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AT THE FARMHOUSE.
NoTi-nilicr tree nro brown and liar
Anil brief nuil chill Now'inhvr tiny,
luu on the farm nil un untlr
Au.l cheerfully tin- mitt tier najn
flic day lu all Nov IIiikIiiiiiI drnr
TuaiikiiKlrliitf Day, will uo bo lie re.
"Ho, father, chooiic tlio turkey now
Ami I will inaku hour1 pumpkin pie,
Aiiii we will Imrc u pnUilliiK nice
Anil It hall be of luiKPut h I z t ;
'lucre are wnlnutii In the Rarrrt
A ii it thnre Ih com tlint pups like now,
lucre aro apple In the cellar
Which nil thu chlldrcu low, I know,
"Ajid wf will tmvp our aon come home,
Our daughter ninl grandchildren, too,
Uarr Ann anil Jim ami Jnueph,
Maggie, Nellie ami buby VtwJ'
Ho father geta the turkey fine
Anil mother make the pumpkin plea
And home ThnnkxglrliiK mornlug urlng
J "uTeU one of every alie.
A old home rlnga with their glad laugh,
tin flreplare gtowi with ruddy light,
Autl when at table all hnve met
. That kitchen la a pleamiiit night.
The father offcra alncrre thnngi,
The little one Impntleut wait,
Anil then the turkey plump ho enrrea
And from the bounty fllli each plate.
Thru grandma' plnm-lllled puddluB cornea
With mlnco and pumpkin pie galore,
While uuta and apple, ralnlim sweet,
And fuu and fcuMlng crown the hour.
And here the poor remembered are
And not In kindly word alone.
With wcll-niird hand the children pcrd
To neighbor' home where want I known.
The pleaaaut hour mont awlftly fly,
The corn I popped mid Milled the fun,
And happy children rent In bed,
The glad November day I done,
Hut by the fire grandmother alt
And In her band hi hnlda a curl.
A aoft brown curl, that hnne long ilnce
Around the face of her llrat girl
"Dear child," hr. crle. "forgotten never,
A mother' love remember ever,"
- Umlly learon llullry.
A RURAL PEACEMAKER.
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CnOHHV did not pny much attention
vUtu ThitnkHK'lvliiK In thu country
i hcIiooI district lu which I tnnght In
flit Wct m Kootl tunny yo,rn K. Ohrlat
mint wna the chlof holliliiy of the winter,
ami It waa eolenrntod without any apodal
ilcmouHtratltiu, for wont of the people
n KMr and there wim not much nvntl
tneut lu their genernl mnkeHi, Ohl Hun
uih Dorton, with whom I bonrded, wi
of New KiikIhiuI hlrth, nml hIip had not
ome to "the Wet until nome jenrs after
her marriage. She wiih h womiin of a
Kml deal of force of character, and no
one In the neighborhood had a nimbler
tongue. One erenlng about two weeks
before ThanksKlvintr I aald to hert
"IXo thn iH'opIe observe ThunkHglvIni;
wry Kenerally In thl neighborhood'"
"No. they do not," replied the old lady
with considerable cmphitBl. "Ami It hu
nlwnya been a g(Md deal of a trial to me
that o little attention was paid to a day
that wo made so much of back there in
dear old New Knglnud, It waa the great'
eft holiday of the year to ui, and how
we did enjoy It I"
"Why do they pay no little attention to
It herer
"Well, I gues It i Jimt because they
time uerer got in the way of paying any
attention to It. They never celebrated
tlip Fourth of July aa It ought to be cele
brated until my husband got them started
to doing It ten year before ho died, and
now we have a big celebration every
j ear."
"Some one ought to start them to cele
brating Thanksgiving."
"So they ought. Hut who la to do UV
V reuVctcd for a few momenta, and then
1 kitid;
"Suppose we start them off lu that dl
rectlon."
"How?" asked the old lady, dropping
her knitting Into her lup and manifesting
eager Interest.
