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We do alt Kinds of Jojb Printing at the' Lowest Prices for Advertising: Rates Made Known on Request. i VOL. III. ORCHARD ARKANSAS, KOVEMBEK 19, affip.WALKUP EXCITED DEMANDS INQUIRY INTO KETCHAM'S DEATH. OIljOCtF Over Ho Jtocnlloil.

to Proposed Fight tho Millionaire 1 Will In to Tragedy A MASSACRE IN AFRICA. CHICAGO, Nov. udra- raatiq scene yesteijday while, the in- into the 'dea'th of B. Ketcham was''in progress at the Indiana av- 'onue home of Mrs. Mabel Estelle Wallace, who claims to be his widow.

two witnesses had been examined by the deputy coroner and statements of the two attending physicians submitted when it was announced that, owing to the inability of the chemist to complete the analysis of! the stomach of the deceased, thJo inquest would be adjourned for week. This brought Wallcvp to her feet 'in an an iavcs- tigaiiipn." she said, "and I want a thorough ones, but I am ncjV with this. I have sorno rights and I demand'jthnit thdy be-considered be-" foro that injjuiryas postponed a week. That will ijTot chemist can conclude'his ibss time than that. "Think tvhat I must in that time," Mrs.

Walkup continued, her voice breaking and her whole bocly trembling with "This inves- tigatiou has only It must be thorough and I will have more. That is my, right. Why can't it be continued ifn ajday or two?" Mrs. 1 jWallrup's pleading was not withou't; effect, for it was finalfy dfe- (Sided to contjnue the inquiry Friday afternoon, by which time the chemist's analysis will have been completed. The Only witnesses examined at the inquest' the widow and George II, Ketcham.

Mrs. Ketcham 'answered all questions with a firm voice and freely. She gave here name I as Minnie Wallace 1 Ketcham and her occupation as housewife. She said 'that she was married to John B. Ketcham in Milwaukee by Rev.

Mr. Roberts September 24. She said her husband had been aillner for over a year, and that "during the last three months he had not been able tosleave the house! icxcepting ito ride. When wjhati had caused the death of her husband, she said it was chronic then re. quested that answer ba changed to cirrhosis of the liver, as fche latter "sounded better." some questions in regard to her husband's sickness, Mrs.

Ketoham was- excused and tho dead man's, was called. George H'. Ketcham said, that he was a broker in whenfasked when he had last seen-his brothel- alive said: "It was October his house. I twice about that time. On the 'first occasion he was aslesp, arid when he awoke'ho dazed, and per- haps might not have been clear.

He unable to understand the location off certain property did not seem qiwto himself. We had two glassed of liquor together." t'Do you think his mind was effected?" "Well, I would not like to say further than I have just stated." "Ayas the deceased married?" the his death? Well; I am inforrned was." (The statement of thtei two physicians who! attended John B. Ketcham dur-. ing his last illness, ami at the time of death, was to the effect that he died from cirrhosis of the liver. In a few days the will of the.

late clubman will be filed for probate and it is intimated that the contest which step will undoubtedly produue may load to one of the' hardest leg'al battles everwaged in the courts. Mrs. Walkup, or" Wallace, claim that she was married to him in Milwaukee, September 24 by a Methodist minister. The latlor's name she does not remember, but says he can be easily found, her claims to Mr. iKetcham's 'estate of estab- lished.

Mrs. Wallace was the widow of James R. Walkup, former mayor of Emporia, and wealthy. When he died in 1895 under somewhat strange circumstances his youthful bride was arrested and tried for murdering him, but she was freed. She married him when she was only 15 years old, although he was ajniost fin.

She, a widow at 17. To avoid unpleasant notoriety she Assumed the name of Wallace. She came to Chicago after she had spent considerable money traveling in Europe and purchased the residence at 3142 Indi- anamvenue, which she furnished in splendid stylo. Of late she has been seuuf several times driving in company with Mr. Ketcham, whose divorce litigation with thp second Mrs.

