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Show 0 NEWS SUMMARY a. nm. Three men ro dead ns a result of freight wrick on the Canadian main line, caused by a waslrmt, near Lyt-to- Pi rsl n, hj vl Th If t th- - Dr. font o by "Will and aU, i p. shatter to op. my' itOIQ Vvi . l!i Yf 1C and from a Oqt-- '; i i niin- nmn : 7i X)pT dam if WILL i--V- P. 5HAFTER ns ha from r 57 am the i it HX th ! fvea f feet tlural Unit States ,s iIg o d bu of which annually fur- nishes HlUtll par-mi- HERE in the of killed, injured and maimed as a result of Foifrth of July Sreworkg celebrations, tut Thanksgiving from overeating ire never tabulated. So be careful lest uch a plan should be Jt Into operation and jou and yours forced a,o the spotlight of ,ublldiy because you gave iliauks In too arty a manner. Indications a few days tfore the memorable holiday suggested to corner in the turkey market In the udule west, and for that reason the king a of the Thanksgiving meal was attain- anion8 those who perhaps a year to were not so fortunate when the rds were higher In price. cumber .i 00 to! pleted tjr and upa in th n , 111 com-tr- d by In the Wood y proa-irkln- eed In and ; lowest racker p die y. The about ' e run iX iVvr:. V' - punpicifT mtrcji 7, 72vutiixivid& mouth Rock voiced their thanks to the Almighty for preserving them, year after year, from the arrows and scalping knives of the red Indians. The season of the 1811 f the autumn Icavea." bringing denudation to the forest and removing the hiding facilities for ambuscade of the red men, was deemed especially - i r i ;o c over 80,000,000 persons giving perhaps 10,000.000 dont know rLnnan .hT Unl,ed state ere are turkey 8 consumed on Tbanks- ving day. The preparation of the birds ,e ahle Is one of the countrys great .dusirles for several months before the takes place. Roast pig, duck fse and chickens are also sandwiched as Thanksgiving delicacies, and their eparatlon for market and the festive ard is also a big proposition to the :en who do the years ago the 30th of was the first Thanksgiving day er appointed for and observed be It said, by the people nerally. There probably were in the 'r fMw ub-fe- Kl n No-mb- Happy on, the nty Are s cut a plu-lallt- y With anks Sixty-seve- lor- - 'y, riV af cas-jiltb- toiled raha p ot att let. r Mil- - ) fa Ky reau lthat ' C. It Is reported that Presidentelect Taft will vb.it Ilavuna to attend tb4 Inaugural loo of General Jose Miguel Gomez on 5 muary 18 as president ot Cuba. Two persons, a laborer and a boy, were killed and six others Injured as a result of an explosion of gas In the basement of a commission house In Kansas fity, Private J. W. Dnloll, known as Dalzell," announces that at the solicitation of Ohio comrades' he will be willing to accept the United Btates renatorshlp from Ohio, Hugh ONeill, an attorney, shot and seriously wounded Michael Each ter, a trtlrcd hotel man, on Market street. In San Franelsco. The two men quarreled over a business transaction. Robbers held several citizens at bay nt Attica, O., while they blow open end robbed the safe of Rennlnger & Sllcox's office of 30,000 In cash. The jobbers were fired upon, but escaped. No trace hns been found of tho of Mrs. J. I). Ford, who was attacked In her homo at Long Reach, man, bound, Cal., by an unknown gugged and nearly strangled to death. M. MIUIcIsIa Croix, the minister of rolonles, announced In the French of deputies last week that I ho ownership of Cllppcrton Island, In Ihe Pacific ocean, would he submitted lo arbitration. The National bank of Montlcelo, Ky hns closed Its doors on account ol a shortage of over 320,OnO In the cashier' department. The bank has a capital of 3.'0.000 and total resources of about 3 196.000. Bryan carried Nebraska by a of 4,102, according to an tabulation In the office of tho secretary of state. Taft received 126,-89Bryan 131,099. Chnfln received 6,179 and Debs 3,522 votes. As a result of urgent representation made by the powers, the Servian government has withdrawn Its special military guards on the frontier and discharged the reserves recently called to tiro colors. One man. was killed and four Injured when a Rock Island freight train trashed Into an extra freight at Brink-leArk. The caboose caught fire and was destroyed. Charles A. Clark, aged 27, of Los Angeles, Cal, was burned to a crisp. It Is announced that Mrs. Russeli Sago of New York has given 323,000 toward the establishment of a college for colored youths In Kentucky, to le alrancfr of