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Hid THE SCgpCXniY KMiSIOY. , y rtllU A. BAriTKB, FakMijMt, tlEXTON. . MISSOURI. On tt 15th the president ftp pointed Edwrd K. Lowrey, t OhiA, second secretary of the Caitod States legation ftt rekln. UrwARO ol a thousand persona h Hath, England, were rendered home less, on the 15th, by the verflowing of the River Avon." Anviciw from Fnsan, Core a, twaer (late of the lGth, state that & battle had been fought between Japanese troops and rebellions Ton? Halts, In which the former were victorious. This failures for the week ended on the Ittth, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were: For the United States 570. ng-ainst 8"!3 for the corresponding week lost year; and for Canada 38, against 30 last year. On the lfith the president appointed John E. Jackson, of New Jersey, sec retary of the United States embassy at Berlin, and Herbert Goldsmith Squires, of New York, second secretary ol the same embassy. About 10 o'clock on the night of the 15th, twelve metabers of the Cook gang rode Into M'lskogee, I. T., paraded the main street, laid in a supply of cigars and then rode leisurely out of town. A Disr.vxca from Ltmasol. Cvorus. of the 15th, said twenty-one persons had been drowned by the floods, and that the number of domestic animals destroyed was far into the thousands, TnE Xew South Wales assembly adopted a motion, on the 14th. offered by Sir Henry Vnrkes, setting forth that it is desirable that negotiations look ing to Australian federation shall be resumed. A iusrATCii from Chemulpo to a Lon don news agency says that the officials of the Corean government, whose ten dencies arc pro-Japanese, are framing a constitution to bo used at the begin ning of lsJ5. Garrett Vanoiskkl. a prominent and wealthy citizen of Des Moines, la., who had been totally blind for the past two months from contusion of the brain, awoke at 2 a. m., on the 14th, with sight perfectly restored. Advices from Rio Grande d Sul say that the Brazilian rebel chiet Salgado was defeated, recently, at Lima in a battle lasting nine hours. The gov ernment loss is stated to be 1SI killed aud the rebel los3 sixty-three. nox. Myron- 15. 'Wright, oi Susque hanna, Pa., congressman of the Fif teenth district of Pennsylvania, died in Trenton. Can., on the night of the 12th, of typhoid fever. He was, on the 6th, elected for the third term. Mabtix J. Watson, of Anderson. Ind., has buried the last of a family of five, including his wife, who were in good health a month ago. They were the victims of black diphtheria, which is raging in the Indiana gas belt. Ox the 15th Capt. Joseph Craig, United States navy, recently relieved from the duiies of president of the faculty at the nnval academy, sailed for China on the steamer Belgic. He will take command of the United States . steamer Concord, stationed in Asiatic waters. Eight scarlet-fever cases in Cedar Rapids, -la., have been traced to af fected milk from a retail dairyman, whose children contracted the disease from milk of the dairy farm, the daugh ter being afflicted. The state dairy commissioners will act. Sausage meat and dried meat are said to be made at Hammond, Lake county. Ind., from the remains of broken down and diseased horses, which are purchased in Chicago, from the street car companies and trans ported to Hammond for slaughter. In his proclamation to the people of Finland the czar of Russia expresses his desire to confirm the religion and fundamental laws of the country and the rights anil privileges of every class, high and low. which they have hitherto enjoyed according to the constitution of the country. A terrible wind, rain and hail storm prevailed in Brussels and vicinity, on the 13th, doing immense damage to property and involving considerable loss of life. Fifteen deaths were re ported. During the storm the roof of a factory at Ath was carried away killing four persons. Ex-Statk Senator John O'Mam.f.y, who had been wanted by the Chicago police for over a week on the charge of shooting and wounding a hack driver and saloon-keeper on election night, surrendered himself to Chief Iirennan, on the 15th, and gave bail to appear when called for trial. An attorney for the 5i5il alleged flcti tious patent medicine companies at South liend., Ind., was at the post of lic'c department in Washington, on the 15th, for the. purpose of having the 'fraud orders" against the companies rescinded. o hearing in the case, however, was ordered. Rev. Max Magit., during the past year