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Iron County register., 1899-11-30

them. Now don't tell me you are en-
gagged; are your"
Mrs. Powers looked up delightedly;
Miss Matilda smiled and shook her
| head.
You're noti Well, then, will you be
good enough to save your own Thanks
giving dinner till tomorrow, and help
us with ours? There'll be some good
company. I've captured the new
school-teacher, Miss Gibson, and anoth-
er nice girl already. Of course we will
send the horse for your mother"
Thank you, Lottie," said Miss Ma
tilda, in a voice that quavered Just a
trifle. 1--WE shall be. very happy to
come; won't we, mother?"
"Yes, indeed, we WILL" replied the
old lady, very emphatically, and, with
expressions of deep gratitude, Lottie
hurried away.
After helping her mother dress for
dinner, Miss Matilda went to church,
and at the close of the service, which
perhaps no one in the church entered
into with more thankfulness than she
did, she went home with Deacon
Trips family. Miss Gibson also ac-
companied them, and the 'other nice
girl" stenographer who was almost a
stranger in town, and whose heart had
been made warm by the unexpected at
tention, the invitation being the more
welcome from the fact that she board
ed herself.
There were few other guests and the
company was a congeniaI one, all ap-
pearing to enjoy to the full both visit
and dinner. The feast, however, was
not eXtrayagant. Deacon Tripp was
possessed of only moderate means, and
he did not consider it justifiable to go
beyond these, even for Thanksgiving
dinner.
AT table the stenOgrapher monopo-
liZed Mrs. Powers, declaring that she
reminded her of her dear old grand
mother, and Miss Matilda was at iber-
ty to cultivate acquaintance with the
school-teacher who sat beside her.
They got on together very well, indeed,
so well, in fact, that after little chat
with others in the parlor they gravi-
tated together again, and it somehow
came about that, without seeming to be
inquisitive, Miss Gibson knew more
about Miss Matilda's affairs in less
than an hour than did the greater num-
Der of her acquaintances who had
known her more than 30 years.
The next week a new family came to
live in B, Garfield by name, who
were well endowed with this worlds
goods and very fine people withal.
Their house was not quite ready for
them on their arrival, and, while they
were waiting, they stayed at Miss Glib
sons boarding place.
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GUIDED BY INTUITION.
Woman Jumps at Conclusions WitH
out Resorting to Logic
and Wins.

at begin to think there is no limit to wom-
ans intuition. 1t frequently enables her 20
read character on sight, but what gets ns
and strikes me as uncanny is the iact e1as LA
this same intuition projects her knowledge
into the future and makes her about as con-
versant with things to come as Win 'ninSs
past. mar
ket was so active 1 put in hours every Gay Gay
outlook. As the result OF a. eoncluslo1
reached by this careful method L lnsestie1o i1s.
500, made good margins, and was nhany
glad to let go with a loss considerably larger
than my original investment.
During period of confidence ana In t1S
endowment of prospective riches had toIo
my wife of my investment and OF the gooo
things she might expect when the deaf was
closed. 1t gave her the. speculative Iever EYER
and she was bound to make plunge. one
doesn't know what the word stocks means. al1
couldn't figure on the outlook if she had all
the data and slate and pencil. 1et snS
came to me with 500 she had saved in old
teapots and stockings and told me to buy
p o. M. shares. / sneeringly told her that
they were dead and buried; that she might
as well invest in dry oil well or sunlen
ship. But her mind was made up. thougns
the lesson would be a cheap one for her ana
/ obeyed
''Those shares took sudden jump to the the
surprise of everyone and she cleared S2,OOo;
Men don't seem to have any business sense,
she said, when we compared notes. ".
M. stands for pretty quick money, but
stupid man would never see it.
'EHeavens!" Then the Detroit broker who
had been talking dashed to the floor, l5-
cent cigar he had just ht.-Detroit Tribune.
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TASTED LIKE CORK.
The BIuest Thanksgiving the Ola
Gentleman Ever Had, Made so
by Pretty Woman.

