I Y hssrh ur inaniti for ccnttc For sono or Thai" cheered us shll from sun (0 sun, While foiling on Ihrough vucary hours Until the no-ruestuiork uvm dont.1 With rritnds" we Keep i.namugiving as or yore, 4 T hu or&ce lb TL '5 1. I ( 1 mj nounuj rcouncucssas wy iovg. 1 " OM MY, linve you count ed the moucy yet? I nra afraid you will not hnve enough, nnd you know I enn odd only a little to It. It seems to mo ns If we hnd bettor do without the turkey nnd hnve a piece ot menr. rousted nice Instead. It will bo so much cheaper." "No, slr-ee," answered Tomrtiy. "We're going to hnve a turkey this Thnnksglvlng If we never do ngnln. My, enn't I nlmost tnste HI" he ox clnlmed, smncklng his lips In delight ful nntkipntlon. "I hnven't counted the money yet, but I know there's enough, 'cnuso I've been saving since Inst spring every cent I could spnre, and well, there must be, that's nil. Let's go over the bill of fnre nnd then I'll count It." As he spoke he took a stub of pencil nnd scrnp of taper from a shelf and com menced to write. It wns a dingy, 111 furnished room in a large city tenement house, where few rnys of hnpplness fell, nnd the In habltnnts ever nppreclnted smnll things at their full value. At the tnble, busily sewing, snt Tommy's sis ter Dora, a girl of fifteen, fair and pretty. Tommy himself wns a news boy, several years younger. They lind hnd a bnrd struggle for existence ever since they could remember, nnd Thanksgiving hnd hitherto been to them an unknown event, but last year they had viewed with no little Interest and some envy the preparations of a neighbor for that event, and Tommy had resolved to hoard every cent that he possibly could before the next Tbnnksglving should come, so that they might hnve a good, merry one of their own. "Listen Dora," said he, looking up from the pnper on which he hnd been scribbling. "Here Is our bill of fare one pie, mince, that will cost fifteen cents; I snw one down to the bnker's on the corner this morning for thnt price; half a pound of nuts, mixed ones; two qunrts of big red apples; a quart of cranberries; hnlf a pound of broken enndy and the turkey. I've picked him out down to Maxwell's, and he's a buster, I enn tell you weighs six pounds nnd Is ns tender as as chicken," praising for want of a comparison. "Now, Dora, what are you going to get?" Dora smiled at his eagerness, then said: "The pudding, you know, and It's to be a real old-fashioned one; Mrs. Becdo, downstairs, showed mo how to mnke one last week. I shall have to get raisins, and eggs, and sugnr, and all sorts of things for It; and there, I WATCHED A NEIGHBOR'S FKErABATIONS, haven't told you, Mrs. Bcedo made me a present this morning of a big pump kin; she hnd three sent her from the country, and she did not need this one, o I shall make two big pumpkin pies. .Won't that be nice?" "Jolly!" said Tommy, clapping his hands, "why, we'll have a dinner fit for a king? Day after to-morrow don t I wish 'twould hurry up and come!" 'Remember, we have much to do before It comes," replied Dora; "to morrow will bo a busy day." Tommy opened the little box where be kept his savings and spread the pile of coppers, nlt-kles and dimes out before him. There proved to be enough to get the things be hnd planned and a few cents over, which he suld he should Invest In coffee. Thanksgiving morning dawned bright and clear, and Dora and Tommy were early astir and surveyed withVprlde their well filled pnutry. The nfta of golden pumpkin looked delictus nough to tempt a kills-. Tha r y firf iv::. w , - O "gracious God, fo hee uxc bring tor Ritsjincjs or inf year; rains in Hi spnno. birds, for bloommo rloiutrs. and kindred "gathered near. snare uvun joy ine rxmnicous cncei fruit and grain, a priceless store. ( sing glad sonqs of praise. To Niery blessed our labor vuliilc ue strove. ill Hie uvorld is free. II u I 1 1 apples reposed on a plate surrounded by a layer of nuts. The mince pie nnd the bunch of celery besldo It looked quite pretty. Then there were the little dishes filled with enndy. The plum pudding, a work of skill, nnd last, but by no menus lenst, the turkey Itself. It wns really a remnrknble looking turkey, so thought Tommy, nnd Dora agreed with him. He lay In majestic state In the long pnn thnt Mrs. Becdo hnd kindly lent Dora for the occnslon, nil rendy for the oven. "Seems most's If I wns dreaming," snld Tommy nt length. "There wou't be another such din ner anywhere round. Wouldn't those emigrants downstairs who camo last week JuBt open their eyes. If they could look In here?" 