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Show some one of the others will be pleased e with the task of taking care of the Following tradition and custom, the crowd. And oh, what preparations of people of this country will, on next are made in advance. What days It of baking and preparing. Thursday, celebrate the annual festi- cookery, is best old in the homely old poem val known as Thanksgiving day. which relates that: Ever since it has become one of the settled holidays of the nation, it has "Aunt Jerusha she sat by the hot kitchen stove; been growing dearer and dearer to all Her fancies were truant and bound to of us. Designed originally as an rove. casion when all men could meet to- Ah, me, she sighed in a low weary way gether for the purpose of returning will bring us Thanksgiving Tomorrow thanks to the Almighty'for blessings and favors received during the year And day. the house it is crammed with all fast drawing to a close, its primal purthe good cheer, pose has ben perverted to the extent For the old and the young, wholl be gathered here. that it is not only a day for returnstacks of mince pies, bend the Under ing thanks, but one of general feastbuttery shelves; ing and rejoicing; a day when families And cakes 'where the children can stuff themselves and friends unite for the friendly intercourse the exigencies of life have From the wide mouthed crock, just behind the door, prevented during the balance of the Till when a hand in time; they whimper because they cant clasps hand hold any more. touch of genuine affection and eyes look into eyes filled with the soft fires And theres turkey, and chicken pie. of true love and respect. It is a good beef, tongue and ham, thing, however, for men and women to Cider, and barberry sass and blackberry jam, remember, at least once every year, that they are under some obligations And lots of everything, moren I can to the Creator and Preserver of the think, Universe for favors shown. It is a Thats nice for the company to eat and drink. good thing for relatives and friends to lay aside the cark and care of busy life and assemble around old hearthLots of people think that a turkey stones; before old fireplaces and in and a mince pie is sufficient for any old rooms to greet brothers and sisters. fathers and mothers, uncles and Thanksgiving day dinner. Bless their aunts and cousins especially the lat- unsophisticated hearts. Why the famter and with them reflect upon old ily from which sprung the very undays, when all were younger and better, perhaps. It is by no means the worthy person who writes these lines worst thing that could happen, to be would have destroyed a turkey before reminded that over there in that the nieces and nephews were reached, chair, last year sat a near and dear while as to the first cousins and secone, whose face is forever hidden ond cousins pshaw! they wouldnt from mortal sight, nor to recall with misty eyes the fair face of another have even got a scent oPthe dresswhose bonny eyes are closed in the ing. When forty or fifty people assleep which knows no earthly awak- semble around an old long table which ening, because such memories consti- reaches from the south end of the tute our better part and instinctively remind us that in order that we may dining room through the folding doors, live so as to rejoin them in the bet- plump up against the spot in the parter home above, our own lives should lor where the "lounge usually, sits, be so modeled as to prove acceptable one turkey would last about as long as a cotton tail rabbit among a half to the Great Ruler of our destinies. dozen coyotes. The usual spread conJ sisted of a big gobbler at the north Without attempting to discredit ths end of the banquet board and another affection of the families of the west at the south end. The aforesaid gobfor each other, it must be said that blers would weigh on an. average of to twenty pounds each, and eastern people are more faithful in eighteen it is a safe gamble to wager that for attending these Thanksgiving day re- four weeks prior to the day of killing unions than we, who live west of the the birds had ben fed on a diet of about two bushels to a bird. Mississippi. There is good reason for chestnuts, Modern chefs, like Oscar of the Waldorfthis, however. The distances in the -Astoria and Pannetier of Finchs, west are so magnificently long that imagine they are doing a service to for some families to reunite each year mankind when they stuff a turkey would mean the expenditure of all the with chestnuts after death, but the savings of each year. But east con- time to stuff a turkey with chestnuts ditions are different. There the mem- is before death, so his system has ambers of the several circles are almost ple opportunity to assimilate them. A within hailing distances of each other, chestnut fattened turkey is a poem we might say. Though one may be in himself; an epic, an of all anthem by his lonesome. praise living in Chicago and another in Portland, Maine, the facilities are such hours that in less than twenty-fou- r Turkey wasnt the sole piece de reboth may be together. As a rule, eastern families are not sistance