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Show .jrFIFST THANKSGIVING -- --- , inr io 1 j. a on know tlit DAY. rn the latter port of thy is century Sj.v one .,f ur - etory Day, nrsl Tlianksai' mg l.v ur I'll'iiiu I atia-i- s . o far nine aa , ,t cif'" i u 'nr, and comfort. ves. and more honiex. and ft lends and -- .in and Larreu sho:e. h L'U-a- ruetrod headlands, t)R Sr' Kurland's i'lt mouth Itw. Son limit their rouah Tnrrr the cold, loibulding fcWcs. '?a-bt-- pnai-afu- ad too often, e'en the bravest Veit hat blood run cold with dread, red-ma- r Jwt nthe wild andabosavage los heud. the tool llu-- ' I f S Var.t and sickness, death and sorrow, Met hen eves on every hand. ore tiie Springtime reuehetl tliem, 4nd They had buried hull their band. patniuer brought them brighter prospects, Hip nmgstvd and waving giuin. yn. Jtnd the patient Pilgrim mothers. As tne harvest time drew near. Looked happy, tlmnklul laics At the lull corn ill tlieear. Willi yi ?o the governor, William Bradford, 111 the gladness of the heart, To praise liod lor all his mercies, a Jet special day apart. That was in the Autumn, children, sixteen hundred and twenty-one- ; & nice a yen r from when they luuded, And the colony begun. And now when in late November, Our Thanksgiving feast is spreud, Tis the same old honored eustom Of those Pilgrims long since deud. t I I the terrors That they braved, years, years ago, But for all their struggle gave us, We our grutitude can show. i i he drink; there's the price. t Then together t'ny out and went home. The world marvelled at them be-- I cause they gave tip evert thing and seemed ho happy in so doing. A mode-- t lit tie liotnc in n quiet street they cozilv furnished with what was left to them; then, with a will and that would soon win back much that he had lost, Malcolm P.oyd resumed his law practice, and May, with one servant, inert ily took up the eares of a house. FROM THE NORTH POLE. Chat With Lieut. Schwatka, MISANTHROPIC. the How Burdette Became a Victim of Eminent Artie Explorer. Misplaced Confidence. A week or two since, says Bob BurLieutenant Frederick Schwatka, the famous artie trawler, resides on dette. I was thundering along through w.-n- j j Michigan acertue. Chicago, in one of the miles of exquisite landscape gar... tin) few unostentatious but very eo.y dening that mark the suburbs of A young gentleman sitting and comfortable homes of the aristocratic thoroughfare. lie lots in tears just in front of me left the train at a at arrived that interesting period local station, and just as we started just again half a dozen female voices wlnwe the young man imperceptibly shrilled out upon the startled air: OtJ passes into middle age. "Lieutenant, how did you become an Oh! Oh! asked a Chicago umbrella! lie'll - never - see - it - againt arctic explorer? t Oh! lleraid repor.er of the explorer. young An amused smile played around the And as they pointed at as he mouth "That A Wonderful Spring. replied: expivssite is a long tale, or a short one, a you the young man and shrieked at me I From the Atlanta like it. Briefly speaking, the xenture-som- e hastily raised the window, the powers Cured of intemperance in three in my nature came to the surfaee of darkness assisting nte. yelled at the oil account of the very dullness of my young man and, hurled the umbrella days! at him, like a javalin, and wo wero How many people know, that the surroundings while 1 was serving in I was stationed at the ."spogone. the army. state of (ieogia owns a natural ine- tted Tail Ageuev on the I'pper In about two minutes a young man Mi ssouri. lhe smaller frontier posts two stories and a mansard taller than briate asylum? any member of my whole family eamO And, nevertheless, stub is the fact. had been contracted to the larger garrisons, and with this con- down the aisle of that ear with a darkis wonderful in the most "It spring solidations disappeared much of the ened brow, and looked long and earnthe I'nited it ates." said Sjiecial exciting side of the service. Not but estly into the vacant seat, whence I Officer Broderick, of the Atlanta po- that there was a .good deal of hard rid- - had just tired a silk umbrella with a ing to do -- I figured up once that I hammered silver heal. He looked lice force, last night. made 8.000 miles in the saddle, 2.000 under the seat and then he looked into 1 To what spring do you refer? was only tile rack. Then lie looked at mo. I in or.o year. Why. wh took mo didn't look u), hut I h it his eyes go old 1 three my parents years three taken have Indian spring. across the plains to Oregon, where clear through me as I gazed tixedly men to that spring who were so far they settled. As n bov I roamed all out of the window and tried hard to think of the form of prayer to be used and British Columgone on the ltpuor habit that it look, over Idaho, Oregon bv a man who expects to spend the rest my appointed as it it were impossible for them bia, and when 1 ree-ivment for West Point I reached the of the winter iu a hospital. Before I athletic-lookin- g to quit, and every one of them were academy by way of Canada. Then could remember it the cured immediately. One ofthemhad came the army life with its transfers stranger said kindly but very firmly: been practically drunk for lour from post to post, and when I happen"I left an umbrella in this seat a fewr For one moment the months. 