'That's Just It," said Dora, some- whnt sadly. "While I enjoy our hap piness as much as you do, I cannot help feeling sorry for so many around us who havo nono. I wish that we might share some of ours, but I fear that it would bo hardly a beginning, and I am selfish enough to want It all for ourselves." Taking a last look at the turkey, Tommy went out for his morning papers. Dora had Just put the turkey In the oven when she heard the door bell rlup, nnd ran down stairs to answer it. It was tho postman, and he banded her a letter, but a glance at tho name upon It told her that It was for the emigrant family down stairs on the right hand side. Dora knocked at tho door, and ns she did so beard a child's voice crying, and its mother trying to hush it. . No answer to her knock be ing given she stepped Inside. The father had gone out to search for some work that ha might procure some bread and fuel that they sorely needed, and a boy, about as big as Tommy, stood looking sadly out of the window. The mother sat holding a little girl, who was crying, trying to hush her with promises of something by and by. Dora handed her the let ter, and she nodded her bead In thanks, being unable to talk a word of Eng lish. "I wonder what Tommy will say when I tell him," thought Dora, "that I em going to give my share of our dinner to these people, they are so poor, poorer than we, for I don't be lieve they have had anythlug to eat for two or three days. I know Tommy will not be willing, and I am afraid I shall not like It much better, but I never could enjoy It after bearing that little girl cry for food." As she opeued the oven door a sav ory smell came out, and at that mo ment she heard Tommy's vole call' .log: . 1 jj ll l,yv::tn3-:;Viei;;.a&skg;feah..' -Dora, flora, I want to tell yon some thing. Don't you remember how I told yon abont that boy who wns run over last week? Well, he Uvea la this house around on the other sldej I didn't know It before, for they Just moved In when he wns hurt, nnd I saw his face nt the window ns 1 went pnst, nnd I went In to see him. He wns taken to the hospital, but they sent him hack ns cured Inst night, only lin says he won't bo able to sell papers for two weeks more, nnyway, so he feels drondfnlly downhearted. Ills mother Is slek most all the time, so what Dick enrned was a great help. I'm almost sure they won't have any thing good for Thanksgiving, so I want to carry them nnd old Granny Martin, who lives In the next room to theirs, sotno of our Thanksgiving din ner." "Oh, I'm so glnd. Tommy!" cried Dora, "for I hnve plnnned the same thing nlmost to give somo to the Oer mnn family down stabs. That will tnko It most all; but we won't enre, for we will have our Thanksgiving by making others happy." "Yes," said Tommy, "wo will. When shall we commence?" ("In a few moments tho turkey will lu 1 ... WM 1 I n nnMn- uunui flu, 1 nu nil, 171:94111 u iiuij around our things right away." 80 tho turkey was cut up nnd di vided, and Tommy nnd Dora bustled themselves distributing their provis ions until only two npplcn and some coffee remained, besides the turkey frame. Hut the delight of the German children nnd tho plcnsure of their pnr ents were sweet to witness, nnd when old Grnnny Martin, who wns nearly blind and hnd not thought of having a Thanksgiving, kissed Dora, with tears In her eyes, and told her thnt the pumpkin pie made her think of those sho used to eat when she wns n girl In the country, she felt more than re paid for the snerlllee she hnd made. So did Tommy when he snw the speechless surprise of Dlek and his mother nt tho unexpected kindness, and Dlek told him thnt he wns the best fellow In the world, nnd that next Thanksgiving Day they would cele brate It together, and hare the best one ever fcen. Alice C. Caldwell, lu The Bencon. ThfinkSKlvIng; Mince Mcnt, Tho preparing and marketing for Thanksgiving begin early, tho first preparation usually being the mince meat. For this purchase the neck of the beef the sticking piece, ns It con tains more of tho Juices of the meat. Tart apples should be used. Currants cleaned and picked over can now bo purchased by the box and are really a saving of tlmo and money. Use good raisins, (is thero Is no economy In spoiling tho mincemeat by not using the best of material. Mnny prefer tho sultana raisin, as It Is seedless. rhll adelphla Press. Turkey DreHliiff. Cbeatnat Staffing For th Turkey. Take bread one day old, grate or cut off the crust, crumb It very lino by rubbing between the hands and add one-fifth the bulk of large Italian chestnuts boiled, peeled and mushed, two onions chopped fine and a season ing of pepper, salt, inuce and thyme. Moisten this with four ounces of melted butter, but no water must go to this dressing. Now York Newa, mm The "trvfr Fnlr lnt Clontlo. The athletic girl has a new field fot her talent In the