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VOL. XVIII.-NO. 31.
COLUMBTTS, NEB.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1887.
WHOLE NO. 915.
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COLUMBUS
STATE BANK.
COLUMBUS, NEB.
Cash Capital
$75,000.
lUKKCTOIJS
l.KANDKK 5KIUt.UU. I'reVi.
!KO. W. ItUl.ST, Viiv J'iwVi.
JULIUS . KKK.O.
K. 11. IIKVUI.
.1. II TAdKKK, On-I.ier.
j vu tno nost's lett, the other plaeo of honor
I anil what a significant distinction to oc
cupy tho:so prominent scat- Kit the jauntiest
, individual of the whole jiarty. At first sight
, it would liH've been difficult to say why- he
had his share at this banquet of the ruined,
, disapiointed, bereaved and afflicted. It was
not his look nor his dress that told the secret,
! but his words. He was letter dressed than any
I of his fellows, and a self satisfied expression
j was upon his face. But you soon saw a blank
I in the uiid-t of that self satisfaction the lack
j of something, which mysterious something
would have just put him beyond the palo of
our friend's circle. He talked louder than the
rest and held out the comfort of irresponsi-
i. man m a rough j'acket, with a careless
air, which was contradicted by his face, said:
"Well, I fancy I have had n wider experience
than any of you, if change of employment
gives experience. There are few tilings I
liave not tried, but I never succeeded in any.
I have been an errand boy, a plow boy, a
lieddler, a miner, an engineer and an express
man. I have written dismal trash to sell to
vilely cheap and mean mpcrs. I have taught
mutate for it 13 in the jiou-er or each of you
to imitate him a happy man.
"He is old, poor, silent, and as the world
would add, ignorant, sad and lonely. But
listen to what he once told me: 'There is one
who breathes, moves, converses constantly
with me. I feel him, I hear him, sometimes
I even answer him in my heart. But it is a
speech without words, which wo understand
without having been at school, and read
JOHN WHITE'S THANKSGIVING.
bilitv in the uresent and annihilation here
after no God to restrain us now, and none ' a few cigar ends to keep the hunger olf this
to judge us later; but the lack of that "some- morning. 1 would take any job; but people
thing" made his facts grow ugly and hanl as don't seem to want j'obs dono j'ust now. They
he expounded his theories, and his own ap- j, look ut me suspiciously and say: 'There's
penrance was but a ioor argument in favor i lots of work if vou onlv liotir vourself and
grown men to read in exchange for a crust ' without having learned to read in books.'
ot bread. I have distributed advertisements Unit is one of the pillars that uphold the
at street comers; uud now I am just where I j world for him his trust in God. The other
was when I started. I liave no home. I left j is his trust in conscience. If you can imitate
my last ltoanling place without iwying, but ' that the first will come as its natural conse
left my only good coat liehind instead. I queaee. To live by the rule of my friend
slept last night in a car dejwt, and picked up needs two things grace and a real "resolve.
BdBll Ol" BkHftOMif, IMhcouiii
HU1 f-:!lilUi.
Collection I'romjUly JIh1 oa
Mil Polul.
TniL-;ivin.:! for what;"
- Qiiri he muttered a curse
-rvr t!iu plainest of frwu
uinl tin empty purse;
rt.ra.!ife.f liunl worU
aul tin- shaMiieit clothes
Lut it's iill.- ti talk-
of a jt-Mir man's woes'
I-t the ik'Ii pivftUauLs,
k Is lliev who can;
TIlLTO IS IlUtllill in llle
tor u laboriuj? man."
saiil .loan White
t his good wife Jaue,
!L'j.d uVr her face
stole a look of pain.
I
I'say lulitrfsi
I Cm.
on lliue
eOM-
COLUMBUS
Savings Bank,
LOAN & TRUST COMPANY,
Capital Slock,
SI 00,000.
OITICKK.S:
A. A.NDKKSON. Pn-'t.
O. SHKLDO.N, Vice PreVt.
O. T. UOKN, Trwih.
ItOHKKT UHLKi. Sec.
,,
Jig(Vill receive time depoMts, from $1.00
anil uu amount upward, ami will paj tin- cus
liMiiarj nil.- if interest.
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S2"W particular! draw ur uttetition to
imr fncilities for making hulls on real estate, at
the ltwet rati-of intercM.
J('itj, School ami Count Bond, and in
dividual securiths. ale Ih'llht. ItijUlle'sily
i i
Jvothiu;r, dear John?"
ami he thought again;
Then glanced more kijully
down on Jane.
"I was w route." lie said;
"I'd forgotten you;
And I've my health,
and the baby, too."
And the baby crowed
'twas a bouncing boy
And o'er June's face
came a look of joy;
And she lissed lier John
ns lie went away;
And ln'Miid to himself,
as he worked that day:
'"1 waswionjr. very wronp:
I'll not jjrninble aain,
1 should surely lie thankful
for liaby and Jane."'
