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THEOLDSTYLEPUMPK1N PIE 1 i Some like a fancy custard pie * Or apple, mince or game -r; 1 Or seme newfangled article, > I 'low, just for the name. I"' 1 1 ain't so p'tie'lar some 1 know And different from the rest, But the good old fashioned pumpkin pL-s Are what I love the best. 1 1 I'm nanKenn xor a piece rigm uow I , Of the pic that mother made. When I tame home from school, I'd get I 1 A hunk, and in I'd wade. ] ; And?p'r'haps my mouth is somewhat la' j' ? , Though I'd resort to tears. She wouldn't give me another piece Because it mussed my ears. -*"V ' V' i I've lingered here a lifetime since, \.? >.? Put up with what I got, " V But oft in dreams I'm back again ? < To that old familiar spot, * V < ' And then at such times I can find '* 1 On the butt'ry sheif arrayed _ A row of good old pumpkin pies, * 1 Tbe kind that mother made. < ?Philadelphia Times. I i te ft ft ft ft ft ft ft * ft ft ft 1 ^4 4 Vt Vt 4 ? VI 4 4 4 4 tf ** DOROTHY'S ** ! *'? PRODIGAL, ** 1 s i* J5 ??? * I 1 A Thanksgiving Story. ] JWaVA%V?%Yi N "Well, 1 don't s'pose anybody ever ! saw the likes o' that!" said Miss Polly. ( The thing that nobody ever saw the | j like of was a tear. It had rolled down j ] Miss Polly's wrinkled cneek ana iaueu on her hand. While she looked at it I , curiously another tear slipped down the other cheek and dropped beside its 1 fellow, where it glistened as her hand ' trembled. "Well, I vow!" murmured Miss Polly. 1 in amazement. ] Words could go no further. When Miss Polly "vowed," there was nothing more to be said. All this was be- [ cause the physician had come in from the other room and had said in his ! genial way: * "She's ever so much better this morn- 1 ing. Miss Polly. I think she'll pull ' through." ^ That was how it happened that the * two tears were glittering on Miss Pol- * ly's hand. They were very inconsist- 1 ent tears, and Miss Polly had always 1 been consistent. It was like turning 1 her whole life wrong side out, and she realized it. In the first place, Miss 1 "TOU ASE AUNT POLLY." SHE SAID. ' Polly had never been an attractive wo- ] man. She was griru and harsh and j j hardworking. She was really a Mrs. Stephens, but she was married after j having been an "old maid" for some , ' "??? liai> nlfl nomo fitlll plnnt? to 4 J cai >7) UUU uv-i V?\? u??uuv vv??? V - a | her. Her husband was a mild, quiet man and had lived but a few years after their marriage. People said that Miss Polly had "driven" him to death and that he had been forced to die to get a little rest. There had been a child, too?ah, Miss Tolly's grim face took on a look of pain when she thought of him!?a handsome, high spirited boy, who would not be "driven," and yet she had tried to drive him. It had never occurred to her that there was any other way. The result had been that he left home when he was 13, and she had never heard from him since. From that day Miss Polly had grown more grim than ever. She made fi'iends with nobody. She repelled everybody. Her black eyebrows drew nearer together in a forbidding frown. Her voice grew harsher and colder, and she became, as the years passed, more gaunt and iron gray. Poor old Miss Polly! People pitied her, but they were wise enough to let her alone. One day a letter came from a lawyer J in a distant city. It said that her only sister, Mrs. Mary Alston, had died, leaving her a considerable property "iu trust for my adopted daughter, Dorothy Carew." "Fiddlesticks!" exclaimed Miss Polly. "Mary always was a tool;' aaa sue threw the letter into the fire. A week later she saw a carriage drive up to her gate and deposit there a young g'.rl, with her trunk and oo\es. The girl paid the driver, and the carriage went away, and then Miss Polly, angry and amazed, went and stood in the door, ready to warn the intruder off. The girl came up the walk and looked straight into Miss Polly's face ' with her pretty, frank browu eyes. "You are Aunt Polly," she said. "I ! know because I have seen your pic- j ture. I am Dorothy Carew." And then, before Miss Polly could ; say a word, the girl took one of the hard, wrinkled hands in both her own and leaned forward and kissed the withered cheek that had been unkisscd j trm<* wv There was a moment's fierce struggle i in the old woman's breast. Then she j said in her own grim way: "I reckon I'll have to help you bring j in your things. There's nobody else." She marveled at herself when she ; l'ound herself tugging at the heavy i trunk and helping this girl, this Doro- j thy Carev.