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trwiif the best, (Mir
tioit of the (trout
Empire State
the Booth,
all its wonderful
and varied indue -
tries meet and are
rarrisd on with greatest snecres. and is thus
able to offer inducements to all classes so. k.
ing a homo and a profitable career. These
are the reasons for a growth that is incrcas-
n(/ Its popular i in almost defy railroad tacit
ft has ample and and sufficient sufficient ra—-—
ties; ioa- (,ho the Bfwnm' eoconi ' rtnint. point In in importance impoi'tJlUOe OD on the th<
Central railroad i . between between the the capital capita) capital of of of thf thr
le
Bl ate. forty miles distant, and tod its its independent principal princ\p»
seaport. seaport. HCO 900___ miles away ; an ol
line to Ohntfunoogb and the West by way
the Barannah, Griffin and North Alabama
Railroad; tne principal city on the Georgia
Midland and Golf railroad, one hundred
miles long, bnilt largely through ita Atlanta own en
terprise and soon to tie extended to
and the systems of ths Northeast,, direct
connection with the great East Tennessee.
Virginia and ileotgia railroad s system, art
other road graded and eoon to l e built—al-
bringing in trade aud carrying out goods
and manufacturers. flower
That this is the very cream and ol
the agricultural, and hor icnltural portions
of the Btnte is evidenced by the fact
thattbe State of Geo- ;ia and the United
States unanimously chose it as the ails loi
the Experiment Station, against the strong
efforts of every other section- It has two
crops that never tail, beiug cotton, the most
important crop in the South, and grapes,
which are growing to eurpuas cotton in thr
county. half decade
Griffin's record during the past
proves it to be one of the most progressive
cities in the South.
It has bnilt two large cotton factories rep,
resenting *250,000 and shipping goods all
over the world.
It hue put up two large iron and brass foun¬
dries, a fertiliser factory, a cotton eeed oil
mill, a sash and blind bottling factory, aplowfactory
an ice factory, works, a broom
factory, a mattress factory, a wire fence
factory and various smaller enterprises.
It has put in an electric tight plant by
which the streets are brilliantly lighted.
of It has completed giving an complete extensive system
waterworks, furnishing protection
against where. fire, and water every
It has laid several miles ol street railroad
for convenient transportation over its large
area.
It has opened up the finest and largest
granite ballasting quarry in the State, for building,
and macadamizing purposes
it has secured a eotton compress w.tn e
full capacity for its large and fan reusing re
eapts of this Sout hern st aple.
It hos established a J.vstem of t raded put-
lie schools, with a seven years curriculum,
BBcohd to none, and has just erected one o
the largest und fiuest school buildings in the
State in addition to the torroer commodious
Structure. *
It has organize-1 two new banks, makings
total of four, with combined reuourees o
Halt a million dollars.
it has built two handsome new churches,
making a total of ten. handsome business
It has built several
blocks and many beautiful residences, tin
building record oi each year averaging
$150,000. It has-attracted around its borders fruit
growers irom nearly every Slntein the Unior
and Canada, anlil it is suriouuded on evorj
side bv orchards and vineyards, and has lie-
come the largest and best fruit section in tin
State, a single car load of its peaches netting
>1,880 in the height, of the Beason.
It has doubled its wine making capacity,
maki ugb i both French und German, methods
both by individuals and by a large wine
company incot porated from in 1891. cyclones, flood
It has been exempt -
and epidemics, and by reason of ito topo
graphy will never be subject to them.
With an altitude of l,15t) feet above the
■ea level, its healthfu news baa attracted gen¬
eral attention.
It has just secured the permanent military
encampment of the State, adding about
>100,000 to its revenues every yeur.
With all these and other evidences of a
live and growing town, with u bealth'nl ana
pleasant climate summer and winter, »
hospitable aud cultured people, product aud of a soil th<
capable of producing semi-tropic any Griffin offer-
temperate inducement or and zone, hearty welcome to
every a
new citizens ,
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found it impossible to k ep it, although I
had to sell it very dear, on account of it
costing so much to get it here. Friends are
begging me to send for more.
by ■•The Dr. H Baptists iwthoroe, like it becanse i' is endorsed
the Methodists because
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who do not, care for either, because it is en¬
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here for Gcrmctarr anti! roy ltox came and I
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Mbs. Helix K. Dumas.