guise of the Thanks giving turkey. It Is no longer settled without dispute, thnt sho has fulfilled her social duty when she makes one around the festnl board, whoso glories nre heightened by the nuthrown bird. She must be able, If called upon, to wield a knife over Its (lono-to-turn ness, nnd enrve It with tho cold scru tluy of a medical student at his first dissection; she must know a leg from a wishbone nnd be nblo to give a wing, a neck and a bit of breast to the hope' less Invalid of the pnrty without a smile ;she must not be overcome with confusion when the terrible child nsks for a smnll piece of tiie "Hick nnd the II In," nor must she draw the diagram on the outside of the bird, as she was taught to do at cooking school. It Is considered n compliment to be asked to enrve the bird nt the Thanksgiving dinner, nnd the receiver of the delicate llnttery must not be found wanting In experience nnd willingness. Curving ns a fine art has possibilities which the girl of to-day, with her eye open to the necessities of completeness In her repertoire of ngilities, has not been slow to recognize. For the time be ing she has transferred her skill from the golf links to the turkey links, and with the grace of habit and health, stands sponsor for the correct dismem berment of the piece de resistance of tho holiday. There nre Icrs Interest ing sights than n pretty girl nt a daintily decorated table fronted by tho platter with Its crisp contents, over which she wtelds tho knife nnd fork with tho celerity, correctness nnd pointed nlni, with which she adminis ters soclnl cuts, when circumstance renders them necessary. The Iy After ThnnkniiWIng. 2 Mr. Gobbler "Are you the fellow thnt hnd my wife for dinner yester day." Truth. IfHANT Not one late lent of golden flame In left f Tbe autumn bougbi are barren and forlorn; I The meadow-levele and Ibe flelUi bereft Of wind-waved elover and of dun-topped eorn ' Dry, scattered aeed-podt burrow out of eight, I Hiding lonrmontbt before tbe iprlngtlme blrtbl roin loome of ditrk are woven weba of light-.. (Jive thaulu, give tbaiike, O earth 1 :The green and aearlet riot In the brlera, , Tiie crlinion of the vlnee upon the wall- The late gray ralne have washed awy their Urea,' And pulli of mow, like asuee, eover all. I Yet, bloeiomlng In fragrance on the alll. Are floweri that winter eannol bid depart; 60 oheery buds of hope may blossom tttLW '-, Give thanks, give thanks, O heart) : We used to love the tepuyr'i soft caress, That awept the blue wild asters to and fro 'And whispered In tbe corn-leaves none the less la keen, strong winds there la charm, and though aWe may not In the placid valleys dwell, While the gray Year la rushing 10 his goat,' Rest tranquilly, for bits is also well' ' ; Give thanks, give thanka, 0 aoull ' Ferhaps a Huppy Thought. Oliver Wendell Holmes was accus tomed to even up tbe general average with this sort of consolation: "Tbe world's great men have not common ly been great scholars, nor Its great scholars great men." 1 an a 3 mzmt lummm 1 HOQ- HA8 HUMAN RIGHTS. BhnpM Mot He Kitted In Slr-rnOnse II There Is Tree to Climb, A Jury in a Justice court at Atlanta, Mo., in Its finding, applied the same rules for self-defense against an ani mal as obtain In criminal Jurispru dence when an altercation between two men occurs. Phil C. Atterberry shot a valuable brood sow belonging to his neighbor, J. W. Wllllard, and gave as a reason that the sow hnd attacked him and came near killing him. Wllllard sued Atterberry for the value of the dead animal, $25. The trlul took place In 'Squire H. H. Brook's court and last ed all day. Atterberry went on the stand and told all tho details of tho killing. He said Wllllard's sow got In his field, and he took his boy Fred, aged 17, and a hired man, James Vaught, along to take up the Intruder. As soon as the sow saw the army of Invasion she gave l snort and charged It. Fred, the boy, escaped by swiftly climbing up a tree. The hired man and Atterberry didn't fare so well. Tbe enraged sow got the former down by the fonce and was eat ing his hand off when Atterberry came to tho rescue by beating her over tho back with a club. The porker then turned her attention to Atterberry and chased htm across the field, finally cor nering him against some logs, where she commenced tearing at his knee. In the meantime Fred had slid down the tree and ran to the house for a gun. He slipped up behind the sow and gave It a tremendous kick In the stdo. The sow Jumped away from Atterberry, who Instantly caught the gun thrown him by his son and as the animal re turned to the attack he let her have It right between the eyes. From that moment the sow was only worth so much a