Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 28, 1907, Page 4

White "Tom "mide hls Tstke. Nelle had ahways felt so sure of him, And lately Tom had been very unreasona- The Cause For Thaaks By CECILY ALLEN. [Copyright, 196, by C. H. Sutclifte.] | " ONEST, if I had a figure llke yours and such a peachy| complexion I'd make a good | match. Now, of course I've| got nice halr and eyes, but a figure counts so much these days. It just sets o your clothes and makes you look like you were the real thing, don't| you kunow. I couldn’t help unoticing! how those two wen at the next table watched you go down fthe alisle. Of course I ain’t saying that I haven't my own good points, but with that figure you ought to do something for your- self.” { The good natured head of stock who had managed to include the new sales- girl iIn the glove department in the pleasant little luncheon just concluded patted her pompadour, gave her four- dn-hand tle a twitch and swept out of the dressing room. The new salesgirl, otherwise Nellle Bender, lingered before the glass and, with an appreciative glance over her shoulder, drew down her girdle In the| front to lengthen already strong Gtb- sonesque lines. Yes, she had a straight, | ble. He had been angry when she had 'slender, graceful flgure which some-| taken the position In the store. He how made all her gowns set well, and | was making $18 a week, with promo- above it was a rather pretty, girlish| tion just ahead. He wanted her to and Ingenuous face. | stay at home and study homemaking Tom Willis thought it the loveliest from her own capable mother, but Nel- face in the world, aud he was forever | lie wanted to earn enough money for #elling its owner so. Perhaps that was| her little trousseau. Tom had _said | | | BERNEKER FELL OLUTCHED HIS ARM TIGHTLY. openty “thut e hated her to pay e high price of standing day after day on her feet In the llly ventilated, nolsy store. Secretly he had rather feared the Influence of money making on thic girl, who had always lived the shelter. ed home life. Perhaps she would not be satisfied later.on to give up her own income and share his In a modest home. But something more dangerous than the mere effect of an independent in- come had entered Nellle's life that day. The representative of a big wholesale house had asked the head of stock un- der whom Nellle worked to make up & luncheon party of four. Any girl she asked would be agreeable, and he had an out of town man he wanted to en- tertain. It was Nellie's first experience in-a fashionable cafe, with its myriad mir- rors, soft shod waiters, sparkling foun- tains and flower decked tables. The dainty cookery, the well chosen wines, the general air of prosperity and ease which enveloped her during the brief hour had created a new unrest in her mind, and the men had rounded out the meal by inviting the two girls to 80 to the theater the next night. Nellle had falrly jumped at the sug- gestion. Theater on Thanksgiving night? Why, that was the time when folkis stayed at home. She knew what would happen in her own home, Tom and his mother would come to dinner, und in the dusk Tom would take hig | mother to their tiny flat five Dblocks away and then come back for a two hour visit with her. Tom always went home early because he had to be at the shop every morning at 7:30. The theater and afterward a supper $ust like this luncheon! The tiny parlor at home turned dingy and dull by com- ' David B. Galley in “We Are King”, City Opera House Thanksgiving. Matinee at 2 p. m. Evening at 8. You have much to durable, economical easiest to control stove made. it. Absolute satisfact on guaranteed money refunded. i sell them at the old price. and make your selection. Phone 250. Thanksgivi thankful for if your homeis heat by an “Umpire Estate Heating Stove’’-=the - most and heating Better order one today. You can't miss satisfaction We still have a few left and as long o as they lzst we are going to fad Telephone us your order, it wil: have prompt attention, Or better still, call at the store J. A. LUDINGTON be or paron, “Wiieh shis and Tom went to the theater, which was rarely enough, they sat in the upper gallery and di- vided thelr attention between the boxes and the stage, the play and the wonderfully gowned women on the floor below, And what was that Jennie Mills had #ald? With her figure she might wear such gowns, eat such luncheons eyery day—be the real thing! She worked during-the afternoon like a girl In a daze. Customers found fault with her, and the floorwalker echoed their complaints. She war tired and irritable when she started for home. It was raining, a cold, win¢ \driven northeaster, and she had no umbrella. As she ran across the street to the subway entrance she was al- most knocked down by a hansom whose fares consisted of a fur clad wo- man and a sllk hatted man, who swore roundly as he saw the girl's narrow es- cape. Nellie's hand trembled with nervousness and anger as she bought her