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G.A.R.NOTICE
We take this opportunity of informing
onr subscribers that the new Commissioner
of Pensions has been appointed. He is an
old soldier, and we believe that Soldiers and
their heirs will receive justice at his hands.
We do not anticipate that there will be any
radical changes in the administration of
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advise, however, that U 8. sol¬
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make application at once, if they have not
already the done so, filing in order to secure the benefit
oi early of their claims in case
there should be any fature pension legisla*
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Executor’s Sale.
By virtue of an order granted by the Court
of Ordinary of Spalding county, Oeorgia, at
the Oclobcr ter 1 .1 will Hell at public sale be¬
fore tne door of the court house in Qtiffin,
♦ieorgla, on the first Tuesday in December
next, between the legal hours of sale, the to'-
to*ini. descr b»ni projjerty belonging to tbe
estate of T. H. Connell, late ot said county
d»ceased, to-wit:
Three hundred and fifty-nine No. 45 acres, more
or less, being part of »ot or mi of
s id lot north of Cabin creek in said count'.
containing one hundred and ninety-II re acres,
more or lees. ie*s about on acre right in
front of the mill; also the northeast cornet
of lot No. 2<», or ail of said lot nort n of a *in
creek, containing twenty am lot s, No more or le>s;
sis > the south half *>f 52 exempt
eleven acres off of the w.*sfc end o said ball
lot, containing (Jess said exc pt»on) otic hui»
dred and four acre*, more «*r le*s—further ex¬
cepting out of said half lot one half ocr*
arou' d graveyard; also twenty^five acres,
more or less, out ot tbe east eud of the north
half of lot No. 52* bounded and marked*as
follows, commencing at the northeust cori.er
of said lot No. 5 ‘a aud running south to the
centre of said line, thence ronning due wee*
forty five rods, thence running due north to
the north line of said lot, thence down sa'd
line to the beginning corner—except two
acres oB ot said twenty-five acres, the game
being the present site of Ringgold l odge;
also eighteen aerie out of the northwest cor¬
ner of lot No. 77, bounded on the north by
J. J. Walke-, on the east by lan s formerly
owned by Elijah Allen, on the south by tbe
estate of Tbos. B. Connell, on tbewtstby
the McIntosh road and A. J. Welden. Sold
for distribution and payment of debts.
Terms cash.
I, W. H-uder»on will )>• on th» premisos to
show to any om who wishes to look at it.
IL fl. CONNELL. Exrentor
BE SURE TO CALL AT
DEANE & HUFF S
A JIB SEE THEIR-
FOR FOR
YOUNG OLDER
PEOPLE. PEOPLE.
Greater Variety and Lower Prices Than Ever Betore.
.....Something in stock to suit Everybody.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
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Arrivals, Departures and Happeninai
of a Day in a Great City.
mit soi.dibb or uorie.
The patriot who, on tbe field of strife,
Took in his breest a sheaf of spears,
Foond in his death a. glorious life.
In a world of fame tbronirh eternal yean.
Will there no recompense be for swa-ns
burdened with too snee-ptible hearts.
Who b re their bresete to the multiple pains
Of a sheaf or more of the love god’s darts?
.J. R. Stoner, of Atlanta, was in the
city .yesterday,
Joe Neely, of Louisyille, will spend
today in tne city.
R. A. Pbinazee, of Forsyth, was In
the city yesterday.
A. D. Granger, of Molenu. was in
the city yesterday.
S. W. Wood, of Philadelphia, was
ia the city yesterday.
Murray Hays, of Collins, Ga,,
speDt yesterday in the city.
All tbe sick people are doing as
well as could he expected.
Miss Nellie Grant will give a taffy
pulling next Tuesday night.
Miss Mattie Matthews is spending
the week at C'ol. J. D. Boyd’s.
Howard Watt, of Atlanta, is
spending a few days in tbe city.
See our ad.
R. F. Strickland & Co.
M. L. Bates, of Atlanta, was visit¬
ing his old Gritfin haunts yesterdey.
House slippers, in Russian leather,
for Christmas presents.
R. F. Strickland & Co.
,T. P. Hamuiond went dowp t ,0
Milledgeville last niirht, called by
the illness of bis mother.
All our dress goods at actual first
cost for next three weeks.
R. F. Strickland & Co.
The Central railroad authorities
Sty they will use incandescent lights
in sll their offices if the city will pot
them in.
