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For yleiding pod and toothsome root, | Aud all that Goll ¢ - In hill or dale, or field ood : thanks For water bright ani sweest and oir, A mllion fountains far and near, For summer dews ani timely frost, /Thes sun's bright beams, ‘not one ray lost, and ‘Home: loves altar firss— children, thoughtful sires; = ers, gentle wives, ‘te 1 bless ourlives: For Neaver's care, journey through, For health and strength todare:aul do, For ears to hear, foreyes tosss | ‘Barth's beauteous things on lani ‘and sea: Give thanks! «M.A. Kidder. BESSIES THANKSGIVING. Cia BY FATE M. CLEARY. MOST diffident ] fd snd modest i knock it was. i ‘Perhaps because it was so very | | diffident, Bo very BR modest, irritated ‘all the more the peculiarly alert perves of Mr. : Godfrey. Kirke. * 40h, como in, ‘come inl” he ened. Je vAn y She had a small, pale withered face; a kind face, though, pleasant, gentle, Bhe was dressed in a. ‘worn dark gown, The net fichu, ‘crossed over her slender shoulders, was clasped .by an old-fash. ‘joned medallion. “To-morrow will be Thanksgiving eve,” she said; *‘I wished to know if 1 | : wight prepare for the day after.” An originally handsome apartment, "this in which ‘the old man sat, and it had been handsomely furnished. Now both the room and its belongings bore the mark of creeping poverty, or ex- treme penuriousness, The master of the ' house, seated by the center table, seemed to sharé the character of the room. He, Now he was expressive only of age and in- digence, irom the, threadbare collar of his limp dressinz-gown to the tips of ais thin and shabby slippers. ¢Prepate what?’ he growled. “Why a turkey, sir; or 4 ple, Or-——0T a bit of cranberry-sauce, sir—" He looked 80 force, her words died in “Turkey! i “where do you | saps pose I can get the money to spend on turkey? And pie! To make usallsick, and bring doctors and doctors’ bills down on mel And,” with a sniff of disgust, ‘‘cranberry sauce—the skinny stuff! No, Mrs. Dotty. A bit of bacon and some bread will bs good enough for poor folks like us—good eaouzh.” His housekeeper, for that was the uo- enviable position Mrs. Dotty occupied in Godfrey Kirke's household, resolved to make one last appeal. ME oS i! ir 1 i X $4010, COME IN. COME IN!” HE CRIED. «But, I thought perhaps on agtouns of the child,” she begad. «The child—thechild!” ne repeated, | “I'm sick of hearing about her.” Indignation made Mrs. Dotty quite bold for once. ~¢She’s your own , granddaughter, sir. That’s what she is.” «Well, 1 didn't ask for her, did It 1 never wanted to adopt her. What right had her mother to make such a poor hand of herself by marrying Tom Bar- © rett, and then ccme bac to die here, Bhe's an An ‘ex- and leave me her girl? Eh? expense, I tell ou; tuat's “all, nse!” 4+The Lord help us, but he's getting worse than ever!’ murmured the woman, ns, with a bang that was downright dis- respectful, she slammed the door” behind her. 4 " You—you, Miss Bessie pr She started, as she looked up, and'saw Bessie Barrett standing go near her. She was a slim, brown-haired little thing, of shout seventeen. She was clad inan ill- made gown of coarse ‘maroon cashmere. Her eyes were large, gray, just now very Her lashes and brows were The delicate features had a sorrowful. quite black. pinched look, and the pretty lips were | paier haa should be the lips of one 20 | I almost crying. or the’ Kirkes w er oY upon the he First, the wife of the mast Maud, the daughter, marr ‘| whose only erime was povert, a frail, scholarly map, quite a fierce struggle against a He fell ill and died. wife followed him, leay to its grandfather, ( the latter had come’ 1 blow when his only son Rob ) : Then in the Cc 18 the death of the mis- tress. had been a cheerless and dreary place; began a rigid reign of miserliness and’ consequent misery. : Bessie broke from her friend and ran upstairs and into her own little bare room. There was no fire in the grate, though the day was cold with the pene- trating damp of a wind from off the ocean. Bhs went to the window and stood there looking out across the flat brown marshes, to where the Waters tossed, greenish and turbulent. i4A horrid day,” she said, with