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• Praise Ye the Lord!
Praise ye the Lord!
Not where the voice of •a preacher
instructs you
. Not where the hand of a mortal con -
'•ducts you,
But where the bright -welkin in scrip-
tures of glory
Blazons creation's miraculous stoxy,
Praise ye the Lord! .
Praise ye the Lord!
Not in the square -hewn, many -tiered
pile,
Not in the long -drawn, dim -shadowed
stele,
But Where the bright world, with age
never hoary,
Flashes His brightness and thunders
His glory,
Praise ye the Lord!
—John Stuart 'Mackie.
, - Where Fish Sing.
The town of Pascagoula (Missouri)
e le the proud posaessor of fish that
•Sang. The Pascagoula River rises in
t1011s, and pursues its -uneventful
co zee until about half way down its
entire length.. Then the fish begin to
get musical. ,
Almost any evening one can sit on
. the banks and hear the under -water
• concert. Mostly the fisk confine them-
selves to otua note. They begin pianis-
simo, gradually, swell to a double forte
erescendo, and then; :when their
breath begins to fail, let It die away
again. *Sometimes they vary it by
eliding it. up the scale a few, tones.
Darwin and other naturalists have
commented on this phenomenon. The
technical name of the singing iish is
Ophidium, and the muisc Is made •by
small movable • banes in connection
with the swimming bladder.
It was only recently that the strange
musle heard on the river was known
to 'dime fromfish: Prior to -this resi-
dents had thought the river was
haunted and a communication was
'even sent to -Sir Arthur., Conan Doyle
asking him to inveitigate it as a sup-
posed psychic phenomenon. •
Bernier of Opinion That
the Pole is "Wobbling."
Captain J. Da Bernier, comnaander
of the Canadian Government steafaer
Arctic,- and one of the oldest sea cap-
tains in the world still en duty, being
nearly 74 years of age„ told a gather-
ing of radio men that he believes 04
magnetic Pole is "wobbling," owing to
"the changing of the earth's centre."
He explained that millions and mil-
lions of tons of ice were cc:instantly
changing position, and, the world be-
ing a ball, he did not See how it could -
fail to affect the Roles.
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. THE THANKSGIVING DINNER T
•
BY EFFIE MAVRINE PAIGE.
Thanksgtving Day I The time wheu
families reunite ea(' evertone feastei
The day on, which we expect to eat
wonderfully prepared old-time dishee
end to lily aside everything but what
coneerna the celehretiera
Besides the feed itself, the Thanks- rather -thei having two servings to
giving teb',e, around which old and care for, Apple pies with hot mince
young are gathered, offees endless op-
portunity to the woman who wishes
to entertain.
Nothing, is mo fatal to the large din -
onto the table after the first couree
hal' been removed,
LIVELY AFTER-DINNER GAMES.
Fir de.ssert, the individual pie is
always geed. Try serving them in
combination with another dessert
sauee are pod,. Maim the -sauce of
mincemeat, thinned eenough to rup,
Pumpkin -meringues are the• old-
fashiozied pie covered with a white of
ner as serving part of the gtests While, egg confection in which drained cher- .
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half wait for the second table. Even 1 ries have been folded, Little nunce
if the stretched table almoet fills the, plea without a top crust and served
dining room and is a corabination of 1 with plain custerd or vanilla ice
all the house affords, bring everyonecream make en interesting finish to
together at one time. the feast.
Little Pilgrim hategnade from eard-
board, tile crown filled with nuts and
homemade molasses kisses wrapped in
brightly colored papers, make an in-
expensive and,clainty tavor, Or tur-
key feathers canhe painted or gilded
and made into qaill .pens
Thanksgivingoffers an unusual op-
portunity to entertain entirely around
the table, and, if sufficient games are
provided, the meal con be prolonged
for several hours. A few of these will
be enough and then the old-fashioned
evening may well be ended with round -
the -piano "Singing of those old songs
which never grow old.
The Wiehing Ring is .a happy way
to begin, using the place cards. Each
guest in turn holds up her hbone
for the one at her left to snap. A
bandage is tied over the snapper's
eyes so she cannot see. One wishes
While snapping—the wish to come true
if the paper is broken. If unsuccess-
ful, the snapper must tell her wish.