''Bluest Thanksgiving [ ever spent?' %
unused the fine old gentleman who has
an unconquerable antipathy to prac-
teal politics. 1T stands out in my
memory like an obelisk on a plain, and
it was not so very long ago, either.
Il had been induced that fall to run
for an important office. 1t was done
against my better Judgment and under
great pressure, but when man enters
such a fight he wants to win. [ was in
a close district and determined to put
up the very best fight that circum-
stances would permit. l advertised at
once for an extra stenographer, and
from the many who responded selected
woman, who justified my immediate
faith in her ability.
''She did all my private correspond
ence, knew as much about the inside of
the campaign as 1 did, worked day
and night with a willingness that was
surprising, and even took from one of
my shrewdest advisers the list of the
voters in the strongest section with
which l had TO contend, with full in
structions as to how the most infuen-
tial persons among them could be won
to my cause. 1t was great work, and yet
I fell several hundred votes short of
the normal party vote.
"My successful opponent lived IN a
neighboring town and graciously in
vited me to be his guest on the follow
ing Thanksgiving. 1t would have
looked surly to refuse, and | went. II
was really an admirable social function,
but the few hours l put in there were
torture. The host met me with hearty
hand clasp. Turning, he said:
My wife Resplendent in satin and
jewels, l saw my stenographer. Love
and war; she murmured. He thinks
1 was visiting my old home in New
England L held my peace, but that
fatted turkey tasted like cork. De
troit Free Press.
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before my eyes. 1 really believe that
is the right way to do. | never saw it
in that light before. I've tried very
hard to believe was going to be able
to get what needed, then waited till
it came before 1 gave thanks for it.
Now, I'm going to begin praising the
Lord that we have received necessary
things, or the money to get them"
All the rest of that day Miss Matilda
| held praise thoughts in her mind. 1t
was a very trying day, too. Miss Bunce
called and said she had decided to let
her dress wait till after the holidays
and Miss Bunce always paid so prompt
| ly, and sometimes even more than the
reasonable price" asked. Then Mrs.
Matthew Slawson came for her jacket,
and declared it would be simply impos-
sible to pay for the making inside of a
month. Miss Selma Pringle next came
with material for dress, but she want
ed it made in a way that would take a
great deal more time than she would
be willing to pay for, as Miss Matilda
knew very well, and Mrs. Crane brought
a dress of her own to be made into one
for Della with the intimation that she
should not want to pay much because
it was 'Only to be made over, you
know"
But through it all the little seam
stress praised the Lord that her mother
and herself had sufficient for their
needs, saying over and over passages
of trust, clinging to them lovingly and
tenaciously; and her faith grew in the
midst of its trials.
When evening came she resolutely
laid aside her work at an early hour.
at is not necessary for me to sew night
as well as day." she declared. 1.-THE
Lord is able to take care of us without
my doing that"
In spite of the discouraging expe-
riences of the day, Miss Matilda lay
down to rest that nj ght feeling happier
than she had in a long time, and her
last waking thoughts were of trust and
praise.
I'm right glad to see you so bright,
Tidy" her mother said the next day
you've seemed sort o low spirited a
good deal o. the time lately. It's wor-
ried me consid 'rable."
''Has it?" smiled her daughter, kiss
ing her wrinkled cheek. I'm sorry
ought not to have been anxious my
self, or to have worried you. The Lord
will provide if we trust Him truly, and
that is what I've made up my mind to
do-no halfway work about it, any
more than I would put that sort of
work into Dress
Several days passed bringing nothing
especially hopeful and much that was
disheartening, to outward appearance,
but Miss Matilda held on. She still
Iron County register., 1899-11-30
OUR FIRST THANKSGIVING.
President WashinEtOn's PrOclama-
ton One Hundred and Ten
Years Ago.

Now, therefore, do recommend and
assign Thursday, the goth day of No
vember next, to be devoted by the peo-
pie of these states to the service of that
great and glorious Being who is the
benefcent author of all good that was,
| that is or that will be; that we may
then all unite in rendering unto Him
our sincere and humble thanks for His
kind care and protection of the people
of this country previous to their be-
coming nation, for the signal and
manifold mercies and the favorable in
Propositions of His Providence in the
course and conclusion of the late war,
for the great degree of tranquility,
union and plenty which we have since
enjoyed, for the peaceable and ra-
tional manner in which we have been
enabled to establish constitutions of
government for our safety and happi-
ness, and particularly the national one
lately instituted, for the civil and re-
ligious liberty with which we are blessed
and the means we have of acquirin 6
and diffusing useful knowledge, and
in general for all the great and va
rious favors which He hath been pleased
to confer upon US.
And also that we may then unite in
most humbly offering our prayers and
supplications to the great Lord and
Ruler of nations and beseech Him to
pardon our national and other trans
gressions; to enable us all, whether in
public or private stations, to perform
our several relative duties properly and
punctually; to render our national govt
ernment a blessing to all the people
by constantly being a government OF
wise, just and constitutional laws, di.
rectIy and faithfully executed and
obeyed; to protect and guide all SOW
ereigns and nations, especially such as
have shown kindness to us, and to bless
them with good government, peace and
concord; to promote the knowledge and
practice of true religion and virtue and
the increase of science among them and
US, and generally to grant unto all man.
kind such degree of temporal prosper
ity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the city OF
New York, the Sd day of October, in
the year of our Lord one thousand sever
hundred and eighty-nine.
G. WASHINGTON
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MATTER FOR CONGRESS.
Pretty Girl with FastidiOus Palate
Makes n Suggestion Regarding
Postage Stamps.