pound at the butcher's, and her owner sued Atter berry for the difference In value be tween a live and dead hog. Atterberry, Fred and Vaught swore to the facts as above detailed, and said If the sow hadn't been shot one, or maybe more, of (hem would certainly have been killed, or at least seriously injured. The Jury wanted to know why At terberry and Vaught didn't climb trees like Fred did, and as the answers were not satisfactory they held Atterberry had no right to shoot the hog If he could have got away, and in falling to utilize the opportunities afforded by the trees he was guilty of negligence and could not set up necessary self- defense. And the plaintiff waa given tbe full amount sued for. The lawyer for Atterberry lost no time In filing an appeal to the Circuit Court. Chicago Record. All the Sky." A lady went recently to read to tho woman's club at a social settlement In Chicago, and she chose for the subject of her rending. "The Vision of Sir Launfal." Hut no sooner had she got within the door than sho was seized with the Idea that her selection had not been a wise one. The weary, unresponsive faces offered little prom ise of appreciation. "I'm nlmost afraid you will not en Joy what I nra about to read to you," she said, with very honest apology, ns she roso to address them. "Much of this poem is about the country, and it Is very likely that some of you have never beon In the country, and so do not care about It." Wheu she had finished the women came to thank her, and among them was ono who ventured upon a timid rcpronch. "How could you think wo would not understand about the country?" sho asked. "It was tho easiest part of the poem to understand that part which was about tho country. We knew per fectly what was mennt." "Then you must know the country. Trohnbly you have lived In it." "No, I've not lived In It, but I know what It Is like. Thero Is a vncnnt lot next to us, and sometimes you can't speak for the colors in It and there Is a row of trees and all tha sky!" Thnt Is whnt she said, word for word. That wns her slmplo nnd ex quisite epltomo of Nature's message. Youth's Companion. The ITnliiue Horn of the Unicorn. The horn of a unicorn wns shown at AVIndsor Castle, and In 130S was valued at over sr0,tKK). Lewis Vcr tomannus, a gentleman of Koine, saw with his own eyes two unicorns pre sented to the Sultan of Mecca by a King of Ethiopia. They were In n park of the Temple of Mecca, nnd were not much tmllko a colt of thirty months of nge. This wns In 1503. Tho animal beenmo extinct about the end of the seventeenth century. The unicorn Is represented In the ruins nt Tersepolis, nnd It wns adopted by the Persians ns tho emblem of speed nnd strength. In the Middle Ages It was the symbol of purity. Tho unicorn hated tho elephant, and it used to whet Its horn on a fitono before It struck tho foe In tho abdomen. No family, by the way, should be without one of these horns, the average length of which Is four feet. They defend from witchcraft; thus Torquemadn had one always on bis writing table. Furthermore, a drinking cup made from one will be a safeguard against poison, as will tbe ground powder put In drink, and, indeed, the wells of the Palace of St. Mark could not be pois oned in the good old days of adventure because these beneficlent horns bad been thrown into them. Unicorn's born waa formerly sold by apothe caries at $120 an ounce. Boston Jour nal, It la Misnamed. Cleopatra's Needle has nothing to do with Cleopatra, but was set up about 100 years before that lady was born by Thothmes III., a full record of whoso wonderful exploits is preserved in the, Temple of Karnak, and In tbe British Museum. imwi mi urns condensed PENSIONS GRANTED. Real Etlale Invaitment Company Forced lo Aatlgn Ice Truil Invading the Stats. Singular Will by a Grocer. Tensions were granted the following persons last week: John Gnult, Holttz--da'.c, $8; Frederick V. Hinklcy, Dayton, ?i; Lewis A. West, Munhall, $12; Will iam Winters, Alexandria, J8; Cornelius In gels, Waynesboro, $io;Rubert I. Mc Collum, Kittanning, $10: Joseph Faloon, Indiana, $12; Michael I.cplcy, Braver Springs, $8; Sarah E. Johnson, Ridge way, $8; Margaret A. Brown, Penn Iun. !8; Robert McLnnahan. AtwooJ, Mary Addison, Northeast. $8; James Murphy, llollidaysburg, $10; John Janty, Webster, $td; James Carr, ller rickville, $12; John Gants, Patton, $10. The Odd Fellows in the western part ol the State have started a movement to erect a home for aged and infirm Odd Fellows. The order already provides (or needy widows and orphans of Odd Fellows, and now it is the intention to carry the matter a step further. It is proposed to purchase a farm of about aoo acres in this part of