NORW
ALK GAZETTE,
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OVEMBERoa
1887.
JOHN WHITE’S THANKSGIVING.
“Thanksgiving !—for what?“ '
—and he muttered 21 cars
“For the plainest of food
and an empty purse;
For a life of hard work
and the shabbiest clothes?
But it‘s idle to talk
of a poor man‘s woes!
Let the rich give thanks,
it is they who can;
There is nothing in life
for a laboring man.“
So said John White
to his good wife Jane,
And o‘er her face
stole a look of pain.
“Nothing, dear John?“
and he thought again;
Then glanced more kindly '
down on Jane.
“I was wrong,“ he 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 Jane‘s face
came a look of joy;
And she kissed her John
as he went away;
And he said to himself,
as he worked that day:
“1 “Ti wrong, very wrong:
[‘11 not grumble again,
I should surely be thankful
for baby and Jane."
AN IDEAL THANKSGIVING.
As there are abuses the law cannot reach,
so there are people no holiday includes.
There is a time of the year when vagrants—
criminals, in a word, the destitute as a body
-—are feasted with good things and made to
share the comfort of the rich. But as corn~
prehensive as this charity may be, as minute
in its search after recipients, as thoughtful
in the choice of creature comforts, it is 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? “'0 see much of the other side of the
picture, but it is startling to think that those
who come to the surface are only the minor—
ity. Beneath ever ' success, however modest
and obscure, there is a substructure of accu-
mulated failures; and for one or ten whom we
see in moderate comfort and unassuming
case, there are 100 or 1,000 who have been too
weak to swim.
I had been to many fully spread boards,
public and private, on this day of typical
thanksgiving for all the blessings and good
gifts of the year; but one to which I was ac-
cidentally introduced late in the evening
proved of greater interest and rarity than
any of the others.
The host was a gray headed man, wifeless
and childless, rich, odd, disappointed and
generally supposed tobe misanthropic. He
had no aim in 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 found his; place in 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 body, and when any
one told him that he had much to thank
Providence for he would shrug his shoulders
in wonder. .
As the ‘ years went on this man brooded
more and more over disappointed hopes, and
took a morbid pleasure in finding out cases of
failure in all the various callings of life. He
dwelt on the subject until it became a mono-
mania. One or two acquaintances—he had
no heart friend—out of compassion advised
him to turn 13‘. brooding to practical use by
benefiting men in situations like his own.
Such was the singular host. As for the
:‘ , they were as various in class, cduw
th and appearance as they could be,
a. city ivhero everything under the
are or less represented. All who are
tend ruined in reputation and po~
:i at that strange feast of moral
Every degree of shabbiness, of
. in 1'9. ea or garment, was present;
r~ was made as to dress, and those
whom shame or idlcncs" 'nade remiss were, as
freely admitted as they who 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 bcen.
0n the 1:05 ’5 right hand sat a man in rusty
black, with nervous hand-3 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 way.
On the host‘s left, the other place of honor
fund what a significant distinction to oc-
cupy those prominent seats—sat the jauntiest
individual of the whole party. At first sight
it would have been difficult to say why he
had his share at this banquet of the ruined,
disappointed, bereaved and afflicted. It was
not his look nor his dress that told the secret,
but his words. He was bett- er dressed than any
of his fellows, and a self satisfied expression
was upon his face. But you soon saw a blank
in the midst of that self satisfaction—the lack
of something, which mysterious something
would have just put him beyond the pale of
our friend‘slcircle. He talked louder than the
rest and held out; the comfort of irresponsi-
bility in the present and annihilation hero-
after—no God to restrain us now, and none
to judge us later; but the lack of that “some-
thing” made his face grow ugly and hard as
he expounded his theories, and his own a; -
pcarance was but a poor argument in favor
of his theories.
A curious rivalry between many of the
guests attracted my 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
prosperity they had been appealed to in vain.
Any cant about equality in spite of loss of
money was promptly resented by those who
had been in the attitude of solicitors. This
feast was no good place at which to air fine
talk not supported by fine character. The
restrictions which obtain in society less
honest of speech, though more polished, were
laid aside and each one spoke his mind. All
told their . worldly circumstances‘ quite
plainly.
One said that he lived with his wife, three
children and mother-in—law in two rooms in
an unwholesome tenement house, and earned
$5 a, week in a slop shop selling rotten cloth-
ing to greenhorns. ' 7
Another said: “I started in life with the
notion of being a great author. [am over
40 now, and glad to get $6 a week, in a book
store. I have covered reams of paper and
anode about $1,000 altogether in little sums,
but no one knows my name. I carried a.
novel and an epic from one publishing house
to another for ten years, and Dev er could
”get anv editor even to read them. 1 am trv~ .