% whom nobody wanted, to j get her things into the hall and from j there mto the ''spare bedroom," wt ch , had been unoccupied since her boy j had slept there. ' "Iwast/ra lookin'forvon,"sViopqid, tnen, ungractousiy enough, "but" i j reckon you can stay a few (lavs till vou git rested up." "Oil, thank you!" cried Dorothy sweetly. "This is a lovely old place, Aunt Polly! IIow you must love it!" j She was looking out ot' the window j as she spoke. Inside the house everything was bare and unattractive, but . when she glanced around her only thought was, "IIow pretty it might he made!" She began making it very day. Even Miss Polly's stern iuce relaxed when she looked in upon it that evening. Pretty pictures and tiny shelves with dainty silken hangings brightened up the walls, and all about the room were charming uothings that pleased the eyes of the old woman. And yet she did not acknowledge it. No. indeed! She said something sharp instead about "all that flummery" and intimated that it was nothing more Lliau "a trap to catch the dust." "Oh, I'll never let the dust get Into them!" said that strange girl brightly. "And it is so easy to make a home pretty!" And then pretty things began to bloom cut all over the house, even in Miss Polly's room, that stiff room with its hard bed and its straight backed :-hairs. Somehow the stiffness and the Similarity melted away as if by magic. Blts^f bright ribbons looped back the curtaiifSy In one corner suddenly appeared aHitile shelf with the daintiest pink vase upon it and a rose in the vase. Oh. she was a wonderful girl, this Dorothy! One day she went up and laid her fresh young cheek against the Md woman's shoulder. "Aunt Polly," she said, "1 miss my , piano very much. I left it boxed up ready to ship. Suppose we send for it." And Miss Polly sent?grim old Miss Polly, who had always considered mu- I sic of every kind an invention of satau. When the piano came and the people saw it carried into that house, they crowded around the gate and stood on tiptoe and peeped over the fence. Several were heard to declare that Miss Polly was undoubtedly crazy. She came Dut then and shook her list at them, md that was so much like her old self that they concluded her mind was ail right after all. But, if not crazy, then what? And Dorothy's music! She liked best to play when the twilight was in the iiouse, and the old woman would sit )ver by the dim window and look at the sunset sky and listen. Dorothy mew little about classic music or brilliant effects, but she could play many )f the old time pieces and sing them, too, in a voice sweet and tender. At last something happened that showed the lonely old woman that this was not quite so bad a world as she iad thought it and that she had even misunderstood herself. Dorothy was taken ill. It had seemed nothing but i slight cold at first, but by the next evening it was so much worse that Miss Polly herself put on her bonnet md ran for a physician. And so for many days they battled with the disease that had laid its hold upon the roung girl and would not give her up. Then Miss Polly began to learn. People that she had not spoken to in years tn thn dnnr and asked if thev night help take care of Miss Dorothy. \n old woman that had been Miss Polly's mortal enemy and whom she had passed in the street a hundred times with her head turned contemptuously iway now haunted the house with laintv dishes which she hoped might tempt the invalid. Even the boys of the neighborhood, between whom and Miss Polly there bad been bitter warfare, hung about the gate now. and when their ancient ?nemy appeared they asked her if they ?ouldn't '"be sent on an errand or somethin." "I didn't think she knew one o' these people," said the bewildered Miss Polly. "I didn't suppose she knew anyDOdy but me." And so it came to pass that when the doctor came out of that quiet room j 3ne day and told Miss Polly that the :*risis was past and that Dorothy would . woll the old sat aud_ looked ' f After Half 5 How Mrs Jcwett was Cured | after 50 Years of suffering. 