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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16

the pin feathers, and mind You don't
leave one large enough for grandma's
sharpest glasses to spy All, I knew
what good times meant in those days!"
"Well, it does seem good, must say
said Miss Hannah, setting the fowl and
some old pans beside her companion,
ito have somebody interested in what's
going on and to speak a word back to
you. It's dreadful lonesome when you
say something bright not to have soul
to know it. Well now, you feather him,
and I'll 60 right to stirring UP mince
meat and making those pies. They're
better, think, kept few days, don't
you? And I'll put on the cranberries
and let 'em stew slow and all down to
jelly. Some folks just cook 'em up like
apple sass and leave it. Bah! faint
fit to eat. Folks used to know how to
cook, Cynthy Ann-at Thanksgiving
time anyway
Amid this unusual ripple of talk a
small boy made his appearance, with
wondering eyes, and nose tilted high as
though to take up all the savory odors
that filled the kitchen air.
"Oh, it's you, is it. Benny?" Miss Han
nah said, peering over her glasses.
''Yes'm," the boy returned promptly,
holding out a grimy envelope. Here,
ma sent you your interest" and then his
eyes wandered to the steaming pies just
placed on the table, with look that
told how his boyish mouth watercd for
them.
Miss Hannah drew her second pair of
glasses down from her forehead to their
proper position, and. opening the ell
velope, counted the money
''rhree twos is six, and four ones and
six make ten, and two silver ones make
H." Then she counted it over, begin
ming with the silver this time. 'It's
all right" she announced then, slipping
the envelope into her prcFet. ''You can
go now, and tell your ina so. Here, you
can have an apple to eat on the way
and the boy with a scant thank you,''
slowly backed out the door, beginning,
however, quick run as soon as he was
outside the gate.
''Seraph1l hear all about it now,''
Miss Hannah said to herself.
But some way the work went on more
quietly after this. The truth was, the
timid little Cynthy Ann was making up
her mind to the doing of a disagreeable
duty.
'Hannah," she broke, out at last,
''ain't you going to invite Seraph and
her family here to Thanksgiving? You
and l can't ever eat all this stuff
I'm thinking of it, yes" was the
answer that almost took her breath
away.
"Oh, knew it! knew you would,
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A Prospective Case for the Coroner
But Nobody Died.

A fTOSpeCtAVe NAoS AVE sAA~
But Nobody Died.
Two flashy colored boys stood in the hot
sun in front of the railway eating house ana
looked at each other with their eyes rolled
sideways. 'Look hyah, You piece o. dahlS
meat, I got some bone-handled trouble In
my pocket waitin' faw you if you even come
round that baby tryin' to undamine me! .
"Slow up, boy! You's on a sippey road,
an if you don't drive caihful you going to
fall right in dat ditch, fus thing you knows.
Don't get me stahted, coon! Don t rouse
me! I wouldn't like to do it, but could
JUS lay hold of yo' dahk body and cut 1t
up into rubbah balls. amt used dat razah
faw whole week now, an it's gettln un.
easy. 1 can feel it movin in my pocket an
sayin': 'Mistah, let me get out an DO
someping."
"LooE heah, you bettah sing dat razah to
sleep, 'kase you evan reach faw it you jes' see
whole atmosphere full O. niggah wool,
striped shirt, and blue cloze. Yes, sch, you'd
have to be geth'd up in basket. got a
piece O. shiny hadwaih in my pocket, an
it sings sweet an low, and evy time it
speaks to you it hans you apound O lead.
"Hush, coon, 1 really love trouble"
Don't staht nothin' less you want to
lose money faw yo' folks Costs money to
plant coon, yes, sch. You don't get dem
sivah- handled boxes faw nothin', no, sch.
Got any O. dem papah cigahs, Henry?"
Henry reached for his package Of cigar
cites, and the traveller, who had been wait
ing to see murder done, gave an exclamation
OF disgust and walked into the railway sta
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16
AN INSPIRATION.
She Would Show Her Strawberry
Mark for Identification.