ticket. With her figure and face she might be sitting In a hansom some day instead of dodging one. But there was Tom. Oh, dear! Why had she been so hasty? She had been warned plenty times enough about marrying in haste and repenting at leisure. To be sure, she had known Tom six years. A man stepped on her foot in the crowded train, and she drew in the injured member with a scowl that was scant reward for the man’s apology. It was dreadful to have to ride twice a day in this mob. The man seated next to her drew away from her, and she turned to see that he was. endeavoring to protect a tissue paper covered parcel from the crush of swaying strap hangers In front of him, “Say, look out, will you?’ he said sharply to the long limbed youth who threatened the parcel as the car stop- | ped suddenly. Then he turned to Nel- le, with an apologetic smile: “I don’t mind the crowding so much | usually, but these flowers are for my | wife, and, by gorry, I'm going to get 'em home safe if I have to fight for ‘em!” Nellle looked at him in surprise. His | hands were work worn, his clothes clean, but well worn, his tie distinctly rusty. But his happiness was infec- tlous. “Tomorrow’s our wedding anniver- sary. Ain’t it fine that -it comes on Thanksgiving day this year? I tell you it makes me think how much more than ordinary I have to be thankful for. My wife’s just back from the | hospital, safe and well, thank God, ! and we're celebrating double tomor- | row. I tell you, young woman, it's| flerce to live three weeks alone with the woman you've loved thirty years Iying twixt life and death ten blocks away. I used to get so nervous some I'd go and walk up and down in front of the hospital where I could | wateh the Iight in her ward. So I thought we'd celebrate special this year, and I bought her some flowers— | real flowers out of a real store, not those Dbargain bunches on the corner. And I got maidenhair fern ’stead of the Poston kind. She always did love maidenhair, And I got her a new dish. too—onc of those bonbon dishes wo- men arve crazy about, It's glass with 31d grapes on it, just as tiny and fine! t it at a 1 store, too, and I bet violet box they. packed it in will | Ler to death. Funny how some | cn set store by little things like This is my station. I wonder if I can get threvgh without breaking | { I with the rusty tie, the oft cleaned suit and the obviously slender purse was buying flowers from a real store for the woman he loved. The man on the other side rose to leave the car, drop- ping his paper. Nellle picked it up. Somehow she did not want to think. Big black headlines caught her eye. : “Countess — Sues Her Husband For Divorce. Cruelly Beaten. Her Pride Rebels.” And the countess had a lovely fig- ure and a charming face and ate ex- quisite lunches every day in the year! Nellle laid aside the paper and star- ed straight ahead until the guard call- ed her station; then she went forth in- | to the storm, with a shudder. She came back to grim realitles, It was cold and rainy—and five blocks to her home. Suddenly by the glare of a pea- nut vender's ofl light she saw a sturdy form step forth from the gloom. A strong arm drew. her into the nearest doorway, and a hearty volce said: “Never dreamed I could make it. Had to run from the shop to your house and then here, but something Just told me you wouldn’t have your raincoat or rubbers.” Tom was putting on her rubbers. Then he held the raincoat for her, fas- tened it at the throat with his own bungling fingers, smiling all the while into her tired face. “This ain’t as good as a hansom, Nell,” he said as he tucked her arm under his, “but it’ll have to do until T get my wages raised,” and then he added, with a laugh, “Ralsed quite con- siderable too.” Nell clutched his arm tightly. How big and comforting he was and how much warmer she felt as he gripped the swaylng umbrella and asked her if she was all right. “Why, you silly, I'd cut a fine figure in a hansom, wouldn’t 1?” she asked merrily, but with a new note in her volce that Tom might have noticed if he had not been fighting that northeast wind, “And, oh, Tom, there was the funniest little man sitting next to me tonight on the train. He was having a special Thanksgiving celebration be- cause his wife was out of the hospital. And he was fifty, Tom, if he was a day. Fifty and still in love.” “Sure,” sald Tom placidly. “I'll be still loving you when I'm fifty too” -~ And then the friendly blackness of the quiet street swallowed them both, and Néllie deliberately cuddled her tired head against Tom’s big, broad shoulder, - Five Years Without Thanksgiving. During the Revolution Thanksgiving day was held by most of the states every year, but after a general thanks- glving for peace in 1784 five years elapsed before President Washington proclaimed a day of thanksgiving for the adoption of the constitution. said kidney trouble, another liver com- Hestor Wanted A Big Turkey HE president 18 going to have a twenty-fiye