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E elevate our chins, exw pand our chests and don 0%11& over on the Mayflower” expression when some one mentions = =LY the origin of Thanksgiving. Unhesitatingly we lay claim to the honor of having the “only original” Thanksgiving day on the globe. Then along comes a long-haired historian with his array of facts and our pride receives a shock. There is hardly a country in the world which does not give thanks for one reason or another. Some have better reasons than others, but they all claim to have sufficient excuse for being gratefui to set aside one day each year. Thanksgiving day was held long be-

fore the timber for the Mayflower or the Anne was planted. It had its origin in antiquity when the Romans and Greeks held a fast day in October which they dedicated to the goddess of agriculture and followed~-the day of fasting by one of feasting and royal frolicking, a day on which the chase and gn sorts of rustic sports held sway. e Going even further back .into the remote ages of —not our country, alas—but of the world, we find the early Egyptians setting aside a day for general thanksgiving and burning of incense and offering sacrifices to their divinity of the crops, the Goddess Isis. ) For seven or eight days the Jewish “Feast of Tabernacles” was, centuries ago, held during the seventh month, which is November, and after the completion of Solomon’s temple the people that vear held-a 14-day festival which was a time of thanksgiving, and during which time they gave thanks for the abundance of their land. Living in booths they decorated their entire homes with branches of the palm and of citron trees and then showed that it was for the yield of the season as well as for the completion of the temple that they were giving thanks. R o Coming forward a century or two we find Thanksgiving day being held in England under the name of “Harvest Home.” This day. was usually early in November and it opened by a church service, which was followed by a day of gayety and feasting. Thanks were given in the churches for the benefits of the season and then the “masses” flocked to the grounds of the “classes,” to-which they were all invited. Here squire and gentry entertained the peasantry with free and easy dances in the barns, wrestling matches and feats of archery, for which prizes were given. : _ In the evening harvest songs were sung by the light of the moo(?, over the beer and ale, which flowed freely. A dinner, such as only the early English knew how to prepare, was served to these great crowds of thanksgivers, and-the Harvest Home day ended in repletion both of appetite and merrymaking. ‘ Before the Reformation a special day was set apart in England for giving thanks, and after the reformation the custom was continued with added fervor, but after all, it is not from our English ancestors, as we might suppose, that we received the fnspiration for our first Thanksgiving day. Neither did the idea originate with the Pilgrims themselves. They merely continued a custom with which they had become familiar and of which their natures approved, when they were living with their Dutch cousins. ‘ : To digress just a little: It has been claimed by some investigators who stopped just a little short of the beginning in tracing backward that the first real Thanksgiving day ef true American meaning was held by the Popham colonists of Monhegan, but as they were Episcopalians and gave thanks every week in their regular church ritual this must be blackballed and cast out of our calculation. And now to return to the Pilgrims and the customs they absorbed while protected in Holland. The pious Dutch, before the Pilgrims flocked to their peaceful land, had set apart October 3 on which to give thanks for their harvest, but more especially for their deliverance from Spanish authority. The

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day opened in this water-locked land with a great ringing- of bells and over every shining doorsill there stepped into the crisp- morning air the household’s full numxl;}r. Each Hans or Gretchen, clasping a silverbound prayer book, walked sedately to the various places of worship and there, lifting up their sweet Holland voices, harsh, perhaps, in speech, but full and round in song, sent up musical praise for the freedom of their land and the good things of the earth. , Church over, the entire population for the nonce broke through their usual stolidness and there was a general scampering of young feet in game or dance and a clattering of older tongues in friendly gossip as neighbor visited neighbor or a father welcomed his large flock of grandchildren. The great event of this Dutch Thanksgiving day was dinner, at which was served as central dish a queer stew of meat and vegetables which they called Spanish hodge-podge. For once in thelr practical lives the Hollanders became facetious, and over this hodge-podge they made merry and cracked jokes at their old-time enemy—Spain. The.general “hash-like” appearance of the hodge-podge was supposed to represent the condition of the Spanish army when the Dutch had vanquished it. Even the children entered into the fun and kept their history fresh by gleefully slashing into a potato or a turnip and chuckling as they swallowed the morsels, “This is General So-and-So—ah! Me eat him—so!” . - Well, the Puritans heartily approved of the early religious services of the morning and their healthy appetites could not fail to appreciate the Spanish hodge-podge, however much they may have disapproved of the sentiment which flavored it, so they entered most heartily into the Dutch Thanksgiving of October 3. In 1623 these Pilgrims held October 3 as a day of Thanksgiving in the New World, and here we have our first true American Thanksgiving day. * D el This day has passed through many vicissitudes since that date. There is' not a festival on the almanac, fixed or movable, which has had the struggle for existence that our November holidav has endured. T o From 1623 until 1630 Thanksgiving day was held in America in various months, some of the Pilgrims keeping to October 3 and other colonists holding a different day by order of the governor. In 1630 the people of Massachusetts were suffering for food and clothing and Gov. Winthrop hired the good ship Lyon to return to England for supplies. For many days the vessel lay stranded off the Isle of Shoals, but finally put out. Winter came on apace, and nothing was heard of the ship. The colonists were nearly disheartened when, on' February 22, 1631, the Lyon was sighted, and the governor ordered that the day be given over to feasting and thanksgiving. This is the first written record of a Thanksgiving day in Boston: it can still be found in the Colonial Records of Massachusetts. It is an interesting fact that this first Boston Thanksgiving was held on what is now one of our most patriotic holidays, Washington’s birthday. - <The first record of a joint celebration of Thanksgiving day is given in the Colonial Records of 1632, when Gov. Winthrop of Massachusetts bay, asked the governor of Plymouth colony to join him in is-