FOR THE
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- I ALL ON
A.&M.TURNER
Or -. W. UI1ILER,
TravcllnR Salrsman.
i"Then tirnius are hret-tliwiu ever ar
ttculur. and o guaranteed.
SCHIFFROTH & PLATH,
1H.U Fhb l.s
WIND MILLS,
AND PUMPS.
Buckeye Mower, combined, Self
Binder, wire or twine.
o
Pumps Repaired on short notice
J?fOne door went of Heint:
flrvtt, Columbus, Neb.
, Drugstore, lllh
lTuovsii-tf
HENRY GASS.
COFFINS AND METALLIC CASKS
AND DEALER IN
Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu
reaus. Tables, Safes. Lounges,
&c. Picture Frames and
Mouldings.
Z&r"Repciiring of all kinds of Uphol
stery Goods.
6-tf COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
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CAVEATS, TRADE MARKS AND COPYRICITS
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Patent Office attended to for MODERATE
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and we can obtain Patents in less time than thoee
remote from WASHINGTON.
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to patentability free of charpe: and make NO
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Money Order Div, and to officials of the U. S.
Patent Office. For circulars, advice, terms and
references to actual clients in jour own State or
county, write to
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Opposite Patent Office. Washington, D. C.
AN IDEAL TIUXKSGIVING.
As there nre idnises the law cannot reach,
so there me people no holiday includes.
There is a time of the year i hen vagrants
criminals, in a word, the destitute as a IkmIv
are feasted with good things and made to
share the comfort of the rich. But as com
prehensive a this cliarity uiaj- le, as minute
in its .search after recipients, as thoughtful
in the choice of creature comforts, it u piti
ful to think how many yet remain in the
"highways and hedges" out of reach.
Can you imagine a gathering of such as
these.' We see much of the other side of the
picture, hut it is startling to think that those
ho come to the surface are only the minor
ity. Ileneath every success, however modest
and oliscure, there i a substructuiv of accu
mulated failures; and for one or ten whom we
tee in moderate comfort and unassuming
ease, there are UK) or 1,000 who have been too
weak to swim.
1 had lieen to main- fully spread boards,
public and private, on this day of typical
thanksgiving for all the blessings nnd good
gifts of the year; but one to which 1 was ac
cidentally introduced late iu the evening
proved of greater interest and rarity than
aii3' of the others.
The host was a graj- headed man, wifeless
and childless, rieh, odd, disappointed and
generally supposed to be misanthropic. He
had no aim iu life; no interest strong enough
to absorb him, no will stable enough to hold
the reins. He gave to every one who asked,
but no work of charity interested. There
was no pursuit, physical or mental, which
could so sustain him as to turn him from
vain regrets and impartial longings. He had
never lound his place m life; had never
known necessity, and therefore never tasted
the excitement of the race for existence,
which some time or other gives at least a
dash of interest to the most unsuccessful
career. He was not irreligious, but he be
longed to no religious lnxly, and when any
one told him that he liad much to thank
Providence for he would fchrug his shoulders
in wonder.
As the years wont on this man brooded
more and more over disappointed hopes, and
took a morbid pleasure in rinding out cases of
failure in all the various callings of life. Ha
dwelt on the subject until it became a mono
mania. One or two acquaintances he had
iio heart it ieiid out of compassion advised
him to turn t.eT brooding to practical use by
benefiting men iu situations like his own.
U. ; Iff w iSfoh
Such was the singular host. As for the
guests, they were as various in class, educa
tion, birth and appearance as they conld be,
even in a city where everything under the
sun is more or less represented. All who are
bankrupt and rained in reputation and po
sition, or in their own estimation, had a rep
resentation at that strange feast of moral
equality. Every degree of bhabbiness, of
dilapidation, in face or garment, was present;
for no rule was made as to dress, and those
whom fJiamw or idleness made remiss were as
freely admitted as thej-ivho had made little
pitiful attempts at decency. The talk was
mild and characteristic, chiefly occupied with
the past or the future as it might have been.
On the host's right hand sat a man in rusty
black, with nervous hands that clutched at
things and trembled as they held glass or
fork or napkin. He had never been a crim
inal, never willingly harmed any one, never
entertained a deliberately unkind thought,
and yet to all intents and purposes he was a
murderer and a suicide. His spirit was dead,
or in its last agonies, and of this he was
dimly conscious in a despairing sort of war.
of his theories.
A curious rivalry lietween many of the
guest, attracted 1113' attention. Each thought
his own misfortune the heaviest, and was
jealous of the consideration which another
won. Some even flung it into the faces of
certain others that when they were enjoying
prosjerity they had lieeu appealed to iu vain.
Any cant about equality in spite of loss of
money was promptly resented b3 those who
had Ikvu in the attitude of solicitors. This
least was no good place at which to air line
talk not supported by nne character. The
restrictions which obtain iu society less
honest of speech, though more polished, wera
laid aside and each oiu spoke his mind. AD
told their worldly circumstances quite
plainly.
