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Monday, Nov. 1G. The State con
stitutional amendment submitted to the
people of New York at the recent election
were adopted by large majorities ....
n Indictment has lecn found' against
Wilbur F. Storey, editor of the Chi
cago Time, for "an unlawful, willful and
malicious libel" agaJnst Mr. N. K. Fairbank,
of whom it was njcently asserted In the ZWt;
that he had abstracted money from the relief
fund .... At Litt'.c Rock, Ark., on the ISth, V. V.
Smith, elected. Lieuteuant'Oovcrnor on the
ticket with Baxter iu 1S7? Wued a proclama
tion declarivijj hiriiself Sovernor of the State,
Baxter having abutted In favor of Garland.
He claim that e new Constitution under
which GarUurf yas elected and installed into
office -aflkiaaiivand informally framed and
auupu.a. ue appealed to President Grant to
iJ jlm In securing control of the F.rprntliT
1dc'o of the State. On the afternoon of the
IVUi a warrant waa Issued, on the complaint
of Gov. Garland, for the arrest of LicuL-Gov.
Smith, his Secretary of State, Wheeler, and
the editor of the Republican, on the charge of
treason.
Tuesday, Nov, 17. Von Arnim's trial
has been set for the 1st of December
Disraeli has been rc-clcctcd Hector of the
University of Glasgow by 700 votes, against
500 for Ralph Waldo Emerson The CarlisU
are said, to hare returned to their old positions
before Irun, and are again besieging the city
.Saxony has forbidden the practice of cre
mation.... The efneial vote for Governor in
New York State is as follows: Tilden,
41fi,343; Dix, 361,401; Clarke, 10,214.
Tilden over Dix. &49a7....The Ameri
can Express office In Cincinnati
wns robbed on the 15th of a safe containing
about $50,000.... Sufficient returns have been
received, from the Ninth District of Kentucky
to Insure the election of J. D. White. Repub
lican, to Congress by about 500 majority....
A Supervisor of Registration and Court-Clerk
have been arrested in St James' Parish, La.,
charged with being engaged in altering elec
tion returns. They were bound over in $1,000
each. Arrests are being made in other locali
ties.. . .The Alabama Legislature met at Mont
gomery on the 10th. Anderson (Dem.) was
chosen Speaker of the House. The
Nrth Carolina Legislature met on
the lCth. Col. R. F. Armfleld was
elected President of the Senate
Associated Press dispatches from Little
Rock Ark., on the 10th, states that
only one arrest had been made, that of
Price, of the Republican, charged with
conspiracy, and he had been discharged,
the Judge holding that while the evidence
showed a conspiracy it did not sufficiently
connect Trice with it to hold him. The
Sheriff had been unable to find Smith or
Wheeler. The most perfect quiet prevailed
throughout the State, and there was no talk,
as reported in Washington dispatches, about
Smith's establishing a Government at Pine
Bluff, Helena, or elsewhere. If Smith had
any adherents they did not make themselves
known. Gov. Garland had sent a communi
cation to the Legislature stating what action
he had taken, and asking an amendment to
the law to enable him to offer a larger reward
than $200 for the arrest of Smith and Wheeler.
Wednesday, Nov. 18. The English
Government has decided to fit out another
Polar expedition The Arkansas case was
before the Cabinet in Washington on the 17th.
The President is reported as saying that he
will not interfere except to keep the peace un
til he is further advised of the facts The
steamer Empire, heavily loaded with sugar,
sank suddenly in the Mississippi River
at New Orleans ou the 17th, and from
thirty to forty lives are reported to have
been lost A Little Rock (Ark.)
special of the 17th to the Chicago
Tribune says Henry M. Cooper, Secre
tary of the Republican State Central
Committee, denied the authorship of a tele
gram received at Washington and purporting
to come from him, in which it was stated that
many editors of Republican papers had been
arrested without warrant, charged with trea
son, and imprisoned and refused bail ; that the
Republicans were organizing for self-defense,
and unanimously sustained the claims of
Smith to the Governorship, and that the peo
ple did not sustain Garland. He knew of but
one man who had been arrested. The Asso
ciated Press dispatches of the 17tn say that
all was quiet throughout the State, and that
in no locality were there any disturbances, or
any attempt to organize men in the interest
of Smith. Judge Poland, of the Congressional
Investigating Committee at Little Kock, had
been summoned to Washington by Atty.-Gcn.
Williams. Neither Smith nor Wheeler had
yet been found. A Washington dispatch of the
lth says Senator Dorsey had received a dis
patch from the editor of the Rcjwhlican, at Lit
tle Rock, in which it is stated that " business
throughout the State is almost entirely sus
pended, and the White Leaguers' militia roam
at large. If we arc to fight we wish to know
it. The earlier the matter is settled the better
it will be Tor all." Gov. Garland had tele
graphed to the effect that all was quiet, and
that he would have no collision unless it was
forced upon him; that all classes of people
all parties were supporting him.
TiiuitsDAY, Nov. 19. Thirty-two of the
Turks charged with the recent murders of
Montenegrin Christians have been convicted
and sentenced to twenty ycar' imprisonment
.A Washington telegram says Senator
Dorsey denies having received certain dis
patches purporting to come to him lrom
H. M. Cooper, Secretary of the Arkansas Re
publican Central Committee, relating to
affairs in that State. He disclaims the re
sponsibility for their statements.... The suit
of Theodore Tilton against Henry Ward
Beecher has been set down for Dec. 8 A
Madison dispatch says full official returns of
the Eighth Wisconsin Congressional District
give McDill, Republican, 0,444, and Cate, Re
former, 9,446. This docs not include
the vote of the First Ward of the
city of Grand Rapids, nor that of the
town of Lincoln, which . gave majori
ties for McDill. The rejection of these pre
cincts will be investigated.... Two men,
named George Black and E. J. Hackney,
have been arrested as being concerned with
Monroe in the recent robbery of the Ameri
can Express office in Cincinnati. All three
of the parties have confessed, and a
colored man named Briggs has also been ar
rested and confessed to having helped to
conceal the stolen money. All but about
$9,000 of the sum stolen has been recovered
....The Arkansas Legislature has passed a
bill authorizing Gov. Garland to offer a re
ward of $1,000 for the arrest of criminals,
which amount will probably be offered ff
the apprehension each of Messrs. Smith and
Wheeler.
Friday, Nov. 20. According to a
Hendaye dispatch of the 19th the Cartists
have again been driven from before Irun..
It is reported that King Coffee, of the Ashan-
tees, has been dethroned and his nephew in
stalled in his stead The Illinois Anti-Se
cret Society Association recently held a con
vention in Chicaeo, at which resolutions
i . . . ,
were auopteu condemnatory ol all se
cret organizations.... The Nevada Legis
lature is composed as follows: Sen
ateRepublicans, IS; Democrats, 7. As
sembly Democrats, 10: Republicans, 31;
independents, 3 F. W. Peyton, of Hunting.
