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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22
hibition.

She felt almost happy Who knew
but ''streak of luck" might come, and
she should be rich some day.
The clerk was ready for her now. He
put her tea in white paper, her sugar in
brown and dabbed the paper of arrow
root on the counter with "there you
are"
Anything more, miss?" he asked, and
Kate, growing quite extravagant, said:
"''Yes, a candle and two of these large
apples"
Then she proffered her two dollar bill.
The young fellow looked at it and
whistled.
"This is your little game, eh2" he
said .''Twont do with us. If you
warn't gal, I'd call the police. Don't
try it agin, warn you2"
"Try what-what is it?" asked Kate,
trembling.
LAS if you didn't know it was coun-
terfeit," cried the man. ''Come, don't
play innocent There's the door. Why,
blind man couldn't be took in by that
thing"
He tossed the bill, all crumpled up, to-
ward her and took away her purchases.
Kate understood what was the matter.
81 did not know it was bad. 1t was
given to me in payment for some nuts, y
said Kate. "Thc man will change it,
am sure"
''You'd better try" said the clerk,
sneeringly, and Kate ran out of the store
and back to the tavern, but the man was
gone. Only the landlord was there. He
sympathized.
"Im sorry" he said. 81 wish I'd had
look at it. Poor thing. It's too bad
He's regular rascal, I've no doubt
You ought to be careful about bills
There's a lot of bad ones going"
And with this end to her days work anC
evenings work, Kate crept back to hel
| sick sister and the wretched meal of dry
| bread.
"Not even Thanksgiving could bring any
good to her, she thought, and she coulo
not sleep, but sat with her face pressed
against the glass, thinking of the pas
and of the future. The last was dark
but she had been happy once-very hap
py. They had had home and she haf
been its pet, its best beloved. She hat
worn pretty dresses, and had neve
known the want of any luxury. Ant
then, too, in those bright days of he
seventeenth year, she had had lover
Still, through all her poverty she hat
kept his ring on her finger, and his mem
ory at her heart. Poor Charlie Nichols
He was drowned at sea on that first voy
age-for the ship was never heard o
from the time it left the dock He wa
dead, and so were all the rest-mothe
and father, and boy brother-only he
sick sister and herself were left upon th'
earth.
The tears fell fast upon her claspet
hands. Thanksgiving! How coult
they give thanksl"
She was only twenty now, yet life wa
quite over. Nothing could ever come t.
her but woe Even the humble feast sh
had hoped for so, little as. it was, hat
been snatched from their lips. Oh, tn
cruel mani the cruel man! did he know
how poor they were2 And at last, il
with weeping, she crept into the wretche,
bed and slept.
And, perhaps because she was hungry
she dreamt all night of Thanks0ivin
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22

And so it chanced that, as people were
going home to dinner from church, and
Kate was hiding her head beside the
empty hearth, knock came at the door,
and opening it, she saw sailor.
"You're the lass." he cried. eyes.
your the lass. I asked for ye at the
tavern, and they sent me here. I didn' t
mean to cheat ye. l hope you and the
other young women know that. Here's
good bill, and I'll burn the other to
save mistakes, for there's - gettin' it
off on them that gave it.
Then he stared at the empty e-place
''This amt Thanksgivin' fixin's," he
said to himself. ''I'm afraid they're in
want"
And then his eye went rowing around
the room and lit upon IA tiny daguerreo-
type upon a shelf
''Is that one of you, miss!" he asked.
eyes, | see it is-and might | be bold
enough to ask your name9 'Tain't i'm
pudence-I've q reason"
Kate gave her name.
"It's the same" said the man. ''See
here, miss, do you know Captain Nichols
Captain Charles Nichols-that went to
sea before the mast four years ago."
Kate screamed and clasped her hands.
81 see you do, he said, land I've got
news to tell him that'll make his heart
glad. He's been searching for you for
months. In every town we've been in,
he's looked for you up and down, and
high and low, and I've helped him, and
| only Yesterday he SAYS to me,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22