the State and erect the necessary buildings thereon. In furtherance of the movement a n r,i,i ir-n...... ...:m 1.. u.1.1 !.. Tiv.iii v.. vv,m . iiilvy:, win IJC iniu III Carnegie Music hall, Allegheny, on Jan uary 10, 1901, when lodges in 33 counti: are to be represented. The Fayette County Gas Companyt which recently purchased the property and franchises of the Fayette Gas Fuel Company, of Uniontown, is branching out in the southern part of the county. Other wells will be drilled this winter, and if sufficient supply cannot be secur ed in Fayette county the company will pipe the gas from their West Virginia territory. The revised census returns for the State of Pennsylvania show that the population of the State is 6.302.115, aji increaseof 1,044,101 or 19.8 percent, over the population in 1800, when the total was 5,258,014. Ten years previous, in 1880, the population was returned at 4, 282,801, the per cent, increased during the decade from 1880 to 1890 being 22.J per cent. The Real Estate Investment Com pany, of Philadelphia, has made an as signment to John J. Ridgewayt the president and principal stockholder. The assets, it is said, amount to $300, ooo, and liabilities $100,000. The hold ing of considerable real estate on which) no money could be secured is said to l 1. V. HIU.'IU tilt: 1(,I,I, C J. Carter Judson, auditor of the as signed estate of Samuel Hazlett. ex- banker of Washington, has filed his re port. It shows claims allowed to par ticipate in the distribution of $385, 942.57; balance for distribution, $104,-976-37. which makes a pro rata of 27. per cent, to be recovered by each claim ant. Two boys, aged 6 and 8 years, in mates of the Children's Aid Society Home at Uniontown, ran off because, as they said, "there were too many girls, at the house." Their homes were at Connellsville and they tramped the dis tance, 12 miles, in six hours, barefooted. They were returned by the authorities. It is stated that the American Ice Company is endeavoring to obtain con ir.,l n ,u . Hi. aiii'iijr iiMiijJaiiiCS , - he Pocono mountains, at Stroudsburg. It is claimed that an offer of nearly $2, 100.000 has been made for the plants rt Tobyhanna, owned by the Pocono & North Jersey Ice Company. The will of George Driver, the aged grocer of Washington, who died last week, authorizes his executors to pur chase a "plain monument suitable for the whole family, not towering and cost ly for show, because such is vanity, and makes the living poorer and the dead heed it not." William Simms, colored, a wife mur derer, was hanged in the Fayette coun ty jail at Uniontown lhursclay morning. The drop was sprung at 10:42 o'clock and life was extinct in 15 minutes. Six hundred people witnessed the execu tion, the jail being thrown open to the public. A new concern, the Aluminum Iron and Steel Coating Company, will statt a large plant at South Connellsville at once. This company is composed chief ly of English inventors and capitalists, who will introduce the Poooelin system of coating in this country. A boiler exnloded at the foundrv of Vanbergcr & Co., Carbondale, demol ishing the boiler room, wrecking the rear end of the foundry walls and scat tering debris for many hundred feet. engineer David Wilson was killed, be ing blown fully 200 feet. Gov. Stone has appointed Max L. Mitchell, of Williamsport. common pleas judge of Lycoming county, to suc ceed the late Judge Metzger. Mr. Mitchell's commission runs until Jan uary, 1902. Charles J. Coll, of Connellsville, su perintendent of Lemont plants No, r and 2, of the II. C. Frick Coke Com pany, has resigned to become general manager of the Acadia Coal Company, limited, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The Tarcntum, New Kensington and Springdale Street Railway Company has forfeited its New Kensington street rights and a bond of $2,500 by its failure to complete the proposed street railway within a specified time. H. W. Hartman, superintendent of several industrial interests at Ellwood, has let all the contracts for a dam to be constructed across the Connoqueness- ing creek just north of the town, to fur nish cheap power to factories. The conductors and motormen of tlv New Castle Traction Company asked tor an advance of 3 cen nour. The Waynesbura Coal purchased 15,000 acres of the line of a proposed rail. Greene and Washington! $20 an acre. By a vote of 18 to 11 til bytery decided in favor ol planatory or supplement article on election in tliJ At Philadelphia, while! vclver, Mrs. Uonalil young woman, shot and cd her a-year-old son. At Fayette City Thoii aired hostler for the Pitf trie Railroad Co., cu w by shooting himself tho
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