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r. K DKVGENDORr, Publisher. ItrTOSI. ; ; ; MIS3"'trl Gen. Miles says the Spanish war was without a defeat for the American side. Not a prisoner, a flag or a rifle was lost. i no recoru 01 success is extraordinary. Olirer Wendell Holmes used to be an amateur photographer. When he pre sented a picture to a friend he wrote oa the back: "Taken by 0. W. Holmes & Sun.w Two little steamers to be built by an English firm are to have a speed of 40 statute miles an hour. Crossing the Atlantic in three days has reached the stage of possibility. ! An English newspaper having offered o prize of 5 for the best reply to the question, "Who makes the best wife?" should have given it to that loyal soul who wrote: "Dear Sir: Mine. Yours truly, Bertram Boggs." A German biologist says that the two sides of a face are never alike. In two cases out of five the eyes are out of line; one eye is stronger than the other in seven persons out of ten, and the right eye is generally higher than the left. 1 A ship building firm in Belfast, Ire land, has received instructions from a Liverpool company for the construc tion of a cargo steamer to be CSO feet long and 75 feet of beam. She will be the largest cargo steamer in the world, and will be able to carry more than the once famous Great Eastern. It is said that Saturday has been a fatal day lo the royal family of Britain for the last 185 years. William II L Queen Anne, George I., George II., George III., George IV., the duchess of Kent, the prince Consort, the duke of Clarence, the duke of Albany, and Princess Alice all died on that day. ! It has been less than two years since the law making life imprisonment in stead of death penalty for murder in Colorado went into effect and yet agita tion has already begun looking to a re vival of the death penalty. It is as serted by those who wish a reestablish ment of the gallows that the life-imprisonment law has resulted in an epi demic of crime. j The Siamese government has in formed our government that it is about to reestablish its legation in Washing ton after a lapse of many years, during which all of its diplomatic correspond ence has been carried on through its legation at London. The new Siamese minister has arrived and has presented his credentials at Washington. His name is Fhya Visddha Suriyasakti. A company with a capital stock cf $800,000, in which several wealthy Mex ican capitalists of Monterey are inter ested, has been organized for the pur pose of developing the oil fields of Mexico, and to place the product on the market in that and other countries. There are several productive oil fields in Mexico, one of the richest of them being located in the state of Taroauli pas. Adjt. Gen. Corbin's annual report shows that the total strength of the regular and volunteer armies during the war with Spain was 11,108 officers and 203,908 enlisted men a total of 275, 016 men. That report also states that the total deaths from wounds and dis ease up to October 3 were 107 officers and 2,803 enlisted men a total death list of 2,910 men, and a death percentage of less than 1.06. ; Yankee girls at Bridgeport, Conn., have formed a matrimonial trust to reg ulate the market on a better basis. The girls have organized what they have named "The Anti-Chair Warming So ciety of Marriageable Maidens," and will limit the supply of entertainers for the frivolous young men by forcing them to a declaration of intentions on the third visit. This will tend to kill off some of these old ten-year "steadies" that are the despair of every unmarried girl. ' The railway system in the United States employs 36,000 locomotives, 26, 000 passenger cars and 9,000 mail and . baggage cars. These figures seem large till the number of freight cars is stated, which is 1,250,000. The system, with its gigantic equipment, is practically the growth of a single generation. With the additions of another quarter or half a century posterity ought to stand and gaze at its stupendous proportions. But it will probably be gradually educated out of all its capacities of wonder, as we have been out of many of our own. The duchess of Madrid, the wife ot Don Carlos, the pretender to the Span ish throne, recently declared before leaving Lucerne that ber husband was perfecting arrangements for the seizure of the throne and that within one year he would be the