"Suppose wo get up a Thanksgiving
dinner In the school house. Invite all
the folks In the district to come and bring
Ihelr dinner with them. There does not
mwui to be auy social lite la the ndk-
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borhnnd unless one can call occasional
RpcllliiK matches and atnglng schools In
the school house aoclal diversions. The
people never eat and drink together In a
merry-maklng of any kind. Don't ;ou
think that the Idea of n ThnnkHKlvIni;
dinner lu the school house would take?"
The old lady reflected for a moment
aud then said:
"Yes, I think It would. It would be a
novelty to every one, and I think the
folkn would turn out big, only only "
"Only what?" I asked.
"Well, the fact Is, there nre so many
folks in this neighborhood Hint don't
speak to each other. I never saw any
thing like It. There Is old .Squire Dent,
who won't speak to his daughter because
she .married John Wattcrs against the
quire' wlshea. There wns nothlug
against ' John, excepting that he wa
poor, aud he had a brother that had been
In jail, but John couldn't help that, aud
he han done splendidly ever since he mar
ried, and It Is my opinion that the squire
would like to make up with John and
Nellie, only he Is too proud to make any
advances, and they won't either. Then
there Is Kate Whiting and her sister,
Lucy Patch, who had a falling out years
ago, and nln't spoke to each other since,
and before that one was the very shadder
of the other. Itcuhcn Hoopes and his
brother Silas aud their families fell out
over the property after old man IIoopcB
died, and they ain't ever spoke since,
Then the Anderson and ltobey families
hnd n falling nut Arc jears ago, and they
don't speak, nml before that they were
as thick a lllea around n molasses bar'l.
Then theie are other families in the dis
trict that ain't as friendly as they ought
to be, ho your Thanksgiving dinner might
end In a riot If all these people come to
gether In the school home."
"Not with a woman of your tact at the
head of it," I said.
"Well, you go ahead and get It up, and
I will aid and abet you all I can, It will
he a break In tho monotony of things
here even If there la a light."
I spent all of my time before and after
school during the next ten days In call
ing at all of the homes In the neighbor
hood, and Inviting the people to come to
thn school house on Thanksgiving day
with well-filled baskets, Tho school
"Wit WILL ROW 81X0."
house was unusually large, and there
would be room for all If we took out a
part of tho seats. Three dins before
Thanksgiving old Mrs. Dorton said:
"I guess you'll have the house full
Thanksgiving, Nancy Itosa waa In hero
to-day, aud she saya that the whole dis
trict is coming, and Nancy knows If any
one dws, for she it ponds most of her time
trotting about picking up gossip aud re
tailing It out aagln. She Is us good as
the local columns of a newspaper for giv
ing news about what folks are aajlug
aud doing, and ahe says that the Idea of
the Thauksglvtug dinner In the school
house was caught like wlldllre, Nuticy
saya she wouldn't miss It for a party,"
The larger boys and girls of the school
met me at the school house the evening
before Thanksgiving, and we decorated
tb room beautifully with evergreen. and
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several flngs we had been nble to borrow.
Provision hnd been made for two long
tables to run iilmoit the entire length of
the room with some smaller tables In the
corners.
"I suppose that we will have to be
careful how wo sent the people at the tu
ides." 1 said to Mrs, Dorton.
"i'ou Just leave that mostly to me."
said the old lady. "I know tho people
better than you do, and I won't be so apt
to make nwkward blunders. I'll get 'cm
down nil right."
Nancy Itoss wns right when sho said
that the whole district would bo present
at the dinner. The dinner was to be nt
1 o'clock, and by noon the house waa fill
ed .by n merry, happy crowd, Including al
most overy family In the district
There were baskets and bons and
even tubfuls of turkeys and chlc'.cns and
doughnuts and pies and cnkcs.V There
were baskets of btg red npplesr nd Ill
ram Hawkins brought half alj.rrcl of
sweet elder. Some one brought a bas
ket of popcorn balls for the children, and
there was an Inllnlte variety of jellies
and jams nnd preserves and, pickles
brought forth from hoxs nnd baskets.
"There's enough stuff hero to feed an
army," said Hannah Dorton, as she bus
tled about from table to tnble, the happi
est and most actlre person In the house.