pound bird for his home in F the ¢ “Wh ol iving s the matter with Sam having a b g, About thi he was pass Z00. In the 2 Inclosure was the pet ostrich, Charley. Heetor got his eye on Cl and visions of a Thaunksriving feast of which Floyd street would talk for years came into his mind. A few r:inutes later a policeman dis- covered Hestor chasing the ostrich around the pen. At times he got a COHASING THE OSTRICH AROUND THE PEN. few plumes and sometimes he narrow- Iy escaped a knockout blow as Charley let fly his feet. By the time the police- man reached him Hestor had the whole zoo aroused and screaming. “Biggest turkey I ever saw,” said Hestor when he was arrested. “Still, i some of those big birds ain’t tender. Won one at a rafile once and we had in a wash boiler to get ing to steal the pet of the Cleveland zoo was not pressed, and he v allowed to go home and fall to on a feal bird. GRATEFUL JAILBIRDS. They Te!l usi Governor Their For Thanks. i opy of a sketch ' writ- Macon, ksgiving 1 placed in the hands of the sheriff with the re- quest to let the light shine on it: rnor—We have read your lamation with The f headed Although ux orld at pre: ustly shut nt, we have e papers are out from the w much to be thankful for, T not pitching into us ani calling us hard names like they do Mr. Rockefeller, Sen- ator Platt, Willile Hearst and other men with a larger measure of liberty. Our appetite is of the never-get-weary kind, and we don’t have to take treatment for insomnia. We arc not nervous concerning bur- glars and holdup men. and our diamonds are the least of our worries. Nobody comes round and trles to work us on wild- cat mining stock or sell us gold bricks. The coal man .hasn't come after his money, and we don’t look for him. Snow, ice, sleet and wintry winds are nothing to us. We don't have to get up early Sunday morning and fix for Sunday school, Three times a day, week in and week out, we. get beans, corn dodger and well Wild Che: Grindelin White Pine We Tell Show this fo your doctor and ask Hoedsoot; him {f he knows anytlhing better for ‘coughs, ‘colds, bronchilis, the Water, eXCept on holldays, When there's a double dose of water, In looking over these matters we feel that we are blest far beyond the common run, for which we are deeply thankful, governor. We feel satisfied. We don’t care to get any nearer where you live, much as we like you. Your ways are not our ways, and we wish to be parttou- lar and lead a quiet, orderly life. Re- spectfully, GEORGE O'BRIEN, ‘WILL MITCHELL, “LENGTHY BOB,” ET AL. IN THE YEAR 1621. ‘The First Thanksgiving Day on Ameri- can Soil. The first Thanksgiving held on American soil was by the pilgrim fa- thers In the year 1621, shortly after they landed at Plymouth rock. It was not very much of a Thanksgiving, for they did not feel that they had very much to be thankful for, but was rath. er a revival of the English harvest home. Matters were about the same in 1622 and with much about the same result In giving thanks. In 1623, how- ever, an expected ship failed to ar- rive with provisions when they were likely to be most wanted, and the prospects of famine were 8o bright that Governor Bradford, acting in the undoubted exercise of his prerogative, ordered a day to be set apart for fast- ing, humiliation and prayer. ~ But before the day appointed had come provisions turned up all right, and the day was turned into one of thanksgiving. Mr. Winslow, one of the pilgrims, in a letter gives an inter esting account of this memorable day in American history.: The celebration was held with “glory, honor and praise, with all thankfulness to our good God which deals so graciously with us.” Ninety Indians, headed by King Massasoit, arrived at the settle- ment in the nick of time and shared In the feast. This celebration was somewhat previous, for not long after the pllgrims were down to plain lob- sters without bread, and spring water, ‘“which,” sald Governor Bradford, ! “somewhat impaired the freshness of our comp! ons,” as well it might.— Boston Tr t. THENK OFFERINGS. | How the Rici of Westohester County, 1. Y., Celebra | 2 | 3 and dinners distributed among their poor neigh- bors, at hospitals and homes for poor children. Rockefeller, through his manager, had turkeys given to his em- ployees, while Miss Helen Miller Gould, though she was far away on a trip, did not forget the little crippled boys at her home called Woodyecrest, near Irvington. Every year the little tots who are educated by her special teachers are given a turkey dinner, and last year was no exception. Miss Gould sent word to have a special Thanksgiving feast served to them. P. G. Thebaud, Howard Willets, A. C. Bostwick and other wealthy men had turkeys distributed among their poor neighbors. Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, who is president of the day nursery at New Rochelle, also arranged for dinners to be distributed. At the Wart- burg farm and the Bedford Home For ‘Women special dinners were served. No Fires to Cook Their Turkeys. Two hundred thousand people In twenty Missouri towns awoke on Nov. 29 last to learn that there was no fuel with which to cook their Thanksgiving turkeys. The natural gas, the only fuel used in this part of the state, was unobtainable owing to the bursting of a sixteen inch main at Altamont, Kan. Discarded stoves were dragged from cellars and storage rooms, and there was a scramble for fuel. In most of the homes the turkeys were served ex- ceedingly rare. DO NOT KNOW WHAT - GAUSES SICKNESS Modern People Have Many Names for Same Diseases, According to New Beliefy Does human health depend on one organ alone? This question is becom- ing widely discussed since. L. T. Cooper first advanced his_theory that the stomach is the true seat of life and all health dependent upon fit. Mr. Cooper, who has met with re- markable success in the sale of his new medicine, believes that the stom- ach is responsible for most sickness, and that this organ is weak in the present generation. While discussing this theory recently, he said: “I am asked time and again to tell why my medictne has made such a record wherever I have introduced it. My answer always ig, ‘because it restores the stomach to a normal condition.’ No one will deny that today there are more half-sick men and women than ever before. Nothing critical geems to be the matter with them. They are Jjust half-sick most of the time. They don’t know really what is the matter, with them. I have talked with thou- sands during the past two years, and few knew indeed what “their trouble, was, One said nervousness, another plaint, some constipation, or heart trmme, or lung trouble. Many had| treated, as they called it, for most of| these diseases at different times, A very common complaint is ‘all run down,’ or ‘tired all the time, or ‘no 0w positively that e bit of this chronfc {ll health is maa by| stomach trouble, and nothing else, My New Discovery puts the stomach in sound condition in about six-weeks. ity fow people be slck Migh sound digestion, That is why fay med- Icine is selling at such a tremendous rate. I have convinced many thou- sands of people that these things are 50, and the number is growing by leaps and bounds,” Among more reccnt converts to Mr. Cooper’s beliefs is Mr, Edgar L, Hinds, living at 6 Tappan Street, Everett, Mass. Mr, Hinds has this to say. on the subject: “I have suffered with stomach trouble for elght years. I was not sick enough to be in bed, but just felt bad all the time. My greatest trouble was that I always felt tired, would get up in the morning feeling as tired as |- wht;nhldwent to bed. “I had a very irregular appeti was troubled with dizzy agg!ls‘m'f.tn % stood for any length of time, I would have & dull pain in the lower part of my back. I was nervous and felt ifi the time as though something terrible P I LT ne, but no helped me, s g tver “I had about given up all hope 0P ever being in good health again, when I heard so much of Cooper and de- cided to try his medicine. I took one bottle of his New Discovery and was greatly surprised at the result, I gained 12 pounds in a few weeks. T can now eat anything I wish, and feel like a new man. T cheerfully recom mend this medicine to all *sufferers from stomach trouble.” i _It is worth anyone's time, who {s not. enfoying good health, to learn of Mr. Cooper’s. wonderful. preparaf @ro selling them in large quantitlon COMPLETE ¥ORMULA Ayer’s Non-Alcoholic Cherry Pectoral Each Fluld Ounco Represonts . | Bio I oin . Giycerin, O, ¥, 2 G ‘Water —Suffcient to make one flufd cunce. tal Wo publish us medicines. WANTS ONE CENT A WORD. J.C. Co., Lol Gees: HELP WANTED, WANTED FOR U. S. ARMY: Able- bodied unmarried men, between ages of 21 and 35; citizens of United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read, and write English For information apply to Recrnit ing Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji Minn. WANTED: For the U. S. Marine Corps; men between ages 21 and 35. An opportunity to see the world. For full information apply in person or by letter to Marine Recruiting Station, Armstrong Hotel, Bemidji, Minn. WANTED: Three girls; one for dishwasher, two for general work. Hotel Stechman, Tenstrike. FOR SALE. FOR SALE: $350.00 buys good restaurant property in city. Cen- trally located. For particulars address Box 507, Bemidji Minn. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—Magnificent moose head mounted; will be sold cheap. Inquire at this office. FOR SALE—Ten head of work horses at my barn, rear of Post- office. S. B. Hayth. FOR SALE—A large Art Garland coal stove. $20 cash. 609 Be- midji Ave. FOR RENT. FOR RENT: Furnished room, with or without board. 921 Min- nesota Ave. | MISCELLANECUS. PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues- days, Thursdays and Saturdays, 2:30to 6 p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. E. R. Ryan, librar- ian. 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