reigning sovereign in Spain. She expressed it as her opinion that the queen regent will abdicate in favor of her son, and will then allow Carlos to take the throne in order to avoid civil strife and bloodshed, which she says will surely follow in case he is refused his rights when next he makes his demands. Capt. Sigsbee, who commanded the battleship Maine and later the big aux iliary cruiser the St. Paul, will be the first officer in the navy to secure an al lotment of prize money. Capt. Sigsbee has been awarded $975 and his crew $5, 523 to be divided according to their pay, for the capture of the collier Restormel oft Santiago, to which port the collier was bound in an attempt to deliver coal to Cervera's fleet. Had Sigsbee not stopped the Itestormel Cervera would have received his coal and more prob ably have been out of the harbor before be could have been blockaded. ? e mm The old Bradlee house at the corner of Tremont and Hollia streets in Bos ton is being torn down to make way for a modern one. It is one of the most in teresting historic landmarks in Boston. In its wide old kitchen the leaders of the Boston tea party disguised them selves as Indians on the evening of De cember 16, 1773, before going to the wharf where the cargo of tea was thrown into the waters of Boston har bor. The old South church and Faneuil hH oca Ida nnlv two hnildinirB hesirle the Bradlee house now left which shel tered the patriots on that eventful day. MISSOURI STATE NEWS. rr Bettor Sural Schools. ' State Saperintendentof Schools John B. Kirk speaks of his recommendations to the general assembly as follows: We should cease our wasteful experimenta tion and profit by the example ot older states, whose school organization is more perfect than ours. I shall recommend legislation nrovidlnff for the abandonment of exist in? isolated, and f often impoverished. Independent small school districts and their consolidation into larger ones, at least Dve or six miles square, with au thority to furnish transportation for pupils to and from school. The plan ot having two, three and four-room buildings at the center of a large district and hauling the children to and from school In covered wagons increases the attendance, reduces expenses and greatly im proves the instruction. I shall also recommend state aid of Irom S500 to fl.OCiO to each high school organized accord in? to the approved standards and admitting, without tuition fees, all students of high-school prads who wish to enter from surrounding rural schools. I shall also recommend legisla tion looking to the earliest possible adoption of a free text-book law. M isccllaneoiH. Congressman Bland's official major ity over Robertson in the Eighth dis trict Is 2,870. Jacob Samuels, of Columbia, was sentenced to five years imprisonment for forging a check for only S3. 50. Incendiaries set fire to the buildings of the Bouss milk dairy at Dug Hill, near St. Joseph, and 19 cows perished. Scarlet fever developed near Little Kock, Saline county, but every precau tion was taken to prevent an epidemic. A St. Louis dispatch said Col. R. C Kerens would again ask the republic an legislative indorsement for United States senator. President Luckey, of the Missouri State Teachers' association, has issued a circular letter requesting a large at tendance of teachers at the next meet ing of the association at Jefferson City December 29. At Cartilage the other night Charles Carroll, the "cowboy evangelist," was assaulted on bis way home from church by Cad Northup, who alleged that the evangelist was interfering in Nor th lip's love affairs. Gov. Stephens appointed delegates to represent Missouri at the good roads and public improvement convention, which is to be held in St. Louis, No vember 21 to 23. Every part of the state is represented. E. W. Stephens, of the Columbia Herald, lias purchased the controlling interest in the Daily and Weekly Tribune, at Jefferson City, and will take charge immediately, still retain ing his Columbia paper. While Rev. W. K. Hanna and wife, of the Promenade street M. E. church at Mexico, were absent from the pas toral residence, thieves entered in day light and carried away some cash, a gold watch and other jewelry. Miss Minnie Muir, of Buaceton, a month ago married George A. Barker, salesman in a St. Louis dry goods store. A few days later a woman arrived on the scene from Indianapolis, 111., and