Albert Nelms and family, of Hous¬
ton, Texas, are expec‘ed here to¬
morrow, called by the illness of Mrs.
A. M. Nelms.
Two bicyclists arrived here last
night on their way from Chicago to
Florida. Th»y had been five weeks
on the way.
The city election comes off next
Wednesday and it seems that past
records will again tie broken by tbe
unanimous re election of the full
ticket of four councilmen.
By tbe consent of both parties,
John Asber’e store was opened yes¬
terday morning and business re¬
sumed, the proceeds of all sales to be
turned over to Temporary Receiver
Patrick.
Mrs. P. B. 8. Ford, of Atlanta,
(nee Miss May Paille, of Griffin,) ar¬
rived in the city last night and is
visiting friends and relatives for a
few days, after which she and her
husband will go to Florida.
A thirteen year old boy of Pink
Scott, a colored man on the Askew
place, unloaded near town, was playing with
an his pistol yesterday and
shot nine year old brother
through the heart, killing him in¬
stantly.
Lem Atkinson was bound over to
superior court under a 9250 bond
yesterday, in default of which be was
sent to jail, for tbe burning of W. P.
Walker’s barn. Two other negroes
were tried aud discharged as acceso-
ries in tbe same offense.
Lee Penn, formerly of Griffin, but
recently of Valdosta, arrived in tbe
city yesterday Patrick, morning accompanied
by J. W. of this place, aud
is stopping at the Hotel van Pat¬
rick, on quitedifferent Broadway. He savs Griffin
looks to bim from what
it did when he was here last, though
that was only a few months ago.
We would ask the careful reading
by every voter of tbenstatemtot by
the city council on tbe first page in
regard to a new system of electric
lights. It leaves nothing more to
be said, and simply leaves tbeques-
* ion as to whether or not tbe tax¬
payers want to continue paying
$4,000 a year for the present system
■>f lights, or want to have a great
«feal better system at absolutely do
cost to the city. There cun be but
one sane answer to such a question,
and ft should be recorded in unmis¬
takable tones next Wednesday.
T.» All Men.
You are cordially invited to be at
the Y. M. €. A. hall today at 4:15,
and join in tbe hearty singing they
nave there, and hear an Bddmss by
Or. T L. Harris, that will certainly
be worthy of yonr closest attention.
D elicate Women
Or Debilitated Warns, should aaa
BRAQFIEUTS FEMALE BE6QLAT0R.
Every ingredient possesses superb Tonic
properties and exerts a wonderful influ¬
ence in toning up and strengthening her
channels system, by all driving through the proper
impurities. Healtn and
strength guaranteed to result from its use.
"My wire, who was bnirtSdas hr .tab
<«a months, after astag SrsdjbU’i
gettiag Female Regulator writ.” taw two mouths Is
J *• Jo»rso*. Mslrsra, life,
a
HUNG TO A TREK.
Tbe Murderer of Arthur Reynolds
Receives His Just Deserts.
As predicted by the News and 8cn.
the outraged citizens of West Pike
did not wait for the slow delays of
the law but executed summary ven-
| geance upon the murderer of poor
| Arthur Reynolds Friday night. He
was bung to a tree near tbe scene of
his crime and riddled with bullets,
There was no doubt about the
guilt of tbe negro Lucius Holt.
Tbe bloody brass knucks fitting into
the wounds of the head, blood on the
clothes, the wristbands of bis shirt
cut off t.o hide pert of tbe stains, the
pocket book and money io his pock¬
et, all V|ere strong circumstantial ev¬
idences; but his owu confession was
sufficient aboye all. The coronet’s
jury soon found a verdict of murder,
and the citizens simply executed the
proper decree in such cases.
Tbe negro George Wimbisb, impli¬
cated only by Holt’s statement, was
carried to Zcbulon to await stronger
evidence._
Cotton Receipts.
Tbe warehouse receipts for the
past week have been 1,239 bales
and the receipts yesterday were 148
bales. Receipts by rail 300 bales,
making a total of 1,539 bales
This brings tbe aggregate receipts
for the season up to 22,337 bales.
* Hood’s Sarsaparilla has cured
o
many afflicted with rheumatism,and
we urge till who suffer from this dis¬
ease to give this medicine a trial.
Onr prices Cheaper on Gold than
Watches are
ever before. NOVELTY €0.
Stolen.