1 took along a supply of ed to read about an expedition to the minutes ago. whisky, as people said it would kill arctics in search of the remains of the ghastlie-- t silence you ever heard Sir John Franklin exploring party, it settled down on that car, nnd then him to quit off too suddenly. women giggled as those shrieking Did he taper off?" struck me that 1 should like to go. Lieutenant Schwatka. by the wav, is though it were a light thing to dio He took one drink after he got to return ticket in Indian spring, and titter that declin- an Illinois boy. lie was appointed when you had a would be wasted. pocket that ed to touch a drop. lb said he did West l'oint cadet from Oregon in 107 your I that tho tne tried to toll Fob. iu served the until and stranger I, army not want it at all. He remained 18S. when lie man who was sitting in the seat young resigned. there three days and you never saw years, as servants. His melodious a This famous arctic trip falls in this took it with him. but I thought I had sobbing moan. He was as voice called, such a transformation. Massa, de dinner am wickedness and folly for done Oil, Malcolm! Malcolm? it was all sober as a judge, his lace was clear- - 'period. Judge Daly, president of the one enough all ready, and heaps of good things. New York Geographical Society, and trip. I owned up and told him Our beloved grandfather, over whose true, hut it isn't now. I love you. ed of its bloat and the red liquor others had started a popular subscripthe truth. Ho was a maguanimus man head the. three-scor- e look, and he was liimselt again. tion to raise funds for an exploring and ho spared tne. But it was a years and ten Oh, I do! I do! y thero Since that time he has been had long since passed, led the party; party to follow on the trail of Sir John moment of agony, and Trying to gain strength and see at work and has not touched steadly a lost with his entire are white hairs on tho back of my was the bride and groom cousins followed, what who Franklin, drop. to do, she lay there until the before, and I That was six months ago, long following in an expedition to discover head that I never sawMerlon then came the oldest son and his wife, tiny gilded clock chimed 10, and station never pass through the next, and so on until we came to then enough to effectually settle the mat- the Northwest passage. The record without she stood up. And I never again a shudder. which contained the end of this expeter. dear little Dot, the pet of the whole In two hours slie had undergone efficacious dition was written upon one of the will offer to extend the slightest helpDoes it circle, and whose merry laugh broke No; if a many chancres. Cndernea h all her on others? prove equally blanks supplied by the British admir- ful courtesy to a stranger. over her face as ripples over the sur- love train should jump off a bridge 4,001) of gavetv and coquettishness be to to thrown vessels, surveying alty with I and three have tried face of a tiny brooklet. eases, a wonderful strength of characafter the required data lmd feet into a cataract fiercer than 10,-0same happy results in eveay ease. overboard After we were all seated, just one lay filled in. But upon the margins ter. She had married to save her the Niagaras I wouldnt offor to hold a been I believe thntthat littlespring, which around the hundred and one, little ,I)ot being father, and tor two lone womans baby and got her hand adwas an form rehad printed years hold over a gallon of water, is dendum. dated April 2, 1818, which bag out of tha rack for her, while she the odd one, our heads were reverent- ceived the devotion quiet but never does ly bowed as grandpa, asked a bless- censing ot her husband without one of the most valuable in this extinguished all hopes of a successful put on her gossamer and hunted for in case she wanted her ing to rest upon the food of which we thought of any changes that might country, and worth all the hospitals termination of the grand enterprise. her lost check in the land for the cure oi inehrates. The terse and expressive words of the baggage when we got to the bottom. would partake, and upon all the dear he Now in own heart. her on going ones who were gathered arounu the a shock Why dont somebody ship the record were: had revealed it to her; and water? How Home (ilrls Balk. Anui:, 2, 1S4S. H. M. irti ins Terror and, was The a dinner ample board, feeling, with a wild thrill of joy that Erebus were deserted on 32d April, five beIn first the the on we were the place, all spring Why Is it that you young Indies do N. N. V. of this, having beeu bemerry one, and he still loved her. her first thought leagues Tim not know how to wMilk? Look! here Georgia, and is set since 17th September, I" Hi. qui vive for the arrival of the