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charge this to Tim Casey’ So the barkeeper shouted down to the proprietor, who happened to be busy in the cellar: ‘Misther Callaghan, has Timothy Casgy sufficient credit in this establishment to warrant me in charg- { ing some liquor to his account? And the proprietor called back: ‘Has Misther Casey consumed the liquor in lquestion?' And the barkeeper shouti ed in reply: ‘Oh, yes, he has consumed Ilt.’ - ‘Vary well, then,’ said the proprietor of the saloon, who was something of a philosopher ir his way—

suing a proclamation of a public Thanksgiving day. The invitation was accepted, and in November, 1632, Plymouth colony and Massachusetts Bay colony celebrated Thanksgiving day together in a manner pretty much the same as their descendants of to-day, in religious service and feasting and funmaking. The one noticeable omission was the great football game which marks the day in our generation. :

From 1632 until 1677 the New England records ghow that 22 different dates were set apart hy the various governors as days for public thanksgiving, and that with the exception of the two colonies mentioned no two held the day on the same date. The celebrations, however, were held in October or November. :

In 1677, as other denominations had crept into Plymouth colony, over which the Puritan church had no ruling, the governor decided that it would be well to have the power of fixing public holidays, “whether for feasting, praying or funmaking,” vested in civic authority. Accordingly in that year the first printed Thanksgiving day proclamation was printed. Thanksgiving day proclamation was printed, setting November 25 as the festival. : :

The law reads: “That it be in the power of the governor and assistants to command solemn dates of humiliation by fasting, etc., and also, thanksgiving as occasion shall

be offered.” : This shows that the law called for only ‘“occasional” Thanksgiving days and so the holiday was buffeted about hither and yon, from October to November, according to the pleasure of the rulers of the colonies and there never was any feeling of certainty as to the holiday. ;

That it was Held annually with: out break in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colony from its inception until 1689, with the exception of the year when King Philip’s war interrupted, there are records to show. In this colony the church and government alternated in arrang: ing the date of celebration.

GEORGIE ON THANKSGIVING Thanksgivin’ day comes once a year:because the Pilgrim band : | . Was thankful that they had the sense to:leave their native land And come across the sea to find a stern and rockbound shore ) o ‘ Where they would never haft to -bow to bosses enny more, Where thieves would not break in and steal and trusts would never try i To gobble everything and let the little dealer die. We celebrate Thanksgivin’ day because the Pilgrims came In search of freedom where they knew that they would find the same, WHhere men would be as brothers, where the . strong would aid the weak, : Where libburty would raise her flag on every crag and peak, ‘ Where billionaires would never dare to cheat for profits’ sake . . Or break the laws that other men were not al lowed to break. We celebrate because the hopes hoped by that Pilgrim band : Have all come true, because there’s not an evil in our land, Because we have no wealthy rogues to plan and plot and scheme To make the libburty we claim a vain and empty dream, z : Because our magnates go to church and teach in Sunday schools, & And everywhere from sea to sea the Christian spirit rules. We keep Thanksgivin’ day because the man who does his best ; To be an hdnest citizen is honored by the rest, He may not have a share of stock or own a.foot of land, ind But all our wealthy senators are glad to shake ‘his hand s And hear his plea and guard his rights with all the jellus care S They ever give the interests of any millionaire. We keep the good old day because no idle rich ignore The pressing needs of those where Want is scratching at the door, : Because we have such freedom as the Pilgrims wished to claim, ‘ Because we never are oppressed and never splotched with shame, Because we've frightened Greed away and raised our standard high And kept the faith for which our sires were not afraid to die. :

‘very well, then; you may just as well charge it to his account.’ ”—Harper’s Weekly. i - Thoreau’s Philosophy. A gentle railn makes the grass many shades greener. 'So our prospects brighten on the infiux of better thoughts. We sghould be blessed it we lived in the present always and took advantage of every accident that befell us, and did not spend time in atening for past neglect, which weq _call doing our duty.~—Thoreau.