feasts and merry making, and music and
dancing, and smiling faces aid love
greetings.
And out of it she awoke to the con-
ciousness of her misery.
Thanksgiving Day. Oh, Carrie,
what have we to be thankful for?' she
asked
But the sick girl answered, humbly:
GA great deal, if we will only try to
think so. God is good to us all. How
many are worse off than we?"
Kate shook her head She could not
feel that this was so. And she heard
the church bells ring, with thoughts
she would not have put into words for
the world-despairing wretched, almost
wicked thoughts. Why should God give
all good to others and so much woe to
them9
y
At the same hour a sailor tumbled out
of his berth on board the steamship
Rising Wave, and rolled into the Cap
tain's presence as speedily as possible.
"I'd like to go ashore this morning,
Cappen," he said.
/ "You were ashore" said the Captain,
yesterday"
| 81 know it, said the sailor, ''But,
We see, l cheated girl out of 80, and l
amt easy in my mind. That is how
twas, Cappen. I'd been drinking too
much"
'Leave you alone for that" said the
Captain.
"That's the truth" said the sailor,
''and | was in a tavern along with Sam
and Bill, and two more mates, when in
came gal with nuts. bought 'em,
and by accident, Cappen, gave her a
bad bill. Where l board they gave it
to me, and won't take it back found
out arter was aboard that I'd give it to
the gal, and can't sail leaving Il thief's
name ashore"
The Captain smiled and gave Tom
! leave to 90.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22
VOL. VIII.
THANKSGIVING.

Upon the frozen, fruitless ground,
Above treasure he had found,
A robin sang;
such rapture swelled his tender throat
The dull air quivered with his note;
The silence rang
With melody so high and long
He seemed to be incarnate song;
He seemed to thirst
So tame he was as drew near
That all the heavens and earth should hear
The grateful burst.
No alderman at turtle feast
Nor hungry man DER smoking beast
Such bliss could know;
No parching traveller on the sand,
Discovering water near at hand,
More joy could show.
No juicy fruit nor dainties ripe
Had thus attuned his little pipo
To thank the Lord;
Twas but bunch of withered berries -.
Or unnutritious, starveling cherries
That spread his board!
That robins rapturous merriment
Exposed mans selfish discomfort
In its true feature;
That day a sermon rare and good
Was preached in aisle of somber wood
By feathered creature.
And often when bow my head
In thankfulness for bounties spread
And look on high,
walk once more as in my youth
And hear again in very truth
That robins cry.
-h'ring Bro1Une.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22

MY old red leather pocKetDooK, tnaI
was father's," said Miss Charity Chip
man, with tears in her eyes, land twenty
five dollars and sixty cents in it, in good
hard money-it's enough to put one out
of all conceit with human nature And
she with such an innocent little face, too,
and eyes as blue as a babys! We'll,
never shall believe in what the physiog-
nomists say again"
1t was Thanksgiving Eve, and Miss
Charity Chapman was sitting dejectedly
before the fire of blazing pine logs medi-
tating upon her loss. Neither intelll-
gence Office nor police station had been
able to render any account of the old red
pocketbook and its contents.
81 declare" said Miss Charity, sit
just spoils my Thanksgiving"
| When all of sudden, there came
knock at the door and there, wrapped in
| faded brown shawl, with her golden hair
blown all about her face, stood the girl
with the blue eyes who had ridden at
Miss Charity's side during the frosty
November sunrise.
'Blcss my soul" cried Miss Charity,
recoiling.
eyes, " said the girl. smiling, Kit is /.
And I've brought back your pocketbook.
l found it lying on the curbstone oppo-
/ site that house where you stopped with
the bunch of flowers. 1 was returning
from the intelligence office when | saw it
. lying among the dead leaves and knew
you must have dropped it when you
jumped out. And I've been inquiring
everywhere for you and have only just
found you. Here's the pocketbook, and
il you'll please count the money, 1 think
you'll find it all right"
Mechanically Miss Charity Chapman
numbered over the contents of the old
receptacle. Not u copper cent was gone.
eyes, said she, ''its all right. Stop
a minute, child-wherc are you going2"
Back to the city, ma'am," said the
gill, wrapping the faded shawl closer
around her, for the twilight blast was
keen.
'Have you got place!"
''Not yet, ma'am, but there's cheap
/ lodging house for working women, where
l can get very good bed and bowl of
soup for fifteen cents, and"---
You can't go there" said Miss
Charity.
/ ''Ma'a 'am9" said the startled girl
''Look here, child" said Miss Charity,
"Youre all alone in the world So am
/ l. Stay here with me. I'll give you
/ good wages and comfortable home.
For there's something in your face that
/ like"
''Do you really mean it, ma am9" said
TIE girl, looking around in a fluttered
manner at the bright fire and the cheerful
/ rug carpet, with its stripes of red and
blue, and the rows of glistening croclery
! on the shelf.
By way of answer Miss Charity drew
( her gently in, closed the door and kissed
4 her cheek
! 1.-TWO lone women together, y said she.
1 ''Surely we can manage to get along!"
And Miss Charity Chapman ate her
1 Thanksgiving dinner on the morrow with
the blue eyed stranger sitting opposite
the buc-eyed stranger who lived with
day of her death
And both Of them kept Thanksgiving
in their hearts
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22
Suggestions for Thanksgiving Day.