rabbi of the Brith Ernes Jewish congregation in Allantown, Pa, re signed his charge on the 10th. He renounced his faith and declared his conversion to Christianity. He will join the new United Evangelical church, and may enter the ministry. It is announced that tho firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., of New York, under its present title, will expire by limitation on January 1, 1805. A new firm will then be organized, under the title of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. The change is due to the death of A. J. Drexel and J. Hood Wright. The London house will also be reorganized, and, after the date mentioned, will be known as Morgan, Harjes & Co. Tub Manufacturers' Record, of Bal timore, Md., publishes sixty letters from United States senators and rep resentatives giving their views as to whether the government should afford financial aid to secure the early com pletion of the Nicaragua canaL The writers, about equally divided be tween the two great parties, take strong grounds, almost unanimously, In favor of the oompletion of the canal its eozrWol byihs PaUed, Utt ' V - ' NEWS AND NOTES. A. Summary of Important Bttntk PCRVONXi. AND GENERAL. It Is reported that John WUdts aft American, alias "note," and Cameron; a Scotchman. .tW, 'Browne," who were M-rttsted on board the French ftteftmship Sidney, from Marseilles fWr Yokohama and Hong-Kcmg, charged with conspiracy to rta&troy the Japan ese fleet by tt use of torpedoes, have o !tased from custody by the Jap fftucse, after taking oaths not to re sort to any action tending to nelst China during the wur, TntHTKict canes of smnll-pox wer discovered In New York citf-, Oh the 12th, in the vicinity ot West Thirty ninth fttreet. The cohtaglo.n' arose from a case of small-pox reeentiy frutid at 439 West Thirty-ninth rcet. Tan first of thw two steamships bnilt in this opvmtry for the International Navigation Co. wns launched from tH Cramps' shipyard in Philadelphia, on the 12th, in the prepuce of President Cleveland, members of the cabinet and a larX throng of people. Mrs. Cleve land stood sponsor for the vessel, and christened it the St. Louis, after the metropolis of Missouri. A circular inviting bids for sso.OobV 000 ten-year 5 per cent, government bonds was issued by the treasury de partment on the 13th. O.v the 12th a dispatch from Shang hai to the Central News, London, said It was reported there that Port Arthut was taken by the Japanese, ou the ilt'h, without resistanws The Japanese, after bombarding the place for a short time made a land assault upon the enemy's works, when the Chinese sur rendered. The Japanese legation at Washing ton had not, up to the 19th, received official confirmation of the capture of Port Arthur. The legation people say, however, that if Port Arthur has in truth fallcu. it will be the most disas trous blow that China could have re ceived. Electricians doubt the success of the attempts which will be made at Auburn (N. .) prison to resuscitate Murderer Wilson after his electrocu tion. Gov. Flower has declared his in tention to permit the experiment, which will be made by experts in the execution room. A special to the Bee from Neligh, Neb., says: Barrett Scott, the default ing treasurer of Holt county, Neb., Who stole 5100.000, was sentenced at Neligh, on the 12th, to the penitentiary for five years. The academy building nt Rush ville, Ind., a handsome brick, together with its contents was completely de stroyed by fire on the 13th. The building was occupied by the Rush ville business college, whose loss on fixtures is 51,500. Loss on the build ing, S'iO.OOO; insurance small. Sup posed to be the work of an incendiary. William S. Sturgis, aged TO years, the Chicago millionaire whose suit for millions against Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, has made such a stir in legal circles, and who was adjudged insane by a commission of lunacy, on the 5th, died at the tilenmary home in Oswego, N. Y., of senile dementia on the 12th. A cold wave spread over Pensacola, Fla., and vicinity, on the 12th, the thermometer going to 28. Ice was plentiful. Many of the older inhabit ants do not remember a frost so early. The czar has appointed the prince of Wales honorary colonel of the Kieff regiment of dragoons. Col. Wm. H. Gibbs, ex-state senator and republican postmaster at Jackson, Miss., was sentenced in the federal court, on the 13th, to three years in the Kings county (N. Y".,) penitentiary for embezzling, as postmaster, $4,000. Ox