'*\i -i^. --ft 'THANKSGIVING." pieces of land, and thought of himself as tingley. "And to-morrow is Thanksgiving Meeting". OFFICIAL CANVASS. an heir, through God's mercy, of real-estate day. Is there a train goes back to-night?" FROM THE SPANISH. in a land where bills never go to BY BEV. JOHN HALL, D. D., N. Y. The Result of the Congressional Election "To-night?" said the hackman. "Why Mauy years have floated by protest. The minister passed on to the its past 11 a'ready! And my horses has' "Going to church, to-day, Fred.?" in Minnesota. Since we parted, she and I. family, and talked of the gentle life at got the epizootic, and I couldn't keep 'em "Well, I hardly know. I guess not. Now together here we stand, The canvassing board, composed of the home, the repose, the peace, the mutual out no longer, not for nobody. But Eve to eye and hand to hand. You will have to do the thanksgiving for Governoi, Secretary of State, and Chief confidance, the loves that could not be s'spose I could lake you to the 12:30 night the family. I havn't much to say in the Justice, with Attorney General as advisary, bought with money, and the live? of each express, for a little extra!" 1 can hear her trembling siehs, met at St. Paul on the 25th inst., line of thanksgiving." member broadened and deepened in the And this moderate specimen of the See the sweetness in her eyes. to canvass the votes for Congressmen. "Then come, Fred., and join in the lives of the .est, parents or children. Mr. tribe of hackmen consented to be satisfied Silently I hold and press Mr. Donnelly appeared with Jobn M. supplications. I have ever so much to Sibley forgot the office and thought of with $8 Her soft hand with tenderness. Gilman, and O'Brien & Eiler as counsel be thankful for. All my stocks have himself in his home. He dared not trust "Ma!" whispered Gervase, "Y, uere are to contes* the election with Mr. Washburn. kept up, Fred." himseif to look at his wife and children Silence, who shall fathom thee? we going?" Judge Flandrau represented Mr Who read the mystery "I'm glad to hear it. It is more than beside him, but he saw every one of "Home," said Mrs. Nettingley, pronouncing Hidden between loving eyes. Washburn. Protests were filed by Mr. I can say of mine. But I'd like to know them, and blessed them in bis heart. the word as if it were a pea-nutshell Burning hands, and answering sighs? Donnelly's counsel against the vote your investments." And so the minister's talk went onit she was cracking. There was one several counties, but all were overruled' was not much of a sermonand the service "Well, Fred.I have you, and I put comfort, though -the Badgerley family -Ilellen S. Conant, in Harper's Magazine and the result in the three districts wasdeclared ended. Mr. Sibley was observed by that down at half million I don't say Octobtr. would have been repulsed by that time as iollows: the gentleman who took up the collection that stock is going up. On the contrary, and, after all, cold beef was a cheaper to look happier than he haa seen First District. it is depressed a little to-day but without way of supplying the table than turkey I WISH I'D REMAINED AT HOME." him for many a day as he put his card reason, Fred. It will come up again. a at 30 cents a pound. ID s. a in the plate with two figures representing And I have the children put them down It was 1 or 2 o'clock the next day when A THANKSGIVING STORY. Counties. far more money than he put in his Docket. at a hundred thousand each, and they are she reached her own door, having r.aid A a "The Badgerleys coming here to spend ft appreciatingisn't that the word? .sp-s At the cturch door was Harry, laughing in hack and car fare enough to buy half every month. So I am thankful." Thanksgiving?" said Mrs. Nettingley. all overbut in a perfectly gentlemanly a dozen ten-pound turkeys, A with jaded 1,544 1,583 39 "Yes, Bessie! Yoa're like the fellow Cottonwood 386 36 way, as became a Junior. He had and fretful children, a violent headache 350 "Not if I know it." 1,241 625 who could make no showing to the man come home, come to church, slipped into on her own score, and one of the Mrs. Nettingley was a close-fisted and Faribault 1,02 0 693 327 he wanted for father-in-law. He consulted a back seat unnoticed by any one but traveling-bags lost! 2,030 2,184 "i54 calculating matron, who lived in a house 1,594 a lawyer. That astute gentleman asked 561 1,033 Lillie.who could have felt Harry's presence "I'll stay at home after