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FAGE SIX DAILY CAPI IAL JOtTEHAl. IALZIU, OtZOOH, THUESDAY, NOVEMBEB 27, 1913. TBROW AWAY YOUR EYEGLASSES A FEEE PBESCBEPTION. A Thanksgiving Worthwhile By JENNIE FOWLER-WILLING 1813, by American Praia Association. THE merry slelghbells mocked the agony of the woman crouching over the dying fire. Tlia surly November wind snarled down the chimney, throwing gns and ashes Into her face. She mut tered brokeuly to herself: "Baby's gone she's safe! I must save my boy!" glancing toward the shabby cot where her chubby little three-year-old lay asleep. "Now's my only lime!" , When tuey were coming homo from the "liurylug ground" nud Melville turned down l'.alrd street she knew that would be the Inst or him till he'd slept off IiIh spree. Something pulled so bard at her heartstrings they seemed ready to snap. Ho wus such a splendid fellow when they were married! Shu shook as If In an ague lit, muttering to koep up her courage, "I must snve my boy!" She raised her hnggard fnce and bit back a stilling sob. "0 God, I've done my very best for Melville, but I've full ed failed-failed! I can only turn him over to theel" She peered around the room In the dim light. Her wedding presents made a cozy nest of It at first, but they hud nil gone to the pawnshop. "Mae Maude always had the knack o" flxln' things tip." hor old farmer fa-j thor hud said. "Took nflor her moth er. Make a nicer bouquet out of a bunch o' mayweed an' a mullein stalk' than anybody else could with plnles au' lilies." Bhe smiled bitterly over the dear lit tle flattery while she packed her old suit case, even thanking God that hor, father and mother were safe In his heaven. "They'll koep poor baby from being afraid of the newness and 1 must save tny boy!" She took from Its biding place the 1200 that bad been paid for tho old farm things. That would take her and little Mclllo to Aggie Duncan, down In Texas, and she'd trust God for tho IlllMllltMl Till IIIVVII Foil THK UIHSINd lliilHKM. lent. Judge Tl'oinnlno'a folks would take rare of Melville us lung as he last ed. Another great noli! ' In tbime awful limit's ali-no with her (lying baliy she hud wrought nut her plan. A swing of Mellle'H old hut be. fore lliu locomotive when the express slowed fur the bridge, tolling it Into the water with her old shawl, a clum ber up the steps of the IiibI ear nud a nettling into a sent by the door. It never entered the heads of the t i'ii I n i'ivw that (lie do.liig woman with the sleeping little boy In her lap Inul Mopped the train. After dragging the river for the cuius lug bullion the "friends" gave them up. l'our Mae Maude! The Ions of hei lui by bad driven her criiK.v. and she bud drowned herself and her buy. She brought up lit tho home tif Agues 1 nun an, the dear, dumpy lttle help meet of a large slued home mlwlounry htf heart, everybody said, wns "an Mg as all outdoors," j Their hniidbo of a manst was parked to the eaves with liable and happlnc. The small lady bad a few snog little Investments, the Interest on whlrh she knew would romo In handy w hen she "threw herself away" on big John Imuran. "foe here, Mq Maud." chlppered Mrs. Agnes after th tornado of wcl r comes had blown over, "I guess you'll have to take bold of Jack'i Job. These poor cowboys almost worship a wo man's shadow. And then the, settlors' homes tbey have to be awfully neg lected. I can't go with Jackie very ofton on account of the babies. He'll get you a good pony and turn you loose on them, and, my, oh, the good you'll do them! A special providence. I call It!" Mae Maude smiled as the immediate past rushed before ber "mind's eye." A queer kind of providence, she thought Hut she fell Into line and was soon gal loping over plain and prairie, a full sized benediction In the settlers' homes and the backbone of the nearest school house Sunday school, to which the cow boys flocked for miles around for "a good look at the new super, Just on from the east." . One Sabbath Mrs. Agnes crimsoned to the roots of her hair with the ter rible "publicity" of tolling the Sunday school folks about the "bee" they were going to have, to put up a lean-to, with a porch for vines, to give the new su perintendent a living room, and would they nil come? And those who hndn't any women folks of their own to bring to help get the big dinner and supper might bring somebody else's, and Mr. Tmncitn was over on Korty Mile run or he'd give It out. but they'd all come Just the H.imo and have a mlgbty good time putting up the new Sunday school lady's lean-to. When Mao Maude climbed up on the rear car of the express, after throw ing her old shawl and her boy's bat Into the river that blonk November night of the baby's funeral, she was sure r.he could never laugh again. But when Mrs. Agnes told Jack the next dn y about hor announcement of the "bee" Mne Maude bad to put tho frills on the story, .lack Duncan caught bis wee, plump wife