AMBITION REALIZED

PRINCE FERDINAND ORDERED CROWN MADE TEN YEARS AGO.

Design Made But Fians Made to Make Him Monarch Fell Through—New Ruler of Bulgaria as He Is—- " Fond of Music. ;

London.—lt is exactly ten years ago that Ferdinand of Bulgaria had his first inclination to become a king. Hg was not content with the common or garden title of prince, since in his hands lay the reins of government of a not inconsiderable state. In 1898 he openly announced that he wished to become king, but at that time Bulgaria would have none of it. Ferdinand has never dropped this, his pet ambition. Moreover, his mother, Princess €lementine, was as anxious as he was that her son should reign as king, and so she ordered from a Munich jeweler a crown of surprising grandeur, in which she promised to set some of the brightest jewels from the family collection of the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas. She even went a step further, and commissioned one -of the greatest artists in Bavaria to prepare a special design at a handsome fee for the crown. The design was delivered and approved, but the artist failed to receive a check, and when he gently insinuated that one would be acceptable he was informed that as soon as the crown was made he should receive it. Subsequently Ferdinand gave up the idea of being crowned a king till the other day. : It is an open secret that for some time Ferdinand has been doing his

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best to work his way into the hearts of his people—the very people whom, but a few years ago, he always ad-. dressed and treated as dogs. He refused at one time to go among them, for he publicly said that they were the most unwashed race in Europe. He probably was right, but the truth did not sound well, falling as it did from his lips. Most of his time is devoted to sports, for he does little or no work. He is always hunting or shooting; fishing is another favorite pastime of his. He is Russian in appearance, with the Russian beard, and the cold, gray eyes. The only one of the arts to which Ferdinand is inclined is music, and he plays atrociously on the violin. But at heart he loves good music, and will go out of his way to hear it. He is 3 man who would not recognize the gravity of his situation, and if his country were setting out to war to-morrow, he svould sleep soundly in his bed o’ nights. ) He is tactless, and even lazy is this new European czar, but the probhability is that he is doing more work now than }le has ever done in his life. But that this burst of energy will last—well, that is another question. The other Ferdinand, namely Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, the heirpresumptive to the Austrian throne, is announced to be the wire-puller in the present instance, though most people prefer to look further mnorth. The archduke, it may be said, is a wholesome hater of Britain, and his antagonism to this country has only been quashed, when about to be openly displayed, by the emperor himself. The archduke ha§ approached the throne by a deviou&iroute. The real heir, Archduke Rifdolf, the son and favorite of the aged monarch, committed suicide in some gardens in a fit of dementia in 1889, owing to an entanglement he had been thrown into with a lady. The emperor’s younger brother, Karl, was the next heir, but he had the drawback of the Hapsburgs, namely weakness of character, and when he died the present archduke, a man of 42 or thereabouts, came next to the emperor. .. :

The archduke is unlike a Hapsburg except in appearance. He is erratic and callous, a schemer, shrewd, wilful, yet withal a man of courage. He distinguished himself a short time ago by plunging into a roaring torrent at the ,base of a mountain to save the life of a shepherd boy, who had fallen in and was drowning, and, being a strong swimmer, he succeeded in dragging the half-dead youth to land.

Tiny Dog Worth Much Money. Mlle. Atom, the smallest griffon in the world, having a weight of 25 ounces, has been sold to Mrs. John T. Windrim, wife of an architect of Philadelphia, for $l,OOO, or more than twice its weight in gold. The dog, which was found in a village near Brussels, has fine long hair, is five inches long, and four inches high. ' Best Patent Laws. American patent laws seem to be the most satisfactory of any eountry, and it is probable that the statutes of many countries will be changed in the near future to conform with those of the United States.