From my stable Thursday night 4
miles touut h ot Griffin on Zebulon
road a mule 14% hands high, reddish
color, 8 years old, in good order, the
skin tubbed off hind ankle by a rope.
I will pay a liberal reward for the
apprehension of the thief or the cap¬
ture of the mule. The mule was car¬
ried in the direction of Zebulon.
d&wlt J. G. Kilgore.
Before you buy a Wed-
ding Present see the ele¬
gant Hue of goods at the
NOVE LTY €0.
WANTED—Good special Bgent, for
Griffin and viciuity for the Ordinary
Department of tbe Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company of New York.
Good territory and excellent con¬
tract to right man. &Co
Cobb, Cabaniss ,
dec3t>3. Geu’f Ag’ts, Macon, Ga.
N. B. Drewrj, druggist, recom¬
mends Johnson’s Oriental 8oap for
all skin and scalp diseases. Try it.
€ake and Candy.
Mis. Ida Judkins, at her residence
on .South Sixth street, is prepared candies to
make all kinds of cakes and
to order. All orders will receive
prompt attention. The patronage
of the public solicited. (tC)
sirMssuv sMinuiu wieisr.
Chicago, Dec. 2 .— A double suicide
occurred at the Virginia hotel here. The
dead bodies of Victor Cyrier, a young
drug clerk, and of Mrs. L. E. Caron, the
wife of a druggist, in whose employ Cy¬
rier was at one time, were found in the
same room by the chambermaid. The
woman, who was several years the senior
of Cyrier, and a beautiful little brunette,
had died by poison. and Cyrier died had shot
himself three times, stretched
across the foot of the bed in which the
woman lay.
An Anarch bt’* Doom.
Pittsburg, Dec. Noel Maison, the
French anarchist who waylaid and killed
Mrs. Sophia Roes and brutally beat her
hnsband at Calamity, ga., a few months
ago, has been sentenced to death in the
criminal court. At tbe trial it was al¬
leged that the motive for the murder
was that Roes was in possession of a se¬
cret of Maison to go to Canada and blow
np the government buildings. Maison
took the sentence coolly, not seeming to
realize its awful import.
Sant Up for Ninety-Nine Yean.
Denison, Tex., Dec. 2.—Dick Ed¬
wards, the quadruple murderer, who, on
tiie night of May 17, 1892, in this city,
killed Mrs. Hattie Haines, Lena Haw¬
ley, Maude Krummer and Rose Stew¬
art, has been, given a He sentence of 99 years
in the penitentiaiy. was tried and
convicted only on the charge of killing
Mrs. Hattie Haines, the evidence pro¬
duced being purely c ircum stantial.
There is Hope
For everv one who has blood trouble, no matter
IB what shape vital or how long have stsutiiiv, provided far im¬
none of tbe organ* been so
paired » to render a cure impossible 8. 8- 8
goes to tbe root of the disease, anil removes the
cause, by exvaosog the poison fromthe body, and
St the same time is a tonic to tbe whole hope system.
However bad your case may be, there is
FOR YOU.
KISHI _ ■MW» Cured me of a most ut .'mint typ*
of ehroute blood r ! ' - ho e
1 had used varioo* other remedies
without ImprtOd effect. My weight increased. i»d nf
health In every way. 1 consider 8. 8.8.
the best tonic I ever seed. _
Wbau matted free. 8WIFT
CURB
MB pslnful anil eBldott a peneauout rare, Wfai and often
rwumns In rtiMtii, uaueoewarr. anOure
^?.i*?2%4 , ^^naSW8'nS »1 box, for IS. Ban* by mail.
txfloeBU recaivad. a V
Uuarsntaaa lamed by our ageoM.
35 GUARANTEES tamed by
way
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THE HOMECOMING.
bt o. t. rsnrns.
—
,Copyright, 1888, by American Drew Aaaocia-
ttou.l
When the congregation song the grand
chorus of “ Praise God from whom all bless¬
ings flow” at the close of the Thanksgiving he
service. Farmer Ashford feit that had
very much to be thankful for. He was
"warm” in this world’s goods, and a big
form, sleek herds, fat granaries and money
at Interest mode him notable among the
rural folk of Fairfield. Yet even bis whole¬
some his piety scanned could not the withhold places a deep in sigh tbe
as eye empty Will
family pew. There were bis son and
his handsome wife, who had come home
for the great feast of the year.