this," said Mrs. in a stylibh neighborhood, in New York, 1,539 1,252 287 him would he take $30,000 for his in the Centennial Exhibition. The Nettinglt-y to herself. "Eh! Parlor i.10 55 and was one of those who, of her maid-olall-work nose. He said, no. Well, then, said the Martin 387 185 K7- rascal had sent the letter while he did window-blinds open! People talking expressed it, '-would skin a flee Mower 1,119 1,118 0 lawyer, you can tell him you have declined not feel quite sure that he could come, I do believe Nettingley's got company to to save the hide and tallow." Mrs. Nettingly 26 241 223 $20,000 for what you have. The though it would hardly have been so jolly Nobles 338 127 Thanksgiving, after all!" 211 liked to make a show, but she had Olmsted trouble is with you, and the man with 1,787 1,019 if he had not been pretty certain. And her heart sank down into the soles a deep-rooted aversion to spending Pipestone 65 34 31 the noseyou cannot realizemy trouble Mr. Sibley gave his arm to his wife, of her boots. It was quite true: the servant-maid, Rock 528 185 money. And entertaining company on exactly." Steele 1,405 845 660 with a cordiality which she felt. She with a red and flurried face, Thanksgiving day was one of the tilings 556 743 ""187 The foregoing conversation occurred in knew the heart that was beating behind opened the door. Watonwan that could not be accomplished without 639 177 the well-furnished apartment of Mr. and Winona it. But she neither lectured, nor preached 1,435 1,556 121 "Abby!" said Mrs. Nettingley, "who's the latter concomitant. Mrs Frederick Sibley, on the morning of nor said"Fred, I am glad you took my here?" Total 12,845 18,613 347 6,115 Mr. Nettingley, a little, weak-minded that Thursday which the President of the advice and came to church." She onlylooked Dunnell's maj 5,768 "Lts of people, ma'am," said Abby, man. who viewed his big Tu'-fe wib United States and the Governor of the peaceful and happy, and remarked lcoking guiltily over her shoulder. For Green, the Prohibition candidat e, 926 spectful admiration, looked dubiously at State had designated for national- ap- that it was "delightful that Harry loved "Where are they?" demanded her mistress. l,But, my dear,'" said he, "how are votes were cast, as follows: I Cottonwo 1, her. proach to God's throne, with grateful acknowledgments his home so much. Faribault 20, Fillmore 33, Freeborn 60, Houston you going to help it? They've sent word of Divine goodness 55, Jackson 2, Murray 1, Olmsted 58, Steele "Well, Bessie," volunteered Mr. Sibley, "In the dining-room, ma'am." they are coming." 104, Waseca 586, and Winona 6. I all 23 votes through the year. Of course, there was I believe you were right for oncefor And Abby threw open the door, thereby were returned '"scattering." "I'll go to your sister Belinda's, up in to be service in church, and the Rev. H. this once, mind. God is very goodfar disclosing a long table with three Saugatuck county." Carpentera sensible clergymanwould beyond what we deserve, and the il Is are huge turkeys well browned and savory, a SfcoutZ District. Mr. Nettingley felt of his chin. preach as usual. ighter than the blessings. I'm going to chicken-pie that was a small mountain "They haven't invited us," said he i Mr. Sibley was in business, and lived Poohler put you down among my assets at half a Strait'i in itself, and a glass reservoir of cranberry vote vote "that is not especially." Counties. at the rate of about fifteen thousand a million, and at ten per cent, punctually sauce, that set Mrs. Nettingley calculating "Oh, fiddlestick!" said Mrs. Nettingley. year, which dii not seem excessive in paid, and anything you like to say for at once as to the probable amount "Belinda's always glad to see rne what he called "good times.'" But the each of the children. I'm very glad of of dollars sunk in its crimson billows Brown 723! 570 and the children. And as for staying at "good times" dated prior to 1873, and Thanksgiving." while, seated in hospitable array around Carver 1,200J 654 546 home to goige Mrs. Badgerley and her ran into the war-days when the nation Chippewa 92' 340 258 the board, were Mr. and Mrs. Badgerley, Dakota six children, and Mr. Badgerley's twt sisters, 1,497| 1,035 was pouring out blood and treasure, 462 A Flyer's Sea Voyage. the two sisters, and the six children, Mr. Goodhue 1,384. 