8 TnniiirpT. A". J The following statement is made by the wife of Mr. J. E. Jewett, the well known religions publisher of 77 Bible House, New York City. Mr. . Jewett's pretty suburban ^ home is at Metuchen, N. J., ^ and Mrs. Jewett is a member ^ of the First Reformed Church of Metuchen, and is highly es? 9 teemed in the community. She s 'I was taken with Rheumatism endured awful suffering from the dis : that time I was treated by regular specialists in New York and Philade ; lief. The pain was all in my knee Jc bearable. I was unable to go out of the house with a cane. 1 finally be Pills for Pale People, and before I 1 f Improvement. After I had taken 1 ? > cane, and went out of doors freely. and by the time 1 had taken thirty suffered no pain at all. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pali I blood, and supply the material fo tissues. It has performed hundreds Ivere cases of Rheumatism, many tin pa WILL Lock for this gTrW ] r irauc irtui r* ^ II B B 13 1 on every ^ | 3^^ r, jjj package. o 1 A1 i t?l eo: I DR. WILLIAMS MEDICINE C j down at Ihe two tears that had fallen upon her wrinkled hands and said to herself: "Well, I don't s'pose anybody ever saw the likes o' that!*' One day, when the invalid had grown strong enough to sit up and was in the great armchair all wrapped up in blankets, Miss Polly said in her own abrupt way: "I'm goin to keep Thanksgivin, Dorothy." Dorothy's eyes flashed with surprise and pleasure. "Don't you?haven't you always kept it':" she asked. "No, I've uever kept it. I thought the day was nothin to me, and so I shut myself up and worked harder than ever and hated other people for makin so much of it. Hut now this is different. I'm goin to cook a good dinner, my dear, and you shall ask the guests for your part. I reckon you'd better invite the choir people, some of 'em, and Colonel Daly's daughter, that's been here to see you so many times." "No, Aunt Polly," was all that Dorothy said, but her pretty pale face was suddenly flushed, and her mind was already busy with plans. What a Thanksgiving they would have! "Cook ever so much. Aunt P0II3." she said coaxingly. "We shall want the two long tables put together, and I want them fairly filled, because the people that will be here would not have had any Thanksgiving at home." The next day Miss Polly stood at the pantry window and watched the guests come. The first arrival was that poor old Mrs. Day, who had not walked a step or been outside of her own miserable house for more than 15 years. Dorothy's friends, the boys, bad carried her over, chair and all, in a kind of triumphal procession, and when they set the chair down they went out siue and gave tnree cueers lor uoromy and three more for Miss Polly. Then came three girls from the factory, country girls, far from home and with few pleasures that were safe ones. In all that great, busy town nobody remembered them but Dorothy, it seemed. Then there was the old gentleman with the shabby clothes and the courtly manners, the old gentleman that lived all alone in a little room at the top of a big house. What a pretty picture Dorothy made going out to meet him and pretending that he was assisting her up the steps when all the time she was helping him! And there were many others, enough to fill the long table. Just as they were about to sit down Dorothy said: "There's a poor tramp. Aunt Polly, looking in at the gate. 1 believe I'll go and ask him in." Now, Miss Polly had been the sworn enemy of tramps all her life, and she started up suddenly. "Drive him away, Dorothy!" she cried. "I can't endure tramps." "But perhaps he's hungry," said Dorothy, turning her brown cye3 full upon Miss Polly. "And we have a Thanksgiving dinner, and he hasn't." Then she went out, and they saw her speak to the man and invite him in. After all, they were glad of it. It was too bad to think of any man going hungry while that dinner awaited them, and they cheerfully made room for him at the table. And such a dinner! Why, if Miss Polly had been in training for it all her life she could not have done better. And there was a baby at the table, a thin faced baby in the arms of a thin faced mother, and when it cast one look over the table it aosolutely laughed, a funny little quavering laugh, as though it were not used to it. Then, in a moment, everybody was laughing, and there never was such a merry crowd. Why, even poor old Mrs. Day was laughing like a schoolgirl and declaring that she liked any part of the turkey, so there was enough of it. As for Miss Polly?well, there was absolutely no accounting for her. There she was, carving away as though her life depended on it, and flying here and there around the table and replenishing everybody's plate before it "was half empty. Her face was fairly glowing with happiness. aCentury sayS I Mrs.J.E.JewetL wlioa I was twenty years old, and icase lor nearly fifty years. During 1 physicians, and consulted the be.