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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-17

he said one day, looking across the
same purple hills. "But mebbe it's all
for The best; it's all for the BEST"
Godfrey Dillingham;, with all his
faults, was not stingy, and the GER
tain, generous checks that came from
his hand to the Tracy family began to
have their effect.
Tho term of shiftlessness that had
been applied to Ephraim for so many
years gradually lifted, and a certain
air CT prosperity began to pervade
the hitherto bare little dwelling. But
the cup had it's bitter drop, you may
be sure, for the Tracys never forgot
that the giver of it all despised them in
his heart, and they would gladly have
returned to the pinch of poverty
again, could they but have had their
Lizzie back.
So the years rolled by, bending old
Ephraim Tracy's back more and more,
silvering the hair of Eliza beth's moth
er and deepening the childishness OF
Jud's wistfu' eyes.
"Seems like Ephraim's stories amt
nigh so funny as they used to be, said
Elihu Stafford with shake of his gray
head. "Guess he mopes after that gal
of his'n; never's seen the inside of her
house yit. The whole family feel it
pretty much, guess"
"Where does Lizzie live, mother? o.
asked Judson one day. "Can't I 20
there? want to see her."
But his mother had answered him so
sharply, Jud had gone away to his lit
tie room and cried. No one ever spoke
sharply to Judson.
And Elizabeth mourned, too. At
fectionate, dutiful and loving as she
was, the surdering of old ties was
deeply painful. She wanted her moth
err; her dear old, patient ia Their; simple
Jud with his pure, child's soul; she
wanted them all, even Jim and An
drew. Godfrey Dillingham; read his
wife's heart we'll, marked the sadness
of the sweet face, but he kept silent.
November with it's short days passed
rapidly away, until it lacked but two
weeks till Thanksgiving.
Ephraim Tracy came home one
night bearing live turkey.
"For the lands sake, father" cried
his wife. as she came out to investigate
the niuf1ed gobble, what did you get
a live one for?"
"This is for Lizzie, mother" replied
the CID man. 1T got it early SOS to fat
ten it myself for Thanksgiving. She
can buy plenty of 'em, but she'll relish
the one father sends her most"
Mrs. Tracy brushed away sudden
tear p,
| $50 she would, father" she an.
swered. softly. Ill.,. ......
1 So the turkey was penned securely
in the yard and fed 50 much by atch
full Jud that it threatened to burst
before the eventful day arrived. -
i Elizabeth, in her home, seemed tc
. grow paler and slighter these short
November duys. Her husband, coming
homo one night, found her shiverine
over the library, fire. +.
''What is it, Elizabeth?'' he asked
anxicusly. :#
\ II don't know" answered his wife
!. her, teeth chattering, "only I'm 81
cold. Godfrey"
II So cold. He went up to her ana
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worthless a. Re was, she was ii,
child, and Dillingham; had taken her
from him, He did not eat any sup-
per that night, and after Z time crept
quietly off to bed.
Next to hisfather, poor Jud mourned
after Elizabeth most, refusing to be
comforted.s Even the most dazzling
bits of green and blue glass, brought
to him by his affectionate little play
mates, failed to please him, and for
many weeks the playhouse was de-
serted. The little fellow would rove
in and out, q patient sorrow written
in the childish eyes.
'Where's Lizzie, mother 2" he would
ask. IT believe she's dead"
And his mother, hastily wiping her
eye with corner of her apron, would
always answer: ". - reg
"Dead-yes, she is to us, Juddie."
And Jud would sigh, and the sun
shining on the bits of broken glass
failed to comfort him.
It had been seven years now since
Elizabeth's wedding day. Only rarely
did she visit home, and even then the
visits were not satisfactory. Elizabeth
knew, and they knew. Old ,Ephraim
Tracy never, went to the store when
Lizzie came home; he would sit in his
armchair and watch his beautiful
daughter with adoring eyes. Once he
came up and took the slender white
hand, sparkling with rings, into his old
knotted ones.
"Only to think of a Tracy having
rings like that" he said, exultantly.
But Elizabeth suddenly burst into
tears.
I'D give them all, father, if only
you and mother could be with me-
she said.
The old man only pooh-poohed at
this, but it was noticed that he disap-
peared quickly, and some minutes aft
erwards they found him crying softly
in the woodshed. Yet he never seemed
to harbor any ill-will toward his SON.
in-law, but was proud of him in his
quiet, unobtrusive way.
II would like to see Lizzie's house."
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Before Jud could frame an answer
Mrs. Tracy came out and held up the
yellow sheet.
Father, father" she cried, trem.
bling!y, "a dispatch has come from
Dexter, and Elizabeth is dangerously
SICK
jim and Andrew went too.
"If Godfrey Dillingham; thinks I'm
going to stay away, he's mistaken, y
said Jim, with big lump in his throat
''She's my sister and I've right to see
her"
*'Ard so have l." cried Andrew
brushing his shirt sleeve across his
tear-illed eyes.
They reached Dexter that night, but
she did not know them. Jud alone
was shut out. and wandered at his own