Ketcham, the Toledo 'society leader, was a sensation a few mouths ago Chief Sntnory Rnzes a Town nritl Kllla of Xntlvcn. PARIS, Nov. 17. special dispatch to the Journal brings serious news from the NigOr region, West Africa In order to punish the inhabitants of the toxvn of Kong, capital of tho kingdom of Kong, in the Mandlngo region of Upper Guinea, for their refusal to supply his troops with provisions, Chief Samory has razed the town and massacred several hundred natives. Kong is a rich and fertile dependency of the French Ivory coast.

Sa- mory, who is otherwise as Sa- mudu, and who was formerly as the Indian. Mahdi," is a Tippoo Tib-on a largo scale, a wholesale slave hunter. Ha first came into contact with the French in 1882, but in tho two years which followed ho was repeatedly defeated. In the latter part of 1BH4 he carried his raids far to the south into Sulima- nla, capturing and destroying Falada, tjip capital'of Sulimania, and the great emporium for tho trans Niger trade. For miles tract of -country was devastated; thousands of.

natives were slain; thousands Jmore were sold into slavery, and the country was so depopulated that trade came to a standstill and the colony of Sierra Leone was reduced- to the yerjro of bankruptcy. These conquests brought Samory a fresh accession of and in 1885 he again commenced operation against tho French provinces on the north. Two severe how- 'ever, brought him to terms, and in February, 1887, a treaty of peaiie'with the French, in which he recognized that the River Niger was the boundary between hjs territory! and that of the French, if CAIffi IS SENTENCED. TO BE.HANGED AT LIBERTY ON DECEMBER 17. Smithing Komnrlcs Tho Child IMurilornr Ilearn llln Iloom I'rnnonnecd nt In Stupor, YiU Ho i i I'rnno TERRITORY; 'INVASION.

Twenty Thousand Colonists to Mako a Rash Into Wichita Country. WICHITA, M. HougheSvOf Anadarko, I. in Wichita yesterday on a trip to secure for the Wichita who are to settle in and. about the Wichita mountains before the'first of January and by sheer persistency and'force of numbers compel Congress to 1p settlement.

The movement promises to surpass th'e famous colony expedition into Oklahoma by Captain Payne. For Dialling ObRiinno matter. GUTHIIIE, Theodore Merthens-und wife, prominent people living in the country ten miles east of here, were; brought ajid lodged in tho federal-jail on a charge Nov. Carr, the self-confessed and proven murderer of his 3-year-old daughter, Belle Carr, will expiate his heartless crime upon the gallows in the Clay county jail at Liberty, Friday, December 17. Sentence was Upon him at Liberty yesterday morning by Judge E.

J. Broatidus, at the canclusion of one of the most scathing arraignments aver delivered from a Missouri bench. Carr heard, his doom pronounced as One in a' stupor, yet seeming to realize the awful significance of the judge's words. At the" end ho sank into a chair arid was led to his sheriff a moment later. In passing sentence the court said: -'Carl 1 you arc charged in tho indictment, tintier- four counts, with murder in the first degree.

The fourth and last one is to the effect that you. committed the murder of your little child. You are qiharged with having FORCED TO CONHESS. Missouri Dton Ilnng.i Tiro Accnsod farm- They Wonlcon. Nov.

night Sheriff Livingston and Marshal Rice wnut to Dostou, six miles south, and arrested Bill Simpson and. Bill Catt- erly, farmers, cnc.h aged about 40; on the. charge ot having criminally assaulted Mrs. Jnc'ob Kijsh.and thrown carbolic acid mto her fujce last Thursday evening. ji On the road to 'the' hofc the officers were stopped-by mob and the prisoners and hanged to a tree, until they were almost dead.

