Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 November 1892 — Page 1

M. M. STOOFS, Pul PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1892

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PROFESS IONA I* CARDS. J. T. XIKfi. M D., Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. «rt>i»co In Hank build In*, Brat floor. Will tic found at office day or nlgut. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW ^ PETERSBURG, IND. iPrOmpt Attention G>en to all Bnsinese. •arOfflce over Barrett ft Son's store. 4Rbw.cia B. r osbt. D*wnt Q. OhArrell POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Peteraburu, Ind. Will praetloe ;n all the courts. Special attention given to nil business. A Notary Public const .ntly In tbe office. SSg-Offioc— On first floor Hank Building. S. A. Ell. **. G, DAVKNront ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. WOfflce over J. R. Adams A Sot* drug •tore. I*rompt attention given to all buslaiess. K. 1*. Richardson. a. II. Taylor RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to ail business. A Votary Public constantly In the office. Office lin Carpenter Building. Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office m rooms6 ami 7 In Carpenter BuildIns, Operations flrst-cla-Js. All work warrant'd. Anmsthotloa used tor painless extraction of teeth. I. H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petebsuurq, Ind. ■Will practice In Pike and adjoining connties. Office In Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night ea-Dlscascs of Women and Children aspodaily. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. NELSON STONE, 0. V. $., PETERSBURG, IND, Owing to long practice end the possession ot k fine library end case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all ‘ Diseases of Horses and Cattle sue CES S FULLY.' Be also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.'s Store.

• year U being made bjr John R. l Goodwin,Troy ,N.Y.,at work for us. Header, & you may uot make as much, hut we can Bleach you quickly how to earn from *& to ■ #10 n day at the start, and mote as you go ■ on. both sexes, jd I aces. In any j>art of Ba merles, you can commence at home, givBing all your (tine,or spare momenta only to W the work. All Is new. Great j av Stilt for r every worker. We start you, furnishing S'ety thine. EASILY, SPEEDILY learn«L PAItTlCULAUS HUSK. Address at one* k 811.N SON * CO., 10KTLAM1, RAIJilL

THIS PAPER IS ON FILE IN ^jsmoAee and new york AT THE OFFICES OF A. N. KELL08G NEWSPAPER CO. THUSTEC8’ NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. N OTICE I. hereby given that I will attend to the duties of the office ot trustee of Clay township at home on EVERY MONDAY. All persons who have business with the office will take notice tliut I will attend to ..-"titlSMess on no other day. M. M. GOWEN. Trustee NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties In* terested that I will attend at my office In Stendai, EVEBY STAUBDAY, To transact business connected with the office ot trustee ot Lockhart township. All persons having buslnesi wltU said office will please take notice. J. S. BARRETT, Trustee. N OTICE Is hereby given to all parties OOU' earned that I will be at tny residence. HI. . EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the office ot Trustee of Mnnr.ie township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend‘to business connected with tbs offiee of Trustee ot Logan township. AVPosItively no bus;ness transacted e«• evpt on offiee days. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. ICE la hereby given to All parties con* oerned that I_wlll attend at my residence EVERY MOSDAY transact business connected with the ' Trustee of Madison township. _ iltlvely no business transacted exoffice days JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee OTICE is hereby given to all persona Interested that 1 will attend in my offloe in EVERY FRIDAY, transact business connected with the Trustee of Marlon tpwnshlp. All with said office mas having business please take notice BROCK,

•^sssWhat is Gastoria la Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years’ use by Millions of Mothers. Cast orla destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Dlorrhcea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves toothing troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates tlio food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cos* toria is tbo Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend.

Castoria. "Castoria is an cxoollentmodlclno for children. Mothers have repeatedly told me of it* good effect upon their children." So.^6. C. Osgood, Lovell, Mur. " Castoria is the best reined; for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the various quack nostrums which are destroying thelrloved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other .hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves.” Da. J. F. KmcHiLOB, Conway, Ark.

