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Our store-h.j'jv-s o'er.'iow
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ii losses lrom uistemper
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Thanksgivins: to the Father
Who has blessa.J usuay an l night.
Io pe.-tilnce is near us
No sound of war z heard
Faffttiak,.e& in th; shepherd's bell,
And rusting lies the sword.
The brooks ru'.i on riht m?rrily
The souj-birds seem to sav,
"Praise io.l for every blessing sent
On this Thank3;iving Day:"'
Friend;-; vvlio have lou been parted,
The dear old homestead seek.
To c-hat of pleasures that are pat,
And of the future speak.
All hoinj once inure, with hearts aglow
They "rather round the board,
And cry in concert, fervently,
"Thanksgiving to the Lord: '
All sellishness is put to flight
The wretched poor may feast
On dainties that they seldo.n touch
For this ons day at least.
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May taste of dainty fare
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A TH ANKSG JViN r BURGLAR
"One o' butter, two o sugar, three o'
flour'n four egrs," soliloquized Aunt
llepsie Barber, as she raeasureel out the
ingredients for the children's favorite
cupcake. "Seems like that rule is like
u verse of poetry, it runs oil' so glib; but,
myl it ain't nothin' to the way the cakes
go off ;fter the children gets a holt of
thorn. Let's see, now, howniauv tinsful
lid I bake last Christmas? Six. as I'm a
liviu' woman, an' afore night their faces
was all puckered down with, 4()h, Aunt
lle:sie, aitft there no more patties f' as
doleful a it" they hadn't had one apiece
It iloes b'-r.t all how much c-hihlreu can
hold, an' not hev an explosion. Now, I
sot out to have enough this year, but I
dWs I hev. One good thing, that
rule's sure true blue, like indigo cali
ker, an' not light's a fe taer one time an'
tlat's a pancake another, like some rules.
"Kules is like folks sometimes, an' not
to be trusted; they're all nice an' pinicky
onct or twict, an' next time ye see 'e:n
they're way oil the handle, an' you've
got to get acquainted with em' all over
again. That Widow Jenkins, now, she's
that sort well, Marion; here you are at
last, an' right glad T am to see. you,
too'
;I expected you Would be, Aunt llep
sie, and I should have been Leie earlier,
but company came last night ami I could
lot iret awav."
A bright-faced girl had entered an 1
uitJ taking o!f her wrappings as if per
fectly at Lome in the farm hoii-.e, and
perfeotlv sure of her welcome. She w;n
of miihlle height and a graceful build.
Her face wa a very pleasing one, though
ius-t where the charm was one could
scarcely determine, whether in the
bright, expressive ee-, the warm, sym
pathetic smile, or tl.e winning expres
sion, but at all ( vc!.ts it was there, if
somewhat beyond aaati, and Marion
Ainslie was a i harming girl, with the
faculty of attaching warm friendship to
herself from young and old.
''Uncle Jerry's folk? came and stopped
over on their way to Watertown to spend
Thanksgiving with Eli," she explained.
"They wanted me to go too, bur I knew
you needed me, and J can go there an
other time."
"Land sakes, child, you needn't a
stayed for that." Aunt llepsie turned
quickly around hvru her baking. "I
could a found some one else to heip me
through."
"But some one eis - wouldn't have
been me, would it, auntie.'" The girl
came and laid her bright head on the
elder woman's shoulder. "Anil then,
too, Thanksgiving isn't quite the same
to me anywhere else but here."
"Xo, Marion, nob.xly can fill your
place," the bony old hand, withered and
worn in service for others, smoothed the
satiny black hair caressingly. "If you
was really my ownrilarter1-A.ouldri't set
more store by you."
A crimson flush overspread the soft
! brunette cheek.
"You haven't heard anything from
Jack, have you, Manoaf"
"No, auntie, cot a word," she
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sighed. "Just a year ago to-day, and
it seems like ten."
"What was it, child, that set him off
so'f asked Mrs. Barber gently. "I've
always wanted to know, but I thought
when you wanted me to heat il you'd tell
me."