-t P j; Iphia, but found no permanent re- b >iuts, and was at times almost un- i : doors, and could only hobble about C ? night some of Dr. Williams' Pink i ; lad used the first box I noticed an 5 * .wo boxes I could walk without a j < Well, 1 continued using tko pills p 3 -six boxes I was entirely well, and * 3 (Signed) Mrs. J. E. Jewktt." \i s People expel impurities from the | r rapidly rebuilding wasted nerve jjj t of almost miraculous cures in se- i ics after doctors had given up hope. 3 JAMS' NK S Soli by all ! .LS ? druggists, so ; OR ft cents per box ; j j Lfc. O S1X boxes, $2.50. I PLE S ; OM PANY, Schenectady, N. Y. 1 Brave Men Fall Victims to stomach, liver and kidI my troubles as well as women, and | all feel the results in loss of appetite, j poisons in the blood, backache, nervj ousnoss, headache and tired, listless, j ruu-dowq, feeling. But there's do j need to feel like that. Listen to J. W. Gardner, Idaville, Iod. He says: "Electric Bitters are just the thing for a man when he is all run dowD, and don't care whether he live3 or de?. It did more to give me new strength and good appetite than an\thin j and hive a Dew lease on life." Ojly 50 cents, at J. E. Kaufmann's Drug Store. Every bottle guaranteed. And thou all at once the little old gentleman in the shabby clothes stood up and leaned his trembling hands on tJic table, lie wanted to express bis own happiness and that of all the guests, he said, at the privilege of joining in this blessed Thanksgiving feast. Some of them had been living hard lives, very hard lives. Some of them bad feared, had even thought, that they were friendless and alone in the world. lie thanked heaven for their hostess, who had made her home that day a home for ?o many others, and he thanked heaven for the lovely young girl who carried sunshine wherever t he went. It was not a very eloquent speech, but the greatest after dinner orator could not. have won heartier applause. Even the baby cheered because the rest did. But Miss Polly was still Miss Tolly, and she could take no praise that was not hers. "Don't give me credit for any o' it," she said stoutly. "It was all Dorothy's doin's. I've been a cranky old woman for a good many years until Dorothy got hold o' me and straightened me out. I'm glad you did it, Dorothy. I always was a fool, a stubborn old fool: ff J only had my poor boy back again, I'd be the happiest woman in all the land!" - - I here were tears in Miss J/olly s eyes now, sure enough, and they"-rolled down her cheeks without attractmg>. the least attention, for just then a wonderful thing happened. The tramp arose from the table, took off his ragged coat, pulled off his sunburned hair THE LITTLE OLD GENTLEMAN STOOD UP. and his shaggy beard and stood there, a tall, haudsoine young fellow. And then the astounded company saw him go around and take Miss Polly in his arms. "Here I am, mother," he said as he kissed her. "And you are glad to see me, after all?" What a time it was! He tokl them after awhile how he had so longed for a glimpse of the old home that he had determined to disguise himself and see the house and his mother once more. He had been in a distant city all these years and was in business there aud prospering too. -viia 10 uiuiK now near : came 10 drivin liini away from my gate at last!" cried Miss Polly, lier voice shaking at the very thought. "And it was Dorothy that saved me from that! Oh, Dorothy, you have saved me from so much! And you have done it just as though it was the easiest thing in the world to take up a crabbed, sour old woman and make her over again." ?Philadelphia Times. Chestnut Stalling. Get two quarts of large French chestnuts. Shell and boil them until the skins