sweet will up and down the beautiful
rooms that seemed like fairy-land to
him. All that night Jim and Andrew
walked restlessly about, but Ephraim
Tracy sat, pathetic, bowed figure, by
his daughters bed. His son-in-law had
asked him to his house at last, but
alas-for this. But it was the fathers
hand that administered the needed
nour;shment, the fathers hand that
smoothed the damp and curling hair
the fathers hand that held the pale
and wasted one, and Godfrey Dilling-
ham, as he watched too, for the first
time in his life saw, in the despised old
man something to revere.
Night passed, and it was the day
before Thanksgiving. The doctor came,
and with his practiced eye detected a
change. He looked across to where
Eliza beth's husband stood, gray and
haggard, awaiting his verdict
dillingham;" said he, gently, "to.
morrow will be Thanksgiving day.
Thank God for your mercies. for your
wife will live"
A low sobbing broke in upon them
1t was old Ephraim Tracy, down upon
his knees, his face hidden in the COW
erlet. Though the tears were raining
down his own face, Godfrey Dilling-
ham went over to the old man and lift
ed him as he would child.
oOlAS, AdCucE, Nc "uISpeTeO
brokenly, "ccme."
The afternoon of Thanksgiving day
Elizabeth lay on her pillows exhaust
ed, worn, but at peace with all the
world.
Sand you're all here" she whis-
pered happily. Father, mother, An.
drew, jim and dear old Jud. oh, I've
been so sick, but this repays ME for
it al!."- She smiled at them, her old
sweet smile, and then she murmured
kiss me, all of you, for I am So
happy =. =
They kissed her, as she asked, with
full and thankful hearts, and quietly
went away. Jud's turn came last
The great, honest fellow stood owe,
her, his childish face alight with {
wonderful joy. ~
'You are to get well, Lizzie" he
whispered, rapturously; "and oh,
say, Liz, amt it all grand p
His sister raised her feeble hand anc
laid it against the loyal cheek.
| "Grand-aye, that it is, Juddie," she
echoed, drea mily.
The room was quiet now, with only
her husband beside her. Elizabeth
turned her eloquent eyes to his. Thos,
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the broad avenue that led to the Dill
whirled and eddied and settled with
many melancholy futter into their
annual graves, while the tall trees
tossed their bare arms about, as if
lamenting the loss of these CHEEKY
little harbingers of spring and sum-
mer. In vain; winter stood rejoicing
upon the threshold of autumn's de-
cline, impatient to begin his reign.
In the house beyond, however, all
was bright and charming with glowing
fires and soft, mellow lights. Godfrey
Dillingham; and his wife sat in the
library, she with beseeching look in
her gentle eyes, he with slight an
noyance in his.
$50 you wish me to invite your peo-
pie here for Thanksgiving" he quer-
led, almost harshly. Il tell you, Eliz-
abeth, it's impossible.'
''But why, Geoffrey?" returned his
wife, with little catch in her soft
voice, ''only think, we've been mar
ried seven years, and you've never
asked them here once;" a moments
silence. "And they feel it," she add
ed, in faltering tone, land so do I.
After all, they're my parents, dear"
Godfrey Dillingham; frowned and
turned again to his desk. Scratch
went the pen with rapid strokes, then
1t stopped suddenly, and wheeling
around abruptly, he faced his wife.
"And if they are,'' he began, II feel
7that I have repaid them in a measure
for the loss of you; from poverty
I've placed them in comparative ease.
What more do they want?" he demand
eed. irritably.
But you forget, Geoffrey," returned
his wife, gently. "They love me, too"
Her husband pushed his papers aside
impatiently.
IF you please, Eliza beth,'' he said,
CURLY, "well dismiss the subject. As
to Thanksgiving day, I've already in
vited Wilson and his family to din
ner." Wilson was his law partner.
Elizabeth. Dillingham; smothered a
heavy sigh and rose to leave the room:
her hand was on the door when her
husband called her. 49,.
"Come here, Eliza beth" he said, per-
emptorily, yet with nameless ten
derness. She came and stood near
him, slight, beautiful figure, in her
clinging gown of black. He drew her
down upon his knee and kissed her
with sudden passion. "You know I love
you. child" he said, pressing the fair
head closely to his breast. Gam no !:
enough?"
"But I want them, too," cried his
wife, with quivering lips.
The tenderness upon her husba nd 5
face died suddenly away.
'I have told you, Eliza beth,'' he an
swered Ecoldly, turning to his desk.
Truly heredity isn't everything.
That any thing so beautiful as Eliza
beth Dillingham; should emanate from
the Tracy family was little short OF
a miracle. When Godfrey Dillingham;,
at 3s, saw Elizabeth Tracy, at IS, he
loved her. Yes, aristocrat, autocrat
courted and wealthy as he was, some.
thing about her touched a responsive
chord in his heart of hearts, hereto.
fore unreached, and he resolved ia
wi1sher. But her family! He groaned
in spirit AS he thought of allying the
proud name of Dillingham; with that
of sTracy-but Elizabeth was so beau.
tifu1. and ~ pure as SIC was lovely
The second true he ever saw hi,
prospective fatherinAsaw, the ole
ftas a q ~ 4
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-17