Remember that as your thankfulness is
largely measured by the quantities of
Thanksgiving fare you consume, you
should
Eat heartily of turkey
And much appetite evince
When you tackle chestnut stuffing
And the pie that's made of mince.
As all the houses of worship will be
open upon this day of gratitude, it is
we'll to note that
1t isn't right to leave the
Gentle clergy in the lurch
SO have your wife and children
Represent you in the church.
And while they are there see to it that
they show that you do not forget the
poor. Toaccomplish this you must take
care
That when they start for service
They are furnished well with tin
So that when the plate is passed them
They may drop nickel in.
In the midst of your pleasures do not
entirely forget business. Remember that
this is the time of the year to buy your
winters COAL and
When you go about it, sec
You surely lay enough in,
For if you don't you'll suffer like
The shivering ragamuffin.
And while your mind is on business
bent do not forget that Christmas comes
around almost on the heels of Thanksgiv-
ing and that, as the father of q family
it behooveth you
To rake and scrape your dividends
And place them under lock,
So that you'll have the wherewithal
To fill the baby's sock.
| In conclusion we have only to say that
| that there can be no reason for doubt
That wise and reasonable men
viii find it safe to bet,
If they but follow out our hints,
That they'll be happy yet.
--Neto York Sun.
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sistance of Dick Burns, the blacksmith's
boy, for the morrow evening, for every
thing eatable or drinkable which was con-
sidered ''good" would be pressed into
service through the hours of the Thanks
giving now so near at hand.
Throughout the year the inhabitants
Of Rushtop were, as a general thing,
plain livers, but on Thanksgiving Days
they stuffed themselves as they did their
poultry. And so Kate Weaver hoped to
sell her nuts.
At home-her home-there was to be
no Thanksgiving Day kept. That is, re-
garding it as feast. Kate had vague
hope that if the nuts sold well she would
havea "cup of tea and some bakers
gingernuts for supper" But, after all,
almost every one had nuts already, so the
sale was slow. A pint to a greedy child
three cents worth an old woman, who
lived by herself in almost as poor little
house as that Kate lived in-and here it
was sunset, and not nuts enough to pay
for the labor yet sold. 1t would have
been better to have gone out sewing
Kate was worn and weary and always
timid; she shrank from approaching the
door of the "hotew-dubbed thus by the
landlord. 1t was ''the tavern" elsewhere.
But the remembrance of her sick sisters
pinched, pale face arose before her. The
tea and the bakers cake and the little
bowl of arrowroot would do her so much
good.
She put her face in at the open door
and said timidly:
"Chestnuts, sir?"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22
An Informal Repast.

81 suppose" said Mrs. Brown ''you
would like me to wear a new dress at this
Thanksgiving dinner you are going to
sive2"
"Can't afford it," growled old Brown.
'As long as you have the turkey well
lressed you will pass muster"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22
NO. T..

bill in payment for the apples; Miss
Charity Chapman put her hand in her
pocket to make change.
"Why, it's gone" she calculated.
"What's gomez" said Mrs. Tillidrum.
"My pocketbookw screamed Miss
Charity. "And that ungrateful tramp
has rewarded my kindness by robbing
met 1 might ha' known just how it
would be-"
She went straight to the intelligence
office. The girl whom she had described
had been there, but was gene, leaving no
address.
''It's like looking for needle in a
bottle of hay" said Miss Charity. And
she left the description at the police sta
ton and went home in great disgust.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22
CHARITY'S THANKS.