a shiver, ssput it! can the worse out than: in,” - She put on a: ehort old’ Astrahan jacket, a littie felt hat and a pair of much-mended cloth gloves. Then she went quickly down and out. The dusk, the dreary November dusk, was filing the room when the old man, plodding ‘over his accounts, laid down his: pencil and rang the bell. . Mis. Dotty responded. Mr. Kirke kept but one. other servant (if Mrs. Dotty could absolutely refused to enter the protest: ing presence of her master. Teal" $tYes, sir.” The meek housekeeper withdrew. Ten minutes later she brouzht ina tray on which were tea, bread, butter, two cups, two saucers and two plates, Mr. Kirke poured? out his tea, shook a little of the sugar he was about to use back in the old silver bowl, added carefully a fesw drops of milk and cut a : glice of bread. ¢:Butter has gone up three cents in the last week,” he said. use butter.” So he munched his bread dry, with a sense of exaltation in his self-imposed penance. He! would not open ‘the poorhouse-door for himself by using but- ter. But, somehow, the rank tea tasted ranker me usual. Surely the bread was sour. And the gloom outside the small circle that the Iamplight illumined seemed singularly dense. = What was wroeg? What was missing? What wa different? He paused, his hand falling by his side. The ehild—as he and Mrs. Dotty had always called ber——the child was not here. She used to slip in so quietly, take her seat, and ‘when her ineager supper was over, glide away just as softly. Yes, little a3 he noticed her, she was generally there. He rang the bell sharply, : ¢¢Where is she?” he asked Mrs, Dotty, "when she popped in her mild old head. There was no need to particularize, Mrs. Dotty cast a “swift, ‘searching look arourd. “Jan’t she here?” Without waiting for a reply, she turned and ran up the stairs to Bessie's room. Toere she knocked, «= No answer. She opened the door, wc in. The room was empty. } Hastily she descended the stairs, ¢sShe is pot in, sir.” “Where is shel” ' &¢f don’t know, sir.” Impatiently Godfrey Kirke pushed his chair back from the table. s¢You ouzhi to know; it’s your busi- ness to know. But it doesn’t matter—— it doesn’t matter in the least.” Down to Hanna in the kitchen went! Mrs. Dotty. +:Did you soé Miss Bessie?” fYes'm, [Passin’ Westward a couple ‘of hours agi—yes'm."” aOR!” } Mrs. Dotty breathed a ‘relieved sigh. Bessie had probably gone to Rose Dever's house, - The Devers lived. almost a mile ‘away, Asa storm was blowizg up she would most likely stay there. over night. ‘About teh o'clock Mr. Kirke's bell again tingled out. Again Mrs. Dotty appeared before him, " “tHas tae child come in?” No, sir" “Do you know why she went out?” $+] suspect, sir.” seWell, speak up.” She overheard our conversation to. day.’ {What of itt” «Nothing of it," with a very angry flash from very faded eyes, ‘except that she vowed she would be an expanse to you no longer.” ‘She did, eh?" «She did. no ss Well,” grimly, wg hope she won't!” The child had: a sulky fit. She was probably at the house of some neighbor. She would return when her tantrum had passed off. All this he told himself, Still he sat. in hid lonely room till long after midnight, listening, listening. | When he finally went to bed it was to. roll and moan till daylight, in the vague wretchedness of unhappy dreams, = _ Noon—the noon before Thanksgiving eve, came, went. Bessie did not. re- turn, we AWAY. ‘ Bessie had. correctly be termed a servant), and she | “Iean’t afford to | | shadow on the wall, ro, Matin 108, began to creep up «Tf you don’t mind.” said Mrs. Dotty, ‘making her appt fance with a shawl over and see ~vhat is eoting Mis: Bessie.” “Do!” hd answered. § She had spoken as if the distance were not worth’ considering, but it was quite a journey for her. When she returned she looked white and scared. ; “She isn't ‘there.