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The Estacada News M Each TkarWar E S T A C A D A .................... OREGON NEWS O H H E WEEK Ii i CeiuteRsed Fora for Oor Bosy Renters. A Resume o f the Lem Important bu* Not Laea Interesting Events o f the Past Weak. A slight earthquake was felt through out Italy. The sultan of Turkey shows signs of yielding to the powers. Cuba has sent a gunboat to investi gate the affairs of the Isle of Pines. Linievitch is said to have put down a mutiny in Manchuria after much bloodshed. The University of Pennsyvlania has taken the initiative in suggesting new football rules. New York police authorities have doubled the number of police reserves, presumably in anticipation of a strike by ironworkers. Heavy seas have swept away 100,000 feet of the east coast of Coney island and the inhabitants are terror stricken lest more should go. A terrible gale has swept the English channel. It is reported that the Brit ish battleship King Edward V I I lound- ered during the storm. Officials investigating the affairs of the Beattie assay office have discovered evidence to show that Adams’ defalca tions extended as far back as 1003. The United States sold to Canada last year exports to the value of $166,- 000,000. This is more than 82 per cent of the whole of Canadian imports and but I I per cent of the exports of the United States. Oregon, Kansas. Teaxs, New Mexico, New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania. Utah and Maryland all have men in congress who would benefit their states by resigning, as their terms of useful ness have passed. Henry Watterson says he wants no public office. G R E A T E S T H A R V E ST IN H IS T O R Y Present Year Was Record Breaker in United States. Washington, Nov.28.— “ W ialth pro duction on the farms of the United States in 1905 reached the highest amount ever attained in this or any other country— $6,416,000,000.” In the first annual report of his third term Secretary of Agriculture Wilson presents an array of figures and a state ment representing products and profits of the farmers of this country, which he admits “ dreams of wealth produc tion could hardly equal.” President Will Not Give Senate Any Four crops make new high records as Excuse to Avoid Action by De to value — corn, hay, wheat and rice— bating in the Air. although in amount of production the corn is the only one that exceeds pre vious yields. In every crop the gen eral level of production was high and Washington, Nov. 28.— For various that of prices still higher. Beside the enormous yield of wealth the secretary reasons President Roosevelt w ill not estimates that the farms of the country urge congress at the approaching ses have increased in value during the past sion to take up the question of tariff five years to a present aggregate of $6,- revision. He believes the railroad rate 133.000. 000. question is the most vital issue which “ Every sunset during the past five confronts the people of the United years,” he says, “ has registered an in States today, and he is therefore un crease of $3,400,000 in the value of the willing to bring to the front any other farms of this country.” problem whose discussion would tend Analyzing the principal crops for the to postpone, if not defeat, legislation year, the secretary says that corn on that subject. He proceeds on the reached its highest production at 2,- theory that the worst evil should be 708.000. 000 bushels, a gain of 42,000,- first cured. Alter four years’ experi 000 over the next highest year, 1899; ence in the white house, aud with a hay is second in order of value, al comprehensive knowledge of the meth though cotton held second place during ods resorted to by congress to defeat the two preceding years. The hay crop legislation which is distasteful, the this year is valued at $60,000,000. president is fully aware that he would Cotton comes third, with a valuation materially decrease the chances of get of $576,000,000; wheat, $625,000,000; ting rate legislation if be should make oats, $282,000,000; potatoes, $138,- tariff revision an issue of equal import 000,000; Ian ley, $58,000,000; tobacco, ance with the regulation of freight $12,000,000; sugar, cane and sugar rates. He is aware that the senate beets, $50,000,000; rice, $13,000,- would quickly seize upon this opportu 000; dairy products, $50,000,000, an nity and concentrate its attention on a increase of $64,000,000, over last year. tariff bill, not so much with any idea of modifying the Dingley tariff as to distract attention and sidetrack the P L E N T Y O F M O NE Y. rate bill before it reached a critical stage. Secretary of Interior Has Not Been There is other legislation which the Furnished Proper Figures. president hopes to have passed besides Washington, Nov. 28.