I affect.
ing to save a little money now to get the
poem published after my death, with a little
autobiography which may teach the world
what it has lost, and make people 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 J uliet sell.” -
“You talk of (loath like a child,” said a
creaking voice across the table. “I-lero am I,
an old woman, once Minnie St. Angel, the
famous actress, but none the less a starving,
broken down drudge now. Novcr despair
while you are young; it is only the old who
know what trouble is. To have been ‘some
)nc,’ and then fall to being nobody, that is
the hardest thing of all, much harder than to
have been unknown all your life.”
“lVell, 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 011 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
(lied have never even had a friend. Now I
am wardrobe woman in a low theatre, and
glad—eyes, thankful—to have the place, too.”
“It is hard to work for no pay,” said a
rough voice opposite. “I was a soldier of
Napoleon’s as a lad, fought in Algeria and in
Russia; and because I took part in some plot
——they called it revolutionary—I lost my little
pension, and starved in consequence. Iran
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."
Near him sat o. 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
say: “Although I am only 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 myself.
But it is very hard for a lady tenderly
brought up, and not taught very thoroughly
—as people were not in my day—to mix with
common people and be knocked about in .the
world. My father was a rich man and a
gentleman, and we have good blood in our
veins for many generations back, long before
our family ever crossed the ecosul, Our
name is known in the history of the country,
and there was never one hearing it who dis-
graced it.”
“A good pedigree is a fine thing if it be
genuine,” said a. crippled man near the old
lady. “But if I had it, and could exchange
it for a. straight back and sound limbs, I
would gladly give it up. Yet I believe I am
happier than most of you here. I set out to
get one thing and got it, though it brought
little else With it. I was apoor man's son and
11:11:10 family to boast of, and the one thing
I wanted was learning. As I was; a cripple and
good for nothing to work, I got books from
.‘ind neighbors and taught myself sitting by
the. kitchen fire in winter and on the door-
st ismnmcr. Sometimes I got to school,
utbn I had clothes good enough to wear, and
at last, through the compassion of neighbors,
to college, But I grew more infirm 11:. .
reached manhood, and, indeed, but for this I
should have no right to be here among you.
I i ave earned my livelihood teaching 0’.
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and though my meals often 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 sur-
vcys."
It was saddcning to turn from the cripple
to the others. Many of them were equally
gifted intellectually, yet they had never at-
tained his contentment with his lot. ’_
A man in a rough jacket, with a careless
air, which was contradicted by his face, said:
“\Yell, I fancy I have had a wider experience
than any of you, if change of employment
giver: experience. There are few things I
have not tried, but I never succeeded in any,
I have been an errand boy, a plow boy, a
pcddler, a miner, an engineer and an express-
man. I have‘ written dismal trash to sell to
vilely cheap and mean papers. I have taught
grown men to read in exchange fora crust
of bread. I have distributed advertisements
at street corners; and now I am just where I
was when I started. I have no home. I left
my last boarding place without paying, but
left my only good coat behind instead, I
slept last night in a car depot, and picked up
a. few cigar ends to keep the hunger off this
morning.
don’t seem to want jobs done just now. They .
look at me suspiciously and say: ‘Thcre’s
lots of work if you only bestir yourself and
look for it.”
“You 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 have heard you all
talk of being poor, but when a, man loses
many a possible good chance in his business
through the want of a postage stamp at the
right time. I tell you he knows something of
poverty, though he may have a good coat on
his back. In our profession poverty is a mat-
ter of course. 1V0 may be even famous and
starve. Meanwhile I am obliged to keep up
appearances and live in a decent house.”
“Yes,” said awoman near him, “andI dare
say not your own house. Well, if poor
boarders have their troubles, don’t think
that the boarding house keeper sleeps 011a
bed of roses. There is a hopeless side to pov-
erty, and a. contented side, and an expectant
side. But I know of another. t is the ludi-
crous side. My husband died in debt. There
was only the weary old way to support my.-
self. I opened a boarding house. '
wish ladies could go lower down to
make money. I had not the strength
of mind to do differently from others
of my set, and I think with us women
that is one of the great causes of our
troubles. We don’t dare to face the work '5
talk, even when there is nothing to be
ashamed of. I had a. hard time with incfli—
cient servants, for I did not thrive and could
not pay high enough prices to secure good ones.
