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THANKSGIVING THOUGHTS.
A Day Suggestive of Hospitality and
Good Cheer.

Good Cheer.
Thanksgiving The very word is
suggestive of welcome, of beaming
faces and happy meetings, of good
cheer and hospitality unlimited, of
tempting heaps of ruddy apples and
golden oranges, and of that spicy
dainty, our National confection, the
'pie de pumpkin.
And inseparable from thu word
Thanksgiving is another National
dish, roast turkey-the once proud
bird of our WILDWOOD f1anked by the
reddest and cranberriest of cranberry
sauces.
Some one has said, heartlessly and
audaciously, that to spend a truly
ideal Thanksgiving we must not only
cast aside our own burdens, but forget
the troubles of others less fortunate
than ourselves, the poor whom we
have "always with us" This may be
comfortable sort of philosophy, and
the owner OF such convenient, cast
iron conscience and memory could, no
doubt, get great deal OF selfish en-
loyment out of life.
But I believe that to make the day
perfect one we must think of the
poor in our midst, for few minutes,
at least, not in a maudlin, sentimental
way, signing over their poverty, be-
wailing their hardships, but in
simple, substantial way, sharing with
them the viands with which our table
has been blessed. If the giver of
every Thanksgiving feast, or even il
every ordinary family dinner. would
remember the destitute long enough
to feed one hungry family thousands of
homes would be gladdened for at least
one day.
The most acceptable thanks we can
send above consist in making others
thankful. With grateful hearts we
may celebrate the day, but sweeter
than any praises we can sing are the
little acts Of thoughtful kindness we
may all bestow. - Detroit Free Press.
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THAN KSGlViNG.

Sweet was the song of the robin,
Blithe was the hum of the bee,
In the day when the drift of the blossom
Was light as the foam of the sea.
Then deeply WIS cloven the furrow.
And gayly they scattered the seed,
Who trusted that rainfall and sunshine
Would surely be given at need.
The robin hath flown to the tropic,
The honey-oee fitteth no more,
The reaper hath garnered the harvest
And the fruit and the nuts are in store.
The flame hath died out ON the naples,
We tread on the loose-lying leaves,
And the corn that was sturdy and stalwart
Is gathered and bound into sheaves.
And sweeter than music of springtime,
And fuller of jubilant mirth.
Are the strong-tided chorals o'erflowing
From hearts where thanksgiving has birth
The songs Of the home and the altar,
The gladness of children at play,
And the dear love of households united
Are blending in praises to-day.
For pasture-lands folded with beauty,
For plenty that burdened the vale,
For the wealth of the teeming abundance,
And the promise too royal to fail,
We lift to the Maker our anthems,
But none the less cheeriy come
To thank Him for honor and fruition,
And the happiness crowning the home.
Dh the peace on the brow of the father,
The light in the mothers clear eyes,
The lift in the voices of maidens
Who walk under dream-curtained skies.
The dance in the feet of the wee ones.
And the sparkle and shine in the air
The year has no time like Thanksgiving
A truce to our fretting and care.
Sweet was the song of the robin,
Blithe was the hum of the bee,
In the day when the drift of the blossom
Was light as the foam of the sea;
But sweeter the silence of autumn,
That maketh space for the strain
Of the joyance of home, when the harvest
Is gathered from hillside and plain.
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ly Herald of Freedom. "Well, il
don't make much difference to me,
Thanksgivln' or no Thanksgivin'.
haven't much to be thankful for"
And the tears rose instinctively into
the widows dim eyes as she remem-
bered the radiant Thanksgiving Days
of her youth, when the sun rose be-
hind veil of amethyst and gold, and
the trees blazed in royal robes, and
the full moons sailed through an ocean
of violet air.
The Widow Wyman was young then,
and the world wore its holiday guise.
She was old and poverty-stricken now,
and things were changed.
Outside, the dead leaves rusiled in
the bleak November blast, and the
gate, hanging from its one hinge,
creaked like complaining gnome.
Everything goes against me! p
sighed the widow, as she measured out
six drops of laudanum for her tooth
ache "The wind didn't blow any
body's gate down but mine; and the
side of the old barn has caved in, and
the latch is off the corncrib door, and
weasel took all my spring chickens
night afore last, and the apple-sass
has fermented, and the moths has
eaten up my furs, ana l haven't had a
letter from brother Johns folks in
three months, and there amt living
soul, as far as / know of, as cares
whether I'm in the world or out of it.