Ilerea college. The college will be modeled after the Tuske-ge- e cK.fv i 1- 3 - hw WU. '; ' of between 4.000 and 6,000 uls as many New Englanders as there pans 'ere New Yorkers or Pennsylvanians or Moans or southerners, Indlcat and some among ridth Of .ose from New England remembered PRZPJUUNG TURKZYU JVR JVA&KZ1 al from ;e old home custom of giving special inks and spreading an extra bountiful meal those parts, being In the majority and indisbefore their eyes and they foresaw how eagerthe last Thursday In November y my to recognize a Puritan holiday, poked all and the Protestant minister at the capital posed ly observed It. But by the large ig from kinds of fun at the mayor on account of his, would welcome It as, of course, genuine. Acmajority the It inhabitants was entirely Ignored, or to tap d as they chose to call It, Puritan cordingly they drew up a proclamation In the l. The iossthly b$ the most It was wholly unknown, zeal. Those of them who were members of the usual form of such documents, signed the govw New England t equip Influence, however, was the Protestant churches or congregations failed to ernor's name to It, as well as the name of the out active of any and soon was the controlling dAlene attend Jhe religious services In those churches secretary of state, and bad numerous copies lament. In 1841 It was sufficiently virile to berom of the morning of Thanksgiving day. printed, sending a copy to each minister who and establish the annual Thanksgiv-- 8 was knfiwn to be desirous of celebrating a But every New Englander who could possibly f depth troduce as an institution. All were deceived by It save did and were so, attend there them of Thanksgiving. enough Sixty-fou- r years are but few In the life of the In run to make up good-sizeor what one, the Methodist minister, who had been congregations, stitutions of a city or country, but In this iremont quietly notified by one of the young men that appeared to be such In the small church edime the period carries one back to within 14 a ne fices of the'tlme. The afternoon was given up It was a hoax. The others made formal anars of the incorporation of Chicago, nouncement that they would on the day thus to feasting and social pleasures. t a very In 1841 the fifth sent or mayor, Francis C. Sherman, of No was chronicler fraudulently appointed hold Thanksgiving sertime the thoughtful ' In the chair of vices. But on the evening before the day armunicipal Btate. A native six feet enough to write for posterity a particular acConnecticut, he was of Puritan ancestry cet will rived to let the hoax just fall of Its object the count of the social pleasures In which the i had been brought up In reverence of the usive r thankful people Indulged, but one among the young men sent word to each of the ministers Hglous and social customs of New that the proclamation was not genuine. England. still living witnesses of the day Is the Irreprescame to Chicago in 1834, when the ector of legally sible first citizen, Fernando Jones, and he The ministers were not long In Informing panized town was one year old, and at once 3&S, ha remembers going to a dance at the mayor's their people that the Thanksgiving was deWed in the business of keeping a board-- 8 fine house on Thanksgiving night. The Jones clared off. After that the subject of Thanksiry J. f house. The first year he was In this busl-s-a now at family was from New York state and the giving was a forbidden topic of conversation he observed the Connecticut Thanksgiving com or even allusion at the Illinois state capital for be good Fernando" says It Is a mistake to suppose Bl'ing his boarders the first Thanksgiving iromlse-ua- t that nobody but New Englanders observed the several years. But the Thanksgiving was not ever provided In Illinois. tH aner his mother got up a big dinner on so easily prevented In the outlying districts. that day; To facilitate matters he bad not the best of ery sat the occasion and that he ate as much turkey Copies of the bogus proclamation had been ucation he betimes sent to Buffalo for a bar-- 1 and things as any Puritan booby In the place." sent to all the principal towns, which made of good apple cider, which was frequently he admits that the New England families e opera But preparations to observe the feBtiv&l. The aud on this occasion. ' ID of the hoax had, however, repented In did most of the visiting, feasting and dancing. thors Bt this humble occupation of boarding-us-e pd to (" time with reference to places