If successful there should be a prize.
Thanks is a pen -and -paper game,
each one writing one word on a slip
-of paper—for what he is most thank-
ful, making it' purpoaely funny. Then
these are gathered in and read aloud,
everyone trying to guess from the
word who -wrote it. There shoold be
some funny homemade prize.
Turkey Tales is played by drawing
a word from a basket and instantly
making a speech of one enterute about
it. Just try to talk a minute about
gizzards or pin -feathers! Have all
the words • pertain to Thanksgiving
and tie the little pieces of paper to the
ends of feathers. `
• But it is mach better to serve all
tb,o children at a table in another
room, giving them the freedom they
se much enjoy. • 1/
Be sure that someone serves the ,
aoungsters wile understands them and
is tolerant and wise enough to behind
and tante deaf at times! Let them feel
thif this is one day when it is all right
to snicker at the table without fear f
• reprimand from a fatheia who is try-
ing to impress manners:
Cause all the snickers you can by
giving them each a tunny hat and
sticking little fat turkeys—cut from
advertisements—onto the water glass-
es. With small pill -like colored can-
dies used for cakes, make funny faces
on marshmallows, placing a generous
• supply of these on the table where
• they can be reached by every child.
If one table is used for them, honor
them by setting a whole small roasted
fowl onto their board! Thrill their
young hearts by dressing it insome
queer manner—a scarlet paper coat
with the wines stuck through, or a
sweet -potato head with olive eyes. Try
as hard to pleme the little folk as you
do the older oftes.
Since Thanksgiving is a little 4iffer-
ent from the usual feast and there are
so Many good things to eat that such
a common food as bread is sure table
'neglected, save room at the crowded
table by omitting bread-and-butter
plates.
Keep the centrepiece decoration as
low as possible so it can be seen Over
and make it simple. rather than elab-
orate. Oranges, with the tops care-
fully cut off and the iriside removed
without hurting the shape, the edges
then notched, azerthree of these -filled
with the small rusty chrysanthemums
at different places' along the centre
of the table, make odd and yet dainty
floral pieces. ,
IMIQUE PLACE CARDS.
A black bowl filled with sprays of
bittersweet is also colerfut C,ornu-
1
OUR DAY OF
GRATITUDE
Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of
a fact that we are always in danger
copies made of corn husks, filled with of forgetting—that what we have and
nuts and candies, supply the table de_ enjoy has come to us not because we
have toiled for it and earned it, but
eoration and might afterward be used
mainly as a free gift.
However mu& credit we give to the
discoveries of scientific agriculture,
no matter how hard.we have toiled on
the farm, it repair's true that we are
not so much producers ae receivers.
The sunshine the showers and the
name in the middle of it. Stick these
fertility • of tiother Earth are ours
on the water glasses and let them be
without rnoney and without price, and
used later in a game. Round ginger
they are the chief factors in any
cookies ,with scalloped edges, with the
harvest. • "
name written in the centre with white
icing, make interesting place cards to
lay upon the napkin.
Very good fun'. makers in the way
of souvenirs can be Made from candy
corn stuck on both sides of animal
crackers with icing, or of dried yellow
corn stuck on both sides of animal
permanent little 'men which keep in-
definitely. „
Any auccessful dinner depends as
much upon the appearance of -the food
as the way it is put together. The
woman who is rushed for time, and
who must think up three meals a day
for a large family has little time for
such things every daY, but on this entered into their labors?
one day .of the year she can indulge• -
Just. as certainly, libetty, a
her love for them by planning days .stable goVernment, the' righf"of suf-
ahead and preparing as many as pos-
frage, the Public -school system and
stble the day before. freedom to worship God according to
Don't forget that molds offer great the dictates of our own consciences
oPPertardty for maltillg the meal at.- l'are ours not as the result of personal
tractive. These need not be scalloped prowess, but as an inheritance.