"There was jamie Greyson, as l
brought up out of the workhouse and
bound to the bookbinder trade in New
York, she's married store clerk, they
tell me, as wears Sunday clothes every
day of his life, and never even writes
to ask how I am; and Sarah Soames,
as I nussed through the smallpox that
summer she taught district school up
here; and Harry Wild, as never could
have set up business if my Elnatban
hadn't mortgaged the old place to
lend him money.
81 might sit here and starve, and
they wouldn't none of 'em lift a
finger to put bread in my mouth; and
there's the mortgage to be foreclosed
at Christmas, and the fences all down,
and everything going to rack and
ruin. declare to goodness, I've
most a-mind to swallow the whole OF
this laudlum bottle, and put an end to
my troubles. There amt nobody
would care"
And the Widow Wyman looked
gloomily at her bottle of laudanum as
she set it on the shelf.
''There," she added, as the back log
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is business. Do you see these papers,
ma 'am?"
The widow eyel the yellow packet
in his hand.
eyes" said she; SITS the mortgage
l signed myself. I see 'em plain
enough"
Every well," said the stranger, and
he deliberately tore the documents in
two, and flung them under the messy
old log, where they shot into yellow
spires of flame and flew up the chin
ney in train OF fiery sparks. "They
were taken off the record this morn
ing" said he. "Why, Aunt Nancy
is it possible you don't know Harry
Wilde"
And in another second he had her
in his arms, with the apples rolling
over the kitchen floor, and her cap all
on one side.
"Pve come to spend Thanksgiving
with you. Aunt Nancy" said he; "and
my wife is outside in the carriage,
with an ejghteen.pound turkey, and
real old-fashioned suet-pudding that
she baked herself, and batch of
mince pies, and six pounds of Cali
fqrnia grapes. Come in, Poll, p" open
ing the door to admit a rosy-faced
young lady, with teeth like pearls, and
the prettiest of dimplesin her cheeks.
"And we, too, Aunt Nancy" said a
CHEEKY voice, out of the gathering
dusk.
"Sakes alive !" said the Widow Wy
man; sit amt jamie Greyson? 1t
can't bel"
eyes, it is /" cried the CHEEKY voice
and in came tall, pretty girl, leaning
on the arm of stalwart young man.
".And here's my husband, Caleb Car
ter. We couldn't spend our first
Thanksgiving anywhere but with you.
auntie, dear, and here we are. And
Caleb has brought our dinner along
a pair of grouse, with red currant jel-
ly, and cranberry-puffs, and oranges,
and nuts, and raisins, and all that
sort of thing. Bring in the basket,
Caleb, dear. And there's a new black
silk dress for you, Aunt Nancy, and
a pair of gold spectacles, and Grim
son-and- black blanket shawl, and set
of real English lace for yoa to wear to
meeting tomorrow.
And with this Janet hugged the
old lady until she nearly choked
her, and kissed her until she was re-
vived again.
While all this was transpiring. there
came fresh cannonade of knocks
against the door, and the widow made
haste to open it.
There stood stout, middle-aged
man, all wrapped up in rru fflers, which
we're already beginnin g to be powd-
cred over with show. apd stout.
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separated in two pieces and fell in a
shower of ashes on the brick hearth
-"there goes the fire, and there amt
dozen sticks OF wood in the shed.
Things didn't used to so so slipshol
when Elnathan was alive. And can't
go to meetin' tomorrow, because l
haven't decent dress to wear; and if
roast rib o pork, with stewed
apples and sage, for dinner, it'll be all
I can afford. Other folks has turkeys
and cranberry tarts. amt SO lucky.
But, then, I'll get pumpkin there's
plenty of 'em in the old corn lot and
make pumpkin pie. There will be a
Thanksgivin' taste to that, anyhow"
And the Widow Wyman rakea to-
gether the fading embers of the fire,
put on two or three fence pickets to
make it blaze up, and brought in a
new back log, fringed with gray moss,
and smelling family of the woods.
But all the while her heart was as
heavy as lead within her bosom.
Something's going to happen. " said
the widow, as the tears dropped slowly
into the apples she was pairing for
sauce. 81 know something's going to
happen. P'raps it'll be a cyclone.