WUl had been proaperous in Boston and
was all that a father’s heart, could wish—
upright, highly honored as man and mer¬
chant and on tbe road to riches. There wa»
his adopted daughter Kate, a distant rela¬
tive by blood, who made him aud his wife
almost forget that they had buried all their
own girls. But the partner of his joys and
sorrows for 45 years was at home feeble
from a terrible attack of illness, half blind
and almost lied ridden. This Thanksgiving
day would be the flyat time she would have
eat at the table for six months. The deep
sore place, however, was the thought of
Tom, the son, who had been away for 10
years, a wanderer on the face of the earth.
"Will,” said the farmer as they jogged
home, “do you know it’s morin five years
gone since we’ve had a line from your
brother, though I try to think he Is still
Hvin. Tom, though wild an onsteady, had
a warm heart an ’pears to me l*e would
a-written to his mother, who’s been pinin
for bim so long. I tell ye, Will, ’twas less
that fever which left your mother so poor¬
ly than her heart sickness for Tom, dear
soul. Oh, why did he ever leave a good
homef”
Will had the cheerful optimism life, which
so often goes with an easy and then,
too, be was anxious to comfort the old
mam
“Don’t feel that way about it, father.
Tom will turn np all right yet, and he’ll
burst in on you some day as lively as a
cricket. There never was a fellow better
able to take care of himself than Tom, if
be was a little Wayward. He always did
like to do the most odd and unexpected
things. Why, do you know, there was the
captain of one of our ships who was swept
overboard in a gall ami thought to be lost
for seven years. He was picked up at sea*
and the ship which rescued him was
wrecked In the south Pacific. Tbe things
be went through before be got home would
almost make your hair stand up. And the
romance was he returned just in time to
stop his wife marrying anot her man—pretty
nearly an Enoch Arden business.”
“Well, well!” said the farmer, “I wish
we could make mother think as you do,”
shaking his gray bead sadly. “Thanks-
givin always opens np tbe old wound
fre&her’n ever. I sometimes almost hate to
have the plate an the cheer all set there
with trathln but empty air In ’em, but she
•will have it so.”
Kate had listened to these words with a
throbbing heart. She scarcely attended to
the lively chatter of her companion on the
back seat. She could have told them some¬
thing which she fancied might have shed a
little light on Tom’s sudden departure
from home long ago, but she was not quite
sure, and she had always recoiled, too, with
a maidenly shame from spiking of such
guesswork. Benjamin of the fam¬
Tom had been the
ily, bom 10 years after Will, and when he
was growing up to manhood the elder
TBE TRT8T.
brother was plodding toward success tn the
big city. Three girl children bad been
swept away untimely, and Kate Sanborn
had grown np in tbe family to fill a dough-
ter’t place to the old people and that of a
sister to Tom. She was a lovely girl of 17,
the belle of the countryside, at the time of
Tom’* abrupt leavetaking. She coaid never
forget what had happened that day. They
had just returned from the picnic, to which
she had been eseqfted by Seth Warner, who
owned the adjacent farm. Tom said to her
under t he apple trees, with a choking voice:
“Kate, I hope you have fchosen Bnt wisely,
and that you’ll be very happy. you
know I never liked bim. I may be wrong
though. But don’t keep it from father and
mother. As for me”—and tbe boy (he was
scarcely 20) turned away with a grinding
of his teeth and a catch of tbe breath and
strode toward the barn to finish up tbe
evening chores. The hwwildered girl was
completely in the darkyat these words, and
there was no chance Too/ tcraxk tor explanation.
Before morning who had eat sileutiy
with a gloomy face and kissed his mother
over and over with unusual tenderness for
good night, had gone away like a thief in the
dark. It had come to Kate afterward that
Tom had loved her with something more
(ban a brother’s love; and in tbe light of
that revelation her innocent heart uncaged
its own sby secret. How could she even
hint this fancy aud the wretched blunder
it bred to those she so dearly loved, whom
it had perhaps bereaved of a son? Shecould
only grieve in secret. mind
Will, to divert his father's from a
distressing subject, turned to Kateand said
laughingly:
“I suppose Seth Warner will be at tbe
house tonight When are you going to re¬
ward that poor fellow for his devotion? A
squire faithful for a dozen years deserves
some reward in these fickle times. I call
that true love.”