the 13th the London court of chancery granted Sir Augustus Har ris, the theatrical manager, an interim injunction preventing Col. Mapleson from circulating a prospectus connect ing Harris with the Imperial opera company, which is about to be floated as a stock enterprise. Oxe hundred persons were killed by the late seismic disturbances within a radius of 40 miles from the city of La i'az, Bolivia. The train on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, which was held up by the Cook gang on the night of the 13th, was heavily guarded by United States marshals, but Bill Cook and Cherokee Bill, with their fifteen men, forced them to surrender all their guns, money and watches. A bomb found by a London police man in a niche between the pillars of the court of justice, on the 12th, was found on examination to contain noth ing explosive. The Italian deputy, Agnini, was. on the 14th, sentenced to six months' im prisonment at Modena for taking part in the organization of societies, de signed to subvert the government. A BOARlHXGiiousB in Elberfeld, Rhen ish Prussia, was destroyed by fire, on the night of the 13th, and seven of its occupants were burned to death. Sev eral others are missing. Henry Binder, a wealthy and well known German resident of Ann Arbor, Mich., was burned to death in his baru on the night of the 13th. The Trowbridge flouring mill at South Haven, Mich., was destroyed by fire on the night of the 13th. Loss, S10.000; partly insured. Government soldiers captured by the Brazilian insurgents are given the choice of death or enlisting in the rebel army. They enlist. The United States revenue cutter Bear arrived at San Francisco from Behring sea on the 13th. Tub resignation of Dr. Hermann von Schelling, Prussian minister ol justice, was accepted by Emperor Wil liam, on the 14th, and Dr. Shonstedt, formerly president of the celle court of appeals, was appointed to succeed him. The British ship Culmere, Capt Read, last reported at Hamburg, Octo ber 1, from Iquique, foundered, on the 14th, in a gale 80 miles off Spurn Head, Yorkshire, England. Twenty-two per- : sons were drowned, including the cap tain and his wife. Sheffield, la., a town of 1,000 popu lation, was wiped cut by fire on the night of the 14th. Only two build ings, Carkart'a bank and Shaeffer A Reynold' store, were left standing. Total loss, 8135,000; insurance, $50,000. OFFiciALcopiesof Secretary Carlisle's circular inviting proposals for bonds reached the subtreasury in New York, ! on the 15th, and each bank and trust mmMnff rmijiAil a. Mmv. - At a meeting of directors in New York, on the 15th, Clarence Seward was elected vice-president of the Adams Express Co. and y, B, peusmore wm f aoseu secrvisrj' . BAT it tho sold of the corn lands I faded to em ber graft And what If the Down of tho thtstlo Is ripened and scattered away! there's gold In the gathered harvest; There's homely and neaMSome cheer; And so ra trill be lull Joyous Trt Quy ot thanksgiving is here. A sigh for the vanished splendor Ot the autumn's purple and red-. For the golden-rod that Is whitened, For the gentian bloom that lis deadt Then turn to the hearthstone cheery; Behold, 'tis the time ot year. To count our blessings and mercies-' The day ot thanksgiving Is here. feare and brown In the shadows. The meadowland meets the gaze. Where th! bold, blithe bee went seeking Its sweets In the summer days. The honey Is stored In plenty, So what If the winter Is dear? The time Is not one for repining The day ot thanksgiving is here. The fruit has matured In Its season. The sunshine has ripened the seed, Then sing to the Lord of the harvest A song of thankoglvlng Indeed, The morn and the noon huve passed by us: 'TIs the sweet afternoon of tho year; So let not your tribute be la-klng The day of thanksgiving Is here. Huttto Whitney, In Good Housekeeping. MtlTilO were '' ' iUU talking wi you th in tho yard just now?" asked Mrs. James Tol m a n, as she strained the milk her husband had brought in. "Judge Carpenter," he replied, as he hurried out in the deepening autumnal twilight to shut the barn door and to bring in the eggs continuing, as he returned and went to the sinkroom to wash up for supper: "I talked with him so long that I am late about my chores. He said he Bhould think you and I in this large house would be like two cannon bails rolling about in an empty barn." "If he thinks the house is empty he would better come in and go over it." "Oh, empty of people he meant. Of course he knows you well enough