claimed Barker as her husband. V. L. Penland, ex-representative from Howell county, shot and killed his brother-in-law, James Kelly, in the public square at West Plains. The tragedy grew out of a divorce suit now pending between Penland and his wife, Kelly's sister. A candidate for office in Greene county filed the following statement of election expenses: "Blank paper, 10 cents; cigars, 10 cents; bananas, 20 csnts; loaned money, 5 cents; certifi cate of nomination, 25 cents; cigars, 25 cents; chewing gum, 20 cents. Total, 81.15." Martin Baldwin, an aeronaut, wan sent to the insane asylum at St. Jo seph recently. Last September Bald win made an ascension from the fair grounds at St Joseph, and in descend ing alighted on the roof of a six-story building, receiving injuries which afterward made him insane. C. N. Mayers, a pioneer and wealthy resident of St. Joseph, is dead from a broken heart When his wife passed away three months asro be told a phy sician he could never eurvive the blow. Just before his death he gave away valuable business property and several residences in the city to old friends. A telegram from Savannah, Ga., where the Sixth Missouri regiment is camped, said Col. Hardeman would nsk the war department for permission to recruit the regiment up to a point near the maximum. About 40 men from the Third and Fifth Missouri regiments had arrived in Savannah and were divided among the eight companies. A. J. Hamil, of Lincoln county, aged 75 years, had his first ride on a train last week. He boarded a train to go to Winfield, and his acting as if he were not used to it caused inquiry, which led to his admission that it was his first experience. He was born and reared in Hurricane township, in Lin coln county, and has lived within three miles of the Burlington railroad ever since it was built. The recent annual convention of the Missouri Federation of Women's clubs was held at Springfield last week, the sessions being largely attended. Offi cers for the ensuing year were chosen ns follows: Mrs. Ellen D. Lee, St Louis, president; Mrs. Ilomer Fuller, Springfield and Mrs. W. P. Wallace, Lebanon, vice presidents; Mrs. L. T. S. McClelland, Sedalia, recording sec retary; M. Defoe, Columbia, corre sronding secretary; Mrs. Emma Tau sisr, St Louis, treasurer. The next meeting will be atColumbia. Several stockmen in Audrain county who bought big herds of cattle in southwest Missouri learned that a great number of the cattle had been stolen. .1. B. Barber hung himself in a wood shed at Cabool. This was his third at tempt at suicide. He was despondent because of the conduct of his son who is serving a jail sentence in Spring- field. Preston Roberts, Sr., who died at Independence recently, was a Jackson countv pioneer and was identified with mail contracts, freighting and river transportation in the early days of Kansas City. At Cbillicothe, a 5-year-old child ol Sherman Peters died from concentrated lye that was given him by his small sister, who thought it water. Louis E. Norton, the world famous steeple climber, is in jail at St Joseph charged with burglary. It is reported that Gov. Stephens, in his message to the next legislature, will urire the creation of a board ol pardons. Mrs. Fannie Goggins, of Hannibal, tried to start afire in the kitchen stove with kerosene. The can burst and Mrs. Gnggiusdid not live to tell tht I "r.V. mil HERE are forty of as Robinsons, all thriving, bale ana sound. And we always get together when Thanks giving comes around. It takes a week for some of us to make the journey here; But we wouldn't miss Thanksgiving It we traveled all the year: We fill the dear old homestead to the attic rafters quite. And the bees could scarce hive closer than de we. Thanksgiving night We bring a host of children, but there's no distinction found: We're all a pack of children when Thanks giving comes around. Tou ought to see us playing tag behind the old red barn. All running, twisting, tangled, like a living skein of yarn. And then we all go coasting on the slope of Mutton hill. And, like as not, get "slewing" round and take a Jolly spill. Oh, what an appetite we have when mother blows the horn! How good the crisp, brown turkeys smell, all fattened up with corn! The puddings and the pumpkin pies, the jellies white and red Ah! mother's cooking is a boast from Maine to Marblchead! When dinners over, all round the wide