Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-02-13

All the wiseacTes SAID, after Charity
Chipmanis father died, that she would
have to hire man TO run the farm
She thought oifferIntly, and, having
taken charge of everything herself,
found at the end of the year nice
little profit to herself in the bank.
The day before Thanksgiving sne
Sas driving into town with IA load of
turkeys aud pun kius and new laid
eggs 10 supply her regular customers
for the great yearly feast day. She was
thinking as the cart logged along that
she would have TO eat her turkey alone
on the morrow, and somehow the
thought was not a pleasant one. Her
reflections were broken by the sight of
a lonely woman trudgIng aong the
road Just ahead OF her.
.GOiny 20 HaTtsdale?' she asked, As
she came up. 'I'll give you a ride if
you're bound that way
oh, thank youl' said the stranger,
who was young and pretty looking. i
have walked Ii ,e miles, and was begin
ming TO get tired
Going to town to spend Thanks
giying?' asked Miss Charity, helping
the young woman in .he cart.
L am goin there to look for work.
have no friends TO spend ThanksgIv-
ing with said the other sadly.
That's too bad exclaimed Miss
Charity-then-'Jus hold the pony a
minGte while deliver this stuff to my
customer
And so Miss Charity bo6bed in and
out, stopping for n little talk with this
OF that matron, pulling a bunch OF
gaudy chrysanthemums from under
the wagon sect for little lame child In
A tenement house, and slyly leaving d
plump. chicken tor the cOnSumptIve
seamstress, who could not afford To
order one, until the golden-halred girl
alighted at the street corner.
There's an intelligence Office neal
here. ma'am,' said she, where | may
be able to hear OF work. ! am much
Obliged to you for the ride
And she dropped an aTtlesS little
ccur.ssy and went her way. Mis-:
| Char ty looked after her.
| Il lie that little daisy Ike face said
.he- IF I'd known who she was and
! been quite certain that SHE wasn't :
tramp I should have been almost
| temp;ed to ask her to come and LIVE
| with mel l need some one young anC
| active about the place. and; bu
] here's Mrs. TIllidrum's where the bar
rel of apples Is ordered for
| Mrs. TIlIidrum proffered ten-dolia
bill in payment for the apples; Mis-
Charity Chapman put her hand In he
pocket to make change.
why, it's gonep she CALCULATED.
whats gone?' said Mrs Tillidrum
MY pocket-bookP screamed MIS-
Charity Chapman; and that ungrate
full tramp has rewarded my kindness o.
| hs.x In
how 1t would bel'
she went straight to the lutelligenc
office. The girl whom she describes
had been there, but was gone, leavin
no address
.It's like looking for needle In
bun lie of hay,' said Miss Charity. An
she left the description at the polio
station and went home IN great ci'
gust. boot- ,be
vas f.ther,s!' said Mrs Charity CHI
man With tears in her eyes, AN
s35 so IN il, in good hard money-lt
.nonyh 10 put one out OF conceit wlt
hunoan naturel And she with such a
;nno.ent little face, too, and eyes
Nine as baby'sl Well, L never sha
} believe in what the physiognomists s.
Ir WAS Thanksgiving Ere, and MI
Charity Chapman was slttlns a 10
haTora the fire of blazing pine 10
,,aditatiny upon her loss Neither IL
.aII;gance office nor police station Ia
t..an Able to render her any account
the old red pocket book and It's col
'euI1 ~ declare, said Miss Charity, 1T ju
; snoils nv Thanksgiving!
, When all of sudden there came
r - At the door, and there, wrapp
a ~ faded brown shawl, with D
n.,dsn hair blown all about her Lao
sstood the girl with the blue eyes "