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Show THE BINGHAM NEWS . Xtyz feast vm SHAKING the times and the cllltlcs for dinner-givin- g into Jf. account, the Thanksgiving gfk; feast which loaded the :Jts rough-hew- n tables of the Pilgrims was no mean one. iJpgj? Served on the dainty linen mMphQA tablecloths which had come over In the Mayflower with their owners, the viands and ineuts must have looked fit for a royal ban-quet There were turkeys, bigger and fatter than their descendants of today, and with a gamy flavor which the bird of the domestic barnyard has lost. Whole sides of venison hobnobbed with denizens of the briny deep- - In-dian meal appeared on the table in many forms, evolved by the Ingenuity of the doughty Pilgrim mother. It was about three hundred years ago that Thanksgiving was first cele-brated In this country by the Pilgrims, In grateful acknowledgment of the Cist harvest In the colonies, and per-haps in all the varied phases through which the day has passed there was never one more picturesque In sur-roundings, or more hearty in thanks. The families In the little Plymouth colony were scarcely numerous enough to have their own home feasts, so they all ate and drank together, their guests being King Massasolt and nearly one hundred Indians of his tribe. What a wonderful sight It must have been the Pilgrims, In their quaint, home-mad- e garments; the In-dians, In primeval costume, while the grand old forests of America formed on three sides a background for the picture, and in front stretched away the broad ocean, over which these founders of a nation had safely come. New England practically monopo-lized tlie Thanksgiving holiday for nearly two centuries. Still, Its cele-bration was gaining advocates, and as time passed discussions were fre-quently started by different states as to Its adoption. Its first official rec-ognition by the state of New York was In 1817. It traveled as far south lis Virginia In 1857, and in 1858 eight of the southern slates proclaimed It a holiday. Put that famous first Thanks-giving of the Pilgrims was not given SBS&n n What a Wonderful Sight It Mutt Have Beep. a permanent national status until 240 years afterward, when, on the 20th of October, 1804, Abraham Lincoln, In grateful acknowledgment of victories achieved by the Union army, snd the "hopes of an ultimate end happy de-liverance from all our dangers and afflictions," asked all of his fellow citizens to Join him In thanks to God. Lincoln's proclamation was fol-lowed by proclamations by the gover-nors of the states, and this custom has been a yearly one since. It Is claimed that the authorities of Harvard college were the first pro-moters of the movement l'i fix a set date fur Thanksgiving In the New England states. Until KVsO the holi-day hud been celebrated, off mid on, In winter or summer, Just as the spirit moved the colonists. In consequence of this nil sorts of disorder prevailed among the colleye students hecause Senile portion of them was celel. rating Thanksgiving the ubole year namd. When a day was set fur tin1 feast In the place here a student lived, of coui'.se he unnteil to In- - there, nnd equally of course his wanted him. T ! ere whs no way to prevent this state of affairs, so the wisdom of the Harvard professor was levied Upon for a way to nlmlisli It. Their Coejt.itU ns rovilti'd in ii,,, proposition to advocate n li ved date, and they gave It vvldesptcad publicity. The col-on's! s mr.v Hie good sense of the rhan.-o- , nnd the colonial governors finally concurred n junking the last Thursday of the eleventh month the regular This nl.sgh lug day. So widespread has (he observance tf that first, and now historic feast become, that wherever Americans cm p e,;a'o the u tdi! World over the hist Thursday in November Pads the Stars end Stripes tiling to the brnce ami our conn! rvmi-- In t'hini, I!umh, France, Kiiand, and even In the wilds of Africa gather annuel a bounteous board and tlmnk the (liver of Ail (biod for the progress and prosperity which bsve attended their efforts to found ft great natlou uuder Ills guidance.1 FROM GENERATION !f TO GENERATION Mothers Advise Their Daughters to Rely upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to Keep Them in Health A Mother's Advice Prevents Operation Corona, N. Y. "I had a terrible pain in my left aid and had to eo to bed every so often. 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COUCH DROPS MENTHOL 1 II ""' famous sine 1847 I' iw",' ;i The Gates of v j j Thanksgiving I j (, llli, Wutara Nwppr Unln.) IT IS giving through ths gatst of thank, That we enter the courts of praJaoi Our thanki for the little bounties That compase ui all our days Shall bring- - ua to greater blcsslng-- a And lead ua to larger ways. O, Lord of the manifold merclea, As we number them one by one. From the least of Thy loving kindness To the uttermoit gift of Thy Son. Lead ui on from our aeinah gladnesa To the marvelous Thlngi Thou Haat done. Frank Herbert Sweat. Practical Idealism That Is Represented in the History of Our Country By CALVIN COOLIDGE, President idea cf charity is very old. It is included in the teaching! TTTE earliest philosophers. It is one of the fundamental doctrines Bible. It is a spiritual conception of human relationship. It is life in obedience to the things that are unseen. Throughout