But I sent for two of my nieces, as poor as my
self, and together we did the work and shared
the profits. Let me say to you that if you
are poor and have tolerable health, do your
own work. By that means we got on and
had order and cleanliness, and though life is
not exactly delightful to us, it is tolerable.
“As to tho ludicrous side of poverty. We
seeenough of it. So many little shifts and
pretenses, though theyaro pathetic enough
sometimes. I began by asking rather high
prices, and if they were refused, let the
rooms stay empty. But my purse began to get
empty too, and I was obliged to compromise.
Sometimes I did not like a. man’s manner or
awoman’s costume, and I was stiff, which
lost me considerable money. Then again,
some men’s business was not to my taste,
though they were very silent and unobtrusive
themselves. I lost many a good boarder the
first year by standing too much on
my dignity. If a dancing master
generally 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 tobe merry under the worst circum-
stances, I should not detain you so long with
my experiences; but if we persistently ignore
the humor that is concealed in almost every
stage of poverty, we are making ourselves
more miserable than God intended us to be."
Then she went on to enumerate the ludicrous
incidents which her poor boarders treated
her to day by day.
“If money troubles were everything." said
a moody man, “you would all be quarreling
who was the worst off among you. You
might be rich in money, and yet broken and
worthless,“
lilyhosi; whispered to 333;; that this man
had lost his faith in woman. Then ‘ho
poinzmlputa pale woman in good but not
showy clothing, who 1 'as yet-more wretched
,au'fchc poorest at the feast. Her husband
gated nothing for'hgr. Shpsvas dying of a.
broken heart. Just opposite her were a. man
3nd woman whom no recith seemed to
Tlmir mlyehild had bzcn suddenly
killed a few weeks before, .
"" Wm” elated out a man at the bottom
of the table. He had an uneasy eye an'd‘h
restless conscience. I asked what this man
had done.
“Set traps for the feet of others,” said my
host. “In old times, legends say, men sold
their own souls. He has sold those of others.
Anciently, to trample on the Cross was the
worst sacrilcge a man could commit; but
he has trampled bcncath his feet the very
image of God. Suchas be are called ‘mcn
about town.’ I need not tell you more.”
Near him sat a woman with a faded shawl,
a soiled and rakish bonnet, brazen face and
dirty hands. 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 between two men of the
homeless kind in upper life—the lay figures
of society. She was more hopeless looking
than her neighbors. She had no work, No
object save pleasure ever stirred her.
Then my host told me in low tones, while
the others were talking among themselves,
how he had gathered these people together
for this extraordinary Thanksgiving feast.
Some ho had met by accident. Others be
hunted up, going into dismal places to find
them. The most despairing were the ones he
chose. He said:
“To some I sent formal invitatimrs by post,
I know it would please thorn. The invitation
itself, put in language they had not known
for years, would be more of a blessing than
the more feast to which they were hidden.
The moral pleasure given, or the self respect
induced by those invitations, is more than
half the been of my Thanksgiving feast. To
afcw the mere food is much, but‘then to
those far sunk in the mud, animal comfort
must precede a moral impression. When
people are comfortable they like to listen to
good tall-2, and when you have laid the
foundation in corporeal works of mercy you
may safely begin the superstructure of the
spiritual. Indeed, the physical parts of their
trials are really the ~least, and the phy-
sical reward of a good feast also corn—
paratively small. Some of them dine well
every day of their lives, and yet have no
pleasure in it or anything else. They who do
not find more pleasure in the comfort, the
security, the absence of anxiety to-night
than in the more abundance of food. Those
who are poor do not mind hard work and
'scanty fare, but they do mind the uncer—
tainty of their lives, the lack of a. home, the
want of appreciation of themselves, the Want
of sympathy and understanding, the cold
drawing back of the pr aspcrous, the divided
attention, the fair words and no deeds, the
barren good wishes—in short, the whole
repellent attitude of the world,”
“Do you 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 howto read, but he knows the thing
that St. Paul counted :1 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 by God’s
own hands and chastcncd in his own way, it
is be."
Here the host stepped forward, and raising
his voice said: “There is one among you, my
friends, who has no word to speak of his
troubles and disappointments, yet they have
been harder to bear than 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 thing on earth to see and to
imitate—for it is in the power of 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
[even answer him in my heart. But it is a
speech wlthout words, which we understand
without having been at school, and read
without having iC.ll'llC(l to read in books.‘
That is one of the pillars that uphold the
world for him—his trust in God. The other
is his trust in conscience. If you can imitate
that the first will come as its natural conse
queues. To live by the rule of my friend
needs two things—grace and a. real resolve.