— When the the railroad rate bill, but he is m ire secretary of the Interior and the Recla anxious about that measure than any mation service reach an understanding other, and he w ill concentrate his as to the extent and condition of the efforts to secure such a law as will, in national reclamation fund, it is expect his judgment, effectively check discrim ed that a number of new irrigation pro inations of all sorts. He wants a law jects, including projects in Eastern which w ill apply the “ square deal” Oregon and Eastern Washington, will rule to railroad business, and if his in be approved and placed under contract. fluence, backed by public opinion, can But until there is a complete under bring it about, such a law w ill be writ standing, the present chaotic condition ten on the statute books before the first must continue, and inactivity will be session of the Fifty-ninth congress ad the rule, save on projects that are act journs. The British Liberal party has split ually under contract. on home rule. The great misunderstanding that now Dowie has returned from his new col prevails is as to the amount of money available for use, and the restrictions ony in Mexico. under which that money may be ex There is a growing disaffection in pended. The Reclamation service has the St. Petersburg garrison. its own set of figures, but those figures Russian police have found letters do not coincide with the figures which have been furnished Secretary Hitch telling of a plot to kill the esar. cock by the men in his own department Sarah Bernhardt w ill build and upon whom he relies. The secretary, maintain a theater in New York, ac confronts«! with very different financial cording to her manager. statements, from sources which ought Turkey is expected to offer no resist to agree, has concluded that neither is ance to the allied fleet unless troops are right, yet be is unable to figure out for landed, in which event a fight may en himself just how much money he has sue. to spend, and how much he has spent The large number of accidents in in the 3 % years the reclamation law football games this season has aroused has been in force. college authorities to take action against the game. W R E C K T A K E S FIRE. I t is probable that in the reorganiza tion of congress Ankeny and Fulton Fourteen Persons Lose Lives In Mas w ill secure chairmanships of important sachusetts Disaster. committees. Lincoln, Mass., Nov. 28.— Fourteen The management of the Rock Island persons were killed, 25 were seriously railroad has decided to practically re injured, and probably a score of others build the entire system to secure a cut and bruised in the most disastrous minimum grade. railroad wreck recorded in this state for many years. The wreck occurred Fifteen persons were injured and at 8:15 o’ clock, at Baker’ s bridge sta many ethers badly shaken up in a tion, a mile and a half west of Lincoln, wreck on the Missouri Pacific near on the main line of the Fitchburg di Leeds, Missouri. vision of the Boston A Maine railroad. The Russian minister of finance esti The regular express, which left Boston mates that the expenditures for the at 7:45 o’ clock for Montreal, by way of coming year will be $1,020,000,000 and the Rutland system, crashed into the the revenue $1,027,000,000. rear end of an ai-commodation train The powers may allow Austria to bound for points on the Marlborough branch, and which started from Boston seise Macedonia. at 7:15. A fierce gale in Chicago did much Of the dead, a dozen were passengers damage to property. in the two rear cars of the Marlborough The other two were Engineer A fresh mutiny has broken out on train. Barnard, of the Montreal express, and the Russian Black sea fleet his fireman. No passengers on the More graft is being exposed in the express train were injured. Of those insurance inquiry at New York. who lost their lives, a number were ap Bulgaria is anxious to invade Mace parently instantly killed in the collis donia, but is restrained by the powers. ion, while others were either burned to death or died from suffocation. Russian employers have nnited to fight the strlkeis, who have nearly Oppose Rate Legislation. ruined them. Chicago, Nov. 28. — An organized Helena shippers have organised to movement on the part of railroad em fight rate discrimination and may form ployes in every branch of the service a state association. has been put on foot to secure con The cashier of the Hayti, M'ssonri, certed action against the Roosevelt idea bank has disappeared with $18,000 of of rate legislation. Preliminary steps have already been taken by a commit the institution’ s money. tee