1,S3 553 I won't do it.' Why, such a turkey and he was heaping up bonds and stocks, and Mrs. Smithers, seven little Smitherses, 307| 52-J 215 Pierre Lorillard's famous horse the Duke as they would expect would cost $3, at Le Sueur varying his plans by an occasional "piece 1,4?4! 837 647 and the six Leonards of Maine, second i4i of Magenta, the best 3-year-old colt in the Lincoln 39j 181 the very least. Get me a timetable, of property." These "pieces" would not Lyon cousins of her husbandtwenty-six in all I8b| 508 country, was shipped to England yesterday 320 Nettingley. Send word to Mrs. Badgerley go off at their expected prices, the McLeod 1.032! 717 315 -including her husband. in the steamship Egypt, of the National Nicollet 487, 611 that I've gone away to spend Thanksgiving." "l24 scale having been mentally set during the line. Elmwood, a mere hack, occupies the "Mrs, Nettingley and her children sat 218 387 169 good times, and they would not stay next stall to him, and as they are old stable 421| 45C 26 down ani ate their Thanksgiving dinner Rice Mr Nettingley, who never dreamed of without costing a good deal. At the 1,119| 1,716 597 neighbors, fellowship between them may with what appetite they might. But Nettingley Scott. l,291j h23 opposing his wife's will in this or any same time many of the bonds and stocks shorten the voyage. Each horse occupies a had rather a hard time of it that l,2B6l 322 944 otlier matter, wrote the letter accordingly, stall on the main deck, lined with jute-stuffed were declining, and Mr. Sibley felt keenly Swift 302J 40:1 197 night. mattresses, bedded deep with hay. With the 1,416! 1,637 221 and put it in his coat-tail pecker, where that he was making no money. This "My dear," said the sacri3cal lamb, two horses are William Brown, it remained. For he forgot all about it. was the understood ground of his hesitation 14,467 13,74d 2,821 3,545 "what was I to do? They didn't get the the trainer in charge: Wdliam Barrett, Mrs. Nettingley packed up her own Poehler'a majority about his "Thanksgiving." 724 letter. They said they had come to the jockey Jo Newby and Jim things and the things of the four little Mrs. Sibley is a wise woman. She Chamberlain, the Greenback candidate, received spend Thanksgiving, and of course I had Stewart, hostlers, and little Jim Nettinglejs, and took the afternoon train 596 votes, as follows: I Dakota 20, rarely argued with her liege lord, and Brady, exercise rider. Adjoining the Dake to order dinnar. What else could I do?" to Scrag Hollow, in Saugatuck county. Sueur 133, and Kice 443. Stearn s, the Prohibition never lectured him. If he ever took the of Majenta's stall is a large box stall, eight "Do?" repeated Mrs. Nettingley, in accents candidate, received 124 votes, as follows: "Mamma." said Theodora Nettingley role of Job's wife and spoke foolishly she feet by ten feet, in which it is expected that I Brown 7, Dakota 5, Goodhue 102, of the bitterest scorn. "Couldn't the juvenile 3cions of the house ot the horses will be turned out to stretch looked a little sorry, and she always said Sueur 2, Nicollet 5, and Kedwood 3 I all 27 you close all the blinds and lock the I Nettingley all had high-sounding appel themselves, lie down and roll. It is carpeted votes were returned "scattering," and did the right thing herself, but so front door and go down cellar and pretend deep with hay, lined with jute mattresses, lations-it looks all shut up and lonely. quietly and unconsciously that no one Third District. not to be at home? I've no patience and odorous with stores of carrots, apples, I I don't believe any one ia at home." could see the label in big letters on her with you!" oats, bran, and other provender. There are "Pshaw!" said Mis. Nettingley, "people bosom, "Behold in me a model wife and Three days afterward the three youngest twenty-five other horses on board, but they in the country always live in the superior Christian!" Nettingleys broke out with scarlet have no such choice quarters. They belong Counties. back of the house.*' The dressing was finished, and no one to Mr. Dolman, a contractor, who ships fever. The seven little Smitherses took And carrying a heavy carpet-bag in her could have detected in Mr. Sibley's attire horses to England by wholesale. It is to be it of themthe maid took it of the 1- hand she trudged around to the rear door, could have detected in Mr. Sibley's attire hoped that a voyage across the water at this Smitherses, and Mrs. Nettingley had her Aitkin 21 1 followed by Theodora, La^inia, Evangeline rough season may not put the horse out of or comforts any indication of straightened Anoka 509 615 winter's work before her. 106 and Gervase, each lugging along a Becker good racing form, but good judges fear that 202 385 circumstances. Mrs. Sioley apologized 183 "I wish to goodness I had remained at Benton 274 4. 