November, 1878.
THE WEST SHORE.
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tight to you, Miu Margery, for naming them
turkeys for me.
"The heft of the people in this section are
interested in the war leastways they pertend
to be; and when 1 (hewed 'em. the names o'
them turkeys on my order-book, there was een
a'most a scrimmage to see who'd get hii name
down opposite the high-ioundingeit of 'em.
Dickson, the restaurant keeper, hex it printed
on the ousters he'll hang in the !;. ...
Tiiaukagiving Uay : 'Mehemet Ali beheadod
this morning. This great Turk to be rallied for
at onr free lunch. 1 And Miss Frothingham told
me she was going to put her turkey's name into
all her invitations. She shewed me one of the
menoot that that young lady who is stayin'
there painted for her on white satin. She's
printed Suleiman 1'aaha in whnt sho calls Tur
key red, with guns and moons and little
cupidses, in turbans and baggy trowsers all
around the border. They do say Fred Frothing
ham's going to marry her. She's some sort of
relation to his fust wife. I say, Miss Margery,
it seems kinder curus to mo there thud be so
many generals in Turkey by the namo of Pasha.
The only way I kin account fur it is that it
must have been the name of the last sultan.
They say that the sultans have wives enough to
till a female seminary, and that the sultan's
craok regiment is made of his own sous. I
don't know how I should have managed about
naming my turkeys if it hadn't a-bun for the
I'asha family. A whole brood of turkeys came
off after you sent me that list of names, and 1
called 'em Constantinople Pasha, an' Hagilad
I'asha, an' Hosphorus I'asha, an' one on 'em
Jerky-nek-off Pasha ; though my wife said that
was kind of mixin' things, fur it seomed to her
that Jerky-nek-off sound led more Hooshan than
Turkey.
1 did very well with the whole flock except
in the Sultan, the very biggest and gamest follor
of all. I.I weigh "S pounds easy, an tail
feathers enough to maku half a dnxen handsome
fans. 1 prided myself on thu Sultan, but I'm
going to lose money on him. You see the ladies
of the Methodist vhuroh at B'thesdy Springs
hed come to the conclusion that the tabernacle,
thouuh it was a Bond enough nlace for the sum
mar boarders to sit religion in, was too windy
und chilly a place to get up any sort of religious
warmin' daring the winter ; an' they'd voted to
have a fair about Thanksgiving time to raise
money to build a ohapel. Well, after they'd
engaged the Sultan of me. an' advertised him iu
all the papers as one of the attractions, what'il
thoy do but conclude they coiildn t allord
take him unless I'd donate him. The idee !
When I'd been fattening him up all summer
expressly fur them, an' declined him to Miss
Frothingham and Mr. Dickson, who'd either on
'em have given a good price for him ! And the
most aggravating thing about it is that Kldcr
sDueenbury has sold 'em his six-year-old lame
gobbler ; and that every one that tackles him
will think it's the Sultan, and my turkeys will
lose their reputation.
"I declare now, Miss Margery, the idee just
strikes me that the Sultan is just tho turkey for
vou. It would please me fust rata for you to
have the best bird in my lot. You must wear
out a ight of winirs a dusting, you're so neat
and the Sultan's are strong enough to last a
year. I'll throw off a shillin ', seeing it you,
and take half out in dicker. One thing I came
round fur was to set all the sweet malorum you
can spin.-. There's alius a cull for it about this
season."
Margery hail stood, while the old man was
talking, beneath the little porch, whose pillars
had been lifted out of the ground by the strong
old vines that twisted about them in such
snakev contortions. An amused smile had
flickered on her face as she listened. "Hut
lima, the expostulated, --me nuiun is entirety
too large for a Thanksgiving dinner for only
poor little me.
"I didn't know but you might have com
psny," suggested Bins. "The old people from
me lown nouse naven i nau a regular ou
giving dinner tince the one you gave mem.
" that whatever is left from the church festival
is to be sent there, so that they are provided
for this year. However, I will take the Sultan.