One said that ho lived with bis wife, three
children and inotuer-in-law in twp minis in
an unwholesome tenement house, and earned
. a week iu a slop shop selling rotten cloth
ing to greenhorns.
Another said: "I started iu life with the
notion of being a great author. 1 am over
4(1 now, and glad to get MJ a week iu a book
store. I have covered reams of paper and
made about ?l,0X) altogether iu little sums,
but .110 one knows my name. I carried a
novel and an epic from one publishing house
to another for tm years, and never could
get any editor even to read them. I'ani try
ing to save- a little money now to get the
poem published after my death, with a little
autobiography which may teach the world
w hat it has lost, and make eople sorry that
they let such a man die a miserable death
after so disappointing a life."
"They say some people have forced them
selves on the public by the manner of their
death," said a wild, melancholy looking man
by the author's side, ''and I think it would be
worth while to try such a scene to make my
Romeo and Juliet sell.'
"You talk of death like a child," said a
croaking voice acra-w the table. "Hero amT,
an old woman, once Minnie St. Angel, the
famous actress, but none the less a starving,
broken down drudge now. Never despair
while you nre j-oung; it is onry the old who
know what trouble is. To have been '.some
one,' and then fall to being nobody, that is
the hardest thing of all, much harder than to
have been unknown all your life."
"Well, I think it is harder for those who
never had a brief hour of success at all," said
a thin woman. "I was the daughter of a
theatre hack, and was on the stage from a
child. But as I grew up plain and not clever
I was used in all the common parts and never
knew what it was to have an individuality.
I have never had a home, and since my father
died have never even had a friend. Now I
am wardrobe woman in a low theatre, and
glad yes, thankful to have the place, too."
"It is hard to work for no paj-," said a
rough voice opjosite. "I was a soldier of
Napoleon's as a lad, fought in Algeria and iu
Russia; and because I took part in some plot
they called it revolutionary I lost my little
pension, and starved in consequence. I ran
away, and once here could find nothing to
do, and I am trying to beg money enough to
buy a hand organ and camp stool."
look for it!"
"Von and I are much alike," said a man
opposite. "I have looked for work both in
and out of my profession. I am a musician,
young and unknown. I huve heard you all
talk of being poor, but when a man loses
many a lwtssibfj good chance in his business
..
iiieurst is never wauting. You can count
on it whenever aud as long as you make up
3iur mind to furnish the other thing, a fixed
resolve."
This and much more said our host, and
wh".-i he ceased we noticed there was 0110
Jjuest less at the table. He had gone; but no
one sjwke.
Then, hero and there one from out this
strange company came forward to thank the
rost with tears of genuine gratitude in their
e3es. ftonic went away without a word.
through the want of a iOstage stamp at the Soon all were gone. The loaded table disaj
uiii. nine, 1 ieu 3011 uu Knows sonieiumg 01 . pearcti, ouc 1 uearu 1113 host say with j03-ou.s
IHnci-13-, inougu ne may nave a good coat on ee:o:i: "that is what wo propose to do
Ins buck. In our profession iwverty isa mat
ter of course. Wo 111:13 '" oven famous and
starve. Meanwhile 1 am obliged to keep up
upifcKirance.s and live in a decent house.'
1 " Vis.," said a woman near him, "and I dare
sa3' not -our own house. Well, if poor
boarders have their troubles, don't thin":
that the Ixianliug house keeper sleeps on u
IknI of roses. There is a hopeless side to iov
cri and a contented side, and an exiectuut
side. But I know of another. It is the ludi
crous side. 3ty husliand died in debt. There
was only tho weary old way to support my
velf. I opened a boarding house. I
wish ladies could go lov.cr down t
make nioiuw. I liad not the strength
of mind to do diuereut'3' from others
of mj- set, and I think with us women
tllat is one of the great causes of our
troubles. We don't dare to face the world";
talk, even when there is nothing to !
ashamed of. I had 11 hard time with inelii
cicni servants, for I did not thrive and could
not pa3' high enough prices to secure good ones.
Rut I sent for two of nry nieces, as jioor as 1113--self.
and together we did tho work and shared
the profits. Iet me sa3' to you that if 3011
nrojiooraud h.tve tolerable health, do your
own work. 113" that means wo got on and
had order and cleanliness, and though life is
not exacth- delightful to us. it is tolerable.
"As to tho ludicrous side of poverty. Wo
see enough of it. So mam' little shifts and
pretenses, though tlm- are pathetic enough
sometimes. I began b3 asking rather high
prices, and if the3' were refused, let the
rooms sta3' empt3. But 1113- purse began to get
empty too, and I was obliged to compromise.
