catch something, no mutter how r an an gler be was." When bis luck remain ed r and be still made vain attempts to land n trout, Cynthia did not fall to laugh tit him and assure him that he was ns funny iih be could be. Somehow It did not bother him to he laughed lit out there. The air seem ed to have got Into Ids blood and given him n sense of humor that responded In her witty ridicule. He was not long In catching oulo the right way to dricw h the line, and before the nfternoon Mi over be was catching as many trout as Cynthia. When they parted lie had gained her promise to search liha out the next day. Cave Dweller In France. In prehistoric times, when man had I" light with wild beasts not only for f""d but for life, be found ll welcome 'cfiige In grottoes nnd caverns. Tut us soon as humanity bad achieved hoiiiu degree of prot;re.H In civilization our nnccNtors forsook these primitive nut "ral libellers for more comfortable dwellings. Our render, therefore, re '"rkH the Scientific American, doubt 'ess linnglne that tho troglodyte ceased to exlnt many centuries ago, nt any rte In Europe. Yet even today thero "my be found Frenchmen who llvo in derground only n few hundred kilo vTetom from Pnrls. Not Slaves to Precedent. Were one to analyze the careers of 20 or noo of our leading men of flnnncn nnd Industry If would probably develop thilt not half of them c intln "''d In the line of business In which ""y started, but struck boldly nt In the direction where they saw Hi big "st opportunities nnd where their '"'llnatlon lay. iie of the earliest and most r 'ahlo "Unces of this was Couiinodoiv Vau- Camping agreed with him after that. Fishing was the most wonderful sport In the world when one bud u compan ion like Cynthia, he decided lifter two weeks of glorious days. Nerves? Why, be had forgotten be had such things! They would have still stayed out of bis mind bad It not been that a rainy day broke In on them. It made It necessary to slay In his tent and try and spend the day reading, wondering all the while what Cynthia was doing. Making fun of him, most likely the thought came to him quickly and left him staggering. Perhaps she was. Perhaps she had spent all those days with til in Just to have something to tell the fourth-year girls when she went buck to college. He would have to resign. It would be Just like Cynthia to do It but would It? This new Cynthia was not n bit like the old Cynthia who had made his life miserable. Hut as the rain kept up his inlud became moro unsettled, and before the night wiih over he bad made up his mind Hint Cynthlu bud been milking & fool of him. The next day he still thought It. When Cynthia appeared he hardly spoke. She saw at once her presence was not welcome. With n toss of her head she started up the bunk and ford ed the stream some wny up. After llshlng alone for Home time Horace realized that be bad been n cad. Cyn thia was too flue a girl to be insulted like that. He would llud her and make amends. He started in the direction she had taken and attempted to ford the st renin where he Imagined she bad crossed. The spot he chose appeared ipilte shallow from the bank, hut as he reached the renter, be stepped Into a deep hole and sank out of sight. Cynthia looked up Just In time and with ii cry Jumped Into the water mid niaile for the spot. When he came up for the llrst time she was there to clutch lilm nnd a couple of strokes took them to safely. His body remained limp In her grasp, and as she dragged him over to the bank and placed him on the grnss, the pallor of his 'cheeks alarmed her. He lay quite still. She placed her ears to bis breast mid then cried out with fright, "lie's dead!" Madly she tried to shake him hack to life, and then she seemed to lose her senses. "( 'nine back, 1 lorace !" she cried. " h, Horace, don't die. There Is so much I want to ask forgiveness for. I was Just beginning to know you and like you, lloraic like you so much, Hor ace. Please open your eyes. I have been such a wretch to tease you. Oh, dearest Horace, open your eyes!" And Horace did. He could not sham any longer nfler being called "dearest Horace." Cynthia's hysteria vanished when she discovered he was iillve. She was very angry at first when he confessed he hud not been hurt at all and was conscious nil the time, but her sense of humor ciiine to the rescue and she Joined in bis laugh. "Please rail me dearest Horace again," he said