to be sure that the rooms are furnished and in spick and span order." "Well, there's only you and me, I know, but I have always wanted a large house and I have got it. You have a great many relations, and it gives any housekeeper a comfortable feeling to know that a platoon of vis itors may come in upon her without creating a feeling of dismay as to what she is to do with them. Uulcss I am greatly mistaken, you will find in less than a month from now that our new house is noae too large." "A month? Oh: that will bring Thanksgiving. Who have you in vited?" "Xot anyone, but a large house draws company; your friends have all a standing invitation and we are not likely to be alone. Your brother Fran cis and his family will all come as usual, as a matter of course." "Thanksgiving always makes mo think of Brother Jude," said the farm er, finishing the raised cake and cus tard, drinking his tea, folding his nap kin, and pushing back from the table. "He always from a child thought so much of Thanksgiving; if he ever comes back home it will be at that time." "You hnve great faith, James; Jude hasbeen away more than twenty years. Do you think it possible that he can be living?" "More possible than to think he can be dead. He was always so very much alive, full of spring and dance and fun and common sense, too. I have expected him every Thanksgiving since he went away, and I shall expect him this year." "if he thinks of coming I should suppose he would write." "Oh, that would not be like Jude; he would want to come right in as if he had only been away over night. I remember as if it were yesterday when he went away. It was the morning after Thanksgiving. I bad to go to town with a load of corn and started before daylight As I was get ting ready what was my astonishment to have Jude, dressed as he had set out for the ball the night before, take his place on the load beside me, for Brother Jude never liked getting up carls- in the morning. As we started off he told me that he hadn't been to the ball; that Jane Bruce, the girl he expected to wait upon, had given him the slip and gone with the new school master, and rather than face the musio there would be about it he was going away to teach school himself In New Jersey, and when he got over bis mor tification he should coma back. I sup pose he never has got over it, for we never have seen him from that day to this, nor has he ever written, but I can't help expecting him every Thanks giving." "Well, for your sake, I hops that he may come, if he does there is room enough, that is one consolation. He may oe married ana nave a large fam ily." "No, Jude would never marry. Wherever he is, he is true to Jane Bruce." , "Ana sne, poor ming, nas bad a hard life with her intemperate hus band and burying him and their chil dren and her own poor health and all I have been thinking of hiring her to help me for a month that would bridge her over until after Thanks giving and she bas no home of her own." "AH right; should Jude come be would nevar know be? name or her UU M J - faee, and It she didn't ilka .being; here to wait upon her old lover she could goaway. ... , , ''Well, yon do beat all, James, for planning, t should as soon think of ezpeotlng your Aunt Susie Hammond from Boston Rs til expecting Jude. I httVe heard about as much of one as of the other and have never seen either." Strangely enough a week later Aunt Susie Hammond appeared. "I hear from yon sometimes by the wsy of family friends," the said, "and when news tame of your large hew house, I said: 'They are sure to have room enough for me, and I am going for a long visit'" "I am glad id see you," said Mrs. Tolmad. "James is very fond of com pany, particularly of family friends with Whom he can talk over old timet of which I know nothing, being a new comer in the vicinity. I cannot give you the very best room, for that, at Thanksgiving time, is to be kept for Brother Jude." "You do not mean to say you have heard lrom him?'' "Xo, but husband expects him every year, and now that you have come, t have faith to believe it possible for the Jude of whom I have heard so much to come, also," "I hope he will," said Aunt Susie; "there is no one whom I should be so glad to see as Jude Jude, the brother of James, we used to call him" -and thereafter she and Mr. Tolman re called so many pleasant reminiscences of the wanderer's boyhood and in dulged in so many suppositions as to his home coming, that even doubtful Mrs. Ja.nes found herself planning for the advent of an