The first is never wanting. You can count
on it whenever and as long as you make up
your mind to furnish the other thing, a. fixed
resolve.”
This and much more said our host, and
when he ceased we noticed there was one
guest less at the table, He had gone; but no
one spoke,
Then, here and there one from out this
I would take any job; but people .
strange company came forward to thank the
host with tears of genuine gratitude in their
' Sonic went away without a. word.
' a all were gone. The loaded table disap—
peared, L :13 I heard my host say with joyous
decision: “That is what we propose to do
3 next year.” It was only thenI realized that I
had not assisted at a veritable banquet. 1V0
had talked ourselves into the belief that our
longings and imaginings were facts. Could
we not do something like this? To restore
self respect is even better than to fill with
bread. But, understand, that although in
i many instances the latter can be done with-
, out the former, in most cases the former
must- rest on the basis-of the latter. Thanks-
giving isa good day to begin things. Still
every day may becdme a thanksgivhrg for
those who seek out the hungry, both in body
and in spirit, to feed and the naked to clothe.
B. M.
MOTHER WAS THERE.
- Tlm' Silent Figure at the Little Table in
the Macllofi‘ats’ Home.
Six towhcaded MacMofi‘ats stuck their
bends over the rim of the pine table and
looked anxiously but cheerfully at their
Thanksgiving dinner of boiled codfish and
potatoes; which Mr. Mac’llofi‘at, with his hand
in a sling, from a fall he 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 roasted too high. this year,”
said Mr. lllacMofifat, at which they all
laughed again, though a. broken arm and
idleness and doctor’s bills had scared off the
turkey,
“Turkey makes your feet sore," said the
family wit, and there was another laugh.
"I’d rat-her have well cooked codfish than
tough turkey, for my part, any day,” re-
marked Miss Mary Ellen MacMoffat, who
i war; aspiring to be a young lady,
“An’ pic,” suggested the youngest tow-
hcad, at which they all laughed again, for
there really was to be an apple pie, with a
piece all round, at the end of the meal, though
it was as yet held to be too good to be talked
about.
“1Vcll,it’s 0. great blessing that we’re all
here and in good health,” remarked Miss
Eliza MacMofl‘at, the spinster aunt, somewhat
dismally and quite irrelevantly.
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A quiet hush fell on the clothlcss table.
For a. second the tin ladle in MacMotfat’s
hand rattled faintly on the plattcr’s edge,
“Sister Eliza, would you mind running up
the next {light to Dugcnsc’s and asking him
to lend me the loan of his almanac till I see a
date?” said Mac-Mofl’at.
Sister Eliza was a\ accommodating as she
wirs stupid, and did not mind it a bit. The
quiet around the table was unbroken. A11
unseen form was at the board. Aunt Eliza’s
careless words had turned the eye of the
heart upon the face that had passed away in
the last spring. The tin ladle stopped its rat-
tle on the platter. MacMofl‘at laid it down.
He did not trust his eyes with the six little
faces around the table, but gave them to his
heart to see the face that was there yet in-
visible. “Yes. dcars,” he said, slowly and
.r;of.ly, “she’s here, but maybe we can‘t see
her, but. she‘s; hero. Mother’s here with us,
children. V0 are all. all here.”
A CLAIRVOYANT HEN.
What She Harv Just Before Thanks.-
giving.
“('0 never know just what is going on in
the minds of those about us. If we did con;
tentment would be much rarer than it is, and
apprehension and anxiety would hold the
very earth up by the ears. Yes, it is a fine
thing we are not all mind readers.
New thought has a way of diffusing itself
all around, while certain people who keep
the windows of their minds closed to shut it
out are very comfortable in the belief that
nobody is entertaining it because they are
not, "
It was just so at the Terry farm. The
people of the house had' no idea. what was
going on in the fowl minds about them, The
truth was, new fanglcd ideas had gained Will):—
derful headway in the barnyard. Many of
gholwns were pronounced equal sufl’ragists,
and wpntgbout talking equal rights in a way
that wcxild have got- tllem into serious trou-
ble twenty-five years ago, if they had been
alive at that time. Afcw of the biggest
braincd cocks ‘cspOuseE-l the cause. Two
'enjoyed thgmselves amazingly making
,of the mediocrcs also took it "11p tandv
speeches. if they had a fault, it was
that they were too fond of oratory.
