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Miss Mehetabel had taken from the upper bureau drawer in the spare bed room that very morning sundry knitted tidies and mats, together with pair of highly-colored and embroidered pillow shams that never saw the light except ing upon state occasions. These, with huge beaded pineushion, purchased by Miss Mehetabel's grandmother from genuine Indian princess, and which now rested primly upon the old-fash- toned dresser, showed that the occasion in her eyes was one of great and un- usual interest.
 In the snug pantry all was in readi- ness. There were rows of mince and pumpkin pies, tender and toothsome; dainty preserves and jellies all ready to ''set on," while from the oven of the bright little range in the kitchen pro- ceeded savory odors wondrously sug- gestive.
 Miss Mehetabel herself was arrayed in her best brown merino, carefully pro- tected by neat white apron. She had hesitated in making her toilet between the ordinary gold breast-pin to fasten her linen collars and pale green rib bon bow with white lace at the ends. which had been her one piece of extray- agance at Cousin E1nily's wedding.
 It isn't out of keepin' with this oeca- sion," she murmured softly to herself at last, as the balance turned in favor of the latter. Ut brightens me up Q bit,' and she carefully pinned it on and adjusted the ends. Thanksgiving only comes once year at best, and such one as this but once or twice in life time"
 There was a sudden knock at the front door. In walked the preacher and hls family, followed by Mrs. Ellis and her little flock, made as presentable as their scanty means would allow.
 All was excitement and merry talk. and soon the quiet house rang with the happy laughter of children.
 Dinner was dispatched by and by, and what dinner it was, to be uure- never tc be forgotten by certain empty little stomachs.
 The great matter was talked over aft CT dinner, when they were cozily seat ed in the snug parlor. It was not all news to Mrs. Ellis, for she had received a gentle hint from the little pastors wife few days before, and had decided, like the brave, sensible woman she was, to hide the pain of the parting in her own heart and think only of the best in- terests of her bright little girl.
 It was all settled at last, and the chill dren were called in for a parting hymn and prayer. As they lnelt together in tue gray winter twilight deep, quiet joy stole into the desolate heart of Me hetabel Brown.
 She drew closer to her the little form that knelt beside her, and whispered softly to herself amid her falling tears: "He setteth the solitary in families." Emma Searles Ulrich. in Union Si9nal
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proved the death O her, as I always said it would if 1t lasted long enough.
 ''We was only two old maids, Lindy and me, but we was happy and comfort able. What with the weekly prayer meetin' rollin' round so often; the mite society and the quarterly meetin' com in off once in three months, and the presidin' elder stoppin' with us on ac- count of the preacher always happenin' to have so many children and bein' sca'ce O spare beds, we hadn't much time to be lonesome.
 But it's all changed now Eindy's gone. l turn sort O sick and faint when I think of Thanksgiyin' comin' on, and settin' here and eatin' turkey and cranberry sauce all by myself," and Miss Mehetabel, under pretense of rinsing her potatoes, walked tothe sink and dried her fas3-flling eyes on the snowy towel.
 "Mr. Williams and I have thought and talked it all over, Mehetabel," said the little pastors wife, who had sat half smiling, half sweeping, but at thesamc time busily stitching away on child's apron during Miss Mehetabel's lengthy discourse. "We both think you ought not to live here alone as you have been doing, when there are hundreds of destitute children who need just such love and care as you are able to give. A child would be a great blessing in yoa1r lonely home. Have you ever thought of this, Mehetabel?"
 "Strangei But do you knew 1 was thinkin' about that very thing only yesterday. As was goin' down to the grocery store to buy pound of tea, went pass Mis- Ellis old home and there was four O them children hangin' on the rickety gate, with nobody to care for 'em, and their poor mother of doin' washin' or scrubbin', or anything shc can turn her hand to-so sort O delicate as she is, too.
 "There wasn't better brought up girl in this whole deestrict than Miriam fore she was married. She was sent away to high school one term, too. But she had a hard row to hoe ever since her poor husband was run over by the steam engine and killed so sudden. I always feel like putin my fingers in my ears every time hear it screech at the crossin' to this day.