and• elaborate—in fasct, the more It is well on Thanksgiving Day to
simple they are the more impressive bring to. grateful remembrance the
they are apt to be. Use ozdiaary cus- explciArs, the pioneers, the inventors,
tard curet for ffg puddieg, vegetable the statesmen, the educe -airs, the
sad or or sweet potato custards, turn- •pliets, the men of far vision, the mat-
ing them can carefully. Mold the es,g.s mago, at • thee...gest of hardship,
cranberry in a :ong glass of even cir- obloguta soffering, and even death
cumference, slicing down in circles itself, have purchased and wrought
or cut in squares. Two tablesPoon- out the common blessings of life which
fills of gelatin dissolved before add -
are burs.
ing will thicken salads or puddings. .
And yet thanksgiving in its largest
0 it of colored paper in harnionY and deepest sense must always be
with the centre deceration cut strips.' thanksgiving. to Clod.Fringe them with kissers' and then A careful study of the growth of
Paste -them to form cuffs for the tur- liberty and ef the fa:ogress of civilize -
key or other fowl. Serve as firsV time awakens' the .conviction that the
course a fruit cup hi banana boats chief. factor is a Power not ourselves
which can be thrown away, or a clear that works for righteousness.
WIT) with Paprika diaironds riled& Of There is a story, in a very` well -
thin bread, toasted and dusted With aeown book, of ,ten lepers who were
paprika ovet the butter. cleansed, tut when they found that
Itpr the relish, instead of having they Were head ognly ohne
e returd to
several dishei on the table to pass, give thanke to the -Man of Galilee. for
serve.there individually, preparing the his cleansing. It needs to'tvery deep
d.ayebefore and setting away on a cool searching in our'Own hearts to find
shelf. • On little bread-and-butter often an tinvvelconie likeness to the
plates- lay relieh Pilgrims separated nine lepers who kept no ThanksgiVing,
by a cran.berry land from -candied gin- y.
gee- Indians. • Let the cranberry be Robart• Burns wrote:
just a Square er round plate. 'Make SOme hao moat and canna eat,
the Piagrirn of a slim spiced piekle And some wad eat -that want -it;
with a tall olive hat and clove eyes, But we lute meat and We den eat,
the pickle slit for arias arid legs. The • And sae the Lord be thaekit.
Indian is made of a slice of crystal- • On Thankegiving Day let as ponder
Heed ginger with citron arms and the queetiont "What bite •thou that
eki
legs, hreechelout of prune n, and thou didst not receive?" 'tad then let
coeonut feathers—toast the shredded us say with the Psalmist, "Bless the
cocoanut a little in the °Vert, Lay Lord, 0 Iny soul, end forget not all
thee flat en the plates and bring them. his beheflta."
as souvenirs.
Make original place cards of wish -
_bones which have been saved for, that
purpose- and dried. Stretch bright
paper across them, pasting the. edge
to the bones after writing the guest's
When a man begins to pat himself!
ott the back for his achievements as a
farmer there aie a few questions he
ought to face: e
Did he clear from the forest prim-
eval the acres which he tills? 00
Did he invent or manufacture the
plow, the reaper, the milking machine
and the jitney upon whicli he depends
so mueh? •
Did he buifd up the great cities
-where the products of his farm are
sold, or aid heeconstruci the lailevays
which bring distant markets near?
- Is it not profoundly true that other
men have' labored and -that we have
• OA.
GLAD THA1NKSGIVING DAY
The gokleurod candles are all burned out
By the zigzag fewe of gray;
The asters have turned to witlwed seeds:
That the wind will flutter away;
,But here's a cheer for the waning year,
And the glad Thanksgiving' day!
The thrushes have flown from the tree -tops high,
And the bluebirds could not stay;
And lone and hushed axe the empty nests;
But the children smile as they say,
"When frost is chill on the misty hill
Comes the glad Thanksgiving day."
They know that the harvest is garnered in
With its ripe and golden store, •
And patient and still the brown earth watts,
For the time -of its toil is o'er; --
it waits the snow that shall fold it low,
Till it wakes from sleep once more,
The daisies wilt whiten the fields again
And the robins build, next May;
So gratefully sir '"little children, sing;
Till the air with mirth is gay,
A song for the cheer of the happy year •
And the glad Thanksgiving day!