eyes, ten two-cent ones, please" said the
girl with the Dewey button on her jacket
stamps % ps % 'Haven't 1 they G horrid taste?'
she went on, laying her letters on the little
shelf in front of the window and leisurely
putting on the dainty pink bits OF paper;
favors in the glue the same as they do in
ice cream soda or anything like that. /
think it would be awfully nice to buy. ten
cents worth of vanilla two cents, or choc-
olate special deliveries, you know; and if you
wanted revenues, why, they could be, in
high tone favors, tutti-frutti, or caramel, or
California fruit. I think it would be great,
and you'd sell r>ore stamps, too, you know,
cause girls would buy them just to lick off
the fiavors. Wish were man and could go
to congress. I'd fix lots of things up nice.
Good by"
She gave the last stamp pat with her
hand and tripped away, and the young nan
behind the bars at the window sighed and
leaned his weary brow upon his hand.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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CERTIFICATES OF MERIT.
Honors for Brave Men Who Did Wen
Their ENTHUSIASTICALLY n
Little Cash.

Washington, Nov. 25.-Certifcates OF
merit for service during the Spanish
American war have been awarded by
the war department to the following
men:
Private Henry H. Tyler, Co. A, Sec
ond infantry.
Quartermaster Sergeant James ii.
Cooke, Co. B, Third infantry.
Private Alfred C. Petty, Co. H, Thir-
teenth infantry.
QuartermasterSerge Ozrow Gath
er, Troop z, Tenth cavalry.
Trumpeter James C. Mccarthy, Co.
P;
Private Louis A. Silleto, Co. C;
Private Geo. w. Silleto, Co. c.;
Private John NJ. Claxton, Co. b.
Third volunteer infantry.
Private Charles E. Mckinley, Troop
E;
Private Edward J. Albertson, Troop
F;
Private Herbert P. McGregor, Troop
F, First volunteer cavalry.
Sergeant Fred L. Smith, Co. IL,
Thirteenth infantry.
Private James j. Watkins, Co. d,
First California infantry.
Sergeant Henry I. Clotworthy, Co. /;
Private Louis 1. Bigelow, Co. E;
Private Samuel Hickman, Co. #.
First Colorado infantry.
Corporal Joseph S. Oviatt, Co. A;
Private Lawrence B. Conner, Co. f,
First Nebraska infantry.
Quartermaster Sergeant John +.
Wintland, Jr., Tenth Pennsylvania in
fantry.
Corporal VIM. B. Baker, Astor bat
terry.
Corporal James B. Patterson, Co. K,
First Tennessee infantry.
Private Charles Dinner, Co. F, Nine
teenth infantry.
As the above-named are out of the
service, these certificates can not be
delivered. Upon application to the ad-
jutant general of the army, Washing
ton, d. c., they can be procured by
the persons to whom they have been
granted.
Certificates of merit also have been
awarded to VIM. L. Irving, late private
Co D, Third United States volunteer
infantry, who died at Guantanamo,
Cuba, February 10, 1899, and Martin
Madden, late corporal Co. d, Seventh
infantry, who died in ST. Vincent's
hospital, New York city, November 80,
1898.
These can be procured by the rela
tives of these soldiers upon application
to the adjutant general, United States
army, Washington, d. c.
Certificates of merit entitle the hold
ers thereof to two dollars per month
additional pay, from the date of ac-
ton for which they are given to the
date of discharge from the service.
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Women
Would Surg
y Try Mrs.
PfasRkfsasss,S
Me0Esisfe f
They Only
Knew, Says
Mrs King

and received benefit from it at once.
] have taken it ever since and now
have no backache, no pain in nv
side and my stomach and bowels ara
perfectly well. can honestly say that
there is nothing like it. IF could only
tell every woman how much good your
medicine has done me, they would
surely try t."-MARTHAM NJ. .KINe, NosrH
ATTLEBoRo, MASS.
The way women trifle with health
shows a degree of indifference that ia
misunderstanding. Happiness and use
fulness depend on physical health; SO
does a good disposition. Disease makes
women nervous, irritable and snan-
pish. The very effort of ailing women
to be good-natured makes them ner-
vous. Write to Mrs. Pinkham, she wigg
help you to health and happiness.
1t costs nothing togetMrs. Pinkham,a
advice. Her address is Lynn, Mass.
Iron County register., 1899-11-30