Ii the wiseacres said
after Charity Chipman's S
father died that she
would have to hire a
man to run the farm
She thought differently,
and having taken
charge of everything
herself, found at the
end of a year a nice
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22

Don't count your turkey before it is
carved, for it may go back on you.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22
THANKSGIVING.

TITLE Kate Weaver
W a k G d wearily
through the rich light
of a November sunset
with a basket of chest
nuts on her arm. She
had been gathering
them, with the as
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22

And while they are there see to it that
they show that you do not forget the
poor. Toaccomplish this you must take
care
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-11-22

That when they start for service
They are furnished well with tin
SO that when the plate is passed them
They may drop a nickel in.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21

War, win also be festooned with bunting. The
school OF Trinity Church In Church-st., will be sim
nariy decorated, and. from window in the tower
WIN be stretched long pole from which large
Union Jack VIII be hung
An interesting feature of the celebration VIII be
tho playing of National airs the chimes Of Trinity
Church by BeIringer A. J, Meislan, 1r A new bell
has been cast for tho chimes especially for this
CASTOR, making now ten IN all The new one has not
been tested but u win probably be satisfactory AZ
sunrise OF April 20 the chimes will DO played, and
again as the Presidential party passes the church.
ON the following day more patriotic airs will DO
rung, before the special religious services
At St. PauPs Chapel where the President win attend
the services on the morning Of April 30, the dfapery
VIII be especially artistic and rich, and st. Johns
Trinity, St Chry sostom's and St Augustnes chapels
Will also be beautifully arrayed in bunting. On the
night of April 30 the church and all the chapels Of
the parish Will be illuminated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21
THE WEATHER REPORT,
GOVERNMENT INDICATIONS FOR "a HOURS.

GOVERNMENT INDICATIONS FOR "a HOURS.
WASHINGTON April Dos m--For Maine New'Hsmp.
shre and Vermont fair preceded BY light rain on INC COAST
stationary temperature except In northeastern hale
For massachusetts, Island and Connecticut hr Pc
coded by rain on the coasts stationary temper
atur. except in eastern. Massachusetts cooler.
For Eastern NewYork Eastern Pennsyivania ANA New
1rsav fair slightly cooler in the Interior stationary temper
ature on the coast westerly winds
For ths District Of Columbia Maryland and Delaware ar
preceded By light rains sightiy cooler.
For virginia North Carolina and South Carolina wsneri
fsr ON ts coast light and cooler In the interior
For oeore Eastern Florida and Western Fiori6a tzrI
stationary in northern Georgia cooler ana
light rain.
For Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Eastern Texas ana
Arkansas fair; stationary temperature.
For Western Nsw.York and Western PennsylvaniA fair,
warmer - ...s
slightly warmer.
sor fover Michigan Upper Michigan and Wisconsin, sha
n except in southern portions Of wisconsin and Lower
Michigan. Ar i.
Indiana, cooler In Ills
For iowa Missouri Kansas and Nebraska af, lower sus
perature
FOR Minnesota and Dakota, fair lower temperature
For Colorado, FAIR, stationary Temperature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21
4 Havbgosr GIFT no THouAg F. 'O1RoY


The personal and political friends of Under Sheriff
Thomas +. GilrOy celebrated tIe twenty-hfth anni-
yersary of his wedding by giving him at his home,
No. West one-hundred- and twenty frst-st, hand
some silver dinner service The presentation speech
was made by W. BoTke Cochran. Mr.. Gilroy, to
whom the purpose Of the visit was made known
only an hour or two previously, replied with evident
emotion in a few admirably chosen words Ho
earnestly thanked the gives in behalf OF himself and
wife, remarng that his chief qualification in receiving
the hadsome presents was that hts children might
sec In them after he had passed away the
testimony that their father had always sought
to do bis duty faithfully and that be had been true
to the friends whom no was indebted for all that
he had been In the past
The set was manufactured by Tiffany Co., and
Is valued at about $1,000. luncheon followed the
ceremony Among the.contributors Of toe gift, most
Of whom were present, were Mayor Grant. Judges
and White sheriff Elack, DIR. J. III. Demarast, VIII
lam II. Clark City Chamberlain Croker, John B.
soxton Martin b. Brown. OK Sheriff Bowe, Senators
Ives and Cantor Joseph J. o'D0nohue, County cork
Reilly Deputy Register Martin, E. {. sheehy ana 'o'n
J. Carroll,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21
A CLERG YMAN KILLED.
The REV. CHARLES X. NORTH DIES AT THE
HARLEM HOSPITAL
HE WAS STRUCK BY TRAIN AT MOTT HAVEN
AND FATALLY INJURED.


