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THANKt tjieal l?od, we sing ' J*or Thou art ever Eut ou thia glad Th .New songs of prai \ ! . From out Tliy weall We praise The?; fu Thou hast in\r Juhle Ami we have had When clouds our pa And life has seem Thou didst not us at Thou then wast ne The year hath told I The story of Thy I Through summer's li The same sweet ch (?real (ind, we sing ' Thy goodness ever And "sti'l will praise For Thou art ever 66 Tiharafks-er \ By MARGARET ft times. Madam Chairman, I move that the society *^ study economy in enter tainments the coming winter. The Ladles' Aid is about to give a church sociable the first of the season. I suppose there will be others later on; we ? have always nad refreshments, and should we dispense with them altogether I am afraid we would have a lot of empty benches." j The speaker paused, glanced around the circle of matrons, ob served expectation in their faces and went firmly on. "I won't make a motion," she added, "at least not yet. But with the' permission of the Chair, can we not discuss this practical matter at this meeting? In view of th-? price jf eggs and butter, cf sdgar and spice, of flour and milk and everything else i that goes into cake, can we afford to serve rich cakes at our receptions*.' Shall we not decide to offer our friends one-egg cake and omit strong coffee? Weak coffee is better for the nerves anyway." "One-?gg cake ;L> very plain and the men will stay away If we give them poor coffee. Can we not have the same grade of cake as formerly and make tht coffee after the s?me recipe, for economy's sake cutting the cake thinner and pouring che coffee Into smaller cups?" This was the suggestion of a woman who had long bean a social engineer in churm matters. The Ladies' Aid Society of Centre ville had for years done much qf the eelf^denylng work that is part of the province of women in mest of our churches. When ?he church needed a new carpet or cushions or renovation Inside or out, when a floating debt was to be raised or a mortgage de creased, the women went to work with a will, had fairs and bazaars, suppers and concerts, and in one way or another managed to augment the treasury by goodly sums of money. Centreville was famous for notable housekeepers and good homo cooking, but when the periodical return" of hard times swept the lahd over like a chilling frost, the need of frugality sternly impressed on the poor man closed down with iron bold on the consciences and impulses of the richer neighbor who just then should have been spending instead of saving money. Mrs. Foster Arkright, who had pro posed o*>e-egg cake and weak coffee as suitable refreshments in a hard times year, and whose will and influ ence were usually paramount in the counsels of the sisterhood, was a woman of large wealth and an Income so safely bestowed by the forethought of her deceased fathei and the sagac ity of her husband, that she ought always to have been distinguished by an open hand, yet this year of all years she had set an exa mple of scant expenditure all along the line. She bad been in the habit' of keeping three maids; she had dismissed two and was managing her home with a IGIVING. Thy love alwey, wondrous kind; anksgiving Day se our lips shall find. hy larder fed. r our daily store; richly spread, enough and more. th way have beset, e l a wilderness, , all forget; ar to help and bless. he storv old, ove and prace; eal and winter's cold, aracters we trace. Thy love alway. hoar in mind; and still will pray. wondrous kind. -Robert M. Oi?ord. in Christian Herald. G. GAR] zing Sketch. .%*< 1 E. SANGSTER. [Single domestic. She had bought no new,gowns this year and was proudly wearing her last year's bonnet. She it was whose proposition of one-egg cake and weak coffee had been thrown as a projectile into the quiet camp of the Ladies' Aid. What they would have done about it had a motion been made and the question put to vote, nobody can tell, but as Mrs. Arkright took her seat a modest little lady at the other side of the room rose. She addressed the Chair, as everybody has j learned to do by this time, and then in a low but distinct voice declared that for one she disagreed with the previous speaker. "If we must ec omize," she said, .'and probably the majority will be compelled to, let us not begin in thc church. Suppose we begin at home. The children will thrive and flourish on bread and mo lasses, and we may. if we Uko, omit cake from the home bill of fare: but when wo are making an ottering in the Lord's cause, don't let us set a fashion of being close-fisted and mean. I, for one, would greatly pre fer serving no refreshments at our sociable to serving poor ones, nor do I believe in cutting the slices too thin or in using the smaller cups. Think of the young men and young women whose only experience of church hos pitality is at our receptions. Some of them are away from home. Most of them are working very hard all the week. On Sunday they come to the I :?83 ? W?