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Yezd is a true city of the desert, an enchanted town of glowing colors and] beautiful® architecture set among the great sandy plains of central Persia. One might say its inhabitants live without moisture, as the air itself is exceedingly dry, while the only water granted for their - refreshment is brought by primitive courses from the' snow of the distant mountains, and becomes in its wanderings so travel-] stained and dirty that to see through it is often a matter of difficulty. The | most striking features of the town as one approaches it are the tall windshaft towers, one or two to every house, built to catch the desert breeze (if hot, still a breeze), which is driven down them usually into the sherbet pantry, a very attractive place lined with bright tiles, and having a tank for goldfish in the middle. During the noontide heat people live in the cellars, and at night they sleep on the roofs in genuine oriental fashion, all the household work in the compounds being done early in the morning or in the evening. That any human beings should prepare themselves a habitation in such a barren and unpractical spot seems inconceivable folly, but legend relates that Alexander the Great erected the first building, a solid structure to-day, as a prison for his captives, and they and their warders were the original founders of the town of Yezd. Here one finds the east pure and unadulterated—the east with its primitive passion, its jealousy, its intense conservatism which may or may not, for prophecy is dangerous, yield to outside influences. The women exist in their golden cages .(so poetical with.out, so sordid within), as they have done for generations back, their keenest emotions excited py a new fashion from Teheran, where there is rather a desire to adopt western notions in details of dress and manners and a big sale for Manchester finery. They never venture abroad except closely veiled, looking mere shapeless bundles with their large outside trousers, generally of a bright grass-green color, drawn .over their indoor clothes; and the higher the lady, the stricter her seclusion. If she ride into the desert on her mule, or journey to her summer residence among the hills, her muleteer walks in front with his back towards her, and should she speak, he does not turn his head to answer her as western civility would demand. A princess of the royal blood was staying in Yezd. When she returned from an outing, a herald went in front to -announce her coming. Immediately every man fled down a side street, and, if any one among them was unable to escape he threw himself on his face in the dust until the feminine procession had passed by. Every Persian house consists of two parts, the darum (within), the men’s quarter, aad the andarum (without), the women’s quarter. No furniture of any kind is used, but the inside walls are covered with fine white plaster decorated with lovely mouldings. Pretty little arches (such a feature of the graceful Persian archtecture) are all round the place to be employed as tables, sideboards, etc, and the ceilings are adorned with mirrors and more mouldings. As all thel windows in the women’s part are

DO NOT MAKE GOOD WIVES.

College Woman Grilled by Men Who Think Them Masculine. Do college-bred women make good wives or do they not? A discouraging number of men lean to the negative, if testimony gathered by Annette Austin is to be taken as representative. The reasons given by the testifiers are many and various. “The college girl is too religious,” says one man. ‘“‘She is always pushing a spiritual hobby under your nose.” ; . “Too masculine," complains another. “Not content to resemble a boy in tastes and disposition, but must dress like him.” : Of kindred mind is a third critic. “Hard, brainy, fisty,” he tersely degeribes the college girl. “Resembles a 114-year-old boy more than anything in nature, and always will.” : ] A New York physician brings a number of counts against the college girl. “Inadaptable in the marriage relgtion,” he says. “Her intolerance

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made of stained glass, theveﬂ'ect'of the eastern sunlight filtering through them on, to the white walls is striking and beautiful. The inmates of- this oriental establishment sit on the floor, and nearly everywhere the Persian lady. goes she is accompanied by a sort of thick quilt or. thin mattress stuffed with cotton-wool, which serves either as bed or couch. She invariably sleeps in her clothes (not very numerqus, by the way), and as dusting and sweeping are unknown, the simple life can be studied in a Persian house to great advantage. 24 From the time when the girl is born she is taught to submit to restraint. The small baby, for the- first few weeks of its life, has its arms and legs bound tightly down by triangular pieces of cloth. At a month old its arms are set at liberty; at two months it is permitted to move its legs. The girls are sometimes sent with their brothers to a woman mullah (the word “mullah” literally means one who reads) or educational purposes, though exactly what these imply is difficult to define, as most of the popuJation cannot read or write. Very early, however, the little maiden is. deprived of this slight liberty. She is kept exclusively in the women'’s apartments, and prepared for her future destiny. Her hair,is braided and threaded with white cotton, in order to make it grow long by giving it a downward tendency. Wellito-do children have their locks tWistJd with colored silk and beads, and certainly the result seems satisfactory, as the_-Persian ‘women possess beautiful hair of such length that most of them are able to sit upon it. At 13 or 14 the parents of the child arrange her marriage. "The wedding festivitie‘s' last six or seven days, the women assembling at the house of the bride, and the men at the house of the bridegroom. : Divorce in Persia is very easy. Any man can procure it for any reason at a cost of what in our money would be sixpence or sevenpence. This causes the lot of the women-of the poorer classes to be one of peculiar hardship, as there are no factories or any other means by which they can gain a livelihood except under a husband’s direction. = :