in his arms, with a baby or two thrown In for good meas ure, their sipieuls of merriment ac companying his full throated American laugh, their heels kicking his broad chest gleefully, while the second edi tion of Melville Tremnlne squeezed his mother's neck, shouting mildly. J'We don't have to preach, momsy and me. We'm goln' to farm It!" Then all Joined, big and little, In the chorus of laughter, and there came near being a riot of hugs and klssoa. Mae Maude, with the help of the second generation of Duncans and her correspondence with the "back to tho soil" wise men of Washington, made the manse ten acre lot bud and blos som us the rose. Many n good hint did she give the settlers and their wives that made her word on "farming It" tako tho place of their "rulo of thumb" methods. Dan Wcthcrotl, a thoroughgoing young ranchman, with his eye on the legislature, noticed her neat, trim ap pearance wldle she took notes In the "lecture car" und Increased the fre quency of Ills visits nt the ninnso. One day he qulr.v.ed Mrs. Agues about her friend's widowhood, quite shock ing her by asking her If it were "sod or grass." Mae Maude heard only the word "widow," but It sent the "creeps" up and down hor spine. After that Dan Wetherell might as well have tried to win one of (Jrenfel's Ijilirndnr peaks. She kept tab on tho homo folks through the Duncans, oven to the mys terious disappearance of Melville Tre mnlne soon after her own. Every body had given him up for dead; but, woman fashion, she held stubbornly the hope that she would see him again -her very own the noble fellow thai he was when she first knew him. Hav ing been through tile ordeal herself and knowing how they always thought along the same Hues when he was him self, she looked for III m to come to her -permanently redeemed. One evening a day or two before Thanksgiving John Duncan came home from a two weeks' trip. Ho was silent and abxeutinlnded, though the, small house was fairly tipsy with merriment. Amies' ukiiiiI expedient of putting the luihy in his arms was a tint failure. It came near breaking the child's neck, for he set It down on the Hour, Its lung clothes wadded about Its useless feet, and when It was tumbling over on Its small nose ho took It, this way and that, as he would have done a bag of grain to make It stand on end. Mrs. Ague spuing to the rescue. "Tor mercy's sake, Jack!" He i nun to the surface long enough to beg the baby's pardon and stop with a big, brushy kiss Its Issue of protest ing notes. "Come. Aggy, let's go and lake s walk." He drew her hand Into the bend of his elbow, leaving the baby nud the TliaukHglvIng ln that had Just nr rlved from the home church, the con tents of which the Junior Duncans were aluioit perishing to explore. Just fairly beyond earshot ho broke out with, "l.iwt my trull yesterday, Ag gle. and you can't guess whom 1 ran across," "No, Jack. Whor certain that th. mystery of his abstraction was ahum to unravel Itself. "Melville Ttvmslne." "No, Jack, He's dead." "Not by n long shot! The liveliest fellow I've met for mnny i dayt Btay 'HERE'S MY fnit-'ilrinioi v'-mnii Mniiimfriiuidniniiiiiiliii)) MMmikin il mm annm uunkmtmHiimit tiMnri Photo by American Press Association. ed all night with him! Told me the whole story!" "Jack Duncan, what lire you saying? Didn't he drink himself to death?" Tried to ufter Mne Maude left, but the Salvation Army folks down there In the city got hold of him." "Oh. Jnckle! And doesu't be drink now?" "Teetotal to the backbone! When the poor cowboys get near the last ditch they'll light for n chance to get to him. When the Lord makes a mnu over the Job can't be Improved, spe cially such a one as Mell Troniu.'ne." "Did you Inform him about Mae Maude?" "It was mighty close work to get around that, for she's uppermost In his thoughts, but I Hit lil to myself, 'Aggie and I'll treat all hands to one big sur prise." He'd never given ber up. Ho said: i know her conscience, She'd never go to (loci without a good, straight summonsdrowning the boy too! Front something she said once, she's somewhere In the southwest. I'll tlud her yet. My business Is to make myself worthy of her love,' My heart ached to tell li I m the whole story, but I thought he could wait n day or two longer and we'd have one good, old surprise down here where things don't often happen. lie promised to come to our Thanksgiving dinner. He's well fixed on bis ranch." I.lttle Mrs., Aggie was laughing and crying and hiding her face In his shirt front. Then 'her housekeeperllness came to her help. "There'll be a lot T things In the Thanksgiving box, and Mae Minnie has been fattening one of the turkeys!" Then came a relapse and a nut her outburst: "Oh, Jackie, Jackie! lint won't we have a Thanks, giving worth while?" B Thankful Anyway, The real, original and genuine Thanksgiving dinner must boast a tur key and cruntierry sauce If It Is to be strictly orthodox In record to the menu. Next