&wMW?? We thank Thee, Lord, for daily food; Thy gifts are ever wise and good; church and the Christian Endeavor and meet sympathy and fellowship, and are Invited on Wednesday even ing to come to the church home and have a happy time. Part of this happy time culminates in the break ing ot bread together, I think the bread and the cake and whatever we give, let the times bo what they may outside the church, should be of the finest of the wheat and the choicest of flavoring." The little lady had finished her speecn ana resumed her piace at tne back of the room. Others followed her and the question was tossed back and forth like a ball from hand to hand. Finally, the decision reached was that where sacrifices must be made they should be made at home and that church gatherings' should be as affluent of good cheer, as overflow ing of bounty, as ever before. One egg cake was not to be accepted as the symbol of Centreville Church hos pitality. To one listener it seemed as if the Ladies' Aid had been guided to the wisest conclusion. Retrenchment is often advisable, and superfluities may be cut off, but hard times are made harder when those who can afford to do otherwise reduce their expenses simply bcause the spirit of economy is in the air. Economy in its root mean ing signifies government and success ful management, not merely the re duction to the minimum of every cent expended. The woman who in lavish times runs her house cn lavish lines, should not be suddenly meagre be cause her neighbors have to be, her own exchequer having suffered no re duction. It is no credit to her to wear old clothes when she can afford new ones, thus limiting the revenues of the dressmaker and the milliner, nor to set her servants adrift while she can as well as ever before keep them and pay them wages. People who begin their economy, so to speak, at the church door, curtailing their do nations, taking sittings instead of a pew and halving their contributions instead of doubling them, almost tempt Providence by an attitude full of Insult to the Divine goodness. The Christian Herald. THANKSGIVING BRIEFS. 0 BY HELEN* VAIL WALLACE. tie thankful that the roses of life are so sweet that you seldom remem ber the thorns. Be thankful that your husband is the very dearest man on earth and "not as other men are." Bo thankful if you are somebody's mother or sister. Be thankful if there is a little child anywhere near that you may love and cuddle. Be thankful for one true friend. . If you are not as beautiful to look upon as you wish, be thankful that you are neither blind, deaf, a cripple nor a lunatic./ If your clothing does not please you, be thankful that you may always keep' your soul charmingly clothed in sweet temper and peace. Be thankful that God and His true children "look not on the outward ap pearance. " Be thankful for the power to think only kind and 3weet and helpful thoughts "toward" others. And do not forget that there is no one else on earth just like you. So be thankful that you are yourself. Tasty Chickens. "You see, mum, as these chickenu are fed on the duck food and the pheasant food, you get three flavors in tho one bird."-Tailer. .MRI? .VJSAT, Thy bounty hath our table spread; Give us this day our daily bread. KING TURKEY. Sir Oyster ia a gnllnnt knight In pearly armor clad, And Lady Mallard Duck can make The worst dyspeptic glad; Lord Salmon is a noble sight In silver scales arrayed, Prince Terrapin can fascinate The heart of man or maid.' The Duke Plum Pudding cuts a dash When snow begins to ny And shares his social honors with The Marquis de Mince Pie; But when the pumpkin's gathered in, And skies are gray' and murky, The centre of the table then ls held by old King Turkey. I Isj&?fj?s r???>T ?o La "fian .Ancaie. afc.' pl^>e^L?Lin' ?NCLE JERRY WILSON opened the gate and the milch cows straggled out into the lane. The old man went into the barn, and taking down a saddle, tried to lift it to the back of a pony. A sudden rheumatic twinge struck through his back and arms, and It fell short, grazing the horse's rough side and dropping to the straw-lit tered ground.. He tried again and again, but with no better success. "It's no use," he groaned; "the mis ery has got me again, and this is the end." He leaned his head against the horse's warra shoulder and something like a dry sob came. The pony rtfbbed his nose against the man's down-hanging hand. THE E IR "You know, Dick, don't you? I can't get on the saddle, boy. Old Jerry's working days are done." He dragged, the saddle out of the way, and followed the line of cows afoot down the lane. "Well, I declare," said Martha Slm mins, looking nut of the kitchen win dow. "If there don't go Uncle Jerry limping down the road after them cows, and a saddle horse in the barn eating his head off; I wonder if he wants to get sick again, and me with all that company coming for Thanks giving! I've no time to be heating flannels and fussing with him. -- It seems as If the older men grow the less sense they get." The cows were cropping the scanty grass along the roadside and wonder ing in a slow bovine way why the gate And Carried -His Possessions - Out Into the .Ditch by the Roadside. to the tule pasture was so long in opening. Unelo Jerry leaned against the fence and watched them feeding. He knew every cow in the herd; they had all fed from his hand. He loved the long stretch of tule, the farms among the oak trees; he could tell when every one was settled, and the mark of each year's back water. He knew where the ducks liked to The "Small a? jam -^.'T^* rariaaVt?! IicJciojalyr nraore; lERRY'S GIVING. sn Kimba!!. feed, and the geese came swooping on the sprouting grain. As he stood there he thought of the long summer days when he watched the sheep feeding far out on the tule, of the mirage low in the sky, th^ scur rying of rabbits and the flight of blackbirds. Then