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It was a dilapidated hovel, situated
on a rear street on the edge of a bare
common, where unsightly heaps of
rubbish were deposited. A little, low,
tumbled-down affair, with mossy
eaves, under which the swallows
vuild their nests, and over the roof
of which a tall spruce, with brown
and dry branches, towered.
The chill November wind whistled
about it, sighing down the chimney,
and ingress in many a crack around
window and door. There dwelt Mrs.
Grant and. her little granddaughter,
Peggy. Mrs. G. was a little, with-
ered old lady, with a placid face and
kindly smile. She was very poor,
partly supported by the town, and
eking out her slender income by
means of knitting, braiding mats,
and sewing carpet rags, for the busy
housewives of the village.
Peggy was a bright, little girl of
eight summers, much attached to her
grandmother, and a favorite at the
village school, notwithstanding her
patched dress, dilapidated shoes and
faded hood. Everyone had a kind
word for her, and many a rosy-
cheeked apple or crisp cookie was
slipped into her basket, to eke out
her dinner of cold johnny-cake, by
her more favored companions.
School was out, and a merry group
were putting on their wraps in the
ballway, and discussing the coming
festival, so dear to every New Eng-
land child.
“I think Thanksgiving is just one
of the best times of the year, don’t
you, Peggy?” asked a little, roly-poly
girl about her own age, as she tied
her red hood about her rosy face.
«1 don't know; we never had
Thanksgiving at our house,” replied
the little girl, who had been listen-
ing with wide-open eyes to the tales
of roast turkey, chicken pies and
frosted cake.
«Never had Thanksgiving, Peggy
—why don’t you?’
“Granny's too poor, she can’t af-
ford .it.”
scholars promised to help the mat-
ter along, and a sum of money was
raised far exceeding Hattie's most
sanguine expectations.
This was judiciously expended at
the village store by Mrs. Miller, who
enlisted the sympathies of the mer-
chant in the scheme, and materials
for several serviceable garments were
purchased, the garments cut out, and
some young ladies offered to make
them up.
Poor Peggy looked sorrowful at
the happy faces of her schoolmates
during the week, thinking it was the
anticipated enjoyment of the oming)
them sO
Thanksgiving that made
became so silent when she ap-
proached a group of tnem chatting
away in the corner.
Thanksgiving morning dawned
clear and cold. Mrs. Grant and
Peggy ate their frugal breakfast, and
with a sigh the elder lady put away
the remnants, thinking of the many
happy circles that would assemble
around festive boards, and she could
not afford an extra article of food
that day. When the church bell
sounded she laid aside her knitting,
donned her o1', rusty, bombazine
dress and crape bonnet, that had
served her many o& year, and taking
Pezgy’s hand set out for church;
first covering the fire to save the lit-
tle fuel in the stove until their re-
filled tlie board, and a pot of coffee
gleeful, and she wondered why they: =
tuinking they were playing her some
trick, while Peggy cried:
“Oh, granny, the fairy folks have
been here!”
The table was set for two. A roast
turkey occupied the place of honor,
flanked by a chicken pie and a dish
of scalleped oysters, while vegetables,
bread and butter, pies and cakes of
various kinds, and dishes of fruit
‘nen the church bell sounded she
laid aside her knitting.”
bubbling on the stove sent forth a
delicious odor.
“Qh, granny, is it all a dream, and
shall I wake. up soon?’ asked Peggy,
her eyes swimming with tears.
“Sure enough. 1 didn’t think
about that,” and Hattie Miller turned
homeward with a thoughtful face
and preoccupied air.
All the evening she seemed to be
engaged in studying some problem,
and said good-night very gravely.
But the next morning she came
bounding into the dining room with
a radiant face.
“Oh, mamma!’ she exclaimed, ‘‘do
you know Peggy Grant says they
never have Thanksgiving at her
house, her grandma is so poor. Ismn’t
it too bad?”
«1 never thought of it before, dear.
I’m sorry.”
«put mamma, I've got a plan in
my head.”
“7'm afraid this curly pate cannot
keep it long,” returned her mother,
affectionately smoothing her hair.
“Well, you see, we school children
all love Peggy, and I'm going to ask
them all to give their pocket money,
and we'll bury her a new dress and
shoes for a Thanksgiving present;
then we can each spare a few of our
toys, for I don’t s’pose she has any;
and if you grown folks would only
make a little feast for them, they
TX
turn. The air was keen, and pene-
trated their thin garments, but the
church would be warm—they could
take seats near the stove— and as
Parson Harvey's sermons Were
lengthy, tuner would have two good
hours of warmth.
