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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-27
Of PENNSYLVANIA,

From the wales Of Massachusetts, from New
York and from New Jersey,
Where the farmers feed and feed more.
All the summer, all the autumn,
Till Thanksgiving Ia not far of;
Then they send them to the city,
That New York may not bereft be
OF the pleasures Of the table,"
That's enough Of rhymeless rhythm; send
two turkeys. and send with them"
Brown began, stopped, perplexed. Turning
to the girl: "What nextf'
Then the maiden skillfully filled the order
out and he paid the bill admirtngly.
How Brown went out guests to invite would
be too long story quite.
But he scraped up half a dozen. and him
self, the maiden's cousin.
And her mother. all sat down next day to
feast On turkeys brown.
Who was there? Isaiah Stout, who for six
weeks had been out.
Next to him, contented, sat Candy Maker
Israel Pratt.
With his wife, John Henry Stiles. employed
In good times making files.
Just across the groaning table sat the boot
black, Billy Gable.
At his right his face a-grin, was the news
boy, Tommy Quinn.
Meier was dinner better cooked. never maid
en- sweeter looked.
While the guests devoured and gorged. Gu
pid shackles lightly forged.
Browns heart was the heart they bound, as
he very quickly found,
And before the meal was over. Brown was a
devoted lover.
When the guests had gone away Brown ask
ed IL he might longer stay,
And to the maiden. with a flush, he told a
tale that made her blush.
.Won't you help me, II you can, with this
better. sWeeter plan?
Don't you see, a wife need? Must l with
you hopeless pleadT,
Said the maiden: "Of the other plan coun-
selled with my mother.
II to this one she'll consent. to marry you
I'll be content"
Nothing more this scribbler tells; listen now
to wedding bells.
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rHE night before Thanksgiving the
city was ablaze with lights The
l. first snow had fallen and the air
itself seemed light hearted The massive
mansions that surround Gramercy Park
were brightly lighted.
In muff1ed silence young man cloak
less and gloveless hurried by the iron
bars that fence in the little acre of the
rich toward his lodging place.
For five years Jack Fleming had lived
alone. No one knew very much about
him, except that he was a thriftless, in
dolent genius. When his father died the
fortune that might have gone to him had
endowed certain wealthy charitable in
situations. His mother had died in his
infancy, and Jack Fleming had grown up
with the servants and his books for com
panions. He had never seen enough of
his father to love him. In his childhood
Jack had had one friend, Dora Goldth-
wait. She was beautiful girl, several
years his junior, who lived in the house
adjoining his fathers, and every day one
or the other would climb the fence that
separated them and drop over into the
little yard for romp. Dora was proud
of her protector and playmate, for even
then Jack was full of book knowledge,
and Dora soon learned to love Shakespeare
and Milton as read aloud by her hero. f
Another great tramping place for the
little people was Creamery Park, for both
houses faced the handsome playground
and Mr.. Goldthwait and Jacks father
were among the favored rich who pos
sessed keys to the great iron gates that
shut out the children of the poor, who
often lined the iron fence and peened
wistfully between the bars at the smiling
lawn within.
The children were inseparable until
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-27

