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Dassy, "but I'd ng 'fore I'd set nlne turkey little ~peekled hen like" a fringe on that can cover the outside eggs. what do we want a lot of tur* ' round for anyhow?" :ou'll ~ee what we want of ut next Thanksgiving. Wit- ary, if you don't eat youra~are ,! ' : i, :".I ~e the gobble of the pesky ,Makes me want to choke :Dassy~ lived on the northern ! Nebraska. Their farm lay on prairie, but right at the head ~.Tree canyon, an abrupt crack .ground which ran down to the tra river. The lone tree which ~e name to the eanyon was a ~d spectral pine standing a ~arda from their barn. ~t was tree so deserted l,y its ~fore. There was not another at anywhere although there attic,s down the canyon and the river; but as you stood o~ airie you looked over them, ate. he river and canyon as well, so whatever way yon turned your ~nm the Dassy ranch you saw ~lg but treeless prairie; though I~'ening the wind sighed through ~P of the lone tree quite indus,i- and did what it could toanggest ett. The Dassy boys. Thomas ~On, Andrew Jackson and George tl~gton, often talked about :~g the lone tree, but they never day a month later Mrs. Dassy Oil, of the coop and said: "Well, dn t do so bad, I thi nk.' w many?" inquired Mr. Dassy. [en." , that isn't bad, considering. Are k el'y-looking critters?:' 11, they don't handsome much ~f course. Young turkeys never Mt I'm reckoning that nex~ .~iving th~ blggest one of 'em to a turn, ou the blue platter, ~ts legs sticking up in the alr ~ust about as pretty a sight | II ~ee, Wi/liam Henry[;' hushand smiled and rubL, ed his , "Oh, I'm not saying n "word ~juiey young turkeys on plat- ~0ut Thank~.givtug time, What let to ia their gobhling and strut- ~ound and feeling so big." say anything, William )lied hts wife; "I've known and stttut around and g." sti/l onrly |n the ~prlng, and wss cold. Perhaps it wa~ this eause that the n~xt day one young turkeys died. But the uursin[ of Mrs. Dassy, to- "NOW YOU ]PUT TMAT OU~ RIGI-JT BACK." ~o more trouble. The rains either like, once oi" twice, and then you'll see ceased or he defied them. The chick- --siapl--head's off and we've got him en-hawks never made any more at- on the'blue platterI" tacks. Indeed they wonld shortly have From this time on Noah roosted each had trouble lu ~arrying him off, s~nce night in the lone tree. The flight he grew @itl~ the most astonishing seemed in no way to disagree with rapidity. The' speckled hen was soon him, for he waxed b~gger and bigger the smaller of the two, an ~ found her- and fatter and fatter. IIe gobbled oc- self following behind as he wandered casionaily, but no more than was nec- here and there. The~ Ire began t~ essary to keep him in good voice. ignore her entirely, and a); night took Through the fall he continued to to roos*ing on the ridge-pole t~f the range the prairie and gather belated barn. g~sshoppers. Nothing ever rue[ted This was too much for the hen; she hi~ dignity, and only once d~d he be- gave him up, and he went his own way come excited, and that was ~ hen Mr. in ~he world. The grasshopper sea- Dassy and hls sons one aOcrnoon son came on, and he developedwond, er- burned a circular firebreak a quar- Sul skill in catching t]~ese insects, to ter of a mile out around the buildings. the great delight of Mr. Das,s,y. When Noah saw the flames and heard "I tell you what, Melvira, he one the crackling of the dry grass,'he ut- day remarked, "there isn't another tered a~ alarmed gobble and flew into turk in Nebraska that can gather in the pine, where he gobbled some more a hopper llke that Noah of ourtl and stayed till the next morning. You ought to wsteh him. He sees a The sason advanced and the weather hopper sitting on a blade of grass and became wintry, but all efforts to In- not thinking about anything, and he duce him to enter the coop with the just up and points him like a pointer other fowls were useless. Even the dog, and creeps cloger and closer, cold wtnds of November did not seem steady, never saying a word, his head to disturb him. To be sure there was getting a little l~wer all the time, tie no snow, or only a few flakes, e~en np he s just right; ,lien he makes one to Tha~:ksgiving week. but the winds shoot andputs up his head sort ofblew ch,ll-", and-to~sed~ the top of the like this, and swallows the hopper," pine about and threatened sometimes ~nd Mr. Dassy twisted his neck about in a ludicrous attempt to look like Noah. "Well, I 're got something else to do besides watch a turkey catch hop- pers!" answered Mrs. Dassy. "Though I hope he'll get a right smart lot of them, because we don't need the hop- pers, and they do say there's nothing like a hopper-fattened turkey for ten- der eating and flavor." "That's so,-Melvira. But you ought to watch him snalch them. I've lived in five states and two territories, and I've never ~een anything like it' Never knowed him to miss. I calculate