I ton, W. Va-, recently claimed to have in tea
possession a boy resembling little Charlie
Ross, the missing Philadelphia boy, who had
been left with him by a family passing through
that town. Peyton said he would give up the
boy for $5,000. ...Chamberlain's majority for
Governor of South Carolina Is 10,067 ...A
Little Rock special of the 19th states that all
tho State officer", of Arkansas elected on
the ticket with Licut.-Gov. Smith, except the
Secretary or State and Attorney-General hid
telegraphed to the President Indorsing Smith's
application for recognition a Governor. A
St. Louis dispatch o't the same date announces
the arrival there of Judge Poland, who is rep
resented as saying that he regarded the issue
affecting the validity of the new Constitution
of Arkansas as one of very grave importance,
and, as it is a strictly legal question, he gave
no opinion whatever respecting it.
THE MARKETS.
Novemeb!,1874.
NKW YORK.
Cotton. Middling upland, 14&14c.
Lit Stock. Beof Cattle $10.0oai3.30. Uors
Dressed, $8.-it8.75; Lite, $0.7ja7.12V4. Sheep
Live, $4.7o36.i5.
" BazADBTcrrs. Flour Good to choice, $3.1.VTi
5.85; white wheat extra, $5.756.1 3. Wheat No.
2 Chicaso, $1.0831.10; Iowa sprit);. $1.0tK&1.09;
No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.1.31.14. ltye West
ern and Sfite, 9K3J7c. Barley $1.30&1.35.
Corn Mixed Western aHoat, 9il4.ic. Oats
New Western, 66664e.
Provisions. Pork New Mess. fJO.7521.00.
Lard 1 54 1 5'4 c. Cheese &155i c.
Wool. Common to extra, 45tS8c.
CHICAGO.
Lnrs Stock. Beeves -Choice, $5.750.10;
good, $4."rxSS-25; medium, $4.00(34.50; bntct
crs' stock, $3.50(34.00; stock cattle, $2.50
8.75. Hogs Live, $li.W&7.40. Sheep Good
to choice, $4.00a4.75.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 32t&38c. Eggs
Fresh, 2$&25c. Cheese New York factory,
1516c; Western, ll15c Pork New
Mess, $19.0019.1J'4. Lard 13i&13Xc.
Brbadstufps. Flonr White winter extra,
$1.756.25; spring extra, $4.005.5O. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, 8S88V4c. Corn-No. 2, 78
795C Oats No. 2, 40?a504C. ;Barlcy No. 2,
$1.2!X31.29'J. Rye No. 2, 90,90!ic.
Wool- Tub-washed, 4557c; fleece, washed,
40 17c; fleece, unwashed, 2734c.
Lumber. First Clear, $50.00o2.00; Second
Clear, $16.00 18.00; Common Boards, $11.00
13.00; Fencing, $11.0012.00; "A" Shingles,
$3.003.25; Lath. $2.0O2.25.
CINCINNATI.
Bbbadstuits. Flour $5.005.50. Wheat Red,
$1.04Q1.08. Corn New, 6667c. Rye $1.01(3,1.02.
Oats 54 'irsc. Barley No. 1, $1.251.30.
Provisions. Pork $19.7530.0O, Lard
13413!ic.
ST. LOUIS.
LrvK Stock. Beeves Fair to Choice, $4.30
6.00. llofrs Live, $6.75. .50.
BaBADsTurrs. Flour XX Fall, $1.25.50.
Wheat No. 2 Bed Fall, $1.071.07',. Corn-No.
2,New, 7071 !4c. Oats No. 2, 555554c. Rye No.
2, 919Jc. Barley $1.251.30.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $19.7530.00. Lard
13H13?c.
MILWAUKEE.
BRBADSTurrs. Flonr Spring XX, $5.255 50.
Wheat Spring No. 1, $1.00(31.01; No. 2, 91 Vt&
93c. Corn No. 2, 74'i75c. Oats No. 2, 49yt&
50c. Rye No. 1, 893.90c. Barley No. 2, $1.3-3
1.31.
u&inuii.
Brbadsttjjts. Wheat Extra, $1.19ai.l9.
Corn 81&82C. Oats M3&c.
TOLEDO.
BRBADSTtrrrs Wheat Amber Mich., $1.07
1.08; No. 2 Red, $1.071.07'4. Corn
Mixed, New, 69!470c. Oats No. 1, 5454J4c.
CLEVELAND.
BRKADSTcrrs Wheat No. 1 Kcd, $1.121.13;
No. 2 Red, $1.061.07. Corn New, 60;467c.
Oats 5554 56c.
BirrAio.
Livk Stock. Beeves $1.256.50. Ilogs
Live, S3.C07.25. Sheen $3.5X35.00.
EAST LIBERTY.
Lrvs Stock. Beeves Best, $6.256.87',i ; me-
dinm, $5.5036.00. Hogs 1 orkers, $6.50
6.75; Philadelphia, $7.407.65. Sheep Best,
$1.505 00; medium, $3.7o4.23.
Appendix to the Treasurer's Report.
Washington, Nov. 15.
The appendix to Gen. Spinner's report
shows :
RECEIPTS.
Receipts for the fiscal year $761,799,530 88
including loans , -m.i.:j.) in
Customs 163.103.S33 69
Internal revenue lOi.409.TK4 !)
Lands 1.8.-2,4 JH 93
Mixcellancons 40,942,408 84
Repayments, etc., from War De
oartment 4,710,805 37
Repayments, etc., from Navy De
partment ,.H,io3 w
Repayments, etc., from Interior
Department s-io,:i4j co
EXPENijITURES.
The expenditures were 2743,247,171 35
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inciliumir hue vuiiii;i-imii ui cus
toms 21.061,804 93
Ialernal revenue 5,799.954 11
Interior Department S7.8.srl 80
Interior Department, civi 4,876.673 46
War Department 47.( 24,732 59
Navv Department :SM.277.346 06
Treannry Department 48,465,953 01
Diplomatic j .ii l.iia
Quarterly salaries 607.103 18
Judiciary 3.4rt).: 08
Fublic debt 531,3e8,633 13
The balance in the Treasury June 30
was $150,731,53:3.03, against f 131,178,137.-
31 June 30, 1873. The net receipts of
the Postoflice Department were fll.'J'JO,-
815.33; expenditures, $11,5(50,216.
THANKSGIVING DAT.
Tub happy day has come again,
The happiest of the vear!
When at the old, familiar home
Loved faces reappear.
Here gray-haired grandpa sits enthroned
The eovereign of the day 1
While all proclaim with one accord
Ilis undisputed sway!
No blither spirit moves the game
Nor stirs to ready mirth
The frolic-loving bovs and girls
Who gather round the hearth,
And linten to the olden tales
Which children love so well.
And every grandpa iu the land
As dearly loves to tvll I
Dear grandma's hands are quite too full
As hostess of the day
To join in grandpa's laughing talcs
And merry freaks of play.
Her placid face is full of love
And gratitude and peace.
Once more to meet them all before
Her ministrations cease.
And so. with merry games and tales.
The hours pa s swiftly on.
Till, crowning clement of all.
The dinner time has come.
hen all with glad alacrity
Obey the welcome sound
And gather round the table where
Thanksgiving joys abound!
Oh. worthy scions of our race!
Forefathers passed away!
Could you but see us celebrate
This glad Thanksgiving Day,
You"d pardon all our wanderings
From puritanic folds
And think that still some zealous hearts
Tho nineteenth century holds!
