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Mary's j
Thanksgiving |
Proclamation j
By REV. JOHN T. PARIS J
KTMTOH'S No-ric-Tbls storr is based on fact: It Is
true SO far as HIP I».I letter* are concerned, which
actually parsed boltveen a little ifirl and u governor.
The day before Thanksgiving, and Mary
Tolliver was sick. Poor Mary! How
she had looked forward to the annual
festival! For weeks she had count
ed the days. Grandpa and all the rest
had been invited for that day. And now
«he was sick. She had tried to think
she was well when her head ached the
night before. But in the morning the
little face was flushed with fever, and
there was a family consultation. Then
the doctor was called in.
"Just a little ague,"' the doctor said.
Mary knew what ague was; she had
had it before, but never at Thanksgiv
ing time.
"Can you get me well for to-morrow?"
•he asked.
"I'm afraid not," the doctor answered,
•with a kindly smile. "You must be
quiet for a few days, and maybe you can
have your Thanksgiving next week."
So word was sent to the relatives not
to come next day, as there would be no
Thanksgiving dinner at the Tolliver
"JUST TO THINK HE DID THIS FOR
ME!"
house. Two days after Thanksgiving
the fever was all gone, and Mary was
very qniet.
"What is my little girl thinking of?"
Mother Tolliver asked.
"I was wondering if we could have a
Thanksgiving day next week, as Dr.
Brown said," Mary answered.
"Oh, no! Mary," she was told; "not till
next year. You know the governormakes
what he calls a 'proclamation,' and tells
■us when to have Thanksgiving."
But Mary was not satisfied. She
thought all d >*/, and made her plans.
Monday morning she asked if she
Blight write a letter. "Just my very
own," she said.
Mother Tolliver gave leave very will
ingly. "But It must be short," the added.
It was a short letter vhich Mary
handed to her mother two hours later.
This is what she said:
"Dear Governor: Please can have an
other Thanksgiving Day, and have It next
Thursday? 1 was sick, and so Grandpa and
the others didn't come, and I could not eat
any Turkey. I ain't very big, but 1 like
Turkey. Please let us have it.
"Your friend,
"MARY TOLLIVER."
"Y'on't you send it, mamma?" she
pleaded.
Mother Tolliver thought It would not
hurt to send It, so the letter went that
eight.
At the capitol the governor was very
busy. It was near the end of his term,
ht Lad a great deal to do But he
read Mary Tolllver's letter twice, and
then called a messenger.
"Billie," he said, "go down town and
buy the biggest turkey you can get, and
express it, with a lot of cranberries and
celery, and all sorts of Thanksgiving
goodies, to this address."
Then he called his clerk, and sent Mary
a letter.
Wednesday morning Mother Tolli
ver handed her the big envelope.
This is what she spelled out:
"Having been Informed that Mary Tol
liver was ill on the 2Sth of November, and
was thus prevented from Joining in the
festivities incident to Thanksgiving Day,
I therefore recommend that at a con
venient hour on Thursday, December 5,
Mr. and Mrs. Tolliver, together with their
family and such young friends as Mary
may choose to Invite, assemble In the din
ing-room, and there with hearts full of
thankfulness for country, for home, and
for the blessed influence of children, par
take of such bounties as are usually
served in Christian America on the day ap
pointed for National Thanksgiving, and
that especial attention be given that Mary
shall be bountifully supplied with such
portions of the national bird, and with such
other delicacies, as are most congenial to
her."
"Just see his name at the bottom,
mamma—the governor's name!" shouted
Mary. "And the letter is all ribbons anc
red wax on the back. Just to think he did
this for me!"
"Yes, he did It for you, Mary, and you
shall have your own Thanksgiving Day.
But what will you be thankful for, a
week after the time?"
"Oh! I'll be thankful I'm so well again.
Will that do? And can't I just as well be
thankful this week as last?"
And Mother Tolliver thoughtshecould.
—S. S. Times.
THE FAMILY REUNION.
No Other I»ny in All the Year Sarvei
the I'urpuite of Thaukn
tfclrlnjf Dar.
Thanksgiving day serves a purpose
supplied by no other day in the year,
says a writer in Christian Work. It
brings the members of the old home
together snce more; it brings up the
old times and recalls to mind the dear
ones, some giving thanxs In far-away
homes of their own, some of them,
alas! not to unite with us at the
Thanksgiving board as in former
years. But none the less hearty and all
the more tender will be the thanksgiv
ing offered, with gratitude for what she
was—so sweet., so loving, so exalted
her pure life; and there are other
blessed ones of earlier years.