A few minutes before 1 o'clock I heard
her saying to Mrs. Kntc Whiting, "Come,
now, Kate; you nnd your husband and
two children arc to set at this table over
In this coiner. Come right along." And
when they were seated the old lady bus
tled up to Mrs. Patch and said:
"Now, Lucy, j ou and jour husband
and tho children arc to sit here at this
table."
"And If she didn't plump them right
down with the Whitings that they hadn't
spoken to for jenrs," said the voluble
Nancy Itoss afterward. Indeed Nancy
was so fond, of telling about that
Thanksgiving dinner afterward that I
think I will let her tell about It now.
"Then," she said, "If that Hanner Dor
ton didn't set old Squlte Hent down at
the head of one table with his daughter
Nellie at his right hand and his son-in-law',
John Wattcrs, at his left, an' their
baby in a high chnir at Its gran'pa's side,
nn' it wn'u't three minutes before the old
Squire hnd that baby In his arms aud
he et his whole dinner with the llttlo
thlntr lu his lap, 1 lieaid his daughter
say to him, 'Shan't I take the baby,
father, so that you can eat your dinner
In grenter comfort?' Hut he held right
ou to it, and there he sat tnlkin' to Nellie
nnd John same as If there'd never been
any trouble at all. And he had that baby
In his arms the whole afternoon, an'
went around as proud, sayln' to folks
'See my grandson. Ain't he a mighty
tine boy?' It waa the first time Jio had ,
ever seen the child, an' the next week he
made Nellie and John cotne nnd live with '
him, Then what did that Hanner Dor- I
ton do but put Itcuhcn Hoopes an' his ,
brother Silas and their families at a table
by themselves, an' 1 heard her say to
'em, 'Come, now, you folks want to be
sociable an' have a good visit together
same as own brothers ought to on
Thanksglvln' day.' Their wives have al
ways wanted to make up, an I tell you
they found their tongues mighty soon,
an' 'fore that meal was over they was
talktu' away as If there had never been
any row over property or nnythlng else.
An' before they knew it the Anderson
and ltobey families found themselves at
the same table with Hanner sayln' to
'em, 'Now It don't make no dlll'rence
about the past. This Is Thanksglvln'
day, an' a good time to forget that there
has ever been nnythlng but a happy past
between you folks.'
"Then If she didn't up .an' aet old Ituth
Norse an' old Hetty Underwood down
side by olde, an they hadn't spoke to
each other for years, an' before they
know' cd It them two old bodies was chat
tin' away together as If they had never
had a fullln' out In the world. Then
when she had got all the people that were
enemies set down side by side she seated
every one eUe, aud then she said,
" 'We will now sing.
"West be the tie that bin." '
yaHus?',' !(&iM,
TORIES OF DR. WDPATM.
JRow the Old Chapel At !) Potw Wit
! "Wrecked."
The late Dr. Uldpnth, historian aud
essayist, wnB a brilliant and popular
lecturer on a great variety of subjects
In history, literature and social life.
Prof. H. M. Skinner, of Chicago, con
tributes to a recent volume of the
Mirage somo Interesting- reuilnlsccncen
of college life at Depnuw In a previous
decade, when Uldpath was a central
llgurc In the fnculty.of that old univer
sity. Among these occurs thu follow
ing: "Tho pews lu the old chapel were
strongly ninde of bard wood und pan
eled, yet It was not in the craft of the
carpenter to construct seats that would
stand the wear nnd tear of Dr. Uld
path's lectures. The doctor was a de
vout worshiper of all things Saxon; and
yet, as a lecturer and thinker, he wns
French not like Ste. Hcuve, but like
Victor Hugo. His were the scintilla
tions, the blinding flash aud the rapid
Ore of the author of "Les MIserables."
At times, when a thought was riveted
forever by an lucuudusccnt mdntnl
process, when the unexpected came In
an Illustration or allusion, cotno pedra
da en ojo dc botlcnrio, the speaker's
voice was drowned In screams of ap
plauso and laughter, benches creaked
and groaned and uncontrollable feet
flew out against panels that burst from
their grooves. Perhaps no other such
lectures at once so humorous, so brll
Hunt, so novel and so full of thought
were ever delivered In any American
college, and they covered the wholo
Held of history and literature. Why
have they not been published among
the voluminous works of Illdpath?"