“Yes,” said tbe farmer. “Seth has served
for Kate almost as long as Jscobdid for
Rachel. He’s one of the best young men
in Fairfield. I dunno wfiat the ebnrcb
would do without him. A good farm, plen¬
ty of money, a kind heart an a man of
most improvin conversation. Kateconldn't
do better if ahe ever wants to change her
home, an then it would be for only a stone’s
throw."
“Father Ashford,” said Kate in a low
voice, with her pale cheek homing red and
almost angrily, “when I leave yon ’twill
never be to marry Seth Warner. He It too
•ZZ'nS'm.mm. Warner. Von know u*. friend *, of
b«’» « great
mine ana now murri t wijny nia -won*
words in season and onto! season. Why,
he exhorts as much In private aa Parson
llates does in the pulpit,” said young Sirs. I
Ashford mischievously.
The farmer glanced did reproof Uk« at hiadangh-
twr-lu-taw, for he not to have t<i»
favorite ridiculed, but now they had driven
to the front door of the spacious farm¬
house, and the keen eye of the old man
noted a strange figure standing at the pal¬
lor window. The hired man, Gideon, came
running out te take tbe horses, full of ax-
dtenient.
"What d’ye think, Mr, Ashford,” the
words tumbling from bla mouth, “thara’a
‘
TH* WEPRtt*.
• strange man her* with news about onr
Tomf” Gideon had worked on tbe Ash¬
ford farm since be was • boy and feit him¬
self a member of the family.
The scene that met them In tbe parlor
wae Indeed a surprise. Old Mr*. Ashford,
whom they had left tnoked up in aa easy
chair (she had Insisted that they should ail
go to church, and that Jane Maxey, their
neighbor, who waa helping In the kitchen,
would look out tor her), waa standing on
her feet trembling with eagerness. Her
eyes, that could scarcely see, were bent on
tbe stranger with wide open, pitiful intent
"Oh, father, father! Tom is alive and
may come home at any time. This ie a
gentleman from the west and a friend of
his, Mr.—Mr.— I didn’t quite oatefa the
name.”
“John Bowker, ma’am,'is my name, at
your service,” said the newcomer in a
hoarse voice; perhaps it was huskinese,
And then all plied him eagerly with quee-
tiona While the stranger’s answers were
apparently frank, Will, shrewd man of the
world that he wee, fancied a note of oonfu
sloe in the words.
Could it be Tom himself masquerading?
But, no. This waa a stalwart giant, bigger
than Tom’* young promise. The shock of
black locks lay low on the brow, and the
bushy beard grew to tbe very eyre. And
there was no cadence of the past lurking in
the tones, so often tbe surest of detectives,
Mr. John Bowker said he had known Tom
well in tbe mining regions; bad seen him
indeed only two months ago in Arizona.
Tom was heartily homesick and had set
his will on eating hi* next Thanksgiving
dinner at home. “Seeing as bow, ma’am,’’
addressing himself to the old lady, who de¬
voured every word, “be knew I was a lone¬
ly body, and that I was going back to God’s
oountry about, the same time, he a*y» to
me, says Tom: ‘John Bowker, you must
eat'your Thanksgiving turkey with me and
my folk*. And if I ain’t there they’ll web
come you for my sake,' "
“An 10 times welcome you are for Tom’s
sake, though he hain’t here yet. for you
bring blessed news,” said tbe farmer, shak¬
ing the other's band over and over.
Kate, burning with curiosity. Bitted in
apd outof thewoom, for the culinary mys-
teries of a rural Thanksgiving are too sn¬
ored to be tampered with. Almost to the
last moment the New England housewife
ministers in person at tbe altars where
steam tbe fume* of savory victims. Poor
Kate had been sadly divided between the
voice of tbe stranger and the claims of the
hose turkey sputtering on the spit before
the fire. At last everything was ready, and
she darted to her room to change her gown.
Who doe* not recall the homely glories
of a country Thanksgiving feast—the gold¬
en brown turkey proudly lying in state and
reeking with the most delicious odors; the
roast duck* bursting with their own fat¬
ness, as if eager to be eaten; the chicken
pasty, within whose ample bowels tbs
mast delicious tidbits quiver In their owu
jelly; the luscious home cured bam, check¬
ered with islands of pepper and spice; tbe
splendors of pumpkin pie, yellow as gold
and piquant with a flavor which Apicius
would have loved, and the min* of minced
dainties bidden beneath a flaky crust!