history men have been prone to put their trust in other things and have failed. They have sought for power through material resources alone. They have thought it might be gained by the accumula-tion of great riches. They have attempted to rely on the naked force of armies and navies, conquering by the might of the sword. But these forces are not the ultimate rulers of mankind. They are necessary for security, as police and criminal courts, and bolts and bars are necessary. They are adjuncts of peace. But they are negative forces. They do not create they resist They are not the ultimate force in the world. Mankind has not yet, cannot yet, discard the use of these forces. It is significant, however, that the great nations have at last agreed upon their limitation. But it is even more significant that civilization is coming to rely more and more upon moral force. It is because the Ked Cross has been a practical application of that principle, that it has been such a tremendous success. It is this kind of practical idealism that is represented in the history of our country, a deep faith in spiritual things, tempered by a hard com-mon sense adapted to the needs of this world. It has been illustrated iu the character of men who planted colonies in the wilderness and raised up great stataa around the church and the schoolhouse ; who bought their independence with their blood and cast out slavery by the sacrifice of their bravest sons; who olTered their lives to give more freedom to oppressed peoples, and who went to the rescue of Europe with their men when their own liberty and the liberty of the world was in peril, but when the victory was secure, retired from the field unincumbered by spoils, independent, unattached and unbought, still continuing to contribute lavishly to their relief of the stricken and destitute of the Old World; and who, but recently being asked for $5,000,000, immediate! gave about twice that amount for the afflicted people of Japan. llllltllllllllllllllllllllllMllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllll to be - "i iSAiZ DON'T know that I have any-oM-0r thing to be thankful for," il f complained the boarder la jt-fl- T I 1 arrears as he sadly rattled J J a 1 bunch of keys. CJ "What do you want to '&$f Bta!t anything like that ttlH for?" inquired the sarcastic boarder. "Don't you know that you will start us all figuring out things that we have to be thankful for when you make a remark like that and It will be an awful bore?" "There's one thing," announced tha timid boarder In a still, small voice from away down at the obscure end of the table. "There's one thing," he repeated after clearing his throat. "And whnt Is It?" asked the polite boarder, recklessly. ' "The thing for us to he thankful for at Thanksgiving Is that It is so near Christmas." "Oh, yes!" cried the pretty teacher, enthusiastically. "Yes," continued the timid boarder, greatly encouraged, "so near Christ-mas, and yet not too near." "That gives us two things to be thankful for," commented the mathe-matical hoarder, counting on his fin-gers. "First, that Thanksgiving Is so near Christmas; second, that Thanks-giving Is so far from Christmas " "I'm thankful that it doesn't corns near the Fourth of July," declared tha fat and saucy boarder. "The arrange-ment of our holidays throughout the year is exactly right. We have one egg-eatin- g holiday per annum name-ly, Easter w hich comes In the have one holiday devoted to the eating of fried chicken and Ice cream namely, the Fourth of July. The Thanksgiving holiday In the fall is sacred to turkey and pumpkin pie, and Christmas to plum pudding and mince pie." "One festival sacred to new hats snd flowers," burst out the poetic boarder, "one devoted to speeches, pa-triotism and picnics, one for family reunions, and one for the giving of presents." "As I said before," resumed the timid boarder, "Thanksgiving Is Just the right distance from Christmas. We can say to ourselves: 'Yfe can't get a turkey or new suit of clothes or a new house or a new sutomoblle this Thanksgiving, but Christmas will soon he here, snd then we'll have ev-erything! We'll have more money at Christmas time than we have now, and things will be easier generally. The boss and the bachelor millionaire that we were so kind to will probably send us a check. Everybody loose up at Christmas time If ever. "So we enn lie thankful at Thanks-giving time that we are so near a good feed and the season when people are apt to come across, thus enabling u to loosen up nnd come across a little ourselves maybe." Which message of good cheer bright-ened up all the faces around the table, even causing the boarder In arrears to smile, slightly. Another Mrs. Partington. Jefferson had something the matter with his eyes and he told such a long tale of woe about them that his friend became really alarmed. "I say, old chap," he exclaimed, "You ought to see an optimist." Before the Stars and Stripes. The flag which the colonies all used before the Stars and Stripes was adopted was variously known as tha congress colors, the grand union flag, and the first navy ensign. It consist-ed of 13 stripes, alternately red and white, typifying the 13 colonies, with a union bearing the crosses of St George and St. Andrew combined ths national flag of Great Uritaln signi-fying the mother country. Twenty-Fiv- e