plumwas: AYlmt could she do to prove longs to the state ofleft nd erevvs, consisting of ION souls, un- comes one with her head as Indians the excellence in it, ago. acme long the of just pitched forpudding, her love and help him to bear the The command of Captain K. H. M. state government has never per- der tha the culinary line. It did come blow? landed here in lat. tl'.ideg. 37 ndn, 42 ward, her luindsswinginsungraeofully atsee. N.. king. Hi deg. 41 min. IV. Sir John at length, and oil we saw Eves as she stood there wondering mitted anybody to lease it or wasido.her foot scuffling the walk, Franklin tliod on the lltn June, ls47, and by her flow. The to the enlarge was the pudding mil somebodys tempt and where he had gone, and what she in deaths loss total tha altogether the presenting an appear- by expedition is free for everybody. In the sec- has been to this date 9 oflieers nnd 15 men. unee one of Ameripropelling forces, for the bul.tler was would say when he returned, she ter unbecoming quite in A briefer record has never been told cas lovely daughters, charming in all entirely' lost sight of behind the struc- heard a movement in the room be- ond place, there is a volatile gas ture. There is a legend in our fami- low his library and then the street the water that escapes alter n few of so tHtgie a story. It is all that is else, perhaps, but oh. such a gait! The hours, rendering it flat and robbing known of the futo of Sir John Frank- next one starts with a jerk, her feet ly that whoever finds a gold ring in door shut. of its extraordinary qual- lin and his bravo men. Some rem- and lower part of her body having his or her piece of pudding will be the lie is just going out. He may tha water Oh, ities. For these reasons no uttenipt nants were found in the shape of started on a race with her lie. id to 'kt happiest for the next year. For ful- be desperate. I will follow' him and has ever been made to export it, and records antedeting those quoted and of which will get there fiist. The con ly live minutes a deep silence pervad- take back all the cruel words I said. queneo is for every stop forward she are compelled to go to the spot bleached bones of human beings. was one each people os ed the atmosphere And snatching a long black cloak, some of comes part way back with a jerk. found Schwatka Lieutenant is wondera benefits. to It its busily engaged in trying to find the she flew down stairs and out of the ful enjoy in Her sister follows, twitching ungracethem along King William's Lam and many other respects, north spring ring. Suddenly little Dot piped, front door. of Blacks Fish Itiver. The ex- fully from side to side, rolling from ot habiteures all is hut it king liquor in see, Ise dot a wing, my take, He was just going down the street pedition left New York June IS), 1878, one foot to the other like a sailor in seen. I and arrived in Hudson Bay Aug. 8, a sort of fierce swiftness that that ever have with only lie litis some excuse, g'anpa, see, and sure enough our where the party disembarked. darling was the favored one. AVe obliged her to almost run to keep They and she has not. The arms usually foldid not leave the table until almost up. He glanced back once; hut what remained during the winter with the low, but in opposite directions. The A Dead National Song. four oclock. The remainder of the connection was there in his mind beEsquimaux in snow houses and began body of the next one makes a perfect A gentleman who was in Paris their memorable sledge trip of eleven bow, bent back, bead forward and feet afternoon was spent by the children, tween the creature in black and his and twenty days April 1, 170. try to catch up. Not one with the firm, masquerading in the attic; ly the beautiful, velveted, dinmoned wife, during the summer just past remnrks months In the party were four white men and graceful step, erect head, straight young people in games; and by tin whom he now supposed enjoying the that one of the things which struck seventeen Esquimaux westward, and shoulders, easy arms and hands to be elders in talking of their past and opera regardless of him, save that him most forcibly and unpleasantly four more Esquimaux eastward, and acquired by sufficient determination to our future. he was a beggar and of no further When three sledges drawn by forty-fiv- e dogs. present a dignified carriage. was the singing of the Marseillaise As night wr 8 slowly dropping her sa- use to her? as the sledges were only used will deportment bo taught In our Inasmuch chosen from for the On he went, up, down and around, by 3,000 Frenchmen ble mantle over the happy world, we transportation of supplies, the schools? Kingston Freeman. assembled for prayers. Grandfa- as if determined to walk until ex- the leading choral societies of the men walked the entire distance of 3,Jd 1 Wretched KnU. And, city. They assembled in the open miles. ther was ready with t he old fcunily e haustion . overcame him. After a trial of a quarter of a century on his knee, between whose lids keeping him still in sight, tire- air and lifted