There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put TO-
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For great many
years doctors pronounced it local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable Science has proven
catarrh to be constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f. j.
constitutional cure on the market It is
taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a
teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., To-
edo, Q. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-17

"How often" said Miss Miami Brown,
chit do happen dat er thoughtless re-
mark'll Spite de plaisure OBJ er occa-
sion!" 'Yassendeed," replied Erastus
Pinkley. "One O de gues'es at ouab
own table stopped pap right in de
middle O. de kyahvin' ter ak i'm whah
he got de turkey."- IN. w. Times.
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Let All Give Thanks.

Sing sweet thy sweet THANKSGIVING. O.
Soul! and ring. We bells,
Till the world shall catch the chorus and
the anthem heavenward swells!
For His love and for His mercy-for His
cross and Christening rod,
For His tender benedictions, let the whole
world thank its God!
ATLANTA Constitution
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Society Turkey.

Billings-Ah! Society turkey to-day,
eh?
Mrs. Hashcroft-Why, what do you
mean, Mr.. Billings?
''rhe dressing is the best part of
it."-Indianapolis Journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-17
An Annual Rivalry.

Now that the shadow of Thanks
giving is upon us, the turkey comes
forth and disputes with the proud
eagle the privilege of being considered
the national bird.-Paltimore Amer.
lean.
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Why NOtf

Let us each and all buy two Thanks
giving dinners-the second one for the
stricken family that does not now
see where that dinner is coming from.
IN. Y. Recorder.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-17
Vain Regrets.

TOMMY wish I hadn't eaten Sc
much turkey.
Mother-Why? Do you feel sick?
mo; but I'd like to eat some more"
IN. Y. Truth.
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What better Proaf.

"Confidentially," said the family
friend, tell me, does your husband pos.
sess good Judgment? ''
Well; said she. "I am Ihis wifi.
Stray StorieA
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-17

The Sprangles have been Boosting long
time about their horseless carriage. It turns
out to be only a baby's perambulator.-
ton Transcript.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-17

Mr.: Oldchap-"Are you interested in fos-
sils, Miss Gushley!" Miss Gushley-"Oh-
er-this is so sudden!"-Tit-Bits.
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Not the Dame

Baggs-1t is said that Dame Fortune
knocks once at every mans door,
Jaggs-Well, it was her daughter, Mis-
Fortune, who called on me.-Boston Trav-
eler.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-17

Will it cure? Use St. Jacobs Oil for lame
back and you'll see.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-17