Castoria. " Castorla 13 so well adapted to children that ' I recommend it os superior toany prescriptici known to me," It, A. Archer, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T. ** Our physicians in ths children's department have spoken highly of their experience in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have among cur medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet r e are free to confess that ths merits of Castoria has won us to look Witt favor upon it." United Hospital ax? Dispensary, Boston, Hass Allen 0. Sutra, Pm.,

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JOHIST HAMMOND. 2<TE2TF7- O-OODS OF aSTTEKBTT JgZXHTJD To which ha dlreots Attention. HU DRY COODSare first-class, and the stock Is yery lari Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions, Give him a call, and you will be convinced u>at he Is giving BARGA INS on hla entire eta«T SOLID GOODS AT LOW PRICES. C. A.. .BURGER & BRO„ THE FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS Petersburg, Indiana, * Have a Large Stock of Late Styles of Piece Goods Consisting of the very best Suiting and Piece Good* Perfect Fits, Styles Guaranteed.

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F. A. SHANDY. PHOIDBRiPHER. GROUP AND RES/. DENCES A SPECIALTY. All kind9 of out-door work, por* traits, copying and enlargingf rom oldj pictures &c. Birthday and surprise party groups a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay, Give mo a call, or address F. A. SHANDY, Petersburg Indiana. M. J. BRADY, Petersburg, Indiana, Will make yon Photos in any number at most reasonable rates.

gV-Uemem' av thHt my work is warranted. If voj want PORTRAITS enlarged nail and i.ave the work done right. All work guaranteed to staud the teat ol aees and atill be as bright as when taken from the gallery. Studio equipments of standard modern makes. Our motto—“The Best Is As Good As Any,and Always the Cheapest." M. J. BRADY. Gallery 1h Eisert's Building, upstairs, on Main, between Sixth and Seventh Monuments Best material, most reasonable prices, satisfaction guaranteed at Petersburg War ble Works J. A B. YOUNG, Proprietors NMIEDTICEDC or others, who wish to exunta Ml VEn I luCnd this popor.cr obtain estimator an edvertlalng space whan In Chicago, will find It on ft. a! zzzttsxiMtmmuL Machinist AND Blacksmith. jBuistsussxaMMSt smithing. Also Inlii ut Heaping HscUsss •S^.'SK‘\5KU“J8HS? oiS

NEWS AND NOTES. A Summary of Important Events. . PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Ar.Bert Wing,who murdered his wife Essie in Louisville, Ky., recently, was arrested in New Orleans on the night of the 10th. He confessed his guilt and expects no mercy. As a result of the fire in Camden, Me., on tW 10th, there is hut one grocery store left in town. All the drug stores, boot and shoe stores, milliner y and dry goods stores, jewelry shops and furniture stores, the post office and telegraph office were wiped out, and twenty families rendered homeless. The loss is estimated at from (830,000 to (500,000, about two-thirds covered by insurance. % On the 11th the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy directors declared the regular quarterly dividend of 13^ per cenL, payable December 1. The harvest in southern Bessarabia has proven a complete failure. The inhabitants are without grain and the cattle without fodder. Much suffering is certain to result, and it is likely that the government will be called upon to extend assistance. Mrs. Mart Morris, 80 years old, living near Kokomo, lnd., was burned to death at her home on the 11th. It is supposed that ashes from a pipe she was smoking fell on the bedclothes, igniting them. No one but a small grandchild was in the room with the old lady