outside of Spring-fiel- d The example thus set by Mayor Sherman Boniface did not content him for long, and consequently warned clergymen in protci was followed by his successors for ten years had worked at brlckmaklng In Connecticut towns not to be fooled. It was believed congres those annual Illinois the before adopted ThanksgivJust then good bricks were much needed In Chicago to be genuine, but no notice was as a state Institution. ing Chicago, and he was just the man to supply and taken of it first or last. In 1833, three years before Chicago Intro"in. There was available clay without going omes up Twelve years passed. In which the annual duced the Thanksgiving custom to Its own citi(her for It than to where Adams and Market of New England bad no official Thanksgiving a fraudulent zens, Thanksgiving proclamation ts now cross each other and there he set ore In Chicago. In 1851 Joel pper except name In Gov. of was Issued recognition, Duncan which the his kiln. The first good house made of his native a of New York, was electthe wn1 A. to Matteson, festival be the caused talked eta was his own. universally It was built In Lake of Illinois, and notwithstanding his the ton ed In the state at large. Its object was to governor about 'eet, a now near become Clark. He had v of con fool the Springfield, 111., clergy without any nativity and religious connections he was not !hng citizen. He took a good citizens ln-,icd up I" a Puritan nor even Puritanically Inclined he, of Its at first sure further. And going thought In influhad affairs and political public t Coen' first of the governors of the state, Issued his enough It did fool the clergymen at the capital. Vallarf proclamation for a day of general thanksgiving, It no less imposed on the clergymen all over This Puritan born, this giver of the first after the fashion of the New Englanders. He the state. , 'unksglvlng dinner In Chicago, waited but com ng thus had the honor of being the founder In . Most of the Inhabitants of Springfield were lr years till he took his turn In the mayor-fMountat'i Illinois of this institution. or south from states from west the of the t for e a were few but from of New the revolution Thanksgiving In the days Engtad he made his occupancy of the office Alleghenies, 100 feewas a national affair. It being annually land and from these latter a petition had proMorahle by ordering Ills offlcialclerk, Thom-Hoynday ed, ceeded requesting the governor to appoint a recommended by congress. But there was no to draw up the first proclamation vhlch th He was a Kentuckian of Thanksgiving. national appointment of the day till 1784 on H day by Public In west. the to Thanksgiving ever seen birth and a Presbyterian and, therefore, had account of the suppression of the whisky "Mayor Shermans Thanksgiving, as tji not much tolerance for New England religious President Madison recommended rebellion. lorlty of the citizens derisively called It, lyhdenun and social customs. He would not on any acfor the peace of 1815. That Thanksgiving arr New observed gladly England by every Alta national -- Thanksgiving for 43 the Issue asked count but was last the proclamation for, In extent was the but the that place, of m,er not end matter. the did ta observance. that quite years. Christmas was already a tah. ter day in New York than Thanksgiving, It occurred to a few of the young men emIt is a well known fact that the observance ut hardet to the other Atlantic states out of New In the executive offices that a bogus a day of thanksgiving dates far back in of ployed hlghf; ly sland and In the southern states Thanks-tobe for ventured. American might proclamation They history. Its origin is traced to anlias some reason had not the fear of Gov. Duncan was mostly unknown. cient festivals in which the Puritans at Ply- Settlers from pulation A DRY PliUCir prl-atel- new-vampe- 1 5 for the Thanksgiving services, which were held la the religious meeting houses of the little colony, . In the first days of the first settlement of pilgrims at Plymouth Rock they had a little village, with the houses constructed of hewn planks. There were gardens Inclosed behind and at the sides with other rough hewn planks. These fences were stockades that served as a protection against sudden attacks and the crude defenses thus arranged were reinforced by three heavy wooden gates at the ends of the streets. In the center, on a cross street, stood the colonial governor's house. Before this wag a square Inclosure, upon