—Angelina W. Wray.
• S.S. LESSON
November 8. Paul's Farewell at Mile.
tus, Acts 20: 1-38. Golden Text—Ye
ought to support the weak, and to
remember the words of the Lord
• Jesus, • how he m
said, It • is ore
blessed to give than to receive.—
Acts 20: 35.
ANALYSIS.
PAUL ADDRESSING A PASTORAL cHARGE
TO THE PRESBYT,ERS. OP EPHESUS.
r. WARNS Op SERIOUS TIMES comING,
• 25-80.
IL COInsISELS TO SELP-8ACRIPICING SKR-
VICE, 81-38.
INTRODUCTION—After the riot at
Ephesus, occasioned by Demetrius,
•Paul left the city and proceeded Mace-
donia to Greece. Having thus reach-
ed the farthest .point of his Third
MisSionary Tour, he planned to re-
turn again by Macedonia and Asia to
Jerusalem. The return journey was
remarkable for more than one reason.
First, Paul's mind was deeply im-
pressed by the conviction that God'
had now a special purpose for him in
going to Jerusalem. Secondly, he was
equally sure that suffertng and ,trial
awaited him there. In city after city
the Christian prophets, speaking .in
the • Spirit, were announcing . that
"bonds and afflictions," that is, im-
prisonment and. persecution, were de-
stined to befall their beloved apostle.
But, as Paul himself -said, his own life
was of little importance. compared
with the task of finishing •the apos-
tolic task which the Lord Jesus Christ
had given hinato do. .
• A deep seriousness, therefore, a
foreboding of danger, characterizes
the close of the Third .Missionaey
Tour. Paul desired to see and to ad-
dress some parting counsels to the
elders of Ephesus, but as time did not
perrnit a visit to Ephesus itself, he
decided to ask the elders to meet him
at the neighboring port of Miletus.
There he delivered the pastoral charge
which forms our lesson to -day. It is
one of the most affecting of his utter-
ances, and throws a splendid light on
the fine Christian charcter and pas-
toral devotion of the great apostle.
I. PAUL .WARNS OF SERIOUS TIMES COM-
ING, 25-30.
V. 25. Paul is convinced' that none,
of these presbyters of Ephesus will see
his face again. The happy days dur-
ing which he preached the kingdom of
God are over. What he says now must
be of the nature of a last address.
•Vs. 26, 27. He protests solemnly to
the elders that he has never allowed
any motives of fear or favor to pre-
vnt him teem dclarinft to them "the'
whole counsel of God.Consequently,
if any of the Ephesian people have
remained impenitent to the so_ern.n.
call of Christ, it is not his fault. He
is ink responsible for the "blood" of
any, that is, for any one's losing his
V. 28. For this reason, Paul earn-
estly exhorts the elders to a serious
discharge of their pastoral duties.
The Holy Spirit of God has called
em o "s ep " g
of the souls a Cheist'e people. They
are therefore responeible to God for
these spills, and must nem! forgret
that Christ gave his lif.e.for the 'she.ep,
even the humblest of theme • .
Vs. 29, 30. What, enakes Paul so
urgent in pressing these duties cell
the Ephei
sian elders s that he fore-
'
sees a double danger threatening the
spiritual life of the Christians of
Ephesus. (1) A danger from with -
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out; fierce "wolves" gettiug in and de-
stroying the flack. Hero the reference
probably is ter Jewish antagonists, who
will raid the- church with their re-
actionary teachings, and engineer per-
secutions against the Christians, thin
tempting the weak to fall away froni
Christ. (2) A danger from within;
false teachers rising with- in the Chris-
tian community itself. Here the ref-
erence is probably to those who will
argue that Christians do not need to
keep aloof from idolatry or from the
organized heathen guilds, thus men-
acing the purity of Christian life. A
glance at a letter written to Ephesus
some years later (Rev. 2:1-'7), will
show that these warning were not
unneeded.