|As yet western influence has had little effect on the fundamental principles which govern the lives of Persian women. The teaching of the mullahs of both sexes, who make such an excellent living by reading the Koran to ignorant believers, is steadily against the progressionist movement, and an old and effete race never takes so kindly to new ideas as a young and vigorous one. A few of the women have, however, contrived to become both clever and well informed, with consequences not altogether happy for themselyes. Confined within the narrow limits of the harem, the developed mind is apt to render its possessor irritable and depressed and most of these pioneers eventually fall victims to hysteria, a malady absolutely unknown to their umintellectual and indolent sisters. . .

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is directed especially against men. . . . Seclusion in college breeds a distortéd idea of marriage and of the sex relation in general, and it is to this class ignorance that much misery in the marriage relation is traceable.” ; : Another man, an author-physician, is even gloomier. < “The tendency to withdraw into herself, to shun marriage und to seek a career, which is particularly naticeable of the college-bred woman, is a manifestation of a deep-seated abnormality, the results of a misdirected training in a freak institution.” That is only one of the things the authorphysician says. In particular he fis bitter because a college girl—he believes—wouldn't marry a man who said: “It's him.”—Good Housekeeping. ‘ : First the motorman was provided with an inclosure, and now he is to have a seat therein. Evidently there’s nothing too good for the motorman.

Truth and ~ Quality gppeal to.the Well-Informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accoringly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, but ofie of many reasons why it is the best of personsal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to incresse the quantity from time to time.

It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all cbjectionable substances. To get its beneficisl effects always purchase the genuine—manufactiured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by sl leading druggists. ' :

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Sores, and Itching Eczema—Doctor Thought arn Operation Necessary _ =—Cuticura’s Efficacy Proven. “I am now 80 years old, and three years ago I was taken with an at tack of piles (hemorrhoids), bleeding and protruding. The doctor said the only help for me was to 20 o 3 hospital and be operated on. I tried several remedies for months but did not get much help. During this time sores appeared which changed to a terrible itching eczema. Then I began to use Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, injecting a quantity of Cuticura Ointment with a Cuticura Suppository Syringe. It took a month of this treatment to get me in a fairly healthy state and then I treated mwself once a day for three months and, after thay once or twice a week. The treatmen's I tried took a lot of money, and it is fortunate that I used Cuticura. J. H. Henderson, Hopkinton, N. Y. Apr 26, 1907.” : Mark Twain on Art. : Mark Twain and a party of friends recently went to visit the studio of & young sculptor who is coming rapidly into public notice. One of the pieces which was admired greatly by the ma’ jority of the party was the figure of 2 young woman coiling wup ber hair Mark listened to the encomiums in silence, and when urged for an €xpressfon of opinion said slowly: “It is|beautiful, but it is pot true ™ nature.” ; All expressed their surprise at this unexpected verdict and demanded his reasons. i : _-“She ought to have her mouth full ‘of hairpins,” replied Tom Sawyers. father. : ' Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot resch m& ‘eased portion of the ear. There i only one way W cure deafness, and that is by constitutions! remedies Deafness is caused by an infiamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you bave a rumbiling sound or i perfect hearing, when it is entirely ciosed, Deslness is the and uniess the ilnflammation oau be taken out an tube restored to its Dormsal condstion, hearing be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are by Catarrh, which i nothing but an % of the mucous surfaoes. We will give Hundred Doliars for sny case of Deafness (caused catarrh) tha: csnnol be cuved by Hall's Send for circulurs. Tree. — 3. CHENEY & 0., Toisio, O. . Sold by D uggists, 75¢.- : Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. - : Snake in a Beerßarrel, A party of foreigners tapped & Feg of beer at Lake Altoona, Pa, but could not get the fiuid through the spigot. Investigation disclosed the fact that the bunghole was stopped up by a snake. The reptile must have erawled into the keg while it was Ivfng empty on the ground, =nd was drowned when the keg was Silled. : e important to Mothers. : - Examine carefully every bstfle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that 3t Signature of : . In Use For Over 30 - The Kind You Have Always Bought. in Days of Old. - which was taken dowa for repuire has been put back in place. i Merry Kaight—Ha, ha! Thst shows it is an advantage sometimes to have sdnw il - -