You may be sure Neuralgia will be cured
by St. Jacobs Oil.
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IL }ALElEiEaAk
9Beo 5Ezz
- ! -
u >" 1W$(E% Wis
!: !: ):
,NVNl/AhM 1(N the fields are
~MNNEJ VIZ hard. the skies
-NNXT0G " are gray:
Nh7f Novembers chill Is
in the air;
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day.
The farmhouse stands in sheltered nook.
=. Its walls are filled with warmth and
cheer;
Its fires shine out with friendly look
To welcome all who enter here.
Full forty years have come and gone
Since first this hearthstone's rudy glow,
Fresh kindled, flung it's light upon
Thanksgiving guests Of long ago.
Long was the list Of squires and danes;
From year to year how short 1t grew!
Read out the old, familiar names
They heard here when this house was
new
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, she went the first;
Grandfather?-by her side he rests;
The shade and sunlight, interspersed,
Have fallen long above their breasts.
Our aunts and uncles?-sundered wide,
Their graves lie east, their graves lie
west;
As veteran soldiers SCARED and tried.
They fought their fight. they earned their
rest.
Our father?-dear and gentle heart!
A nature sweet, beloved by all;
How early turned his steps apart
To pass from human ken and call!
Our mother?-brisk and kindly soul!
How brave she bore fate's every frown,
Nor rested till she reached the goal
Where all must lay their burdens down!
Our brother?-toward the setting sun,
From us remote, his home is made,
And many year its course has run
Since here his boyish sports were played.
Put by the book! MY heart is sore.
The night winds up the chimney flee,
The fires within CLEAN as before,
But none are here save you and me!
But, sister, you and again
Will heap the hearth and spread the board
And serve our kindred, now as then,
With all that home and hearts afford.
The scattered remnants of our line,
Well summon meath this roof once more,
And pledge in rare affections wine,
The memory Of those days of yore.
God bless them all-the fond and true!
God keep them all-both here and there,
Until the Old becomes the New,
Forever, in His Mansions Fair!
Marion Hicks Harmon, in Youths Com
panion.
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had set
in as usual, with
dull gray skies
and chilly, pene-
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Moods Pjlls cure all Liver Ills Is cents.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-12
Poultry OH the Range.

Bear in mind that poultry on the
range during the summer are subsist.
ing on products that the farmer cannot
utilize, and at the same time are en-
riching the ground. Ii wire netting
cost four times its present price it
would still pay to fence in liberal
area of ground for II range every two
years. Intelligence should be used in
caring for poultry during the summer,
as we'll as in the winter, and instead
of allowing them to practically run
Wild on the farm they should be con-
fined to ranges where the ground may
be afterward putinto somo crop. They
will pick up insects, destroy weeds by
eating the seed, scratch for worms of
various kinds and add fertility to the
soil with their droppings. Furnish
plenty of pure fresh water, green
foods of the kinds they do not get on
the range, some grain ct night, occa
sionally or regularly as required, and
the fowls will so into winter quarters
in the fall ready for winters work
in egg production, having cost you
comparatively little for food during
the summer. This sort OF care means
profit.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-12

During the first two or three weeks
feed them as often as three times a
day, the food being few bread
crumbs, little corn meal, mixed with
curd made from thick sour milk.
Nearly every morning 1 mix little
black pepper with the food. After u
few weeks 1 add some wheat, and when
the fowls are about three months old,
1 begin feeding them clear grain, CIV
ing them wheat in the morning and
corn at night.
The last two or three weeks before
marketing I feed them all they will
eat. My turkeys are always ready for
the Thanksgiving market, as they are
Matched early, we'll fed, get their
growth, and are ready to be fattened
by the first of October. A turkey will
not fatten until fully grown. Last
year our flock was said to be the finest
in these parts. They averaged nearly
fifteen pounds apiece and were half
hen turkeys. They brought half
cent per pound above the market
price.--M. j. Rice, in Orange Judd
Farmer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-12

The primary cause of the horrible
disaster to the steamship La Bour-
gogne was the fact that it was moving
at high rate of speed in heavy fog.
Very likely this had been the usual
custom of La Bourgogne on previous
voyages. On every such occasion,
however, risk was taken which no
steamship owner has right to take
with the lives Of passengers. Times
without number the risk has been
taken without being attended with the
disaster that always threatens the
steamer moving rapidly in a fog. It
was inevitable, however. that the conf
tinual coquetting with danger must
finally prove disastrous. La Bourgogne
dlsregarded the precaution once, too
often, and the vessel went to the bot
tom, carrying most of Its passengers
with II. Inc making of rapid speed
in foggy weather Is crime not pecu.
liar to La Bourgogne. Nearly all the
ocean liners are guilty of the danger
GUS practice. which they should be
forced to discontinue. The saving Of
time is not of so great Importance that
lives must be sacrificed in order to eff.
feet that end. Safety must be the frrt
condition of ocean travel.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-12
Marketing Early Potatoes.