147 127 smaller bag. it will. for leaving the table a litcle early, as she is Big Stone 29 home," thought Mrs. Nettingley. 45 Nobody responded to her repeated volley had to see about Jane, who used to be C.iriton 150 124 26 Ani the amount of thankfulness she The Duke of Magenta has started nineteen Csutt ij 3 22 of knocks, but presently a littie old cook, and who, poor thing! was without timesseven times as a 2-year-old, and tVit that year was not oppressive, in spite Cliibago 188 676 488 woman, who ha,d come from a neighboring a place, in failing health, and with a provision Clay 203 556 twelve times as a 3-year-old. His first appearance ot the Governor's proclamation. 353 Crow Wing cottage to the wed for water, was 153 160 for old age, amounting to just fiftyfour 7 was on June 8, 1877, when he ran Douglas 489 682 193 made to understand what was wanted.. dollars in the Savings Bank. Mr. second to Perfection for the Juvenile stakes, Grant Why She Couldn't Light the Fire. 45 162 Peckfield?1' said the little old 217 "Mrs. Hennepin Sibley knew that, for at his wife's request half a mile. His next appearance was on 2,799 6,284 3,485 Isanti 137 538 woman, in a high-pitched, shrill voice 401 July 24, in the Flash stakes, half a mile, at he selected the bank, and got the book A man out on South Hill had reason Kanabec 24 109 85 Saratoga, which he won in 0:49}^. A week which so often accompanies deafness. written up. The mail brought letters to believe that his superintendent ot Kittson 2 183 181 afterward he appeared in the Saratoga stakes, L,c qui Parle Tou's her cousin from the city, come 114 273 from Harry at college, full of regret that 153 cuisine was in the habit ot using kerosene Lake 29 where he displayed a vicious temper, and 29 spend Thanksgiving? Well, if that ai to start the morning fires* lie placed his it was too far to come home, inquiring if Meeker 913 747 lfi6' worried himself at the post, and was finally too bad! Mrs. Peckfield started Mille Lacs a piece of the turkey could not be sent to suspicions in the form of a charge, which 184 111 73 beaten by Bramble, who had the best Morrison 396 145 251, very afternoon for Ladd's depot got so nim. and full of the dignified gravitv was indignantly denied, and rnroof demanded. Otter Tail of the start, but only defeated the 755 940 relations as lives there." common among happy "fellows" at He wasn't ready with his testi Pine 291 188 159 Duke by a head. On Aug. 11, he appeared Polk 180 659 "That's very strange." said Mr3. Nettinsley. 479 college, Lillie Sibley, who thought her mony, and the case was demissed for the again in the Kentucky stakes, and again Pope 242 479 237 "I telegraphed to her that I was brother Harry an eminent genius and the lack of evidence. But his suspicions increased, showed temper, and was beaten by Pride of Ramsey 4,197 1,621] 2,576 St. Louis coming. best boy in the State, read this letter 209i and he ordered a secret investigation 410 201 the Village. On Aug. 16 he met Spartan in Sherborne 267 317 50 "Cou dn't a got the telegraph, I guess," aloud, and emphasized the good points the Grinstead stakes, and gave the latter five and appointed himself chairman of Stearns 1,951 558 1,393, pounds. The result was a dead heat, in the saiil the little old woman. admirably. There was indeed one sad the committee, with power to send for Stevens 350 168 182 Todd remarkable time of 1:16j. The stake was 166 255 89' But Mrs. Nettingley knew better than communication, announciug the death persons and papers. He laid his plans Wadena 50 126 76 divided. Coming down to Jerome Park, on that, for under the corner of the piazza peor Miss Johnson, who had been Lillie's with care, aad the next morning he followed Washington 1,179 1,396 217 Sept. 2d, he won the Nursery stakes in Wilkin there lay a torn envelope of the Western 79 governess, and who supported a helpless 131 his maid-servant down stairs at a 52 1:17^, and finished the season at Baltimore, Wright 1,220 1,U4 Union Telegraph! And she knew that and penniless mother. Mr. Sibley was careful and respectful distance, and hid Yellow Medicine 61 494 where, on Oct. 23, he won the Central stakes, 433 Mrs. Peckfield had fled from her, just