as be reached out for her hand. Put Cynthia would not un til he had told her bow much be loved her and how miserable he would bo without her. "Dear old pest," he said Just before the kiss that sealed their engagement JUUA WARD HOWE'S SALON As Hostess It Was Said of Her With Truth That She Delighted In Contrasts. When I think of It I believe that I had a salon once upon a time. I did not rail It so, nor even think of It as such; yet within It were gathered people who represented ninny and va rious aspects of life. They were gen uine people, not lay figures distin guished by names and clothes. The earliest hiiiiiiinltarian Interests of my husband brought to our home a- num ber of persons Interested In reform, education and progress. It wi.s my part to mix In with this graver ele ment as much of social grace and geniality as I was aide to gather about me. I was never afraid to bring together persons who rarely met else where than at my house, con fronting Theodore Parker with some nreh prlest of Hie old orthodoxy, or Wil liam T.loyd (iarrlson with a decade, perhaps, of P.eacon street dames. A friend said, on one of these occasions: "Our hostess delights In contrasts." I confess that I d'd; but T think that my greatest pleasure was In the les sons of tin inn ft coiiipnlllilllly which I learned In this wise. I. started, Indeed, with the conviction that thought and character are the foremost values In society, and was not nfrnld or asham ed to offer these to my guests, with or without the stamp of fashion nnd po sition. Julia Ward Howe. Hard to Explain. Has It ever been fully explained why It Is that n nian on a cold, rnw day will sit four hours uncomplain ingly on a hard hoard In a rowboat mid hold a fish iole, yet squirm and liuget and fume If he Is asked to sit more than an hour and fifteen minutes on a cushioned seat In n well-warmed church? derbllt, who was so o'.d before he turned to railroading that his family and his advisers linpurLuned him to let well enough alone and not to en ter an entirely new field at his time of life. This readiness of brainy giants to take up new things and to throw their whole selves Into them Is really one nf the principal reasons why the United States has led the world In ho many lines of endeavor. Wealthy Europeans, ns n rule, avoid the new. avoid untried paths; they are Inclined to worship precedent. Importance of the Past. To think of ourselves iih masters nf our linhlts Is to halt n trap for our own moral death. What we arc nt this moment, what we can do at this moment, depends not only upon mak ing up our minds at the time being hut also upon how we have made up our minds countless other times Wi thousands of minutes already gone by and now out of our control. The one thing wo cannot control Is the past; II may. however, control us for good or evil. Youth's Companion. PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS While Frank Metzer was witnessing the premature pence parade and de monstration In Rending, lie wus arrest ed for milking unpatriotic remarks, and he will have to answer the charge lit the police court. He expects to be freed of the charge. Finding homes for babies orphaned by the Influenza epidemic In the Le high field bus proved a dilllcult task for the committees who ure working to straighten out the tangles created by the plague. Children over one year of age can be put out for adop tion quite easily, hut no one seems to want the Infants. Frlck company employes donated $412.85 to the Waynesboro emergency Hospital association on account of the Hue. Twenty-five departments of the plant participating in the generous of fering, the amounts ranging from $." to .fill). 10, the latter being the dona tion of the foundry. The local emer gency hospital fund now exceeds $2500. .In mes A. Hamilton, of Waynesboro, who has been associated with t lie Franklin Repository, Chumhcrsliurg, for tulrty years as city editor, has re slgneil. He will be succeeded by Shir ley Zni'r, who for several years held n similar position on the Valley Spirit and more recently has been connected with the Public Opinion, Chaiiihers burg. Struck on the back of the head by a pair of knucklers when he advised two lin n, talking to two girls on the street, to "watch themselves," Frank (ioff, n well known L'nlontown man, is In the local hospital In n serious condition. It Is believed he Is suffer ing from a fractured skull. Ills