—hasn’t Deon. n ‘Hark I" said Godfrey Kirke, holding up one lean hand. flour.” “Ask him i he bas seen hee” Mrs. Dotty weat into the hall. instantly she returned. “He has not. He says there is the body of a young woman at the: town Almost Godfrey Kirke apa thom: hie chair. ‘He says that the body of a young girl was found in the East Branch to-day.” Godfrey Kirke sank back in his seat. Mrs. Dotty smiled a hard little smile to herself as she closed the door and went Sue knew how many friends ‘Bhe shrewdly. suspected if she were ‘not found at one place she would be at another; and she was malici- ously and pleasantly conscious that she genuine scare. Long the latter sat where she had left him. Thinking. For the first time in years he was thinking, sndly. seriously, solemnly, Thaanksgiving-evel ‘Ja his wife's time the house used:fo be gay and cheerful on that night, so filled with com- fort and bright anticipations, so odorous with the homely fragrance of good things in the kitchen, so delightfully merry with ‘the brisk bustle attendant on the mor- row’s festivity. Now it was desolate, | dreary, darksome with depressing and unutterable gloom. Whose fault was it? His! decided Golfrey Kirke, as savagely relentless to himself in this moment as he would have been to another. His! IIE HAD THE WEAPON IN HIS HAND. when his. devoted wife nad ‘drooped and died under his ever-increasing arrogance, dictation. His! whep Maud “married the first man who offered himself, fo escape from her father's pretty rule. * Hisl when Robert ran away to escape the narrow obligations and unjust restrictions laid upon him. His! whea the child his dead daughter had left him .could no longer endure his bratality, or accept from him the scant support he so grud- gingly ‘gave. His fault—sll his! In those lonely hours the. whole relentless truth dawned upon him, as ‘such’ truths will dawn, in most bitter brilliance. He dropped his héad on his hands with a groan. He looked around tha dim, shabby room. He looked at the dying fire in the grate. He wondered of what use would be to him now his twenty-thou- sand 1n bonds, his eight hundred acres of meadow land, the money he had out at interest. He rosein a dazed kind of way, a shadowy purpose taking definite~ ness in his mind. = He wished he had been better to Besse; he wished—but what was the use of wishing now? There could be but one satisfactory auswer to all his self-condemuution. A shot from the revolver in the drawer yonder, that he had always kept in readiness for possible burglars. He rose. He moved toward the ‘table. His figure cast a fantastic The tears were streaming down his cheeks. There might be: thanksgiving for his death, though there could never have been any for his life. Hark! : He bad the weapon in his hand. He started nervously. Was that DBessico’s ‘| voice? He turned, dropplog the revolver with a clatter. Yes, there she was, not three fest away, fresh, fair, dump, smil- ing. S418 is the queerest thing,” she said, coming toward him as she spoke. wl felt—Dbadly-—yesterday, and I went over to Mrs. Farnham’sto see if ste could get me work: I met Mrs. Nelson, and she asked me to go home with her... Dicky was ill, and she wanted me to stay over aight. She seat youa note. At least ‘I she sent the boy with it, but be lost it, ‘and only told her so this afteravon, | As soon as I knew that I started home alone—although Dicky was no better.” “Yes?” said Godfrey Kirke. He was listening with an unusual degree of in- terest. ; s¢And to-night, when I was almost here, (Nelsons’ 1s quite two miles away, you know), I got lost in the fog.” Her grandlather regarded her in amazement,” w at made he paie cheeks so. bright? hat excitement had blackened her gras eyest ¢tAnd—s gentleman who was: coming here found me, and--and brought me home, Please thank him, grandpa. Here he isl” ‘With an inciedulous, gasping cry, Godfrey Kirke retreated, ss a big brown, ‘the ball, “Robert!” C4sPather!” Then they verscluspad in each other’ 3 All foreuioon it salnol, Towra even- 4, the rain ceased, a father. ‘think! “That is oly the carrier With the |. had given the hard-hearted old man 8 : pi fellow came dashing i in from } "And I chancad to find my little niece Bessie lost out there in the fog. A young lady, I vow! And I was think- ing of heras a mere. baby yet! Just Bhe tells me Charlie Nelson wants her—" “No? Well, Charlie is a fine fellow. He can have her-—a year from to-day.” now vou know why the Kirke homestead is dazzling with lights and | flowers, and why it resounds with laugh- ter this Thanksgiving; why old Godfrey iy sigoneaT!y? “rarmzni” wears a branp-new suit, and n flower in his buttonhole; why Robert, in his rightful place, looked so proud and pleased; why dear, busy little Mrs. Dotty beams benignly; why Basie, gowaed in snowy, shining silk, thinks this is a lovely old world after ali; why Charlie Nelson is so blessedly content, aud why in each and every heart reigns supreme Thanksgiving.