to that In Importance b the mluce or pumpkin pie. Yet If none of these things Is forth coming It Is well to be thankful any way. In the words of that rare old PeiinsytvHnls philosopher, ftcnjnmln Kmuklln: "W will thank Cod that we have brssd and kutWr to est. and If v hav ne butUr we will thank 04 for the broad." THANKSGIVING ONCE A FAST, NOT A FEAST. Thanksgiving Was Not Fatal to Tur ksys In Early Days. Turkey did not tlgttre In the original Thanksgiving feast, but It became a feature of that historic meal so long u go that the reason Is lost lu oblivion. On the original Thanksgiving day tho pilgrim fathers fasted and gave verbal thanks that they had been saved from the perils of the sea and permitted to find u home lu the new laud. (Jiving up every sort of occupation and spend lug the time In I'.llile reading and in prayer, tho colonists regarded It as an annual occasion of much solemnity. It was not until thirteen years aftel avli.,., ... E if IP v V t ' ' . ' : ' :i I ;-Iir TURKEY'S l . v .. . . ; a: ' ;,, V : .: .v-; ' " j, IXAMEN 7i Phoco by Armrlcnn Pkss Asuoclstlon. I WONDER mi I can "v oon To msrit all tnia trooti Shut up hr esn nuvs no tun And.bsnt until I'm doublst This morning all th loiVi ruiheo out And ohaid m ovar taneaa And hora and thsra ana round about Unlit I lost my nnm t ran toward tha tarrnor a wita And thougnt aha would batriand mt But avn ah upon my Ma Did nothing to datond mal r i f j "v j, i "... . . DINNER.' irw - .i -'-nrr rir-l the settling of Massachusetts that Thanksgiving day received official cognizance, although It was generally observed by churchgolng und after a few years of stern fasting a better dinner than was served on week days. Thus by degrees the feature of the great day became the dinner that ac companied it. A Candy Cornucopia. A cornucopia formed of nougiit or white candy make an effective table decoration at Thanksgiving and has the added advantage that the children can lirenk It up ami eat it afterward. It mnv tie titled with eilliitieil iininpes and i:rn pes, tuiirrons glaees and other nuts. r lr'i .VS. BY ' KINO .i t';y;; ,.eH I N3TFAD. sna grabbtd mt by a loot With no considsration. And in this prison I wrae put Without an applanation, . Tr. tarrnar', ,h.rD.n.n, an .,, Tho children talk of "droaing. Oh, my, I with I kntw tho factsl Thai rumor ar dprsaing But all th tutur ean a Look vary, vry murky. Just now I think I'd rather be A ohickan than turkey. ADE'S THANK8QIVINQ - FAITH. I Here is a story apropos of I Thanksctvlnir for which Oeoree Ade, the humorist, is directly re- ', sponsible. '' "The only time I ever believed ! ', in the transmigration of souls was one frosty November after- , , noon on mv Indiana farm."" he ' X said to some friends not long ago. "It was n day or two before Thanksgiving. The trees were bare. The fields were a russet brown color. Toward me over those russet fields strutted a very plump, very large, very young turkey.- "Then It was that nn ardent belief In the doctrine of metemp sychosis seized me. " 'You,' 1 said to the superb bird 'you ore now a turkey. And you will die tomorrow. But cheer up. Your next transml- 1 . I ,,, ,. t . . 1 xl. I ... .1 n 4, fruiiou win ue luiu lue uuuj ui. u t humorist not unknown to fame.' " J ! THE HORN OF PLENTY A3 A SYMBOL OF THANKSGIVING. The cornucopia, or horn of frultful ness and abundnnre, always used by the Greeks and Romans as the symbol of plenty, Is an apt expression of the sentiment that prevails on Thanksgiv ing day. Filled with fruits and flow ers, It makes one of the most charming of centerpieces for the Thanksgiving dinner table. The contents should be arranged so that the cornucopia Is over flowing, tho fruits and flowers running out of the horn and over the table. A cornucopia may be made of wire covered with silk, or again with linen, or it might be made of cardboard on which vines or autumn leaves are sewed. The leaves of the gulax, which do not fade, could be used, although one should prefer the beautiful black berry vine, which at this season is al ways at Us best In color. The leaves of the vine should be made to run up toward the mouth of the born and trail about Its edges, suggesting a horn being wound about with them. Flow ers, too, should fall about the brim so that fidelity to the original Idea might be preserved. A Thankaglvlng Prayer. GOOD thing to read on Thanks giving day, if one feels that the trials and tribulations of the year outweigh the compensa tions, Is the prayer of Robert Louis Stevenson, the poet, writ ten during his lust illness In Sa moa. It breathes the very es sence of the Thanksgiving spirit Here It Is: K 0 o "(He thanh.thee for this ptact In which we dwell i for the love that unites usi for the peace accorded ue this dayi for the hope with which we expect the tomorrow i for the health, the worh, the food and the bright ehles that matte our lives delightful i for our friends In II parts of the earth." Goos