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Young Bowers looked at u
fused way. “What do jroa
demanded. #
"I maun { bare played yen
I A ahip had been driven ashore in one of
the fiercest gales of November, and when
the news came there were known to be
a number of men still on board, in peril
of their lives, and unable to get away.
There was a chance for a magnificent
story if 1 couli*get there before they
were rescued, and I lost no time.
The chance was caught, and 1 was
bard al work in my room in tho village
tavern, sending copj^-page by page to
tho telegraph office by a boy who was !
chartered for tbs night, when he brought 1
me word that there was a man down '
stairs who was verysuuions to seo me.
"Tell him I can't sse % him to-night nn- I
lees he has Important news," 1 growled 1
rent the telegram to rouse yon from— 1 '
And then 1 went on and preached the
first and hut Thanksgiving sermon 1
ever delivered.
Young Bowers listened in silence
When I was through he said, "Thank
yon, old man.” As be shook my hand J
knew I had said enough.
When be had yielded to his mother’s
pleading, ami had promised to stay at
home instead of going back to tha big
city, the Dowers family was the happiest
one on Cspe God. He admitted, with a
hi ash that 1 honored him for, that his
snd not work had paled his cheeks.
And the prayer and praise of that
Thanksgiving day were as wonderful as
the feast of turkey and pie and all of
nature’s bounties that I enjoyed as I
never enjoyed • feast before.
And if frier's Mend docs not take his
Thanksgiving dinner in that hotue every
year it is beoanas he can’t get there.
There is always a chair art for him.
David a. Oram.
Blood Purifier
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Thanksgiving Oinn^.
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slightest, idea of ?• bat y* |i ;•
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MAMSGIVING STORY.
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an uub is only a stage of development. I “1 guess It’s all right," said 1, thong)
bat it is the last stago that a good many l had the came feeling; but he con tinned
men reach j "Don’t go away. If he- doesn’t collie in
Bowen responded readily enough; he j by 11 you will have to go and r^’ ei
waa one of those who tell any casnnl the atory.”
friend all their aspirations and grief -. I In a few minutes Bowen caiuo hi
You love them for their ways even while j stupidly drunk, it was tho fint time Le
yon deplore their folly. He talked the bad ever offended so grievously, and our
usual stuff that captivates so many boys | •'unaxemeut was great when it transpired
when they begin feeding the prow with i that ho was unable to writ3 or even to
they consider ideas. Ho waa iti tell his story.
love with Boheigianism. And Bohe-
tnianisin meant to him, as it docs to ao
many, the writing of verses, the drink
ing of much tipple, the iguoring of regu
larity in all the (mbits of life and the
constant association with other similarly
nided yonth. Bowen thought he
1 took a cab and went over his ground
os rapidly ns possible, managing to get n
fairly good account of the shooting in
type before the paper went to press, but
Bowen was discharged peremptorily.
1 hunted him up in a day or two and
asked him how it happened. He de-
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H'llow IJfO'U Aiuarbuis. iiu.
on Cape Cod was
once listening im
patiently to a
friend who was
describing the
rush and bustle
of Boston's busi
est streets. After
a few momenta
she interrupted:
"You needn’t tell
me," she said; "1
know all about It. Haiu't I l»een over to
North Bridgewater?" I know this is
true, for my grandmother told me of it.
and she hsul no talent for fiction.
P. Wintbrop Bowen went to New
York with some Cuj** Cod ideas, though
ixriutps none of them was quite as pro-
tionncod as the old lady's. Peter tlicy
called him at home, but ho was deter-
in nod to be a city man. That was the
re man lie got into trouble. And of all
t»e men on the staff BoWt*rs had tho
greatest faculty for getting into the most * of bis type doesn't kill that _
kinds of troublo at once. None of ns ’ the first year or two. Fortunately for story, bnt it inado mo anxious about
knew why the city editor took hijn on, him tho woman was not in a many ing Bowen.
aitd the longer ho stayed with tut tho less j mood just then, or if sho was she dared , Luckily I knew tho dotectives who
we nndentood it To lx? sure he had a not, for two of her husbands were in the ; ' T ero investigating tho case, and 1 got
hrnrtjr, good natured way with him that | city watching her very closely. Of them to lay tho full details of her career
i-iptljnkh deverybody whoknuwhim. Wo course Bowers knew nothing of that before the boy Bowers had got his lea-
{him Cociifciil'Bowarsaftcr She told him sho was a widow. It *»•
nmustHl her, I supi>osc, to piny with the j It would have been a severe one for a
boy’s feelings. Sho was young enough, stronger man. it seemed for a ‘ few
perhaps, to tako pleasure In vain imagin- weeks as if it would bo altogether too
ing, for she was only thirty or forty severe for Bowen. Somehow 1 didn't
years older than be, having been born look on him as m more unit in tho multi-
five years earlier than he was. Natural- tnde in those days. It really seemed to
ly she had no good influence whatever be worth while to try to save him.