of winter nights, when the green tule was a raging sea, and the safety of the crops of the year hung on the strength of the levee and the vigilance of the , watchers. This had been his life, and now he had come to the end of the lane. As be toiled painfully back a team drove out of a field. He hailed it. "Going to town, Henry?" "Why, yes, Uncle Jerry, In an hour or so." "Going to have a load?" f=!RST THANKSGIVING Dir eproduced From an Old and Rare Prin "Nothing at all-going to fetch out fence wire." "Then" I'll speak for a ride." "All right; watch out for me." The old man turned Into the house yard. Martha was going down cellar with a big tray o? unworked butter in her hands. Uncle Jerry went into his room, a small place off of the woodshed. He looked around the meagre space as ho had looked at the tule. There were the walls covered with pictures cut from papers. He and Johnny had fixed them, one rainy day, wh*.i the lad was ten years old. There was his comfortable bed, his table and chair, the one place he could call his own. He drew out his old leather trunk and put his clothes, into lt; then he painfully did up his feather bed and made his blankets Into a bundle. He stole out and peered down the cellar way. Martha was still molding but ter. He hurried back and stealthily car ried his possessions out into the ditch by the roadside. The neighbor came by and they started for town. "You may let me out at the county hospital." "Whew, Uncle Jerry! how's that?" "Rheumatiz, Henry; lt's come again. Fcan'.t bother Marthy, so Pm coming up here and doctor a spell." The warden showed him into a long, low room, full of beds. It seemed to be the sitting room, too. Half a dozen convalescents were huddled round the stove, and from a distan* corner distressed breathing told of a very sick man. It was a poor place; there were no nurses; ( ld men loafing there through the winter on pleas of illness helped walt or. the helpless patients; the othe.? did for one another. Uncka Jerry was very homesick. He was seldom out of pain, and lt hurt him to see how little chance to get well the poor fellows had. The doctor's orders were often disre garded, or carelessly fulfilled. One young boy was very sick with the pneumonia In the bed next to him. Uncle Jerry took to nursing him. "The poor lad," he thought; "he's too young to lose his chai .^e of life." He began to do things for tho others, to keep account of the hours for medicine, and pin it to each roug? headboard. He made gruel, heated milk and fixed the fire. The doctor began to depend on him. "I'm good for something, after all," the old man would say, "and perhaps the Lord sent the rheumatiz to just get me here." The day before Thanksgiving there was a sound of strong steps on thc porch, and the door flew breezily open. A big six-footer stood there his presence seeming to fill the dingy space. . -.? y&iZ. A j?& "Here you are, Uncle Jerry," he called, .''but you needn't think Johnny Simmons is going to let you stay In an old place like this. I've just got home, and I tell you I made things hot on the ranch. Where's your traps? I'm going to take you home for Thanksgiving." The old man was clinging to the lad's hand, his face shining with joy. "I say, Uncle Jerry," the: other went on, "I've rented the Bruce place and you are going to live with me. It's first-rate quarters-big fireplace to keep you warm and nothing to do but company me, for I've got a China cook. The man that nursed me through the smallpox sha'n't stay in such a hole as this," and he looked scornfully around. "You're real kind, Johnny, and I'd like to bide with you; but I shouldn't be no 'count to you, laddie, just set ting round, though I know I'd be wel I come to my bite and sup. But, boy, I there's something I can do here these poor fellows don't have anybody that knows how to look after them. I can remember medicines and fix them comfortable, and now and then say a word that helps 'em to die i easier. It's a great comfort to be of some use, even if I am all crippled up. The pain isn't so bad, for it's warm here, and I get plenty to eat-plenty, boy. Don't you see Johnny, boy, I'm having a Thanksgiving all the time?" "O, Uncle Jerry," cried the young man, "I want to do something for you." . "You can, Johnny, boy; you can d( lots for me here. I'd like some papen -From The Mew York Mail. ?JNER. t.) to read and a bit of a duck or a chicken now and then to fix up for a poor appetite. Then I'd lih.e just to see you, when you come up to town, and know about you. work. O, there's lots you can do; but, boy, I want to keep my Thanksgiving here, doing some good in God's world." Christian Advocate. NOVEMBER. Don't talk to me of solemn days in autumn's time of splendor, Because the sun shows fewer raj*s, And these grow slant and slender. Win*, it's the climax of thc year, The highest time of livingl Till, naturally-its bursting cheer Just melts into Thanksgiving. -Paul Lawrence Dunbar. A November Nightmare. THANKSGIVING. Thank the Lord, sing His praises, Bow in adoration; We afc blest, we are favored, As no other nation. One the heart, raise the spirit, Pray with earnest- feeling: Show the wounds, tell the sorrows He will do the healing. Thank Him now. thank Him ever, While on earth abiding; Be it much, be it little, All is His providing. -M. J. Adams. ? ?COG osaca QC $C e Farm Topics COW TONIC. . ~*St t A dairyman who has had good re cults with home treatment or ailing cows recommends the following when a cow refuses to eat and shows some digestive troubles. It is in the nature of a purgative tonic. First, he gives t ?? r?.w linseed oil, t"*.3n COIIOTS with two ounces of a mixture com posed of tincture of opium, tincture of ginger, tincture of rhtAsrbi two ounces.of each, and ons ounce tinc ture of capsicoh. This dose is given in a pint of lime water three times a day.