4 Yhe tenVhing of iniisio is becoming more general every year in the public Schools of tliiH country. Native and foreign inventors are now studying the oil wells of Jnpnn. The field in considered promising. Fruit went to watte in California Drchards because the growers could not get men to pick it. Yet the Htute is overrun with tramps. In Berlin, Lcipsic and Dresden cy rlometers are used on many cabs, and as the instrument records the proper fare to be paid" for the distance traveled, the stranger is not entirely at the mercy of cabby's conscience, Tho generous instinct of humanity places itself in evidence by the total contribution of $ 7,500,000 toward the relief of famine. in India. Large as this snra is, it is sadly disproportion ate to the total loss of $.ri0,000,()0() which the famine is stated by Lord George Hamilton to ' have cansefl. English administration, powerless to avert this vast calamity, is indebted to the pitying charity of the rest of the world for even this alleviation. Word comes that fifty thousand bushels of a new variety of beetle were swept up from the streets of New Orleans recently. The moral drawn from this circumstance by a New York paper is, Don't kill birds for their plumage. Millions of birds are said to have been so slaughtered in Louisiana of late. It seems that the beetle will not spare him who spares not the beetle's enemy. Thus the birds by a kind of a post mortem ne mesis provide their own avengers. Says the Baltimore Journal of Com merce: Russia has 420,000,000 acres in timber, the United States 400,000, 000. In both countries the forests are being destroyed in a reckless man ner, and it is reported that those in the proximity of iron works in the Ural district in Russia are becoming exhausted. The annual cut in Russia is 6,200,000,000 cubic feet a year, and in the United States 0,300,000,000 cubio feet, Russia's product being worth $204,000,000, and that of the United States $300, 000, 000, Russia cutting fifteen cubio feet per aore, and the United States twenty cubio feet. Over 80 per cent, of the area of Eu ropean Russia (including the Cau casus) is forest. But that fact gives no correct idea of the extent to which consumers throughout Russia have wood at their disposal. Less than half of Russia is rich in forest, one fifth is poorer than Germany or France, and one-eighth has scarcely any. The Chicago Times-Herald says: "The Atlanta Constitution in a recent editorial comments in terms of Just exultation over the continuing indus trial progress of the south. Of that progress the Tiraes-Herald has frequently spoken, for there is scarcely a province of human industry that the southern people are not entering upon with more or less success. In the great manufacturing industries of iron and cotton they are making marvelous progress, bidding fair to rival if not to outstrip the northern states in these particular lines, while in the lesser departments the increase is quite as gratifying. The Constitu tion, , quoting from the Chatanooga Tradesman, gives a list of 474 new concerns that have been established in the various states of the south dur ing the mouths of , July, August and Sept-ember, as follows: Breweries I Brlok and tile work. 1 Canning factories 6 Car works..... 1 Compresses and gins 48 Cotton and woolen mills 33 Development and Improve" snt com panies 10 Bleotrlo light companies..... as Flour and gristmills........... 64 Foundries and machine shops IS Gu plants, . .... j. J lea factories.... II IflBAS and quarries........ 82 Natural gas and oil eompanies IS ou tiis aa JMuMgjhate and lurmir.er eompanies....... 4 Waterworks...; 84 Woodworking ... 112 HuMdUsoeous 62 ... ' Total... 474 The truth is that capital is awakening . at a lively rate to the faot that the natural resources of the south are al , most illimitable, and that there is boundless wealth in the aoil and un der the aoil, that needs only energy, enterprise aad money to make yield fifty and a bandred fold. Let the Money question be onoe settled for good and all on a stable and enduring Uuia, and the progress of the south in recent years will be as nothing to what it will be. - No section of the trsrttry has a brighter industrial ' jtrfortit." vtemKf x, We thank Thee. Lord, tor flnlly food, For nil received of dally good: For sunHhlne and tho son of birds And molodjr of loving words. Wo thnnk Thee for the books we read, And for tho Hook of books we newt. For hopes of enrth so sweetly given And for the klghor hopes of heaven. For children's voices full of loves ' For tft bright clouds that float above; And tor the tenrs we've sometimes known For sorrows other than our own. For loved ones here and loved ones gone, Who still, with Thee, keen loving on; For spirit tones that softly null. And for the cross that's over nil. ItcvsJ. r. Hutchinson. 