-J. R. X. Turner, in Youth' Companion.
A verdant brideirroom in a citv hotel
reports the New York Mail, called the
waiter to hi mat dinner, put his finger to
his lips, and made a noise between his
teeth indicative of a profound silence,
the blushing bride doing the same. The
waiter stared. 1 he bride and bridegroom
repeated the noise in a louder manner
than at first, and thus caused the other
guests at the table to cease conversation
and gaze inquiringly toward them, llere
the head waiter came up, and to him the
subordinate remarked that he evidently
had a drunken or crazy man to wait upon.
44 What do you want? What do vou mean
by making that noise?" asked the head
waiter. "Thunder," yelled the bride
groom, 44 can't you fellows understand? I
want a bottle of champagne for me and
Maria"
Ix Scotland, on the ordination of elders,
a grave oia doctor delivered the charge
44 Me brethrin, rule weel, rule weel, but
rule sae that nae a man or bairn r the
kirks will know that they are ruled. Me
brethrin, pray God to give ye common
sense. It is a chief grace o' an elder."
HErZIBAlPS TURKEYS
A MorJ' Ol" Thaiikftgf vlus Day.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTOar.
It is all sixteen years ago. Had the lives
of the turkeys been spared, as they were not,
iney wouia an now he sweet sevcuicen, iney
miirht have rivaled iir size the sixty-pound
turkeys which Jossclyn saw here two hundred
years ago.
But their lives were not spared.
The lirst I heard of the turkeys was as I
came down from the pulpit on the Sunday
morning before Thanksgiving. Miss Maria
Jennings had worked her way to the neigh
borhood of the pulpit stairs, and beckoned
me. I joined her.
44 1 wanted to ask If j ou remember Hcpzi
bah Brown V"
"Of course I do," said I; "the girl with
the blind mother."
14 The same," said Mis3 Maria. 44 You know
he is in my Bible-clasSi I had thought that
it would be a nice thing to suggest
to the other girls, who have not the
slightest idea of what hardship is (as how
should they ?) to suggest to them that we
would surprise Hepsio and her mother with
a Thanksgiving dinner. Poor souls, I do not
know how else they should have one. You
do not sec any harm, do you?"
"Harm? Not the least," said I; " but a
great deal of good, rather."
44 She will not be offended or hurt, will
she?"
" I never saw that she was a fool," said I.
44 If she is we had better all of us flud It out.
I Bhould say, though, that never anything
can be amiss when simpleness and duty ten
der it,"
Miss Maria laughed and went her ways;
and, when the Bible-class gathered, she pro
posed her little plan to those of the girls who
came in before Hcpsibali Brown did, and
bade them propose it to those who came in
after her. They were all pleased with the
proposal, and as Monday ana Tuesday passed
they brought round to Miss Maria more
money for their contributions to the turkey
than she really knew well what to do with. I
met her Wednesday morning and she told
me so. But she said she had bought her
turkey and had ordered home with him
squashes and apples and cranberries and
a oag oi nour. men, as eruiiucrnes
were useless without suirar and Ties
profitless without cheese, 6hc had added
twenty ounds of sugar and live of cheese.
She had a little money left, and she was going
to send a little tea to the old lady.
CHAPTER 1L
THE tUnKEVS ARKIVE.
Hepaibah Brown was most briefly described.
as the reader has seen, " as the girl who had
the blind mother." Her mother had lost her
sight long, long before I knew anything
about either of them; nor do I know how she
lost iU I first found them living in two
rooms, of which Hepzibah had to pay the
rcut weekly, and for which she provided the '
ways and means by tho most difficult
and trying works and uavs. fche went
out to "days' works," technically so
called. She occasionally contracted to take
in babies by the month, iu which case she
invariably spent on their milk much more
than all the money paid to her; and in a sharp
strain 6he took in slop-work to sew upon. But
we all knew that times were indeed hard when
she came to this resource.
For her mother there were several sources
of revenue which required nursin g and tending
worthy of lluskisson or V anstittart. lucre
was the monthly payment or one dollar ana
sixty-two cents to each of the descendants of
Jairus Hotehkiss. Y'ou had to go for this
money at quarter before eleven on the 6econa
t riday before the third I hursday in the month.
44 It would derange my accounts," said the
lady treasurer, 44 if thoy came at any other
time." Then there was a dollar and a half a
month from the Widows' Association. This
you went for in the afternoon of the lirst Sat
urday in the month.- It was steady pay; but
it made It necessary for the old lady to stay in
Boston through all the summer, lor
fear she should lose her " residence."
The Overseers of the Poor of Boston
have similar rules. The old lady drew two
dollars a month from them, I thiuk her hus
band had been a pump and block maker; and
the 44 Seamen's Society," seeing that by vir
tue of the pumps he dealt in water ana by
virtue of the blocks he was conversant with
running rigging, took him on their lists,
with a loyal indinerence to red tape, lor which
I blessed them. That brought in a dollar
and a quarter a month more.
Did I hear you grumbling-, mv dear Tyrus,
because the Golconda and Cra-susberg divid
ed only 5j per cent, in September, while
you had 0 per cent, every six months before
since j"ou can remember? Please spend half
an hour then with a bit of paper arranging
your mouthly personal expenses on such a
6caie or debit mat a little uaiance win De jcii
to you when you have added up these four
credits :
c r.
City of Boston
Jair. Uotchk.
Widows' Association..
Pump fc Block
..$3 00
.. 1 62'4
.. 1 50
.. 1 25
I ask vou to make out this little mouthly
statement of expenses including your share
of two dollars a week rent because the cal
culation of these figures, arranged in differ
ent ways, took up most of the waking hours
of Hepzibah Brown, when she lay awake
et all.
For Hepzibah Brown herself, she tried hard
not to beg, and liked to avail herself of the
public means of culture and enjoyment. She
was much more cheaply dressed than any of
the other girls in Miss Maria's Bible
class. But she loyally came to the Bible
class, and I honored her for it, and
so did Miss Maria. She sometimes indulged
herself in tickets to a course of Lowell lec
tures on the 44 Non-metallic Bodies" or the
41 Correlation of-Forccs." She could get the
tickets by standing in the street in a queue
of half a mile, on her way home from
Jairus Hotehkiss'. And in the evening, at
the lectures, she saw the people. As she
said herself, it saved gas and coal from seven
o'clocK till nine, it was true that the old
lady could no " see the experiments or the
other illustrations. But she liked society,
was glad to be in a crowd; and, as Hepzibah
truly said, it was hard to get her out, and this
was a good excuse for a walk for her.
They kept up, I think, between themselves,
at mot times, the pretense of much more
case of circumstance than ever existed or
had existed. Sometimes there had to be some
such frank exhibit as I have made above.
But in general both of them thought some
thing was going to turn up. They had, as all
cheerful people have, great facility at dis
counting ail their anticipations. And it was
only when some lady visitor of the Hotehkiss
charity or some committee on retrenchment
of the 44 Association" forced Hepzibah to state
the narrowness of her circumstances that she
herself was really aware quite how hard her
case was. She would, as I said, add up her
mother's income in many different ways; but
the result in all was substantially the same.