-American Cultivator. "V^a** -, ? DEADLY PARIS GREEN. Although it is a fact that old-time farmers still use dry Paris green by the ton to kill cabbage caterpillars, although sprayed arsenates, not so deadly, are better insecticides, still you need not worry. Professor Sur face, of Pennsylvania, after analysis, finds that to amass sufficient deadly green, one must consume 200 cab bages at a sitting. What a blow to those "hunting trouble," for ycry few' people eat over one two-hundredth of this number, even at Sunday din ner.-H. E. Fullerton, in.the Amer!? :an Cultivator. FOR KEEPING.FOOD, COOL. A farmer correspondent uses a sub stitute for a refrigerator which at the same time is more convenient than carrying provisions to the cellar and back again. He makes an enclosure -| of twelve-inch round tiling from his kitchen floor to the cellar bottom and six or eight feet deeper,, or until he reaches about water level. The tiles are fastened together with cement ind fitted with a neat cover about level with the kitchen floor:- The temperature at the bottom of this enclosure is quite low and food let lown by means of a cord and wind lass is kept from spoiling, he claims, almost as well as in a refrigerator. It is used for keeping butter firm and to prevent milk, meat and other pro visions from spoiling. - American Cultivator. GRIT AND GREEN FOOD. Three items commonly neglected ire sharp grit, enough green food and plenty of meat food. After a few years a poultry yard becomes bare of good grit material as well as of green food and the fowls need more atten tion in those particulars than at first. The meat part of the ration is doled out by some people as if it were a kind of medicine instead of food. The best way is to keep meat scraps on hand all the time in a meat hop per, allowing the birds to eat 'all they care for. It is a rather expensive part of the food, but returns more growth and eggs for the money expended than any other one item. It is hope less to try to get much of an egg rec ord, especially in fall and winter, without feeding plenty of meat and milk.-Farmers' Home Journal. .INGREDIENTS OF FERTILIZERS. Three substances must enter into any complete fertilizer: (1) Nitro gen, which forces quick, succulent , growth, and is, therefore, valuable for vegetable crops; (2) potash, which gives rich flavor, and should never be omitted by the home gardener; (3) phosphoric acid, which makes the fiber of the plant, and is necessary in all crops that are to endure over the season. High grade fertilizers have these elements in the following pro portions: Nitrogen, ten to fourteen per cent.; potash, forty to fifty per cent.; phosphoric acid, twenty per cent. When buying a brand look only at tho figures referring to these three items-all others are reiterations and of no service whatever. The ideal all-round fertilizer for lasting effect is one having the ratio of nitrogen, two; phosphoric acid, four; potash, five. This can be mod ified according to one's desires and the crop to be grown. For instance, in the early spring, for growing spin ach, nitrate of soda, which gives ni trogen only, is perfectly satisfactory on most soils, so that there would be no need of giving extra potash or phosphoric acid.-Indianapolis News, SUGAR IN CORN. < Sugar is one of the most elusive of products. It is well known that the sun is the great sugar producer and that a couple cf cloudy days will ac tually drive a large proportion of a sugar beef's sugar down into thf ground. Then more sunshine will lift it up again. The effect of environment upon the content of sugar in Indian sweet corn has been studied by the Department of Agriculture. The almost universal uso of sweet corn for food throughout the country renders such an investi gation of peculiar interest to consum ers as well as t.o producers. A single \arioty of seed was planted in differ ent localities from South Carolina to Maine, and the quantity of sugar in the product was carefully determined. At the same time weather data were secured which are utilized in deter mining the effect of environment in all of its factors upon the composition of the product. It wa3 found that within twenty-four hours after har vest, if exposed to ordinary tempera tures, a- very considerable percentage of the sugar had disappeared from the grains of the corn. This fact has led to the observation that it is nec essary to market the product as soon as possible after harvest, and mean while to keep it at as low a tempera ture as can be secured. Dig Crane Killed by Telephone Wires A large craiie is hanging by his neck on tho telephone wires at the southwest end of Hog Island, oppo site buoy No. 2, and how the crane c?mc to die by hanging has been a mystery and a topic of much specu lation among the ferryboat passen gers. It is thought the crane suddenly swooped down to nab its prey, and not taking heed of the telephone wires, looped its long neck about one of them and was jerked down to death. The accident is a que?? one. -Charleston Post. ~ -