At this time, then, of family gather
ings and family rejoicing, let devout
thankfulness lodge in -the heart and
find expression from the lips, as we
recall the blessings of the family rela
tion—the love, the joy, the hope, the
blessed memories it nurtures; for these
it Is which make a paradise on earth
and open up a vision of that endless
Thanksgiving in the Paradise of God.
RIDICULOUS.
Mrs. Turkey—Where have you been,
pa?
Mr. Turkey—l've been seeing that old
hen around the corner, who tells for
tunes. She's a fraud. You ought to
have heard the character she gave me
Said I was flighty and likely to lose mj
head; told me I was going to be mixed
up in some kind of an affair with a dark
lady, and warned me to look out for g
bald-headed man with an ax. Did yon !
ever hear of anything so absurd?—Chi \
cago Itecord-Hcrald.
CAMBRON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, r 9 03.
AN AWFUL CRASH.
Trains Collide in a Deep Cut
Near Tremont, 111.
Tlilrty.oiio Hon Killed and 15 Other*
Injured on llie Ittig four ICoud -
One Holler Kxploilea—Wreck
use filed UO feet High
on the Track*.
Peoria, 111., Nov. 20.—Thirty-one
I men were killed and at least 15 in
! jure<l in a head-end collision between
| u freight train and a work train on
j the Big Four railroad between Mack-
I inaw and Tremont Thursday after-
I noon. Itodies of 26 of the victims
! nave been taken from the wreck,
' which is piled 30 feet high on the
| i "»eks. Five bodies yet remain buried
I uni. yhe huge pile of broken tim
j ber, t». sted and distorted iron and
I steel.
All the dead and most of the in
! jured were members of the work
j train, the crews on both engines
jumping in time to save their lives.
The collision occurred in a deep cut,
at the beginning of a sharp curve,
neither train being visible to the
i crew of the other until they were
j within 50 feet of each The
; engineers set the brakes, sounded
| the whistles and then leaped from
| their cabs, the two trains striking
with such force that the sound was
! heard for miles.
A second after the collision the
; boiler of the work train engine ex
ploded, throwing heavy iron bars
and splinters of wood 200 feet,
j Conductor John W. Judge, of Jn
i dianapolis, who had charge of the
freight train, received orders at I'r
hana to wait at Mackinaw for the
work train, which was due there at
! 2:40 p. m. Instead of doing this he
failed to stop. The engineer of the
work train. George Meeker, had also
1 received orders to pass the freight
at .Mackinaw and was on the way to
I that station. The work train was
i perhaps live minutes late and was
running at full speed. The collision
was witnessed by Russell Noonan, a
farmer's hoy, 14 years of age. who
hastened to a nearby house and tele
phoned to Tremont.
A special train with four physicians
was made up in a few minutes and
in less than half an hour was on the
scene. At the same time another
train arrived from I'ekin bearing Su
perintendent Harnard, of the l'ig
Four, and three physicians. The sec
ond train bore a lot of rugs and these
were utilized to carry out the man
gled corpses of the victims.
After working two hours the re
mains of 26 men were taken out.
One of the last bodies recovered
was that of William I'ailey, of Mack
inaw, who had been lifted ISO feet in
to the ah and held in place by two
steel rails which had been pushed up
between the engine and the tender
of the work train.
The workmen had been engaged
in laying steel rails at different
points along the track and three of
the freight cars were heavily loaded.
The dead are residents of neighbor
ing towns and the scenes about the
wreck hist evening were beyond de
scription. Wives and children of
men who were missing thronged
around, asking if their husbands or
fathers had been killed. Out of :i5
men who constituted the crew of the
work train only four are living and
two of these are seriously injured.
HIS HEAD CRUSHED IN.
A Telegraph Oprrutor I* Murdered ut
Ills Post of Hut;.
Elimira, N. Y., Nov. 20. W. H. Clen
denen, a telegraph operator at
Brown, l'a., a station 15 miles north
of Williamsport on the Beech Creek
division of the New York Central
railway, was found dead in the tele
graph tower shortly after 7 o'clock
last evening. At 6:;!0 the operator at
Oak Grove received this message
Clendenen:
"Send switch engine quick to me.
I am being murdered by The
wire opened and not another word
came. A switch engine was sent to
the scene. The body was found ly
ing under the desk, the head crush
ed in. A bloody spike maul lay on
the lioor beside it. Robbery appar
ently was the motive, the watch and
money of the operator being miss
ing.
No trace of the murderer has been
found. Clendenen was 38 years of
age and single. He evidently recog
nized his assailant and was about to j
wire his name when he was struck I
dead at the key.
HALF A LAW.
Tlie <ll ball lleel proclty Kill I*u««e*
tlio House •>> a Vote ol' 335 to 2 1.