When they were cut down they confessed the crime, implicating Henry A very, a I young farmer, and Dave Mongstar of Carthage. tile confession! the prisoners were returned to -the officers with instructions to take jail. Excitement is high near Boston and the prisoners may yet be taken from jail and hangecl. The prisoners to-day deny making a confession, i sending obscene the mails. Mrs.

have, written 'all husband mailed letters had been literature through Merthens ris to the letters, 'and her Fully fifty written (mailed to tho ladies of the, neighborhood, containing the vilest of matter. Bookwlth Plays a Good tiamo. MOUNT Nov. The Iowa Wesleyan university football team defeated tne Kfljokuk, lopa, Medical eleven htfre y.fisteraay aftarnoon in 48 to 0. The game was featureless except for the fact that Warren Beck with, T.

Lincoln's. new son-in-law, played left half back for 1 the Wesleyans and made several good tackles and runs. Mrs. Beck with was an enthusiastic spectator of the game. njeditatively and "deliberately committed 'this deed.

To this charge' you have pleaded. niado no defense, I felt it my duty to appoint such attorneys as the gravity of the offense demanded. I therefore appointed Messrs. Allen and Sandusky, two of among tho most prominent men of the highest character and standing, I felt implicit "confidence that whatever could be done for you in -aft honorable way be "After consultation and consideration these gentlemen, feeling their sense of responsibility, nounced your case was such they could not do anything for you. But the court, feeling the responsibility of the situation, refused to act upon your plea of guilty until all evidence could bo laid before it, so that it might be shown over and beyond your plea of guilty that you were guilty beyond all reasonable doubt, rjllad the eviclen-ce left any doubt on my mind upon that fact, it was my purpose to set aside your plea and gjive the case to a jury of yourCcountry'men.

But your confession's; admissions and the evidence shows you are guilty beyond clpubt. "Bello was a -little- 8 a own child. Her mother was dead and you had another wife. You left child arms in the middle, of the day Sunday, October MURDERERS LYNCHED. Indiana! Hanged to a Hoof Wlnd- 3til Jtlof).

doing it, but I had with me a couple of good revolvers. the cftfaoe from shore, and in'a few minutes waajjlldlng over the rlprillng waters of thejFlambleaux.wlth no pare of What thei Journey might bring. For over halt an hour I kept my course Clown the river. The moon had shone brightly until then, and was only occasionally hidden by ft few dark clouds. A cold wind 'came up from the northeast and then I BISMARCK, N.

Coudot, Paul Holy Track and Philip Ireland, Indians, the of whom was sentenced to 'death foir murdor of six members of the Sjpicer family last February, and hadj just been' granted a new trial by tlje. supreme court, and the tyJo self-confessed accessories in thdirfjurder, were taken from the jail in Eftinions county Saturday night and lynched by a mob. I The apparently had been? cooly planned and was; carried out' without a break in the 'program. Sudden, and swift retribution was meted out by the mob to the murderers. Warrants Michigan.

Bankers. ov. were issued to-day for the arrest of officers of the defunct "People's Savings bank of Lansing. Chftrles II. Osbancl, the cashier, being charged with making 'false an tries in the books, witlrj intent to deceive the bank's-officers and the state banking commissioneij, and two directors, Charles Brown and Christian Braisch, with perjury, it being alleged that they did not; own in good faith tho amount oi stock required by law.

Lynohora Without Norve. SOMERSWp.n.TUY NOV. transpires that on Friday last, when it became evident that.Joseph B. Kelley, the youthful murderer of Cashier Joseph A. Stickney, of the Fills National bank, of "this place, would escape the, gallows, a plot was made to lynch him.

It appears that at the time set nobody had the nerve to take the leadership, and the lyuch- iug bee was declared off. Foster Gets a Mlnaloti. WASHINGTON, Nov. President has designated ex-Secretary John 'W. Foster as a special plenipotentiary to treat with the Prime Minister of Cauada eonceruing all matters now ponding between the twogovex-nments.

Orders uu luveatlgutlou. JEKFKRSON- CITV, Nov. Heavy Sentence for luulgl. BOSTON, Nov. A.

lasigi, 'formerly Turkish consul in this city, who was recently convicted of the embezzlenient of large sums from trust funds held by'him, was to-day sentenced to serve a term of not more than eighteen nor less than fourteen years in state's prison, with one- day solitary confinement and the rest of the term at hard labor. Ottawa Keateu In a Snow Storm. COLORADO Nov. In an almost blinding snow storm and with the down to freezing, Colorado college vanquished tho Ottawa, Kan.r, university foot ball eleven by a score of to 4. 10.