When the hem had a convention these
two seasoned fowln were always there, and
took front seats on the platform. The mo-
ment the meeting opened both bobbed up to
talk. The president, one of the most intel-
lectual hens in the whole state, and also
blessed with high executive ability, always
found it difficult to decide which one to recog-
nize, so simultaneously did they spring to
their feet. Before the first one was through
speaking the other one was up and ready to
begin at the end of his rival‘s last word. In
this way they monopolized the entire time of
every meeting, and famous birds from a dis-
tance who had been invited to the meetings
to speak went home with all their music in
them. The hens didn’t like this a bit, but
being hens and not roosters they were obliged
to go slow in moving against the enemy.
These two strong woman’s rights cocks
were not wholly consistent. In theirspccchcs
they soundly berated all men who did not
makoa bold stand in favor of woman suf-
frage; but it was whispered around that they
were the last fowls to get up and give their
seats to hcnsin a street car, and that when
they employed hens to scratch by the day for
them they paid them merely enough to keep
soul and body together.
But at the beginning of autumn suffrage
talk rathcrgavc place to occultism. There
was a. perfect wave of metaphysical interest
in the land, and it found :2. [11103011 in the
brains of these advanced birds. Mind om'c,
Buddhism, theosophy, clairvoyancc and all
phases of occultism blossomed like the rose.
So absorbed were many of these feathered
disciples of new thought that they scarcely
ate any of the unusually tempting food given
them with a. view to increasing their corpu-
lcney for Thanksgiving. Braccd up by the
belief that they were in possession of mighty
secrets unknown and unhceded by the rest of
the world, they went about with their heads
quite in another world. Indeed, some pro-
gressed so far as to believe and assert that
they need never die if they didn’t want to.
Among them was one quite an adept in the
wonderful. She was a. Brahma, and much
did she boast of her noble Eastern blood.
Mme. Dcvachau 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 be on the sunny
side of 40.
Mme. Devachau was a wonderful bird.
She was very learned. She read Sanscrit as
easily as she could fly over a fence. She
wrote a good deal of ver ' obscure and mystic
literature. She could drop down apparently
dead and be flung around ahnost anyhow,
and when she got tired of that pick herself
up and go on as before. At such times she
claimed that her spirit was out of her body
and floating ofl‘ seeing things in two hemi-
spheres. Besides sho wasa 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 he
whistlcd her down the wind, and declared
that he put no faith in predictions. He
wasn’t superstitious; not he. Nevertheless,
when Mme. Dcvachau told him that she saw
blood clairvoyantly and also an ax suspended
suspiciously near his head, the red died out
of his comb, and with a. piteous face he
begged her pardon for his previous skep-
ticism. "
“You will lcaru,”shc 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 some of us say is not to be
put down as the idle clocking of ignorant old
hens. Out in Kansas there is a town with a
woman mayor; another with a board of fe-
male aldermen; and Phebe Couzins is now
the marshal of St. Louis; and as for my
predictions you are quite welcomo to doubt
them and take the consequences.”
“Really, madame,” he said, “your Oriental
lore interests me. I must study deeper into
the mysteries of eastern thought.”
“One feature of Buddhism will strike you
with force, I think,” said the wise hen of
Brahma, running down one eye suspiciously.
“That is, it forbids the eating of flesh.”
The big turkey changed color again. Flesh
eating was a distasteful subject to him, and
he always avoided distasteful subjects.
The clairvoyant shut her- cyes, stiffened her
body and began to see things. _She said a
dark day was coming for the entire race of
fowls, and even certain quadrupeds on this
hemisphere. It would occur about the latter
part of November. They who escapvl that
day were tolerably sure of. their lives for an-
other month, at least. There was but one
course to take to escape the doom of that
black Thursday; that was to get out of the
way of the flesh eating animal man. ,
At this point a small white pig came up
and sniffed derisivcly, and then trotted off to
eat the food which the fowls neglected for
Oriental wisdom. The pig was a noted
skeptic. The Brahma hen looked after him
and smiled pityingly. “Ephraim is joined to
his idols,” she said. “‘Selfishncss pays its own
penalty. We get what we give. The mind
that is set wholly on this world reaps it:
harvest in this world, and it is often a regu~
lar whirlwind.”
The Brahma 11011 was certainly very deep.
The l‘owls of every order gathered around her
to drink in her wisdom. She was: a believer
in reincarnation, but was in no hurry about
it. She said it didn’t; matter to her how soon
her bones were bleaching white and bare on
the earth, save for one thing. That Was that
she wanted to spread hcrdoctrincs a while
yet.