Washington, Nov. 20.—The house
yesterday by a rising vote of .'{l»s to
passed the bill to make effective
the Cuban reciprocity treaty. The
dissenting votes were about equally i
divided between republicans and dem
ocrats, but there was no record vote, !
the minority having too few votes to i
order the yeas and nays.
The democrats, under the leader- I
ship of Mr. Williams, sought to the
last, to secure amendments to the i
bill in accordance with the action ot !
the democratic caucus, but were de
feated steadily.
Dowle t all* Tor t'J,UOO,UOO.
Chicago, Nov 20.—John Alexander
Dowie, general overseer of the
Christian Catholic church, has issued j
a call for $2,000,000. The head of the i
/ion industries says to his follow- |
ers: "Realize by immediate sale !
the cash proceeds of all your proper
ties, invest in Zion securities or Zion
land. Slid come with all your house
to Zion City."
ltel'uoed lo Order Out (lie Troops.
Washington, Nov. • 20.—President
Roosevelt has received a dispatch
from Gov. Peabody, of Colorado, ask
ing that (icn. Baldwin, commanding
the Department of the Colorado, be
instructed to supply such troops as
may be necessary to preserve order ]
bi the Tellnri.de mining district,. Af-!
ter a consultation between the presi
dent and secretary of war. Gov. I'ea
body was advised that it did not sip
pear that the resources of the st:i<le
to ke -p the peace haul 'ueen exhaust
ed and therefore the request for
troops was denied.
REBELS SUCCESSFUL.
All of Sun to Domingo Ki'ppl tlie Cap-
Hal la In tile Hand* of IllnurSelila.
San Domingo, Nov. 19. —Sever*
fighting took place Monday nighl
around this city. The rebels wert
prevented from entering the capital
The loss of the rebels is not known
The United States criser Baltimore
landed marines to protect American
interests. Guards were placed at tin
American legation and consulate am
the Clyde steamship agency.
Cape llaytien, Hayti, Nov. 19. —A
dispatch from Monte Cristo says in
formation has been received t here
from San*o Domingo that I'nitei:
States Min 4 ,er l'oweil, accompanies
by the mini er of foreign relations
(ialvan, has h .ic aboard the United
States cruiser Baltimore. The ob
ject of their visit to the warship is
unknown.
San Juan, I'orto Rico, Nov. 19. —Tht
French steamer St. Simon arriveci
here yesterday from Hayti and Santc
Domingo. She touched ut Puertc
I Plata, on the north coast of Santc
I Domingo, and reports that all of tht
| Dominican republic except the capi
tal, San Domingo, was in the hand*
lof the revolutionists. The St. Simon
also reported that General .limine/
leader of the Dominican revolution
] ists, left Hayti November 10, and was
J due to arrive Friday next before Sai:
I Domingo and assume direction of tin
siege of that city.
AGAINST SOCIALISM.
Tile American Federation ol' Labor
lioM on Iteeord.
Boston, Nov. 19. —After a long de
j bate, cliielly noteworthy because of
; the bitter language of President
Gompers in dealing with socialism,
: the American Federation of Labor
yesterday defeated resolutions pledg
; ing it to socialism. .Nine resolutions
presented by socialists and calling for
the adoption of their principles had
been reported upon unfavorably by
! the committee on Resolutions, afill
delegates representing a voting
■ strength of 11,252 registered them
] selves in support of the committee's
recommendation, while 2.153 votes
; were in favor of the resolutions.
AH the leaders ol both sides en
gaged in the debate. .lust before the
j vote was taken considerable excite
ment was caused by Delegate Carey's
condemnation of Vice President Dun
can's attack upon the socialists.
The climax-of the day came when
President (iompers, in bitter and uri
! qualified language, scourged social
ism and what he claimed was an at
tempt to induce the convention to
adopt, its principles.
AN IMPORTANT RAID.
Counterfeiter*' ApparutiiN and Dyna
mite ure Found In a IIOUMC 111 Now
York I'ltj-.
New York, Xov. 19.—Secret service
agents yesterday raided the apart
ments of Mrs. .iosie Biondo, who had
i been arrested for attempting to pass
. counterfeit coin. They found metal
molds and formulas for the composi
tion of counterfeit coin and also four
big sticks of dynamite, weighing six
pounds, a coil of fuse and a supply of
fulminating caps. The woman's hus
i band was arrested.
Among the papers found in the
room was a list of several hundred
names, both Italian and American,
which the secret service men are in
clined to think has something to do
with Mafia matters.
Biondo, the secret service men say,
i is acquainted with Morello, the leader
| of the gang arrested for alleged com
j plieity in the "barrel" murder. This
gang consisted of seven or eight
! counterfeiters who were rounded up
by secret service men. It was known
at the time that the gang had exten
sive outside connections, but these
could not immediately be traced.
