The Sandusky Star-Journal from Sandusky, Ohio • Page 6

Ephraini, what under the canopy have yon got there?" exclaimed Sirs. Boggles one evening about three weeks before Thanksgiving ns her considerably worscr half entered the yard with a half grown gobbler under his arm. "Turkey, of course," vouchsafed "Imagine it was an ostrich or feather duster on stilts? Well, it isn't. It's a turkey, and a pretty fine specimen at that. Stands two feet six in its stocking lect and weighs eighteen pounds-sit least it i it is fattened up ready to kill at Th.nikvgh jnir time." "So you are going to fatten it for Thanksgiving, are you? 1 should think it be cheaper to buy, one at the time already iatteucd "It may look that way to you, Matilda, but 1 don't think so, and I've got the liaurps riaht in my head to prove it.

That turkey just it wns now strolling about the yard--" Oht me uxiictlj one dollar 1 am going to make a pen for it from the old lumber about the place, which will cost, say, live '-cuts for nails, and feed it on corn mid scraps Irom the table. The scraps will cost nothing, and it won't take over fifty cents' worth of corn to fatten the turkey up in first class condition for our Thanksgiving dinnei. That will make the total cost one dollar and lifty-nve cents, I'd like to see you go into nny market and buy an eighteen pound Thanksgiving turkey at figure. At the lowest estimate it would cost sixteen cents a pound, or a total of two dollars and eighty-eight cents: so you see 1 a dollar an.I forty-three cents, besides the satisfaction of having a genuine corn fed turkc for our Thanksgiving dinner. That is worth all the extra trouble.

Of course you can buy a they will corn fed turkeys, can't be sure of getting the resi! article unless you purchase the corn and the turkey separately and mix them yourself. Just keep your eye on that turkey si minute, Matilda, while I go into the house and get the hammer and nails." When Boggles returned a moment later with the articles in question, he was unpleasantly surprised to see Master Turkey in the adjoining yard, calmly roosting in a treetop about thirty feet from the ground. "I thought I told jou to keep jour eye 011 that turkey, and now just see where it is!" he exclaimed reproachfully. "You've attended to the job in fine shape, I must say!" "I haven't had my eyes off the turkey while you were away; but, not having a scoop net, I don't see how I was to stop it from flying up into the tree if it wanted to," remonstrated Mrs. Boggles.

"Well," said the ungrateful Boggles, "you go along into the house, where you can't do any further damage, and I'll sec if 1 can coax the turkey down out of the tree and get a pen built around it so it can't get si way again." Two hours later Boggles came into the house looking as if he had been through a six weeks campaign and announced: "Well, the pen is done, and that turkey is inside of it, though goodness only knows how long it will stay there. I've named it Hannibal because the pen was as high as the Alps I believe it would go over the top of it. It's been out twice already." Dire were the tales of that feathered biped's doings Inch greeted Boggles upon his return from his office next ening. The turkey had got over into Neighbor poultry yard, it seemed, killed an entire brood of late chickens and half killed two of his best roosters. Well, Boggles settled the damages, chased Hannibal back into the pen, added another wire extension to the top and went on about his daily business, sustained and soothed by the thought that he was at least sure of corn fed turkey for his Thanksgiving dinner.

The fateful final Thursday in November came at last--the turkey had escaped from the pen and been recaptured several times in the interval--and bright and early in the morning Boggles picked up the six and sauntered forth to interview that turkey. But, alas, when he opened the door of the pen no Thanksgiving dinner greeted his eager vision! The turkey was gone, and in place of it, pinned to the roost, was si dirty scrap of paper, upon which was scrawled the following explanatoi message: Much oWwgcd fcr dc turky, mister, i was restin' behind de pen last nitc when you chased de turky in an' herd on on wi-iit de old Nick lud de cutter so i took jou at vure word, it amt no great shakes of a turkv Init it will make me an' me side partner an elegant Thankssivm meal fcr a change. dp i i of de season an' hourly fer frenerossity to hungry wayfarers i remane joures truely OLD NICK UKEEI of de film of Tramp Co. Boggles hurried down to the market and secured smother turkej in time for his Thanksgiving dinner, and later in the dnj. when lie had cooled tiff somewhat and a able to think of the matter without i purple in the face, he sat dow and figured up the turkey account as follows: Original cost of turkex No 1 Corn same i i and other material for pen.

Paid Mr Jonm for rim kern killed Kewarcl paid tnr return of I cnri.i! damages (lone to phte by 1 line tpent in chasing lurkej Paid for Total cost of turkej for ThanksglunK dinner Slj 66 i fa SHmkim' Purity. The following a faithful copy o' the letter mat made all the trouble i the Slimkins' family: Dear Faithful Youn received Now while 1 am in favor of rogues, theves, and all that article, the dose must be sugar-coated. I want slick once to suit my purposes. Now be careful. Don't give them away In such crude and rude style.

Of course you meant all right your offer, brt there's always such an outcry against the "Stop thief" kind of villains, I really must ask vou to try once more and see If you can't do better in the way 1 tell you of. Write again when you think you've- made a hit and I will give you my advice. Capital hu though gathering them together for a i.ouse party. Try to have them all gathered together in a good state of activity by the fifteentn. It is barely possible, 1 can look in at that time and can make some suggestions that wi'l be of use to you in farther bringing your motley group of characters intj a really successful nouse party.