Or, maybe, the mortgage is goin' to
be foreclosed sooner than | calculated
on. Or, p'raps I'm goin' to have n
spell O. fever"
But just here some one tapped
briskly at the door.
"Come in, said the Widow Wyman,
dropping an apple on the floor in her
CONSERVATION.
And in came a tall man, wrapped IN
fur-lined garments, with bright-hued
eyes shining under the rim of seal
skin cap.
sis this Mrs. Nancy Wyman?" said
he, grufiiy.
'That's me-" said the widow.
"Oh!" said the stranger. "Cold
weather for this time OF year"
every cold," said Mrs. Wyman.
Threatening snow"
'It does look like it," acquiesced
the widow.
81 believe this place is mortgaged, u"
said the stranger plunging headlonS
into business.
The Widow Wyman began to trem-
BILE all over,
az knew something was going to
happen" thought she. And she
added. aloud: eyes, it is.
81 thought So" said the stranger.
I've bought the mortgage from,
Squire Satterlee."
81 hope you'll excuse the interest
and taxes being little behind, said
Mrs. Wyman. ''pm lone woman,
and"
.Yes, I know" brusquely inter
rupted the gentleman; "but business
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In stack and cellar, bay and bin,
Now rest the harvests of the year;
The orchards wealth is gathered in,
The ricks are filled, the fields are clear
To-day we take truce from toll
And at the genial flreside meet;
Nothing shall come our peace to spoil
AS we the annual feast repeat.
How calm the Indian summer haze
Above the distant mountain lies;
The squirrel darts from place to place,
The crow across tbs valley flies.
The ripping stream with murmuring tone
Seems lonelier as it passes by
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And one slow hawk, reserved, alone,
Cuts his broad sweep across the sky.
The colored pallet, rich and rare,
Is gone which made the forests gay;
A Quaker russet now they wear,
And even that shall pass away.
But we. around our ample board.
Confront the winter without fear,
Whose fruits are housed, whose crops are
stored,
Whose friends are true, whose home Is dear.
For ALL may some good fortune come,
Some cheer to drive sad thoughts away;
Thrice happy friendships, love aud home.
And naught to mar Thanksgiving Day.
Joel Benton.
The free press., 1895-11-28
Photography in Medicine.

Photography may yet be used in
medicine. An English photographer
took picture OF boy. The negative
showed the face to be covered with
eruption. Three days later this became
visible to the eye.
The free press., 1895-11-28
A WIDOWS THANKSGIVING.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES,

H A N X SGIVIN'
eh?" said the
Widow Wyman, as
she studied the
Governors proc c.
lamation through
her glasses as it
appeared in the
type of the Week
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Accounted For.

Traveller The houses in some OF
the ancient cities had walls ten feet
thick.
Mr. Brickrow (enviously)I pre-
sumo some OF the neighbors we're
musical.
The morning call., 1895-01-09
CRISIS In NEWFOUNDLAND.
WhiteWay Cannot Feed the Hungry
Who Follow Him.
MARINES LAND TO KEEP THE PEACE.
England Will Have Serious Trouble With
the Colony Unless Immediate
Relief Is Afforded.

ST. JOHNS, N.F., Jan. 8.-A serious lrIot
occurred here to-day, when the crowd of
unemployed workmen resumed their
demonstrations. They hooted the ex-
Premier, Sir William Whiteway, who was
formerly their idol. and then marched to
where the Tourmaline is lying to receive
the captains answer to their petition Of
yesterday.
Captain Sir Richard Poore, the COM
mander. told them the matter was in the
hands of the Government. The crowd
became exasperated and proceeded to the
Minister'S chamber, where the doors were
barred against them. Undaunted, the
crowd set to work to force an entrance,
and doors and windows were soon bat
tered down and ingress gained.
The police attempted to check the work
of destruction, the officers faring badly in
the scuffie that folio owed, and the rioters
were for the time being masters of the
situation. After gaining entrance to the
chamber they found that the members Of
the executive departments were absent.
Later the crowd appealed to the Governor,
but this was also Intellectual. They then
returned to the legislative building, but
they were unable to force an entrance.
They, however. remained on the grounds,
demanding relief and bitterly cursing the
Government.