Still, by casting it up on the basis of a year it
seemed a good deal more than when she did
it monthly. And she, therefore, sometimes
indulged herself in observing that it was
seventy-six dollars and fifty-one cents a year,
and that was a great deal of money,
and that with seventy-six dollars and
tifty-onc cents a great deal can 1k done.
In general they ail'eeted, even with each
other, to be well satisfied with the outlook,
and 6ure that the present hard times would
soon be over, and things in general easier to
everybody
In this mood, on the Wednesday after Miss
Maria made the move about the turkeys in the
Bible-class, Hepzibah said, as she poured out
her second cup of tea, as they lingered at
breakfast :
44 1 don't mean to take much trouble about
Thanksgiving this year. The last time I
wanted a turkey it took a heap of wood and
made me no end of trouble. I was glad o' the
trouble, 'cause I knew poor Jethro 'd have no
turkey anywhere else. And he did take pleas
ure in that turkey, anyway. But Jethro
(well, 1 s'pose Jethro must be in the Sand
wich Islands, mother, now), he won't be
here. And Sally told me she should be out
to Melrose. There won't be nobody but vou
and me, and I don't think it's worth while
bothering about the turkey. I've got to go
at once to help 'em at Miss Scarlett's. They'll
have a heap of people to-morrow, and I told
Miss Scarlett 't, if I could, I'd conic round.
It would be a jjlague to vou to be
fussing over the gravy, if" we had
the turkey; so 1 guess we won't have
none. Wheu I get home from Miss Scarlett's
I'll just roll out a little paste, and I can mix
up and kind o' stew a few-cran'bries 'fore I go
to bed ; and if you'd stone some raisins as
you sit here to day, I'll mix a little plum
pudding to-morrow, and we'll call that our
Thanksgiving."
KThe old lady expressed her entire satisfac
tion ; said she should eat no turkey herself, if
mey uau any; tnai sue uiougut it would be
as much bother to her as it would be to Hep
zibah. And they thus disguised from each
other the truth, which was DCrhat.s well
known to both of them, that a turkey for
inanKsgiving was as unattainable as was
Aladdin's Roc, or a Roc's egg, had they taken
any fancy that way.
At noon the two took another cup of tea
together and each ate i cold sausage. Hep
zibah said she was rather in a hurry to get
round to Miss Scarlett's, because they would
not be able to do nothing till she got there
and would be kinder expecting her. fche
would not get a regular dinner, therefore, at
home, unless her mother particularly wished
it. Her mother repHed that she did not feel
much like eating, and had thought of sug
gesting that they should not set the table for
dinner, but have a bit of bread and butter
and a cup of tea. So they were both satisfied,
or pretended to be, ana Hepzibah went to
Miss Scarlett's.
She had not been gone more than half an
hour when the old lady, sitting in that eternal
darkness, was roused from her after-luncheon
doze by a rap at the door. She cried 44 Come
in!" as loudly as her weak old voice would
say so; and Miss Maria entered, cheerily and
cordially. She was no stranger in the place,
and Mrs. Brown recognized her knock, step,
and voice immediately. Miss Maria was a
little disappointed that she did not find Hep
zibah; but was glad to find she had "got
work." She inquired carefully about Mrs.
Brown's health; and, which was much more
to the poiut, listened faithfully and
patiently to the old lady's answer a
thing philanthropists are not quite so
sure to do as thev are to make proper
inquiries. Miss Maria then said she
thought times were going to mend, and that
it would be a mild winter, and that work
would be more plenty than ever, and that she
thought Hepzibah would have more than she
could do; for Which opinions I am afraid
Miss Maria was largely indebted to a cheer
ful temper. Still, as she held them, in a ' tjr
tain form, I am glad that she expressed t'icm
to poor old Mrs. Brown, who certainly needed
an the comiori sue couia pick up, anu wnose
means of knowing the 44 mind of the street"
on such subjects were limited. Then Miss
Maria said she could not make a long can, and
came to the proper object of her visit.
She went to the door and, with her own red
right hand, brought in the turkey, which she
had waiting there for a surprise. Ah! me.
There was no need leaving it outside to sur
prise old Mrs. Brown. Miss Maria might have
brought in a feather-bed on her back and the
old lady would not have know nit iu that eter
nal midnight.
As it was Miss Maria brought in her plump
eleven-pounder and put it on the table at the
old lady's side, and explained that the young
ladies at the Bible-class had arranged the din
ner as a surprise for Hepzibah, and made as
it 6he bad nerscit notinng to ao witn me ai
fair. Then she tapped at the window,
and Phineas came up-stairs from the
doorway, where he had been wait
ing for the proper moment in the
surprise, with the sugar and tea and cran
berries and squashes, the cheese and apples,
and the bag of flour. She explained w bat
these "tixin's" were, and was about to leave
somewhat abruptly, when the old lady, who
was really very thankful and behaved very
sweetly through the whole, asked her if
Phineas would mind putting all the things
into the store-closet, and laying the turkey
on a certain shelf which she described, high
above the highest flight of the cat in the back
entry. For, she said, it occurred to her that
it would be very good fun to surprise Hep
zibah when she came back from Miss Scar
lett's. I ought, perhaps, to mention in this
place that it was now forty years since 44 Miss"
Scarlett had been un'ted in marriage to the
Hon. Le Fevre Scarlett she having been
Miss Lilian White and that the title 44 Miss"
was merely the form used by the aborigines
in describing the condition of honorable
wedlock.
Phineas gladly fell in with all Mrs. Brown's
devices, and the stores were concealed ac
cording to her order.
She had relapsed into stoning the raisins,
after knitting a few rounds on along stocking
which 44 Miss" Plumptre had 6ent Uie yarn
for, and which was to be sent to a Maori
chieftain when it was finished and when its
companion was finished, when 6he was
aroused again by the sharp closing of the
outer door down-stairs. There was no room
for question as to the step on the stairs this
time. Men and cngels knew that step as that
of Ofticer Fosdick, who was this week
on the day patrol in Lucas street;
and Mrs. Brown, who was neither a man nor
an angel, knew it as well as if she had been
both at once. Hastily she ran through the
little catalogue of her sins and Hepzibah's,
inquiring which of them fell within the
category of crimes prohibited by the law.
She was certain that they had not thrown
marbles at an auctioneer, as Harry Griggs did,
and was sent to Westborough for doing it.
Certainly they had not lifted ribbons from
Mudge's, as that odious Miss Farrelly did, in
the next house, when the neighborhood was
disgraced by her arrest. She knew that the
pipes and faucets had not been protected
against the cold; but she did not believe that
there had been any frost vet hard enough to
catch them, and she and Hepsie were, as
usual, running for luck in the hope that there
might not be. As Otliccr Fosdick stumped
up the stairs Mrs. Brown thus exhausted her
catalogue of crime, and with conscious inno
cence uttered a severe 44 Come in!"
"Ilowdo, Miss Smith 7" said Officer Fos
dick, civilly enough. 44 Thankee, mum, I'm
pretty well myself. Isn't your daughter to
home ?"
44 No, sir," said Mrs. Brown, still with con
scious innocence and greatly aggrieved.
44 Hepzibah is not at home." Was she to re
joice or not at her absence? Suppose Hep
zibah wrere to be arrested at some distance
from home, what w-ould become of Mrs.