Thousand Indian Children Out ot 80,000 Lack School Facilities By REV. PHILIP GORDON, Society of American Indians. The highest grade school provided by the government on Indian reservations is a sixth-grad- e school. The government maintains three or four schools outside the reservations which reach the eighth grade, but there is only one school in the country for the Indians which has a high (school and commercial courses namely, the Haskell institute at Law-rence, Kan. The Carlisle college which was formerly at Carlisle, Fa., ind which ia now abolished, although most American citizens have not been advised of that fact, was only an eighth-grad- e school. This school did good service because it had about 1,000 students and from it students went to work among the farmers, attended other schools and many went to Die dnson college and other institutions. But this school was abolished because of American politics, the war being used as an excuse to wipe it out. The commissioner of Indian affairs, during the World war, turned it into a hospital and, though this was during the first year of the war, nothing has been provided in lieu thereof since that time. There are about 25,000 Indian children out of 80,000, who are left completely without even the meager school facilities that the government provides. Yet the government every year appropriates $5,000,000 for Indian education. Man's Ignorance. A man k never astonished or ashamed that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised nt the ignorance of the other In not knowing what he does. Feed the Brute. "You can generally reach a man's henrt through his stomach." "Yes, or by feeding his vanity." Without Stabilizer. "Drown Is another one of those single- -track minds." "Yes, and It's a monorail at that." II H It M I I II 1 II III 1 1 1 II II I It 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 II 1 1 II 1 1 What Is the Lifeblood That Keeps Industry Alive, Growing and Prosperous? By CHARLES R. CLARK, in The Independent What is the lifeblood that keeps industry alive and growing and prosperous? What is the vital fluid which our civilization must have in free supply, or wither and die? To understand the situation clearly we go back to the origins of our governments, and what do we find? We find that the United States was not founded on a group of people, rut on an individual the American citizen. The Constitution, which was drawn and adopted aa the basic law of our country, was erected from the first word to the last on one single, simple principle. That principle was nothing more than an acknowledgment of the right of every individual to liberty of person, liberty of property, and liberty of contract. Flora this single, simple principle has grown the tremendous industrial civiliza-tion of our nation today. The foundation of all our greatness is the human individual, and his right to work, play, love, and worship as he will. All our marvelous economic progress, which is the wonder of the world, has been based on the individual, and not on government, as the mainspring of activity. There is no American industry that has been invented and developed and built up by government. The origin, and life, and growth, and success of every business in this country has been in the minds and hearts of individuals. Our nation's greatness grows from private enterprise. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllllllllfllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllliiiiiiiin. A "Biting" Retort. "I like cheerfulness. I admire any-one who sings nt his work." "How you must love a mosquito." That's Easy. Fair Friend (as band strikes up a waltz) What's that out of? Distinguished Muslclnn Tune I No matter how cureful a woman may he, she generally loses her name at the marriage altar. Home-grow- n children do best If not reared under glnss. More people like to be In u crowd than complain of It. All the world loves to luugh at the blindness of lovers. Unmindful of His Fate f vM'i" . 4 t tl ' ? . ii ' .v.- -- ' "r ' '.' I JMJUjMBjl "In Education the Improvement of Women Is Marked and Rapid" By CHARLOTTE PERKINS CI I.MAN, in Current History Magazine, In education the improvement of women is markcil and rapid. In school, college and university, in popular literature and lectures, this improvement pves reason for mental progress in both sexes; hut the pam of women is far jnvalcr in proportion. From being an almost uned-ucated class, supposed to have inferior brains, they have moved forward to such easy (ouahtv, in many cases to such superiority, that some now hold that the same if.urses of our college curricula, earlier considered beyond the pov,.r of the 'feminine mind," are now "too feminine." J ;civai:.v m education in ti.-- t. be further .list mguishod by its Laving i..f!i ir.nde tin !,t heavy ..pp..siti..,. most it:fer..sfmw record could b" mad., of this f ., t. as proucg the w.'ht "f masculine prejudice, Which SO lo-:- placed m.. ,y oUfaelc i tile uaV of foumiilm progress. There chii be no b.ioT any r. :.oj.,,!,l.- d-- as to the e.ipia'ity of tin woman's mind with the ,u,m a:..!;!y to learn. Whether this is" aerom- - pained by an enual ability t . ir.w.t, to civnt,., to make new Ktps in the world's advance, earned be so swiftly cUlli-hcd- , on account of the ecu- - diUuiial d.sadvaiitagiw of wmtu. |