By a freight wreck near Ludlow Grove, seven miles from Cincinnati, on the 11th, a parlor horse car with fourteen valuable animals in it belonging to Mr. McKeys, of West Chester, Pa., was thrown down an embankment None of the horses were killed, but all were more or less injured. One is an imported stallion valued at *25,000, and the others were valued at *35,000. Kit Carson, a son of the .famous soout, was found guilty at Las Animas, Col., of manslaughter. On December 10 last he went to the house of his fa-ther-in-law, William Richard*, whom he accused of having enticed his wife away from him. Carson shot several times at Richards, one of the shots killing Mrs. Richards. Richards was also seriously wounded, but recovered, Henry Plane, aged 25, recently appointed manager of the Fredericksburg brewery at San Jose, Cal., was found hanging to a tree near Gaudaloupe bridge on the 11th. His hands were tied behind his back, his feet tied together and a handkerchief was over his mouth. The ground near the tree and for a distance of thirty feet showed evidence of a struggle. The affair is shrouded in mystery. Frederick M. Younger, of Milwaukee, was found dead in bed in his room at the Broadway Central hotel, New York city, on the 12th. He had evidently committed suicide. He had lost a large sum of money, said to be *20,000, on the election, and was heard to say that this had ruined him. Worry over the matter probably led him to end his existence by his own hand. A tramp took shelter in a playhouse belonging to some boys at Bradford, Pa., on the 13th, and when the latter protested the tramp, enraged, seized a pail of crude oil and threw it on John Leggett, aged 14. Young Leggett was frightfully burned all over the body, his face and head being literally cooked. The villain was captured and handed over to the police. Dr H. A. Si,adb, the spiritualist medium, was arrested in a lodging house in Sioux City, la., on the 12th, taken before the insanity commission, adjudged insane and ordered to the hospital. His case is considered hopeless. At the boarding house connected with the mill of Cassidy & Thill, at Bangor, Me., eight men were poisoned by eating diseased pork, and the mill was closed in consequence on the 12th. More trouble is threatened in northern Hay ti Troops have been sent from Port au Prince to arrest suspected officials. Haytians have been forbidden to leave their country. The second session of the Fifty-sec-ond congress will meet on December 5.

LATE NEWS ITEMSThe steamship City of Pekin arrived at San Francisco, on the 18th, bringing advices dated Hong Kong, October 19, and Yokohama, 39th. The Yellow river had broken loose again, inundating the districts of Chang Chin, Chi Tung, Ching Chen, Cheng Ghan, Chou Ping, Poa Shing and possibly others, embracing a large area. The devastation is dreadful, and the loss of life frightful. It is said half of the population perished. The increase in our exports of live cattle and beef and hog products continues. During October we sent out live cattle to the value of $9,850,000, which was $820,000 more than in the same month last year. Our total exports of beef, hog and dairy products for the month were $10,5*8,000, against $8,909,000*for October, 1891. Congressman Holman, chairman of the committee on appropriations, has issued a call for the committee to meet in Washington at 19 o’clock, November 28. It is the intention of Chairman Holman to prepare the appropriation bills as fast as possible with a view to securing their early consideration by congress. The London Financial News, in an article on American railway securities, says: ’’There is nothing extravagant in the estimate that $250,000,000 of foreign money will be left in America as the harvest of the exhibition. Americans will be literally burdened with money seeking investment” Ex-Gov. James E. Campbell, of Ohio, will remove, with his family, to New York city on the 1st He has taken a house on Seventy-ninth street The ex-governor says the present arrangement is only for six months. He will maintain citizenship in Ohio and vote in Butlercounty. A passenger on the steamer La Bourgogne, who gave the name of Louis Marke, a jeweler, of the state of Washington, was examined by New York customs inspectors, on the 14th, and found to have $18,000 worth of gold Swiss watches secreted upon his person. In a drunken brawl between about twenty miners at St Clairsville Junction, O., on the 14th, growing out of a political disoussion, one miner was killed, one fatally, and several more or less seriously injured. • It was given out in Berlin, on the 14th, on reliable authority that the emnanw Vtnrl aMiiAu) Panvini Ihni, will

A THANKSQ.IVING FEAST.

KT WO are the last, my daughter. To set the table for tiro. Where once we had plateB for twenty, I? a lonesome thing to da But my hoys and girls are scattered To the east and the west afar. And he who was dearer than children Has passed through the gates ajar.