As the little black bonnet passed
on its way, it was watched by a score
of bright eyes; and as it disappeared
through the church door, there was
a general donning of hoods and
cloaks, and 2 bevy of young girls
came out of the different houses,
bearing baskets, pails and bundles,
and took their way to the dilapi-
dated hovel.
_.¢ never had Thanksgiving at our
house.”
can have a nice Thanksgiving.”
Mrs. Miller smiled as she kissed
the little, earnest face upturned to
her.
“I'l do my part, and thank my
little girl for giving me a hint. 1
think if you get your schoolmates in-
terested in your plan, their papas
and mammas will be glad to help,
and we will make Peggy and her
grandmother happy for one day at
least.”
“Oh, thank you, mamma,” and
Hattie sat down to her breakfast
with a very happy face.
She hastened early to school, call-
{ng on the way upon several of her
schoolmates, and enlisted them in
her plan, She met with good Buc-
cess in all her appeals, even the elder
A load of wood, that had been
waiting on the outskirts. of the vil-
lage, was driven to the door and un-
loaded, and half a dozen young men
| with saws and axes began to demol-
ish it, while a corps of little boys
packed it neatly under a tumble-
down shed in the rear.
Meanwhile, within doors, the girls
| Jere busy transforming the cheerless
| apartment into one of comfort. The
| pare floor was partly covered with
some strips of half-worn carpet—
two or three cheap prints in rustic
frames, with some wreaths of ever-
green, gave the dingy walls a home-
like look. Opposite the door the
door the word “Thanksgiving,” in
evergreen, was placed. A bright fire
was burning in the little stove, and
the teakettle singing away as if it
entered into the spirit of the occa-
sion. The old table was drawn into
the middle of the room, covered wiln
a snowy cloth, and the widow's
scanty array of crockery arranged to
the best advantage upon it, while
baskets, pails and bundles gave up
their store of goodies to fill it.
As the time for the close of serv-
jce drew near, they finished their
work and left for their respective
homes; watching with dancing eyes,
Mrs. Grant and Peggy as they trudged
demurely homeward,
Ag they reached thelr little domi-
cile and opened the door of the kitch-
en, both uttered an exclamation of
astonishment, The old lady sank
into a chair and rubbed her tyes,
The Turkey's Revenge.
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TOMMY'S THANKSGIVING.
I'm thankful for a lot of things:
T'm thankful I'm alive,
I'm thankful that I'm six years old
Instead of only five.
I’m thankful for my tops and toys
And for my Kitty Gray;
T'm thankful for the big outdoors
Where I can run and play.
I’m thankful for the things that grow,
The apples, aren’t they. ood ? ;
That corn where we playe hid and see,
As in a little wood.
I'm thankful for the pumpkins round,
Just like a golden ball,
And jack-o’-lanterns, big and queer,
They don’t scare me at all.
I'm thankful for Thanksgiving Day. -
For pies all in a row;
T’m thankful grandma made them sweet—
She knows 1 like them so.
I'm thankful for the turkey, too,
How brown it is and nice!
And I'd be very thankful, please,
For only one more slice.
__Elizabeth H. Thomas, in Youth's Com-
panion.
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A Turkey Anccdote.
The famous French authority,
Brillat Savarin, who visited this coun-
try more than one hundred years
ago, left an account of his experience
in hunting wild turkeys. On his re-
turn from this expedition some fam-
ous man was telling him stories of
Washington. The Frenchman's at-
tention wandered, but he, by a
marked effort, recovered himself and
said: “I beg a thousand pardons, but
T'was thinking how to dress my: wild:
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“I don’t know, dearie, what it all
means; but here’s a note,” and taking
a folded paper from the table, she
read:
“A Thanksgiving dinner for Mrs.
Grant and Peggy, from their numer-
our friends.”
“Thank the Lord for such friends
who remember the widow and or-
phan,” said Mrs. Grant, wiping her
eyes.
“Oh, granny, see here!” shouted
Peggy, pointing to the bureau, on
which was arranged an asortment of
toys and picture-books, a crimson
merino dress, sack and hood, with a
neat pair of gaiters. A card, with
this inscription, lay by their side:
“Peggy Grant, from her school-
mates.”
We must not dwell upon the pleas-
ures of that day; it was the richest
in Peggd’s experience, and in after
years, when she moved in the best
circles in society, she looked back
with a warm feeling at her heart to
that Thanksgiving Day.— New York
Weekly.