11. PAUL COUNSELS TQ SEL5'-8ACRIFICING
mama, 31-88. • •
• V. 31. The Epluanan elders must,
therefore, "Watch" or keep their eyes
open, remembering how for three
years, Paul himself had watched -for
their souls, stinting 'himself of sleep,
and .grudging no pains or "tears"
that they might lay hold of the king --
done of 'God, • .
V. 32. Their strength and stay must
be the power and grace of God him-
self. He alone is able to "build up"
his church, and to give his people a
finally abiding place among the cat,
seerabaL
Vs: 33, 34. MereenarY or selfish
motives must have no place at all.
Paul reminds the elders of his own
ixample at Ephesus. He had never
sought or taken payment for his
preaching or apostolic labors. What-
ever Money he needed for himself or
his coMpanions was earned by his
own manual labor. : ,
V. 35. Above all, the elders have
the example of the Lord Jesus Christ
binumAf. Jesus came not to be served,
but to serve (Mark 10:45), and said:
"It is more blessed to give than to
receive." This is the only place in the
New Testament where this great word
of Jesus is recorded. It is not men-
tioned in any of the gospels. •
Vs. 86-38.. At the parting, Paul
kneels down and prays with the eld-
ers. Then he takes his evay to the
ship. Loud demonsrtations of grief
break from all as they take farewell
of the great apostle, whom they are
never to see -again.
Thanksgiving.
When leaves have gone from all the
trees
And no more harvesting for bees
Dees any field afford
We shall be thankful still to Thee
For delicate, fine tracery
Of twig and branch, 0 Lord. -
We marvel when, in sunset's flame
Uplifted branches write Thy name
Across the blazing sky
When Beauty marshals to their aid
Her hosts of color, rose and jade,
In fiery array.
Haw mellow -in the afterglow
The brown fields lie, before the snow
Transfigures bush and tree;
.For Beauty in all seasons lives,
Unstintingly herself she gives
To dach distinctively.
So thanks fromearth and sky and
sea
That Beauty is one name for Thee,
By Thee made Manifest
In wakening life of early spring
In summer's radiant burgeoning,
In brown earth's winter rest.
Annie L. Laney.
• You and 1.
A fool there was, and he flung- a match
Even as you and I,
Carelessly down on a sun-dried patch
Giving no heed that a fire.might catch
And spread to the timber withaquick
dispatch
orvvay The fool aassed on with .a wondering
Pine look •
• Even as you and I.
Syrup • Ea couldn't explain the lire that took
0. y the mother knows hew hard it
le to keep the thildren ftom eatching
ecads. They will run out of doors riot
propeily clad, or have Oa too much
clothing; play too hard and get over-
heated and tool off too suddenly; get
their feet wet; kick off the bed. clothes
at night, and do a hundred thiegs the
mother can't prevent. .
oungStera take "Dr. Wooda"
wit out aa' fuss, and its proraptnees
and effeetivenese in loosening the
phlegm and healing the lungs and
bronehita.tubest.saeli Wit the ttouble
The forest away and dried the brook
And left tho region a place forsook
Tie Was a fool—that's why.
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BY 11Q8A14Bt IfAWTIWANN.
Alt
The gOth of Novffmber wainclarY r Mary Lau looked up at her old
1",,ou'S birthday. This year it happen- friend, the mail carrier, and tried te
ed to be Thanksgiving Day too. Mary srnilo through 'her tears.
Lou's big brown eyea sparkled with “Qh, mr, Sims! I can't go to grand -
anticipation whenever she thought of father'e after all," Mary Lou burst
the double celebration. Mother had forth. "Bobby Stone is sicla so Mrs,
said that she might spend the day Stene can't take Me. And new
with grandfather mid grandmother, Theaksgieleg and my birthday are
and any day spent with them was leoth spoiled."
sure to be a happy one for Mary Loa. "Well, now that's 'tee had Mary
Lou," Mr. Sims leeleed thoughtful and
for several momenta frewxied intently
at a screw on one side of -the wind-
shield. Thee the frown dissolved, and
his face crinkled into a smile.