Brown ?
44 Sorry, mum," said Officer Fosdick; 44 but
it's just as well, seeing you are." Horrible
suspense to Mrs. Brown! Suppose she were
arrested and hauled to prison, as Paul and
Silas were at Philippi, what would happen
when Hepzibah returned?
But the suspense did not last many seconds.
Otliccr Fosdick continued, in a tone which
showed that he was well pleased:
4 The Captain sends his compliments, muro,
to you and your daughter, mum; aud here's a
turkey, muni, for Thanksgiving. There's been
a little subscription at the station, mum, to
give turkeys to them as might not well, as
might not have thought to buy 'cm, mum;
and the Captain said himself, mum, that he
wanted to be sure you had one, mum."
It was well that the officer's speech was
long, for Mrs. Brown thought, at the begin
ning, that he was announcing the same tur
key which Miss Jennings had brought, But
she recovered herself without betraying the
fact that another turkey had arrived, which
might have mortified him. She thanked him
very courteously and then, at his request,
44 hefted" the turkey; the only way by w hich
she could judge what a 44 noble critlur it was."
She then asked him if he would be so kind
as to put it into the closet, which she pointed
out to him, next the stove.
Officer Fosdick did so. If he were a little
surprised at seeing the squashes and parcels
which Phineas had left there, he said noth
ing. 44 I've hung her up, mum, on a nail.
They is in the top shelf, munr," said he. And
Mrs. Brown thanked him, and he bade fare
well. She fell back upon her knitting and upon
planning out the devices by which she would
make of the two turkeys a surprise to
Hepzibah when she returned. But she had
not knit twenty times round when she heard
the outer door open and shut agaiu. Nobody
ever rings at these lodging-houses; indeed,
the bell-wires were long since broken at all
of them. The step this time was wholly un
known to Mrs. Brown. But the stranger did
not pass the door, but knocked loudly.
44 Come in."
"Do Mrs. and Miss Brown live here?" said
the gray-coated coachman, whip in hand,
who entered.
"I am Mrs. Brown. My daughter is not at
home."
"Just as well, ma'am," and the man disap
peared. But it was to return in a moment.
"Mrs. Cradock sends her compliments, and
hopes Mrs. Brown aud Miss Brown will have a
pleasant Thanksgiving. And Mrs. Cradock
sends a turkey and a few other things. Where
shall l leave them, ma'am?"
"Oh! just put them on the table. Thank
you kindly. And tell Mrs. Cradock that we
are very much obliged, I am sure. I hope
she's very well."
" Thank you, ma'am, she's very well. Good-
by, ma'am. I can't leave my horses." And
the gray coachman, who to Mrs. Brown was
no more gray than green, disappeared.
44 Well, now," said she, as she crossed and
44 hefted" turkey No. 3, and smelled at the
heavy package of Bohea. and did the same bv
the two squash pies that the man had left
44 well, now, how shall I keep these out of
liepzibahs sightr' t arefully and success-
luuy she opened a crvpt under the sink.
moved the pots all to one end, hung the
turkey on a nail she remembered there, and
then one by one she pi iced the other bouuties
iu ue siore-cioset, as sue might.
A good deal flustered, she returned to her
chair to find that there were but three
needles iu her stocking.
This was a serious matter. And Mrs.
Brown was on her knees on the floor, groping
for the fourth needle, when slie heard an
other rattat-tat at the door. She hurried to
her feet as soon as she could and gave per
mission to enter.
It was Ilitty. Hitty was wholly out of
breath. 44 Miss Brown,"l was standing up to
the head of the court, and a lady come by and
asked if I knew where Miss Hepzibah Brown
lived. And I said it was No. 7, up the street,
up one flight. And she says, says she: 4 I'm
a little late for my car,'" says she just so.
4 Will you just carry this turkey to Miss
Hepzibah Brown, with my love? And then
she stopped, says she: 4 It's Miss Brown that
has a blind mother. And I 6aid yes, Miss
Hepsy Brown had a blind mother. And she
gin me ten cents for bringing it, and here it
is."
"Why, Hitty," said the old lady, amazed,
44 who was the lady ?"
44 Don't know," said Hitty. 44 1 asked her,
says I: 4Who6hallI say it isr says I. And
she 6avs, says she: Oh! she'll know, says
she.' flo she called the Norfolk House car,
that was passing, and she got in, she did;
and I came up here with the turkey, and here
it Is. It's real heavy, Miss Brown, und it's a
beauty. I wish vou coHld see It, Miss Brown.
But do just heft'it."
So Mrs. Brown 44 hefted" the turkey, as he
had hefted three others.-
" And now, Hitty, will you help me look for
my knitting-needlei I was on the Moor look
ing for it."
44 It's pretty dark this side of the room,
Miss Brown. Might I light a lamp."
Poor Mrs. Brown ! It was ns light to her as
it was bv the window. Hitty lighted her
lamp, and went on her knees for the explora
tion. Kibing, a little cxnaustea iy ine dcihi
ing, she cried out: 44 Here it is, Miss Brown."
44 Where was it, mjdcar child?'
44 Oh! jist behind you, mum. Good-by."
Hitty's grammar was imperfect; but she
had native politeness enough not to tell the
old lady that the lost needle was stuck in her
back hair. Unless some one reads to her this
story; she will never know where that needle
was till she dies.
She took the needle and worked faithfully
on upon the Maori cuicitain s 6tocKing.
Whether more turkeys would arrive she won
dered. Whether 6he would secrete number
four, cr leave it where Hitty laid it. Finally
she hung it on a nail behind the door by
which Hepzibah would enter. So she knitted
and dozed, and dozed and knitted; When
the somewhat shaky clock which we then had
on our church-tower struck seven sue laid
down the Maori's garment, filled the teapot,
put it on the stove, and filled up with kindling
aud wood. To say true, Mrs. Brown had
wrapped her shawl tight round her as the
afternoon passed, but had made no more fire
thau Hepzibah had left. She knew that Hep
zibah might leave 44 Miss Scarlett's" as early
as seven.
But it was eight and after before Hepzibah
came. The tea-kettle had boiled long before
(or the water in it), and had been set back to
the rear of the stove for a decorous simmer
there. At last the well-known step sounded
on the stair, and the hard-worked, long-
waited-for absentee returned. She slyly laid
down in the sink something heavy, which she
had in her hand, and came to her mother and
kissed her; a token wholly unusual and un
expected in that establishment, in which no
sentiment was ever wasted.
44 What do vou think, mamma dear? I've
changed my mind, and we will have a Thanks
giving dinner after all."
"flow did 6tie Know it ? mis was .urs.
Brown's only thought.
" lou sec we had to ny round at miss Scar
lett's, I tell yon. They're going to have all his
brothers, and her sisters, and two judges from
tingiand, and l dunno wnai an, to uinncr
goin' to set the table cornerwue in the big
parlor of all; and then they have a late tea
and supper together, and have all the cousins
'way from West Newton and Brahntry seventy-four
in all. Jane Scarlettt says to me.
says she: 4Therll be seventy-four in all, if
the weather's fine; 60 Miss By field ken bring
in her twins,' says she. And their ramous
Mrs. Midge, the grand cook that they spoke
for three months ago she that makes their
Marlboroughs and their open-top apple-pies
she hadn't come near 'em wheu I got there;
and Miss Scarlett and Jane Scarlett had to
take hold themselves, and I had to spring to.