Hoping to pacify them Prime Minister
Greene appeared and addressed them. He
promised that in two or three days extern
sive public works would be commenced
sufficient to give all employment through
the winter.
His listeners refused to be satisfied with
his promises. and demanded that immedi-
ate relief be furnished. When they were
told that il was impossible to accede to
this demand, the leaders held short con-
ference. and it was decided to attack the
stores on Water street, where large guam
titles Of provisions were supposed TO be
kept.
The first place attacked was Douer's.
The place was soon broken open, but the
mob found no provisions there. Then
attention was turned to Steers store.
which was quickly looted. At this point
armed police intervened and the mob was
driven back at the point of the bayonet
Four men-Bushey. Brown. COady and
King, the prom oters of the riots-were
arrested. The crowd was incliDed to at
tack the police. for the purpose of rescuing
the prisoners. but the officers prevented
this by driving the mob back and then
suddenly closing the gates. The police
are still inside with their prisoners. while
the rioters surround the place, hooting the
officers.
The Tourmaline's marines are under
orders to land should there be any further
outbreak tonight. Special police have
been sworn in and are guarding the other
parts of the city. The Government has
offered to resign, feeling unable to face
the situation.
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CONSIDERED in CAUCUS.
Plans of the Estee Men for Joint
Action.

ACttOHs
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 8.-There is every
probability that before Tomorrow night
the Republican mem bers of the Legislature
will have declared their Intentions, and
that Governor-eIect Budd will know just
what opposition he will have to combat In
order to become the chief magistrate of the
State.
When the Republicans of the Assembly
met in caucus this morning there was
decided inclination TO settle The contention
then and there. Timothy Guy Phelps was
on hand with his concurrent resolution
providing for the appointment of nom
partisan committee of five mem bers from
each house to investigate the recent guber-
Material election and providing, also. that
Budd be prevented from taking the oath
of Office pending such Investigation.
The adoption of this resolution, accord
ing to the programme Of the Republican
State Central Committee, was to be the
preliminary step in gubernatorial con-
test But Assemblyman Phelps eneoun-
tered decided opposition. The sentiment
of the caucus seemed to be against con-
test. An effort was made to commit the
members present on the Phelps resolution,
out the attempt IaleQ.
The somewhat stormy meeting ended
abruptly by the members In opposition to
the resolution forcing an adjournment,
against the wishes of Phelps.
The vote was 43 to g. The votes are
said TO about represent the following of
| Phelps. The caucus adjourned. subject
to the call of the chairman, Assem- blyman
Wade.
Soon afterward Phelps stated that his
| resolution would not be brought u3 again,
and it was talked about the corridors OF
the Capitol that the contest had been aban-
doned. Budd's friends were quite jubilant
! for time. They were soon made
anxious again, however, when the Re.
publicans in the Senate voted down Sea-
| wells resolution for a meeting of the
Legislature in joint session tomorrow to
| canvass and publish the returns of the
vote for Governor and Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor. The delay enforced by the Rspub-
lican Senators was clearly against Budd.
sit was suspected that the Republicans
were brewing some new trouble, and there
was no surprise when the Republicans of
the Assembly were called into caucus
again at 8 o'clock. Mr.. Phelps resolution
was again brought up, ard there was
another stormy meeting. Brusie of Sac
ramento, Phelps and few others urged
the caucus 10 favorably act on the resolr-
ton.
The opposition was more pronounced
than at the morning caucus. The oppo-
nents of Phelps went so far as to prepare
resolution declaring it the sense of the
caucus that the Senate and Assembly
should meet In joint session at noon to-
morrow TO canvass the vote for Governor
and Lieurensnt-Governor. This was voted
down.
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CHIPS IN THE CORRIDORS.
A Story That Chris Buckley Con-
ferred With Budd.

SACRAMENTO. Jan. S.-Sacramento
holds the palm for wild-eyed rumors OF
things that never were. The latest is the
story that Chris Buckley and Governor
Budd had long conference together in the
Golden Eagle Hotel. The truth is that
Mr.. Buckley was not in town at all.
The story originated from the fact that
laboring man from Stockton. named
Michael Buckley. shook hands with the
Governor on the sidewalk in front of the
Geld3n Eagle Hotel, and the two talked
together about five minutes. Buckley
wanted job as assistant gardener for
the State Capitol grounds.
