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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.
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