are softened. Then drain off the water and remove the skins. Boil three pints of the chestnuts again until soft. Then press through a colander. Season with one and a half tablespoonfuls of butter, one and a half teaspoou-' fuls of salt aud a quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper. If moist stuffing Is I desired, add three tablespoonfuls of cream. Thanksgiving Evening. Thanksgiving evening ought always to be spent at home. And let everybody have an open tire that can. Turn the kitchen over to the children if they' want it. Let them have pumpkins to make jack-o'-lanterns of or Cinderella coaches, such as Miss Alcott describes in "Little Men." Let them pop corn and let them make molasses candy.? Exchange. Roast Snckint; Pig. The whole young pig roasted ami stuffed, thrusting into the air four. ' juiev trotters to the turkey's two, j while not yet by any means as popular i a Thanksgiving dish as the turkey, is j coming every year to engross more and more of the people's attention and appetite.?Cincinnati Post. se * A/5 v r? IT* rt?/\ t* ?? TiCf rr?**T^ fT^ A T>f n m UU I U III Hi 1 .lUlio. I X X a ,9 ' |' If one expects to give a Thanksgiving din- ? j |f n r. tinted autumn leaves should be gath- jg gg '-red. waxed and pressed with a warm iron, jg | Not hing is tin-re beautiful for decorating a | Thanksgiving dinner table than the brilliant, Jg |* varicolored leaves arranged in designs or ?g |' str -wn carelessly over lite snowy linen. A jg If centerpiece of atiy red autumn berries and i' If glossy waxed autumn leaves is very effective. I* " 3^8 Jwa w Jfl wgmLJKr ?o% w jpa #fs HH ^ absolutely Makes the food more < i ; p p p p p p p0 pB p p p p * | it A ?a <a * ? a ?? ? ?* ? *' OUR OWN *.' j < FESTIVAL. > i - . ? .a <5 j J A" I jf Thanksgiving Peculiar to Th.;.3 jf | I <Y Country. &'" I tj> JY 1 S P P p p P P P P P P P I i Y /t 'J it ';? << 'J is il !l ;?,.-* V 0 L T H O U G II tlie * ?*y ^rst Thanksgiving diftcred very materially from its successors iu that it was proclaimed as a fast and not as a feast, it terminated in a festivity. Supplies had run short, the ships expected from England were delayed, and extinction threatened the "governor and company of Massachusetts Bay in New England." Wintlirop and his council decided to hold a'lay of prayer and abstinence, "so tkik ye Lorde be propitiated and looke upon his servants with favor iu that they have humbled themselves before him." Accordingly a crier was sent about the primitive settlement at Charles town, and the colonists were each and all invited to take part in the fast. Their sacrifice mot with cr?Aiw1v rownrd " "^jjk-arcely had the noon hour of the allotted "day arrived when the lon<? hoped for ship "made its welcome appearance in Massachusetts.i/OA", the cargo... was landed, and the fast was succeeded by a banquet of a sort which must have seemed sumptuous indeed to the exiles so recently plunged in hunger and hardship. On the threshold of dreaded winter Winthrop and his followers found what had been a prospect of fear and peril changed into one of happiness and hope. Such was America's first Thanksgiving as celebrated 200 years ago. Thereafter each succeeding November was marked in the annals of I he colony by a similar festival of gratitude. But Thanksgiving in the early days of our history was not confined to the New England pioneers alone. Just 13 years after Winthrop's proclamation? i. e., in 1043?Governor Kieft of the Dutch colony, then known as Nieuw Amsterdam, but now as New York, ordered the observance of a day of rejoicing and thanks "for the rest and peace which God had been pleased to bestow upon liis servants." The next notable Thanksgiving day in history fell in 173$. On that date the British and colonial army, commanded by General Forbes, attacked and captured from the French, after i a fierce struggle, Fort Duqucsne, at the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers. The name of the place was changed to Fort Fitt and was the nucleus of ihe city of Pittsburg. Thus in a special sense the history of the great capital of tho coal and iron industries is connected with the i colouration ot jnnuKsgiving <iay. i But meanwhile in New England what had been begun as an occasional day ot' pious rejoicing had assumed the proportions of a fixed national