"There," she said as she finally got the
check properly indorsed, and handed it to
the paying teller; "Pd like to have the
money, please"
The young man scanned it carefully, and
then looked at her. :
us there anything wrong with it?' she
inquired, apprehensively.
mo; l am sure it's all right. ONLY we
have our rules here, and before we can let
identified"
But the friends am visiting took trim
morning"
"Then you will have to wait till to-mor-
row." '1
"But I need the money to do some shop.
I'm very sorry"
ITS absolutely necessary to be identi.
fed: she asked, plaintively.
absolutely"
:, "Wel!, I suppose can manage it. Will
the bank be open for an hour?''
eyes,"
'"Then I'll hurry home and put on nv
evening gown. It's great deal of trouble,
but it's the only. way, and Pm glad I hap,
pened to think of it,
II don't quite understand"
."Why, ! have a strawberry mark on my
right shoulder: and everybody who has read
anything at all knows that there isn't any
better Identification than a strawberry
mark. washington Star.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16
why Some Men Are Weary.

A. good many hundreds and even thou.
sands Of long husbands can bear
sorrowful testimony to the fact that this is
the sort of catechism the wives of their
bosoms subject them to every time they put
on their hats to 60 out in the evening:
where are you going?"
"Oh, I'm going out for few minutes"
"Where?"
-Oh, nowhere in particular"
"What for?"
ooh, nothing"
why do you go, them"
..M M 1 wan, want to go, that's why"
II don't know that do"
.. Rahy, do you go, then?'
Because what?"
"Well, simply because"
~t'No.''
Glow long?''
Il don't know"
..zA4ny,tbody going with you?" u
"Well, it's strange that you can't be con.
tent to stay at home few minutes. Don't
be gone long, will you?''
e1See that you don't.''
Inns is the reason so many marriages are
q dead flat fzzle and failure Philadelnhia
Times. 'A10
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16

Hannah! You're too good to hold spite
longer
No, amt, not a bit; but told you,
didn't !, that the Lord was a leading
me to see duties. amt no believer in
signs and things, Cynthy Ann,'' Miss
Hannah went on after a little, ''but last
Sunday, I'm free to tell you. was
troubled in my mind beyond anything
l remember before, even when was
converted, and 1 asked the Lord for q
sign; and then put my finger in the
Bible and opened it, and what read
was, in Deuteronomy, like this: that if
there was poor man among our
brethren. or needy, we was to open our
hand and to give to him. And now T
don't dare do anything else, you see,'
and Miss Hannah really looked relieved
at this confession of faith" +.
THE Lord be praised!" calculated
Cynthy Ann; it seemed to be a way Of
hers. Have you invited them yet:"
NO" curtly..
-. ,"'Oh! wouldn't they enjoy thinking Of
il, and kind of getting ready?" She
lged, timidly, - ',<ss
"cynthy Ann" and Miss Hannah spoke
slowly, Il do not think best to make
~ too easy. and pleasant. Sarah was %
member, and she had no right to marry
4 M man n who wasn't: She must suffe
her sin still. I shall ,not invite her until
Wednesday afternoon. 4 ,.sz sss
|5.s1f we. could imagine an ..avenging
angel, with thin, gray hair drawn into
q tight pug, two pair of spectacles
pushed high on forehead, and lips set
close, Miss Hannah might have served
for the character at that moment. }, But
II spite Of herself she grew gentler with
every hour until 81 Thanksgiving One
cannot cherish love in the heart With
out its showing of course 1T was like
the asters Seraph's youngest girl
brougg ht all the choicer for being So
Hate. 81: ss
For they all came, 81 course, shabby
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16
but clean-and hungry. .aThe four chill