I'm wan tin; my bairns for Thanksgiving. I thought last night, as I lay Awake in my bed and watchln For the breaking of the day, How my heart would leap in gladness If a letter sho* Id come this morn To say that they could not leave us here To keep the feast) foghorn. Samuel, my son In Dakota, la a rich man, as I hear. And he'll never let want approach us, Save the wanting of him near; While Jack la In San Franclsoo, And Edward over the sea, And only my little Jessie Is biding at home with me. And I feel like poor Naomi When back to her own she went, And they said: “IsfAit Naomi?” She well knew what they meant I've staid, and the lad3 have wandered. And the time that was swift to go When I was brisk and busy Is laggard and dull and slow. Oh! the happy time for a mother Is when her bairns are small, And into the nursery beds at night * She gathers her darlings all: When the wee ones are about her, With gleeful noise and cry, And she hushes the tumult with a smile, Her brood beneath her eye. it I h

// // J THE HAPPY TIME YOB A MOTHER. But a mother must hear her burden When her babes are bearded men, Oh’change and in the army, Or scratching away with a re” In some banker's dusty office, As Martin is, no doubt— A mother must hear her burde.,, And learn to do without. I know the Scripture teaching To keep the halt and blind, And the homesick and the desolate, At the festal hour in mind. Of the fat and the sweet a portion I'll send to the poor man’s door, But I’m wearying for my children To sit at my board once more. I tell you, Jessie, my darling. This living for money and pelf, It takes the Jieart from life, dear; It robs a man of himself. This old bleak hill-side hamlet That sends its boys away, Has a right to claim them back, dear, On the fair Thanksgiving day. Shame on my foolish fretting! Sere are letters, a perfect sheaf; Open them quickly, dearest! Ah me, ’tis beyond belief: By ship and train they’re hastening. Bushing along on the way. Tell the neighbors all my children Wlll be here Thanksgiving day. —Harper’s Bazar.

THE RAREST FEAST. •‘We'll have a goose to-morrow, ma— Thanksgivin’ day, ye know— An’ have Josiah’s folks come down'” That’s what I said, but no, Ma 'lowed that turkey’d be the be3t, An’ said it out so flat, It raised my grit, an’ so I says: “Well, now, jus’ think o’ that! “That old gray goose Is fit to kill, An' just tho thing to eat Fersuch a day, when folks’ll want To have some kind o’ treat ” “Whoever heerd," says ma again, “O’ havin' Thanksday meal Without a turkey, roasted hull?” But 1 turns on my heel An’ starts up toward the door, ’n’ says: “Oh, talkin’ ain’t no use, But common sense is on my side, ’N’ I shall kill that goose.’” Jus' then I looked at little May Who sat there in her chair, Just like she allers had to set (She couldn’t stir from there). An’ then I says: “Well, little one, You settle this dispute!" (Fer she was talkin’ with her eyes, Although her lips was mute). ‘What’ll we have to-morrow, dear? Now, you shall have your say.’’ She looks up, shy, an’ says out soft: “Bet's have Thanksgivin’ day!” Well, you ean guess that little speech Has stayed with ma an’ me, Though she that said it’s gone awrfy To where she’s well ’n’ free. Thanksgivin’s oomo again, an’ we Jus’ think of little May, \ So we don’t worry ’bout the food, - But have—Thanksgivin’ day. -Myrtle K. Cherryman, In Detroit Free Press.

T WAS Thanksgiving eve, and Mrs. Jones’ city nephew had arrived to spend the festal day at her home m the country. There was quite an excitement in the household over

this first visit of Brice Bellingham, who was considered one of the best of fellows In his social circle, and of whom his relatives might be proud without a penance involved. Slender were the facilities at Felton Falls for showing him off, while great was his aunt’6 ambition on that score. Some means must be found for bringing him into the focus of the Robinsons, who had just settled in the place, and were reputed very rich and refined peoph If you nave ever been at Felton Falls you will recollect that as you come up from the littl^, railroad station and leave hchlndeff.e cluster of dwellings with a atffirte white spire pointing up

a short distance beyond, along the plain upon your left, rises by far the most pretentions residence of the place;, close beyond which again is a cottage so humble as to seem poorly worth considering except for the 'connection its inmates have with this veracious tale. It was to the house beautiful .that the Robinsons had come. It had been built two years before, but never occupied, for the reason that its ofrner diod at the very time it was completed, and it had tal<en the. interval to settle the estate.. Now it is well known that not even a melon patch or fruit trees in their season of luxury are more irresistible to raiding youngsters than is a vacant dwelling, however inexplicable the fact may be. The incoming family could haral.y have been aware of the abuse the fine house had suffered, or they would have given it three weeks’ grace iu the hands of the repairers, instead of calling it home and afterward putting it into a homelike condition, especially with the husband and father an invalid, and just at Thanksgiving time. ‘