Cranberry Hints.
In cooking cranberries avoid cook-
ing them in tin, which gives them a
purple hue. Use granite or porce-
lain, and to each quart of cranberries
measure out a pint of sugar and a
cup and a half of water. Put the
berries into a pan first, on the top of
them the sugar, and over all the cold
water. Cover closely and cook for
ten minutes without stirring. Watch
that they do not boil over, shaking
and turning the pan from time to
turkey.” Another story of Savarin
was told by Talleyrand. Passing
through Sens on the way to Lyons,
he sent for the cook, according to his
custom, and asked what he could
have for dinner. The report was dis-
couraging, for although four tur-
keys were roasting in the kitchen,
they wer all 1or one guest. “1
should like to meet the man who
orders four turkeys for his own eat-
ing,’ said Savarin, and he went to
pay his respects to the stranger, who
turned out to be his own son.
“What, you rogue, four turkeys, all
for yourself?”
“Yes, sir; you Know whenever I
dine witn you, you eat up the whole
of les-sots-les-laissent;” the tidbit
known as the oyster. “] was re-
solved to enjoy myself for once in
my life, and here I am, ready to
begin, although I did not expect the
honor of your company.’
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Secret of a Successful Dinner.
A housekeeper should never get so
thoroughly tired out beforehand that
she will have to sit like a death’s
head at the feast. There will be no
pleasure in that for her or her family
and guests. She should begin her
preparations in time, counting the
cost in money and strength, sO that
neither balance will Le overdrawn.
The secret of successfully serving
a Thanksgiving dinner is to have the
greater part of it in readiness before
the day itself dawns. The turkey
and vegetables need to be cooked on
Thanksgiving Day, and the pumpkin
pie should be baked fresh that morn-
ing, but only the finishing touches
need be given to the other dishes.
Have the necessary sweeping and
garnishing done earlier in the week
-—the silver polished, and the old
family china or precious bits of pew-
ter tnat make their annual obeisance
on this day released from their wrap-
pings.
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Selecting the Bird.
In selecting turkey bear in mind
that a fine, plump hen turkey is to
be preferred to a male bird. Select
one that is smooth and fair, with
short, plump breast and a scarcity of
pin feathers. Beware of long hairs
or scaly legs, which betoken turkey
senility. If only Hobson’s choice is
left, and it is a veteran OT nothing;
do not despair, as an hour’s prelim-
inary steaming will plump him up
and make him tender.
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An Epicure at Wholesale.
There is an old story of an epicure,
who said: “We have just been din-
ing on a superb turkey, tender and
delicate; we left nothing but the
bones.” Being asked how many
were included in the “we,” ‘he re-
plied. “Two; the turkey and my-
self.”
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Millions of Turkeys.
It is estimated that six million
turkeys are required to furnish the
Thanksgiving dinner tables each
year. That means over fifty million
pounds of meat, worth $7,500,000.
Of this sum the smallest State,
receives the largest
Rhode Island,
share.
time. Then take off the lid, skim
with a silver spoon, push back and
let simmer a few moments longer,’
then turn into a dish to cool. The
skins, cooked in this way, will be soft
and tender, the berries nearly whole
and the juice clear and almost a jelly.
A Noble Bird Slighted.
An Englishman in Paris asked
Franklin why his countrymen se-
lected a stupid, uneatable eagle. as
thelr emblem, when they had sup-
plied them with such a noble bird as
the turkey.
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TRANKSGIVING
DINNER
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Tomalro soup
bs Boiled ¢od
MP¥igq sauce India relish.
| : Roast furkey
8% Cranberry jelly Qibler gravy.
& Mashed potatoes:
A Browned weer perafoey
rring beans Ontong
Oyster patties
Pumpkin pie
Bisque 1<e cream
Raging.
Coffee
An alloy of sixty parts copper, one
part tin and thirty-nine parts zinc is
found to offer great resistance to the
action of sea water and has been
largely used in naval construction.
A transporter bridge, the first of
its kind in England, was ordered Sep-
tember 12. It spans the River Esk,
and consists of a car, suspended by
cables from rails worked by electric
motors, in towers on each side of the
river.
A pocket telephone is used by the
Vienna police. In every street of im-
portance in the city special call boxes
have been placed, and every officer on
duty having occasion to communicate
with his station has only to pull out
his pocket apparatus, adjust it to
the wire in the box, and communi-
cation at once is established.