AND FATALLY INJURED.
The Rev. Charles X. North, formerly pastor OF
the Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church,
died yesterday at the Harlem Hospital East one
hundred-and- tive ntieth-st, from injuries receieu
on Friday Shortly after o'clock at night' hr
North was struck by train while crossing 'ne
track of the New-York Central Railroad at one-
hundred -and- thrty-eighth-st. and hallroau-aYe
lie was removed to the hospital, where u was
found that he was injured beyond all nope VI
recovery The right arm was broken IN I"o
places and on the head were several scalp WounUs'
in addition to severe internal injuries. MI
North fingered until o'clock yesterday morning
He was thirty-seven years old and leaves WIDOW
and six children.
For two years be had been pastor OF the
Eighteenth Street Methodist Church, and was
man of much promise. At the recent conference
he was on the Committee Of Arrangements, and II
was mainly through his efforts that the conference
was SO successfully conducted.
Recentlv he declined call to one Of the lead
ing churches ~ Providence, r l. At the con-
ference he was appointed by the bishop as cor
respondina secretary of the New York City Mission
and Church Extension Society. This was assumed
to be a fitting recognition of hts ability.
Mr.. North came into some prominence recently
owing TO the discomfort on the part of some OF
the people of the Eighteenth-st church, who
desired 20 have another pastor sent TO them by
the bishop, but in spite Of the discontent ne
afterward became popular with the people, ana
his ministry ab that church was remarkably sue
cessful. The discomfort grew out OF the TACT
that Bishop Fowler had appointed him without
consulting the church. 1t seemed to the peo-
pie that this was an arbitrary act on the part OF
the bishop
Mr.. North was In the fancy goods business Tor
six years before he entered the ministry, and was
successful bat he felt convinced that he was called
TO the work Of God. He was educated ct the
Wesleyan University, MiddletOwn, Conn, and
was graduated with high hOnors In 1873 he
went TO Mount Zion, and from there to FishIlll
and Gknham. This was in 1874. In le7b-T6
he was in charge OF ST. Pulls, Peekskill.
and from there he was transferred To
the Washington Street Church, PoughkeepSlc'
He remained two years, and then went to matea-
wan, n j. In 1881 be came 10 New-IorK 70
the fhirtieth Street Methodist Episcopal Church
In 1883 he was transferred 10 st. Johns, New
burg and returned TO New-Iork to the Eighn enth
Street Church In 1891 His father was formerly
a prominent merchant, but has been retired Tor
many years The father formerly lived In Harlem,
but last winter camo 10 live with his son at \ o.
3O5 West Eighteenth-st. The arrangements for
the funeral have not yet been completed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21
mlrnr np lNr lNp D IoRRER glnrH.

Mayor Grant was asked last evening what no
thought OF the letter addressed TO him by D. Lowoer
smith, Commissioner Of Public Works. giving notice
that Mr. Smith intended TO maintain that his term
Of Office does not expire until May /, 1884, ana tne
accompanying opinions OF ex-Judge Noah Davis and
Calvin Frost, which are printed IN another part OF
this issue The Mayor said that on his return from
drive with Governor hin yesterday afternoon no re-
coaved telephone message from tho City Hall saying
aat the documents described had been left at his
office some hours after his departure u do moo
soeD Mr. Orant continued, chow can reply 70 MI.
Smiths iettez ] can mako no a5poinamcnS Oh
bis successor until May 1, 20 that no
action slch @ he suggests cosh %
taken before thst time. After have appointed q
- f,oromlssionnr my attitude would be q singular
nne 4 entered INTO an srmstice with Nj. Mnhh,
whom certainly could not then recognize ~ NJ
~ ngrrs Cochran said thst,he though Mr. snttfs
s,sr 4 rsraa from drawing his salary u mo suPrsme