00030000000000000 V A tj xtvo Q Carey's Mine. A Thnnknelvlni Story, O iooooooooooooooooooooooooa FEW days only remained be 39wjf fore Thank s- ' 1 1 .11 1 K1V1IIK, UIU John Carey and his son stood in front of the comfort able farmhouse gazing out upon a rolling Y". lanuscnpe in $ -i the golden 0 light of the Iu- flinn summer. ' "I tell y', George, it's the best farm iu the county," remarked the weather- beaten farmer. "Over three bundled acres, and y' might say all but about Hify under the best cultivation. An even the bluff over there, with its rocks and scrubs, will be worth 'a for tune when I get that mine down. Ah' it's all yours if y' only do as I say." "But, father" "I tell y' there ain't no buts about it. What you waut is a good, healthy, country girl for a wife. I can't see what you admire in that school teacher, anyhow. Let her marry one of her kind, a lawyer or doctor, or somethin'." "But, futuer, sbe is a country girl, and strong and healthy, and you know mother Buys she is just the kind to make a good housekeeper." "Don't tell me," snarled the old man. "She's proud as Lucifer, an' '11 want to live iu style when she mar ries. Now, I've given you an eddica tion, and that's enough in one family. You don't want to hitch to- a wife smarter thau you are yourself. Now, look at me. I won't say a word ag'in' your mother, but she had an ediea tion and didn't, an' we never could agree, especially about that gold mine I say thore's gold there and as soon as I've got down to ' it I'm willing (to make the farm over to you if you 11 do as I say. I don't want you to marry a wife who'll despise me an' teach y' to go back on my advice. You do as I say an' the farm's yours. But marry that girl an' you'll .never get a cent." George Carey knew his father well and was aware that to dispute with him only rendered him more obstin ate. Nevertheless, he was deeply in love with pretty Nellie Thome, the teacher of musio and painting at the aoademy in the neighboring village, and he resolved to put his fate to the test, "Father," he replied, with a quiver of feeling in his tone, "I owe you much and never thought to dispute you. But you have given me an education and mrMastes are different from yours. You have do right to dio tate my choice of a wife, and I propose to marry the woman I love witn or without your consent." "I say you'll marry Betsy Wood, that I pioked outlor y' long ago, or be no more a son of mine," shouted the old farmer, breaking into a sudden passion. "Very well, father, then we must part," replied the young man, calmly uut sauiy, ana ne turned on bis heel and walked slowly back toward the bouse. John Carey gazed after his eon for a few momenta in astonishment. "All comes of his eddioation," he muttered. "That's where I made mistake. He's been settin' himself np eg'ift me for some time. An' he thinks like his mother that there's no gold over in that hill, though old Farley has traced it ag'in and ag'in with his di- vinin' rod. Well, I gnesa he'll get ,over his pet and oome to my terms, if I'm firm an' I'm always firm. It's my way.? With these remarks he turned and walked toward the distant hillside. where several men where engaged in mining operations nnder the direotion of old .bea Farley, a quaint local char aoter, whs professed to have occult Knowledge, and lor years, had claimed the ability to looite mineral veins with witch haul rod. He had succeeded in imposing on John Carey the belief that a gold vein existed in a rooky hill that formed the eastern boundary of nis larm, ana operations to test bis theory had been going on for several weeks, during which the old farmer had become more and more infatuated with the idea that a fortune awaited him, owing to several bogus assays that had been secured by Farley. The miners, inexperieuoed laborers from the village, were slowly blasting their way into a hard conglomerate rok, following a small vein of pyrites that the credulous farmer believed to be veritable gold. ' On arriving at the spot he watched their operations for soma time with great interest, and fin' ally at the invitation of Farley, d seend-d the shaft. The neighbors had been nredlotino- diaaster at John Carey's mine, owing to the dltsffaUd character of the men TerJ tr Tvlcj, , and it aaroad ooooooooo destined that their fears should come true. The workmen were engnged in tamping a new blast while the two men were intently examining the) min eral vein, when a sudden shock as of an earthquake occurred. The blast had prematurely exploded, and had been followed by a considerable fall of dirt and debris into the mine. Fortnnatnty several of tho workmen were outside ml the mine and other help was hastily summoned, and the injured were as speedily as possible rescued from their disagreeable posi tion. Two of the workmen were seri ously injured, while Ebon Farley himself had a broken leg and several severe contusions. As for John Corey, he ever blessed his fortune that he es caped with something like half a hun dred cuts and bruises, none of which was serious, though he was found in sensible under a wagnnload of dirt and rock. The charge had fortunate ly been a small one, the workmen be ing too doubtful of their own skill to nse heavy blasts, or the result might have been fnr more tragical. John Carey was an obstinate and self-opinionated