"Why, Aunt llepsie didn't you
krow?" The girl raided her head with a
look of Astonishment. "I supposed of
'course that he had told you the whole
foolish story, or I should have spoken of
it long ago."
"Not a word, dearie. He only came
in one day, his face all white and set, to
tell me that he was going, and that all
women were flirts and deceivers. I
thought for awhile that you had mit
tened him, but I've put two aud two to
gether since and changed my mind."
"Why, you know, auntie, I wa? in
timate with Dolly Jcnkiugs about that
time"
"There, I kuowed that tonnented
widder had something or other to do with
it," interrupted Mrs. Barber energeti
cally. "Aud she kept telling ma of the at
tentions which Jack was paying her on
the 'ly and intimating more than she
really said, until at last I taxed Jack
wita it, and you know how quick Jack
is, auntie?"
"Yes, ready to go oil' the handle at a
minute's warnin' an' then too proud to
own that he's in the wrong."
"And he wouldn't give ine a word of
satisfaction as to whether she had told
the truth or not, only that il I had com
mented distrusting him so soon we might
as v."ll part lift as last with other
speeches which cut deeper still. Oh, it
was so hard, Aunt llespie, when I loved
him so. He accused me of being jeal
ous, but it was not so. I only thought
it best if he nally cared for her, to have
the matter settled lightly before it was
too late."
"My poor little girl; and that widder."
with detestation in every tone, "she's
been after him thickei'n mush ever since
she took oil her mourniu'. an' all her
grievance is that he would have nothing
to say to her."
"Yes. I know that, now that it is too
late, Aunt Ilepic. but there's no use cry
ing for spilt milk," a bright tear trem
bled on the long eyelashes, "and I will
try and not spoil my Thanksgiving with
tears."
For the next fiours the discussing
of the measuring, weighing and beating
predoir mated in the large kitchen and
spicy ocors filled .ieh nook and crauny,
penetrating to the dining-room, and even
:o the parlor beyond.
"Seems sorter useless to make pumpkin
pies when Jack ain't here to eat 'em,"
remarked Aunt Ilespie disconsolately,
"'pears like there never was a boy loved
pumpkin pie like he docs."
"Perhaps that young minister who is
visiting Horace will eat. Jack's share,"
;uggested Marion. "Ministers usually
have a pretty fair appetite Lr good
things, I've noticed."
"I s'poc now Horace will b; auxious
to show o:Y his relations in pretty good
style tola college friend, "rejoined Aunt
Ilespie, relh-ctive-ly. "When he toid
me he was coming, he said, laughing
like 'I've been bragging on your cook
ing, auntie, and I want to .show Simmy
Holland what a real Thanksgiving ia
the country is like. ' "
At length the cooking was all done,
the big turkey dressed ami ready for
stulTiug, and the rv.vs and rows of pie
and rich, plummy cakes, the pan of
doughnuts and the heaping platter of
cup cakes and another of jam tarts sug
gested a large gathering on the morrow.
In Jack's room aloae, no preparation
was to be made, for Aunt Hepsic would
use the room for no one but its owner ;
but Marion went in there with a lonely
feeliug in her heartdie song dying upon
i her lips as she did so.
She lingered about the little dressing
table, absently pushing in the pins
which spelled "Jack" upon his pin
cushion, and thinking of him with such
longing that Jac-K could not have re
mained angry with her could he have
seen her hungrv eves.
"COME E.'.' K To ME.
Suddenly a thought came to her she
would prepare Jack's -room, too, as if he
were coming with the rest, and witn
nimble lingers she dusted and arranged
everything in the best possible order,
pinning a spray of dried ferns and sumac
upon the window curtains that the close
ness might be dispelled by the clear,
keen air of a perfect November day.
The window opened out upon the broad
verandah, and Jack had often climbed
its supports and gone to his room and to
bed without awakening the family, when
at home.
She would have been his wife now,
had he not gone off in such hasty, un
reasonable anger, and she sank on her
knees by the bedside when all was dune.