up their voices togeth. and London War. Parli followed. she It was act is acknowledged there is the record of the births and lessly In the streets French traffic all goes the emancipation which for the last Tho reports of failed. deaths in the family eter since in in a narrow street that he at er in the song have to utterly London coachmen drive Cromwell's time. The one hundred last paused, and her henrt almost century has made every Frenchmans to tho right; left. of statistical professRussian officials, toParisians live Isalm was read, stood still at the sight before a heart thrill when it sounded in his always to the and forty-eightors at Moscow, such ns Jansen anil gether in large houses like burrocks; the Nihilists, tvith Stcpnluk at their then a prayer was offered to our lteav- - grogshop, which he entered. On a ears. beauthe watch-car- e And the song rose on Londoners have one family in a house. air, over run she reached the place, looked in, enly Father for his head, all alike agree that tho misory g tifully sumr, finished, and elegant, They have a latchkey; the Frenchman of us, his goodness and mercy to us, his and there he sat, m a little, ugly the rur il class is greater than even when fire. his Ofold, but Lonwith before a table, a concierge. Baris has its cafes, utterly lacking kindness bestowed upon us, ceiling room, in the days of serfdom; cultivation is at Marthe forbidden to don its clubs. Parisian beds are up in the lowest ebb, the yiold wrotched and sing and his love given us before time was. face in his hands. The next instant it was As we parted to our homes it was she swung the door noiselessly open, seillaise, a dozen men, roaring it an alcove in the wall; Londoners sleep less than in any other European couninin tho middle of tho room. London with the feeling that this might be the entered and sat down at the same in an obscuie cabaret, would try. flame the entire quartier, and in the takes three or four meals a day; Baris Agriculture Is a business requiring last time we should see the dear old table. London Baris eats. two. Baris dines; No one else was in the room, hut fiery days of the revolution a single capital, knowledge and a sufficient couple alive, and so it proved to he. London are loaves are loaves long; to amount of land to enable different crops Grandma passed away peacefully, Lis order was being prepared in the voice would raise a neighborhood bv singing the square. Baris drinks wine; London to be grown, so that if one falls it does with a heavenly smile on her lips, and room beyond, where she heard voices. deeds of blood simply London tea. beer. Paris takes coffee; may inspiring words. Now it was with- Frenchmen, while dining, talk to their not moan starvation, for another none a glad light on her face, as if she were She tried but could not speak; but, ensucceed. Tho Russian peasant has all was hut force. It her correct, out of hood ones the back she of as dear the gone and enjoy each others soci- of these pushed meeting some neighbors The peasant qualifications. before. Grandpa could not live w ith- cloak, Malcolm Boyd raised his bend thusiasm lmd died out of it.some one ety; Britons sit alone at table and dont proprietors can neither pay tho money And what is France. Lonfood. but their much, out her, and not long ago we were with an angry jerk and looked into enjoy say to the government for their land, asked, when it is possible to sing don workmen work in their ordinary owing summoned to the old homestead, to the pale face of his wife. noroven the state and communal taxes, withher streets in Marseillaise starthe smoko he each call other mate, muttered, clothes, away; May! May! and are by hundreds for nonlay him, whom we so revered,Dust to ing ot her like a man bereft of his out raising the paving stones?- -' clay pipes and punch each others heads paymentflogged to" hear the minister say In one district of Novgorod do Boston Courier. occasionally; Parisian workmen were thus condemned in May, n 1,700 dust, and ashes to ashes, and close reason. their business in blouses, call their 18"7. peasants Five hundred nnd fifty bad alYes, Malcolm; lam going to share with the grand assurance, in suresmoke citizens or "sir, friends ready been flogged, when the inspector and certain hope of a glorious resur- your trouble with you, and if you A Strange Case. cigaretts, take their hats off to each interceded for the remainder. she I said, it take too, will, so, why, Inst the time, rection at and do their figwiing with their An interesting ease, which will lo other, trying to smile. feet. Ilnw She t'ounU Her Children. masterand But excitement fatigue a difficult matter for the courts, hapNo Fun in Being an Emperor. ed her. The A Philadelphia woman who attended smile turned Alum In Bread. hosquivering Cross Red in the The longer that I live the more into great, sad tears; she slipped pened recently Alum owes its power of blanching a reception given to George Macdonof Lyons, says the Tribune. the paste of breid not to alumina ald, the English novelist, when in this beside floor