In the . small house nestled so near the large one lived Mrs. Brown and her daughter—“poor but respectable. ** Being Mrs. Jones’ nearest neighbor hitherto, Mrs. Brown had received many attentions from that rich but respectable lady. But one day, alas! earlier in the year of which we are ■speaking, there came a breach of friendship. Their trouble began in the§ewing circle, and Mrs. Brown whs irreverent enough to say even in the church vestry that Mrs. Jones was no more nor less than a purse-proud aristocrat, and she wanted no more of her patronizing. This was repeated to Mrs. Jones, and the neighbors all at once ceased to be neighborly. To return to Thanksgiving eve at Mrs. Jones’. Brice Bellingham had scarcely been an hour in the house when he followed his aunt to the kitchen —feeling already privileged— and found her standing at a table packing a hamper with such provisions as grace the cuisine of the well to do when a Thanksgiving dinner is in course of preparation. Conspicuous among these were a fat turkey, stuffed and made ready for the roasting pan, two mince pies of glorious diameter, and a head of celery beautifully bleached and of a quality to almost melt in the mouth. "Ah,” exclaimed Brice, “my good aunt is on benevolent thought intent, if I read the signs correctly. Now so far as a good dinner goes,” he went on, smiling and watching the basket, “I might as well be some poor neighbor of yours as to be what I am, your adoring nephew.” “I have a ueighbor who is not an object of charity,” began Mrs. Jones, “or would not be but for present difficulties. I wanted to lend a hand but am feeling dubious at the prospect. My man Peter drove t»Way this afternoon for Hoosic, with directions in case of not finding there what he was sent for to go on to

“’Twaa something common—Tory," rejected the nephew of his mnnt in striding to remind himself—“not Smith, though. No matter—it’s gone from the; I will inquire for the lady of the hense, or bridge the difficulty some other way. It I blunder, these children of the frontier won’t know it. Well—but how is this?—1 am blundering woefully already.” Brice had surprised himself facing a low, broad flight of marble steps conducting to a stately veranda supported by Corinthian columns, with French windows uncurtained and unlighted staring across at him. The truth was that the family were meeting their exigencies iu the rear rooms as quietly as possible. Brice had good reason for thinking nobody lived there; and he added—oblivions of his aunt's explanations—that neither was this a home to welcome donations for the mortal body. What was it his aunt had said about a house that had suffered from ill-usage, and that sort of thing? “Ah!”

la returning toward the gate Bnce got his first view of the cottage, crouching in the shadow of the grander edifice, and for a moment stood transfixed. At a little window sat a young woman sewing by the light of a lamp that presented her clear-cut portrait to the beholder. “This is the place, of course, and that the pretty girl,” thought the young man: His memory had been faithful'where a pretty girl was concerned. He passed into the road. A lad was seen approaching who just then broke into whistling a popular tune—a kind Of' proclamation of innocence, probably, in regard to the desecration that had been going on close by, at the mansion just come out of its long swoon. v “Can you tell me who lives in that cottage, my boy?” asked the stranger in Felton Falls. “Mis’ Brown lives there now,” drawled the young native, with hands deeply pocketed in a pair of immense trousers. Brice thanked his informer and was passing on, when the other recovered from his wonderment sufficiently to call out: “Und she lived there ai’ays, fur’s I know.”* “Yes, yes, Brown’s the name,” thought Brice, with much satisfaction. “I won’t get it mixed with Smith and Robinson any more. Mis. Jones to Mrs. brown—that’s it. And a young lady as pretty as a pink sitting with bent head at a window, ti e unconscious object of admiration.” The conscious admirer had reached the do<jr over whose threshold, only a few inches above the surface of the ground, trailed the sere weeds of autumn. Having fumbled in vain for a bell knob, he knocked. At the sound the fair needlewoman arose quickly, paused to reach up and lowor the shade from the top of the window, opened the door and appeared before the stranger with modest self-possession, a tall, slender figure in a pink print