and Turkey Rivals. The goose may soou replace the clas sic bird which now forms the apex of most Thanksgiving feasts If the ad vice of some food experts Is followed. According to them, the turkey Is Im mature before Christmas, being put through a system of forcing to get to the proper weight and fatness. While Its flesh Is all right as far as health goes. Its flavor Is not at Its best until Christmas, when It really becomes the king of fowls. On the other hand, the flesh of the goose has reached Its per fectlou at Thanksgiving time. Prid Goes E of ore a Fall. "Stop!" The word was hissed by a goose Just as a gobbler with all sails set strutted by. Hut the proud bird. Intent on ad miring bis owi, plumage. Ignored the commnnd. "Humph." sniffed the envious an serine, "lie's all puffed up because be heard the firmer say Thanksgiving would Is? his day to miter society." WIM .THANKSGIVING MEANS ! To the siuiill boy Turkey and cranberry sauce. To the ileliulntiti The first dunce of the season. To the farmer and florist Big business. To the wanderer Home. To the mother ' The family will all be there. To the fnther- More carving to do. To the colleglan- Kootball. To the tired shopgirl A holiday, To th chef- Ton Can Hare rtned and XTse at Borne. Do you wear glasses f Are you a vic tim of eyestrain or other eye-weakness t If ao, you will he glad to know that there is real hope for you. Many whose eyes were failing say they have had their eyea restored through the princi ple of this wonderful free prescription. One man saya after trying it: "I was almost blind; eonld not see to read at all. Now I can read everything with out any glasses and my eyes do not wa ter any more. At night they would pain dreadfully; now they feel fine all the time. It was like a miracle to me." A lady who used it says: "The atmos phere seemed hazy with or without glasses, but after using this prescription for fifteen days, everything seoms dear. I ean evea read fine print without glasses." It is believed that thousands who wear glasses ean now discard them in a reasonable time and multitudes more will he able to strengthen their eyes so as to be spared the trouble ao expense of ever getting glasses. Eye troubles of many descriptions may be wonderfully benefited by following the simple rules. Here is the prescription:' Go to any active drug store and get a bottle of Optona, fill a two ounce bot tle with warm water, drop in one Op tona tablet, and allow to dissolve. With this liquid hatha the eyes two to four times daily. You should notice your eyes clear up perceptibly right from the start and inflammation will quickly dis appear. If your eyes are bothering yon even a little take steps to save them now bofore it is too late. Many hope lessly blind might have been saved if they had cared for their eyes In time. MUST SELL TICKETS. UNITED PRESS LEASED WI1IB. Olympia, Wash., Nov. 26. The Wash ington state public service commission today signed au order requiring tho Pugot Sound Traction, Light and Pow er company to reinstate the sale of tickets upon the street cars of Seattle. An ordinance requiring such sale was recently declared void in the federal court here and sale of tickets in cars was discontinued. The city of Seattle then filed complaint with the Btate com mission and the order today resulted. ri33ie Make This and Try It for Coughs This IIomo-lTlado Remedy has no Equal lor Prompt Itcaulca. Mix one pint of granulated sugar with pint of warm water, and stir for 2 minutes. Put 2 ounce3 of Pinex (fifty cents' worth) in a pint bottle; then add the Sugar Syrup. Take a tcaspoonful every one, two or three hours. This simple remedy takes hold of a cough more quicklv than anything else you ever used. Usually conquers an ordinary cough inside of 24 hours. Splendid, too, for whooping cough, spasmodic croup and bronchitis. It stimulates the appetite and is slightly laxative, which helps end a cough. This makes more and better cough syrup than you could buy ready made for $2.50. It keeps perfectly and tastes pleasant Pinex is a most valuable concen tiatcd compound of Norway white pine extract, and is rich in guaiacol and other natural pine elements which are so healing to the membranes. Other preparations will not work in this plan. Making cough syrup with Pinex and sugar syrup (or strained honey) has proven so popular throughout the United States and Canada that it is often imitated. But the old, successful mix ture has never been equaled. A guaranty of absolute satisfaction, or money promptly refunded, goes with this preparation. Your druggist has Pinex or will get it for you. If not, send to The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind. 40c per lb. A Luxury to Coffee Lovers -No Chaff, No Dirt A guaranteed coffee that all tha family will like. The price is 4ne but you will say it is regular 50 toffee. The venue Grocery 1601 Center Street Phone 1472 , STEErVCUT 1 1 1 Extra vnrk. 1 1 :