Sometimes I did not like a man's maimer or
a woman's costume, nnd I was stiff, which
lost 1110 considerable moiiex. Then again,
some men's business was not to my taste,
though the3" were very silent and unobtrusive
themselves. I lost main' a good boarder the
first 3ear b3' standing too much on
my dignit3 If a dancing master
general'3- teaches 'deportment' to his
pupils, I think some one should
teach a banker's daughter, in view of certain
possibilities, how to attract and deal pleas
antly with boarders. If it were not a good
thing to be nierrv under tho worst circuni- 1
stances, I should not detain 3-011 so long with
inj- experiences; but if we iersistently ignore
the humor that is concealed in almost ever3'
stage of povert3', we are making ourselves
more miserable than God intended us to be."
Then she went on to enumerate tho ludicrous
incidents which her poor lioarders treated
her to da3' 113- ikn-.
"If money troubles were everything," said
n liuxxh-man, "3-011 would all be quarreling
who was the worst off among 3-ou. You
might be rich iu nione and 3et broken and
worthless."'
Mvhost
next year." It was onlv then I realize! thf. I
had not assisted at a veritable banquet. AVe
had talked ourselves into tho belief that our
longings uud imaginings were facts. Could
we not do something like this To restore
self respect is even better than to fill with
l.ivail. But, understand, that although in
maiv instances the latter can bo done with
out the former, in most cases tho former
must rest on tho luisis of the latter. Thanks
giving is a good day to begin things. Still
el try i!a-may (kh-oiiiu 11 tlunksiving for
hose who seek out the hungry, lioth in body
ami in spirit, to feed and the naked to clothe.
B. M.
A CLAIRVOYANT HEN.
What lui
llefore Thanks-
Mixr .lust
Klilu?.
We never know just what is going on in
the minds of those about us. If we did con
tentment would bo much rarer than it is, aud
apprehension and nuxiety would hold the
ery earth up y tho ears. Yes, it is a fine
thing we are not all mind readers.
New thought has a wa3' of diffusing itself
all around, while certain eople who keep
the windows of their minds closed to shut it
out are very comfortable in the belief that
nobod3 is entertaining it because they are
not.
It was just so at tho Teny farm. The
leople of the house had 110 idea what was
going ou in the fowl minds about them. Tho
truth was, new fangled ideas had gained won
derful headwa3' in tho barnyard. Many of
the hens were pronounced equal suffragists,
and went about talking equal rights in a way
that would have got them into serious trou
ble twentj--five 3-ears ago, if they had been
alive at that time. A few of tho biggest
brained cocks espoused the cause. Two
of the mediocres also took it up and
enjoyed themselves amazingly making
speeches. If they- had a fault, it was
that thc3 were too fond of oratorj-.
When the heus had a convention these
two seasoned fowls were always there, and
took front scats on the platform. Tho mo
ment tho meeting opened both bobbed up to
talk. The president, one of the most intel
lectual bens in the whole state, and also
blessed with high executive ability, alwnys
found it difficult to decide which one to recog
nize, so simiiltaueouslv did thev spring to
! their feet. Before the first one was throutrh
speaking the other one was up and read- to
begin at the end of his rival's last word. Iu
this way the' monojKilized the entire time of
every meeting, and famous binls from a dis
tance who had lecn invited to tho meetings
to sjieak went homo with all their music iu
them. Tho hens didn't like this a bit, but
lieing hens nnd not roosters they were obliged
the marshal of St. Louis; and as for my
! predictions you are quite welcome to doubt
them and take the consequences."
"Really, madame," he said, "3-our Oriental
lore interests me. I must study deeper into
the mysteries of eastern thought."
"Ono feature of Buddhism will strike you
with force, I think," said the wise hen of
Brahma, drawing down oue eye suspicious!-.
"That is, it forbids the eating of flesh."
Tho big turkey changed color again. Flesh
eating was a distasteful subject to him, and
ho always avoided distasteful subjects.
The clairvo3'ant shut her eyes, stiffened her
body and began to see things. She said a
dark day was coming for the cutire race of
fowLs, and oven certain quadrupeds ou this
hemisphere. It would occur about tho latter
part of JNoveniber. They who esca;.l that
ilay were tolerably sure of thoir lives for an
other month, at least. There was but one
courso to take to escape the doom of that
black Thurstla-; that was to get out of tho
way of the flesh eating animal man.
At this point a small white pig came up
and HiiiiTcd derisivel-, and then trotted off to
eat tho food which the fowl neglected for
Oriental wisdom. The pig was a noted
skeptic. The Brahma hen looked after him
and smiled pityingly. "Ephraini is joined to
bis idols," she tiL "SeltUhness jwys its own
lenUy. We get what we cive. The mind
that is hot wholly on thU world reaps its
harvest in this world, uud it is often a regu
lar whirl wind."
Tho Rrahuu hen was certainty ver3' deep.