old hearth we sit. And live our youthful pleasures o'er, and crack our nuts and wit. O happiest day of all the time that through the hour-glass runs. Thanksgiving in the old-time was at Grand pa Robinson's! Paul Pastnor. in N. Y. Independent. the hen. She was too small. Never hen spread herself as did this one, but it was of no use; she wasn't equal to it. Melvira," remarked Mr. JJassy to his wife, as he looked into the coop Melvira, if I didn't know different, 1 thou'.d say you was a natural-born fool." William Henry," snapped Mri. Dussy, "I aA a natural-born fool, or I d never married you. "Mebby you're right, Melvira, he taid, uneasily. "But I wish you U ex plain why you didn't pick cut a bigger hen "That hen was the biggest one on the place that wanted to set," returned Mrs. Dassy. "I suppose you'd have set those eggs under a hen that didn't want to set, wouldn't you?" "Well, not exactly that, Melvira. A hen that hasn't fully and thoroughly made np her mind to set isn't a very stationary critter. But why didn't vou keep the eggs till a more sizable hen got the setting notion into her head? "Would you have kept those eggs on ice, or would you have boiled them. William Henry?" inquired Mrs. Dassy, with vigor. "Well, I dunno what I'd have done,' fcighed Mr. Dassy, "but I'd have done (omething fore Id set nine turkey eggs under a little speckled hen like that. You d better sew a fringe on that hen so she can cover the outside eggs. Though what do we want a lot of tur keys gawking round for anyhow ?" "Well, you'll see what we want of them about next Thanksgiving. Wil li tm Henry, if you don't eat your share of those turkeys, then I lose my guess. "All right, Melvira, all right," as- tented Mr. Dassy, cheerfully, as he went back to the pump. "Only don't like the gobble of the pesky things. Makes me want to choke them." The Dassys lived on the northern edge of Nebraska. Their farm lay on the open prairie, but right at the head of Lone Tree canyon, an abrupt crack on the ground which ran down to the Niobrara river. The lone tree which gave the name to the canyon was a high and spectral pine standing a dozen yards from their barn. Never was tree so deserted l.y its kind before. There was not another in sight anywhere, although there were others down the canyon and along the river; but as you stood on the prairie you looked over them, and over the river and canyon as well, so that in whatever way you turned your eyes from the Dassy ranch you saw nothing but treeless prairie; though of an evening the wind sighed through Ihe top of the lone tree quite industri ously, and did what it could to suggest forest. The Dassy boys. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson andGeorge Washington, often talked about climbing the lone tree, but they never did so. One day a month later Mrs. Dassy came out of the coop and said: "Well, she didn't do so bad, I think." "How many?" inquired Mr. Dassy. "Seven." "No, that isn't bad, considering. Are they likely-looking critters?' "Well, they don't handsome much now, of course. Young turkeys never do. But I'm reckoning that next Thanksgiving the biggest one of 'em, baked to a turn, on the blue platter, with his legs sticking up in the air, will be just about as pretty a sight as you'll see, William Henry!" Her husband smiled and rubbed his hands. "Oh, Tm not saying a word against juicy young turkeys on plat ters 'bout Thanksgiving time. What I object to is their gobbling and strut ting around and feeling so big." "Don't say anything, William Henry," replied his wife; "I've known yon to gobble and strut around and feel big." It was still early in the spring, and the weather was cold. Perhaps it wa from this cause that the next day one of the yonng turkeys died. But the earcfml Bar el ax of lira, Dassy, o- "vvv tt9 rani 1 .IJeSsOEJVP T BEGAN with fether with the good care of their foster mother, the little speckled hen, brought .the other six through to warm weather. By this time they were able to make excursions about the near-by prairie. But their troubles were not over. At the first rain the whole flock crowd ed under a haystack, and they pressed forward so hard that one of them was smothered to death. A fortnight later a chicken-hawk swooped down and carried off another, although the little hen fought desperately and lost half her feathers in the struggle. There were but four left now. But