holiday. In Massachusetts and New Hampshire it was especially popular. There was at first great latitude in regard to the day selected for the feast. Governors proclaimed the chosen date arbitrarily, i and 110 effort was made to keep the anniversary of Winthrop's proclamation. Sometimes Thanksgiving ucurrced in July, sometimes in midwinter. At length, through the efforts of the president and professors of Harvard col] lege, it was practically fixed upon the J last Thursday in November. In the south Thanksgiving as an anj nual festival remained practically unI known until in 1855 the curious Virginia controversy on the subject was precipitated. This controversy, which is not generally known, deserves a brief notice. The governor of Virginia at the time was one Johns, a patriotic and broad minded gentleman, who had always entertained a reverence for the Puritan anniversary which was by 110 means common below Mason and Dixon's line. Governor Johns, in a letter to the state legislature, urgently recommended the recognition of Thanksgiving in Virginia and offered, in case his recommendation proved satisfactory, to at once issue a proclamation. But the legislature of Washington's state did not look upon the New Eng:on4i holiday with favor. Governor * ^ ! Chamberlain's Pain Balm Cures Others. Whv ITot Yen? My wife has been using Chamberlain's Pain Balm, wiih good resultp, i for a lame shoulder tb it has pained her continually for nine year3. We i have tried all kinds of medicines and doctors without receiving any benefit from any of them. One day we saw au adversiseuoeut of this medi- | cine and thought of trying i*, which ; we did with the best of satisfaction. She has used only one bottle and hpr sbouldtr is almost well.?Adolph L. Millet*", Manchester, X. H. For sale by J. E Knufmann. kg baki*6 Powder Pure jelicious and wholesome >OWD B CO., NEW VOBK. Johns w.ms advised not to make tlie Thanksgiving proclamation, and. as lie did not do so. the matter was allowed temporarily to drop. Hut public interest had been awakened, and before long a fierce debate was raging in Vir ?UIUI Vk t'fll li:u "I "i lit. 11 i > iSIHI M1JIporters of the proposed southern Thanksgiving. At last, in 1837. downier Wise, Johns' successor, took tlie metaphorical hull 1 >y the horns and issued a proclamation setting apart a day for the feast. Ilis action caused much angry criticism, and several southern newspapers declared that Thanksgiving was simply "a relic of Puritanic bigotry." In spite of this, the innovation was warmly welcomed. The hospitable southerners greeted gladly another holiday, and the northern feast soon ranked among them as second in , importance only to the glorious Fourth itself. In 1838, the year after Wise's proclamation, no fewer than eight governors of southern states proclaimed Thanksgiving in their sections. The war, however, coeiing shortly afterward. practically extinguished the popularity of the holiday in Dixie.? Washington Star. ? HARVEST HOME. Thanksgiving' I* a Day of Merrymaking In Groat Britain. Thanksgiving day is more generally observed in Great Britain than in any i , t I. uuitfr cuuuirv, r?iiiru ji uuc m i;ic few occasions when the nobility and peasantry in a sense unite in "making merry." The clay is hotter known 1 there as "harvest home," ?*.ing one i marking than period when t lie harvest is in and the tenantry and peasantry i are given holiday. As a rule, the nobleman or owoetv-ef- "~! estates makes the day QjxQ-6t contiuu- < ed enjoyment.-WfreH his grounds are i givenj>vgr to his subjects and all man Cer of games and outdoor sports are i carried out. In his castle or home J there is generally assembled a house I part}*, and the guests join with the I host and hostess in making the day ] one of happiness for the tenantry. < The day's pleasure is concluded by what is known in this country as a i "barn dance." The decorations in this ! ample place are significant of the harvest, and the ceiling and walls have adornment of wheat in the most ' beautiful designs. The music is always 1 of the very best, and the owner of the estate and his guests do tneir best to ' make the occasion of great merri- * ment. * Many a story is told by the English ' novelists of how the pretty village 1 inaids, in their rosy cheeks ami smart frocks, make jealous their country lovers when blushingly they accept the 1 attentions of the young gallants of the nommy. un mo oilier 11:11111. me gr;mu dames in their satins and jewels grow jealous of the country iassoc. in their 1 fresh beauty and taunt their knight errnnts for turning by their compli- 1 ments the heads of "pretty peasantry." Previous to the dances there are fro-' t quently theatricals, and wealthy estate owners have been known to engage the < best of London companies to entertain their people at the time of "harvest s iionie."