Yours as ever, MALCOLM The trouble was Sue had a husband and liked all others of his class he thought it no harm to glance at a letter addressed to liis wife and lying within such easy reach. There it was on Tier little writing desk, but what the devil could such a thing mean his house 1 The more he thought I it Mk and would at at the Bat thetfe MOW womea ran fi tteri than the snake charmer. Row women allow to fasten on them and slowly to crush out their strength. Womanly diseases should never be allowed to und i Female weakness, bearing- down pains, inflammation, ulcer- a i backache, headache, ousness, and other a a i ments, curable by i i promptly and permanently cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.

11 a a women strong and sick women well. I deem it mv duty to express my deep, heartfelt gratitude to you for having been the means under providence of restoring me to health," writes Mrs. Oscar Brown, of Oxford, Granviue Co For two years I suffered with female weakness, headache, neuralgia in various parts of the system, and after usiug four bottles of Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription, three of his 'Golden Medical one of 'Pleasant also Lotion and one box of Antiseptic and Healing 1 cured If you are led to the purchase of worse it grew. Should he take a 1 tpavorite Prescription" because of its ttrs into his own hards then and remarkable cures of other women, do not there? What was to he done' A sml-1 accept a substitute, den thought struck him The fifteenth, The People's Common Sense Medical why, that's this very flay, Adviser, a book containing 1008 pages, is and that minute Sue was searching' given away. Send 21 one-cent stamps the town tor something fit to eat for the expense of mailing only, for the book her Aunt Mary, wnom she wa.s ox in paper covers, or 31 stamps for the pecting on the nudnighi train.

A i volume bound cloth. Address Dr. Mary" sounds innocently saintly R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.

Y. there are thinss fiat speak louder tha'i words, and this is one ot Aunt Mary" is probably .1 disguised forger or loud mouthed anarchist at the Monstrous 1 i JIPCI rTEDTROUSERlNGS From up. our ipcdal to $25 Suitings. F. I One Door Mat of Cohuntas Ave.

IUNK! IUNK Highest cash paid for scrap iron metals. and Write or 'phone to JOS. COHEIN, Cor. Camp and flonroe Sts. Harrison 'phone, 494, Mail.tuttwtlTr.

THIRD RATIONAL Of Sandusky, Ohio. A (eneral Banking Buslneu tranaact- ed In all branches. Capital $200,000.00 Surplus 90,000.00 L. Cable, Prest. R.

B.5chuck. VlcePresu F. V. Zolllnzer. Cashier.

Sandusky, Ohio. Does a General Banking Buslneu could it mean? Should he set a watch on his wife' Well, he Cid anil he didn't. He proposed to do the watching himself So lie wer.t to bed early th'it night Midr.ight found him toing about the house looking for mysteries and finding none His wife wa? at that moment being driven to the train in a cab to meet that piobabli 1 wolf in sheep's Mary, and as he surmised a still greater woli. no other than the writer ot that obnoxious letter. His wife had said just before he went to bed, Aunt Mary was to bring a cousin along Cousin indeed! A cab full of pousins maybe.

Presently he heard them coming. At signal from him, twenty-five picked rascals of the street gamin variety, pointed as many flaming torches at that house party, from every direction at once, each one calling out something choice, like "Stop thief," or "Every thief and rascal o' you. confess, when you get in there. 01 you're a dead man" "A dead woman." I Soanehow they got in. the cousin hav ing much ado to support (he two and after much glaring on druggists, loc.

Slimkins' which tended to con firm the suspicion, now well unde' way, that he had somehow mysteriously lost his mind, and many direful reproaches from Sue and as mam thrills of fear, mild bewilderment Iran 4unt Mary, ard all sorts of iu- terrogativpness of a hr.zy sort, not to I say threats from Coufin Ned. Slim-' Itins confronted them with the aforesaid letter which he read in a loud impressive tone, whereupon COUSMI Nod, wicked editor that he was. declared that all that, had only reference to him by the now remorseful wife. That evening's reception was out as a practical joke on Mr. Slimkinu' part.

There was nothing really partial about that joke though, and the participants are still undecided as to who got the most of it. S. CLAIR. HEA TERS THAT HEAT The Gas Stove is just about the "squarest" heater ever ilesigned. It gives out al the heat it is possible to se crre from a given amount of gas--moie ueat than any other can get out 'of it--and throws the heat out into the room where you want it.

Several sizes--including the size you want, at low prices add Pays 3 and 3 PER CENT on time deposits. LOANS MADE ON REAL ESTATE. T. B. TAYLOR, President.

HENRY QRAEFE. Cashier. The KueDeler-stang Brewing and Malting Co. BREWEHS OF Lager, Bohemian, Amber Export, Crjre tal and Standard Beer. Brewed from 'the Famorjs Crystal Back Water Our Unexcelled Bottled Beer delivered to an; part of the cltv In cases for famirr Qfle.

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00 A FIT in a pair of trousers. Now he want another in Coat and Vest. If you want the same go to CMAS. F. STEIIN, IO7 TIFFIN AVENUE.

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This sale has proven a. tonic for tired purses. A chance like this comes only once in a lifetime. Our unprecedented values are arousing the entire public. The stock comprises I all the best and latest in Dry Goods, Silks, Laces, Trimmings and Notions.

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