of the brotherhotxls of railroad men A large colony of Boers is to locate for a general mass meeting. Rate reg in Venezuela. A grant of over a m il ulation, in the opinion of the em lion acres of land has been made by ployes, means a subsequent reduction President Castro. in wages tor them, and they propose a Four prisoners in the Jefferson, Mis strong organization to oppose traffic souri, penitentiary, made a desperate rates. attempt to escape. Two guards were All Cut and Dried Affair. killed, a third seriously wounded, and the prison gates blown up with nitro Washington, Nov. 28. — Two things glycerine. The convicts were captured are positively known about the coming after a fight in which one was killed congress, namely, that Joseph G. Can and one wounds«!. non, of Illinois, w ill he re-elected The president has appointed H. J. speaker and John Sharp W illiam s will Hagerman, of Roswell, N. M., as gov be nominattnl for that office by the ernor of New Mexico, to take effect Democrats, thereby conferring upon January 1, the sxpifation of Governor him the title of minority leader. Fur thermore, it means that Messrs. Can Otero’ s term. non and William s w ill personally make Balfour w ill resign as premier of up the committee slates, the speaker Great Britain. naming Republican members and all chairmen, and W illiams naming the Missouri is continuing its fight minority members. against the Standard Oil. No Flowers at Capitol Four Berlin banks have organised a Washington, Nov. 28.— There w ill bank to do business In Turkey and Egypt. be no flowers in either house on the opening day of congress. A resolution Fire in a coal barge at London de of the senate was adopted «luring the stroyed 2,000 tons of coal. last se«sion of congress herring flowers The government's rase in tbs second from the senate chamber. Mr. Cinnon trial of Burton is completed. has already given notice that he will Japan is working to raiss Togo’ s not allow the flowers to he brought in aa heretofore. Rivalry of admirers of sunken flagship, the Mikasa. different members of both houses The allied fleets of the powers is reached a stage where the desks were preparing to seise Turkish ports. buried in flowers. Spain will spend $4 200,000 for the purchase of rapid fire field guns. SIDETRACK TARIFF Famine In Part o f Japan. Victoria, B. C.t Nov. 28.— Famine Ambassador Reid has contributed prevails because of the failure of the $900 to the fund tor Kgnland's unem- rice crop la Northeast Japan. Thegov- ployed. ernment has begun relief measures. Rate Regulation the Only Prob lem Betöre Coming Session. CONCENTRATION OF ATTENTION C A N A L ENGINEERS D EPART. Ridicule Reports They Have Changed Decision on Sea Level. Washington, Nov. 28.— The five for eign delegates to the board of consult ing engineers of the Isthmain Canal commission left for New York today, and w ill sail for their homes. They will meet again in Brussels during the firBt days of January. General Davis w ill go to that city as representative of the American members of the board, and w ill take with him the documents, which are not yet drawn up, and which then w ill nave to be signed by the for eign delegates. Speaking of published stories that they had reconsidered their first vote, one of the delegates made the following statement: “ Whatever we have had to say will he found in the report which will shortly be in the hands of President Roosevelt. That we should change our vote on a subject to which for three months we had given the closest atten tion, and should change it merely be cause some parties are not contented with it, is a great absurdity.” M AY LO SE P O S IT IO N . Mitchell Likely T o Bs Displaced on Senate Canal Committee. Washington, Nov. 27. — Apparently Senator Mitchell is to be deprived of the chairmanship of the committee on iuteroceanic canals when the senate re organizes next month. This has not been definitely decided, but it is the concensus of opinion of arriving sena tors that Mitchell w ill have to relin quish his chairmanship in order that some active member of the canal com mittee can preside at its meetings this winter. Congress must appropriate money ea.ly in the coming session for contin uing work on the Panama canal, and must decide whether the canal shall be built with locks or at the sea level. This legislation, together with all other legislation pertaining to the canal and the canal zone, must be considered by the canal committee, and w ill be one of the most important topics to be con sidered. Because of its importance, senators believe the canal committee should have an active chairman, who can not only preside at committee meetings, but who can vote both in committee and in the senate, and