pital the he on thank down dirty reason (lo I find to right A patient was placed under the inwhich it contains or to the combinaiul that I am neither a king nor a her stupefied husband, put Iter arms country, tells of a queer fal indulgel cried: him and of of chloroform, in order to be tion of this earth with the gluten, but in by tho author's wife. The latter uround fluence sobbingly The Germany kaiser. emperor conic Oh, Malcolm! Malcolm! to a most painful opera- to the sulphuric acid liberated by the wore, wherever she went, a belt from having paid a visit to the emperor ail subjected of aluminum albuminate. which dangled what appeared to be a of Russia, the latter had to return it. home! What you said to me was first incision, however, formation to At the tion. 1 number of golden balls During a conNothnagel and Kosen-bacAccording At 10 a. m., he arrived at Berlin. true. I did not love you but, do. the was who unusually strong, man, the prolonged daily use of alum versation with the novelist the PhilaHis first business was to shake hands Oh, I dont care how poor you are, became with conscious. pain, in proportion of 0.0a to 0. 1 grm. oc- delphian happened to how many with a lot of generals and courtiers, we ean get along some way. Dontif he tore the knife fromCrazy the operating casions gastric disturbances not unim- children he lmd. who were introduced to him, nnd to drink. Come home with me, and the presence portant Tho author finds that the nnd One the wrong side of twelve, was kiss the Emperor "William. Then he we love each other it will not be so of several friendsdespite in an artificial gastric digestion of alumod his answer. it he plunged the to of hard. troops drove through lanes I suppose you moan thirteen? of Brofessor bread effects the solution of all the "May! May! lie cried again, but instant into the hearts man who was alum Russian embassy. But before enterNo, ntadatne; I have only eleven. present, lienee it is possible and a young his arms. Nagont in for was door she tho now at stand to had ing he Then Mr. Macdonald called his wife, ns witness. The double mur- that a quantity of alumina equivalent of wild march-jn- r incredulous acting delirium a In on to 0.20 grin, of alum may enter the who opened tho golden balls (which anhour to gaze regiments lie joy he clasped her to his heart, and derer was taken to a torture room and circulation daily. past. After a hasty luncheon proved to bo lockets) and showed the fact the that bound. Recognizing kissed her eyes, lips and hair. paid calls on the Empress Augusta lie t photographs of all her children. influence could him, he murmured. no narcotic Y'ou love me! Then It Moppul. New York Herald. and the Empress Victoria. At fi lie preformed A queer old codger in a town in Oh, my darling, my darling, say it operation was sueessfully dined at a gal a dinner and had to will recover in He use. its without one. To Prevent KaUri. again! make a spenh and to listen to The interest in his Rhode Island drew his 28,000 out of a 'Yes, I love you I love you, she all probability. he dreamed tha because that traveling through or solocal bank Strangers After the dinner there was a gala in the will take place answered. Only let me prove to trial, which in districts known to be A to bust. crowd was bank journing largo he reception, with more introductions, going will wego home near future, lies in the defense that and no sooner was this over than he you how much. And in a tem- assembled to guy him and call him a abounding in malarial fevers and ngue crime double the committed now? clothing, avoid was hurried off to a gala representacaused by the crank, but he drew it out just the same. should dress in flannel porary fit of insanitycase and night lesatonce. Draw your hood extreme raw open-ai- r bathing went the bank and fruits, Next tion at the opera house. The next will form day an pain. The or only of read- so. Here, waiter here! exclaimed and coffee, tea and the drink had lie the folks air, pleasure laughing the stopped way morning one Malcolm; then, throwing down some important chapter in the history of produced an awful silence for ten miles water that has been previously boiled. no that the newspapers in ing 1 medical law. Medical Classics. around. atTlerlin wanted him or thought change to the boy who entered, Truth. much of him London old-tim- Hut then noble, brave endurance Was no exeicised ill vum: We shall never know il shim-Vierin- l tx-- 5 shall not want TIow would his brilliant wife bear iniinem-- e nttie w, new of his ruin? Malcolm Poyd the ruction to thei'hddrm, asked himself as he entered the door irom romped the shadows hi of his home. How would she bear t lie itching In i; it she who had leen accustomed to goblins caiT'i every luxury, covered with jewels, Iren that tin clothed like a qiiivn? He repeated AVe have not the question over Jo himself with a the rooms in how Henedict groan as he closed the street door night; ot how our cousin w,s hidden behind him. A light step and she" from the sharp eyes of the Rrirwh; of how grandma's mother hid ailhersil-- t stood at his side ia all her royal g beauty. Daintily dad, with er, nor onehali of the deepl and exciting oients which ocdiamonds on her bread and curred in the "old homestead. 