Chickc r1, turkeys, ducks, geese and pigeons
all went to bed that night in a frame of
mind. Even the most skeptical of them were
more or less troubled by tho fortuncteller’s
prediction. Your skeptical people are. never
skeptical when bad is predicted of them.
They believe even what they don’t want to
believe while loudly proclaiming their lack
of faith.
Two days before Thanksgiving the Brahma
hen told her faithful followers that the time
was at hand when they must flee from the
wrath to come, and they flow.
“th3', dear me,” said he whose business it
was to kill the Thanksgiving fowls, “I can’t
fiuda feathered creature on the place, except
those two old noisy 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 any kind.”
“We can boil them till they are tender,”
said the mistress of the house. Then some
food was held out to these worthy routers,
and some flattery heaped 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 caught- and beheaded.
Before this the small pig which had snccrcd
at tail; of the dark Thursday predicted by
Mme. Dovachau was ready for roasting,
Ephraim was indeed joined to his idols fou-
cvcr more. Tho two craters and the skeptic
graced and greased the Thanksgiving board,
although not exactly in the characters they
would have chosen.
The next day the big turkey and all tho
other fowls who had taken Mme. D.’s warn-
ing returned to the farm and settled down
comfortably to life again.
Over the bones of the skeptical pig and the
two blustcring orator-s they told each other
how thankful they were, laying particular
stress on their gratitude for tho' boon of
minds receptch enough to accept new
thought. ' hat evening the gave a swell
_ arty to Mme. Devachau and loaded her with
onors t}. G.
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supplied with jewelry. The professor-’5 share
of this flncry'is r. ring and a bracelet. Both
are of pounded brass. The ring bears a
rudely carved letter M on the seal. The in-
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Roast turkey,
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i Mashed potatoes,
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Baked tautog.
Boiled chicken with oyster sauce.
Potatoes. llects. Onions. Mashed turnips and
squash.
Beef :1 la mode.
Roast turkey with cranberry jelly.
Roast venison with current jelly.
pickles.
Roast or baked partridge or wild duck. -
Plum pudding. Various cakes.
Apple, mince, squash, pumpkin and custard pics.
Nuts. Apples. Raisins. Coffee.
IN THE INTERIOR.
Fried oysters, or oyster stew.
Baked chicken pic.
Sweet and sour pickles and catsup.
Mashed potatoes and turnips. Boiled whole
potatoes.
Boiled onions. Baked beets. Squash.
Roast spars-ribs with stuffing and apple sauce.
Roast turkey, goose or chicken with cranberry
sauce.
Fried sausage with fried apples.
Baked Indian pudding. Steamed fruit or cracker
pudding.
Mince, apple, squash, pumpkin and berry piw
~ with cheese.
Doughnuts, crullers, cookies, cup cakes, gold and
silver, marble and sponge cakes.
Various preserves.
___—___,___._
A POOP: MAN’S THANKSGIVING.
Let him who eats not, think he eats,
'Tis one to him who last year said.
“My neighbor dines on dainty sweets,
And I on coarser bread.“
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He who on sugar angels fares
! Hath pangs beneath his silken vest;
_ The rougher life hath fewer cares—
i Who fasts hath sounder rest.
. If lean the body. light the wings;
, His fancy hath more verge and room,
‘, Who feasts upon the wind tha'v brings
i The flowers of hope to bloom.
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So, if no smoking turkey grace
i This day my clean but humble board,
; I’ll think what might have been my case
i If rich. and thank the Lord.
1
- No gout awaits my coming age,
2 No bulbous nose like lobster red,
To vex my temper into rage,
Or (111 my days with dread.
Leave to the rich his roast and wine:
Death waits on him who waits for all;
The doctor will be there by nine,
By twelve the priest will call.
Lord, in all wholesome, moderate ways
Keep me, lest it should hap mc worse:
Teach one to fill his mouth with praise
Who never filled his purse. '
~1-‘lorus B. Plimpton.
. The Great American Disease, Dyspepsia.
“Americans as a class eat as much oil with
their salads as did the Venetians in the time
of Medici,” said John Chamberlin to a. jour-
nalist the other day. “But it tooka. great
many years to overcome their Puritanical
[.‘cjudices. In the minds of the descendants
of the Puritans there was a strong but un-
conscious association between Catholicism
31;]. French cookery, and oil being exten-
sively used by the French in the preparation
of their food these descendants, like their
ancestors, had a strong aversion for it. The
Puritan was never so happy as when he was
I uncomfortable. They imagined that to de-
serve heaven hereafter they were obliged to
live in a sort of modified hell on earth. They
rightly concluded that dyspepsia was the best
representation of the tortures of the bottom-
] less pit, and the surest way. to contract it
' was to eschew oil in their salads. This is
the true origin of the American disease, dys-
psra.