elegant gentleman, for whom the best her nice new house offered was none too good. And Jane Bruce, the help, who as a matter of course in those days was made one of the family, listened and put in a word now and then and in dulged in her own fancies regarding the coming of her youthful lover. Several distant relations were in vited to meet Aunt Susie, and the family party grew and grew, Until, as all the women were helpful and en tered with zest into the preparations, and Mrs. James was willing that each should experiment with her own favor ite recipe, the house was alive with a genial bustle delightful to social Farmer Tolman, who hindered as much as he helped, perhaps, as he hovered about, making sure that the many cooks had everything at hand to make the feast perfect in its way. "Where are my best slippers?" he " TOU hatek't charged a particle." cried the night before the long an ticipated day. "I must change my footgear; I stepped square into a hot pumpkin pie in the back pantry just now." "Dear me, James," cried his wife, "what could you have been after in the back pantry? The shelves were all crowded full, and I told Jane she would have to set the last ovenful along the floor to cool." "When there is food enough for a regiment one pie more or less does not matter. I thought 1 would find out without asking if you had made a sweetened chicken pie. I knew I could tell by the smell. Brother Jude was master fond of sweetened chicken pie." "lie's come, Jude has come!" ex claimed Jane, dropping an iron basin of rye and Indian bread she had just taken from the oven; "he's coming up the walk to the dining-room door this minute!" "Oh, no," said Aunt Susie, looking from the window, "that man is too old for Jude, the brother of James." "Of course he's older," half sobbed Jane in excitement; "so bo I. So be all of us." "Jude? I guess not; In an old weather beaten suit of clothes like that" said the farmer, gazing over the shoulders of the women, but he opened the door. The stranger came in, and, looking about the large cheery room at the group of curious faces, exclaimed: "Why, Jane! Jane Bruce! You haven't changed a particle!" "Neither have you, Jude," cried Jane, being the first to take his hand. "I knew you the moment I set my eyes on you." "It is a witness of true love," whis pered Mrs. James to Aunt Susie. "There was something in each face that could not be changed by the wear and tear of time." After that no one doubted it was Jude, the brother of James; but none of the relations, not even talkative Aunt Susie, knew what to say to him. It was Mrs. James who came to rescue the well-known reputation for hospi tality of the house. "Dear Brother Jude," she said, "in the joyful surprise they have aU for gotten to make us acquainted, but I am James' wife. You have been ex pected home every Thanksgiving since I married into the family, and this year we all seemed to have pres cience of your coining. You are very welcome." . ' "Yon are very kind, very kind," said th neweomer in a trembling voice, auite broken up by the eordhtflu of nls reception, 'and fumbling In vain in his pockets for a handkerchief, until fresh one was adroitly slipped into his hand by Jane, as she came for ward to replenish the fire. "I've bad hard luck and I'm pretty poor." "So was the prodigal," said his sister-in-law, encouragingly. "That was what gave rae courage to come this year. 1 have beCn Wanting Id tdme every Thanksgiving, but hardly dared Venture; but a few months ago 1 was converted. Yes, I Was," as a murmur of Intefest ran through tho little group "It came ubout this way. A col porteur came along to the poor little factory village where I lived, distrib uting Bibles and holding meetings, and he talked with me and wanted me to go to one of his meetings, and I said I would if he would preach from J ude, that being my name and a Bible name too yes, it is! and I went, and well I was converted, and since then I have been preaching, yes, I have! 1 don't look mttch like it, perhaps, but I've been sick and had to sell my good clothos to get money to come home, for that was what I had made up my mind to do and I came." "That was quite right," said the mistress of the house, "and to-morrow you must speak at our church. We have no minister j'lst now, but there was a Thanksgiving service appointed, and it will be an excellent opportuni ty for you to begin a work that I trust may continue among us." "But my clothes are, not fit" "Oh, your brother has plenty of clothes that will