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Show ' psn. THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. Prosldent McKlnley has Issued the folio lng pr claniatloo.iiaiuiiigTburs. day',' November SI, tho Ntitlbuat day of Tliauksnlvlng: . By thu President, of Iho United States: A rilOCI.AM ATION. Thaari'roaehlng November bring to mlml tho cusioms of our ancestotv. hallowed by llniu ami roo'ed n oir inostfacred tradlllons, p gl iuglhanks 10 Almighty Gud for nil iljii biossings ho lias vutichsiiled to us during the p ttt year. Few ye.urs lu our history have allord-ed allord-ed Mich cause for Ihiniksulvlng as this. We have been blessed by abundant harvests, our trade and eonniiercehavo been womlelfiiMy Incieascd, lairpubllo credits boon tmprovod and t-tretigth-amid, all sections of the country have, been brought together and knitted into closer bond of national purpose and unity, Tho skies liavo been fo.r a 1 1 mo dark-encd, dark-encd, by the cloud of war, but as we were compelled lo tuko up tho sword in 'the oauo of humanity, wo nyo pur-nillted pur-nillted to rejoice that tlio cnnlbci has been of sb'nri, ilm atioiii and tho losses we have hud 5,0 mutim.ilioiigli gi levlous and Inipurian', have been so few, considering con-sidering the great results uecnnipllsheii, 11$ to Insplto us with rflViUtlKje 11 tiff pralso to the Ltird, jif llosls. We may ! haul and magnify his holy niuuo tl at life Cessation to hntl1ltUs cmnu so Minn as m (pate bmh sides the truutil-less truutil-less sorrows nod disasters lhat attend pr"i reacted war. 1 ilo, Uiytre. invito rjl) my fellow citizens, at well as those u home, or those who may bo at sea or sojourning In foreign lands, to set aparj and observe ob-serve Tlnwsilay, the 21th day of November, No-vember, ns a (by of National Thanjfis-R.vlhg, Thanjfis-R.vlhg, to come trjgothor in their toy-oral toy-oral places of worship for n corvleo of pvii!it odii thank lo Almighty God for all the b'tMogs of tho year, (he mild-iitsd mild-iitsd W Mi"? Hi'a-oiisund the fraitfurne" of tJiu toll, for ihectHithnied prospurliy of Ike poule, fo tha deyottou aud e r O v-lorofourcnuntrvuicn, for the glory of our victory and the hope of a right-Mills right-Mills ptuee. .and lo ptay Unit the dlvlnu guidance which has brought hereto fote to us mfcty and honor, may ho graciously continued In thu yeats to eoniu. In witness whereof, etc., 'jll.MASt McKlNLKY. Uy the Pre.-ldeni: JyitN N. Hay, Srcre.ty of State |