al leged assailants have been arrest ed. While all the world is fighting, these are very peaceful times at home, reports from New Castle aldermen courts indicate. Alderman John Mc Cormlck, appointed in the sixth ward more than a year ago, has never had a case. Jumping from the rear end of fl big delivery truck, ficorge Mcl.nuchl'n, twelve years old, of Trainer, Chester county, landed directly In front of a Rout hern Pennsylvania trolley car and was fatally Injured. He died while being taken to the Chester hospital. William Mi-Combs, New Castle boy, who ftent over the top with the first American forces, In the battle at Cnn tlgny, which gave the (iermaiis the first taste of Yankee lightning, has reached his home. He was Invalided home. The project to build within 1.10 days ITS houses In Sharon by the gomern meiit, coming through the I'lilled States housing corporation, has been olllelally called off. No houses will be built. The annual poultry show of the Pucks County Poultry nnd Pigeon As sociation will be held in the Doyles town armory on January 21, 22, 2.'! and 24. Harvey K. Snyder will be superin tendent of the show. The association elected these officers: President, Dr. Howard Hellyer; vice president, Charles H. Seiner; financial secretary, Walter M. Carwlthen; treeasiirer, Oeorge Watson; directors, J. I,n Snyre, William F. Kelly, Jr.: Joseph C. Slack, S. It. Denllnger, Walter WIs nier, Harry C. Oarner, Walter Hoff iiiiiii. Howard P. White, Harvey F. Snyder. News has been received In Council, villi" that Private Charles W. P.rlnker, if Crahtree, died at sen and was hurled with military honors. The voung man, who was one of the first to leave his home town for service In Europe, was recently married to Miss Olive Allinan, of Youngwood. Coal companies of the I.ehlgh field have been ordered by the railroad ad ministration to load gondolas to their maximum capacity. It was said Hint many cars were sent to the metropo litan centers which could have car ried more aiilhi'iiclle. Miss Esther Klelnspenn, fourteen years old. daughter of John F. Kleln penn, was shot In the hip by one of four hoys carelessly hnnd'lng n rifle m Mount I'enn, near Schuylkill sem inary. North Reading. Iter wound Is not dangerous. On "peace day" Ihlrly-two gunners were conn led on the farm of Henry Ah reus, near Heading, many hugging the limit of rabbits. Members of n P.rowiisvllle parly caught a raccoon ii live. Miss Martha Williams, of I.ansford, a senior In the West Chester Stnto Normal school, has been appointed n member of the faculty of Hint school. She will lie assistant to Professor An derson In the department of higher null hematics. The death toll from Inlliieiiza at the Stale Hospital for the Criminal In sane al Falrvlew Is now forty. Seventy-seven Inmates nre yet seriously 111. More than 100 have been pronounced cured during the last three days. Ilev. W. F. Schmidt, of Sehweiiks. ville, has been appointed a nninry public, to succeed J. II. Criihh, re signed. Louis A. Hi-own, of Hi-owns Ferry, wns shot In the hip by nn unseen per son us he walked along a road. Although the "tin" ban has been lifted In New Castle, the number of cases Is as large as before the ban was lifted. Fnyettc county's first soldier to die on n transport on the way to France wns reported. He was Wade Hlxsim, aged twenty-three years, of l'eiins vllle. For the second time within three weeks Mike Miintanucl was slulihen nt Carhondale. He will recover, nis assailant escaped. When n gun, which his brother wns cleaning, preparatory to a hunting trip, was accidentally discharged, Ed gar Clements, nine yearn old, of Con nellHvllle, was shot In the chest, He was rushed to the Cottage State hos pital, where little hope Is eutertulned for bis recovery. Ir. F. F. I'l'ey, of New Castle, who has been locn:id at Camp Wheeler, Macon, (in., has been pi'nmoled to Hie iv.uk of captu n, friends have learned. Twenty-five young women and girls who drive their own motorcars have Joined the motor corps being formed In New Castle to do Hed Cross work. Cumberland county has passed the 50 per cent mark in war savings stamps sales. Hezeklah Snow, of Marietta, was run down by an automobile and In ternally Injured. Paid employes of the Allentowii po lice and tire departments have peti tioned city council for iin Increase In pay of $110 a mouth, effective January 1. A university extension course is be ing organized at Munch