be a good fit for you. In fact, he has a new black broadcloth suit he has never worn. I have been teasing him for more than a year to get it and have it ready in case I should die or he should be taken him self, or anything else in particular should happen; and that you should come home a preacher is something so very much in particular that you must wear the suit. But supper is ready; you must be hungry by this time." "Well," he said, soon after supper, "if 1 am to preach to-morrow I must make preparations so I will, If you please, go early to my room, and I should like a Bible, pen, ink and paper and if it is not too much trouble I should like to try on the suit I am to wear to-morrow so that I may not feel altogether awkward in them." "You certainly do not Intend to put him into that dainty best chamber?" said Aunt Susie to the hostess, as she was carrying the fine black suit up- stairs, with James' very best linen shirt and a white necktie. "Oh, yes, indeed; it is so nice to have him come home a preacher. I shouldn't wonder if he should marry June, after all. How romantic that would be! She is a good creature, and they could live here with us if it was necessary there's room enough." "Well, you are a saint! you are, and no mistake," said Aunt Susie. "The joy of my home-coming is so great, and the labor of preparing my sermon so considerable, that I fear I shall pass a sleepless night," said Jude, as he stood rubbing his hands before the glowing open fire iu the best chamber; "and I kopeno noise that I may make will disturb the fam ily." "Oh, certainly not, make yoursel' perfectly at home, and if you w t something to cat go right down in tho back pantry and help yourself," said James; and his wife added: "And if you feel like sleeping in the morning, do so. I can give you your breakfast whenever you come down." He seemed to be taking the fullest benefit of this permission, for at ten o'clock he had not appeared, and when the farmer went up to waru him against being late at church, the room was vacant The high feather bed had not been disturbed, the fire had not been re plenished, the old weather-beaten gar ments lay on the hearth. On the table the Bible was open at Jude and the fourth verse was marked around heav ily with ink. "I think it was a judgment," said the "farmer; "wife acted so about my getting that black suit I'm glad they are gone. I feel as if 1 bad taken a new lease of life." "My carpet bag is gone out of the front hall," said one of the guests. "The sweetened chicken pie and one of the pound cakes ain't nowhere," said Jane, coming in from the back pantry. "My purse is gone out of the pocket of my cloak: that bung upstairs In the hall closet" said Aunt Susie. "Was it Jude?" said Mrs. James, without mentioning that she had just missed her own highly prized gold watch from the parlor lowbuoy. That was a question that has never been answered. One of the townspeo ple who drove five miles to meeting that morning, as was not uncommon in those days, told of seeing a stranger In black carrying a carpet bag about the time he left home, and the pro prietor of the village store confessed that late in the afternoon before hanktf irlng a group of neighborhood , "... . '('." ' . - ; gossip's hnd.pretty thoroughly talked over th) Tolman family from first to last even to the curious faot of their always looking for Jude at Thanks giving time, and that this year nis oia love, Jane Bruce, was helping about the housework. He remembered also that a poorly-dressed stranger was all the time warming himself at the box stove, and that as he went out he asked Where the Toltnans lived. "But," said the saloon keeper, "I know Jude and I never thought of it's being him." "Could it have been7" repeated the farmer, and his wife replied: "Whoever it was4 we did our best by him, and if he took advantage of our hospitality it is not our fault Had it bceu your brother and had we treated him cdldly, it would have been much worse than this. The best rooms have all been used, and my maxim that a large house draws company has proved true. And now If you please we will give Jude, the brother of James, a rest" "All right," said her husband, "but was it Jude?" Annie Preston, in Springfield (Mass.) Republican. PAYING UP. Uncle Joshua Concludes It Is About Time J He Renumbered Ills Blessings. It all began by Aunt Mandy asking Uncle Joshua, on Thanksgiving eve, what she should have for dinner on the morrow. "Don't see why we should hev any thing different from any