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“and GIRLS
Manufacturing
Thanksgiving Day i OUR BOYS ! KNOW THY COUNTRY
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\ We give thee thanks, O Lord,
Not for armed legions marching in their
might,
Not for the glory of the well earned
fight
Where brave men slay their brothers,
also brave,
But for the millions of thy sons who
work
And do thy tasks with joy and never
shirk
And deem the idle man a burdened
slave.
For these, O Lord, our thanks!
#4. We give thee thanks, O Lord,
"a the turrets of our men-of-war,
The monstrous guns and deadly steel
they pour
To crush pur foes and make them
bow the knee,
But for the homely sailors of thy deep,
The tireless fisher folk who banish sleep
And lure a living from the miser sea.
: Her Thanksgiving }
3 Pie
ofl Seve
’ HOPE he'll like it,” said Ruth
Harkness to herself as she put
the seasoning into the rick
mince pies she was making.
There was one—she held an old fash-
ioned green edged scalloped plate in
her hand and looked at it thoughtful-
ly—yes, there was just meat enough
for one more pie. She would sprinkle
it. full of whole raisins, carefully
stoned, and a clove stuck in each one,
and she would put a little butter in—
just a little, lest it might not be rich
enough—and about a spoonful of
brown sugar, to make it extra sweet
| Make deserts: blossont and the moun-
i ‘Not for the palaces that wealth has
For these, O Lord, our thanks! and dark, and then she would save it—
she knew for what. It was only that
perhaps John Prouty would come
around on Thanksgiving evening.
John was always fond of mince pies,
as she remembered perfectly well, and
now his mother was dead, and he was
living at Uncle James’, and Aunt
James Prouty had rheumatism, and
altogether there was not much pros-
ing unless he came there for it.
And so Thanksgiving day came, and
friends of all parties by dozens and
dozens gathered beneath Farmer Hark-
ness’ hospitable roof, and in the cool
gray twilight, as Ruth flitted back and
forward, always intent on some busy
mission, she was watching down the
lane for John.
broad shoulders and his well worn
brown surtout, and even as she watch-
ed they came in sight—they and’ a
bright plaid cloak which belonged’ to
“THE PIONEERS WHO PLOW THE FIELD, : i : }
MAKE DESERTS BLOSSOM AND THE MOUN- : > :
TAIN YIELD. # /f
We give thee thanks, O Lord,
Not for the mighty men who pile up
gold, ;
Not for the phantom millions bought
and sold
And. all the arrogance of pomp and
greed,
But for the pioneers who plow the field,
tain yield
We give thee thanks, O Lord,
grown,
hare. sase is worshiped, duty dimly.
known : ! 2
And Pleasure leads her dance the
flowery way,
But for the quiet homes where love is
queen
nd life is more than baubles, touched
and seen,
nd oid folks bless us and dear chil-
dren play.
For these, O Lord, our thanks!
the schoolmistress from Perkinsville.
Ruth set her teeth! together hard and
tight. ;
So that was where John was going
for Thanksgiving—and she had been
up there taking tea—just as though
that girl didn’t know that Aunt James
Prouty’s was no place to go for tea,
and she down: with rheumatiz! Well,
she hoped he'd have a pleasant even-
ing. As for that ple—and she looked
at it ruefully—she’d takem too much
pains with. that to waste it on a lot
of ov own boys and cider drinking
men. She'd give it to the pigs—that’s
what, she’d do with ‘it. Nobody else
should eat it if John couldn’t.
Then as she looked at the pastry. that
had given her so much pleasure-and
80 much disappointment she said she’d
give it to old Ma’am Jefferson, down
the valley. She was living there alone,
lonesome-like, and it would make her
Thanksgiving day happler to. know
that somebody thought of her up there
on the hill
So when the cider and apples were
brought and everybody was fixed cozily
enough around the kitchen fire and in
the neat big square sitting room Ruth
stole out with the pie in her hands
folded in a-white-towel, and, tripping
lightly across the fields, she knocked
“Good. NEW Times
Smith wrote the thanksgiv-
t when he-said, “Let in. the sun-
ind glorify the room.” To think
feel: finely and warmly re
o the gifts, privileges and joys
festate is sound sense, good re-
nd a perpetual feast. We thus
ithe facts and throw experience
proper perspective. If the
§ in tune all our surroundings
e melody. Things are largely
hink they are, and‘to maintain
ul spirit at all seasons is the
p toward proving the. dictum
he that man is not the victim
8 the architect of his! cireum-
fmerican spirit sanctions this by
fing Thanksgiving on the
d of winter. By so'muelr may
* “hat the lowest dénominator
® seasons is far richer than we
inly imagine.
