- ' i jA. I i 'H' *' The President's Thanksgiving Proclamation sv It h»s long been the honored custom'of our people 1 I to torn in t-lic fruitful autumn of tlie rear In praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many -i I blessings and mercies to us a.s a nation. The year /"T 1 that is now drawing to a close slnne we last observed __«/• our day of national thankjgivhig has been, while a year or because of the mighty forces of war and of change which have disturbed the world, also a year of special blessing for us. » • • * Now, therefore. I. Wood row Wilson, president of 'he United States of America, do hereby deaignate Thursday, the twenty-ninth of November next, as a t ji day of thanlwgtvtng and prayer, and invito the peo- S/ • j Pi® throughout the land to cease from their wonted " 'Vormnations and in their several homes and places of worshfp render thanks to Almighty God. • V TN accordance with the national proclama * tion that to-morrow the nation shall lay aside its work and give thanks for the blessings of the past year, and following the example of our Pilgrim forefathers who gave thanks on that day when they first touched foot to American soil—to morrow we celebrate Thanksgiving Day. There have been blessings in your life duringthe pastyear. Perhapsthey havecome in disguise—those things which were dis agreeable to you at first, you later recog nized as your greatest blessings. Prosperity may have attended your efforts. Cause for thanksgiving may have come to you in an infinite variety of ways. How will you give adequate thanks for your blessings? By giving over the day to your own selfish pleasure with those things which we have lately come to recognize as a part of the national day? They may be a part of the day, but the day should start by your being in Church, giving personal thanks for your blessings. Just think back over the year and see how much you have in your life to be thankful for. Services will be held tomorrow in a number of the churches. This advertise ment contains a list where such services will be held. Look over that list and pick out one church where you will join in the service of thanks. Besides being the right thing to do, you'll find it a mighty good start for the year that is opening up before you. Go To Church Thanksgiving Services Will Be Held Tomorrow as Follows: 1 JHESBTATT LUTHERAN UHL'KiM, If).SO A. M. I I'iNE STREET PRESBYTERIAN rniTßfiH Union service of Zlon, Augsburg, fft. Mat- | 10.80 A. M. I liCH, thews an* Messiah Lutheran Churches. > Organ recital .10.18 to 10.80. Special music Sermon by Rev. 15. E. Snyder, pastor of St j by choir. Offerings for Harrisbiir*R.n«™ Matthews tutheran Church. lent Association. Semion by Rev Lewis 8. REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH. 10 A. M. pastor. Union service of Christ, Memorial and Re- c T cwrercvc pm^nn., deemer Lutheran Churches. Sermon by EPISCOPAL CHURCH. R.v. L C. Manges, pastor of Memorial ill cH'hmtien » f th. Lutheran Church. _ y Com ? Junion . at 11 a. m., morning prayer and sermon by Bishop Darlln K WI. JOHN'S REFORMED CHURCH, 10.30 A.M. I 'V 11 / oa * r i"f: rrom both services for Har- Unlon service of Salem, Second, Fourth and ! risburg Hospital. St. John's Reformed Churches. Sermon bv Rev. Ellis N. Kremer, pastor Salem Re- ST. PAUX/S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, formed Church. Two services—At 8 s. m., celebration of I Holy Communion; at 10.00 a. m., morninc MARKET SQUARE PRESBYTERIAN; prayer and sermon by Rev. Floyd Appleton. ( HIHCH, 11 A. M. I Sermon by Rev. Wll'lam R. Cooke, pastor. I STOUGII TABERNACLE, 2.30 P. M. This advertisement has been |,ai<l for liy individuals identified wlili several liarrisburt; churches WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG !&£ss£ TELEGRAPH BIG OPPORTUNITY FOIII9RICULTORE Pennsylvania Fanner Points Ont What This State Can Do in Way of Raising Food EDUCATION THE FIRST STEP Shows How the Food Supply Can Be Varied and Vacant Land Be Put to Working Pennsylvania's wonderful oppor tunity to develop its agricultural re sources and to make the loafing hill sides and tlie barren tracts productive once more is pointed out in an inter view Riven to the Telegraph to-day by one of the foremost agricultural scien tists of the country. This man, whose name is a household word In Pennsyl vania, has given the best part of a life time to the study of the problems at tending agriculture in the Keystone State, lie started out with the idea that the production of food could be Immensely increased in this state and that with the western states serving as a granery Pennsylvanians could turn to intensive agriculture and market gardening and raise a great part ot the food which they now bring from other parts of the country. The opinion of this Pennsylvania farmer Is well worth reading and con sidering. especially In view of the fact that one of the cardinal principles of Governor-elect M. G. Brumbaugh is the conservation of agriculture. This is what he says: "In these days when we hear so much of industrial welfare and con servational progress, it is fitting that we should look to the great art and occupation from which comes all our strength, viz., agriculture. "Well has it been said that agriculture is the foun dation of all other occupations. We must expect to prosper or decline with the prosperity or decrease of welfare of our agricultural people. Their In dustry began first of all, and may con tinue after all others are gone, but their profits and comforts are not pro portionate to their importance. Many a man, attracted by reports of great agricultural achievements, has been caught In the "back to the land" movement, and has found that for divers reasons the work is harder and profits much less than he anticipated. "The fact Is that these