day." said Uncle Joshua. It must be owned that he was feeling a little "down," and not in a very thankful mood. "Why. Joshuy, it's Thanksgivin'," said Aunt Mandy, reprovingly. "Wall, all 1 can say is, then, that we ain't no cause to celebrate." "Joshuy Thornton," cried Aunt Mandy, "you ain't no call to talk like that jest because crops didn't turn out good on account of drought, an' because old Brindlc got killed. I guess if you wuz laid up for months like Sam Hig gins, or 1 wuz took away, or our house should burn down, you'd think that beln' dis'pointed in crops wa'nt noth In. Now, I've been thinkin' on't, an' I've a good mind to hev the Iliggins children over here to dinner, an' send somethin' to the old folks. It kinder seems to me that we'd ought to do somethin' for somebody in remem brance of the things that's been done to us." "Now, Mandy, I should really like to know what help we're ever had. I tell you, I've had to dig hard for the little I've got Nobody's ever died an' left vt any money, or give us any to help us out in our hard pinches. We've jest had to hustle for ourselves. Let other people do the tame." "But money ain't the only way to help people," said Aunt Mandy. "I wonder where you'd be to-day if John Ellis didn't git you away from old Farmer Jewett when you wuz a bound boy, an' took you home with him, an' treated you like a father?" "(losh, that wuz the makin' of me," said Uncle Joshua, softening. "Of course it wuz. But you ain't never done noth in' in remembrance of it yet." "I know it," said Uncle Joshua. "An', come to think on't there was Abner Wilson, who used to set up with me nights when I had that long spell of sickness, so's you could git some rest, an' wouldn't take no pay." "Yes," said Aunt Mandy, approv ingly, "an' at tho time of the freshet five year ago, Abe Ta3'lor and John Griswold turned in an' helped you set over your corn that the water had lain low. They worked hard an' wouldn't take no pay for it, an' you ain't never done nothin' in remembrance of that yet, either." "Say, Mandy," said Uncle Joshua, with an emphasis that seemed quite unnecessary under the circumstances, "you jest git up the nicest dinner to raorrer that you kiu possibly do, an' we'll give those Uiggins young ones jest tho best tuna they ever had; an' 1 11 git the biggest basket on the farm to fix up old Sam an' his wife. Beckon it's about time I paid up some of the debts I thought I didn't owe, an' this seems to be erbout the only way to dc it. American Agriculturist ANTEDATES THE PILGRIMS. Our Thanksgiving Day Really Had Ita Origin In the Harvest Home of Merrle England. It is sometimes claimed that Thanks giving day is exclusively an American institution, all of which is not wholly true. Long before the Pilgrim Fathers braved the storms of the Atlantic iu the memorable year 1020, the land from which they came had made much of the ingathering of the harvest The Harvest Home celebrations of Mer rie England were occasions not to be dispised. The churches were crowded with worshipers, the finest specimens of the produce of the fields were heaped about the altar and the day be gan by the recognition of the Divine goodness that had made the land tc bring forth abundantly, that had clothed the hills with flocki and made the valleys smile with golden corn. Then came the feastings and the mer rymaking, the musio and the dancing, All the land was glad and grateful. The spirit of the "Harvest Home" was in the fathers and founders of the great republic. They believed in God with a belief that was strong enough to inspire their motives and govern all their life. They wrote His name in broad bold characters on Plymouth Rock, and laid the foundations of this great empire in the fear and faith of Him. Out of all this sprung our na tional institution of Thanksgiving day; the form of which changes with other changing elements; but the spirit of which we may well hope will never die. baturday Evening Herald. FORESIGHT. "That's the ehap what was always pokin' fun at me 'cause I kept from eatin' all the stuff they gave me; I knoweu what I was about r They oouldo't fool me whea Tbenkjgivin' WMeomir-Lifa, jur. ee. U. JHettench The Plain Facts Are that r have naa -1" eatarrh cure did me any good, but Hooa s Bar Hood 'Z Santt- r parua r.ures saparilla. helped me wonueriuiiy. my neiiu Is cl pared, sense of smell returning. Hood's Bar- saparilla is doing; my . i. wire a world of good for That """d Feel ing. UBOHOI X. 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