as not a selfish man. He said quietly, "Wet himself behind the kitchen door, where one mile, in 1:50} His entire winnings for she, Mrs. Nettingley, had flad before the must look after the poor girl's mother," he could not see nor be seen, while he 17,929 20,942i 4,929 7,942 the year amounted to $9,987.50. The Washburn's majority 3,013 Badgerley family. and Mrs. Sibley's face took on a look of could hear very distinctly whatever was Duke wintered well, and opened the campaign "But I'll be even with her," said Mrs. approving tenderness, but she said nothing. to be done. The rustle of paper and the of 1878 at Baltimore, May 27, where A California Critic. Nettingley, grinding her false teeth, "I'll rattle of dry light wood was succeeded by he easily won the Preakness stakes, one mile [San Jose Herald-Argus. and a half, in 2:41%, valued at $2,150. Coming go to Ladd's depot. What are the names hasty steps tow-irds the closet in the cellar By and by there was a ring ana a confused William G. Le Due, an obscure author of* to Jerome Part- he won the Withers ot her relations there?" way. Then he heard the gurgling of noise in the hall of questions that Washington, D. C, has forwarded to us a stakes, one mile, in 1:48, worth $3,600. and The little old woman, after some meditation, a liquid, as though it was bubling out of got no answer, and laughter, and extremely large volume of poems in the blankest the following week took the Belmont stakes, said that it was Jones. At least a tin spout. He heard the can set down kind of verse on the most absurd subjects. loud and ostent tious kissingnot one mile and a half, in 2:43V4, value $3,950. she thought it was Jones. She wasn't and tnen the scrape of a match. We suppose he wants us to gush about the silent, remote touches of the lips to some His next essay was in the Jersey Derby, on tender pathos, rhythmical measure, and quite certain. It might be Smith. Or it "H'ni,'" he heard the maid-servant remark. exposed facial surfacebut down-right, June 29, when he was entirely out of condition, elevated sentiments of the following: might be Thompson. But" she believed it Then another match was snapped, old fashioned kissing. It was Fred. and had been running at the nose tor The chinch-bug is confined in its depredations was Jones. And she believed they lived and a barely audible fizzle succeeded. young Fred. Siblyand his wife. They several days, and he was beaten both by Spartan on Thorn street. Grimly smiled the silent man by the outer and Danicheff. He recovered his form had come in to see father and mother, To the grasses and cereals alternate It was a long walk back to the railroad again in the bracing mountain air of Saratoga, door. aa there was no office that day, and it Your timothy, wheat, barley, corn, ptc. depot, and the four little Nettingleys and July 20 won the Travers stakes, one "H'm," remarked the maid-servant a was on the way to church, rhey chatted Upon which it nourishes, with any of mile and three-quarters, in 3:08, which, with were tired and cross, but they fortunately little petulantly. Another match snapped The numerous crops upon which it cannot and laughed, and made it plain that the weight, 118 pounds, on a 3-year-old, is succeeded in reaching it before the last nourish and blazed up. Another sound as whether they thought of it or not, they the best mile and three-quarters ever run. And you materially affect its power for harm. northward train started. But it was an of sjzzeling. The smile on the face of had much for which to give thanks. The value of the stake was $3,850, besides Or maybe he would like to have a fulsome express, and didn't stop at small places the man deepeend into a grin. Mr. Sibley listened, and talked, and $500 in plate. On August 3, carrying 123 compliment on the classic beauty of like Ladd's depot, aa Mrs. Nettingley "Well, I never did came from tne brightened he seemed to be looking at pounds, he won the sequel stakes, one mile such incomprehensible trash as this: found to her cos when she paid $5 for a kitchen, and there was heard the sound things through these young eyes. And and three-quarters, in 3:15, value $1,800. Bombns pennsylvamcus is figured, hack to take her back to Ladd's depot. of more pouring on the light wood. Another when church-time came, he was found On the 13th of the same month he won the These insects are destroyed On inquiry it was found that there match and more silence. gloved and ready with the rest, with no