To those who are unfamiliar with
potato growing, the high prices which
early potatoes command might seem
to make it an object to dig large
part of the crop and market it while
the price is up. But there are several
drawbacks in marketing potatoes
early. The weather is hot, and while
the skins of potatoes are tender, they
will rub off their jackets if handled
freely, and the potatoes are almost
then sure to rot. Hence they are
never sent for or in large quantities.
In digging potatoes carly there is
great waste, as only few of the
largest are marketable size, and those
that will sell would grow still larger if
left few days longer in the hill. We
have seen growers put their hand into
potato hill and pull off those pota.
toes that they found large enough,
leaving the small ones. But this is
only practicable on a small scale.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-12
The EIenhant,s StrensiI,.

If the elephant knew his powe- hs
would be all awkward animal to have
around. Some experiments conducted
in London give an approximate idea
of the great strength of this animal.
dynamometer was attached to a
small carriage, which again was Sc
cured to stakes in the ground by
strong ropes. Two draft horses were
first tried, and their combined effort
was registered in one ton and two
tenths. From the conditions under
which the horses worked the test was
not considered satisfactory. so they
were afterward yoked to a wagon and
the wagon was hitched to the testing
machine. Thus equipped the horses
ran the scale up to 1.6 tons. Then
the male elephant known as "Man-
DARN" was harnessed to the testing
outfit, and registered 1.S5 tons. His
female companion, "Babe," was next
tried. At the first pull she ran the
score up to 3 tons. Stretching her.
self second time, she raised the fig
ure to 3.3 tons. She did not seem to
understand the refusal OF the load to
bulge, for in her previous experience
everything she had tackled had to
give way. Encouraged by her keeper,
she settled down to third pull, with
the result that the dynamometer reg
istered no less than 5.25 tons. In a
subsequent comparison of these tests
with human power, eighty three men
registered 2.7 tons, when the rope
snapped. At the next trial the same
number of men brought the record up
to 81 tons, when the hemp again
parted. with ignominious results to
the operators. Finally 101 men out
did "Babe's" best effort by raising
the pointer to sc ons.--Chicago Rec
ord
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-09-12
Rise of the English Language.

We all know, says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, that the English Ian.
guage has been growing at remark.
able rate during this century, and that
1t has been spreading over the whole
globe. But few, however, really COM
prehend how rapid this growth has
been. At the opening of the century
French was spoken by 100000 peo-
pie, German by 30,O00,0O0, Russian by
30,000000, Spanish by 27,O00,O0O, En-
glish by 21,0OO,00O. and italian by 16,-
100000. To-day English is the Ian
guage of 130,00O,OOO, French of 45,OOO,-
900, German Of 7O000,000, Russian Of
75,000,000, Spanish Of 35,0OO,00O, and
during the present century English has
not only risen from the fifth place to
the first, but has gained enormously on
the rest in relative magnitude. expand
ing from about 13 per cent. of the total
to over 80 per cent. With this increase
Of the English speaking people the Ian
guage itself has kept pace. Concurrent
with this growth of the language there
has been an equal, If not greater in.
crease in knowledge. Three hundred
years ago one man could know all there
was to be known. To-day one man can
know thoroughly only one small branch
Of one science. This Increase of knowl
edge has been most rapid during the
last part of the present century. More
than any other cause, the progress OF
modern invention and science has
brought about an enormous extension
of the language. Thousands Of techni.
cal words and expressions now In com.
mon use would never have been coined
but for the innumerable parts Of the
never ending list of new inventions In
mechanics and discoveries in science
In no better way can this rapid increas,
In knowledge, and thereby In the mum
Der Of words used, be realized than b!
a comparison of the first reference
works with those of the present day.