You were seen by four witnesses, the fourth one testifying that he saw the child's face; its eyes were open and it was alive. You stated also that she was alive. As to -whether it was alive when you left home Was an important question. If carried away dead, in very nature of things other-persons were connected with the mjjrder. abd you not responsible.

"But the- murderer has found in him who now sits "before me, the self-confessed murderer own year-old child. Your flimsy excuse that the child was quarrelsome and disagreeable to your wife's "J-year-olfl son cannot be accepted by the The motive must have been a more powerful one, and if another, may have had any hand in this and 3 ou, UX-ryour hours' of (Confinement and solitary find nothing to soften your heart and disclpse the truth then you are simply human. Men and women commit many crimes and for many motives. You assign no. motive that is worthy of consideration.

If your confession and 0ther statements are to be believed, you stand a singular instance in the crime; a confessed and convicted murderer without a reasonable motive for your crime. In the exe- cutioif of my stern 1 -duty under the law. afid my.oath of office, nothing remains for me to dp but to'pronouriee the. se'ntence of the law. "The judgment of tho court is, that Great (you be, by the sheriff, carried back to the county jail and there safely kept by him until Friday, the 17th day of December, 1897,.

on which, day you shall bo taken thence to the gallows and liknged by the neck until you are dead. And may God'have mercy upon you." Carr made no comment upon the sentence except to express the wish that it could be carried put He declared that it was too Jate to be sorry. He seemed to be very much depressed at the absence of his wife, for whose sake indiractly the fearful crime was committed. Mrs. Carr heard the announcement later with indifference.

Sheriff Hymer has announced that he will erect a stockade about the jail and that the execution will be witnessed by only 300 persons. Kansas and IMImourl Oflloescokori. following applications have; been filed: J. Clark, to be postmaster W. R.

at stoclc yards, Kansas City; M. C. Cannon, special agent of land office; Ernest C. Baker, deputy United States marshal; Fred L. Burgan, consul, La Paz, Mexico; iWarren H.

Bro.wrt, union Indian agent; John Ballihger, postmaster, Garden City, Horace R. Williams, receiver, Springfield, S. H. Harvey, postmaster, Charles H. Almder, postoffice inspector; D.

F. Spone, postmaster, Odessa, Thomas R. Dumonti surveyor of customs, St. Joseph, Mo. Newfoundland Ministry Oat.

NeWfWJijSjidland, Nov, 17., ministry, headed by Sir William Whiteway, formally resigned office yesterday. Before resigning, Sir William Whiteway tried to fill all vacancies in the civil service with his defeated supporters and their followers, but Sir Herbert Murray, the governor of Newfoundland, refused to sanction any permanent appointments and consented to authorize only acting appointees. Nebraska Farmers LINCOLN, Neb. Reports to the state bankiiji'jj'board indicates that the large surplus of in the banks of the state is rapidly diminishing and that a "brisk deujarid esists for loans all over Nebraska. Thjree months ago over 60 per cepi of all bank assets in the state werij in cash and mOre money was in sight than could bo handled.

-Now the borrowers numerous. Most, of the money is into farm Object to tho Tax. SAN FUANCISCO, Nov. 17. C.

C. Burns, who returned from Dawson City yesterday, is here on his way to his home in Grand Rapids, Mich. When Burns left -Dawson, September 23,. for the coast there was in progress a massaneeting pf miners to protest against the proposed collection of tho "Dpiniuion But why do I keep Thanksgiving, Did I hear you aright, my dear? Why? When I'm i all alone in life, Not a chick nor'a child to bo near, John's folks all away In the west, Lucy acroad' the And not a soul in the dear old homo Save a little bound girl and me? (t does look lonesome, I grant It; Yet strange as the thing may sound, I'm seldom In want of company The whole oJ the merry year There's spring whop, the lilac blossoms, And the apple trees blush to bloom, There's summer when great moths flit and glance Through the gloom. Then comes the beautiful autumn, When every fragrant brier, Flinging its garlands on fence arid wall, Is bright as a living flre; And then-the white, still winter time, the snow lies warm on the wheat; ssj think Of the days that have passed When myllfe was young and sweet.