unsatisfactory conditions of rural people are increas ing and growing worse instead of bet ter. Why is this so? Why should it be so in view of the fact that in the Federal Government an agricultural department is maintained, with annual expenditures of millions of dollars, and, of course, the employment of tens of thousands of persons to bene fit the farmers? Each State maintains its agricultural department with dif ferent specializing bureaus: also, its State college and State experiment station. Different counties now have county farm managers or directors. Many public and private schools are introducing agriculture in the curricu lum. Our State Department of Public Instruction has an agricultural section. There is no doubt of the many efforts to place agricultural education some where, and in some way. Has this been done? If so, by whom, and es pecially by what correlation of these various powerful forces? "As we look over the great State of Pennsylvania we see all the variations of soil to be found anywhere in Amer ica. There are certainly, then, soli possibilities for any kind of crop, the production of which is limited only by climatic restrictions. "The forests in this State are grad ually becoming extended. Persons have for a short time cultivated lands that later have been neglected and promptly reverted to a wild or natural condition, allowed to grow up with underbrush, which in turn is burned by forest fires and again left barren. Many hillsides are to be seen which were once well-cultivated fields. Their fertility has been carried to the soils banking the streams below them. What master hand has taught the people how to conserve the soil which God placed upon the hillsides, appar ently for a purpose? Where has there been a demonstration In the methods of preventing soil erosion or In soil conservation? Who among us Is really taking hold of such barren fields nnd teaching how to restore their fertility by natural, efficient and economic means? "If the hill tops are to go back to forest and fire, and the hillsides to erosion, the valleyc must do doable duty, resulting In double production. Instead of this, statistics show grad ual decreased yields in America, but remarkably Increased yields in Eu rope. Noted European travelers In America claim that this Is a land of waste, and are Impressed more than all elso of the -wastefulness of Amer icans. Who has demonstrated how to save this tremendous -waste, and In crease the production and fertility of the soli? "It must be remembered that the farmer is a man who can no longer revert to his schools and books. Ills schooling is the practical school of experience, and his lessons come from the soil tilled by himself and his neighbors. It Is true that new pests. In the way of both plant diseases and Insects, are occasionally Introduced but he has proven that he Is able to meet these as they come, due chleflv to the practical demonstrations In this line having been given In every county, and In almost every township In the State. His greater problems are those of broad agricultural advancement, needed business facilities and oppor tunities for social and moral improve ment All of these should be con strained In the great modern Idea of education. It is evident that the de sired ends cannot be reached without a very definite co-operation of all of the factors supposed to be operating for his welfare. If the representative of one Institution, organization, office or department works on one line, and another person on another entirely different, and a third still In a difteront direction, and especially if one finds different advisers at are variance in their instructions, how can the 'poor farmer' know what to do? It Is to be hoped that the agricultural 'high brows' will agree upon Some things in (1) general plans, and (2) specific de tails, and will then present them, not in the method to wh-ch they are ac customed, but by the one method by which all the agricultural people arc sure to learn. 'Seeing is believing.' "Why would It not be doubly profit able in Pennsylvania for some one from the Department of Agriculture to take In hand some of the rundown or abandoned fields of each county and make a demonstration through a short period of a year, showing how to run and Improve them by economy, anil then sell them at enough gain to pay the expense of the restoration? The county would he the beneficiary, both financially and educationally. it should be remembered that It is very easy to restore soil fertility with an abundance of money, but the point [ CALLI99I-ANY "PHONE.I JSJOW7MCI4I4 1 HARRIS BURG'S POPULAR DEPARTMENT STORK % | Store Will Be Closed All Day To-morrow— r [ ! . THANKSGIVING DAY. f f: J % r 5 \ A Christmas f | Will Benefit Everybody | To the smallest detail, has no effort been spared to make this a Christ | mas Store of Service for your every convenience and desire. » to Tn striving for this goal, many obstacles had to be met and over- 4 t : come. New elevators have been installed; departments rearranged, af to fording greater convenience, and increased selling service will render j* shopping a pleasure. , W K We invite you to use our free telephone service, our complete mail or- I. der department, and take advantage of the transfer system. Among those having Christmas saving funds, we solicit accounts, by which you may do R your shopping now and pay for same upon receipt of your savings fund I check. « | And by doing your shopping now, you receive the benefit of un- W m broken assortments. i % brom a standpoint of efficiency, for the benefit of last-minute shop- pers, we have decided to remain Open Only Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday * Evenings Preceding Christmas. ; «c P And by so doing, every day will find salespeople bright and fresh for # new duties, and each will take an added interest in helping you select » f : gifts with care and discrimination. & L Adhering to our policy of last year, we shall S I fI~" ; I w I ! Close at 6 P. M. Christmas Eve. I I # \ 1 ? 