who IN GRATITUDE STREET. can furthermore take charge of canal By W. M. IlerschelL legislation after it has been reported to I sought for the place where Gratefulness dw elt; They said ’twas In Gratitude street, the senate. Not far from the corner of Peace and Good-will, Where Faith and Hope avenues meet. I went on my way, but the paths grew obacure Where Greed streets meets Ill- gotten Gain. And, somehow, tbs lights of the avenue, Gloom, Only darkened the alleya of Pain. a n titu d e street lay straightway before us, Clad In a leafy gown, gorgeous- I t bright There In in the center cf of Plaza Con tentment Sparkled the fountain o f Har vest Delight. I crossed to Misfortune and turned In at Hate. Passing on to Deceit and De spair. And my heart sank to depths In describably sad When I entered Despondency Square. And as we drank of the Joya of the picture Sunny-faced children thronged Gratitude street, street. Singing the songs of the Feast of the Autumn, Biasing a trail thro’ the leaves at their feet. Swiftly the baby pruceaslon came I stood as one lost when a child toward .oward ua; took my hand Thanksgiving shouted a greet And, In voice that was blessed . lug of Joy; ly sweet, "Blessings upon you, O Children Said: “ I am Thangsklvlng; I ’ ll of Autumn! show you the way Tours Is a happiness none can That leads Into Gratitude destroy!” Street.” Each little chorister ran up and kissed her. And then, aa by magic, a curtain Each hud some tender heart- was lifted, tribute to pay; W e stood amid scenes entranc- Crowned her the Queen of the lngly fair. Grateful and shouted: Before us lay avenues gilded with “ Long live thy festival, Thanks sunbeams, giving D ay!” Back of ua pitiless W o« and — Indianapolis News. Despair. AM E ND IM M IG R A T IO N LAW S. Sargent’ s Plan for Keeping Out All Undesirables. Washington, Nov. 27. — Radical changes in the immigration laws will be made next year, if the suggestions of Commissioner General Sargent are put into effect. Mr. Sargent is anxious to have limits placed on the number of immigrants, and that persons who are either too young or too old to sup port themselves should not be per mitted to disembark. This would not, however, apply to those who can furn ish guarantees that they are on their way to relatives.- Mr. Sargent believes that by an ar rangement with foreign governments the useless traffic of deportation of im migrants unfit to land here could be stopped. Before an immigrant is per mitted to take passage for America, he should undergo an examination at the point of embarkation. H IT C H C O C K T O RESIGN. Rumor That Western Congressmen Have Got His Scalp. Washington, Nov. 27. — The fact leaked out tonight from a responsible source that at a recent cabinet meeting Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the Interior, expressed a desire to ten der his resignation July 1 next. The same authority announces that Vespa sian Warner, of Illinois, now commis sioner of pensions, is to succeed him. It is said the proposed change in the cabinet has been brought about by members of congress from western states, who charge that Mr. Hitchcock, in operations against land grabbers, has permitted his personal feelings to enter' into the prosecutions. W hile this charge had been often repeated, it is said that the retirement of Mr. Hitchcock w ill be wholly due to the desire of the president to surround himself with younger men. M ILLIO N W O M E N FIG H T S M O O T . Characterize Him as a Man Sanction ing Practice o f Polygamy. Philadelphia, Nov. 27.— A meeting of the executive committee of the Na tional I-eague of Women’ s organiza tions, formed two years ago to oppose the continuance in the United States senate of Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, was held here today. Women from all sections of the country were present. It was announced that a petition would be presented to toe senate asking for the exclusion of Mr. Smoot on the ground that “ he is a member of a heirarchy whose president and a major ity of the members pratctice and teach polygamy.” The memorial w ill state that "M r . Smoot has never raised his voice against these doctrines, and the Mormon hierarchy has broken its cov enants which it gave to the United States when statehood was granted." Leave Isle o f Pines to Cuba. Washington, Nov. 28. — The Cuban government w ill be permitted to settle to its own satisfaction the existing trouble on the Isle of Pines. The State department has so announced. Of course, if American citizens were to be unduly persecuted or maltreated be cause of any exercise by them of their right of freedom of speech or assembly, this government, w ill take steps to se cure for them justice. But if those Americans on the islands place them selves outside the pale of the law by refusing to recognize the authority of Summoned by Judge Hunt. the Cuban government, they w ill have Helena, Nov. 27.