Tho fowls of over3' order gathered around her
to di ink iu her wisdom. She was a believer
iu rviucamutiou, but was iu no hurr' about
it She said it didn't matter to her how soon
her bonus were bleaching white and bare on
the earth, save for one thing. That waa that
she wanted to spread her doctrines a while
yet.
Chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and pigeoui
all went to bed that night in a frame of
mind. Even tho most skeptical of them were
more or less troubled by the fortuneteller's
prediction. Your skeptical people are never
skeptical when bad is predicted of them.
They believe even what they don't want to
believo while loudly proclaiming their lack
of lattu.
Two days before Thanksgiving the Brahma
heu told her faithful followers that the time
was at hand when the3- must flee from tho
wrath to come, and tue3- flew.
" Whj", dear me," said he whose busineas it
was to kill the Thanksgiving fowls, "I cant
find a feathered creature ou the place, except
those two old uois3 cocks, which are so tough
a lion couldn't eat them. These are our
friends the orators, who were too conceited
to take warnings of 1U13 kind."
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National Bank!
OF
or a second the tin ladle m MaoMotfat's
hand rattled faintly on the platter's edge,
"Sister Elia, would -ou mind running up
the iuxt flight to Duganse's and asking him
to lend me the loan of his almanac till I see n
datci" said MacMoffnt.
Sister Eliza was cV accommodating as she
was stupid, and did not mind it a bit. The
quiet around the table was unbroken. An
unseen form was at the board. Aunt Eliza's
careless words had turned the e3"o of tho
heart upon tho face that had inssed awa3' in
the last spring. The tin hullo stopixxl its rat
tle on the platter. Maciloffat laid it down.
He did not trust his eyes with the six little
faces around tho table, but gave them to his
heart to see" tho face that was there 3'et in
visible. "Yea. dears," ho said, slowly and
softly, "she's here, but maybe wo can't sou
uor, uu ue s iiere. aiomer s nero witn us,
children. We are all, all here,"
COX.X73IBXJ8.
-HAS AN-
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $20,000,
And tho largest Pal Cask Capital of
any bank in this part of the State.
SUepoiti
timedenooita.
received and intenwt paid oa
JCSD rafts on the princ ipid cities in tbUeoua
try and Europe bought and nold.
E"Collections and all ottmr businuM glraa
prompt and careful attention.
STOCKHOLDERS.
A. ANDE11SON, PrWt.
HERMAN 1 H.OEHLRICH.
Vice Prea't.
O.T.ROEX. Cashier.
r 'vH'iftS&P' MERMAN OEHLRJCH.
VaS&S "; W. A. McALUSTER,
0N?JKELCH. JOHN W.EARLY.
P. ANDERSON. (. ANDERSON
ROBERT UIILIO, CARL RElNKE.
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I
A POOR MAN'S THANKSGIVING.
Let Lira who eats not, think he cats,
Tis one to him who last year said,
"My neighbor dines on dainty sweets.
And I on coarser bread."
He who on sugar uuels fores
Hath pangs lieneuth his silken vest;
The rougher lifo hath fewer cares
Who fasts hath sounder rest.
If lean the lied-, lijjht the uings;
nis fancy hath more ergo aud room.
Who feasts upon the wind that brings
The flowers of hope to bloom.
ci Insured to mo that this man to go slow m moving against tho enemy
liad lost his faith in woman. Then ho
pointed, out a pale woman in good but not
showy clothing, who was 3et more wretched
thau the oores.t at the feast Her husband
carcu nouiiiig ior uer. one was uvmg ot a
Near him sat a prim old body in a shiny
black silk gown. She seemed rather shocked
by the mention of the organ and stool, and
remarked that as he was a man he could
surely find some work to do. She went on to
sa3: "Although I am onty a woman, I set to
work at once as soon as our fortune was gone.
I got a teacher's place in a school, and ever
since I have taught and supported m3self.
But it is very hard for a lad3' tenderly
brought up, and not taught ver3' thoroughly
as people were not iu my da- to mix with
common people and be knocked aliout in the
world, lly father was a rich mau and a
gentleman, and we have good blood in our
veins for man- generations back, long before
our fami'3' ever crossed the ocean. Our
name is known in the history of the county,
and there was never one bearing it who dis
graced it."
"A good pedigree is a fine thing if it be
genuine," said a crippled man near the old
lad "But if I had it, and could exchange
it for a straight back and sound limbs, I
would gladl3 give it up. Yet I believe I am
happier than most of you here. I set out to
get ono thing and got it, though it brought
little else with it. I was a poor man's son and
had no family to boast of, aud the one thing
I wanted was learning. As I was a cripple and
good for nothing to work, I got books from
kind neighbors and taught myself sitting by
the kitchen fire in winter and on the door
step in summer. Sometimes I got to school,
when I had clothes good enough to wear, and
at last, through the compassion of neighbor,
to college. But I grew more infirm as I
reached manhood, and, indeed, but for this I
should have no right to be here among you.