( Mrs. Garfield and her daughters
| there were three of them, all arrived at
/ young womanhood-7.ere at once at
| tracted to the bright young teacher,
and they were soon very good friends.
| A day or two after her arrival, Mrs.
| Garfield inquired whether Miss Gibson
could direct her to a competent dress
maker, adding, gracefully: Your
own dresses, if you will pardon my
| freedom, fit so nicely, and are made in
such excellent taste, that l thought you
must know of one"
81 feel flattered," laughed Miss Glib
son, land none the less because l am
my own dressmaker, but | shall be very
happy to refer you to one who, am
sure, is still better" Then she told of
Miss Matilda, her painstaking work,
her small pay and the results, repeat
ing what the seamstress had said about
her inability to slight her work. 81
should make more if l could do that,
but | can't. I've been tempted to some
times, but it doesn't seem right, and L
don't believe l could anyhow. 1t isn't
in me. I've got to take pains"
THANK you, Miss Gibson,' said Mrs.
SuhIO1us 4hlSS ONCIS,
and if her work proves satisfactory, l
will let her have all our dressmaking
besides other sewing and will pay her
reasonably for it. The workman is
worthy of his hire
Il was sure you would" cried Miss
Gibson, her eyes shining, land l know
that she can have enough other work at
the same rates to fill her time. / am
so glad, Mrs. Canfield.'
The next day as Miss Matilda was
finishing Miss Pringle's dress and try
ing to forget the state of the coal bin
while she sang: How firm founda-
ton, ,ye saints of the Lord she was in
terrupted by a gentla knock on the
door. She opened it, and in a few
minutes it seemed to her that she
had at the same time opened the door
into a new life.
Mrs. Canfeld's call did not mean af-
f1uence, certainly, but it did mean abil-
ity to pay the expenses of her little
home with comparative ease; it meant
better food, warmer clothing, plenty of
fuel, and a little leisure for recreation.
1t meant, too, a still firmer clasp of the
Fathers hand.
Mrs. Denton was dismayed and some
what wrathful when she found that
Miss Matilda would no longer sew for
her at the old reasonable" rates, but.
finding her work poorly done at other
places, and wishing to have her clothes
made by Mrs. Cantield's dressmaker,
her lapse of patronage was of short
duration.
Iron County register., 1899-11-30
The Thanksgiving sp..it.

The existence of the true Thanksgiv.
ing spirit cements beyond the fear OF
dissolution the fraternal kinship OF
Christianized humanity. It lures by
spiritual and material aids the lost OF
truant sheep into many deserted fold
and it elicits a recommendation from
the public tribunes of our land for the
proper observance of its festal day. II
brings cheer to the hungry and lowly,
and, if only for one day in the year, il
at least brings them into tangible pos
session of welcome enjoyment of the
good things of life. 1t is easy for even
the most selfish among us to cultivate
the Thanksgiving spirit. 1t may be ac-
quired by prayer and human charity
and pity. 1t has no narrow creeds OF
tenets-no special forms of devotion
for the exercise of its influence. It is
simply an annual, Heaven-boru lncen-
tive to do good and make others happy
and grateful to our Maker.-Annie n
Toohey, In Christ tian Work.
Iron County register., 1899-11-30
UncOnfirmed Reports.