I tell you; and wc have had a smart time or
it since I was here. Well. I had my tea there;
and just as I come away Miss Scarlett says
she: llepsy,' savs she. vou leuoiingonoine
with you,' says she, 4 and let him carry this
turkey,' says she, 4 for your inotncr,' says she,
4 for,' "says she, 4 your mother won't feel like
going out to-morrow, Hepsy,' says she, 4 and
so,' says she, 4 she better have her turkey to
home, Hepoy, says she. 4 She did,' says she.
So here's your turkey, mammy. He's a beauty.
Do just heft him."
And Mrs. Brown hefted the fifth turkey.
She was a little grieved to find the wind, iu a
measure, taken out of her sails; but she con
cealed her grief, and in the darkness Hepiti
bali did not observe her expression. While
she was busying herself in replenishing the
fire, Mrs. Brown crossed the room and lifted
down No. 4. so that he lav by the side of No.
5. When Hepsy rose from her pulling and
blowing and lighted the lamp, she saw in a
moment there were twins where she had laid
but one turkey; and then the old lady was
well satisfied w ith her amazement.
It is easy to imagine how she went on
how, when Hepsy opened the closet to find
No; - and the stores which surrounded him,
the good old soul li-icl one triumph more;
how then, by clumsy arli".c'cs, she made her
look under the s-ink f'r No. 0; and at last
fairly sent her into the back entry to see No.
1 upon his supra-feline shelf. A jolly even
ing had Mrs. Brown and Hcpzi.-uh, with
their jorums of tea from Miss Mari.i's paper,
and with the successive surprises.
They had both gt to bed, and tin; light
was blown out, when the outer door swung
open again and one more tramp was to be
heard on the stairway.
"Gracious mercy! More turkeys!" cried
Mrs. Brown.
44 No," groaned Hepsy, 44 it is not turkeys
this time. It's that drunken Macllonnell
thundering up to beat bis wife again."
Drunk or sober, the Thunderer stopped at
Hcpsy's door and knocked.
"Who's there T"
44 Adams Express. Parcel to be left to
night. Marked 4 without fail,'" replied the
Thunderer, more good-naturedly than was to
be expected.
Hepsy was striking a match. She arranged
some hurried and superficial toilet, and in a
couple of minutes opened a crack of the
door.
44 You must give mc more room, mum, or I
can't get him in," said tLe good-natured
Thunderer.
"Ifitaf Who is he?"
But, as Hepsy opened the door wider, he
appeared. The largest turkey of all, with his
wings not clipped off.
44 Orders are strict to be delivered to-night.
Train late, mum hopped a frog at Wilming
ton Junction. Guess the turkey's for Thanks
giving." This last with a broad grin, as if the pur
pose might be questionable.
Sure enough, to Hepzibah's wondering eyes
there appeared a large label: 44 To Miss Hep
zibah Brown, No. 7 Lucas street, second floor,
with the respects of Ezekiel Hopkins. To he
delivered this evening, WITHOUT FAIL."
The gigantic letters at the close were enough
to have alarmed, or at least excited, any
reasonable expressman ; nor had they failed.
Now Ezekiel Hopkins was a tinman from
Ipswich, who had been on the steamer
44 Creole" when Hepsy and her mother joined
in the Foresters' excursion in the harbor iu
September.
44 Please receipt, mum," said the well-satisfied
Thunderer. And with trembling hand
Hepzibah signed the receipt in his book. She
bade the Thuudcrer good-night, and retired
this time to unbroken slumbers.
Yes, Mathildc, to slumbers. She had had a
turkey sent her from Ezekiel Hopkins. But
she had scoured floors all the morning and
worked loyally at the Scarlett's till near eight
iu the evening, and so she went to sleep
soundly, and would have done so had Ezekiel
Hopkins sent three turkeys.
CHAPTER III.
THANKSGIVING MOHNING.
I am ashamed to confess that wher, the
next Sunday, Hepzibah Brown gave me the
heads of this 6tory, briefly, as we left the
church together, I was carnal enough to say:
44 Well, I suppose Silas Brackett was glad
to take off your hands all the turkeys you
could not use.
Now Silas Brackett kept the "provision
store," as we Yankees call a small meat mar
ket, at the corner.
"I dare say." said Hepzibah, as proudly as
Juno; 44 but he had no turkeys of mine to
sell."
And I was thoroughly shamed when she
added:
44 1 knew plenty of poor people that had no
inanksgiving dinner.
The emphasis on 7r was superb. For
once Hepsy had had the satisfaction of dis
pensing charity; and no Mrs. Cradock, or
Officer Fosdick, or Maria Jennings of them
all would discharge that office more grandly
nor more kindly than she.
She told me nothing about it; but thcro
was little which passed in Lucas street, or
Carney place, or Orange lane in those days
which was not reported before the week was
over to one or other of the saints who were
at work in our sewing-room, and without
much difficulty I was able to patch out the
story I now tell you.
Hepsy and her mother slept late on Thanks
giving morning. There was no 44 day's work"
to be grateful for, at which one mutt report
at seven o'clock, breakfast already eaten,
Hepsy took the good of her In-d, for once, and
then made a tire lavishly. She had a week's
provant in the house, and that was a very long
forclook for her. A sumptuous breakfast 6lie
aud Mrs. Brown made; and then llepsy as
sumed the Lady Bountiful, as if she had been
born to the position.
44 1 hate to leave you, mother; but it's
Thanksgiving Day, and I think, before
meeting, I'll just step round into Orange
lane aud see how those poor Flannagans
get on. I hadn't any time to go and see them
yesterday. We shan't wain, to put our turkey
in the oven before eleven. I'll just Mull' him
and get him ready now, und then I'll be back
in time to put him in. Perhaps you would
not mind pounding the cracker."
All this Without the slightest allusion to the
theory of yesterday morning's breakfast, that
the roasting of the turkey would In a useless
bother
So they quickly got the great fowl ready,
and then llepsy arrayed herself in her Sun
day's best for her visit to the Flannagans.
Ah, me! That was what the philanthropists
are apt to say is 44 not a good case." Indeed,
it was not a good case. Hepsy went in cor
dially, but with a consciousness of her dignity
and position, and of the distinction which
must be preserved between the classes of
society. Mrs. Flannagau, careworn and
wretched, welcomed her and wiped the scat of
the only chair with her apron. Hepsy in
quired by name after the children, and then
how Mike wao doing. - 44 How do you do?"
means one thing, my dear Mrs. Whitehead or
my dear Mrs. Lovechild, when Fanny comes
running into your parlor and say, 44 How do
vou do?"' to you. But When you ask how
Mike Flannagan is doing the Question means
simply is he getting along without making a
beast or himseir or no. Alas: mikc was not
doing well. He had assisted in a turkey
raffle the night before to such purpose that he
had spent all the money which they would ad
vance him at Hinckley's, that he had won no
turkey, and that he had been brought back at
one in the morning by BrlU and Flinders, who
were only not quite so drunk as he was. Mrs.