h~ gobbles 400 of them every day." The hot dry Nebraska sumn, er wore away, and Noah continued to thrive. The grasshop,~e~: crop was good--bet- |er than any other crop--and Noah never fatle~ to get his daily share of it. Each week Mr. Dassy grew more enth~sia tic in his praisesof Noah. lle finally came to boast that Noah was the finest turke$ in the United Etates. to sweep him off; but he clung to his perch. It was late Tuesday afternoon be- fore Thanksgiving. Mrs. I)assy had been bustling about with the work since dinner time, but her husband had sat by the fire and ~carcely spoken. She knew that ~ was thinking of Noah. but she ~aid nothing. She had her own private feelings about Noah. but she knew that he had got to die. After some time.she said: "Well, William Henry, I'm wait[rag for that turkey now." "You are, are you?" snapped the man, impatiently. "Well, why dtdn't you say so? What am I here for? What have I been setting around all the afternoon for? Andrew Jackson, you and George Washlngton go out and catch the critter." The boys stnrted out. and Mr. l)assy went oc: "Melvira, when you ,'ant a turkey killed you wnnt to speak about it, not go aronnd thinking I can read your pesky thoughts, l'm ready to edg- of the canyon and see if I couldn't knock over a jaek-rabbit. To-mor- row:s Thanksgiving. Do you think we ean have a Thanksgirlng without any fresh meat?" Tl, e~he went out. It Was'the next day and they were all gathered round the table. Mrs, Dassy's brother from Sand Lake ,+as with them. He looked at the blue plat'~ ter and said: " 'Pears to me, William Henry, that's a powerful queer-look- ing Thanksgiving turkey you've got` I'll bet a dollar there ain't any wish- bone in it." "You've hit it right, Hiram," re- turned Mr. Dassy. "Our Thsnksgivi~.g tnrkey ain't mneh to brag of, but wewe ~ot a r~ght smart heap of Thanksgiving. Hear that rascal Noah gobbling out theret I tell you be's got the clearest and the mustealest gobble of any turkey in the wh~de [ tt pesky world. --Hayden Carrutk In YouiL's Companion. THA~I' qPEBRIBLE KID- Mrs. Smith--Did you give your moth~ er the invitation to take Thanksgiving[ dinner at our house? Tommy Jo~es---Yes. ma'am. "'And what dld she say?" "~nid she s~pposed we'd have to go, but she'd rather stay at home and get a square metl."--N. Y. Journal. A llesvenly ]b~oretnste, If *here is cale week in the )'ear more ,hun another, when our burdens and cares, and v~xations, and complaints ought to l~ forgotten, and on, mercies cou~ted, and talked, nnd sung. and wsyed over, it is this Thanksffiviu~ week. In Heaven every day will be Thanksgiving day; but there ought to be for us, at this sea- son of the yelr. at least, a foretaste of the ![eavenl.~ joy. -~ United Presby- terian, Exten! of a Single Teee. A single banyan tree has been knawa to shelter 7,0~ men at one time. i honest money, for the reason that the democracy of the 11 states named, see- ing the futility of an attempt to nora[- sate or elect a sound money democrat Hiteh~oek, to the presidency, will cooperate in all by the.re' reason of probability with the party that makes fferry Sir inventious, maMng the gold standard the prineipal plank In In North labor more efficient and productive, its platform. This will insure the de- by in, tend consequently commodities have ','at of the Bryan democracy and will whlch [ been growing cheaper in+ the marl~t, more securely establish the gold stand- ard poliey. The Bryanites ean get along very well without these 11 states in the conven- tion, but they cannot elect their~nom- lnee wtth~0ut the electorM votes of the democratic and doubtful states in the l+st m " The fact that a majority of de o- eratia state platfoi'ms declare for silver does not indicate that the free silver eause has grown in strength, bufsim- ply that a majority of the dem0erats in a majority of states still adhere to it. As a matter of fact, there has been an appreciable decline in silver sentiment among democrats, but not sufllcient to put the silverites of the party iu the minority. The democratic state platforms this year, therefore, do not indicate .that publie sent,men, is less strong for hon- est mo~ey, than ~t was in ~8.o6, but sim- ply that Bryan[sin is in the party sad- d!e, and like,the fool on horseback wlll r;de to the devil in 1900.