"Oh, Jack, come back. Come back to
me," her heart cried out, and if spirit
roiees can become audible to each other,
Jack's spirit must have heard the earnest
appeal wherever he was.
The house began to till with a merry
crowd of relatives at au early hour on
the morrow, for a Thanksgiving dinner
at Aunt Hepde's was a treat to young
and old. Mrs. Barber herself looked
careworn and old.
"I guess I was too tired to sleep well
last night," she said, as she basted the
turkey,"for I keptturnio' an' twistin'all
night long, an' 1 dreamed o' burglars an'
Injuns, an' along toward moruin' I de
clare if I didn't imagine some one
sneak in' around the house. I was too
tired to get up an' see, an' I dropped off
to sleep again, an't must been a dream
with the rest oa't, for there's nothing
missing, au? the silver spoons sot right
on the dining room table."
"If anyone had come in for plundti
they would have looked for silver tirst ol
all, so you must have been dreaming,
nuntie," replied Marion, smiling. "Bit
what shall we d with the children mi' ;.'
dinner's ready V
"Send them upstairs to play," s.
Aunt Hepsey. "Here comes your (Vm-m
Horace and his friend, and a proper, line
3-ouug man he looks, too."
A moment later and Marion was mak
ing her company bow to the young
clergyman and as she carried his overcoat
unel hat into the hallway, she gave the
children pvrmission to go into the
chambers.
"And ph ase don't be rude m noisy,"
hhe said, wainingly, "for Aunt Hepsey
has a headache this morning."
"We won t. We'll be still as mice,"'
said one of the Hock, coulideutly - n if
it were a possible state of thing at a
family merrymaking.
The young minister w as just explaining
the diilerence between a spiritual and a
merely intellectual belief in Scripture,
when a frightened trio of children came
scrambling down the stairs.
"Oh, Aurt llepsie, there's a burglar in
Jack's room; there is, and he's asleep on
the bed.".
"A burglar. Oh, my sus! Then I
wasn't a dreaming after all."
Mrs. Barber was setting the table, an i
she fairly turneel pale with nervous excite
ment. "Don't get fiighteued, auntie, I'll go
up and rout them out. Give me the
poker," and Horace started up the stairs
hurriedly, with his formidable weapon.
"And I, too. Uncle Drake, a jolly
old fellow of immense avoirdupois,
caught up the tongs. "I'll pinch him
while Horace belabors him."
It is needless to saj' they were fol
lowed by an excited retinue of specta
tors, at a safe distance, however, for
there was uo telling what the presumably
ravage intruder might do when alarmed.
"Perhaps he's armed," suggested the
young minister, nervously. He had pro
vided himself with au umbrella, as lie
brought up the rear.
The burglar must have beea in a
sound slumber not to have heard the con
fusion of whispering voices at the door,
but there was no sound withiu the cham
ber until Horace opened the door and
peered cautiously in, the poker in hand
in defensive readiness.
"Jack Barber, you viiliau, if you
haven't been up to ypur old tricks of
climbing in the window." Horace's voice
i-a me floating elown the stairway in a
peal of surprised laughter.
"Jack! My Jack! Well I never,"
cried Aunt Hepsie, pushing her way
through the crowd aud rushing up the
Ltairs.
" PERU ATS HE'S ARMED. "
Marion, at the first sound of Ja.'.'s
name, had divined in a moment just
vri.nt had occurred, that Jack had come
on the early morning train, and not wish
ing to arouse the family, had crept up to
his room window in the mo nlight, und
as she had so obligingly left it open, had
found no trouble in getting in quietly,
and trembling and blushing, she re
treated to the kitchen to think it over,
.and compose herself for the meeting
with him.
They had parted in anger, and she
scarcely knew how to receive him now.
Last night in her loneliness and grief she
would nave lushed into his arras and
t i - f
have shown all her delight and desire to
undo the past; this morning she was
more self-reliant, and she wisely re
solved that a little of the concession at
lfat must come from Jack", since he had
left her fn cavalierly and so unkindly
without just caus-.