I have earned m3 livelihood teaching other
young men; and so I jog on land my books;
and though my meals of ten consist of bread
and milk, I am not unhappy. I said I would
give noble blood in exchange for good health
and strong, sound limbs; but I would not
give my books for health or good blood, nor
even health alone for a long pedigree."
The host smiled at us and said: "There is
the man who is really monarch of all he survey"
"sy J-'35BBBBf mJ
7i Mmbm
It was saddening to turn from 'the cripple
to the others. Many of them were equally
gifted intellectually, yet they bid never at
tained his contentment with his lot.
broken heart.
aud woman whom no recital seemed to
affect. Their onty child had been suddenh
killed a few weeks liefore.
M3- friend pointed out a man at the bottom
of the table. Ho had an uncas3 e3'e nnd a
restless conscience. I asked what this man
had done.
"Set traps for the feet of others," said my
host. "In old times, legends sa3', men sold
their own souls. He has sold those of others.
Ancientry, to trample on tho Cross was the
worst sacrilege a man could commit; but
he has trampled leneath his feet the vciy
iinage of God. Such as he are called 'men
about town.' I need not tell 3-011 more."
Near him sat a woman with a faded shawl,
a soiled and rakish bonnet, brazen face anil
dirt3- liamls. No teaching, no help, no good
example, no chance of good had ever come to
her. And there was a woman in a Parisian
dinner dress who sat lxitween two men of tho
homeless kind in upper life the la3' figures
of soc'et3 She was more lioness looking
than her neighbors. She had no work. No
object save pleasure ever stirred her.
Then 1113- host told me in low tones, while
the others were talking among themselves,
how he had gathered these people together
for this extraordinaiy Thanksgiving feast.
Some he had met b3" accident. Others he
hunted up, going into dismal places to find
them. The most despairing were the ones he
choso. He said:
"To some I sent formal invitations bj-post.
I knew- it would please them. The invitation
itself, put in language they had not known
for 3'ears, would be more of a blessing thau
the mere feast to which the3 were bidden.
The moral pleasure given, or the self respect
induced b3 these invitations, is more than 1
half the loon of my Thanksgiving feast. To 1
a few tho mere food is much, but then to j
these far snnk in the mud, animal cornfart
must precede a moral impression. When
people are comfortable they like to listen to
good talk, and when 3-011 have laid the
foundation in eorjHirenl works of mercy 3-011 j
may safeh- begin the superstructure of tho
spiritual. Indeed, the plo'sical parts of their j
trials are really the least, and the uhv- '
sical reward of a good feast also com-parativerv-
small Some of. them diao well
cver3 ihn- of their lives, and 3-et liave no
pleasure in it or airything else. They who do
not find more pleasure in the comfort, the
security tho absence of anxiety to-night
than in the mere abundance of food. Those
who are poor do not mind hard work and
scanty- fare, but they- do mind the uncer-taint3-
of their lives, the lack of a home, the
want of appreciation of themselves, the want
of sympathy and understanding, tho cold
drawing back of the prosperous, the divided
attention, the fair words and no deeds, the
barren good wishes in short, the whole
repellent attitude of the world."
"Do 3-ou see," he said, "that old man at
the foot of the table.' He has peace enough
to bathe us all in it, patience enough and joy
enough to share with us alL He does not
know bow to read, but he knows the thing
that St. Paul counted a higher knowledge
than all his Hebrew- learning and Greek
subtlety. He had a great misfortune in his
youth no matter what it was and if ever
there was a child of God. fashioned bv God's
own hands and chastened in his own way. it
These two strong woman's riehts cocks
were not wholly- consistent. I11 theirspceches
the3- soundly berated all men who did not
make a bold stand in favor of woman suf
frage: but it was whispered around that thev
Just opjwsite her were a man ere the last fowls to get up and givo their
seats to hens in u street car, and that when
lhey employed hens to scratch b3" the day for
1 them they paid them merely enough to keep
j soul and body together.
I . But at the beginning of autumn suffrage
talk rather gave place to occultism. There
was a perfect wavo of metaphysical interest
in the land, and it found a fine soil in the
j brains of these advanced binls. Mind cure.
Buddhism, theosophy, clairvoyance and all
pluses of occultism blossomed like the rase.
So nbsorlH.il were many of these feathered
disciples of new thought that tiny bcarcely
ate any of the unusually' tempting food given
thein with a view to increasing their corpu
lency for Thanksgiviug. Braced up by the
lK-lief that tlay were in possession of mighty
1 secrets unknown and unheeded by the rest of
the world, they went about with their beads
quite in another world. Indeed, some pro
gressed so far as to believe aud assert that
they need never die if they didn't want to.
"We can boil them till they are tender,"
said the mistress of the house. Then soma
food was held out to these worthy ranters,
and some flattery heaiied upon them, and the
conceited things, thinking they were to take
part in a convention where they could do all
the talking, stepped up to the enemy and
were cau.'f lit and beheaded.