Referring to the days of the old "lec
ture bureau," Professor Skinner relates
two Incidents which Illustrate the doc
tor's readiness to adapt himself to exi
gencies of the moment. It happened
that Anna Dickinson and Vice Presi
dent Colfnx both addressed the stu
dents under peculiar circumstances,
which were adroitly managed by the
doctor. Tho writer fnys:
"Ouco when Anna Dickinson was to
lecturo we assembled very early in tho
old chapel nt 7 In the evening. Tho
fair tcrmngant cntnu not. Wo waited
till 0; then word came that she had Just
trrlved fit Indianapolis and would coins
out on a special engine If It would uot,
be too Into. It would not be too late.
Wo still tarried, while a solitary loco
motive, with n pressure of steam
gauged to the temper of one of Its oc
cupants, sped i like a cannon ball
through the darkness over the Indiana
prairies. At about 11 Miss Dickinson
appeared, and ascended the platform In
her trn cling dress. After berating a
railway employe for her delay sho
poured forth a vitriolic diatribe upon
the organizers of labor, holding her au
dlcncp captive till long after midnight.
"When Vice President Colfax came to
speak In the afternoon he fouud the old
chape crowded almost 'to suffocation,
and perhaps three times as large an au
dience without as there was within the
building. With the lightning move of
genius Dr. Uldpath removed the sash
wh61ly from one of tho cast windows,
and from tho window sill the great In
dlanlan spoke, his profiles presented
equally to both his audiences. It wn
a great feat. The wludow has beca
transformed Into a niche. I think some
appropriate Inscription should bo writ
ten within It to commemorate the
unlquo event, for the loyal ovation to
Colfnx possessed peculiar significance
nt the time. It wits Indiana's answer
to his detractors."
Cumulative Koonomy
An old bookkeeper deelurcs that It Is
surprising to see how many vnluablo
things a man can buy If he simply econ
omizes In little things.
"I once made up my mind I would be
come tho possessor of a good gold
watch. I saved up tho money for It la
this way: When I felt like eating a CO
ceut luucheou, as I often did, I ato a
25-ccut one Instead, nnd put the other
quarter aside for my watch fund. You
(wlll hardly believe It, but In less than
six months I had saved money enough
to purchaso the watch."
"But you don't seem to havo bought
It," said his friend, observlug that there
wcro no outward signs of such a pur
chase. "Well, no. Wtieu I found how easily
I could get along without CO-cent luuch
es, I concluded I could get along Just
as easily without the gold watch, aud
the watch fund Is growing Into a house
and lot fund now.''
Afrlu Ih Nloli lit Volcanoes.
Eastern Africa Is mild to hnve six act
ive volcuuoes und Western Africa four;
those lu the Cumeroous are said to have
been In eruption as lato as 1S3S. The
Islands westward' are all of volcanic
origin, The Canary Irlands are famous
for the great peak ofTenerlffe, which
became quiet long prior to discovery;
other vents In thu Islands have been In
eruption at Intervals during the eight
eenth century, aud hot vapors and
smoko rise from them at the present
time. ;
The World's Newspaper.
The total number of copies of news
papers printed throughout tho world In
one jear Is 12,000.000,000. To print
these requires 781,240 tons of paper, or
1,740,077.000 pounds, while It would
tako tho fastest presses In London 333
years to print a single year's edition,
which would produce a stack of papers
uenrty llfty miles high.
llruiul HI recta iu Europe,
Berlin boasts that Uutcr dun LI inlet
Is the broadest street In auy great city.
It Is 215 feet wide. The Itlngstrns?
lu VIenua Is 18S feet, Jhe Paris grand
boulevards 122 feet and the Andrassy
strusse at Buda-Pesth IBS feet wide,
To acquire weath is dltllcult, to pre
serve It more dltllcult aud to spend U
wisely most dltllcult.
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