Itemarkable Cure* of C'oiiMiniiptloii.
Moscow, Nov. 19. Remarkable
cures of consumption have been ef
fected in Russia by Kisel Zagoranski,
formerly a mining engineer and now
| specially licensed by the Russian
medical department to practice medi
i cine in cases of tuberculosis. Zagor
anski says that :i0 years ago he was
sent to Siberia to superintend mining
works. The medical facilities there
were limited and Zagoranski attend
ed to the medical wants of the work
men. An old foreman of the mine,
however, always took care of tuber
culosis cases and almost invariably
cured them.* The foreman died, con
tiding his tuberculosis specific to
Zagoranski.
(•railed an Uar oil a Millionaire*
Philadelphia, Nov. 19.—Dr. Andrew
L. Nelson, of New York, yesterday
performed the operation of grafting
an ear upon the head of a western
millionaire whose name the surgeon
says he is under bond not to reveal.
The operation was to have been per
formed in New York, but District At
torney Jerome is said to have intcr
ferred. Dr. Nelden advertised for a
man willing to sell an ear for $5,000
and of 300 applicants he selected a
young German who conducts a res
taurant in New \orK.
Jndcu Phillip* niPN.
Washington, Nov. 19.—Samuel F.
Phillips, solicitor general of the
United States under Presidents
Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur,
died here yesterday, aged 79 years,
lie was a native of New York City but
while a child moved with his parents
to North Carolina. He was a prom
inent Union man throughout the war,
and was an outspoken republican in
politics.
Will Sue to Prevent Secession-
Boston, Nov. 19.—A suit in equity
is beiug prepared by the supreme
lodge, A. O. U. YV., against the grand
lodge of Massachusetts to prevent
the latter body withdrawing from
the supreme lodge.
Cutting Doivu Itxpenve*.
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 19. —Within
the past week the Northern Pacific
has reduced tiie working hours at the
shops at Gladstone and Cotno prac
tically one day a week. The number
of men employed has also been re
duced. '1 tie Great Northern lias
taken similar action at Como and
Havre, Mont., and other points. The
reduction is stated to lie owing to
falling off in the amount of construc
tion and repair work on hand. The
curtailment of expenses in this re
duction will about neutralize the ad
ditional expeuse caused by the recem
increase in wages.
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'•'IK- «.criu In llauger.
Minnesota professors have spotted
the spotted fever germ and it will
have to take to the woods.
"Some folks,' - said Uncle Ehen, "gits
credit foil bein' lucky 'case dey has sense;
an others gits credit foh bavin' sense
cause dey's lucky."—Washington Star.
Three solid through trains daily Chicago
to California. Chicago, Union Pacific &
North-Western Line.
Wild oats make worse bread.—Ram'i
Ilorn.
June Tint Butter Color makes top of
the market butter.
Selfishness is always shortsighted.—
Ram's ilorn.
Men find it more and more difficult, to
do justice to victuals without doing jus
tice to themselves.—Detroit Free Press.
"Smithers always buys bis cigars by the
box. lie says." "Humph! I thought he
bought them by the bale."—Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
Knox—"Why do you always put 'dictat
ed' at the bottom of your letters? You
have no stenographer."—Knix—"Well, you
see, I'm a very poor speller."—Evening
Wisconsin.
"Is trade pretty good?" we asked the
great merchant. "Well," be replied—a
bit evasively, we thought—"the store is
crowded every day with lady shoppers."—
Syracuse Herald.
"Do you drink?" inquired the young
woman's mother. The young man hesitat
ed. "Do you drink?" the lady repeated.
"If you insist," replied the modest young
man. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mrs. Newrich had been describing he?
visit to Turkey. Friend—"Then, of
course, you saw the Dardanelles?" Mrs,
Newrich—"Why, no, we didn't. They
called, but we were out."—Cincinnati Tri
bune.
All It Means.—Mie: llomance—"When
an opal, a present from one we dearlv
love, loses its luster, what is it a sign of?
Mr.- Hardhead (in tiie jewelry line)--"It is
a sign that the opal has split."—N. Y.
Weekly.
"Weren't you nervous at the wedding?"
asked the sympathetic chap, "with all
those people looking at you?' "I nerv
ous?" repeated the recent benedict, "why
should I be nervous? Nobody looked at
me—-I was only the groom, you know."—
Cincinnati Times-Star.
111 M I'rlvnle Opinion.
"Say, pa," queried little Johnny Hum
pernickle, "what is the bone of conten
tion?"
"It's your mother's jawbone, my son,"
answered the old man, with a deep sigh,
"but don't tell her 1 said so."—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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