“Salads when properly prepared.are the
most enjoyable part of dainty dinners. They
are cooling to the stomach. They assist di‘
geetion, which is often needed after a dinner
of heavy joints and side dishes. They re-
lieve the feeling of fullness so often com-
plained of by fast eaters, and their prepara-
tion at table animates conversation. ‘Wben
bathed in pure olive oil they become nature’s
1 choicest gifts. Dyspepsia and cranky, idiotic
’ ideas are unknown to the lover of a well
made salad. ”—New York Evening Sun.
ODDS AND ENDS.
You should ask the world's leave before
you commend yourself. Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound needs no com-
mendation. '
Come to light—The statue of Liberty.
Pimples, blotchcs, eruptions of theskin,
indicate ’that you need a few doses of
Fontaine’s Great Discovery. For sale by
I. A. Meeker, 11 Main Street, Norwalk.
Spectros rule where there is 110 God:
The microscope demonstrates that con
sumption, asthma and bronchitis are pro-
duced by disease germs. Fontaine’s Cure
is the only remedy. For sale by I. A.
Meeker, 11 Main Street, Norwalk.
A gas trust seldom trusts anybody for
gas.
No piano ever made will stand severe
changes of climate as well- as the
Mathushek. Its durability is like iron.
Send for catalogue of these pianos, Loom-
is' Temple of Music.
Nothing is so fearful as a bad cou-
science.
lVomcn with pale, colorless faces, who
feel weak and discouraged, will receive
both mental and bodily vigor by using
Carter’s Iron Pills, which are made for
the blood, nerves and complexion.
A remedy for fits—Send your clothes to
your friends.
One kind of medicine will not care all
kinds of diseases. Dr. liilurcr’s
Preparations arc Specifies—a remedy for
each disease. They are the result 01 a
successful practice since 1859. Game To
HEALTH (Sent Free) Binghmnton, N. Y.
If you starve your hen you will not fat-
ten your egg basset.
Fact—but, as the newspapers say: "no-
body wdl believe it," Fontuine‘s Cure for
Consumption is guaranteed to cure dis-
eases of the lungs. For sale by I A.
Meeker, 11 Main Street, Norwalk.
The cream of the base bull club should
be found in the pitcher.
The reputation of- of the well known
house of Sperry d: Barnes, New Haven,
Conn, extends all over the world, and all
goods bearing their brand and trade-
mark are guaranteed to have no equal.
They are the largest manufacturers of
Hams and ; urc Kettle Lord in New Eng-
land.
It' you want to keep the flow of milk up,
always milk clean.
1 AM PROUD to say from personal exper-
ience that Sulphur Bitters, which adver-
tisement will be seen in another column.
is the best spring and blood medicine to
be found. It is prepared by an honest
firm who scorn to use cheap and worthless
medicines, but use the best that money
can buy—Editor. '
The sculptor is the man who curves out
his own fortune.
Consipation is positively cured by Car-
ter’s Little Liver Pills. Not by purging
and weakening the bowels. but by regula-
ting and strengthening them. This is done
by improving the digestion and stimulat-
ing the liver to the proper secretion of
bile, when the bowels Will perform their
customary functions in an easy and
natural manner. Purgativc pills must be
avoided. Ask for Carter’s Lit-11c Liver
Pills. Price 25 cents.
Persian powder is not” a bad thing to
try on a do".
Don’t experiment with new medicines.
Quaker Bitters have stood the test of time,
and to-day are more popular than ever.
The quality of Quaker Bitters has been,
and always will be, maintained ; no love
of gain will ever cause the proprietors to
lessen the standard of purity so long held’
If you are troubled With Nervous chil—
itv, Indigestion, Juuudice. Lastitude.
take Quaker Bitters. The best and
purest tonic. '
Quaker Eye Lotion cures sore and in-
flamed cy es.
The Fir-st um! (3:12 v :‘tanc
Yours for Health
$1391.11? .A LYDIA En
PINKHAM’S
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In a Positive Cure
For ALL of those Painful
— Delicate Complaints and
Complicated troubles and
Weaknesses so common
. among our Wives, Mothers,
and Daughters.