o@' SAS"A anu hungry. line Tour chill
dren really seemed hollow, clear to their
boots" as Miss Hannah said afterward.
T But that was after she had had the
pleasure of filling them up Then when
they had gone out into the soft Indian
summer for a play, the three elders
drew their chairs together, and talked,
at first hesitantly, then more and more
earnestly, drifting back to the days of
their childhood and youth, when they,
too, had dreamed and hoped and
planned. And as they talked the tones
grew softer, sometimes even tremulous.
Il should have prayed to die long
ago." the sad-eyed mother said, If it
hadn't been for the children. | amt of
much use to them though. Nothing but
"a old string that holds them together"
II am not even an old string,' Miss
Hannah said, "but sereph, III join
myself to you after this, and
we'll tie together" and then some
way, the two wrinkled hands came
together in long clasp; and then,
presently, there was slipped from one
to the other, the same grimy envelope
Benny had brought.
Il never meant to keep it, MissRan-
nah said. Get a comfortable shawl. or
shingles. or anything. And the note,
Seraph; see; it won't ever trouble YOU
any more,'' and lifting the stove lid.
Miss Hannah laid on the Goals yellow
paper, that both watched shrivel to
ashes. "Iou see, Seraph, I'm bound to
have one real Thanksgiving while I'm
in the flesh; and ever since asked the
Lord about it, He seems to open the way
wider and wider, till l most feel as
though 1 should be singer yet and a
player of instruments, I'm getting so
full. Cynthy AIMS going to stay, so I'll
have face looking out of the window:
for me, and that Ruth of yours must
have some doctoring; = and Benny's
bright and will pay fo1' schooling; and
Sammy, too; and as for little Katy
well-she's just as cunning as need be.
Think of her bringing me bouquet.
Out of her own head, too. Seraph.
guess you've seen your worst days.
When the Lord really calls on Hannah
Litchfield to help do a thing, She usually
expects to hold up her end to the best of
Ter ability. And she's going to now"
The voices dropped into silence The
short day was dying in the west in a
flush of golden glory, through which
the sun sent back his rosy promises of
another perfect coming. The children
came through the gate and up the walk.
''And [ shall call her Aunt Hannah"
little Katy was piping in her childish
treble, "'cause she's just the sweetest
lady most ever see.'
"Sweetest!" and Miss Hannah's lip
curled scornfully. then gently softened
into smile. well, let her think so.
The Lord and little child may make
her so~yet. They have done many a
miracle in this world"
The flush in the west decpened to
purple, then faded into a somber gray.
The mountain side was lost in shadows.
The children, tired with play, dropped
down on the broad door stone and
talked softly. And within, three
women, worn and weary in many bat
tie of life, sat close together, and each
heart sent up voice of thanksgiv-
ing for the gifts of Love the day had
ught.-Howe Benning, in Chicago
Advance.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16

Cynthy Ann, and stay awhile" Miss
Hannah said to gentle, faded little
woman who came stifny to meet her.
care you willing?"
''The Lord be praised!" was the an
swer given through tears. "He knew
twas hard trusting Him in this place,
SO He's going to brighten it up for me- -
"And you are not coming back again,
not while live" Miss Hannah said, as
they wound their way among the hills.
'You can't exactly be said to be rela-
tive, though my grandfather's wife was
your step-grandfather's sister. But it. s
been given to me to see that it's nigh
enough relation for the Lord to find a
duty in it. And, Cynthy Ann, now that
I'm getting old and gray, I guess it's
about time for ME to be looking up my
duties" she admitted, grimly.
That was all the confession Miss Han
nah could be expected to make. Her
nature would be one rather to do than
to talk. III
And all that day and the two follow
ing the small, tidy house witnessed
'>etSA AA1C <AA~k ACC1h1lJ StS ~ AdU 11OC SCSu
Tor many a year. II &ssEs5.~s>. a#& =.
SIT seems too good to be true" Gym
thy Ann said that afternoon, as she sat
by the window looking down the wind
ing, stony road, placidly stoning raisins.
a'..To be out Of sound Of Marin Becker
scolding, and % getting ready for a
Thanksgiving dinner. i haven't seen
one, no nor smelled one-and think
the smells most as good as the eating,
don't you, Hannah Pin 20 years" II
1--WE smelled them in that time, " re
turned Miss Hannah shortly but
that's as deep as it went, I guess.
mean to feel it this time . If /:
~ Let me pick that rooster, Hannah, z
Cynthy Ann said the next morning as
the devoted bird took a hot water bath.
just what I'm fit for, a sit tin down
job. And it makes me think Of ma,
Emore'n so years ago md how she dsay:
CynthyyI Ann, YOU ma look out
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16