 "Them children is just as bright as a whip. There's Tildy, now, next to the oldest girl. They say there ain't a scholar in the Sunday-school can re- cite verses to beat her, and her eyes shinin' as black as a coal when she stood up speakin' a piece at the Sunday school concert. Well, as l was sayin' , as went by there yesterday and see 'em hangin' on that rickety gate, so sort O forlorn and neglected, somethin' sort O spoke right to me: 'Mehetabel Brown, you ought to take one O them children and give lem schoolin'.
 T turned round sudden. but there
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THANK SGVING.

That fields have yielded ample store Of fruit and wheat and corn, That nights of restful. blessedness Have followed each new morn; That flowers have blossomed by the
 paths
 That thread our working days, That love has filled us with delight, We offer heartfelt praise. What shall we say of sorrows hours. Of hunger and denial, Of tears. and loneliness, and loss. Of long and bitter trial? Oh, in the darkness have not we Seen new, resplendent stars? Have we not learned some song of faith Within our prison bars? Not only for the earth,s rich gifts, strewn thick along our way, Her looks of constant loveliness, We thank our God to-day; But for the spirits subtle growth. The higher, better part, The treasures gathered in the soul The harvest of the heart. Mary F. Butts, in Youths Companion.
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-Goblets with stem and stand, like those we use to-day, were employed in Troy nine hundred B. c. Among the valuable objects found by Dr. Schlie- mann was golden goblet. Vessels of this metal were commonly employed in the service of the temples. A curi- ous goblet with three stems has been found at Pompeii. Its use is con- jectural, but the supposition is that it was used to pour libations to the gods.
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-The League ot Ratisbon. .in 1s42,

The League of Ratisbon, in 1s49, was formed by the Catholic states and princes of Germany to oppose the grow ing power of the reformation. The in- huence of the reformers had become Ing embraced by number of promi- nent princes, led the Catholic party to believe that the stability of the gov ernment in Germany was in danger, hence The formation of this league to counteract the growth of the doctrines of the reformers.
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False Witnesses.

There are knaves now and then met with who represent certain local hitters and pois- onous stimuli as identical with or possessing properties akin to those of Hostetter's Stom- foisting their trashy compounds upon peo. pie unacquainted with the genuine article, which is as much their opposite as day is tc night Ask and take no substitute for the grand remedy for malaria, dyspepsia, con
 stipation, rheumatism and kidney trouble
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"LIIAN,s he said, severely, to the new woman, "did you mail that letter I gave you this morning2" And then she put her hand in the inside pocket of her oyercoat started, got red in the face and almost wished that she had never been enamel pated. Washington Star.
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 Mehetable Brown, dashing stray tear from her faded blue eyes, as she medi- tatively lifted huge brown potato from the shining basin which she held on her lap and proceeded to pare it.
 .'What with Lindy's dying and Johns going away to college right here in my own house; the Greens, that I'd lived beside nigh onto forty years, takin' 1t into their heads that they must move into the city and be somebody, and Ruth marvin as she did and goin' off as a missionary to Feejie or Hottentot; Samantha Ingols, that I've a5nowed ever since she was Samantha Merrymather. and wore pink calico pinaferes to dees- trict school, gettin' the western fever and settin' off with only weeks notice to take up a claim and fight Indians way out in Okelhama, or some such place. Though why she couldn't be content on the neatest little forty acres in all Blair county, that poor Silas shaved so hard for and left her when he died of typhus, is, as l told Eleanor Winner, when we was talkin' 1t over at the mite society, the day 1t met at your house, Mis- Williams, mystery to me, and allus will be. For my part never was one O them royin' kind, and there ain't citizen in all Brownsville that has stuck any closer hanMethetabelBrown for the past sixty odd years, if I can't vote and do say it as shouldn't.