Parkboro. It looks as if h# had gone on, otherwise he would have been at home before this; and if so he will come too late to carry out my basket to-night I should prefer on several accounts to send it under cover of dusk. I have let Bridget go to spend to-mor-row at her cousin’s, and Mary has lamed her foot; so there is no one—” “Pray, aunt, allow me to be jour almoner,” interrupted Brice, eagerly. “I will manage to turn it into an adventure to tell at the club when I get back to town.” Aunt Jones could not resist his persuasive eloquence, that so well harmonized with. her desires, and consented with thanks expressed and unexpressed —her dinner device including rather more than she chose to tell. With the knowledge that the “unexpected had happened” to the new family in the non-arrival of servants, this method of ! leaping into free relations with them had suggested itself; that she looked forward with satisfactlbn to the sting ing jealousy poor Mrs. Brown would feel—her unhappy and only share in the social intercommunication gofe*®**'. before her eyes—was Mrs. Jones’ own secret. In her strained relations with Mrs. Brown, she hoped that person would see what she had brought upon herself, and she had no idea of conquering a peace by milder measures. An outline of the existing state of things with the Robinson family that his aunt gave Brice by way of preliminary to his undertaking was in the exhilaration of the hour as good as lost upon him—it went in at one ear and out at the other, as the saying is. “If you should get a glimpse of one of those pretty young ladies,” finally remarked Aunt Jones, balancing the burden on an arm fairly well equipped with muscle .through athletic exercise —her smile was a captivating finish to the sentence. Immediately the young man was off in his errand under the starry canopy >f the broad country skies, finding the situation, taken in all its bearings, sufficiently novel and even intoxicating. He had forgotten^- don his goloshes, and tramped tntJigh miry places regardless of the fact that a “shine” waB no more to be had at Felton Fallsrthan was a chariot of, Pharaohs. Jfcs he was about ai the b

son; hoping, as well, that she will kindly excuse all deficiencies and informality.” Except for the accidental substitution of Brown for Robinson, Brice had delivered his aunt's message verbatim, and had done it with the address she credited him with when she withdrew from the basket the note prepared in view of sending it by the serving man. Then saying another good evening, he turned away as hastily as if each moment were precious. Aunt Jones sat building air castles when Brice reentered, running his fingers through his dark curling locks and announcing triumphantly—as if the experience had not taken his breath away, *‘! saw her, sure enough, aunt.” “Which one?” was inquired. “Oh, then there are more of her! The lovely girl who received your Thanksgiving offering with such grace may be —ocu’i quitting her teens, I should say.” “Yes, that is «*>»,” '••P'w'dAd the other, smiling her gratification. “Alicia ib her name. There is a married daughter, 1 have heard, and there are twins of fourteen or fifteen. When you come again, Bricey, say before the holidays are over, I wjll have the young l&dy and her mother to tea. Miss Alieia is said to be very accomplished and charming. I expect to be on terms ol intimacy with them directly.” At this interesting point a rumble of wheels came to their ears, and Mrs. Jones and Brice Bellingham hurried forth to welcome a carriage full of friends—further arrivals in honor oi the occasion. From that hour until another nightfall joy and duty centered in th©inspires. It was Thanksgiving night and Mrs. Jones was temporarily alone, Brice wrapper ruffled low about a white and shapely neck. “My aunt, Mrs. Jdhes, sends compliments, and begs Mrs. Brown’s acceptance of a few articles suited to the sea