mountain road that led from the church
in the village by four miles of sandy
incline up to his own slab barn. Miss
Hannah, alone on the seat of her high
buggy, gave an occasional flick with
the whip, but in a meditative manner
as though out of some inner mood.
They were having "an uncommon
spell of weather" this fall, so the old
men said. It was the Sunday before
Thanksgiving, and yet the soft haze in
the air, the quiet through which an occa-
sional drifting of ruslting leaf or over
ripe nut sounded softly, made it seem
more like October than late November
day.
There was faint whistle through the
sere leaves of a small weedy cornfield
she was passing. The shocks were
leaning as though stacked by incom-
petent hands.
Hope Seraphll get her corn in be-
fore snow flies" Miss Hannah grum-
bled, hitting Tom so briskly as to sur
prise him into an effort at trotting.
Then she turned her eyes resolutely
away from the rickety house beyond,
standing half way up a bare, stony
hin, and the faded, sad-eyed woman in
the door looked after her longingly,
and lifted the corner of her apron to her
face.
Hannah amt ever going to forgive
me- she said, weakly, to her oldest, Il
sickly girl of IA.
why, what'd you do, map
"lt's mostly guess what didn't do"
was the answer. "Hannah's dreadful
smart, and she hain't no patience with
those that amt like her Then your pa
was sickly like you, and died, and she
didn't like that; though can't for the
life of me see how he was to blame.
He couldn't helpit. But Hannah called
him lazy. And we owe her, too, you.
know"
SHOULD think we did," broke in a
boy Of IL. Don't we have to most kill
ourselves every year picking berries to
pay the old interest. Wait till get to
be a man and I'll pay off her 5000; see
il l DON'T -
II guess you will, Benny" said his
mother, admiringly. The boys ambi-
tions were a never-failing wonder to his
mother and sister.
"Ma, did you know next Thursday is
Thanksgiving day?" asked younger
boy.
What difference does that make to
us?'' was the mothers weary rejoinder.
Its many year since I've seen q
Thanksgiving day. I guess the Lords
forgotten us, or else we're too bad for
Him to care for. I don't know what
we've done, for sure. Mebbe it's like
Hannah. He hain't no patience with:
folks that's down and good for nothing.
Anyway, He hain't thought of us in a
good while" y" :. IT s-.s
Miss Hannah, going on her way,
might have been shocked if she had
heard; these sentiments from the lips. of
her cousin Seraph. She always went
to church, rain or shine, although old
Capt. Skinner said miss Hannah could
hear;ithe greatest amount of sermons,
and not one of them stick to her any
more than water to a ducks back
Yet he would have been mistaken this
time. -- . &, Ia TX K . :.5F 4. 4 r
There's no use talking had been
the sturdy words that had pricked
through her armory of selfshness, "of
keeping Thanksgiving - unless you've
got the Lords love in your hearts, and
let it3run over, as He did, toward those
around you. And you never can make
q re:thinggs Of 1t while vow cherish an
a1nforgiying feeling for 4 human SOUL
& or hold back a hand I hat ought to be
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16
A Careful borrower.

'Pa sent me over to borrow your lawn
mower. An he says wouldn't you prefer to
sharpen it yourself?"
"Why should prefer to sharpen it?''
Cause pa says he is so awkward about
such things an he might turn the EDGE
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16

Almost anybody can own horse and
Democrat.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16
OF the Modern Duel.

First Second-I think the swords have
soaked long enough in the antiseptic com
pound.
Second Second..I think 50. Did you scat
eyes, and I burned sulphur in the
Good. How about the bushes?"
"!hey have been sprayed with that No.
deodorizer. Did you sprinkle the lawn"
YES. I used the camphorated wash"
mospheric purifer?",
II think so. Onesmoment- you kindle
the fire under the medcated bath?''
Il did. And | also put the hot water bot
ties on the portable furnace and set the
"Then think we are ali ready"
IT think so. Messeurs, we are quite
ready.'2Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16
Her Mistake.

Your wife doesn't seem to improve in
health?"
"No; as fast as she gains strength, she
uses it up telling people what is the matter
with her." Chicago Record
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16


flow?
Docs the light when the morning uncloses
Count the leagues of it's flight to the plain:
Does the sky call the roll of the roses
That hold up their lips for its rain:
God is never at loss with His plenty,
And Nature, His handmade. no more
Ripens sweets for the feast of the dainty
Than bread for the fare of the poor.
TITS loan with no burden thereafter,
IT'S grace never measured nor weighed
If the banquet turns weeping to laughter
The debt of the eater is paid.
O Goodness 50 grand In its doing!
Are there gluttons who starVe at its
board:
Craven souls, whose Unsuitable suing
Has poisoned the comforts they hoard,
Who, insane with the joy of receiving.
Are glad for no sake but their own,
Who are deaf to the song of thanksgiving
And tOngueless to utter it's tone?
Give US want, give us nothingness rather
Than this: better never be born
Than to harvest the fields of our Father
And leave Him unthanked for the corn.
The just will pay measure: forsmdasure
And the selfish give love for a fee:
But they squander an infinite treasure
Who sin against love that Is free.
Theron Brown. in N. Y. Independent.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16
Hoods. Sarsaparill'
MURDER POSTPONED.