seemed to me so strange that l made up
my mind that you shouldn't send it back
without reading it, SO I read it to you
myself. And now l shall send for Jack
tomorrow, and when lie comes shall
have good news for him. And-and good
news for Jack isis good news for
for me, you see. So am very happy"
There was noise of an opening win
dow, and Jack, wild eyed and unkempt,
but very joyful, stepped in. For mo-
ment they did not recognize him, but
when they did
''Well," said Mr.. Langdon, 'this climax
beats anything in your play"
EYES," added Mr.. Goldthwait, "and it
is doubly good because it will be followed
by a real Thanksgiving dinner. New
York Press.
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peering through the window he Toasted
nis eyes on the face Of the girl he loved.
Jack was overcome as he saw again all
the little details of the room which once
had been so familiar to him. He bowed
MS mead. he pushed against the glass
ol the swinging window. The window
opened tribe. Jack started back fright
ened. but the air was still outside, and the
inmates of the room had not noticed.
how he could hear Dora's voice. 1t said:
NOW, Mr.. Langdon, let me read the eli
max 20 you before dinner is announced. -
Lahgdon was the name of the English
actor to whom Jack had sent his play, and
as Dora's sweet voice read on, Jack real
lied that it was his own comedy she was
reading
Inc climax was rendered with telling
erect. The two men leaned forward
with interest.
CapitaI Capital!' cried Langdon.
Jack was filled with intense excite
ment. His hands were clinched.
DO you accept it?' asked Dora, tri-
umphantly, of the actor.
Il do was the reply. cit is the COM
edy that have been waiting for
Il will write him tonight, then" said
Dora. The beautiful girl sank back in
her chair and went on: "And now l
Will tell you a story that will explain
why was SO anxious 70 have you take
the play"
Jack listened breathlessly.
You see," said Dora. used to have
friend here named John Fleming. When
we went abroad l wrote to him, but he
did not answer my letters. / lost sight
of him, but l did not lose my-well, my
regard for him."
"A splendid fellow" interrupted Mr..
Goldthwait.
There never was one like him." said
Dora. Then she went on: "Well, when
we reached New York last week father
and began to look him up, and we found
in the first place that the reason he had
not answered my letters was because his
father, who was angry a. both of US, had
intercepted them; in the second place,
that father and son were never reconciled,
and that the old gentleman disinherited
Jack when he died, and in the third place
that Jack had been ever since barely
making living out of literary work and
trying to get some one to produce his
plays.
eve finally got track of him this morn.
ing, and this morning also saw the man
uscript of this play lying on the table
where you had left it when you brought
it up from the theater. The words by
John Fleming caught my attention al
once, and l picked it up and read it. II
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.Z%xHuu
GnnA-

Marriott Watson's next story is to be
entitled THE Career Of Della Hast
ings."
The Rev. Washington GLADDEN. ,s
writing a book on The Working
Church and Its Pastor"
The visitors at Shakspeare's birth
place during the year ended with last
March numbered 27,O3S.
Harold Frederic's new book, "Mrs.
Albert Grundy," is declared by the Lon
don Sketch to be rather fat and 'too
easily written"
Maurice Maeterlinck is at work on
new tragedy to be called "Aglavaine ct
Selysette." The title sounds quite Spen-
serian, with a touch Of the Far East.
Though "a years Of age, Edmond de
GoncOurt has attracted worldwide at
tentiOn with his new volume on "Ho-
kOusal," the greatest Of japanese de-
signers.
Gladstone's new volume of Studies
Subsidiary to the Works of Bishop But
ler'' will be published early in July.
1t will appear simultaneously on both
sides of the Atlantic.
Gen. Sir T. e. Gordon has nearly
ready volume entitled Persia Revis-
tied, 1885," in which he comments on
Muzaffer-ed-Din, the present Shah, and
on the political situation.
After long stay at his country house
at Saint-TrOpez Emile Olivier is again
back in Paris. Improved health allows
him to push forward his history of the
Second Empire and novel called ma
RE Madeleine"
Charles e. L. Wingate Is preparing a
volume on "Shakspeares Heroes on the
Stage" as companion to his "Shaks-
-peare's Heroines on the Stage" He
also has ready handsome holiday vol
ume to be called Famous American
Actors Of To-day"
The Bookman Is authority for it that
John Morley has in preparation a new
volume of Studies in Literature" and
adds: ut is pleasant to note that Mr.
Morley's writings have happily contin,
ued to increase in spite Of the Jealous
demands of the political shrew."
Mrs. Lynn Unions MY Literary
Life" which is to be published in vol
ume form in the autumn, is said to con-
tain some startling revelations and
much personal gossip about literary
characters who lived amid the "Sturm
und Drang" of the midcentury period.
Andrew Lang says: 20 difference IN
taste in books, when it is decided and
vigorous, breaks many possible
| friendship" He indicates the passport
to his favor by telling as that The or
she who condemns Scott and cannot
read Dickens is a person with whom
I would fain have no further converse"
In 1865 four lads occupied the same
room on the ground floor Of the first Y
vision Of Cadet Barracks at West Po' r.
Since then they have made their ma.
more or less we'll known In cur
American literature They are =
Charles King, Arthur Sherburne
dy, John Brisben Walker and Rich
Henry Savage.
After Mr.. Barrie's mother and eldt
sister were buried together last Sc
TENDER it was authOritatively announ<
ed that these two were the original OF
Jess and Leeby in "A Window In
Thrums." 1t is said that the sad beau.
ty of those characters is found in still
fuller measure in Mr. Barrie's forth
coming book about his mother entitled
"Marget Ogilvy."
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9 come and feed on turk
~ 'ne! Planned and so they talked as to the
\, market place they walked.
= Tue market place their eyeB nlled with
T. wonder and surprise.
o'u was there from all creation; food
..w. enough for half nation. a.
"nere does IL come 'FRONT.' Brown pro-
pounded. Thus a market man ex-
Wosnouid You ask me whence those turkeys.
S,r.ece those birds of rounded plumpness,
S,siipped each one of ruby waffle.
HHr'pped OF all Its glorious feathers,
TThbawn and ready for the oven,
Tuere 10 cake and brown and sizxIe
Ut The cook. with wise decision. takes II
D. from the torrid recess.
i1esay tpr Thanksgiving dinners,
Esnoud tell you, answer / should:
''N' the plains Of Illinois. from the hills
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-27
Looks Out for Himself:

In hunters lore there is an idea that
the jackal Is the lions provider-that
he finds the game aud takes the Hon
to it. This superstition has 20 more
foundation than Is found iY the fact
that after lion has slaju his quarry.
the jackals always attend, and await
the conclusion of the repast, III order to-
pick up the leavings.
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Thanksgiving DECORATION.

The old question comes up again and
again as to how to devise something novel
for Thanksgiving decoration. The day is
one pre-eminently homely and simple in
it's spirit and traditions-a day set apart
for returning thanks because of the neces-
sites and everyday comforts of life.
Nothing is so appropriate in common
Grating the occasion as embellishments
from the harvest fields. In drawing
rooms nothing is more effective than In
dian corn and diminutive yellow pump
kins, the corn with it's long stalks and
golden ears stacked on either side of the
wide doors or grouped in corners, the
small pumpkins with more ears or corn
piled at the base.
Vines of cranberry crowded with the
tiny red globes can trail across mantle
shelves or Irvine up and down columns,
while garlands of red and green peppers,
all sizes and shapes, and great punches
of ripe wheat and oats are rich and beau
tifuI in effect. Fruits of all kinds
grapes. late pears and peaches, rosy ap-
pies and purple plums, mingled with
their own foliage are unique and highly
typical of the harvest home.
For dining table Commentator mover
and most attractive mode is to cut from
the ordinary vegetables shapes Stimulating
flowers-from the beet deep red rose;
from the yellow turnip, a tiger lily; a
white lily or chrysanthemum from the
potato. with lettuce leaves for foliage,
while cabbage, celery, caulifower and the
dozen other kitchen garden productions
add blossoms to this original bouquet.
One of these ornaments serves at each
plate as q favor, while a huge group
mingled with fruits forms fine center
piece.
1t is very simple matter to shape these
mock flowers, a sharp knife and little
skill is all that is required. They may be
prepared the day before Thanksgiving
and kept fresh in bowl of water.
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Look upon fame as the talk of the
neighbors at the street door; library
as learned converse ton; joy as a Sec
ond, sorrow as minute, life as a day;
and three things as all In all God,
creation, virtue.
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~ want You, My Honey. y