Flannagan pointed sadly into the dark alcove,
on the straw on the bottom of which Mike
was sleeping off his whisky, much as a pig
might sleep in the covered part of his sty.
44 Too bad." said Hepsy. 44 Too bad, Mary.
Hanging is not good enough for them that
give him the liquor. But he's well at home
now. I'll come round in the morning with
Mac, and we'll make bini take the pledge be
fore he goes out. Don't you say a word to
liim to-day. I come 'round because I want
Larry for an hour or two; and if you will let
him come with me he shall bring you a nice
turkey for your Thanksgiving dinner. So do
you take heart, Mary, and you shall have a
good, pleasant Thanksgiving after all. You
see my turkey raffle turned out bcWer than
Mike's."
Poor Mary would not laugh; but she gave
her consent gladly enough to Larry's going
with llepsy, and llepsy started in search of
him among the boys who were 6kating on
the frozen puddle behind the stables.
Larry, as need hardly be said, was im
mensely excited by the commission. He
borrowed Hiram Flinders' four-wheel when
he found what was in the wind; went back
with Hepsy to Lucas street, took in his
freight, and decorously accompanied her with
as much dignity as Mrs. Cradock's coach
man would have shown on the morning's ex
pedition. First, they came back to his moth
er's; and Mrs. Flannagan had to take a reg
ular talking to from Lady Bountiful os to
how the turkey was to be stuffed and basted.
Let us trust that she obeyed the Injunctions.
Then they went to little Mrs. Serz, in the eel
lar in Castle street. Hepsy worked her way
In with some difficulty, for the muslin skirt
of Gertrude MacFlimsey hung across the
room from one side to another, as it was dry
ing. In the window corner Mrs. Serz was
doing crimping, or fluting, or clear starching,
or some deed without a name.
44 Good morning, Miss Serz."
44 Oaten Jforirn, fjuten Morijen."
"A nice day for Thanksgiving, Miss Serz."
44 Xieht verxtche, nivltt verstfif."
44 Glad to see you so well. But it's a shame
you have to work on Thanksgiving."
4A"u'i verxtehe, nirht verxtehe."
"Thank you kindly, she's very well. We
had a turkey we could not use, Mrs. Serz, and
I thought you might like it."
Mrs. Serz was a little amated by this time,
and looked for Constance, who could inter
pret a little. But Hepsy was before her, and
called in Larry.
44 Here's the turkey. Miss Serz. And if you
have gof a little cracker you can pound it
with sweet majorrum. weunnK mat, iihikcs
better stuffing; in our country than bread
and onions do!" This last she said very loud.
from the feat- that it might not be entirely
intelligible.
Mrs. Serz looked with amazement at the
turkey, wiped her hands and 44 hefted" him,
and said:
14 Itanke, danke."
" I sav w ithout onions. Onions arc better
with geese. But I put in this little paper of
sweet majorum. It is some I brought from
Tuxbury." This last very loud, as Mrs. Serz
seemed somewhat doubtful.
" Jhtr.A-e'-'lankv" said that lady again.
And Hepsy withdrew. Larry followed,
crestfallen. 44 Why did she sav 4 donkey' ?" he
asked Miss Hepsy, meekly. But Miss Hepsy
returned no answer.
44 Larry," said she, after a little considera
tion, 44 wc must go next to Phil Regans, and
then we will come back to Suffolk street, to
them F.vctallians."
To Phil Regan's attic they repaired, there
fore. Phil was not at home. He was black
ing shoes at the Albany Station. But Phils
smart little sister Florence was in, and the
other two little ones. No school. So Hepsy
took off her bonnet and shawl, mixed the
cracker crumbs to suit herself, and explained
carefully to I lorence how she w istied to have
the turkey basted, and with her own lianas
put It into the pan and put the pan into the
oven, giving Florence strict directions how to
tend it and watch over it till Phil returned.
Brave Phil Regan, the head of that house
hold. He was then just fourteen years old.
At the Evetallians much such a scene
transpired as at Mrs. Serz', Hepsy being
wholly ignorant of any dialect of the Tuscan
tongue; and the Eyet'alliuns, who had come
on from New York only ten days before,
equally ignorant of English. But there was
no misunderstanding Miss Hcpsy's kindness
of intention; and, as she spoke very loud
here, it is to be hoped that the Evetallians
understood the greater part of her directions
to them. Anvwav, the two women, with
many 44 tivzie," took the turkey as gently as
if it had been a baby, and Hepsy, in a thor
ough examination of the attic, well-nigh
empty, was soon satisfied that no one had
been before her there. Nay, she even won
dered whether in the calendar of these poor
people the name of "Thanksgiving" had ever
come in before. But by mentioning a aui
ticiently loud she felt sure that she should
fix it in their mind-?.
As they went back toward Lucas street,
Larry following bchiud, a carriage, driving
fast, passed them.
44 .Miss Hens v. Miss Hepsy!" cried Larry,
out of breath. "Sure as I live, there's your
mother goin' to ride.
"Nonsense. Lurry. None of your stuff."
44 1 say. Miss lf psy, it was your mother,
sure as l live and urcunic.
44 Ilold vour tongue, Lurrv."
And hc'ueld it.
But when Hepsy had climbed the stairway
to her own home "sure enough the bird had
flown. Mrs. Brown was not there. Nobody
was there.
Hepsy ran into the bedroom in a fright.
Vo mother there. She came back to Larry
and questioned him. He was staunch in
R!ivin-r that the old ladv was in the kcrridge.
Hepsy returned amazed to the room which
her mother had not left w ithout her for five
ve.irs and more.
As she entered it by one door the door to
the back passage opened also and two fresh,
pretty girls came out, one oearing auss
Vari:i' turkcv in state and the other follow
ing with a dredging-box and an armful of
Other cooking tools.
44 Oh! Hepsy, you have caught us. That's
too bad!"
Anrl thcr all laii"-bed heartilv.
It was Ruth Faxon and Fanny Melchtr.
Thcv had come round with Mrs. Granger, re
solved to make Mrs. Brjwn and Hepsy go off
to rueetincr w hile thcv cooked the turkey
Hepsy was to be free from care that day, if it
could be managed.
"And now, you provoking old thing, you
went and staid out till the bell had done toX
lng, and you have spoiled all. But we dressed
up your "dear old mother and Mrs. Granger
has carried her away; and don't you think,
Hepsy, now, that you bad better go, too,
and tell us what the text Is?"
"Fiddlesticks for the text," said Hepsy,
hangingup her go-to-meeting shawl and bvn
net in her chamber, and coming out with her
sleeves rolled up, us if the too were going into
action.
44 What do you mean by interfering wjtl
other people's work?" said Fanny; mid she
took her fast by both arms aud pushed her
back into her mother's deep iirm-chair.
"There, you provoking old thing, if you do
mean to stay and spy on us, sit there, and see
if we do not know how to do it right. You
are a tine lady to-day, just rccocring from a
fit of neuralgia, and you have, just stepped into
your kit lu n for a minute to see if these two
girls that have just come down from Nova
Scotia and want a place together know henna
or not. Oh, dear! I have not. had such u
lark since we were all at the Winthrop to
gether." The Winthrop, dear Matilda, was not a hotel,
but a school, where these three girls bad
studied arithmetic, side by side, under Miss
Barry's eye, w hen they were all fourteen years
old.