Sh." was standing there still, balancing
thr fork with which she h id just turne l
the turkey, idly in her hand, when an
arm stole round Iter waist aud Jack's
voice, very humble and loving,- whispered
in her ear: "Will my Marion forgive
and forget:"
All her pride vanished at once under
the spell of the dear, familiar voice, and
turning, she shed happy tear; of re
joicing on her lover's shoulder.
"And why haven't you wntieu to me.
Jack.'" she risked reproachfully, after
a Jew moments id l.appy converse.
"1 did, Marion. 1 wrote you a long
letter asking your forgiveness lor the
miserable part I had taken in that
wretched quarrel, but I never received a
word in reply, and of course I supposed
you were angry and unforgiving towards
me."
"How could I answer it dear Jack,
when I never received it; no, not one
line from you in all this weary year."
"If I could only have known it, but
not hearing made me so angry that I
determined that you or no one else should
know where I wa, or anything about
me."
"You foolish, hot-tempered Jack,"
said Marion, softly, "but how did you
chance to come home, dear?"
"I could not keep away," said Jack
simply. "As Thanksgiving drew near,
the attraction towards the old home be
came too strong to be resisted, and now
that I have you again, I'm not going to
let you go, and i propose that wo be
married this very day. I'll go for a
minister directly after dinner, and we'll
make it a Thanksgiving worth remem
bering." "Well, as for that, there's no use o' stir
l in'out of the house for a minister." Aunt
llepsie had come in to look after her ne
glected dinner, and stood regarding them
with a beaming face. "Young Mr. Ho!
l.ind is a minister, and I don't doubt but
that he'd be glad to have a ceremony to
sorter get in prtctice on, you know."
"All the better ; we'll be married before
dinner then, aud have a wedding dinner
as well as a Thanksgiving feast. Just
let me brush up my hair a bit while Mar
ion takes off her kitc hen apron.
The great brown turkey was an interest
ing witness of a surprisingly impromptu
ceremony a half hour later. The guests
were not informed of what was going on
until they were all gathered around the.
table in their several places. Aunt llep
sie, at the head in her b:sl cap,and Jack
and Marion at her right, Mr. Holland
coming next. He ofti-ia'cd in a partic
ularly happy manner for a c omparativo
amateur, aud never had a jollier Thanks
giving dinner been scre I in the old farm
house thin upon this occasion, mule
memorable by the presence of a burglar n
the house, and the subsequent ringing of
wedding bells. 1st. Hi World.
T'.vo I uteres I in Thanksgivings of a
Man's Life.
if! f -TP
1. Age twenty Watchin:
coming out on his upper lio.
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Nobody pays any attention to a pump
when they know the well is dry.
You can't tell who is ia the cjfrin by
the length of the funeral procession.
It is the tree that stan.U the straig'at
est that does most to resist the wind.
Wnen some men pay their preacher
they feel as though they were paying a
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The man who does his best ia tiio
place he has now is on his way t3 a bet
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The man wh gets his breal fresh
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When you liud anybo ly who is doing
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The man who lives right himself i?
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You are doing one of two things,
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The prevalence of throat deafness is a
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between the ears aud throat, and this in
ability to hear one's self speak just as
others hear us is another instance. In
some people this peculiarity is very
marked, and in my ease, if I speak into
a phonograph and let the machine grind
out the sounds again, I don't recognize,
the voice at ail. In regard to singing,
the varying ability to hear one's self with
the ears pluggei up with cotton makes
itself evident, for while one member of
a chorus will only hear the blending
harmony, or discord, another will hear
little beyond his or tier own voice, au 1
makes occasional bad breaks in conse
quence. I know a man who used to
sing a very fair baritone, but whose voice
is now only adapted to the weakest
falsetto. Yet he doesn't realize; the
change, and I believe he honestly thinks
he sings as well as ever. This apparent
impossibility may be a dispensation of
Providence to prevent men with excep
tionally ugly voices being driven to
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