Kenner stakes, two miles, in 3:41J, worth By vollceilous, conops, or tachina, were about a half a dczen families of the $4,100. He then finished the season at Saratoga "Well, did you ever?" queried the word from his wife, only more looks of And several species of anthonua name of Jones at Ladd's depot. The first by winning the Harding stakes, one Anthras (diptera) anobrium, a beetle, queen of the range, evidently anxious to "approving tenderness." mile and' a half, in 2:50%, value Meloe and slylops (coteopteri), "'"place to which they drove, on Thorn obtain testimony coroborative ot hei own The church was full. That helps a $1,550. Coming down to Jerome Antherophagns (Holy Moses save us), street, was a tenement house, where they experience, as set forth in her previous man to feel cheerful. The minister had park, he won the Jerome stake, one mile and And also by the chalcis, or foux-winged fly.. all had the scarlet lever. statement that she never did. Tne man no cough, no whine, no look of approach This last elegant epic is illustrated by three-quarters, in 3:11), value $3,450, and "Oh, my '"said Mrs. Nettingley. "Drive sitting outside the door throttled himself ing consumption. His hair was cut like gaudy cuts of Bocky mountains locustmashers supplemented this by taking the annual on, quick. This isn't the place 1" with both hands and softly pounded the other men's, and indeed he looked like a and patient horse-power bug-crushers, sweepstakes, two miles, in 2:43, the value of The next was a clergyman's, house ground with his heels. Something evidently happy, ordinary, very human being, as stolen from the patient-office art gallery, which was $4,300. On Oct. 22 he easily where a full-fledged prayer-meeting was excited him, and when the next he ran over the good reasons they all had to say nothing of two full-page chromos of won the Dixie stakes, two miles, in 3:41, going briskly on match snapped he caught himself by the creeping, crawling, and flying monsters of for gratitude. He spoke of the country worth $4,200, and wound up his American terrific and demoniacal aspect, that must "This isn't the place, either," said poor legs and bit fiercely into the corner of career with placing the Breckenridge stakes, its freedom -its peaceits resources have been conceived by some fearfully and Mrs. Nettingley, waxing more and more two miles, to his credit. The distance was the door frame in frnezied effort to its harvest-^its 'institutions, proved wonderfully intoxicated artist in the very run in 3:43, and the value of the stake was in despair. smother a hollow groan. strong by the strain of lolly crisis of the jim-jams. The book ought to $2,700. Thus he had won fourteen times, And the third was a vinegar-faced old and selfishness often put on be suppressed at once. It is not only a most was second four times, and once third, his maid, who lived with her married sister, A little girl wanted more bnttered them, without destroying them, and "Mr. execrable piece of literary bladerdasb, bat entire winnings amounting to. $45,637, and and never had heard the name of Peckfield toast, but was told tnat she had enoug Sibley forgot himselfthe man of business, the extracts given above show that its tendency also $500 in plate. jfer- ~*W^ in her life. and that more would make her ill. and thought ot himself as an American is to corrupt the morals of the youth li f. "What shall I do?" said Mrs. Nettingley. "Well," said she, "give me annuzzer piece of this country and pander to the vitiated citizen. He spoke of their churcn, v'",\ and send for the doctor." attention, taste for the sensational and false views of -I with social feelings lifted up, its happy command1 Furs must soon life created in their minds by unrestricted "Better go to a hotel, ma'am," said the education for old and young, its tender and dealers sayprobably, or possibly, persnal of the San Francisco papers. That hackman, who himself was beginning to The fashionable lady is already thinking associations, and its links to the past and becanse they have a large stock on hand there may be no mistake, we will state that get out of patience. about her fall sack," says an exchange. the illimitable future. Mr. Sibley forgot that silver lynx will be in great demand this pernicious volume is entitled "Department "But it costs so much," said Mrs. Net- This may be a fall-sack-uation. himself aa the tax-paying owner of those by our leaden of fashion. of Agriculture, 1877." ,M^4. 4