| thereby we can, afford to. take
er look at an old score of assets.
th, friends, food, raiment, home,
, work, mind and manhood—all
| substantial as.ever: But they
i mean more to us in this day than
icould possibly import in the “bad
filmes” of our ancestors. And in
favored land some ofthese; items
more thap they express within
tother nation on the globe. We
ot dictate the harvest of mature.
} all around harvest of domestic and
83: conditions’ which ima America:
Es humanity in men; higher than
16188 and makes, the modern, artisan
r circumstanced than ancient
is a blessing for which above
ibecomes our eitizens to be thank-
Philadelphia Press:
ceived no answer. The latchstring
was hanging out. She pulled it gently
to rattle the latch; but, still hearing ne
sound from within, she pushed ‘the door
open and entered. No one was there,
but a big Iiible lax open on the stand,
and the iron 'béwed spectacles were
upon it. Ma'am Jefierson had evident:
ly been: callediaway in.a hurry. prob
ably to’see:some sick.neighber, Ruth
said to herself, and she would be glad
tor ind some trace of loving thought-
fulness: when she returned. ?
Then Ruth wrote:a. little! note; sad
from:.the feelings, that oppressed her,
yet kindly from the wealth .of her own
kind heart, and left it with the ple.
“There's company up at our house,”
the note said, “and I can’t wait until
you .come back, aunty. but I have put
the teakettle over the fire and set the
tea drawing, and I hope you will find
everything warm and comfortable”
m—
Cause For Thanksgiving:
h our sky looks dull and gray
pproach: Thanksgiving day,
© @ may. sce one golden. ray.
t® through the storm clouds murky,
¥'is an ungrateful beast
0, ming to this. annual feast,
Sjopoigive thanks for this at least—
e is not a turkey!
B. Morewood
in -» New, York
pa
pect for John to have any Thanksgiv- °
there were uncles and cousins and '
She would know his .
SHE HEARD A SOFT RAP AT THE WINDOW.
at the door of the little .cettage swhere :
Ma'am Jefferson lived alone, but re- i
Vegetables can be used for decora-
tion of the Thanksgiving day dinner
table, making an appropriate adorn-
ment. The centerpiece can be formed
of vegetables piled up in the center of
the table. Carrots, turnips, parsnips,
sweet and white potatoes, celery tops,
a red and a green cabbage, can all be
used if they are scrubbed clean and
wiped dry. Their colors are beautiful,
and if they are neatly mounded and
then edged with a border of fresh green
parsley they will be quite effective.
About the centerpiece candlesticks
formed of vegetables can be grouped.
Big carrots make good candlesticks.
Cut off the big end to make a solid
foundation on which these candlesticks
can rest and cut off some of the taper-
ing end so that the end left will be
half an inch bigger in diameter than
the candles used. Then scoop out a
little cup to hold the candle.
Cucumbers .cut on one side so that
they will sit solidly on the table, with
a little cup hollowed in each end, can
be used for holding two candles each.
Turnips, potatoes and parsnips can all
be used.
The place cards to go with this sort
of decoration might be hand painted
vegetables, with waving, rootlike arms
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: and legsiand- funny faces formed by
i the creases and eyes and knots in the
| vegetable themselves.
| There are poppy crackers on sdle
| that ‘would make appropriate favors to
go with these vegetable. decorations.
{ They cost about $1.25 a dozen. Three
. are.deeorated with tiny ears. of corn,
three with tomatoes, three with pump-
kins and three with cucumbers. Each
contains a favor.
A: big: paper turkey that: costs. abeut
+ $1.25, filled with candies, might serve
as the centerpiece, and at each place
could be put small paper turkeys, also
filled with candy, which cost from 15
| to 28! cents apiece.