And a genuine lark they had of it. Neatly
and deftly these two girls prepared and baked
the turkey, txilel the squash, baked the pot a
toes, thickened the gravy, sweetened the cran
berries to Hcpsy's taste, and, in short, made
all things ready "for the dinner. They asked
her for her orders sometimes; but when she
herself undertook todo anything one or other
of them pushed her back into the cusy-chair.
Ruth gave her a smelling-bottle, which she
raked out from a deep pocket, und folded a
newspaper into a great fan, and made her hold
the fan in one hand and salts In the other.
Hepsy entered into the joke us much as they
did and took airs admirably well.
By the time Mrs. Brown "had come homo tho
dinner was cooked, the table was neatly set,
and everything was ready.
44 llepsy," said the old lady, 44 come here."
And she whispered to her daughter.
llepsy laughed, and suid openly to the girls
that her mother was so much pleased with the
festivity that she wanted to bring out her sil
ver spoons. And, sure enough, the six tea
spoons and the six tablespoons were produced
from the old lady's trunk the one wreck
from old prosperity.
44 1 do not choose to use them every day,"
said Hepsy, laughing; 44 we have s'leh qin-cr
people round us. But to-day mammy feels
grand."
And then the two girls went awny, only
feeling a little dashed, as pretty Ruth Faxon
confessed to me, that they left the two ull
alone.
The minute they were gone, before dinner
liecan. Hcnsv dashed Into the back entry and
seized turkey No. 0, which Fanny had left all
drescd and ready for the oven, put him in a
jiC and slid it into the stove. " 1 m not go
ing to waste this good fire," said she. "And
I like a cold turkey about as well ss I do
a warm one. mis will ao lor ouuuay a uinncr."
The old ladv said that, of the two, sho w aa
not mre but sometimes she liked a cold tur
kcv better than a warm one. Just now she
was glad they had a hot one. '1 lie opinion,
you see, was rather a difficult one to form
and to express. But Mrs. Brow n had long
experience in contentedncss. Turkey No.
being well slid into me oven, uinncr oe-
gan.
But scarcely had liepzinan ucgun ncr carv
ing when steps were heard on the stairs, w hich
indicated a party.
1 guess Miss jviciurum nas company.
said she.
No. It was not Miss Meldrum.
Knock at the door double knock.
44 Well. I never!" said the old lady. "'Noth-
er turkey, Hepsy?"
For Mrs. Brown was p to joking mark
now. Hepsy opened the door.
4 Well, now!" 44 How do you do?" "And
how do iiwi dor "Well! What luck!"
"Who'd a thought it?" "And there's your
nir.llii-r" 44ltiw il've An. Aunt Rachel?"
But who is it?" "Well, now!" 44 Well,
now:" Scatter these ejaculations as you
please and vou get the interview. They were
cousins of Ilcpzihah's, whom she had not seen
for fifteen years. They were on their way
from New York to Cape Elizabeth, to dine ut
Hcpsy's uncle. Boat was delayed, and they
had missed their train. Thought they would
hunt up Hepsy and take their Thanksgiving
dinner with her, and so go on in the night
boat to fortland.
Not unprosperous cousins, you see. Cous
ins who had no idea that Hepsy aud her
mother were uncomfortably near the wall.
Cousins for w hom Hepsy had a ccrtuin re
spect, and she would have hated to have them
know her scrapings and worries.
44 And here they come in, Mr. Hale, a nice
and neat as pins; and tho' 1 say it, who should
not, Mr. Hale, we was just us nice us mcy
was. Mother, sue uiu iook reai hick, .ir.
Hale; real handsome she looked, with tier
cap on. And the table was so pretty with
Miss Granger's flowers, and the silver, and all.
I did not care who they were; my dinner was
as good as theirs any day. So they washed
themselves and fixed' their hair, and satdow u,
all three of them, they did. And we had a
nice time, I tell you."
Hepsy did not tell mc one little incident of
the dinner; but Mrs. Meldrum did.
As they were finishing Mrs. Cradock's pits,
drinking their tea. and fooling w ith their nuts
and raisins, little Katy Meldrum came in.
"Please, Miss llepsy, inotncr says win you
lend her a little tea?" , .
44 Heart's grace. Katy. Of course l win.
Why, Katy, you look cold."
Katy w hispered that they had nothing but
a little kindling.
"No coal? Poor child! Cousin Hannah,
excuse inc.
And Hensv went Into the entry and carried
up a hod of coal to the stricken widow up
stair.
" Do vou think " she said, as she i nmc
dow n, 44 they was all sitting round freezing,
and Miss Meldrum just lighting some laths
the bovs had brought iu from the new school-
house? And they've nothing lor tneir onriier
but some bread and cheese that look as if it
was cut last Sunday. Here, Tom, you conic.
Come in, Katy." 7
And she opened her oven door, and with
the tongs pulled out No. 0, and placed". the
pan on a stout pajcr in r.er ciouics-oushei.
44 Tom, you take one end. Katy, you lake
one. Tell your mother I've been cooking
her dinner for her, only I was n little be
lated by company. Katy, come down niain.
Here's plenty of squash pie and two or
three pcrtaters left. To think," said Hepsy,
as she sat down, a little flustered 44 to think
of plenty and hunger lcing so close to each
other. I thought Mr. Fosdick bad taken the
Meldrums some dinner."
And then the feast went on with the three
cousins as if this were all an cvery-day oc
currence. Thcv w ent to their graves wnn mc
idea that Hepsy was living on the fat of the
land. And, if any one thing delighted llepsy
more than another in that day's thanksgiving,
it w as that her cousins thought so.
Among them thev broiLht Miss Manas
turkey near his tr.d: bui Hepsy told me that
he made a very fcood darner on Friday.
It may add to the interest with which this
little story is read for me to say that it is sub
stantially true in all its details. - -
The nfyxWcftf asked mc. near a 'year ago,
to furnish a story of true life from my minis
terial experience. On such stories H'!ru
apt to be a seal of confidence. But I do not
see that any of the parties w limn, under ficti
tious names, I have mentioned here, has rea
son to be ashamed of his part in the day, al
w ays excepting Mike Flannagan.
I have lost the run of him; but I trust that
he has taken Father Mathcw's medal and lias
reformed. Eibrard K. Hole, in A. Y. I de
pendent. A. curious Frenchman has recently
made a calculation showing that a m an
tiks on an average three hours a day, or
a the rate of about twenty-nine octavo
pages an hour. That would make about
000 a week, fifty-t ogood sized volumes a
year, and in a lifetime of fifty years
2 000 volumes. He does not state the
number of volumes spoken by tho
other sex, but the statistical student can
multiply the product by four.
Hygienic Cotlee. What is called
hygienic coffee may be made from rye,
corn, sweet potatoes, peas, beans, etc.
It may be made by roastine these arti
cle and treating them in the same way
that coffee is treated. As an occasional
drink they are wholesome, and ir well
made delicious.
The shipments from the Saginaw
River, Michigan, for the season to Nov.
1 are as follows: Lumber, 443.U8J,
14 feet; lath, 011,404,440 pieces; shingles,
68,o5D,500.