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cm non cassava-nos, 02: 32cm or men.
Mus. ann‘s“Gumn 10 Beam" Alva comes-
:mn CIRCULAR mm to axr LAmr sesame Airman
AN» arm 1'0 LYNN, use. Mention this Paper.
ITS MERI'I‘S KEEP UP THE SALE.
ErIr Is A Emma 10 omwonm wom. Ir na-
novzs IAINTXl-‘SS, mmnxcv,ALr. cuavxxo [on mu-
LAxrs, axe arm WEAKXES or rm: sroxacn. CUBRS
LEUCOBnllG-ZA. MENS‘l'BUAL rmons PASSED without rim.
Physlclans Use It and Prescribe It.
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muonzzs mi: oneamo moneys, arm mummy
Aim minus '10 rm: srzr, acsronns rm: 1mm“. Lusmn
10mm, Axn runs on rm; mm: cannot wow-rm:
var-:51: nous or m’s srarxa Axn man! 31mm m
WEARY WOMEN PRAISE IT.
Its propose is solely for the legitimate healing of air
we and the reliefof pain, and it does on.“ claims to do.
It will cure entirely all ovarian or vaginal troubles,
Inflammation and Ulccratr'on, Falling andDisplacements;
and consequent Spinal Weakness, and is paflicularlu
adapted to the Change of Life.
All ANGEL OP MERCY.
Tan Woman’s Sure Friend ron ALI. DwCArn Aim con-
tain!!!» mom. mmumxor mronl smrcn.
ormnous on cum: Omens, CR rr m1. exam Au. cm-
cumucss, Act In marrow! wrm rm: uws or rum
mm trauma or nunrxa DOWN, CAUSXNG mm, morn
AKD Manon, 13 units murmur enema? us use.
13-1411 Sold by Merriam-a
MRS. PINKHAM'S LIVER. PILLS cunt Coxs'murrox,
Enron-nus Ax» Toarmm 0:- ma mm. 25 ms.
YOU and BEAUTY
.,- Can be Obtained
‘ BY USING
GLINTON’S
WITCH HAZEL
’ 2.19m one
It is the only preparation in the
» ' . 7 world warranted to cure and eradicate
. all impurities from the nkln.luch a:
Pimglen Sal t Rheum,
r Flex Worms and Sun
Burn. It gives the complexion a freshness and Innlluccncy
which cannotbe obtained hyan other, even 11 the dangerous use“
arsenic. It is unequaled as a eautlfier of tlie hands. réfinlng the
skin and makingltsoft, clear and white. Witch Hazel Toilet. Cream
Is not a paint or powder used to cover up the inn uriiles of the skin,
but a remedy that heals perfectly and converts the same to enviable
bermtv. Price of 1:731 box 95c. For Sale BY ALL DR GISTS.
WITCH HAZEL IRAS! CD. GUNTMWILLE 60!”.
COOKLE’S
ANTI-BILEOUS ,
PILLS,
THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY
For Liver. Bile, Indigestlon, etc. Free from Bier.
cury: contains only Pure; Vegetable Ingredients.
Agent: 0. N. Clil’l‘TEh'l‘Oh, New hark.
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It will drive the Ilumorfromyonr
system, and make our skin
clean and smoot
Pimplcs and Blotches
which mar
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DON’T Wm. Gar 11: AT Oxcn
A. P. Olmwnr & 00.. Chemists.
Sole Proprietors for U. S. a Canadas.
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Send two 3c. stamps to A. 1‘. Ordway&CO.,
’ wrence, Mass, and receive anelegant set of
.1ch Cards rec.
TRADE MARK.
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Never varies, does not contain-{1
one Particle of the adultera--3
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tions used to reduce the cost of
PURE GOODS
But DOES possess the FULL
VALUE of every Legitimate
Washing Quality, which gives
it every advantage over Soaps
of doubtful character; practi-
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cally recommended by other
manufacturers in imitating it.
None should be deceived, how-
ever, as the word WELCOME
and the Glasped Hands are
stamped on every bar.
g MATHUSHEK
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“Tried and Triumphant."
Unequalled in 1111111383 and llapth of Tone.
GREAT CAPACITY OF VIBRATION
AND DURABILITY-
Each Instrument over l2 months In
process ofconatruction. Best materials .,
and finest workmanshlp. 3;
FULLY WARRANTED. Wheywill last"
a life-time and keep In tune at 'one-
quarter the expense of any other piano.
OVER 17,000 IN USE. g
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