— United States to take the consequences. Judge Hunt today ordered Frederick A. Hyde, John A. Benson and other Cali Pesthouse W at Burglarized. fornians to appear and answer on Feb Butte, Mont., Nov. 28. — A Great ruary 6 the complaint charging them Falls dispatch to the Miner states that with having fraudulently obtained a the people of Teton county are in a fu forest reserve scrip, under which 4,000 rore over what is believed to be a acres of Montnna land was secured from threatened epidemic of smallpox as the the government. The government seeks result of burglarizing of the pesthonse. to have the land retored to it. There Several smallpox patients were confined are a number of Montana corporations in the detention house and the piace and individuals who are also named as has never b«>en fumigated to the extent defendants in the b ill of complaint that it is believed that all danger of filed. contagion is past. The people have been publicly warned by the health Sailors Want Discharges. officials to lie on the alert for any ap St. Petersburg, Nov. 27.— Details ot pearance of the disease. the mutiny at Sevastopol are not availa ble at the admiralty, the dispatch of First Shot In Revolt. the Associate«! Press from the war port Havana, Nov. 28. — The first shots giving the first intimation of the out between rural guards and insurrection break. An officer of the staff said that ists were exchanged today near the cen four equipages and the Black Bea fleet ter of Havana province. A telegram were at Sevastopol at present. He ex from the captain of the rural guards plained that in addition to other long- says that bis detachmen. discovered a existent causes of discontent the sailors party of 20 insurgents le«l by Mario had b««en stirred up by their retention Ro«lau and Rafael Castillo, who organ in the service as reservicests, the ukase ised the band from Saluda. The party, releasing many of them from the serv says the telegram, after an exchange of ice having just been published. shots, fled, some to the mountains and others across the fields. Nobody was Burton it Guilty. hurt with the exception of a sergeant St. Louis, Nov. 27.— Senator J. R. of the guards, whose horse threw him Burton, of Kansas, was Saturday night found guilty on all six counts in the A lies Have Acted. indictment upon which he has been on London, Nov 28. — The Daily Mail trial for the past week in the United publishes the following dispatch from States Circuit court, charge«! with hav Mitylene, dated November 27; “ Eight ing agree«! to accept and having ac warships of the combine«! fleet arrived cepted compensation from the Rialto here at 8 o’ clock this morning. Admi- Grain A Securities company, of 8t. n l Ritter von Jedina, accompanied by Louis, to appear for the company in the the Austrian consul, proceeded to the rapacity of an attorney before the Post- government house at 10:30 o’clock and office department. handed an ultimatum to the governor. At 1 o'clock this afternoon 500 sailors Will Cut Forests and Crops. landed and seised the customs and tele I ¡ban, Nov. 27.— Agrarian disorders graph office. Everything is quiet.” have broken out in the Baltic province. A peasant meeting adopts«! resolutions Governor o f M oscow Dismissed to cut forest on private land and to ap London, Nov. 2 8 — The correspond propriate crops. The governor general ent of the Standard at Moacow says that has Issued a proclamation to the troops General Drunovo, governor of Moscow, to fire on such offenders, and saying has been dismissed in disgrace owing to that ths participants at such meetings the revolutionary proceedings' of the w ill bs court martialsd and sent to dis congress of peasants. tant provinces. A Thanksgiving Dream By Gertrude Rodermond. “ I ’m powerful glad to see that ar light in the window— it’s like the light o’ Heaven in this November drizzle,” muttered the old New Englander to him self, stretching forth a hand seamed with plow wrestling, to extricate an um brella twisted in some bushes. Farmer Sloan had seen that light in the window for the past two years, but not until now had Its real significance dawned upon him, and he sighed. “ I wish,” he mused aloud, “ that I had half the faith In that ar boy that Marthy has. T w o years this Thanksgiving since he went away, an’ Marthy— but pshaw! all mothers are like that— still some times It makes me a little shaky— what if I should be mistaken after all? Now, that thar candle,” gazing intently at the speck of shining light becoming lighter as the