4Ve trms. will now have to come to the seat, of The sight of the flashing stones the family operations seemed to madden him. Hear me, two hours, at least. Thedining-lmll- . When you offered to it was much more than a room, was he cried. capah'e of holding over one hundred marry me to save your father from and fifty, and the table, a massive ruin, you honestly said that it was one of solid mahogany, would for wealth alone, and that you my comfortably seat an even hun- could never love me. Am 1 right? dred; the chairs were quaint, straight-hackebut ics, tues, in A which we were compelled to sit ell, you must know the worst. AA e right. are beggars. You can return to In the center of the table was a will. I tried to win your father, it platter holding the largest specimen your love, but you I have failed, lwill of the gobbler kind that it was possible to find amid the plentiful supply uot hind you to an unloved, begon the farm; celery, cranberries, tarts, gared husband. You are free free! jell, krullcrs, rolls of golden but- And before the s nrtled girl could ter, plates of snow-whit- e bread, and recover her senses he had staggeied of good, appetizing brown bread, were scattered over the long expanse from the room. AA'ith only a vague idea why she of fine homespun damask, my grand- mothers wedding present from her did so, May replaced her ruby velvet grandmother. It is utterly beyond with the plainest black silk in her my power of memory to recall half of the tempting viands which were wardrobe, put away every trace of the evening's prospective pleasure, placed before us. The summons came from a bright and then, as it her heart lmd only little colored hoy, whose grand- just reached the solution of its misparents had been in our family for ery, she sank down iu her chair with Tors, i great :t-- t for Imret! cv 1L a Love and Lucre. enti'prt1 i.tee-A- Fliila-delirfu- j Tiiat-young-i- n n. d ' ed j ' 00 And the children of N'ew England, If they feust, or praise, or pray, Should bless God lor those brave Pilgrim And their first Thanksgiving Day. Youth's Companion. THANKSGIVING. ofli-cer- Cro-zie- The day was perfect; the air was crisp and dear; the sky was that greyish blue which in New England betokens an old fashioned snowstorm; the ground was frozen stiff and smooth: the snowbirds were chirping merrily, all nature seemed bursting forth in thanksgiving to its Maker, on Thursday, November 24. IMG. The sleigh was at our door promptly at ten o'clock to take us to service in the old tumble-dowchurch on the hill, where, ia the early settlement, a watch wasalways kept, in order if possible to be prepared for any attack from the Indians. The horses were fresh, and as we flew along we could not but join in with the general air of happiness which pervaded everything. The building was in itself an interesting study. The tower, if such it could he called, was very short; the clock was with age; cracked the hands were clogged with snow; but, notwithstanding, at very uneven intervals the sound of the hell, tolling at some hour, was borne along on the frosty air; the windows were stained a very mixed color, by the rains and snows of nearly a century. The scats were those ancient with backs so high and straight as almost to make the siglkt of your next neighbor an the pulpit was a towerof strength in wood, and was reached by the longest, narrowest, steepest flight of steps which it was possible for the pilgrim fathers to imagine and execute in timber. While we have been noticing our has "surroundings the singing-maste- r been as a trying his tuning-forOur A'ery signal for quietude. breath is hushed as from the study at the left of the pulpit comes the n box-pew- s, k venerable pastor, whose flowing, beard and dignified carriage give him the 'appearance of an aged patriarch, about to pronounce his blessing. The sermon was a very prosaic discourse, given in the dear old saint's pathetic voice, and in such a monotone as to send sdme of the old farmers on a journey to Sandmans land. After the pronunciation of the benediction a voice of wonderful power and compass rose and fell upon the quiet air. The sweet singer was unseen, but the music went with us all the day, and sometimes, even now, a strain is waited over the walls of Memory, and in imagination we are carried back to those happy days. V e afterward learned that she was the granddaughter of the minister, and it was her custom to sing at the close of the Thanksgiving service, Much to the enjoyment of the people. Our spirits were subdued but happy, as wo were once more on our way, this time to grandmas, where we were to assemble for the Thanksgiving dinner. In order that you may, have some idea ns to the old we will give you a short, on of it. It was a rambling, old, (. brick mansion, built snow-whit- e home-t-tead- pt mid-ocea- Bi-bl- low-lovin- j h, a-- lc phj-sicia- ssy-hig- h, |