Chunk for the study of French, under the Instruction of Professor Toohy, of Lehigh Uni versity. Pecaiise of shortage cf teachers, Hev. Charles Triiax, pastor of the? Ce llar Hill MelhorHst church, has taken charge of a Chester county school near Poltstown. The Lykens-Wlconlsco district was first to raise its quota in the war work drive. The first Church of Christ, ot Hnr rishurg, was badly damaged when the holler of its heating plant blew up. On account of lack of help at the I'nloniown emergency hospital, nurses have been compelled to fire the fur nace and do other laborious work. In the peace demonstration at Hrlndstoiie Thursday night, Peter Cap ers was seriously shot by an unknown woman, who was firing promiscuously. Oeorge Krapf, elected treasurer of West Haleton, to succeed the late Itcnjnniln Iteese, has donated his sal ary for the balance of the term to Heese's widow. Robert Hnwn, a Hurrlsburg ambu lance driver, turned an ambulance of the reserve inllltln Into a pole to avoid running down n woman bewildered In thee middle of the street. Frank Ibirawowskl, of Itedlngton, went to Easton and met two Hiingu'H ans, who invited him to have a drink, held him up nnd robbed him nf .$12.1. Waller Kutz, of Summit Hill, n car penter In the employ of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company, died as the result of being squeezed between cars. Ilecause he refused to pay his fare on a Reading trolley car, Jere Ends was sentenced to twenty days by a police court magistrate. Charged with threatening to kill Charles Fries, a Reading railway tick et a gen l at Pottstown, Russell Strohl was held for court. While on the street near her home, Elizabeth Powers, aged fourteen, of Reading, was accidentally shot In the right arm by boys. After an absence of forty-eight years, Charles Healer, of I'enn Argyl, Is visiting the scenes, of his child hood, near Thatcher. Automobile thieves Invaded Morgan town, stealing the curs of Aaron Sioltzfus mid John Snyder and $200 worth of tires from David Kurtz's ga rage. .Missing for twenty years, Kate Zwclzlg and Sallle Dunilore, sisters, were declared legally dead by the lierks court and a brother, John Schiiiack, Inherits their estate. Railroading wns rendered so hazard ous ut Ilazlclon by hoys peppering freight cars with heavy rilles that the Lehigh Valley railroad appealed to the city police for protection. Spar rows perch on the box-cars and brake men are bombarded by the youthful marksmen. William Itolitls, aged fourteen, Hu zleliin's Juvenile Jailhreiiker, was ciuiglil sleeping under a porch near his home. l'.olltis twice escaped from the Home of the United Churl ties, managed to get a way from the Luzerne county Industrial school at Kll-Lyn, and slipped from the clutch es of the M.i Iin nny City police two times. While he was being chased by the authorities his father was mur dered. William A. Wynu, engineer of the bureau of township highways of the slate highway department and for fourteen years connected with the en. gliieering forces of Hie state highway department, resigned to enter engin eering work In Hie Texas oil fields. City Commissioner Alexander C. (irahiini died .suddenly of heart fail ure In lielhlelV-iu, aged fifty-three years. He was a prominent niaiiufac liirer and real estate dealer and u trustee of St. Luke's hospital. The slate highway department an nounced that Hie United Slates high way council having approved the pro ject for construction of 11 111 feet of roadway In Vcadon borough, Delaware county, which Is on the main road from Philadelphia to Halt liuore, the contract had been let lo Hie Union Paving company, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Mary ltonaccl, of Park View, Is al the Stale hospital In llazlelon and may lose her right eye as the re sult of the accidental discharge of a toy gun picked up by her four-year-old daughter. Miss Kaihryn M. Hang, Williams port, I'm- I he last year connected with executive department, was appoint ed secretary to acting Commissioner of Labor and Industry Waller Mo Mchols. The public service commission has started to 1 11 cases for hearings In Harrlsliurg, Philadelphia and Pitts burgh for November 12. The WeHlnioreland county poor hoard has elected John A. liruot, of Slahllown, superintendent of the county home and Mrs. Itrant matron. The reorganization of the Slating-' ton Has company under the name of the Slatlngton Has