distance diminished, “ is thar for Joseph. I dreamed last night that he wuz home agin, an’ I swan I ’d almost forgive his getting off with the fow l money if he’d come back to-morrow— just to reward the love back o’ that ar light.” For a moment he took a mental sur vey of the pies and puddings seen in the pantry in the morning, and wondered why it was that Marthy had spent so much time in getting up the little cup cakes no one ate but Joseph. H e has tened his lagging feet until he gained the heights and entered the old colonial kitchen, lighted by blazing walnut logs, piled high in the huge fireplace. “ Wall, this is comfort,” and stepping to the fireplace, he dropped into a high- backed rocker. “ Mother, mother!” he called. “ Is that you, fayther?” called a cheery voice from an upper chamber. Before he could reply she ran lightly down the stairs aud was standing beside him. A sigh of relief echoed through the warm kitchen, and he rose with an enthusiasm and agility that would have done credit to twenty-one, and folded the pretty, thrifty little housewife in his arms. “ W ho’s a-comin’ to-morrow, mother?” he asked. “ E liza; and .many times my heart would have broken but for her faith and cheering words, and, this. In the face of the fact that her intended husband was driven away as a thief upon her wedding day, proves Joseph made no mistake when he decided to add a daughter to our household. She will be here to morrow, and I have fixed up Joe’s room for her.” A shadow crossed the old man’s face as he gazed intently at the fire. A fte r an Interval of painful silence he rose, gave a weary yawn, then kissing M ar thy on either cheek, slowly climbed the high, narrow stairs and went to bed. Sitting alone in the firelight, strange thoughts thronged that mother’s mind. T w o years before there was a scene in that very room she would fain forget. Farmer Sloan had entered the house, calling to her from th e ' porch that he had laid the market mouey upon the kitchen table, and bade her take care of it. She was busily carding wool in an outer room, and did not heed the com mand. Finally she ascended the stairs and going straight to the kitchen table looked for tho money, but not a trace of It was visible. The kitchen door had keen left open— certainly by her husband — and she called impatiently to Joseph, who was dressing In an upper chamber to take Eliza upon the last drive ahe was to enjoy as "M iss Eliza,” and think ing he was playing one of his childish pranks upon her, she called In a voice unusually harsh. The young man hast ened to her, his eyes flashing fire. “ Mother, do you think I am a boy again to tease yon in this way?” Before she could spe.ik her husband threw wide the door and looking into her pallid face surmised the cause and roared: “ Joe, hand out that money!” “ Father. I swear before heaven and mother, I have not touched your money — have not seen it------” The old man strode forward and grasped his son by the collar. “ None o’ that,” he roared, “ give up that money, or you leave this house for ever, an’ that gal for whom you have stolen it will never darken these doors!” “ Oh, fayther, don’ t!” shrieked the ter rified wife. “ Joseph never touched that money— I ’ ll never believe it!” “ You He!” cried the father, enraged to the verge of insanity. Instantly the strong young man grap pled with his aged parent, and clutching him by the throat forced him into the chair upon which he had been sitting, shouting: “ Take that back, father! T ake that back or I ’ll choke the breath out o f your body.” Like lightning the mother wrenched his strong hands from her husband’s throat, and flinging her arms about his neck, held him as in a vise. “ Joe— my darling baby, for mother’ s sake don’ t lay your hands on fayther. He’s wrong, but remember you are young — and his son, end something is due to old age!” “ For your sake, mother, I will deeist. but I leave this house, and never shall he see my face again. I f I stay it will mean— murder!” And picking up his hat he left the house, striding rapidly down the hill, going in the direction of ^ x a ’ s home. A t the click o f the garden gate a pretty, demure looking maiden, clad in e pink frock, ran dowu the walk to greet him. but atarted in dismay at his flushed face. Taking her into a email grove adjoin ing her hove* unmindful of wraps, they wandered almost to the roadside, h$ bit terly describing the scene just enacted at his home, she tearfully listening. When her grief had apent itself she raised her tear-wet face from his shoul der and gazed steadily towards the road way. “ Look, Joe,” she whispered, “ see that man!” By the roadside stodd a pony, un hitched, and close beside him. seated upon a fallen