 "The Browns never was of that un- stable disposition. There was my great grandfather, Ebenezer Brown; he settled on that eighty just south of the meetin' house when there wasn't white man nearer than fifteen miles. He come to stay and he stayed. When he died my grandfather took the same place and I've heard him say he never went beyond the county line but once in thirty years, and that was in lookin' after some stray cattle. Then there was my father, Jacob Brown, no one can say he was any hand to be sky iarl1in' over the country. He was one Q them peaceable. home-lovin' men, and liked to took a fit when he was sub pornied on the jury to Millersburg the time Nat Williams stole them sheep.
 As for Lindy and me, you know as we'll as do, we ain't slept outside this house In forty year. exceptin' the time when Cousin Emily was married, and nothin' would do but we must go to the we'd an. It was all fuss and Hutter. We
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From Now untli Surfing

Overcoats ana winter wraps will be in fash ion. They can be discarded, temporarily while travelling in the steam heated trains of the Chicago, Milwaukee x St. Paul Rail way. For solid comfort for speed and fo, safety no other line can compare with this great railway of the West.
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'eWHAT can I do to prove the sincerity of my lovean said young Mir. Spiffins to his Boston sweetheart. 'Promise me that you will learn to like Browning,p replied the intellectual creature Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph
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TEACHER Tommy, how is the world dividedg" Tommy-'Paw says it is divided between the corporations and the poi- Gcians. ."-Indianapolis Journal
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"ToM has proposed, and asks me to give him his answer in letter.n "Shall you do ltfe No; l will be more liberal and give him his answer in two letters. ."-Harper's Bazar.
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LAURA-"And now you must see papa" Reginald-''I have seen minor, rather hs has seen me. He told me yesterday that 1 either had to declare myself or stay out of the hoase.n e.n-Indianapoli Tribune.
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THE opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very positive basis, that they adopt the bad faith of few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.-Bovee.
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WHATEVER difference may appear in the fortunes of mankind, there is, nevertheless, 8 certain compensation of good and evil which makes them equal -Rochefoucauid.
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kept by three men If two of them are dead but woman conceals-what she does moi knoWn
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AT the National Gallery Fair American {before celebrated picture of saint = Wal, 1 reckon I would have had my hair crimped beforeI had my picture painted Judy
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IF you want to be cured of cough use Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
 Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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IN proverbs dangers often turk Their meaning rather hazy; ''The happy man sings at his work" But-drives the others crazy.
 Atlanta Constitution.
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RELIEVE Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my boys life last summer--MRs. ALLIE DOUGLASS, LeRoy, Mich, Oct. 20, '94.
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LONE views these things" said Brer Fox, "Aeeording as his light is. do not dcs' st those grapes are sweet, But fea4 appendicitis" ]"
 Chicago Record.
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JUST laws are no restraint upon tho free dom of the good, for good man desires nothing which just law will interfere with.-Froude
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PUBLIC sentiment powerfully restrains men from doing wrong; but, when they nave done wrong, sets itself as powerfully against them.-Beecher
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THE proprietor of Louisville bone fao- tory announces that persons leaving their bones with him can have them ground at short notice.
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IA PRUDENT man, says witty French. man, lis like pin. His head prevents him from going too far.n
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IT was during heavy storm and as tue thunder died away the little girl said earnestly: q wish God wouldn't grumbls so.h
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TRUTH is the faandmaid of justice; fres- orn is it's child peace it's companion; safe i5 walks in its steps; victory follows in it's erain-Sydney Smith
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TnEBE are such things as adorable faults and insupportable virtues.-Filegende Blat- ter.
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WOMEN paint their checks and men paint the town.-Atchison Globe.
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Sore Eyes Cured. Jackson's Indian Eye Salve never fails ts do this; 26c at all drug stores.
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HIT OR MIss.-They say when Cupid aims
 hisdart
 At man he never misses, Yet when he hits a miss's heart sTis then he makes the Mrs.
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HE cold gray sky broods dark on
 l field and hill,
 rna singing children of the woods have
 Iar-oit nsu thrush's golden chime is still,
 ma hanny haunters of the grass are dead;
 rorld is hushed with numb Noyem-
 ber's chill.