Before this tho small pig which had sneered
at talk of the dark Thursday predicted by
Mme. Devachau was ready for roasting.
Ephraini was iudeed joined to his idols for
ever more. The two orators and the skeptic
graced and greased the Thanksgiving board,
although not exactly iu the characters they
would liave chosen.
Tho next day the big turkey and all the
other fowls who had taken Mine. D.'s warn
ing returned to the farm and settled down
comfortably to lifo again.
Over the bones of the skeptical pig and the
two blustering orators they told each other
how thankful thev were, "laving particular
stress on their gratitude for the boon of
minds receptive enough to accept new
thought, . Ihat evening they gavo u swell
jiarty to Mme. Devachau und loaded her with
honors. G. G.
A THANKSGIVING DINNER.
I ; . xr iClsJ W
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Is he."
Hero the host stepped forward, and raising
his voice said: "There is one among you, mv
friends, who has no word to speak of his
troubles and disappointments, yet they have
been harder to bear thau all yours, save those
miseries born of guilt. I did not invite him
here because he was unfortunate, but because
I needed something you could all join in
being thankful for. He has that treasure;
he has the secret which would turn all your
misery into joy. Instead of showing you
only a full board, I have brought you the
most beautiful thins on earth to see and to
Among them was oue quite an adept in the
wonderful. She was a Brahma, and much
did she boast of her noble Eastern blood
Mme. Devachau was her name. Her age no
fowl could find out. Some said she was a
female Mahatma nearly 500 years old
Others said she was 80 years at least. Mean
time the madame smiled when the subject
was hinted at, and looked to bo on the sunny
side of 40.
Mme. Devachau was a wonderful bird.
She was very learned. She read Sanscrit as
easily as sho eoulj fly over a fence. She
wrote a good deal of very obscure and mystic
literature. She could drop down apparently
dead and bo flung around almost anyhow,
and when she got tired of that pick herself
up and go on as before. At such times she
claimed tliat her spirit was out of her body
and floating off seeing things in two hemi
spheres. Besides- she was a clairvoyant and
told fortunes. At this she did quite a thriv
ing business.
About Nov. 1 she warned the big turkey
that something unpleasant, not to say dan
gerous, was hanging over him. At first ho
whistled her down tho wind, and declared
that he put no faith in predictions. He
wasnt superstitious; not he. Nevertheless,
when Mme. Devachau told him that she saw
blood clairvoyantly and also an ax suspended
suspiciously near his head, the red died out
01 his comb, and with a piteous face he
begged her pardon for his previous skep
ticism. "You will Icaru," she said, "that my sex
(the uneducated clairvoyants always say
sect, but Mme. D. was very learned and
always spoke correctly) is coming to the
front; that what somo of us say is not to be
put down as the idlo clucking of ignorant old
hens. Out in Kansas there is a town with a
woman mayor; another with a board of -female
aldermen: and Phebe Couzins is now
ROSE TERRY COOK'S BILL OT FARC.
Roast turkey.
Cold boiled ham,
Rosst ducks.
.. , . Chicken pi.
Mashed potatoes.
Stewed celery,
Stewed salsify,
.Sweet hoted potato.
Cranberry sauce.
Wild grape Jelly,
Celery,
Spiced peaches,
PicMed canliflouer.
Pumpldu pie.
Strained apple pie.
Cranberry tart,
Cocoanut pie,
0 Baked Indian pudJiug.
Apples, walnuts, raisins, almonds, ginger.
Ginger for dessert should be the sweet, dried
ginger bold for such purposes.
JULIET CORSON'S BILL OF FAHX.
Atypical dinner near the New England
coast would be somewhat as follows:
Baked tautog.
Boiled chicken with oyster sauce.
Potatoes. Beeta. Onions. Mashed turnips and
squash.
Beef a U mode.
Roast turkey with cranberry jelly.
Roa Tenison with currant jelly. Assorted
pickles.
Roast or baked partridge or wild duck.
Plum pudding. Various cakes.
Apple, mince, squajh, pumpkin and custard pies.
NutH. Apples. Ralslni. Coffee.
IX TBS IXTZJUOR.
Fried oysters, or oyster stew.
Baked chicken pie.
Sweet and sour pickles and catsup.
Mashed potatoes and turnips. Boiled whole
potatoes.
Boiled onions. Baked b?eti. Squash.
Roast Rpareribs with stufllug and apple sauce.
Koast turkey, goose or chicken with cranb-rry
sauce.
Fried sausage with fried apples.
Baked Indian pudding. Steamed fruit or cracker
pudding.
Mince, apple, squash, pumpkin aud Ix-rrr pics
with chte.
Doughnuts, crullers, cookie, cup cakes, gold and
silver, marble and s;iouKe cakes.
Various preserves.