a very happy woman' i though my hair is white, or soine of my troubles I've overlived, s6me 1 keep out of sight. ma busy old woman, you see, dear, I As I travel along life's rotA, 'm always trying as best I can To lighten my neighbor's load. 'hat child? think She'd try me? Does she earn her bread and salt? noticed she's sometimes indo- I lent Is a fault; course it is, the orphan girl Is growing as fast! as she can, the storm that had threatened all day. The clouds came talck and fast and with them at drops, but finally an driven by the terulble force of the wind. With the storm came lightning and I soon saw it would folly to go further, I endeavored to turn my canoe toward" shore, but the storm had changed Ijfito a young tempest; and to stay long on the waters in that craft meant death.

I drifted on at a fearful I also noticed that the current of the river seemed swifter than I had noticed It before! "While thus engaged a new sound fell upon my ears, It was a dull, deep and every-moment it seemed to Increase. The water flowed more swiftly, and the rosirlng ahead of me became deafening. I too well it was. My boat dashed madly forward, and I was entering rapids. How large they were I did not know, for the country was comparatively new had some fears of first only a few cy rain which was Wife Murder uud Sululde.

CUSIIINO, Iowa, L. Spickler, a farmer, shot and killed his wife and afterwards out his own brains. Four children are made ocphans by the tragedy. Two Saloonkeepers Fight. LEXINGTON, Nov.

Martin, a for the Chattanooga Brewing company, and J. J. Ryan, also a saloonkeeper, had a terrific fight last night in the Tatter's place of business on Main street, as the result of which Ryan is dead and Martin is locked up, charged with inurder. Gets 805,000 for NKW YOIIK, Nov. Her Ilubby.

7 sheriff's Judge Shackelford, in the circuit court here, instructed the "grand jury to investigate the charges" Of corruption and bribery made by the St. Louis Republic, against lobbyists of the legislature last wintejr- John M. Luujfdtou WASHINGTON, Nov. John M. Langston, of Virginia, one of the prominent colored men of the country, died here at 8:30 last evening.

Ho was 08 years age, bav- ing been born a slave in 1939. LONDON, Nov. 10. the lord lieutenant of Ireland, was to-day elected president of the National Union of Conservative associations in succession to the Earl of Veteran':) Charges to tie Looked Into. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

secretary ordered an investigation oJ charges that ugaiust Grand Army veterans is practiced in the employment of, men at Mare Island navy yard. A formal jury in Brooklyn yesterday gave'a verdict of SoS.OOO to Mrs. Florence Van Schaack ugaiust her father-in- law, Peter Van Bchaack, -for the alienation of her husbands affections. Peter Van Sohaack is head of the ttrm of Peter Van Schaack druggists, of Chicago. He is said to be a millionaire.

recently by 100 veterans. A Medal Frouj tho liaUer. BEKIJN, United States consul here, Q'oldschmidt, has received for transmission to the United jSlatfes a life-saving medal awarded by 'the Emperor William to Ferijekes of Milwaukee, saving a child from drowning in thijj city, ifi Delta, JJauk SuspoucU, DELTA. Nov. directors of the Delta County Uunh concluded to place the'institution's affairs in'the hands of an assignee.

bank is deposits about 853. QPQ. tUo mo Death of a Kansas Kdltor. FALTA Nov. N.

editor of thd Farmers Vindicator, died of typhoidWever yesterday. Mr. Harmon had lived here forty years, and owned a 1,400 acre farm. He taught school in Ohio, Weal Virginia and Kansas fprr seventeen years. He founded the Farmers' Vindicator in 1890.