the worst was yet to come. A week later there was a great rain storm. Shortly before its coming Mrs. Dassy had seen the turkeys under the barn, so she supposed them safe; but, in point- of fact, when it began they were twenty rods out on the prairie. At the first drops the hen began to flut ter and cluck wildly in an attempt to lead them back, but they refused to budge. There on the open prairie they weathered it out, and when the rain ceased and Mrs. Dassy discovered them and spattered out through the puddles she found three of them drowned. "There the fools were," she cried, coming back, carrying the only living one left,"all drowned standing up, with their mouths open eo's to get the most of it. There never was such fools as young turkeys!" "I always said it, Melvira," replied Mr. Dassy, gloomily. "They're the big gest fools in all creation. That ends our plans for Thank-sgiving." "No, it don't, William Henry," re turned his wife, vigorously. "This one's alive, and he's going to stay alivel" And she rolled him in a flannel cloth and put him in the oven to dry. Mr. Dassy shook his head. "No hope, Melvira, no hope," he an swered. "He'll turn up his toes inside of a week. It's bouni to come! I've felt it in my bones all alocg. Why, if that turkey can't die any other way, he'll up and go off and commit sui cide!" "Stop your croaking, William Henry," said Mrs. Dassy, sharply. 'This turkey is going to live till Thanksgiv ing, and then he'll die a natural death for turkeys." "Oh, well, I hope so, of course. He did pull through the flood first-rate, there's no denying that. Almost as well as Noah did through his flood. That's what we'll call him, Melvira Noah." "All right, William Hpnry; his name is Noah." Mrs. Dassy was right about Noah's chances for living; a half-hour in the oven made him as sprightly as ever. In fact, he wriggled out of the oven himself and went plaintively peeping away out of the open door to the speckled hen, who was delirious with joy at the sight of him. The storm seemed to mark a turn ing-point in Noah's life. There was NOW TOU PUT THAT no more trouble. The rains either ceased or he defied them. The chicken-hawks never made any more at tacks. Indeed they would shortly have had trouble in carrying him off, since he grew with the most astonishing rapidity. The speckled hen was soon the smaller of the two, and found ber- selt following Denina ns ne wanaerea here and there. .Then he began tj ignore her entirely, and at night tool to roosting on the ridge-pole of the barn. This was too much for the hen; she gave him up, and he went his own way in the world. The grasshopper sea son came on, and he developed wonder ful skill in catching these insects, to the great delight of Mr. Dassy. "I tell you what, Melvira," he one day remarked, "there isn't another turk in Nebraska that can gather in a hopper like that Noah of ours! You ought to watch him. He ses a hopper sitting on a blade of grass and not thinking about anything, and ne just up and points him like a pointer dog, and creeps closer and closer, steady, never saying a word, his head getting a little lower all the time, till he's- just right; then he makes one shoot and puts up his head sort of like this, and swallows the hopper, and Mr. Dassy twisted his neck about in a ludicrous attempt to look like Noah. "Well, I "ve got something else to do besides watch a turkey eatch hop pers!" answered Mrs. Dassy. "Though I hope he'll get a right smart lot of them, because we don't need the hop pers, and they do say there s nothing like a hopper-fattened turkey for ten der eating and flavor." "That's so, Melvira. But you ought to watch him snatch them. I've lived in five states and two territories, and I've never seen anythinglike it! Never knowed him to miss. I calculate he gobbles 400 of them every day." -The hot, dry Nebraska summer wore away, and Noah continued to thrive. The grasshopper crop was good bet ter than any other crop and Noah never failed to get his daily share of it. Each week Mr. Dassy grew more enthusiastic in his praises of Noah. He finally came to boast that Noah was .the finest turkey in the United States if not in the whole world, and that be habitually caught and ate 1,000 grasshoppers each day. Dassy, without intended it, exaggerated; but Noah certainly was a fine bird. It was one evening early in Septem ber, just after snndown, while Mrs. Dassy