tree, was a man with a blue stocking across his knee, intently rifling its contents. Joseph Sloan in stantly recognized the homely safe in which his father had kept his money. His breath came hard. “ Ranchman Jack, who supplies the village with cattle from Texas!” he breathed. “ He has followed father and stolen, not only the market money, but all father has— let me go,” and he un clasped the young girl’s arms fiercely from his neck. There was a scream of terror. The man looked up, and noting that he had been observed, leaped upon the pony and dashed down the road. “ Joe, don’ t follow that desperado— it may mean death if you hunt him!” Again her arms sought his neck. Pushing her from him he fiercely cried: “ Hunt him! I ’ll hunt him into his grave! Good-by— explain to mother,” and he went like the wind in the direc tion of the village. T w o hours later a pony was found upon the green, grazing upon a patch of half-frozen grass, but the ranchman had taken the first train out for Texas. « « « « « « « T w o years passed, and far away on the plains of northern Texas, a weary exile is leaning upon a table. H e is alone in the wilds, and yet is not un attended. On the table, close at hand, lay a heavy rifle; in his belt glittered an ugly looking dirk, while at his feet crouched a trusty bloodhound. The man’ s head dropped and he murmured wearily: “T w o years next month since I start ed my search, and yet no trace of that man who has wrecked, not only my happiness, but that of my mother and Eliza. Strange I can find no trail of him here in his own hold!” A fierce blast almost shook the log house, but he felt secure and paid no heed until the dreary, sobbing wail of a hungry w olf fell upon his ears. There was an ominous scratching between the* beams, and he knew the pack had reach ed his dwelling. A low snarl and a cry o f a human being In distress smote his ear. Quickly going towards a chink in the beams he saw a sight that al most stilled his heart beats. In front o f his hut a human being was lying face down upon the ground. The wolves had treed him, and overcome with fright he had fallen from his stronghold into their midst. The back of his head was “ Am on the way home with thief and money. Tell mother.” This, then, was the secret of that silent preparation which had so mysti fied Farmer Sloan. Thanksgiving morning brought Eliza, radiant in new furs and brown stuff dress. Drawing the old man aside, she quietly read to him a letter just receiv ed from Joseph. “ I swan, if I didn’t think he was a-comin’ by my dream,” said the old father, rubbing his hands in glee. “ An’ to think that he run down that ar thief in Texas. Come to think on’t, that ar fellow was on the road behind me on market day, but how he got into the house is the mystery.” His eyes sud denly fell upon the table which mother was spreading. “ Six plates and six chairs mean six persons— who can the other two be?” And he looked inquir ingly at Eliza, who blushed to the roots of her black hair. “ One is for this latter day Judas, who has caused all the trouble, father, and— the other’s for— the minister.” Before the astonished father could reply, a scream of joy from the mother in the kitchen was heard, and looking out they saw her clasped in the arms of her stalwart son. In his wake was a man, too feeble to make many steps alone. The farmer recognized him as Ranchman Jack. The repentant man reached his hand to the man he had wronged. It was warmly clasped, while the mother, too happy for speech, pushed her son into the little sitting room, where sat Eliza, and quietly shut them in. That afternoon there was a joyous home wedding on the hill and the min ister said it was hard to téli which one o f the quartette was the really happy one, but his verdict was in favor of the mother.— W averley Magazine. A T THE C A P IT A L . H ow T h a n k s g iv in g Day la Observed la th e F o re ign L egation s. Our American feast is observed in the foreign legations at Washington by customs peculiar to the mother coun try, and the dishes known in the "fath er’s-house” are most in evidence, even though the American fowl has its place. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand presides at the feast in the household of the British embassy and gathers about him a coterie of friends. Here the custom o f the country represented and the one adopted bear a resemblance, and the day is observed without a marked change in their mode of living. But in the legations o f the Japanese, the Korean aud the South American the conformity to American observances, in duced by the markets abounding in American foods, means a decided change on the menu cards, and yet with but few exceptions the diplomats and at taches make an effort to observe the customs in our country. g o ry . The Chinese form an exception, for in The man in the log house waited to several instances the presiding genius see no more. Forcing the gun between o f the Chinese kitchen has refused to the bqams he fired continuously at the become enthused into any flights of beasts of prey, until their leaders lay gflstronomlcal idealisms by Thanksgiv dead and the others in fright took to the ing or any other Christian feast. Yet forest. the spread made on that day is o f true Throwing wide the door, he dragged Celestial magnificence. And when the the wounded man to a place of safety meal is over, with it varied dishes, the within the hut. Chinese minister and his close attachee, “ Ranchman Jack!” he cried, looking no doubt, adjourn to the smoking room contemptuously upon the fellow to whom with their pipes and hop doi and the he was playing the part of “ Good Sa feeling that “ all the world Is China, maritan.” and China is like heaven.” — Ina Capi- Ten minutes later his guest regained tola Emery in Household. consciousness, and looking Into the face o f his rescuer, almost wept: Tho T h a n k fu l H ea rt. “ Don’t kill me! I will make good that I f one should give me a dish of sand money, but do not kill me!” “ A ll I want is my father’ s hard-earn and tell me there were particles of iron ed money!” thundered the young man. in it I might look for them with my “ Hand that out and I will nurse you eyes and search for them with my clum back to life and health. I f you refuse. sy fingers aud be unable to detect them, I shall again throw you out to the mercy but let me take a nmgnet and sweep through It, and how it would draw to of the wolves.” “ I will, I will,” groaned the man, itself the most invisible particles by the The un feebly. “ It is down under the oak tree mere power of attraction! by the creek. There is a hollow in the thankful heart, like my finger in the trunk, and there you will find a box sand, discovers no mercies, but let the containing the money I stole from your thankful heart sweep through the day home, and many hundreds in gold— all as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find in every hour some heavenly bless honestly earned in trade— I swear it.” Bindiug up the torn scalp, Joseph ings. only the iron in God’ s sand is gold. called to the dog, and left the hut, rifle — Oliver Wendell Holmes. in hand. W ith rapid strides he went towards the creek, never pausing until O u r T u r k e y Crop. he stood beneath the bare brown The turkey crop of the United States branches o f a giant oak. A careful finds its first important market at search brought to light the heavy box. Thanksgiving, when, according to a re described by the ranchman. Opening It, liable estimate, about 6,000.000 of the the first object that met his gaze was birds are sold. It is raised in small the old blue stocking, familiar to him lots all over the country, each farmer from childhood. It was now completely contributing a few. This crop of 6.000,- stuffed with crisp, green bills. Replac 000 Thanksgiving turkeys, if all of them ing it, he took the box in his arms and were marching in single file, would returned to the cabin. stretch from Boston to San Francisco Placing the precious burden upon the and as far as Denver on the return jour* table, he sat beside the bed, calmly ney. awaiting the time when his patient should awake. An hour thus passed in H a r v e s t G ra titu d e . gloomy meditation. T w o years of his When bam and bln and storehouse are full as they can hold. life had been blasted by the thieving, helpless wretch now lost in slumber. At O f fruit and wheat—our riches - as good as ellow gold! last the sleeper awoke. Looking at Jo lldren go a-nuttlng, or for the wild seph. he feebly pointed to the box upon grapes roam, the table. The young man placed It on Our hearts rive rlad Thanksgiving! God bless r, nr.* K r.-'rt* the bed beside him. Painfully raising himself upon his elbow he opened it and »• • l • ll •»$*,. handed him the blue yarn stocking his mother had knitted with one foot on his cradle. T h « sick man deliberately coanted oat two handred dollars, and restored them to the stocking; then, with nervous haste, added another fifty, feebly murmuring: “ The market money.” and he again handed the atocking to Joseph, who took It with a gloomy air. “ Now get well. Jack, for I want to take you back to ths old Bay Stats aod Mr. Jinks (3 a. m.)— W h .i » all this make an honest man of you.” noise? A week later Joseph and kia strange Johnnie-—Gee! Just had so orful companion arrived In Boston. That nightmare! Thought it was the mura night hs telegraphed Elian* la’ after Thankegivta’. i