War on In Church. SAVANNAH, Nov. A fight is on here for the abolitiop. of the Jiigh hat from the churches. The local pa bafeked by loading church mem bers and society people, are ugitatinf the matter and' expect to have the theater hat prohibition 'act applied to high churcb'-hats.

i Alger'a ISrother Gets It. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. Al ger, brother of Secretary of War Rue sell A. Alger, is to be appointed post master at Hannibal, Ma Football Coats a Life.

Nov. Frank the 8-year-old son of L. Blair, divsion foreman of -the Pennsylvania at Pean station, died last night from the effects of a kick received in stomach at a football game two week The little fellow suffered ter i-lbly. Duvls Smashes a Keeord, WAsHJNaxoN, Nov. 17.

Secretary; of the Interior Davis what is perhaps the recqrj gt the department) in handing down 400 d.e* pjgioas in pension yesterday. Vnd ta her work from dawn dark. Was never a part of my- plan, like to see the dimples Flash the little face, hat was wan enough, and still enough When first she came to the place, think she'll when she's A kitten is not a cat; j. And now that I'looit at the thing, niy I hope she'll nevef be That 'JB thankful Ijijfe is peaceful; I should just be slfck of strife, for instance, I had to live along Like poor Job Slocum'a 'm thankful Tj didn't say "yeg," my What saved me I do not see- When Job; with a sprig in his buttpn- hole, Once came 'm thankful I'm neither poor toor rich, Glad that I'm not in debt; That Ijowe no money I cannot pay, And iso have no call to fret, tri thankful so many love me, And that I've sojmany to love; Though my dearest and nearest-are all at" home, In the beautiful land above. I shall always keep Thanksgiving In the good-old fashioned way, And think of the reasons for gratitude In December, and and May, In August, November, and April, And the months that come between; os God is good, and my heart is light, And I'd not change place with -a E.

THANKSGIVING was Thanksgiving evening in our camp on the bleaux rlver.in the northern part of the iadger state. Afteijja.dinner such aa can only be gotten up in camp, we had seated ourselves about the fire and were In? Bulging in stories. Finally one of our aurnber, a young man, remarked that toe day was always one of thanksgiving to hini, and In explanation of this related the following tor I had been out three days with a party of Chlpago'people, and on the day in question we were camped about thirteen miles away from even a game warden, and I can say we had phenomenally good luck. It was the open season for 'deer, aricj we had already killed two' fine bucks. The day had! been a busy one in camp, in making preparations to move down stream, perhaps ten miW or more.

My intention had been V- move in that direction early in. the-afternoon In a light canoe, just to get on to the lay of the land. Heavy, le.aden clouds hung low. all day and everything acted like one of those late electrical" storms that Often pass through the northwest as gentle reminder that we had one last chance of bidding-. goodrby to Indian summer.

Had the'weather not cleared I might have changed my mind about making the move I did make. Leaving instructions that wo would all start in the early hours of morning, I to the shore and stepped I HUNG ON WITH BOTH SANDS, to me. I dropped my paddle into the bottom of the boat and hung on with both How I ever got through alive I don't know fqr as I viewed the rapids the next morning they were the worstT.haid ever jSeeh on medium steed rivers. The foam dashed over me, and my canoe grazed scores of rocks. Then I heard the roaring faf behind! and I found myself in Water, but I didn't, care about runnln any more chances that night, and too to the northeast bank, which was my left' My canoe grated on the san and with a feeling of safety I my foot 6n shore.

"As I did "so the rods around seemed to tremble. I knew The rlyer at point widened into a 4 over left side of which was a floating island, that is, a projection of the mainland over the lake. The Ajots of. the were closely, woven and a good quantity of soil was packed in between. I h'ad, heard many stories- concerning these hardly credited them.

"I gathered a good quantity of wood together and fetarted a fire, and slttlijg down on the wet grpunil trle4 to make myself as comfortable aa possible. Overconie by the exhaustion had ex- perlended I lay dowi and was soon asleep. How long is hard to say, but it; must haye been about an ij "I was awakened, dnd gazing about, darkness, the "darkness of an Egyptian night, met my eyes-j A noise, at first very faint, disturbed the silence. It was. like that, of a crying child, but I had heard It before; it was the whining of a lynx.