There are small fruit boxes sold,
[ filled with. candies by.some confection.
ers, that are also attractive favors.
| More .useful favors, can be found in
; the small silk fruits and vegetables
| that are sold for prices that range from
| 25 cents to $1. Carrots and parsnips,
apples and: pears are included in these
fruits and vegetables; and they are all
pincushions, The tiny vegetable sou-
venirs that sell for 15 cents each and
the tiny wax vegetables and fruits that
cost’ 10 or-15 ‘cents “algo ‘make appro-
priate and acceptable favors:
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Ever Eat.“Spread. Eagle” Turkey?
“Spread eagle,” a young turkey, split
; and broiled over a _hot wood fire and
i served with a sauce of chopped oysters,
crabs, wild'celery and apples’ mixed
withhold ‘brandy and ‘Madeira wine, a
dish:popular ‘among clubmen and army
and navy officers, waa first brought out:
by a shipping. merchant of New York.
from fifty .to meventy- years-ago—Jerry
Weinberg... He, was the inventor of
lobster a la Weinberg, which became
afterward known as lobster'a la New:
burg—why Newburg nobody everkhew.
Welnberg’s bill" of fare for his special
annuai ‘banguet sto the good: livers: of
boiled rice, apple pie, white brandy,
New': Jersey peach brandy, claret,
champagne and coffee from Aden, Ara-
bia.
Thanksgiving Thoughts.
Gratitude 1s the fairest blossom which
Springs from the soul, and the heart
of man knoweth none more fragrant. —
Hosea Ballou.
Let neither night nor day unhallowed
pass, but still remember what the Lord
hath done. — Shakespears,. “Twelfth
Night.”
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OFC XOX OFOXOF CFOFOF OF
INTELLIGENT ANTS.
Down underground lives that most
wonderful of all insect creatures of
the earth—the ant. Right in the same
great house of a hundred rooms live
the soldier ants, with their wonderful
Jaws for fighting, and the slaves that
do all the work, and, oddest of all,
the cows that the ants milk daily.
It is a great house in which the
ants live, a Kansas City Star writer
observes. It is much larger than the
buildings erected by man, that is,
wk you compare the size of the ants
and the men who do the work. There
are great halls, and many, many
rooms. The busy little fellows that
work so industriously all day live in
some of the rooms, and in others they
store their eggs. In still other cham-
bers they store away seeds that will
serve for food wh-n the long winter |
months come on. And for fear that
some of the seeds may start to grow
little plants and no long ~ be good |
for food, the industrious ants take
them to the surface and dry them in |
the sun, and then cc: , them back
to their warehouse once more.
And at night, when the sun is set
ting and the day’s labors are over,
the last ants coming through the
main doorway into the big under-
ground temple carefully close up the
entrance. They place a few sentries
to watch for signs of danger while the
others are sleeping through the night,
And woe betide the enemy who dares
encroach upon their home. For ihe
big-jawed soldier ants scurry forth
; at first intimation of danger and give |
! battle in a fearless: manner. :
i. But this story is chout the cows that |
the ants keep. The ants not only |
, take good care of the cows, hut they
, watch over the eggs from which the
' cows are hatched and guard them just
as carefully as they do their own
eggs. Whenever an ants’ nest is up-
turned accidentally with a spade ev-
ery ant sets to work immediately car-
rying back into the wrecked palace
the myriads of little white eggs that
are always found in ants’ nest. There
are both ant eggs and the eggs of
their cows. But the ants aren’t so
selfish as to pick out their own eggs
and save them first, but pick ap both
kinds as quickly as they can and bear
them to safety in the little darkness,
for light will destroy the little’ un-
hatched ants.
Of course the cows the ants keeps
are not like our cows. They are only
very little insects like mosquitos. And
their milk isn’t like the milk we get
from t| y an, but the ants: like
ry well. These little cows, which
are called aphides, seem to like to be
‘milked, too, and they are perfectly
content to live with the ants and
protected by them. :
The way the ants let the cows know
when milking time has arrived is: by
| Tubbing the cows. The ant strokes
| the cow with the two little feelers
that stand out in front of the head.
| These feelers, called antennae, are
what the ant uses to tell him a lot of
things. When an ant is separated from
' a friendly ant for a long time he rubs
| these! feelers over the other ant and
i by some wonderful sense will recog-
nize him as an old acquaintance. And
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| when the ants play games during’ the:
day, as they frequently do, they use
these little feelers to tell them a. lot
of things. So these feelers are some-
times much more sensitive than our
fingers. Maybe they are like fingers
and eyes and ears and noses, all put
together. :
Anyway, it is by rubbing these feel- |
ers op thé cow that the aphis knows |
milking tithe has come. In a moment |
there is! a nice drop of sweet milk
given up .by the cow, and the ants
drink it greedily. So it isn’t to be
wondered at that ants take such good’
care of their cows, when the cows are
so willing“to supply the colony with
milk whenéver milking time comes, !