— The Ledger. Thanksglvinz Roast Pig. Take a choice fat pig six weeks old, not younger, thouzh it may be a little older. Have it carefully killed and dressed, and thoroughly washed. Trim out carefully with a sharp, narrow-bladed knife the inside .of the mouth and ears, cut ous the tongue and chop off the ead of the snout. Rub the pig well with a mixture of salt, ‘pepper and pounded sage, and sprinkle iv rather liberally with red pepper, and a dash outside, too. Make a rich stuffing of bread crumbs —corn bread stuffing 1s de rigeut for pig, though you can put half of one and half of the other inside of Mr, Pigey if somebody insists on loaf bread stuffing. If you use corn bread, have a thick, rich : pone of bread baked, and crumble it as soon as 1t is cool encuzh to handle, sea- son it highly with black and red pepper, sage, thyme, savory marjoram, minced onion—just, enough to ‘flavor it, and plenty of fresh butter; moisten it well with stock, cream, or even hot water. Stuff the pig well and sew it up closely. If you have a tin roaster and cpen fire, the pig will be roasted by that much ‘better. If vou have not, put the pig in a long pan and set it in the oven, and leave the stove door open until the pig begins to cook, gradually closing the poor, so that the cooking will not be done too fast. ‘The pig must be well dredged with flour whea putin the pan. Mix some flour and butter together in a plate, and pour dbout a quart of hot water in the pan. with the pig when itis put on the fire. Have a larding-mop in the plate of flour and butter, and mop the pig frequently with the mixture while it is roasting. If a roaster is used, set it about two feet from the fire at first, but continue to move it nearer and nearce as the pig cooks. - Baste it frequently with the water in the pan betweenwhiles of mop- ping with flour and butter. To be sure the pig is done, thrust a skewer through the thickest part of him; if no pink or reddish juice oozes out it is done, and ought to be a rich brown all over. When the pig is done pour the gravy in a saucepan and cook it sufficiendly. ' Thig will not be necessary if the pig was cooked in the stove oven. The pig's liver may be boiled in well salted water, pounded up, and added to the gravy, which should be very savory and plentiful, The pig should be invariably served with baked sweet potatoes and plenty of good pickle and sauce, either mushrocm or green pepper catsup, for despite bis toothsomeness, roast pig is not very safe eating without pleaty of red perper.~- Good Housekeeper. rein int An Informal Rapast. ¢T suppose,” said Mrs. Brown, ‘you would like me to wear a new dress at this Thanksgiving dinner you are going to give? : Can't afford it,” growled old Brown, ‘As long as you have the turkey well dressed you will pass muster.” —Judge. Sr ————— I ce as — The Thanksgiving Turkey. As Thanksgiving Day walks down this way Lhe strutting turkey is ill at ense; “I'm poor as ths turkey of Job,” says neg sfousgh and unfit to ear, you see; I gobble no more of my ‘pedigree, Lest some poor fellow should gobole me; And a turkey buzgard £ think I'll be, For the present, if you please.” 3 ~ Binghamton Repuolican. a et eerie. Cause for Thanksgiving. Sunday-school Teacher — ‘ Willie, have you bad aaything during the week to be especially thankful for?” Wilhe—*‘Yes'm, Johnny Podgers sprained his wrist and I licked him for the first time yesterday.’'-—Burlington Free Press, rere EN coin A Thought For the Seasom He in whose store of Dessings there may be Lnough, and yet to 8 Bastowing, with a gentle S eiarity, pon the poor a sn By all the gladness that This gitts provide Will have his own thanksziving multiplied r————— iss Tommy's Dream on Thanksgiving Night Everybody Reads The Pittsburg Dispateh. . 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