These have been embalmed in song and
story, entombed in countless memories and
countless stomachs. Bottles of cider
flanked the profusion of good things on
Fanner Ashford's table. Will
down a ofSe of champagne, bat his father
•hook bis bead and said, “I tell ye, son,
these Frenchified things ain’t half as good
* my old Newtown pippin cider.”
As they stood around the smoking fsast
the old man said to the guest: “That place
at my right always remains empty for
Tom. Would he were now here to flit it,
sn mebbe he will before long.” table
The stranger looked about the at
each one, longest at tbe mother of the bouse.
He was trembling like a little child. With
a mighty voice, struggling with its sobs,
be exclaimed:
“Then let it be no longer empty,” and
tearing off the shock wig from bis bead,
“Mother, Enow father. home Kate, Will, don’t you
me? I’m again, thank God I”
One may well drop a Veil over tbe scent
We suspect the turkey got a little cold, but
what mattered that, for there are (easts of
the heart richer than any food for the body.
Yet later on Father Ashford did confide to
Tom: “This farm has fattened many a fine
bird, but I do think I never raised so tasty
a gobbler before. That there turkey
couldn’t ’a’ been beat on tbe president’s
own table.”
After dinner Tom sat for a long time by
his mother’s chair, the fondling bis band
aa if he were a baby, he telling them about
life la the wild west. Ofteu • look of pain
crossed his brow, and many a thing he
touched but lightly. At least so Will’s wife
fancied. That astute lady whispered to her
spouse, “I’m sure there’s something be¬
tween my new found brother and Kate.”
“D’ye think so?” with a lift of his eye¬
brows. “One can see it with half an eye,
yon goose I” and Mrs. Will crossed the
room.
“Dear mother,” she said, “you’re just
tired to death with excitement sod need
rest.” This was indeed true, though the
thirst of. that maternal heart, creyed still
THE VACANT CHAIR
deeper drafts ot To Tom, and and the the latter car
ried her up, tfatntly !y protesting, to t her own
_____ tn his strong arm*. The aam* dip
lomat beguiled the father away, and Tom
and Kata were left to themaalve*.
<^S3 a%!S$Z&r r
in the I
“•-vK’-T; .
limb-, -d'ye remember
almost my lan word* la j
I was? Why didn’t you mar
“Because I never cared for
“Never?” said Tom. “He decl
that yon and he were plighted
that yon didn’t wish father and
know it at pr«weut-that he was
promise to tel! even me.”
“it was false, false,” she said, With
nation. “How could such a thing be
when 1 —T“—breaking down and her
falling before tiiefatteura questioning of
own.
"My God! i. it—can Itbef” Kate’s figure
trembled with a silent assent, and be lifted
her from her feet and kissed her again and
again on check* and Up*. “And I have loft
years of precious life and love from that
knave’s wicked He!
“But Kata, my darling, I ought to bare
told you all about myself tint, for 1 bare
not been a good man. I came out to con¬
fess to you what l could never tatl that
eweet old saint and my dear father. Hear
me and judge mel
“J went west to the mining ssm
plunged into any evil that
memory, wandering from one
other, with various luck. Often
by the ruffians that swarmed thick as Au¬
gust flies, I finally grew as
guard aa any of them.” He felt tbe shad-
der of the woman be held In bis arms, but
went bravely on. “1 was ashamed to writs
often, and so my letters got few and (ewer.
1 slid ihto the tricks of the gambler whs
plays for bread, for it meant a heap less
bone ache to hunt the precious staff atop
than Wow the ground, It was like strong
drink or the rotting of a ripe melon. It
wormed so deep into tbe grain that I never
thought what I waa till I got a letter from
home.
“One night I was matched against an¬
other nigbthawk who preyed and on tbe camp.
The stake was large, at last l swept
the pile, My opponent clapped a swift
hand on his pistol butt. But I was too
quick for him. Twas my Ufa or hit. I
shot to kill; but, thank God, tbe wound was
not mortal. Half road with terror, I fled
from the aoenrsed place and took the t
for Denver. After that. Kata, 1 dared
Write home” Tom could not see
hverted face, but could fed the thri
ter “When beating heart Denver, I
1 reached enlisted In
the army, and It has made a man of me. j
might have got a commission, but 1 yearned
for home and for you, dear, though I vowed
no one should hear from m* till I had fully
canted tbe name of an honest man again.”
There was silence. Tom’* face
and strained. The wait was the
of one standing for sentence, ’
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