?Atlanta Constitution. 1 TltnnliflKfvins; In Olil Virginia. Oil l.|a<-k mammy has a posMim on to hake 1 With sweet potatoes, sweeter than a maple sugar j rake. And Iter pickaninny's g"nc l?v the light of the ^ moon With bis yellow bellied puppy to tree a (at coon. 1 The conn lies a-grinning in the hollow of a pira That ihe yellow hammer uses for his morning I dnrm, 1 While the (tray S'jnirrel chuckles in hizh old glee At the hickory nuts a-raining fr>:.i the hickory nut tree. a The pray owl shivers on a dead oak linib And blinks in the sunshine, mellow and dim, jr While molly cotton rabbit gives a half a dozen j hops I And lmar' her heart beating of a sudden and I j ^ j The air if? so fine and soft and clear That the icnce seems far and the mountains seen/ near, Till the partridges fly to the fences and 'light, ' And call out a song about "old bobwhite!" "Old bobwhite, are your crops all right? ' Is there wheat beneath the barn for the first cold (j night? i - - ? > i uc K,I,n(>3 ucns iinu luitw^o utiu no ohuuk mighty warm. V We'll gather in among 'em when there conies a g storm." ^ The wi'd turkey's calling iron*, the far hillside; The foxhounds are Saying <_n the long divide; , i There's a fat pig totaling, for life is sweet. c liut not niu.ii sweeter than his sausage meat! a ?John Paul boeock. g Remember that you can always find a nice candies, cakes and fruits, at the ? Bazaar. * ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 73 cents per square of one inch s;face for first insertion, and 60 cents per inch for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise for three, six and twelve months. Notices in the local column 6 cents per line each insertion. Obituaries charged for at the rate of one cent a word, wlen they exceed 100 words. Marriage notices inserted free. Address G. M. HARMAN, Editor and Publisher. THE FIRST THANKSGIVING. George IVmhtnicton Wan Born on Ita Anniversary. Tradition makes Thanksgiving in this eouutry a legacy of the pilgrims n n:l 1mt It troo nnt /> n 1 it tlm English colonies, but those of the New Netherlands also, which made attempt at yearly celebration of a day of general gratitude. This week of recreation observed by the Plymouth pilgrims was undoubtedly much enhanced by Priscilla Moline's rare culinary acquirements. When provisions were at a low ebb, her deft hands prepared many an appetizing dish of the plainest stores, and the "common house" under her superintendence was n scene of banqueting. (Senile l>aine Brewster, whom Priscilla loved so tenderly, was strengthened much by her kind ministrations. Naturally John Ahlcn had his share, and hi vain Miles Standish sought to be first with the fair maid who prepared the viands. There is a suggestive coincidence in this statement in "Voting's Chronicle*' of Massachusetts, "The first Thanksgiving day on record in the colony of Massachusetts was held Feb. 22, 1031.'' On that day a century afterward was born (leorge Washington. In 1?'?7.">. the year in the hiwtory of New England when the colonists mourned their dead, sacrificed to Indian ferocity, that pregnant silence which speaks as no words can fell upon everything. Wars and rumors of wars were sail realities which blotted out the memories of all previous privations and sufferings. The ever nrnsmit nmv \vn? tnnrn tlifln flic sot tiers could grapple with. That year they kept uo Thanksgiving lu Connecticut colony. The nest year light broke, and Thanksgiving was again celebrated.?New York Mail and Express. THE NATIONAL FEAST. ThankaglviiiR'n Chief Feature la a True American Bird. The chief feature of the national feast is a national bird. The turkey notwithstanding Dr. Samuel Johnson in his dictionary defined him as "a large domestick fowl, supposed to be brought from Turkey," is