corporation has been approved by (he governor. The llazlelon & Mahanoy division of the Lehigh Valley railroad already Is preparing for the fifty Liberty Lonn drive next spring. ' Eugene Larrahee, aged fifty, of Sus quehanna, wns drowned In Comfort pond while fishing. Oeorge II. Henrltzy, past state presi dent of the Pennsylvania Deutsche Oesellschaft, presented flags to the chauffeurs of fifty army trucks which passed through Hazleton. As n proUctlon to home merchants, I.ansford council has decided o pro hibit peddling within the borough lim its. Alleged to have violated the law by buying two rabbits, A W. Ilntten. stein, a Perks county hotelkeeper, paid $20 flue i.ud $20 cost. llranksQivind HE old Tetlow place stood off to the east of Layton. It had once been surrounded by wide acres, but gradually the growing town had en croached on Its borders; uud, bit by bit, the property had been swallowed up, until at InHt the low browed, rambling farmhouse wns el bowed by smurter town residences, mid could boast only a narrow door yard In front, and a cramped orchard In the rear. "The mills hnd spoiled Layton," old Mrs. Tetltiw used to say, with a dreary shake of the head, as oho watched these changes. The Tetlow farm hnd been a pros perous one In Its (lay, and Its owners bad lived on It in quiet resptsjtahlllty tor many generations. Hut they were nil scattered and gone now these Tet lows save for the one lonely old wom an, who gazed out of the siiiall-piined windows. People said Mrs. Tetlow was grow ing forgetful. Perhaps nhe was for getful of the preseivt, It wns a dreary November day. The clouds hung low and a few scattering nowtlakes were beginning to fall. "Ileal Thanksgiving weather," mur mured Mrs. Tetlow, as she looked out of her front window. "Yes, It's real Thanksgiving weath er." repeated the old lady, drawing her small shoulder shawl closer about her. "It's time to bo making the inlnce in eat." "Mother nlwnys did that the first thing," Hhe went on, by and by, "and today Is Friday. Next week will bring the last Thursday In the mouth. The proclamation'!! he read next Sabbath." The knitting needles lay idle lu Mrs. Tetlow's lnp, as she rocked slowly back and forth. "(irandiiiH Spencer's folks nlwnys came by Wednesday night," she said, after a reflective pause, "and brother Peter and his wife nnd boys would get here ns early as 1 Thanksgiving morning. The rest didn't come till nearly noon. I wonder where Peter's boy Is now. I wish the West weren't so far off. I wonder If the boy's done well." Mrs. Tetlow stopped rocking and sat lip straight In her chair. "Wouldn't I like to get ready for an other such Thanksgiving party." she exclaimed, a red spot burning In ci ther cheek. "I believe I will." She arose, her slight figure trem bling as she rolled up her knitting work and thrust the needles Into It. "Let me see," she went on mii.dngly, bow many must I provide for? There'll Peter and Mary and the three hoys, nnd Jane and Henrietta and Uncle Solon. Nannie mid her husband and the little folks, bless 'em! and (iriiiul inil Spencer's folks and Joe mid Letty. It'll be a long tableful, hut I'll he ready for them." Monday saw active preparations go ing on In the old kitchen. The last thing each night before go ing to her bed the old lady took her wavering candle nnd Inspected her pantry shelves, and with every even ing there were more toothsome goodies to behold. When the traveling butcher stopped Wednesday for his usual small order, Mrs. Tetlow followed him out to his cart and selected the largest turkey In Ids collection. The man's eyes opened wide. "Expecting company, ma'am?" he lisked as he weighed It, and the old woman nodded gravely. That morning the windows In the tipper chamber were thrown open to the wind and sunshine, and sweeping nnd (lusting and airing of bed linen were In order, "Oraiulnui Spencer's folks always roino by Wednesday night," she said, "and tin? rooms haven't been used for some time. They fe.d a little damp, so I'll have them open all day." Toward night Mrs. Tetlow put on her second best gown ami sat down near the window to watch. When her guests arrived, the near est neighbor might not have known, Grateful for Vlotory In War. This Is indeed a sad world to which Thanksgiving day conies this year, n world full of death and destruction, woo nnd hatred, and my greatest and deepest thankfulness this year Is that Almighty Hod made It possible