For those with weakened digestive
powers honey Is said to be very de-
sirable food. II a person Is very tired
too exhausted to eat'-a few tastes
of honey will act like magic.
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10 get back. There must be something
IN the Climate. At any rate there is
not better all round country on the
s'ooe' where good living can be
made any easier Dillon and Mrs
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Saturday evening Nov. 18th. for the
purpose of selecting cand idares for
city officers at the coming election,
Dec. 9th.
We hope you have enjoyed a pleasant
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HIUtfn BASED as he WdS dressing,
az never Snrw Things quite so blue nor cred
!tcrs 50 pressing e.
Aud thea ne took his pOcketbOOk and count
ed up his money.
Tho dolInrs four. there were no more, so few
were they seemed funny.
II made. him smile that little pile and then
his blues departed,
For Brown had pluck. believed IN luck for
othosc MOI chlcken-hearted. So
And 10 his breakfast gaily down went spec
ulpror George Caldwell Brown.
Wbil, re frank his coffee hot to his hand a
ut.. vas brought, j,
And e.. wiring on Its cover made him turn
o. IL Ger and Ger
Wa = .a,t he broke its seal its contents
fairly made him reel;
Mad, The blood rush to his head, for this
uts what the letter said:
.Georgt. Caldwell Brown, Esq.,: --
Dear Boy-It gives me several kinds Of Joy
To send a cheek made out to you to pay the
Lnndred, long since due,
You tlldly loaned when | was broke,
Most sincerely, r. T. CHOAK."
As he picked his way down town. thus
mused Spectator Brown:
"Ou the day before Thanksgiving. life Is
always worth the living.
Every cloud has its silver lining; somewhere,
always. sun Is shining.
Now il really seems to me | should very
thankful be; SO
Yesterday the sky was murky; now I'm sure
to have my turkey.
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The cheaper some men are the more
prominent the position they try to Sc
cure in an audience addressed by. q
great man.
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CoIlege, Mfs. Leathers ana Miss Lillie
Solberg, furnished splendid musical
and Evolutionary entertainment, which
was well received by the. audience.
Their services were kindly volunteer
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dollar patents for zoe he is selling lots
of them.
The steamer State of Washington
ran under the dock at Everett during
s.,oxur ccual Moudau r1ini1f nd her
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Ribbons and verything kept
in a frst-class Millinery Store.
@Special attention given to
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A man who has boil ought to have
sense enough to keep away from cir
Gus. II
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RROWNSIHANKSGlYING3!
Dh Vih ~~-s
y Made This Spectator Think Lite
Worth the Living,
,vDTO AGAYTYPEWRITER GIRL
II Brought Sweet Peace from Out Lies
Dizzy Whirl.

GORGE CALDWELL
r',vn of Gotham
town the morn be-
fore Thanksgiving
From sleep awoke. SO
nearly broke life
b ID ! y seemed
worth living.
Now this man Brown
had been thrown
down by w al |
streets fluctuations /;
To rise again seemed
to him then beyond
all calculations.
"My race Is run, I'm
q ui.t e undOne."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1896-08-01
Duluth Trades Assembly.
HUNTERS HALL,


July "a, SO.
Meeting called to order by Presi-
dent Robert Haire. All the newly
elected officers we're present.
The following credentials were
presented and delegates obligated:
L. T. Rutter, Gus Kohagen and John
H. Johnson, pressmen; Thomas
Lyons, typographical; Walter John
son, woodworkers; Tim Sheehan,
journeymen plumbers; NJ. Sullivan,
Louis Bye and J. H. Schnitz>
freight handlers; James Owens, AL.
Starbard, electrical workers; 7.
Minder, butchers.
The committee appointed at the
last meeting to investigate the Gre
dentials of Thomas Forrestan re-
ported favorably and Mr.. Forrestall
was duly obligsted.
REPORTS OF UNIONS.
AmalgamatedA Association of Iron
and Steel Workers, absent; bakers,
absent; BARRIERS, all right, boycott
on Sullivan doing excellent work;
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Hope They Will.
The Railway Age says:

The Railway Age says:
"If there is any railway man who
has even the remotest idea of join
ing the ranks of the silverites, let
him clearly understand this fact,
viz: That no matter what railway
he works for, that company will
probably in six months after the
free coinage Of silver, and certainly
in year or two, be unable to meet
it's interest payments and will go in
to bankruptcy"
Let 'em go into bankruptcy; the
sooner the better, then the people
can reclaim their own and run them
in the interest of all and not for the
benefit of few. Vote for free silver.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1896-08-01
Hammond for Governor.