You may shut him up in the dog-kenneL We
haven't kept a dog since cousin Jack went
away. And you may have my w hole stock of
sweet marjoram ; for I shall not kill the Sultan
thit year, and perhaps I shall give him away."
And lima drove awav with the ,wt mrU..
....... .Margery peering admiringly into tho
SnltaiTs prison.
All this time Jack was coming nearer and
nearer, to help her celebrate Thanksgiving ; for
Jack had his ttory too.
Hu had becu unfortunate ever since his return
to California. Kverything hail gone wroug.
And ho did not care, for wealth was nothing to
him without Margery, lie had came back that
autumn years ago to claim her. As he stvpiwd
trom the cart, tho tlrst perton whom he met
was the village doctor, who shook hands with
him pleasantly aud offered him a ride.
"What it the newt, Doctor," wat Jack's
Ins! question
"Kverything it about at usual," replied the
phyiician. "Let me see. Frud Frotliiiighani
was a friend of yours. Was he not? He has
come hack from the war, wounded ; hut I guess
wo will pull him through. I h sweet face of
his little nurse would make any man well, 1
should think, even if he hail not the luck to he
engaged to her, which Fred has. "
What, Fred engaged J" atked Jack. "And
rhom ?"
"Why, to your Cousin Margery, to lie tun1.
I thought you would kuow of it."
"Doctor, are you turn of thit?'' atked Jack
a little unsteadily.
"ill course, 1 am. Mrs. r rothingliain told
me; and I have even more potitive proof, for I
have just left the house, and Mm Margery wat
nursing the young man.
After that Jack staid in Baxter's only long
enough to see, from the door of the little shop
opposite, Murgery taking leave of Mrs. Y roth
ingliam, at the head ol the great night oi stone
steps. Then he shut his sore heart up within an
iron will, ami went back to I alum ma.
The yuan that followed were a long and
dreary desert in his life. I'erhaiietiud wrtnita
us to live through such years of blackness and
weariness to show us by contrast the exceeding
precioutness of the Joy he has in store for ut.
And in Jack lived on until the autumn of which
wo have been speaking. Then all hit mistor
tune seemed to culminate. He onuld nowhuru
lind employment and he was very iioor. At a
last retort, he accepted the potitiou of bar ten
ler ill a saloon. He was new to the. business,
and the proprietor proceeded to give him tome
instructions. I lie veteran in iirinss urn con
cocted a mint-julep, after tome infallible rauiM
if hit own.
i'hero !" ssid he. "Try thst young man
and owu up that you never tasted anything like
it in your life.
'1 would rather vou would taste ami see u it
right, sir." replied Jack. A proposition
readily complied with by the inter of in
toxicating beverages, and followed by a fright
(nl scone of choking and expectoration. "There
is something wrong about the mint, h spot
tered; aud then, examining the pad of M
ortvt noon his counter, hnntrlainieil: ' 11 lasted
I thst stupid market woman hasn't bit me
sweet intrioraiu. instead of sliearmiiit '"
The word tweet marjoram recalled to Jack sea
dear mrl for whom it always termed to him
. : r a c t i
that the little Plant must nave neon uaiueu.
What would the hsve thought of his preteiil
o. conation? And then and there lit resigned
his position as bar-Undsr, obtaining from his
would-be employer the little bouquet of sweet
minute and tircstiaig it between the leaves of
hlS Ingle ted lllllls. I It. t UOW lit had nothing
r . . . . i . . ., '
to look tor tuutlttence, ami ne ims..
that he hail been spending the summer in 'ali
fomia, and had invested in a fruit-farm, which
he hoped to visit one in two years, and thai
ha was now in search of some one to keep it (or
him.
"I am the very man you want," cried Jack,
impulsively. And then, at a sudden thought
ttruck him, he asked, "Shell vou brias? voar
a!, W t , Vl ...... ' hHiV
iwu, nttuu yuw UUII1V, rnu I
"My wife died live years ago." replied Fred.
gravely.
Jack staggered at though he had boeu ttruck.
Margery dead I he exclaimed.