I drew one of my're- volvers and laid very quiet. 'fPhe noiso grfew louder and I heard the flend creeping upon me. My nerves gave way to my first impulse and I fired in well, I crawled a waited for "As ths first lit the eastern toward what grave. It was a Clrcu feet In diameter. I ct-i, er about fifteen feet belt of the lynsr and the 'tert'f fate he had met, and then shore I got Into, my canoe, one behind me on ous shore, I turned my bacfe ever, and turned my face toWftrl "This Is my experlenCf ot'fk.

TL giving day that makes the 'day bfc thanks to tyi fay UfaJ, thfa' THANKSGIVING EVE. Hand Itt hand through tM village streets, As chill November twlllgti't' fell, Two childish figures walk up and; i The bootblack Teddttf; atid slater Nell. With wistful eyes they peer in shops, -t-' i Where dazzling the lights Jtrom the. windows shine i On golden products and 1 field, And luscious fruits "Oh, Teddle," said play tonight -I These things are let's suppose I We can choose want toi eat. fyA-f 1 It might come true, hndrtbr Two pinched pane, And plan for tomo; Of dainties their Forgettmg their an least.

The pWement was coli less feet, Ted's jacket was and said, "Diet's go to a place clothes." "Agreed!" said ISflt sped To a furrier's shop, abii In whose fancied wa: their hands, And play their scanty changed For softest fur, from "A grand Thanksgiving cried Nell, "These make-bellev most Tl've most fo: press feast awhile, at; 1 the shoe-' "f'he shivered 1 choose away they' Oh, happy nearta In all the bounty Haye pity on those To be warmed AN AWFUL CRASH FOLLOWED. 1 the direction of the sound. A. moment later and there was a quick spring ipd the beast lit upon my shoulders. and over we rolled- 1 felt the grounp tremble, and an awful) crash followed.

The lynx loosened hfe hold. from and about me. JJy came In contact with a I grabbed it and backward! andt forward for. it to me, ap age. The waters The old wife sat In the chimney Talking of days gone by -JJ To the small granddaughter close 1 her knee, lli Eager and bright of eye.

"And only think," ihe finished, "d( That sad Thanksgiving morn All that the Pilgrims had to eat Was, each one, five 'grains of canoe. I had with me ply of and 'fhe mooc; ishone out so rippling water that I forebodings of did not think it seemed to boil, and then all 1, a stillness that was moi ter- deatb. I heard a pattering me and remem- jtf Jynpt- With supernatural myself upward, and, by -'eet on the, roots and wtruding from the side of tha as Out from his corner grandfathjer Put in a quavering "You're wrong, Prlsclllj wrong, I've alwarolfeara." 0 (fi "Pshaw, father, forgotten it, No, child, 'twas only five," "Prlscilla Ann, I say 'twas As sure as 'Twa'n't Twas; tool" "Why, father!" I ain't so old, I guess, But what I kn6w 'twas six!" "On, 1 land, What foolishness!" "Prlacllla Anni" "Yes, father!" The small granddaughter stared. Then, crying, ran away. "Thwe, now, You've, got the poor Iamb scared hain't!" "You have 1 Here waa.

begun i A very pretty quarrel, But that their daughter came in To hear and point a morai "Why, father! mother! quarreling. And on Thanksgiving Day! And all a grain of corn; That's foolish, don't you say?" The old folks looked abashed, 'Twaa six!" "'Twas five!" "Why, no, twaa. four!" And then it really looked aa though "fwould all begin once Till grandma, gulping down her wrath. Said. ''Well, they hadn't many; But, sakes alive! if they hadn't flve, I'm thankful tUey bad any." B.

Pratt, We need all the. social agents therft are to lift us out of the of life; music is one of these. Parents who faji to cuUiyate where ideut the musical gifts, of their deprive them and through the coming generations of and intellectual agency wbieb is Boyle. Some wen. make a Midi their light -under a bushel, would.