 !. the spacious farmhouse. loi the glase the ehospitable hearth, and on the
 .,oh por' abundance . of Thanksgiving fare,
 vear-long savings of the houseWife's
 hoard,
 8arvest-home, enoush 01a eie Aeios are
 bare.
 re sits the graybeard sire, and at his .sa s'v youngest of his line, 8 prattling there there the husband by the new-made ,d next the low-browed lily maiden soldier son, stern-featured. eagle-eyed. far they come by many parted ways Fo meet once more beneath the ancient - ever with the love of childhood's days; S nd here again life's severed warp and wool se joined, and times swift wing 8 mo- ment stays. |bd memory makes the old man young |He tells the oft-told tale. the outworn jest Indoor the snow falls fast on hill and plain, of rest, Ind thanks are offered Heaven not in vain. Charles L. Hildreth, in Demorest's Mag
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-19

said to be fiecked with gold like stars in
the milky way. There is legend current
that two boys one dark night picked the
lock leading to one of the carefully
guarded tunnels and with the point of a
miners candlestick filed sack with gold,
which they have been drawing upon at in
tervals ever since. Some are so bold as to
plainly indicate couple of staid and
prosperous citizens as the heroes OF the
midnight raid. However this may be, the
Morgan mine is undoubtedly the key to
Carson Hill, and whenever that key turns
in its rusty lock other storehouses as well
will open wide their treasure-doors.
Close to the Morgan and east of the Re-
serve and Enterprise is the Finnigan mine,
owned by Mrs. j. C. Tarbot and others,
from which also rich treasure has been
taken. But it is needless to particularize.
Wherever work has been done paying rock
has been found, and millions are there in
reserve. If a consolidation of the dozen
most important claims could be effected
and the illimitable power Of the Stanislaus
set to the music of thousand stamps Car
son Hill might easily become the peer of
any gold mine in the world. Nature has
been lavish in her work; all the conditions
are perfect for development on the grand
est scale, and it only remains for man to
do his part. A. J. Brooks.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-19
NEWS OF MARE ISLAND,
Extensive Repairs to the Mon
terey to Be Made Upon
Its Arrival.
The Boston Fast Nearing Compile
ton Work on the Hartford
Progressing.

VALLEJO, CAL, Aug. 1S.-It was ex-
pected that all of the men in the construc-
ton department at the navy yard who are
at work on the new tug would be laid off
yesterday, owing to lack of funds for this
object. However, about noon word was
received from the department at Washing
ton that $4,000 more was available, saved
from purchases of material. This will 90
little way toward the construction of the
hull, but will not be enough to complete
the craft. There is plenty of money still
available for building the engines by the
steam engineering department.
The monitor Monterey is expected at the
yard within few days and will undergo
considerable repairs to her Ward boilers.
Many of the tubes are said to be in a
Ieaky condition. The flagship Philadelphia
is lying at the coal dock and about ready
for sea, though no orders have yet been
received for her. The Boston is nearing
completion and many of the short-time
men now on the receiving-ship Indepen-
dence will be sent to it as soon as she goes
into commission. This would indicate that
she will not be sent at present to any
other station.
Quite large force of men is still en-
ployed on the Adams and Hartford. As
there seems to be plenty of money for the
old flagship it is not at all likely that much
of reduction of the working force on it
will be made for some time to come.
The annual dockage of the monitor
Comanche is being made. 1t is being
scraped of barnacles and receiving coat
of paint. After this process it will be taken
out of dock and again hauled up to her
buoy in Rotten Row.
The steam launch formerly used on the
Hartford is to be commissioned for duty
in connection with the receiving-ship.
The Philadelphia's band. through the
courtesy of Admiral Beardsley, plays each
Tuesday evening under a canopy, near the
Bernard House, for the edifcation of
Vallejo people, and attracts much favor
able comment. The Independence band
occupies the same place each Friday even
ing
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-19
A TALK ON BROKEN VOWS.
Rev. j. George Gibson Dis
courses at the Emmanuel.
Baptist Church.
SARCASM AND EXPLOITATION.
He Says That Those Who Watch to
Expose the Sins of Others VIII
Be the First to Suffer.

The sermon delivered last evening at the
Emmanuel Baptist Church by the pastor,
Rev. J. George Gibson, was a mixture of
sarcasm and fervid exhortation.