"Margery I" reiterated the other in surprise.
"My wife wat Hose Itateiuan. I would not tell
every one, Jack: but your Cousin Margery re
futed me, and alter 1 met Itoeo 1 was not sorry
for it"
Aud to it wis settled that Jack should keep
the fruit-farm for his friend. "There it a very
pretty cottage un it," said Fred, "and with all
those pears and grapet, you will soon be a nan
man.' He was surprised that Jack was not
willing to enter uixin his duties at one; but the
young man insisted on purchasing a ticket to
Baxter's with the advance money whtoh Fred
gavu him.
Ami this wss how it happened that there wat
a Thanksgiving diuuer that year at Margery's,
and that the Sultan left his prison in the ken
nel, aud was decapitated on the tarns evening
wiin nit generals oi me on repeated name oi
I'asha.
Dear me !" said Margery, in dismay, as ana
dressed the turkey, "and to think thai, among
all my herbs, i haven I a sprig ol sweet marjoram
(or the stuffing."
Hut I have, replied Jack, a ha brought
forwanl his Hible, with the little sprays pressed
between its leaves Hie tears su si Ml in Mar
gery's eyes as ho tobl their storyi and I do not
think one of the precious leaves would have
heel, lis, ,1 111 the NlllUll's shilling had the lint
thought that nothing was too good for her wed-
ling diuuer.
Fred Frothinitham wat at the wedding.
And now you can understand," said Jack to
him, "why 1 waa so tin puis to oome hast.
F.veu iu a land flowing with milk and honey one
may long for cold water, and all your orchard
of pleasant fruits could nut make me forget a
little garden of herbs."
Aud you wanted to transplant one of Its
flowers to the l'scillu coast V untried Fred.
What flower f" atked Margery uu.iou-
scioutly.
. a a a . . . . t , S
A peal ol laughter ran arounn tne tame, aim
Jack passed up his plate (for Margery had In
sisted on carving the Snlt-u herself) with the
leiniire i. .p.. si "My dear, if you please, l will
takeHweel Marjoram." N. f. Imltptmitnl.
I'UF.I'AIIATION OK KUt'AI-YFTUH.
We have uueu before a mini hat of preparations
..f the mediuinal pniicipleelnlheeuimlyptna. At
the material la au abundant In thit State, lie uta
mutt be an ohjeot of interest The Journal of
Chmuiry translates from a French smite, the
billowing formulae :
'I in.-t.ire of Ku. tlypi.is. Take of dried leaves
of eucalyptus leal pi I part ; tlc.b.d, at W, ft
parts i allow P. maiievaie lor sen nays,
niter.
Wine f F.mslviitsM. -Tefce of dried leavet
of eucalyptui, 3D pert. ; alw-hol at tUT, i parte.
k-,,..d while wine, l,uw perls allow u. macerate
in lb.- aloohul fur v'l boors, then add Use wine ,
after ten days, Hilar.
Mydr.. Akuhollc KstraeltH Kaoaiy ptea. -1 aae
ol drted eucalyptus leavee (eat up) 1,000 parti
water, .I.IKKI parte ; diaui to oniaiu tne i
ml ; make an anuw-ut silrael ol lite
remainine in the apparatus, and lo II add
niter I ae aieoannc
ale.,1.,,1 at no. I. two tatrts.
V Battel I". SWassisJSBW " - . I 7 ' I .a a a a. . . a
tolately towards ths depot, woiwlenng what solution ami evaporate II to the ooMieteaev of
would be the next scene m the strange .1 reave, an eilract when nearly cold, mil Ue "Utile
The tram from the mountains was Just in, ana mi morougniy wun is.
ins amner since mo est you - - . a.!....!..
' Mrs. Duseubury told mi," replied Margery, 1 men greeted eao other pleasantly
ll would Imp satisfactory to add notes of
....... i i. t-'rth.a.laai. The two visum anaetal a see of taeee nniirttlias, Dat of
n - - a. .SI 1 . a A
r reu sera we nave u miuiraai - y
springing from it Jack was surprised to sea his
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