Hoods Pills cure all liver Ills. Is cents
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-11-16
NEGLECT is SUICIDE.
Dunnore That Suffering ~
to

If you were drowning and friendly hands
refused it, you would be committing suicide!
Yet that is precisely what women are dol
almost dead with misery, yet refuse to grasp tt
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-28
Ii Hung Chang's Surprise.

The feature of English life which most
astonished Lii Hung Chang and his com
panions was the evening dress of English
women. A member of the ENJOYS suit
thus recorded his impressions before sail
ing.
81 was much surprised at the reception
given by an English nobleman to see ladies
with uncovered shoulders, arms and neck
l was still more surprised to see gentle
men take ladies arms, because in China
taking "a lady's arm, or even shaking
hands, is not known. The question has
been asked me many times why the Chi
nese never wear gloves, whereas in Eng
land it is the custom to cover the hands
with gloves in genteel society. But it
seems to me so very strange to cover the
hands and expose the arms neck and
breast L feel that L would rather that
Chinese ladies did not wear gloves than
that they should show their bare arms and
chests New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-28
The Longest Railroad Bridge.

The longest railroad bridge in the
world is that recently completed at
Czernoveda, Roumania. 1t crosses the
Danube and thus shortens the railroad
journey from London to Constantinople
about sixteen hours. The length of
this structure is 49, 25 feet, or good
two miles and half. There is one
span, in the middle of the river, $40
feet long, and four more each having a
length of 445. The other spans are
still shorter. The chief rivals of this
structure are the Tay bridge, in Scot
land and the Mississippi bridge, at
Cairo. The length of the former is
1925 feet and that of the latter is
10,700 feet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-28
Only a Plain Sinner.

He was just common sinner,
And he'd buy tramp dinner
And he'd sort o. try to put him on his feet;
An Teller might be needy,
An his raiment worn an seedy,
Yet he'd stop an visit with him In the street.
He made no ado about it
Wouldn't brag around nor shout 1t,
Yet he did a heap to help his fellowmen
When he'd find fallen brother
In some easy way or other,
He would make him organize himself again.
He had money an he spent It.
Ere he gave away or lent it;
Seemed ez If the more he lost the more he got,
Made all sorts o. big donations,
Helped support his poor relations,
And he bought an orphan school house an lot
Never heard o. him a-shoutn'
Ner asettin' round a-spoutin'
Bout the everlastin wickedness o. things;
But he just we t on a findin'
Deeds to do an never mindin'
Much about a crown er harp with golden strings,
Yet the deacon's folks dts very
Hard to say it), they was merry
When at last death came an caught him in tn
lurch.
For they knowed the devil got I'm
An 1t served i'm right, dod rot i'm
L. A. W. Bulletin.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-28

In the days before railways had pene-
trated the wilds Of Galloway, Mr.. Light
body was spending n night In country
inn. The room allotted to him was Il
large double bedded one. So soundly did
he sleep that he was quite unaware that
the neighboring bed had become occupied
by another belated travellers neither did he
hear the report of pistol shot in that
quarter.
He was only aroused by affrighted serv-
ants pouring into the room and informing
him, TO his dismay, that his companion
had committed suicide. Rather alarmc
Mr. Lightbody's remark va For God
sake, keep the breath in him till he says
lidna dae 1t. "-London Tit-Bits.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-28
A Bright RetOrt.

The other day Representative Davis
of Florida went to Speaker Reed with
an appeal. He wanted to get consider
alton for bill making some improve.
ment in river in his State. Speaker
Reed looked at him with bland smile.
l am sorry" he said, "to see you
joining the procession which is not
happy unless it is taking money out Of
the treasury"
But this is only $50, OOO," pleaded
Mr.. Davis.
Well" drawled the Speaker, "that
is good deal for district where ALI.
gators form the largest part OF the pop.
ulation. New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-28
Greek In Greece.

Professor Basil L. Gildersleeve of Johns
Hopkins university says of his tour through
Greece Il found that with my kp9ylsdge
of ancient Greek it was no trouble for re
to read the newspapers and the signs along
the streets, but the case was different with
regard to the spoken language, which is
also the language of poetry. Two influ-
ences are actively at work with the Ian
guage now, one seeking to Archaic ito
get back to the classic-while the other de-
sires to substitute the modern colloquial
form for the older tongue New York
Tribune