which four cannon were mounted, so as to flank along the streets. On a surrounding hilltop they had a large square house, with a flat roof. This structure was mnde of the customary thick planks of rough hewn timbers, like the massive American log houses of later times. The planks were stayed or braced with oak beams, upon the top of which they had six cannon, which shot Iron halls of four or five pounds and had a commanding sweep of the surrounding country. The lower part of this building was used for a church, In which religious services were held on Sundays and the usual holidays. The pilgrims were called to the services In this church with beat ot drum and each man cniae with his mlsket and firelock. Whllat worship they rested on their firearms. They wore their cloaks and stood three abreast, with In command. Behind came a sergeant-majo- r the governor in a long robe; beside him, at the right hand was the preacher, with bis flowing cloak on, and on the left hand was the captain, his side arms pendant and a small cane In one hand. appropriate et e, g Odd Compact Nets $15,000 Mrs. Margarctte fastens, 94 years ot age, who received 115,000 three years ago, as the result of a unique compact entered Into by 65 girls in a German convent school more than 70 years ago, died at the home of her daughter In St. Louis, Mo. Seventy-fivyears ago Mrs. fastens was a pupil In a convent near Stuttgart, Germany. The girls agreed Just before they graduated to pay a certain numbed of marks a year Into a Berlin bank and the entire amount was to go to the last surviving member of the class. Three jears ago Mrs. fastens found herselt the only one of the class remaining. She wrote to the bank, believing she would receive a few thousand dollars. The amount she got was in excess of 315,000. e Austro-Hungaria- y, Institute. The ofoss earnings of nineteen railroads for the first week In November, 1908, were 313,350,178, against 312,. 142,109, for the first week In November, 1907, an Increase of 31,2(i5,0G9. Seven roads show Increases and twelve decreases. The Hawaii Shlnpo publishes what purports to be the text of a new treaty between the United States and Japan, the official announcement of which, It sayB, will not be made until next February. The treaty, as published, guai antees the Integrity of China. Telegrams from Medina, Arabia, give brief details of an engagement Letweon the troops and a large force ot Bedouins. Three battalions occupying the Belt el Rawl were compelled to retire in Medina and suffered severe losses during the retreat. Patrick Ford, editor of the Irish World of New York, who was the subject of an attack In the house ot commons a bis rumored approaching visit to England with O'Meagher Condon, was discussed, announces that he has not definitely decided on the proposed visit. An effort is being made In St. Petersburg to sell the Russian rights In the Wright aeroplane to the Russian government for military purposes. The proposed contract with the Russian government is similar to that under which the French rights were sold to a Paris syndicate. The committee on privileges of the house of lords ha declared the right of Albert Kirby Fairfax, who is a native of Virginia, and who has been described as the only American bearing an English title, to the rank and title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron in the Scottish peerage. Kalng Yu Wei, the head of the Chi-res- e reform movement throughout the world, is at present In Penang. He l as refused to see an interviewer who tought his opinion on the recent situation In China, on the ground that he was prostrated with grief over the death of the emperor. Brief funeral services, according to the ritual of the Improved Order of Red Men, were held over the remains of Morris Haas, who committed sul-c'- de after shooting Francis J. Heney In San Francisco. A score of friends r.nd relatives were present at the former residence of Haas. S. C. Lillis, former president of the Lemoore (Cal.) bank, and a wealthy ztockman, was found guilty by a Jury In the federal court at Fresno of maintaining a fence in which were enclosed 112,000 acres of government land. The punishment is a year In jail and a fine of 31.000. A revolution has broken out In southern Haytl. General Simon, former commander of the troops In the has besieged zouthern department, the city of Les Cayes and the adjacent region. The telegraph lines have been cut and the government troops are surrounded by rebels. |