And it isn’t to be wondered at, either;
that the cows are glad to supply milk
When. they can live with such wonder- |
ful home builders as the ants, and are |
80 well protected and cared for as. |
they are by these little. insects, who |
are busw all day long, working, stor
ing‘ up food ‘and’ attending to they’
business with incredible intélligence.
Johnny's Definition.
It was in the definition class; teachs:
or was giving: out/ the words ‘to'spell;’
and explaining them at the same time.
“N-a-p, nap, that means a little sleep;
you know, Johnny. K-i-n, kin, thas,
means of a family, belonging to the *
family; do ‘yow'understand ?** |
| “Yes, ma'am? |
Pretty soon the-class was called up
again, and the ‘word “napkin” came’
“Can any one teli what:
means? What is it?” asked the teaehe;
er.
ox know,” yells Johnny, “a sleepy
family.”
His Authority.
*] caught’ a little boy fish yester
day,” said Tommy.
“A little what?” 1
*A little boy fish. Papa said it was
@- son fish.”
“Never look a gift horse im the
mouth” may be good advice to the
ene man in a million who is fortunate
enough to have a horse given to him.
The factory is the farmer’s workshop for he must pay the expenses of
preparing his products for the market; meet the pay roll of the manufacturer;
pay for the machinery and all other expenses. The loom, the forge, thq
slaughter pen and the gristmill have moved from the farm and concentrated
in the city, where powerful machinery, skilled labor and organized market
prepare the products for consumption more economically and efficiently, on]
the farmer still pays the bill. The railroad trains have taken the place o
the prairie schooner, affording cheap and rapid transit and making it pos«
sible to concentrate products and build up manufacturing centers.
The farmer is, therefore, interested in the manufacturer and his problems
and in order to grasp the magnitude and importance of the industry to the
agricultural interests a brief review of the business is essential.
Official estimates based on the returns of the federal census taken in
1910 show that there were 321,000 manufacturing establishments in the United
States in 1914 employing approximately 11,000,000 persons at an annual pay
roll expense of $5,546,000,000.
We have $24,181,000,000 invested in our manufacturing industries and the
yearly production is valued at $26,550,000,000, a gross return on the invest
ment of more than 100 per cent. Our farming capital is approximately
$41,000,000,000 and the annual gross production, including live stock and
crops, is $10,000,000,000, or a gross return on the investment of 25 per cent.
In 1820 approximately 10 per cent of the working population were engaged
in manufacturing and 83 per cent were employed in agricultural pursuits. At
the last federal census our gainful workers were distributed 28 per cent in
manufacturing establishments and 33 per cent in agriculture.
The number of people employed in manufacture has increased from 349,
000 in 1820 to about 11,000,000, an increase of 31-fold, while the number of
farm workers has multiplied over six times this period.
There are 408,472 engines and motors in the factories of the United
States with a combined horse power of 18,675,000.
Lumber and timber mills are our leading industry from the standpoint
of persons employed. Foundry and machine shops rank second, and cotton
mills third. In value of annual output slaughtering and meat packing come
first, with foundry and machine shops second and lumber and timber third.
In wealth-creation or the value added to raw material by the manufacturing
process the foundry and machine shops take first rank, with the lumber mills
and printing and publishing industries second and third, respectively.
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio are the five
leading manufacturing states. In number of wage earners, value of output
and value added by manufacture they rank in the order mentioned with the
exception of Illinois, which is fourth in this respect, with Massachusetts third.
In capital investment foundry and machine shops are first, lumber mills
second and steel mills third. These are the only industries in the nation
that have a capital investment of more than a billion dollars.
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