"Men% your father some scales
somewhere roam" to p1-eec ?h asked
117(WWPh'ey,yes,"eteclll.•
gulped Mare; 'Lou, for-
getting to cry in astonishment. "There
are some in the shed by the feed bin.
Why do you, ask su.eli a funny ques-
tion?"
"Come along with me and you evil'
soon find out," was Mr. Sixn's riveter-
ious reply as he climbed down from
his automobile.
The puzzted little girl followed him,
so many things to enjoy all at once he u" snGadeihtdt,lluaapn hdoonwl shtel nea 1 1 :dile a lob aehcs NtI° steppeatrhy ed teul .d.
p" -
that I'm afraid my enjoyer will wear ' e platform he 'adjusted the
gut I ani teeing to have such a good weights.
"You weigh exactly forty-three
pounds, young lady," he announced,
peering through his • silver-rimnied
spectacles at the scale.
• "But why do you want to know how
much I weigh?" asked Mary Lou.
"So I can tell how much postage to
pot on you," was Mr. Sines's matter,.
of -fact reply: "You, can send chickens
e
• and dogs and cats and all sorts of o eager to be off thadt she haurlsd b.er hat
other things by parcel post, so I don't
on her smooth-brusheCand her
Father and mother could not go
with her because two of their long -ago
schoolmates • Were coming to visit
them during the Thankegiving holt
-
days; but Mrs. Stone, a near neighbor,
had offered to take Mary Lon to
grandfather's house the Satarday
be-
foro Than/giving, .„
Mary LA was much excited over
the prospect and eager to tell her
friend, the mail carrier, all about it.
"Hello, Sieeezies!" he boomed in his
jovial way as he turned the bend in
the road. "Mail's heavy this morn-
ing, Let's see Hare are two -papers
and a letter for Kr. N. A. Moore; and
an apple and a stick of peppermint
candy for Miss Mary Lou Moore."
"Oh, thank you ever so much, Mr.
Sims!" Mary Lou said, rThere are
time Monday!" And she told him
all about her plans for the double
holiday. •
Mary Leo was awake early Satur-
day morning and pattered acioss her
room to look happily -out of the win-
dow at the bright fall sunshine. After
breakfast she helped mother pack into
the old-fashioned alligator bag the
things that she would need. She was
coat over herfresh gingham dress see any reason why a little girl can't
• . be sent to her grandparents in the
' time for . same way. Call your mother and
.
u y an o w
Mrs. Stone to come. Mazy Lou was
impatientswhigingonwthheen mot
gateand
p
d feeling thegmost iwiffe;.„ aae you ready mai in a
What an exciting plan! Mary Lou
.front door and called to her.
ran for her mother and the alligator
"I have some disappointing news for I
you, dear," said mother. egggs. stone, bag. It took only a few moments for
{
just telephoned that one of the chil-
the mail carrier to explain the ar-
rangement For twenty-six cents pos-
able to go to town to -day. 1 -am as dren, Bobby, is sick, and she won't be
tage he would deliver Mary Lou to
orry as I can•
her grandparents, Who -lived ten miles
a
•
For one unbelieving moment Mary i farther along on his route. The day .
after Thanksgiving he would stop for
Lou stared stupidly at her mother. i
"Do you mean that I t
the little girl on his return trip and
can't ,go a'
"I'm afraid -you can't this time,
dear."
Oh, mother!" was all Mary Lou
bring her back home again.
With mother' s pleased consent he
cancelled the stamps for postage,
bundled Mazy. Lou and the alligator
said, but the tears were blurring her bag into his sar, and they were off.
eyes and making jiggly little paths That Thanksgiving -and -birthday
down her cheeks as she fumed and all -in -one was never to be forgotten by
walk -ed back to the gate. • Mary Lou.
"Chug -chug -chug," aputtered some- "Oh, I've had the most wonderful
one's car. time Mr. Sims!" she assured the
"Well -well -welt," boomed somebody' mad carrier when she scrambled into
cheery voice. "If there isn't little his ear, to be mailed home. "This has
Miss Rain -in -the -face instead of little been the very thankful -lest Thanks -
Miss Sun -on -the -brow who usually, giving I ever had—thanks to .Tack
swings on the gate." Canuck," she added gratefully.