was finishing getting supper and her husband and two of the boys were in their places at the table wait ing expectantly, that a wild shout was heard from George Washington out side. "He's done it, pop, he's done it! Noah's done it! Come and see!" cried the boy, in huge excitement. They all rushed out. "There he is see him!" went on George Washington, leaping around like a kitten. "Look at him! I saw him do it!" The others looked up in the direc tion the boy pointed. Far out on a long and scraggy limb of the pine tree, a dark blot against the red of the western sky.sat Noah,craninghisneck this way and that as he gazed at the world below. "Good gracious alive, Melvira," cried Mr. Dassy, when he fully took in the situation, "he has done it, snre's you're born! Noah's flown into the lone tree to roost! Who'd have thought he could have done it!" "It was a big fly, and that's a fact," assented Mrs. Dassy. "Big fly!" roared Mr. Dassy, "I should say it was a big fly! It's the biggest fly any turkey in America ever made. That Noah is the most " Just then the turkey stretched out his neck and gave a loud gobble, the first he had ever been heard to utter. Mr. Dassy stopped short, struck one fist against the other, and went on: "There, it's begun! I knew that pesky gobbling would have to come. Nothing else but gobble, gobble, gob ble, now!" "Well, come in before supper all gets cold. Let him gobble if he wants to. You'd gobble, too, if you'd just llown up into the lone tree." They went in, and Mr. Dassey seemed to forget, or at least to forgive, the gobble, and said: "No, sir, Melvira; there isn't another turkey like that there Noah in America. I wouldn't take a quarter section of the best land in Keyapaha county for him." "You'll get so took up with him," an swered bis wife, "that you can't kill bim when Thanksgiving comes." "Oh, pshaw," retorted her husband. "I'll show you. Think I'm a woman, hey? What are we raising Noah for? I like him, of course, and I've got re spect for him, but we raised him for Thanksgiving that's what he's for and when the time comes, whack! off goes his head." Mr. Dassy paused and seemed 'e st in thought;" then he continued: "Of course, to kill Noah just lo kill him plain, you know, in cold blood, as they r-ay might be a little hard, but I'M just wait till he's gobbled at me, sassy GUN RIGHT BACK.' like, once or twice, nnd then you'll see slap! head's off and we've got him on the blue platter!" From this time on Noah roosted each night in the lone tree. The flight seemed in no way to disagree with him, for he waxed bigger :.nd bigger and fatter and fatter. He gobbled oc casionally, but no more than was nec essary to keep him in good voice. Through the fall he continued to range the prairie and gather belated grasshoppers. Nothing ever ruffled hij dignity, and only once did he be come excited, and that was when Mr. Dassy and his sons one af'.crnoon burned a circular firebreak a quar ter of a mile out around the buildings. When Noah saw the flames and beard the crackling of the dry grass, he ut tered an alarmed gobble and flew into the pine, where he gobbled some more and stayed till the next morning. The sason advanced and the weather became wintry, but all efforts to in duce him to enter the coop with the other fowls were useless. Even the cold winds of November did not seem to disturb him. To be sure there was no snow, or only a few flakes, even up to Thanksgiving week, but the winds blew chill, and tossed the top of the Dine about and threatened sometimes to sweep him off; but he clung to his perch. It was late Tuesday afternoon be fore Thanksgiving. Mrs. Dassy had been bustling about with the work since dinner time, but her husband had sat by the fire and scarcely spoken. She knew that he was thinking of Noah, but she said nothing. She had her own private feelings about Noah, but she knew that he had got to die. After some time she said: "Well, William Henry, I'm waiting for that turkey now." "You are, are you?" snapped the man, impatiently. "Well, why didn't you say so? What am I here for? What have I been setting around all the afternoon for? Andrew Jackson, you and George Washington go out and catch the critter." The boys started out, and Mr. Dassy went on: "Melvira, when you want a turkey killed you want to speak about it, not go around thinking I can read your pesky thoughts. I'm ready to kill that turkey