for me to believe III an outcome of It all which shall he for the ultimate welfare of all people. My hymn of praise Is for the lnllh that Is In me. Otherwise, iinildst the play of titanic forces which use laeu merely as pawns on world chess- Faster Flying. "It would be ensy for any English airplane manufacturer to produce ir machine which could make better than 2G0 miles an hour," declared Cnpt. W. 0. Ashton, one of the lead ing experts on air mechnnlsm, the oth er dsy. "This could be accomplished," he explained, "by merely altering the curvature, or caliber, of the planes. Hut this would mean n minimum land ing speed of 150 miles nn hour, and there Is the great difficulty. The urn- but a lamp was lighted In the dim best room that evening, nnd ut nine o'clock the old woman took a bed room candle In either hand and tolled up the creaking stair. On the lltri stand besldo each bed she placed a brass candlestick, nnd, having turned back tho sheets, went out again, mur muring a soft "good night." Mrs. Tetlow nrose at dawn, and be fore It was time to prepare breakfast she hnd dressed her turkey and set It aside, ready for the oven. About nine o'clock sho began to lay her table. Having smoothed out every wrinkle In the cloth, she gathered all her ge ranium blossoms and put them In the center of the table In a glass howl. Then the silver, which had all been polished the day before, wns brought forth from Its canton flannel wrap pings, and Oreat-grandmii Tetlow's blue china was lifted down from the shelves of the china closet. "How good It Is to see all these things out again!" exclaimed the old lady, surveying the result of her labor with pardonable pride; "and It's right good to have company once more," she added with a little sigh; "I've eaten alone so long." "I've nothing to do now," she said, "but to Hit at the front window and watch for the folks to come. I'll be able to see them far up the meadow road." A few minutes Inter she wus star tled by hearing a knock at the front door, nnd, quite trembling with the shock, she nrose to open It. "Good morning, Mrs. Tetlow." It wns Mrs. Clifford, tho young doctor's wife, who spoke. "Oood morning, Mrs. Tetlow. Isn't this n beautiful Thanks giving day? Madam Clifford Is out In the rnrrlHge and she wants to take you home to have dinner with ns. Plense say you'll come; and let me get your bonnet nnd shawl for you." Mrs. Tetlow looked down Into the bright young face, with a dreamy hap piness In her own, ns shu slowly shook her head. "You're real good," she said, "and please tell Madam Clifford I'm Just Iih much obliged to her, hut I can't come today. I'm I'm looking for company." There was a ring of tremulous pride In the old voice that went to the heart of the young woman. She look ed up Into the wrinkled old face and noted the strange glow of content and far-off happiness In the old eyes. Mrs. Clifford remembered It afterward with a sense of awe. ' As she turned to go now she saw, through the open door, a corner of the long table, all ready for dinner. "I'm so glad for you, Mrs. Tetlow!" she exclaimed Impulsively. "I hope you will have a pleasant Thaiiltsglvlng day." Then she hurried back to her carriage, nnd Mrs. Tetlow returned to her rocklng-chalr by the window. "They're real late," she murmured to herself now and then, and a new, strange weariness and numbness crept over her as she sat and waited, her dim vision still wandering far up the meadow road. Suddenly she started forward with outstretched arms. "Peter!" she cried, "Mary I" and then sank back feebly In lier chair. "I'm right glad to see you nil," she faltered, "hut I seem to be a little tired. Just lay off your tilings and draw up near the fire. It Is grow big chilly." She drew her shawl clos- r about her, with a little shiver as she spoke. board, I would see nothing but doom and despair. Unless we believe that wrong Is going to triumph over right In this world, unless wo believe that Injustice Is going to tMumph over righteousness, unless we believe that (Jed Is mocked, unless we believe thnt the wheat nf the kingdom Is going to produce a harvest of tares, unless we believe that Calvary wns a vnln sac rifice, mid that Clod Is going to be de feated In his good purposes, wo can thank (bid this day for tho mighty fnlth which sees the Invisible and chine would be unquestionably flyable, but Its successful landing would re quire an airdrome five or six