A CURSE FULFILLED
One of the oldest families in Eng-
land is that of the Tichborues, which
has held. for at least eight hundred
years its anceatral seat on the river
Itchen in southern England. Fifty
peensago tb.e name of Tichborne was
familiar to everyone, on account of
the remarkable suit in which a man
who asserted that he, was the long -lost
heir to the family estates. tatted to
make good his claims, -The case last-
ed for months and' was the newspaper
sensation of the day. The claimant
was at last found to be an imposter,
but it cost the Tichbornes nearly half
a -million dollars in fees and exaeuees
to prove their case.
The family is famous ,too, for the
anoient dole, or gift of bread, that the
head of the family has distributed on
Lady Day—the 25th of March—to the
poor of the pariah, for hundreds of
years. There has been one break in.
'the practice, and it is about that break
that one of the most extraordinary
stories of a legendary curse fulfilled
centres.
The tradition is that Dame Mabel,
• the wife of a certain Roger de Tich-
borne, who lived twenty generations
• ago, desired ori Tier deathbed to leave
some charitable provision for the
worthy poor of the neighborhood, Her
husband was lese generous, but at her
solicitation he agreed to dispense each
year the product of as much land as
she could crawl around on her hands
and knees. The poor old lady, who
aeemecl too weak to get Out of bed,
• nevertheless • summoned tip strength
enough to crawl laboriously round a
piece of land twenty-three acres in ex-
tent before the fell.senseless sad dy-
ing at her husband's feet. 'that field
is called "the Crawls" to this day.
The unwilling Roger de Tichboene
was' man enough to keep his end of ,
the bargain, and he and his deseend-.
ants eontinned to distribute a getter-
ou,e quantity of bread to -the poor on
each returning Lady Day. As the
years passed the dole became a fa-
mous institution, and it gradually ate
tracted to the neighborlmod eaeli year
a crciwd of sturdy beggars, vagab.oncle
ahd lawless characters, whet .beearee
'such. a nuisance that the local magis-
trates filially ineisted that Sir I4enry
Tichberne, then the head ot the tate-
'ily, cliecottinue the dole. That Was in
1794.
Now a part ot the old traditiot was
that Dame Mabel had pronounced a
wee upon any member of the family
who should CORSO to eOretiene the an
-
'mai alma The curse deelared that
In ettch a case ,a family of seven Sons
would be followed by one of seven
daughters ,when the name would be
extinguished and the old home of the
family would fall. Sir Henry, who
gave up the dole at the magistrate's
request, did actually have seven sons,
and his eldest son did 'have seven.
daughters. Five of Henry's sons died
unmarried or left no sons. The third
son, Edward, succeeded to tbe barony
In 1335 and at once resumed the prac-
tise of the dole, limiting it however
to the poor of the parrishes of Tick-
borne and Cheriton. The fourth SOD,
James, who eventually succeeded, had
two sons, one born before the dole was
reinstituted and the other after that
event, The son who was barn before
the dole was begun again died. He who
was born. after hived and is the ancea-
tor of the present Sir Roger Tioh-
borne. Moreover, in 1802, a few years •
after the dole was abandoned, a part
of the old family mansion did fall, the
rest was pulled down. and a new home
was built on the same sitge. These
facts are all attested by the best of
evidence and offer perhaps tb.e only
proved instance of a legendary "curse"
being fulfilled to the letter.
The dole is no longer in the forna of
bread loaves, but about •one hundred
bushels of flour are given away to
those who apply for it—a Measure of
four quarts to each adult and a half
measure to each child.
Bad 1301.66(1
is the cause of
all 11111,
What you need when the broodgets
out of order is a, good tonic to tone
and. build up the system and put the •
bleed into proper shape, and when this
is done you will mix° no more boils
or PimPlee-
Wo know of no remedy that eau
equal
for this purpose, as aurhkg iiest
67 years -At has been on the market
we have received thousaada of testi-
'menials from those who have:been
beneated by it; tea
Put up oaly by The T, Milbure. 00.0
Limited, Toronto, Out.