any time 70a want II killed." He turned to the other boy and sabli "Thomas Jefferson, you go out and chop his head off when you get him. You'll find the ax by the grindstone. It's time you boys learned to do such things." Thomas Jefferson disappeared, and Mr. Dassy peeped cautiously out of the window. Mrs. Dassy said not a word. Andrew Jackson and George Washing ton were having a good deal of diffi culty in capturing the turkey. They had at first tried to approach him and pick him up as they had often done, but something unusual in their man ner alarmed him and he walked off. After several attempts they gave up and Andrew Jackson said: "We've got to run him down, George," and they both started after him. They were good runners; but Noah was also a good runner. Around and around the barn they went twenty times, the boys two steps behind the turkey, who had his head lowered, his wings tight folded, and was taking steps quite as long as they were. At last, however, the boys gained a little upon him. "Fall on him, fall on him!" shouted Thomas Jefferson, from the grind stone. Andrew Jackson fell forward on his face, with George Washington on top of him. But they counted without their host Noah was not there; with a fierce beat of his wings he shot out, and then sailed away to the top of the lone tree. There he stood up and uttered a de fiant gobble. "Hear that!" cried Mr. Dassy, in a rage. "I'll fix him now!" and he snatched down his rifle from the wall. "Now you put that gun right back," said his wife, firmly. "You know per fectly well if you shoot at him so far off that you are liable to wound him, and I won't have him suffering. Wait till morning, when you can gr I up close to him and shoot him right and so he'll never know what hits him." Mr. Dassy snorted once or twice and put np the rifle. It was just before the first sign of dawn next morning. The house wa dark, and the only sound to be heard was the sharp rush of the wind through the pine. Suddenly there came in the morning stillness the jangling gobble of Noah. No one heard it. Then it came again, louder. Mr. Dassy half awoke and said: "Consairn that turkey!" and turned over. There was another gobble; Mr. Dassy half opened his eyes and saw a strange light playing on the ceiling, and then one of the boys began pound ing furiously on the stovepipe, and shouted excitedly from above: "Fire! fire! There's a prairie fire coming! It's right on us; it's got in side the firebreak!" In two nvnutes the entire Dassy fami'y were out fighting the approach ing fire. It was a long hour's work. But the grass had been grazed on and trampled down, and at last with much beating of brooms, shotels, pieces of boards and old blankets they subdued the flames and saved their stacks and build-ngs. Then, tired but happy, they retuined to the house. It was then too late to return to bed and Mrs. Dassy got breakfast. After they had eaten tbey sat around the stove for an hour. The sun was well up. Xoah was walking about cautious ly outside, carrying his hend high and still somewhat alarmed. After awhile he gobbled. Mr. Dassy arose and took down his rifle. "William Henry," said his wife sharply, "what are you going to do?" "What am I going to do? Well, I reckoned Pd take a turn along the edg-5 of the canyon and see if I couldn't knork over a jack-rabbit. To-morrow s Thanksgiving. Do you think we can have a Thanksgiving without any fresh meat?" Then he went out. It was the next day and they were all gathered round the table. Mrs. Dassy's brother from Sand Lake was witli them. He looked at the blue plat ter nnd said: "'Pears to me, William Henry, that's a powerful queer-looking Thanksgiving turkey you've got. I'll bet a dollar there ain't any wish bone in it." "You've hit It right, niram," re turned Mr. Dassy. "Our Thanksgiving turkey ain't much to brag of, but we ve got a right smart heap of Thanksgiving. Hear that rascal Nonh gobbling out there! I tell yon he's got the clearest and the musicalest gobble of any turkey in the whole pesky world!" Hayden Carruth, in Youth's Companion. THAT TERKIBL.B KID. Mrs. Smith Did you give your moth er the invitation to take Thanksgiving dinner at our house? Tommy Jones Yes, ma'am. "n,1 'vL-ha rlirl . ...... - . "Said be supposed we'd have to go, but she'd rather stay at home and get a square meal." N. Y. Journal. 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