1 was getting dubious about succeeding
could write verses, and hud learned with j dared that he had been drugged by
what facility be could do all tho rest f intimate friend of the woman to whom
Bowers kept along, doing his work be had gone for fuller particulars than
fairly well, bat never rising above me- be could get in the routine way. He
Jiocrity, and managing by several imr- saw as plainly us I that the drugging
row shaves to escape tuo dismissal that had been an idiotic attempt to keep the
might perhaps have made a man of him. news out of the paper we worked for.
when one day he had the Inck to maho but wlwt be could not bo made to ae-
tlie acquaintance of ao adventure**. knowledge was that the woman bo loved
bitter but! a chapter for Bow- 1 Trim worthless. He raved about injured
is it could easily l»e, for he fell in ,
with her, or thought he did, in
manly, honorable fashion and wanted j
herb' marry him.' Boheinlaniam even 1
innocence, nn<1 declared that she bad
shot the man in her own defense.
This showed plainly -enough that it
was a good thing for tbs paper that
Bowers had been unable to write the
iyu
kot to calling him Cocktail -Bowers after
the firfct week Is-canse his laugh was in-
fecthm*. and Billing* declared that it
u'A- Itviit-r than a cocktail to meet him
in the morning.
/ Tv city editor waa very ahy of cock-
fa Us HU prede-* .vior was enjoying a
year’s vacation. tboat pay, in couse-
qucnce of certain lunU.tir.enccs that had
come to tin* notice of the chief, and ho
had been chosen, we all thought, 00 ac
count of his rigid virtue tather than be
ast*# of any ether I Chaos. That might
have been one reason why ho took Bow
ers on. Anybody could see in a minute
that Rowers had never l*een on a jam
boree in his life.
tie lost no time. !u somewhat less
•uin a week bo showed np an hour lata
-i the ofiicu. a gorgeous picture of t*m-
■i»ty ruii*. The pallor of hit face vraa
hefa tb-it chalk would liavo made a
dark murk dowu 1>U cheek, and hia eyes
M i fed like twb red, vising moons, with
ifarMoutJ* around them. 8oma of tha
youngsters laughed, and the older men
woodered whether be would catch tbo
reaction soon. Bower! laughed.
The reactiou didn’t come. Sometimes
ft happens ao. though from watching
the habits of sncccnsire generations of
youngsters we rather expected it, when
the man was really a man at the bottom.
It doesn't take very many yarn to be
come a veteran in reporting, find if a
man gets beyond bis third or fourth year
ba * likely to turn out well enough, ac
cording to hi# nature. After five or six
(W trill either have settled Into tm In*
definable, or havs gotten a start up*
They had to he answered though, and
t wb. 1 all my tfas lay as lightly on my
const lenca as thorn I committed in 4ha
next fifteen minutes. It waa plainly Ira-
pouri'4* to tell aU tha truth to this
ngptd, earnest, simple, whita* haired
Puritan. And I found ItaquaBy impoa*
rihle to resist hia insistent inritatJoo to
visit hia home and tell “mother" aU tha
glad news I bad told him. It waa easy
to plead fatigue aa an excuse fornot go
ing that night, but In the morning J
mnatga The short way waa to accept
There was always tha plea of nrgent
business. ,
In the morning, though, “ifatlter
Bowers" drove over with the old gentle-
man, and of all the dear old ladles that
ever gVddencd the eye she was the
dearest. 1 could see at ooco why her
scapegrace son waa everybody's favorite
He had her eyes.
It was Tueeday. and aba had come to
get Peter’s friend to spend Thanksgiving
in the old homestead. They had ex
pected day ty ny to hear that Peter
was coming, r zi hadn’t given it up yet.
but whether he came or opt I couldn't
go away. I pleaded work and the no-
cefcity for getting back to the city at
once, bnt such n look of pain enmo In the
gentle face that 1 wavered and gave np
’ One sneaking thing I did. There was
much telegraphing to do yet about tho
wreck, and of course I was busy all day.
But before any copy went to the paper a
short dispatch went to the prodigal son.
It read, “Come home at onco if yon want
to hjo your mother alivo," and it was
•Ignod Peter Bowers. That would bring
him if anything would. And I told the
old people that probably young Peter
w*s intending to give them a surprise.
That was why ho had not written.
“It wouldn't bo much of a surprise to
see him come homo for Thanksgiving,"
said his mother smiling, but the wistful
longing and doubtto her sweet eyes told
a different story.
80 we went to the old farm house, and
as 1 knelt with the family at their even
ing prayer, and listened to tho caruwt
eloquence of the old man praying for
the youngest son to bo preserved from
tho temptations of agreatdty, I shud
dered to think what sorrow I could have
brought them by telling tho truth.
Next day I drove over to tho village
and attended to what business I had
left, which waa little, for the sensation
waa over. Then I went to meet tbo
train on which I hoped to find young
Bowers. He waa there, and 1, forgetting
for the moment that he did not expect
to see me, was surprised when he {Mused
me with a slight nod. I hurried after
him, though, and caught bis arm.
“Don’t detain me," said he, “my mo
ther is dying." Aud I was very glad to
see the pain in his eyes. He was not
really bad.
“Your mother is perfectly well," I
said, “and is at this minnte busy get
ting my Thanksgiving dinner readv.“
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Tin* Hud,. Tli, Ifltlo Trouft-r. and Ih# Hoy.Fiiriil.lilun: ff»t.
Impatiently; bnt tbo boy replted, "Ho i niotber wo, ri*htln thinking that mm- . and 'Ja|» boolu tn*n, iho tn.n Ixrln to thin, of ctuniliaPnMnl
Mdft^vont to Interrupt yon, ho «oys, lint |aper work m too wrwo forhbhcoltb, I 'tVve on. n M railing our .loroTIm' Hidhira’ Clothing mu
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