1 I' This movement which was heartily endorsed by the Civic Club, and £ by popular sentiment last year, not only permits our large store family fk |! to remain at home in preparing for Christmas, but it also stimulates early •& £ buying, and with shopping completed, the public can enjoy being at home, « | on this greatest of all nights. Let us all spend Christmas Eve at home! ' : M i i t i $ Friday Will Be Bargain Day as Usual | ¥ A Every department has contributed a number pf very unusual •$ f bargains to make Friday a banner day, and it will be to your ad- a Y vantage to visit the store and in fact every department. Look for •$. f the green price cards. should be to show how this can be done In a manner that can be afforded by an ordinary individual who must maintain his family while so doing. Such demonstration farms could sec ondarily be used to show the residents of each county the Important lessons of utilizing soil according; to its adap tability, restoring and conserving soil fertility, saving and using soil moist ure, planting proper varieties, the beneficial or Injurious effects of dyna miting; methods ajid advantage of draining, deep plowing, subsolllng, seed testing, legume growing, pest suppression, the use of now and mod ern machinery, the best strains of live stock breeding, and other agricultural practices tliat need not now be pointed out In specific detail. "There is no doubt of great possi bilities of agriculture In a State so richly diversified as Pennsylvania. It is a fact that there must be definite, serious and efficient co-operation, first among the corps of apparently thou sands of persons who are anxious to assist the farmers, and, second, among the farmers themselves." QUAKER HERB EXTRACT AND QUAKER OIL OF BALM Read a Few More Testimonials and You Must Be Convinced That These Remedies Curd Rheumatism, Catarrh and Stomach Troubles Often Where Other Things Have Failed L *• ' Well, the Quaker Health Teacher had been in llarrisburg proving what Quaker Extract and Oil of Balm will do for sufferers of rheumatism, ca tarrh, kidney, liver, stomach or blood trouble. It seems the longer the Health Teacher would stay the more remarkable prow the results. For every day more Harrlsburg people are reporting themselves cured after tak ing the Quaker remedies. Some peo ple do not believe that the testimonials published are genuine. They are sub ject to the severest investigation, and Inquiry at the drug store will also prove that cures are. being reported every day. The proprietor or the clorks of a drug store could not or would not recommend our medicine \ NOVEMBER 25, 1914. ONI,Y ONE "BHOMO HUISISE" Whenever you feel a cold coming on. think of the full name, I,AXATrVE BROMO QI'ININK. Look for Hignature of K. W. Grove on box. 2Go.—Adver tisement. 100 HEAD OF CATTLE DISEASED Special to The Telegraph Llttlestown, Pa., Nov. 25.—Two more herds of cattle have been dis covered to have the foot and mouth disease in this vicinity. The diseased animals are In the herds on the Base hore farm and that of Clinton Meh rlng, on the farm adjoining Mr. Base hore's. The entire herd on the Base hore farm, over 100 head, have the disease. WOMAN INJURED BY FALL Special to The Telegraph Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 26.—Mrs. Jacob Mlnter, of Brysonla, la suffer ing with a dislocation of h?r right wrist, and painful bruises which she received in a fall down a flight of steps at the sprlnghouse at her home. Mrs. Mlnter Is 84 years of age. over hundreds of others unless they themselves have been convinced that said medicine Is proving and has proved its powers. Ask anybody con nected with the drug store what re sult* Quaker remedies are giving and decide accordingly whether you wish to try them or not. The Health Teacher cheerfully answers all ques tions pertaining to the remedies. Suf ferers of rheumatism, catarrh or stom ach troubles should call. Read what Mrs. John Oerwin, a woman (ifi years old, said this morning: "I had stom ach troubles for over ten years, caused by fermentation or ga it. 1 would have a copper taste In my mouth and my throat always felt sore and Inflamed, caused by ta« gas forcing itself tram LABORER SERIOUSLY IN JURE!* Annville, Pa.. Nov. 25—While at work at the Miller quarries near Ann ville. John Copoletti, a laborer, -was seriously Injured yesterday when a heavy rock fell upon him. He re ceived an Injured thigh and possibly internal injuries. Corns Dissolved Away By Painlesfc Remedy Success Every Tima No pain, no outtlng, no piasters or pads to press the gore spot. Putnam's Corn Extractor makes the corn go without pain. Just apply according to directions and you can then forget you ever had a corn. Just as good for callouses, warts or bunions. It re moves the cause and thereby efteots a lasting relief. Putnam's Painless Com and Wart Extractor—the name tella the story—price 26c per bottle. Soldi by druggists and by C. M. Fornay.—J Advertisement. my stomach. My heart would palpl-i tate, I would be short of breath, hav®. dizzy spells and was growing verin absent-minded. I venture to say that I spent over $2,000 In ,'the last ten years for different doctors and medi cine trying to be cured, but all to no purpose until I tried Quaker Extract and Oil of Balm. I commenced tak ing these remedies about three wenkn ago. I already feel better than I liavn at any time during the past ten year* and I am Improving dally. If T could not get any more Quaker Extract, money could not buy the two bottles C still have." W, H. ~ SJX 3
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