Through it all there was a vein of weird
ness, emphasized perhaps, by the voice
and attitude of the speaker as he rapidly
fitted from sarcastic drawl to the deep
base of passionate condemnation.
"Nice people, clean people, pure people,
yirtuous people, such people as Jesus
would love- he fairly Missed, referring to
the class which he was pleased to term
religious watchers land then in another
moment changing his voice and stalking
excitedly up and down the platform with
arms acknowledgements, why do they
90 back to our childhood days to rake up
the rotten things, and rattle the dry bones
of our broken vows?"
Before commencing his discourse the
pastor sang baritone solo, ''The Master
Stood in His Garden" and after a prayer
Mrs NJ Gallahorn rendered "The HeaV-
emily Gate"
Dr.. Gibson then announced his subject,
Broken Vows" The speaker began by
assuring his hearers that he had seen the
worst side of life, as revealed by mission
work in the slums of London, and knew
the dangers of divers temptations. he
knew, also, that there was much popular
prejudice against such subjects as he. had
chosen to handle. 81 know, also, he
continued, "that 1 am being watched. A
lady told me recently that my sermons are
being watched to see what message had
for the young. The young do not need
these lessons of religion half as much as
those of middle age. The stains upon the
pages of history have not been left there by
II IL - h or
remember the influences of the previous
generations.
"There is a large family of watchers
around us all the time. There is the relig-
ious class. How good and pure they are;
How meek and beautiful their lives! How
many of us have seen our fellow-creatures
going down to destruction without putting
out hand to save. How wise we all are
after the act, and how glad to repeat that
trite saying Il told you so.' Those who
watch us will be themselves first exposed.
You have heard about a man making a
rope to hang himself. This is exactly what
a man does when he watches others.
When those men brought the woman to
Jesus they did not think to see their own
sins exposed. Let the watchers take
warning.
1--WE are too prone to condemn one
class in the community. Men get rich at
trickery and fraud and women live lives of
meanness, yet nobody thinks Of calling
them lost or fallen creatures. 1t seems
that you can do anything and be consid-
cred respectable, so long as the seventh
commandment is observed. Steal and lie
and malign your fellows all through life
and you may be considered eminently re-
spectacle"
In concluding, DR.. Gibson besought his
hearers to cultivate a broader charity and
cease holding up the sins of others for con-
domination, while nursing greater sins
smiled upon by society.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-19
THE OLYMPIOS WON.
A Baseball Game at Golden Gate Park
Which Was Only Decided by
Close Score.

The sixth game of baseball of. the series.
of the season between the Olympics and
Pacifics was played on the new recreation
grounds at Golden Gate Park yesterday
afternoon. The Olympics won by the.
close score of IL to 10. Each club has now
won three games. Within the month
the State amateur championship will be
decided by final game. :.
The great crowd that witnessed the
game gave evidence of the fact that the
National game had still many launch adj
herents in the City. With the presence of
the Middle West professional teams in
this City during the fall and winter
months revival of the old league is ex-
pected to follow.
Yesterdays game was replete with ex-
citing plays from start to finish, and the
big assemblage was kept guessing as to
the outcome until the last man was re-
tired. Monahan of the Olympics and
Krug of the Pacifcs hit with great effect.
The former scored single, two and three
base hit. Under the efficient management
of Frank O'Kane, a candidate for the
club directory, the Olympic nine has es-
tablished an envied prestige in ball circles.
The nine plays in Santa Cruz on Sunday
next. Following is the score:
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neer to make estimates of the cost OF the
works, such estimates being necessary be-
fore vote can be taken on bonds.
AS an outside estimate $4,000 will more
than cover all the cost of complete water
system for the town, and for present pur-
poses probably $4,000 will be sufficient
Should the idea of an artesian system
meet with favor the works will be COM
pleted early in the spring.
From a population of scarcely twenty
and no signs of town when Stanford Uni
Verslty first opened four years ago Palo
Alto has grown to very respectable vii
lage OF nearly fifteen hundred people.