a true American. Not a hint of the existence of this prince of fowls had the civilized nations of the earth ever heard until ? the year 1581, when the ancient voyagers dropped anchor off Axacan, now in North Carolina, then a part of what was called Virginia, and,' making a landing one beautiful day In midsummer, reported that they had seen deer, 1 snow white cranes and a certain large bird which epicures have since learned to worship under the name of turkey. . His^ AV?n^4tii?lily--dt3Coyere<T b'jftlie early "explorers and adventurers" from other countries, as the Journals of Captain John Smith, William LJyrd and their contemporaries attest, and it was not long before he was to be found on the tables of Europe. Brillat Savarin, of gastronomic and literary fame, called him "the most beautiful present made by the new world to the old." Formerly very abundant, the wild turkey is now to be found only in small flocks here and there in the secluded glades of the Alleghany and Blue Ridge mountains, in the Florida wilds and cn the plains of the far southwest. Domesticated, the turkey thrives and multiplies the world over. "Handsome, golden, done to a turn, scenting the room euough to tempt a <aiut," ami served with that peculiarly savory New En gin ml production, cranberry sauce, no one will dispute the turkey's right to Ihe sovereignty of the I'lianksgiving feast. "Did any one hear the dinner bell ring?"?Boston Ilerald. How to Carve a Turkey. Insert the carving fork across the niddlc of the breastbone. Cut through the skin between the jreast and the thigh. Bend the leg over and cut off close o the body ami through the joint. Cut through the top of the shoulder iown through tho wing Joint. Shave off the breast in thin slices, ilnnting from the front of the breast?oiie down toward the winer toint. Carve only from the side nearest you. Tip the bird over slightly and with he point of the knife remove the oyser and the small dark portion found >11 the side hone. Then remove the fork from the nenst and divide the leg and the wing. Cut through the skin between the tody and breast, and with a spoon renove a portion of the stuffing. Serve light or dark meat and stuffing, s preferred.?Selected. i? A THANKSGIVING MENU. g Raw Oysters. c l> Brown Inroad Triangle?. ]| f Clear Soup. Gialed Parmesan Cheese. 3 Olives. Salted Peanuts. ? Boast Turkey with Chestnut Stuffing. J| ^ Bread and Giblet Forcemeat Balls, Chestnut ? k" Sauce. 5 ^ Cranberry Jelly. Jg ? Mashed Potatoes. Baked Onions. V f Hickory Nut and Celery Salad. f Crackers. Cheese. 3 ^ Pumpkin Pie. ^ ? Glace Fruit and Nuts. i RREAI) AND G1B1.F.T FORCEMEAT ? BALLS.?Boil the giblets and chop fine; mix with the meat an equal quantity of <j If bread crumbs, and for each cupful of meat Jf j use one tcaxpoonful c3<h" of lemon juice and % ( chopped parsley, one tablespoonful each of * f flour and butter, one saltspoonful each of Jf if salt and thyme, half a saltspoonful of pep- <J ? per, four drops onion juice and one beaten JjJ f egg. Mix. make into balls the size of wal- Jp f nuts and fry in butter. ? ? CHESTNUT SAUCE.?Chop fine a pint of Jfj f chestnuts so they will cook quickly. When % f turkey is nearly done, pour off half a pint * $ of the stock in the bottom of the pan. re- Sj g move all the grease, add a cup of boiling 5 f water and boil the chopped chestnuts till *, f very soft. Put through a sieve and thicken i f with a tablespoonftu < f flour which has been ? c mixed with two tabiespoonfuls butter. j| ? BAKED ONIONS.?Parboil 10 Spanish on- JT f ioi.s after they have been peeled (10 may ?J If be too many if they are very large), drain J6, them, put in a pudding dish, sprinkle over M> f them haif a teaspoonful salt, a saltspoonful Mj g pepper, a tablespoor.ful butter cut into bits Jfj I,1 and half a cup cream. Bake Vfc hours. Xi It will not be a surprise to any who are at all familsr with the good [ualities of Chamberlain1* Cough temedy, to know that people everywhere take pleasure in relating their xperience in the use of that splenlid medicine and in telling of the >enefit they have received from it, of ad colds it has cured, of threatened .ttacks of pneumonia it has averted nd of the children it has saved from ttacks of croup and whooping o igh. It is a grand, good medicine, "or sale by J. E. Kaufmann.