tulles long, to say nothing of extraordinary skill ou the part of the pilot." The Matter. "What makes nearly nil of your busi ness men look so despondent nnd talk so gloomily?" nsked a guest. "To pass the time I dropped Into various estab lishments this forenoon, mid the pro prietors of practically all of them told me business hnd not only gone to tun- r n Mam i m "Johnny, Just put another stick la the stove; that's a good boy." Bb closed her eyes a moment, imirninrtnj softly t" herself, "I inusn't give oat Jtut; Its nearly dinner time. I'll Just rest till the others come." Hut soon she leaned forward ngmlm a Joyous smile on her lips. "Nannie!" she exclaimed, "and th blessed baby I I didn't see you corn In. Sit here, child; I'll hold the llttl one while you rest," and she begaa to croon softly as she rocked. "It ta cold," she murmured again, "real coldj but then It's Thnnksglvlng weather." Several moments slipped by, white the old clock alone broke the stlllnesaj then Mrs. Tetlow raised her head. 1 smell lavender." she snld. "Aunt rletta! I knew you hnd come, t sinelled the lavender." "Orandinn Spencer's In the beet room," she added. "She mine at down last evening nnd she seems real smart. What, Joe, you here, tool Did you come In the hack wny? Unrte Solon and pn nre In the hnrn, arent they?" An anxious look suddenly clouded tho sunshine In her eyes. "Nannie," she whispered, "will you Just take a look nt things In the kitchen. I seen to be ti little tired, hut there's nothing to do. I'll come soon." Her gaze wandered up the "meadow road" again, the Joyous look returning, "They're coming!" she cried nt length. "They're coming; I enn see the slelgTx Then she turned, ns though some on hnd touched her elbow, nnd started back wonderlngly. "My little Mary!" she faltered, wlta dimming eyes, "my little Mary, with her old rag babyl I thought oh, fath er, John, hero Is our little Mary!" With a beautiful gesture she clasped the child of her youth to her heart, nnd when she raised her eyes again It was to murmur, "Mother, father. Let 'ty, Ehen what a grand Thanksg1. Ing! I didn't count on seeing you nib why, the room Is full full hut I have enough " The sun had gone down when Dr. Clifford drove by the old Tetlow plarei, on bis wny to see some patient. "So the old lady Is entertaining," he snld to himself, remembering his wife's story, and then, glancing nt th house, he drew his horse up suddenly. "No lights!" he exclaimed, nnd nn In tnltlve luiplse made him stop. "I rnn't seem to go by," he snld, "I must Just run In and see If all Is well with the old lady." He hurried up the pnth and lifted the heavy knocker, hut no one an swered. Then the doctor opened th door and walked In. "Mrs. Tetlow," he called, but the lolul tick of the clock nlone responded. Finally n sleepy cat emerged from the kitchen mid rubbed against his leg. Dr. Clifford struck n match and lighted n lamp that stood on the hall table. Then be passed Into the slt tlngroom, The fire In the airtight stove had gone out and the room had rown cold. Through a half-open door he could see dimly n long table, laid for ninny guests, but nn plate hnd beeo disturbed. The doctor raised the lamp nbove his head nnd turned townrd tho front window, In the high backed rocker slender, motionless figure leaned hack among the cushions, hut the old house wns wrapped In peaceful stillness; for, with n wonderful smile upon her white lips, Mrs. Tetlow hud gone forth with her Thanksgiving quests. trusts Its Ood In war's dark hour. Exchange. Life's Object. The Imsgo of Christ that Is form ing within us thnt Is life's on ( barge. Let every project stand aside foi thnt. "Till Christ be formed" no man's work Is finished, no religion crowned, no life hns fulfilled Its end. Is the Infinite tnsk begun? When, how, are we to bo different? Time cannot change men. Christ can. Wherefore put on Christ kett, hut showed no promise of enw coining hack. None of them had mad a cent this year, uud all were momen tarily expecting to be closed by the sheriff. What la the matter? Is ther a blight on the town?" "They are afraid so," replied the. landlord of the Petunia tavern. "Every one of 'em suspected you had come to open up a rlvnl establishment and com pel him to clean out his nlichang, wash his wlndowS, advertise, and be falrl civil aiul decent to hla customers.', Kansas City Star. . .
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