So, if no smoking tin key grace
This day my clean but huinliLi lioanl, .
I'll think what miht have been my case
If riclt, and thank the Lord.
No gout awaits my i-ouiingage.
No bulbous uose like lolter re J,
To vex my teinpe r into ragf.
Or fill my daj s with dread.
Leave to th rich his roast nad wlae;
Death waits on him w ho waits for oil;
The doctor will be there by nine.
By twelve the priest will call.
Lord, In all wholesome, moderate ways
Keep me. Iet it should hap mo worse;
Teach one to nil his mouth with praise
Who net er fllltil Ins pursu.
Flonis B. Tlimpton
Carbonic Acid Gat as an Kxtiuguiittier.
The fiery, untamed soda water tank,
which has chiefly distinguished itself since
the advent of hot weather this year by
bursting and killing or iimimintc its at
tendants, has made a new departure, and
now appears in the role of a most efficient
extinguisher of fire. Some davs ago at
Louisville, Ky., a boy carried a lighted
candle into the cellar of a dniff store, and
In some unexplained way set lire to a ves
sel full of varnish, which blazed up
through a grating in front of the building
as high as the second floor. Before, how
ever, the flames could Kain headway in the
building, the heat had melted the lead
pipe conuected with the newly charged
soda fountain, and the flames were in
stantly extinguished. Fire nnd Water.
The Sword Dli-m.
A skillful armorer forged the sword
Dliani which came into the possession of
the celebrated Bedouin poet-hero Antar.
That famous blade was made from a
thunderbolt that had slain one of tho
chief's cnmcl? and when the smith deliv
ered It, with natural pride, to his patron,
he observed: "This sword is sharp, oh
chief of the tribe of Chaylib sharp in
deed; but where is the smiter for this
sword?" Qnoth the chieftain: "As for
tho smiter I um he," and Instantly
struck off the smith's head, so that there
should never lie another sword Dham!
Notes nnd Queries.
Kussla'a Increasing Population.
According to Gen. StrelbitskJ, Russia,
by the normal increase of her population,
will in 1037 have a population of
150,000,000. As nt present she has only
seventeen persons to the square mile, she
can carry the wholo of this increase and
then only have twenty-seven to the mile.
Germany has now 80, Great Britain 119,
and Belgium 201. The birth rate of Res
et Is a far more formidable factor in inter
national politics than all the maneuverings
of her generals in central Asia. Boston
Transcript,
MOTHER WAS THERE.
The Silent Figure at the Little Table la
ttu MacMoffaU' Home.
Six towheaded MacMoffats stuck their
heads over the rim of the pine table and
looked anxiously but cheerfully at thoir
Thanksgiving dinner of boiled codfish and
potatoes which Mr. MacMoffat, with his band
in a sling, from a fali be got from a scaffold
last August, was commencing to ladle out to
them.
"It's Cape Cod turkey!' exclaimed Master
John MacMoffat, who was the wit of the
family, and all laughed.
"Our turkey roosted too high this year,"
said Mr. MacMoffat, at which they all
laughed again, though a broken arm and
idleness and doctor's bills bad scared off the
turkey.
"Turkey makes your feet sore," said the
family wit, and there was another laugh.
'Td rather have well cooked codfish than
tough turkey, for my part, any day," re
marked Visa MaryEBea MacMoffat, who
was aspiring to be a young lady.
"An pie," suggested the youngest tow
head, at which they all laughed again, for
there really was to be an apple pie, with 4
piece all roved, at the ead of the meal, though
it waa as yet held to be too good to be talked
about.
"Well, it great blearing that we're all
bere'aasl te good health," remarked Miss
Kim MsiMielss.thssss-astsragBt, somewhat
dlslly j sjsjHe Irrelera-tly.
f osilft hagfc fell oa the etoftlesB table.
He Did Not Get Away.
"You never drink or smoke, do you,
George, dear?" she said. "You know I
could never marry a man who drinks and
smokes."
George, in u broken hearted tone of
I voice, admitted that he did smoke and
drink a little.
But a pair of white, 27-year-old arms
were around his neck in a moment.
"Never mind, George," said the girl;
"perhaps my wifely influence will induce
you to give them up." New York Sun.
A Plp for the Captain.
Whenever James Gordon Bennett
crosses the ocean blue he has a pipe made
for the captain of the steamship in which
he sails. His hobby is to have the pipe
presented in a silver cape, with tho mono
gram of the captain engraved on the out
side. About a tlozcn sea captains of ocean
greyhounds have been remembered In this
way by Mr. Bennett. New York Evening
Sun.
A novelty in cano handles Is of smoked
Ivory In the form of a serpent, the mouth
of which springs open to the pressure oi
the finger and shoots out fiery fangs.
Syrnp of Figs
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most easily taken, and the most effective
remedy knoWn to Cleans the System
when Bilicua or Costive; to dispel Head
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Manufactured only by the California Fig
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