The socialist labor party has
nominated William B. Hammond
for governor of Minnesota. Mr..
Hammond is the able and faithful
secretary of the State Federation of
Labor. He is an old and active
member of Typographical union
No. AZ. and is known and respected
by union men all over the state.
All who are willing to help in any
way in his campaign are requested
to send their names to the general
secretary of the state committee,
A. H. LEE,
No. 2818 Clinton av., Minneapolis.
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ed good progress. They asked the
sentiment of the assembly in re-
gard to place for holding picnic.
After some discussion it was voted
to leave the matter in the hands of
the committee.
The following were appointed to
act as credentials committee:
Messrs. Meagher, Mcdonald and
Timlin.
A communication was received
from the International BARRIERS
Union explaining the Duluth bar
bers' trouble in very clear man.
ner, and asking the cooperation of
the assembly and all union men
and their friends. The assembly
again pledged their unanimous
support.
There was considerable discus
sion over a motion that a commit
tee be appointed to invite the city
band to send delegates to the as
sembly. The talk became very
warm. National Organizer Weber
was called upon to give his opin-
ion about the trouble that existed
between the Musicians League and
the American Federation of Labor.
The motion was defeated.
On motion of Delegate Cobb the
secretary was instructed to notify
the chamber of commerce of the
withdrawal by the assembly of it's
membership.
The following bills were ordered
paid: J. NJ. Murray, 1854; r. H.
Haire, salary, $500.
The assembly then went into ex-
eCutive session..
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ordered me to fire and when / re-
fused to do SO he discharged me
and refused to pay me on arrival
at Buffalo. He had no right to
do so, as I signed articles for the
round trip, not as fireman, but as
water-tender. I felt rather blue,
you can imagine, being in a strange
city and without cent or a friend.
as thought, but did not lose any
time fretting over my trouble.
found United States marshal as
soon as possible and he served
papers on the officers of the boat
and tried to tie it up until they
should do me justice, but through
a little trickery they got her
away. The. superin tendent ap-
peared, however, before the
United States commissioner to
show cause why I was discharged,
but as there was no one from the
boat to give testimony the case was
postponed until next Tuesday when
the boat will be here again. The
marshal and attorney who have the
case see that am all right and
think that they will do all that they
can to get all that am entitled to,
l: e. pay tor round trip also tor my
delay here, and transportation back
to Duluth.
After doing business with the
marshal my next move was to find
some one to feed me and give me a
place to sleep; so 1 began to look
for A. r. u. men and who do you
suppose I found; Brother Roy
Goodwin of the national A. r. u.
and about 400 followers, and they
are helping me out. Isn't that good
luck? Roy wants me to go to 81
mira, N. Y, and organize there, and
az shall be here in this locality
for week, think will go.
You may publish this letter if you
like and when L return to Duluth
will give you information about
Jim Hills line that will make inter-
esting reading for the subscribers
of the Labor World. With regards
and best wishes am
Yours fraternally,
ELLIS B. HARRIS.
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Vi ., oOoOAAI, NOOpCA0, uuAA, AAAPOAA1A
boycott doing good work; carpent-
ers, good, membership increasing
rapidly; cigarmakers, business fair,
pushing label with good success;
city firemen, absent; cooks, absent;
draymen, quiet; electrical workers,
dull; journeymen horseshoers, ab-
sent; longshoremen, absent; lath-
ers, absent; laundry workers, bust
ness good, are going to admit girls
to the union; musicians, prospects
bright; printers, all right; painters,
absent; plasterers, quite fair;
plumbers, fair; pressmen, absent;
Scandinavian typographical, ab-
sent; stonecutters, trade good; saw
mill men, all working, union grow
ing fast; street car employees, all
right; steamftters, absent; Super
ior assembly delegates, absent;
tailors, all right, working boycott
on Brenton & Bleck; timers, fair;
theatrical, union in good shape,
boycott still on Lyceum; walters,
all right, four restaurants have not
signed scale yet; woodworkers, fair,
freight handlers, just organized in
good shape.
The floor was given Mr.. Frank J.
Weber, general organizer American
Federation of Labor. Mr.. Weber
made an excellent talk along the
line of trades unions and showed
wherein the organization had &C.
complished great good and were on
the right road for still better re-
suits. The emancipation of the
wage workers was not far distant
and the reign of the brotherhood
of man would soon be ushered in.
A vote of thanks was rendered Mr..
Weber for his encouraging and in
structive talk.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The organization committee re-
ported that the freight handlers
were organized, also the grain
trimmers, and the prospects we're
good for organizing the coal ham,
dlers.
The grievance committee reported
that the lathers' trouble had been
settled satisfactorily.
The committee to assist the bar
bers reported good success with
the boycott on Sullivan's shops.
The committee appointed to see
city band about being represented
in the assembly reported that the
musicians were willing to become
affiliated.