Another effort is TO be made at this ses-
sion OF the Legislature to create third
Superior Court for Sacramento County. Ii
the plan is carried. Governor Budd will
have the power of filing the position.
Rev. Obadiah Somers, who has been
elected chaplain of the Assembly, was
formerly pastor of the African Methodist
church in this city. He is now the head
of the church in California, and resides In
Alameda. Rev. Mr.. Somers is a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
At the breaking out IF the war he was
slave in the South. He ran away from
his master several times, was captured and
roundly fogged. Finally. he managed to
get away and joined the Union army.
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of the African NJ. Z. Church of Alameda.
began his new duty as chaplain of the
Assembly this morning. Seeing that Mr..
Somers had just been elected after a
hard contest, the language was the more
surprising.
There are great numbers Of people here
who feel just that way about it. but they
have not met with such favor. Many of
these are disappointed candidates. but not
all of them. For instance. George c. Ross
10 considerably disgusted at the outcome
of his visit to the Capitol with his resolu-
tion looking to the appointment of a
committee to consider and report upon
the gubernatorial contest The caucus
this morning at which he was to have been
given hearing did not ask him in. The
resolution introduced by Timothy Guy
Phelps at the caucus lsst.night in line with
Mr.. Ross proposition and providing for a
small joint committee to take charge of
the contest was allowed 10 be read at the
caucus this morning. but it was only done
10 give that body an opportunity to show
how Objectionable 1t was. Nine out of a
total of 81 voted for it and the others re-
corded no." and the resolution fell so
hard that there was not enough of 1t left
to rebound. That is why Mr.. Ross de-
plorss the blessings of the occasion. In
mediately following this action resolution
was introduced by Richard Thomas, the
baby Of the last session returned to figure
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ever. that the plan Of the Republican As.
sem blymeu for joint caucus at noon
tomorrow was not accepted. The Sena-
tors argued that at the time proposed the
Senate would probably be listening to the
reading of Governor Markham's message.
1t was suggested. however. that the Sena-
tors would consider request for a joint
caucus some time on Thursday.
1t cannot be learned tonight that any
action beyond this was actually taken,
but the Budd men are feeling better.
They declare that the plan of contest has
been abandoned and that the refusal of
the Senate caucus TO take action was a
practical surrender.
Gavin McNab OF San Franc isco, who is
a close frIeud of Budd and was with the
Governor-elect tonight, declared at a late
hour that the Republicans had agreed to
permit the vote for Governor and Lieuten.
ant-Governor to be counted and published
at a Joint session of the House and Senate
to be held at o'clock on Thursday, and
that this agreement would be made known
Tomorrow. He had it from Timothy Guy
Phelps, ne said. that the plan of contest
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Thomas of Nevada did not favor the
Phelps resolution. He urged that there
be N ore delay and that the authors of the
resolution. if they still desired to press il,
should Introduce 1t in The Assembly and let
it pass or be defeated.
His plan was also voted down. Powers,
chairman of tho San Francisco delegation,
seemed to express the entiment of the ma
jority. He counseled that the caucus
should await some action on the part of
the Republicans of the Senate. This plan
was finally adopted and a committee con-
sisting of Powers, Thomas and Phelps wa s
appointed 10 confer with the Senate
caucus. which bad been previously called
for eight o'clock, and urged the Repu bill
can Senators to enter joint caucus to be
held at noon tomorrow for the purpose Of
taking final action on the gubernatorial
question.
The Republican Senators were 10 caucus
tonight from o'clock until TO- They
were waited upon by Powers. Thomas and
Phelps. the committee from the Assembly
caucus. The consultation lasted over half
an hour. When the three mem bers from
the Assembly withdraw George C. Ross of
Redwood City and Edward K. Taylor of
Alameda, members # the subcommittee
appointed by the Republican State Central
Committee to inauguIate a contest, were
called before the caucus. They were In
the caucus-room an hour. and explained 10
detail the method by which they proposed
to contest the election of Budd. They
presented their proposed bill under which
the vote of San Francisco could bs thrown
out in the event Of hurried Legislative
Investigation as proposed in the Phelps
resolution and q report that fraud had
been perpetrated. and asked that the pro-
posed law be enacted. Soon after the
withdrawal of Ross and Taylor the caucus
adjourned. The participants we're pledged
to secrecy.
It became known soon afterward. how