by any means. About so far apart, in many cases forty or up from one end was a huge fifty miles covering the distance. So goose, carefully parboiled before bakit will readily be seen that to get all ing, and then filled to the bursting the members of a household united point with sage and ingins. About for the annual feast is a task compar- one-thirthe distance from the other atively easy. was either a chicken pie, containing say four or five plump fowls, or one Usually these reunions are held at made of pigeons, with no limit to the the home of some of the older mem- number. The central point of attack bers. If the family was composed of was a loin of beef roasted before an as were the turkeys and several brothers and sisters, they and open fire, so rich and juicy that it would geese, their descendants usually meet at one melt in your mouth. Speaking of open place one year and another the next. fires: This roasting a fowl in an For instance: Uncle James and his oven is a crime against nafure and an children will this year entertain Aunt offense that merits punishment here Jenny and hers, Uncle William and and beyond. The open fire and the hers, Aunt Betsy and hers, while next dripping pan is the proper method. THANKSGIVING . DAY. . self-containe- d; one-thir- d d BANKER!. Spattered all over the table, like the stars in the firmament, were currant WALKER BROTHERS jelly tarts, cheese cakes, pound cakes, sponge cakes, every old kind of cake, while sandwiched in between were all sorts of vegetables elbowing mince pies, apple pies, pumpkin pies, which looked inviting enough to wake a man out of slumber to eat. All sorts of sauces were there; peach sauce, preserved peaches, brandied peaches, brandied peaches, plums, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, apple butter, cider apple sauce; in short every fruit the farm produced, not forgetting that extremely delicious, when preserved, fruit, the quince. Cider, made of the best apples, was on the board in pitchers, and every one helped It is wonderful how themselves. much one can eat when he has cider for an assistant. One imagines his capacity is reached many times, but the simple addition of a glass of nice, sweet cider and the ball starts rolling again. It must not be supposed that this dinner was all there was to the celebration, or that the family neglected those divine exercises which constitute the thanksgiving part of the annual holiday. Service was held either at the little church, down in the village, or at the school house over the ridge, and the partor was on hand early, so that dinners might not be delayed and the sermon was a brief one compared with seme of the sermons he preached on other occasions. The meal always began with an invocation for the divine blessing and in all the festivities. Incident to the event, the fact that it was a day for returning thanks was not forgotten for a moment. Such celebrations are every day affairs in the country alluded to. Would that they were as common here. After dinner, all the women folks turned in and helped "do up things, and the balance of the day was spent in various social enjoyments. Evening saw a nice supper prepared and from the time it ended until midnight the old folks and young folks sat around the fire and popped corn, cracked walnuts and butternuts, ate apples of alU sorts and drank more cider, usually topping off with a piece of mince pie and going to bed to dream of everything imaginable. But it was fun, just the same. . Blessing on such Thanksgiving days say I. And I know that thousands of hearts will echo Amen. It has been a long day since I attended such a celebration and it may be many long years ere the opportunity comes for another, yet the memories of those gone by are a consolation and a betterment for the mind. Like hundreds of others who have followed the stars of the west in their new born destinies, the circle of which the writer was once a member, has been depleted by the departing of many of its best loved members to that great land from whose bourne no traveler ever returns. One by one the flowers have fallen; one by one the dear faces have faded; one by one eyes that once beamed in love and affection have closed, to open on the other side. But one dear woman, of a family that was once the. pride of a community because of its sterling worth and integ-ity- ; its open heartedness and its companionship, remains to wait patiently for the time when her summons shall come to join with the others in the eternal Thanksgiving day up above. But although, many would be the empty chairs around the board, if 777T ...Amm, Salt Laka City. Utah Established im General Banking Business Transacted. Safety Deposit Boxes For Rent. A COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL PAID IN, $200,000. GENERAL BANKING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES WWflMVM MV V VVQi 4U V VUU , mT J. Salisbury, Moylan C. Fox, J. B. yCosirlS W. P. Noble. Geo. M. Downey, John Donnel-la. F. Holden. O. n, UTIOim BIU n U. n REPUBLIC 8. DEPOSITORY. FRANK KNOX, PRESIDENT JA8. A. MURRAY, OP BUTTE. - Cashier W. 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