An automobilist of great experi-
ence suggests that it is a good idea
for the driver of a car to show his
companion on the front seat how to
switch off the ignition current in case
the driver suddenly became incapaci-
tated. By this simple operation the
car can quickly be stopped, and the
damage it is liable to do if it runs
wild will be reduced.
Gregorio Lecca, of Villadama, Nue-
vo Leon, has invented a new machine
for the extraction of fibre from plants
which, according to’ Modern Mexico,
is said to bevery successful and eco-
nomical in its operation. A model
machine at work at the Golondrina
hacienda is said to have demon-
strated with maguey fibre, that, while
it is considered one of the most diffi-
.cult fibres to extract, the machine
handles it with ease.
When the whole of the twenty-one
new lines now proposed are complete,
Londoners will be able to make jour-
neys from twenty to forty miles en-
tirely by light railway and tramcar,
traversing the metropolis from north
to south and from east to west, with-
out using either train, omnibus or
cab for assistance. The London Ex-
press makes this claim with satis-
“faction, and adds the statement that
the total length of line that will ulti-
mately become available to the Lon-
doner with a desire for travel will be
at least 400 miles.
Richard Weinberg takes up once
‘more, in the ‘Biologisches Central-
blatt,”’ the question of the origin of
various pygmy races of mankind, and
their relation to the earliest repre-
sentatives of the human species. Be-
cause the dwarfs of Africa appear to
be superior in intelligence to sur-
rounding negro races of greater stat-
ure, some have argued that they rep-
resent the primitive type of human
differentiation. Weinberg thinks it
more probable that the pygmies are
simply a variety, and that they no
more represent the original type of
man than do the taller races. Even
yet it is found that the human stat-
ure is subject to notable variations,
and that these variations have an
effect upon heredity.
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Ball Player's Finish.
The ending of a ball player's ca-
reer has in it much the same tragedy
that accompanies the loss of voice
by the singer. At one fell swoop the
playér and his family drop from com-
parative luxury, ease and ability to
have all the ordinary pleasures of life
and fall to something like actual pov-
erty. Oftentimes poverty is encoun-
tered before the end of the struggle
is reached. The still young couple,
after several years of good living,
traveling, seeing the world, enjoying
all the fun in sight, suddenly come
with a splash to the icy water of poor
living, poor clothes, inability to pay
for theatre tickets and trips about,
and inability perhaps to much more
than pay the rent of a small flat—for
the ball player who has never done
anything but play ball and who has
not saved his money is against a
hard proposition before he can learn
a trade or find something to carry
him safely along.—Brockton Enter-
prise.
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: As Many as He Could Get.
Mr. Carnegie has a story of an old
Dunfriesshire farmer who was the
guest of a lady in that country.
When the tea was served the hostess
observed that his was gone before
she had poured out tea for the oth-
ers. He passed his cup up frequently,
and at the ninth cup the lady, be-
coming uneasy as to the supply on
hand, ventured to ask: “How many
cups of tea do you take, John?”
“How many do ye gie?” asked John,
warily.—St. James’ Gazette.
One Satisfied Man in Every Hamlet
“Do you think that people will
ever be able -to secure a perfectly
satisfactory government?”
“1 doubt it,” said Senator Sorg-
hum. “History shows that no gov-
ernment has been perfectly satis-
factory to more than one person at a
time, and he was the one who hap-
pened to be the boss.”’—Washington
Star.
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Joke on Bill.
«Who said ‘rather hear the ills we
have than fly to others that we know
not of?” asked the ill-informed per-
gon.
«1 don't know exactly,” answered
the man whose mind is always on the
tariff, “but it was some one or an-
other of those stand patters.”—
One Way to Get Money.
At a recent church fair in England
sne of the means used for increasing
the receipts was a guessing contest:
as to the weight of the pastor.
BABY'S AWFUL ECZEMA.
Skin Peeled Off Hands and tace—En-
dured Tortures—Cured by the
Cuticura Remedies.
“] can truthfully say that just two
cakes of Cuticura Soap and two bott.es of
Cuticura “Resolvent surprised me, as the
skin was peeling off my baby's hands and
face, and he was suffering awful. When
the eczema first appeared he was very
healthy, but as soon : was covered
with 1t he lost flesh rapidly. Buf as soon
as 1 comi_enced to use the Juticura Reme-
dies he started to mend. 1 keep on using
the Cuticura Soap, as 1 think it is an in-
dispensabl. article arourd the house. As
my baby weigls thirty-seven pounds and
is only .eventeen montk: old, you can im-
agine the torture he endured. My neigh-
bors can -ouach for this statement as be-
ing.correct. Murs. Alex. Week:, Jr., 268
North Water St., Newbargh, N. Y., Sept.