Cape Town, Nov. 25.-Unconfirmed
reports continue to arrive here to the
effect that Gen. White recently caught
the Beers in a trap at Ladysmith, in
Cucing detachments of the beleaguer-
ing force to venture into the open
country, when sortie parties from the
British captured them.
1t is difficult, however, to believe that
news Of such Importance would not
Eave been officially announced, and il
is IelG that the affair described will
probably turn out to be the sortie re-
ported from the Roer headquarters No.
yember %
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praised and her faith did not fail. She
and spent part of each evening reading,
chiefly from the Bible, in which she con-
stantly found something precious and
strengthening from which it seemed
her eyes had hitherto been holden.
The day before Thanksgiving arrived
and the prospect for feast in the little
dressmaker's home looked very slim.
Miss Matilda was hard at work finish
| ing Della Cranes dress, for Della want
ed to wear it the next day. Mrs. Crane
usually paid quite promptly, too, and
Miss Matilda hoped she would send the
money for the dress that evening; then
there should be little something extra
for dinner the next day, anyway.
Just as the finishing touches had been
given the neatly made gown, Bennie
Crane came after it, Ma didn't have
the money to send tonight" he said,
carelessly, taking the package under
his arm. ''She1l pay you next week" d"
and he ran off, whistling merrily.
Miss Matilda sat down in her little
sewing chair. Her mother had gone to
bed, and she let few. a very few, tears
fall. Then she wiped her eyes, saying
softly: ''Bless the Lord, o my soul
and all that is within me, bless His
holy name" and she went to bed think
ing: ''Well, I've had one whole week
of thanksgiving already
The next day dawned bright and cold.
Miss Matilda allowed herself the lux
ury of a later nap than usual, and rose
feeling light hearted as child.
81 shan't take stitch to-day, not
one" she declared, firmly, at the simple
breakfast, land l amt going to ready
up any more than I'm obliged to, either.
I wish you could go to church, mother,
but I'll go if you don't mind staying
alone. / haven't been now for two
Thanksgiving"
She had just washed the dishes and
was doing what .'redding up seemed
indispensable, when a rap sounded on
the door and there entered a merry,
rosy-cheeked young girl, who apollo
gized for her early call and exclaimed
in effusive schoolgirl fashion: what
do you think, Miss Matildai We've
been expecting Uncle Dawes folks for
Thanksgiving, and made preparations
for them, and last night we heard that
they couldn't possibly be here. So
there we are, you see, with stuff enough
provided for all that lot of people and
only our family to eat it, and I'm rush.
ing around this morning trying to find
some nice and conveniently disengaged
folks to come and help us, and 1 do so
hope you and your mother are among
Iron County register., 1899-11-30
Its Glory Gone.

In one of the finest cities of our west
there lives a certain man who has been
prominent all his life in the work of build
ing and managing theaters. He has been
too busy at this to have much time for
reading. When his pile was made. he
countries. Among other cities he took in
Rome. 1t CHANGED that he drove out in
the country and was shown the Coliseum.
The guide told him it was a theater. The
old man was surprised. When he came
toned Rome. Naturally he was asked if
he had seen the Coliseum. He had. He
1idn't think much of it. To quote his own
words: ct was blamed good house once,
Iron County register., 1899-11-30
Surely n Dream.

The rich, talented, handsome stranger
prostrates himself at the feet of the heauti.
full cashier in the laundry.
'Be mine!' he implores.
cam dreaming?" the young girl asks her
self, anxiously.
She has not long to remain in doubt. For
she presently spurns the rich, talented, hand
some stranger and marries the bow-egged
boilermaker to whom she had plighted her
troth
This, of course, makes it a cinch that she
Il dreaming.-Detroit Journal.
Iron County register., 1899-11-30

though l must
tell about it. A
year ago I was
taken very sick.
Doctorscould co
me no good only
to deaden the
pain which I
had almost con-
stantly. I got
some of your
Compound and
took one bot+1a
Iron County register., 1899-11-30
protection at Both Ends.

A nervous drummer, who carries with him
wherever he travels coil of rope, was asked
by the landlord of small hotel up in Shasta
county what the rope was for That's a
FIRE escape" explained the drummer, ''and
I always have il with me so in case of fire /
can let myself down from the window"
"Seems like pretty good idea," said the
landlord, "but guests with fire escapes pay
in advance at this hotel."-San Francisco
Wave.
Iron County register., 1899-11-30

Miss Matilda stir has aI the worL
that she can do; and every day is a day
of thanksgiving.-C. A. Parker, in \
Y. Observer
Iron County register., 1899-11-30

There generally comes time in the life
of man who has money to burn when it is
necessary for him to sift the ashes-Town
Topics.
Iron County register., 1899-11-30
TLErrzR TO MRS. prNxHAM NO. o4,,es1

"Iam SO grateful to you for what
Lydia E. Pinlzham's Vegetable Com
pound has done for me that I feel "a
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NN!LplAl "a AQMso
-l8C-~'
1honks9WlR9Dcys

a plain, old
fashioned Ii t t / e
room in w b j C b
MatildaPowerss sat,
stitching away as