--Chicago Times-Herald. Praet leall ]Dead. Judge I. N. Maxwell. who was one of the 1;ryan electors for the state of Washington, has returned to the re- publican party and cx$~ects his state to do the same thing. In explaining his " ue aetiOnad he s~ys: The salver" ~ss" ~ is de --dead as a mackerel--and he polltieal "speakers can't draw a baker's dozen to their meetings in the-wheat country. Two years ago 1 advocated free silver. It was a time of great finan- cial depresMen, ~veryone was out of work, and I felt that there must be ;nine reason for it. Like many others. hit on the silver idea as a remedy. I see now that the monetary system had nothing to do with those conditions. It was overproduction. Since then short foreign crops have given us a market and the Ding]ey tariff has in- creased activity in all manufacturing centers. The country is prosperous und the people are contented. I ~greed with the populists two years ag~ solely nn the one t~sue of silver. Now ~hat ~it- is a dead issue and swept out of the r ~ vay I t,ave no more use for the part5 j --Washington Post. ~The New Ym:k Evening Post says that "thero is a very [urge eash lmlanee in the trcasury--npward of $31)0,000,000, l[ of which is in gold except $25.600.090. In fact, gold is a drug now both to the banks and the treasury, and both are trylng to get rid of it in every lawful way." Mr. P, ryamjtever expected to see the country crucified un thls kind of cr(ms of gold.--St. Louis GIbb~-Dez,~ era day by about (Ind.). ,+ ~-- the ~ working ave huy- Ina~a~h aa free )me ~rts Of life to one stands for ' ,rid thetrfam- utism which advocates~flat ge~ inff at the fair to ~my that ever~ de gol/, verite was also a rep~di~ + been no"c~m nlism, Classing free allver as a I P~a+ of ~horns of populism, it ma~ be ~aid the e totier~, but it ulism lost ~ix eongi'essmen in I~ ~ti0n''Chieaff one In Nebraska, two in S~u kota, three in C~lifornia, ~twoi~ D~ OF OPINION. tgan, and four United State~ se --White, of California;~Al|e~' ~I Bryan Say~ l~ will go wher- braska; Mitchell, of Wlse0nsfz la regiment |t ordered, That iI Turpte, of Indiana A+ stgnlfieal wha host so[diets are +expected to do. ture of the demise of populiam is .the --Washington P~t, vote of the agricultural disti'icts in ~'The democrats have adopted free Nebraska and Kansas. CoUnties which silver platforms iu 223 congress[noel gave Bryan 500 to, ~ i~ajority t@o di~!ricts. A skulkinW party shows by years ago broke even and in several its condnet that~td ~l:ves defeat.--St. insf~nces landed ifl ~ ~publican col- Lotti~ Gldbe-Dem~rd~ umn. Populism eatmot' stand good ~TGold continues to~eome from Eu- erops. Under ia sound mo~aey policy, rope, with a s|~[g ~from Canada. with good crops and advaneeit prices Bryan's "ristng~ dollar" gravitates for products the farmers of the')vest steadily towdt'd Une]e Sam's domain.-- are, satisfied. Prosperity has given St. Louis GIobe~Dem~crat. populism a black eye. The democratic [CTMr. B~j,~n is repot,rid as ~aylng platform makers w~ll doubtless stud~ the return~ in Nebraska and Kansas that no one'can ten how muoh ~t coats him to be +s|lent` Ills silefice~costs the to their own profit. The democracy J3n~ed States $291.67 a mo~th~ the pay of 1900 must throw 0i~ the |ncubus~ of a cotonel of iafantry.~indiunapolis populism.- -Chicago Tl~es-Heral4.Journal. " ~ YACT$= ryan wrote to a ChiCago friend the other day to the effect that it was Ou~* of every three Fersons ~true.k hy "mighty hard to have to keep still," lightning two reenter. That, by the way, was why the colonel Churches are said tc be thc buildingl was so anxious to get out of the army.-- most commonly struck by lightning. Cleveland Leader, Experts ~ay the electricity in a thun- ~;rA united denmeratie party might derbolt is not very great, but the volt,- age is. One of the best evidences of thevalue of lightning rods up to datehas been afforded by the Washington monu- ment. It is capped by a small four- sided pyramid of aluminium, This aluminium tip is connected w/th the ground by four copper rods, which go down deep into the earth. On April 5, 1885, the monument was struck fiercely five times, but it suffered no damage ~'hatever. In old times vessels used often tu be struck by lightning and the loss by that cause was very great. From 1790 to 1640 no fewer than 280 ships of the British navy were struck, 100 men being l:il]ed and 150 wounded. ,Nowadays warships, as well as big merchant ves- sels, have lightning rods running' down their masts and into the sea, so that the electricity is carried off. In these days ~obody hears of the destruction of'a vessel 1:y lightning. now, might in 1900, hope Ior success. but, with free silver as the result of a democratic victory on,he national field; the democratic party cannot be united. --Louis,q]le Post (Sound Money Dem.). ~70ut west the people are under the impression that President McKinley eouducted the war in a proper manner. They are not looking at the matter through the wrong end of the tele- scope.--Cincinnati Commercial Trib- une, ~One of the last acts of demoeratie administration before the civil "war be- gan was to Sorrow money at 12 per ceut. a year. while a ~epubtiean administra~ tins during the war borrowed at six per cent More tha~ 30 years later a demo- cratic administration in time of pean~ borrowed $262.000,000 at 4~,~ per eerie, and a sneeeeding republican admini.~- tration borrows $200,000,000 in time ol wnr at three per eent. Sueh facttt at these are not acoAdents.---l~dianal~alil Journal. Z. d