7, 1905.”
The best gold pens are tipped with
an alloy of osmium and iridium. Gold
pens are alloyed with silver to about
16 karat fineness.
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The Original Porous Flaster.
It’s Alleock’s, first introduced to the
people sixty years ago, and to-day um-
doubtedly has the largest sale of amy ex-
ternal remedy—millions being sold annu-
ally throughout the whole civilized world.
There have been imitations, to be sure,
but never has there been one to even com:
pare with Allcock’s—the world’s standard
external remedy.
For a weak back, cold on the chest or
any local pain, the result of taking cold
or over-strain, there's nothing we know of
to compare with this famous, plaster.
French Birth Rate Lower.
Public attention again has been
drawn to the constantly “diminishing
birth rate by the publication of the
vital statistics for 1905. The births
for this year numbered 807,292, a de-
crease of 10,937 from 1904. A. slight
over 1904 is shown.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications; as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by “constitutional yemedies. - 1eafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian ‘Tube.
When this tube is inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deafness 18 the
result, and unless the inflammation ean be
{aken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are dau
by Catarrh, waich is nothing but an in-
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will five One Hundred Dollars for
any casc of Deafness (caused by catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarr
Cure. Send for circulars free.
¥. J. Cuengy & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75¢.
Take Hall's ‘amily Pills for eonstipation.
Care of Habitual Criminals.
The New Zealand Minister for Jus-
tice has introduced the habitual
criminals and offenders bill, which
provides that where a person has
been twice convicted of a criminal
assault or four times of wounding,
robbery or burglary he may be re-
garded as an habitual criminal and
at the expiration of his sentence de-
tained in a reformatory. After six
convictions for vagrancy a man may
be treated in the same way. Dis
charge from the reformatory will be
secured only on the recommendation
of the court, while the detained of-
fenders will be made to work and
wages will be placed to their credit
or toward the support of their de
pendents.—British Australasian.
Indian Railway President.
An Indian chieftain as a railroad
president is a rare thing, but that is
what Pleasant Porter, chief of
Creeks, is. His railroad is the In-
dian Central. It filed its charter at
Guthrie. It is capitalized at $15,000,
000 and contemplates the construc-
tion of 460 miles of railroad in Indian
Territory and Oklahoma within the
next two years. The road begins at
Ponca City and runs southeast to
Paris, Tex., with a branch line run-
ning from the Red river northwest to
Oklahoma
A Lazy Liver
May be only a tired liver, or a starved
liver. It would be a stupid as well as
savage thing to beat a weary or starved
man because he lagged in his work. So
in treating the lagging, torpid liver it is
a great mistake to lash it with strong
drastic drugs. A torpid liver is but an
indication of an ill-nourished, enfeebled
body whose organs are weary with over
work. Start with the stomach and allied
organs of digestion and nutrition. Put
them in working order and see how
quickly your liver will become active.
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
has made many marvelous cares of © liver
trouble” by its wonderful control of the
organs of digestion and nutrition. It re-
stores the normal activity of the stomach,
increases the secretions of the blood-mak-
ing glands, cleanses the system from poi-
sonous accumulations, and so relieves the
liver of the burdens imposed upon it by
the defection of other organs.
If you have bitteror bad taste in the morn=
ing, poor or {able appetite, coated tongue,
foul breath, CO! or irregular bowels,
feel weak, easily tired,
beadaches, pain §r distres
g in stomach,
perhaps nausea,
throat after eating, and kin symptoms
of weak stomach and torpid li ng medi-
cine will relieve you more promptly or cure
no wis [i
olden Medical Discovery. Perhaps on
a part of the above symptoms will be present
at one time and yet point to torpid liver or
biliousness and weak stomach. Avoid all
hot bread and biscuits, griddle cakes and
other indigestible food and take the * Golden
Medical Discovery ” regularly and stick to its
use until you are vigorous and strong.
The “Discovery” is non-secret, non-alco-
holic, is a glyceric extract of native medici-
nal roots with a full list of its ingredients
printed on each bottle-wrapper and attested
under oath. Its ingredients are endorsed
and extolled by the most eminent medical
writers of the age and are recommended to
eure the diseases for which it is advised. °°
Don’t accept & substitute of unknown
composition for this non-secret MEDICINE
Washington Star.
OF ENOWN COMPOSITION,
increase in the number of marriages
City.—Kansas City Star. .
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