friendly latercooiM * finite regret to her. “I un gratefully aad Thrice the bewildered i this missive; then the truth : on her. But evert at this point she V rather overwhelmed with hui than sorry for the mistake her i ger had made in the delivery Thanksgiving supplies. The : error struck her as an inter Providence, the wisdom whereof durst not question. “The woman i not ask my pardon," she murrnfi with bowed head; “I have been < more at fault than she in this q« that might, if it had gone oh, f the whole parish.” Brice Bellingham on his return 1 the station noted his aunt’s air of straction, attributing it to the dap ture of those dear to her heart, amid i uncertainties that attend our fleet years, also doubtless to tender i tions of the day with kindred aad friends who were now only a blessed i memory. How Mrs. Jones buildsd better than she knew, and what share his ridiculous inadvertence had had In the i transforming of events, Brice never , dreamed. No, not even when a ycarj later his marriage was celebrated that lady’s smiling presence, and bore away his bride (guess whom?) proudest and the happiest man ever breathed the atmosphere of ] ton Falla—-Lavinia S. Goodwin,' Springfield (Mass) Republican. A Living Thanksgiving. “I well remember the first Thanha-f giving which was kept in my native] village.” said a western congressman not long ago. “I was then a little shaver of nine years old, trying to earn a few pennies by selling newspapers. Some one! marched all the newsboys to the nuion meeting where all the churches of the , town joined in thanking God for merciea There was a great deal i about the prosperity of the nation.' general peace, the abundant crops, i what not. , “1 confess it puzzled and bored me. knew nothing about the nation out of our little city. 1 had no idea of war, and so 1 could not rejoice in ' peace, while as for the crops I supposed _ that meant Squire Potts’ corn and i which did not concern me. ,“I came out of church indiffej; sleepy. Just then the squir* met me. He was a portly, 1 “ ‘Hello,’ youngster!* bej something for yourself, keep Thanksgiving on.’ “He gave roe a quarter.

x unu ocriuii n w iuv < never before had a penny that I felt] was my very own. The money I made f with the papers all went to my mother. We were very poor. “I remember that I sat down on the | doorstep with the quarter. I felt thatl I should shout alodd if I spoke. Whai should I buy with it? I thought twenty things that would he a grand surprise to mother and riches to myself. I was fairly dizzy with happiness. The sun shone bright and we and a tree overhead rustled as I nev had heard a tree rustle before. Su denly it occurred to me that God ha sent me this money through the »qc‘ “I said nothing; but there was euch thankful heart in the city that* as mine. I was a living Thanksgiving. *J The little story has its meaning. It ] possible for us to give some one a ] sonal reason for Thanksgiviug. may never be able to praise God our voices or with any investment, we can call forth thanksgiving the poor and needy, and cause the heart' of him that is ready to perish to sing for joy.—Yjonth’a Companion. A Delayed Thanksgiving. It was true that the governAant Thursdai set the day for the first Thu November, but then the govern* was not acquainted with the eircu stan ies of the town of Colchester, his majestie’s Coloney of Connecticut! in New England.”' If it were not] sible to have pumpkin pies, how there he a Thanksgiving? So the townl had a meeting, and here is the record] of it: "At a Legs 1 town meeting held In Coloh Oct. S9: 1708. It was voted that wheraaa was a Thanksgiving appointed to he held on the | first thuraday of norember and our present olr_ cumstances being such that it cannot with OPfll veniency be attended on that day It is therefore voted and agreed by the inhabitants as aforesaid considering the thing will not be otherwise than well resented that the second thursday of Nov. aforesaid shall be set apart for that servioe." One is apt to wonder what had gone wrong that they should so darkly hint at it, “our present circumstances being euch!” A direct descendant of the town clerk himself told me how it happened. It seems that the town was dependent upon New York for supplies, and that sloops made regular journeys back and forth, exchanging their produce for imported merchandise. A vessel now on its way had on board some casks ot molasses, without which ingredient no housekeeper could make orthodox pies. The delay of the sloop was evidently the work ot Providence; if winds delayed the sloop, and the sloop delayed the molasses, and the molasses delayed the necessary pies, why should not Providence wait until “with convenienoy" there might b* Thanksgiving?—W. P. McKenzie, i* Christian Union. _ A THANKSGIVING FABLE.

The greedy turkey gobbled goodly fare and gre w fatter, day, but the proudest turkey, picious of such bountiful grub, to eat it, and grew rapidly