man, as has been snid, but like most men of his kind, he believed devoutedlyiu signs and warn ings. He was confined to his bed for several days, during which he had abundant time to reflect upon his quarrel with his son and the accident at the mine. "Mary," he said to his wife, as he sat in an easy chair for the first time since the accident and gazed through tho windows over bis broad acres to where the abnndoned mine could be plainly seen against the hillside, "to morrow is Thanksgiving, ain't it?" "Yes," responded the pious woman, "and I feel that we have especial cause for giving thanks this year." "COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE." "So do I, Mary, so do I," he said eagerly; "au' more because my eyes is opened so that I see what a fool I have been makin' of myself. Mary, we've got a noble boy that George is a noble boy." . "He is a good boy, assented the proud mother. "He's more than that. You ought to have heard how he spoke up to me when I told him he must marry Betsy Wood or I'd cut him off without a dollar. I've been thiukin' it over, an' I admire him for his pluck, now that I've got my senses about the matter. Mary, you like that Nellie Thome?" "She's a sweet and noble woman," replied Mrs. Carey." ."Well, I've made np my mind that no woman is too good or too well ed dies tod for our George; an' say, Mary, if you've a mind to invite Nellie Thome here to dinuer to-morrow, I'll try to be on my feet an' give her a welcome that will make George forgit that we have quarreled about her." So it came to pass that Thanksgiv ing Day brought happiness to two worthy hearts, and Farmer Carey's mine work was never resumed. THANKSCIVING AND EATING. How the Popular ObumiiM of tho Hoi. Iday Originated. It is a little strange that our earliest national holiday, the one at least which had its origin in the very early days of our country, should always be associated with the dinner table. Thanksgiving Day and Thanksgiving Day dinner are synonymous terms with a great many people. We have a good precedent for this, however, for aa early as 1021 the re nowned Governor Bradford, after the first harvest of the oolonies at Ply mouth, sent four men out fowling, that on the Thanksgiving day he had appointed they might, "after a more special manner, rejoice together," We have continued that "special manner" of rejoicing ever since. It is probably due to the faot that those early Thanksgiving Day fowlers chanced to bring down a generous supply of plump wild turkeys that we have immortalized the turkey of later days, making it our national Thanks giving Day bird. Governor Bradford also gave an ob ject lesson at tha first Thanksgiving Day festival of the hospitality which is preached to us now on all sides. He entertained, so history relates, the "greatest King Massaoyt" and ninety Indians, and they feasted for three days. If there is a lesson for the house wives' from those days, it la osr'alalj one of industry. Prisoilla's real life was not all poetry. There were four women, one servant, and a few maids to prepare and serve the three days' feast for the colonists and their Indi an guests. New York colebrated her first Thanksgiving Day in a manner some what different. It may have been a difference in the race or in the times, for it was twenty-three years later, in 1041, that it is related that the Dutch citizens of New York killed nearly 600 Indians and thon marched home and "oheerfully," ate thoir Thnnksgiving Day dinners. We unfortunately do not know of what the dinner consisted that day, bntjit was probably very similar to the bounteous fare of ordinary days, for Christmas and New Year's were the only great Dutch holidays. In New England, at one time, they kept the day before and the day after Thanksgiving as fast days. It was a sensible action, for hygienic reasons, if all their dishes were as elaborate as old recipes show some to have been, A. THANKSGIVING DINNER IN 1621, Pilgrims' nnnn.net to Indian Clilofs Was Fit to But llnfure m King. "The state dinnorof the occasion the real Thanksgiving dinner took place on Saturday, the last day of the celebration." writes Clifford Howard of "The First Thanksgiving Dinner" in America, in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Notwithstanding that the kitchens of these wilderness homes wore sadly wanting ill mnny of the most common essentials of cookery, there was no lack of good things nor of appetizing dishes at this great feast. The earth, the air and the water had yielded of their bountiful supplies, and the good dames had done honor to their skill and ingenuity by setting before their hungry guests and com panions a repast as sumptous and tempting as it was varied and delight ful. Foremost of all there was roast turkey, dressed with beechnuts; then came rare venison pasties, savory meat stews with dumplings of barley flour, delicious oysters (the gift of the Indians, and the first ever tasted by the white men), great bowls 'of clam chowder with sea bisonit floating on the steaming broth, roasts of all kinds, broiled fish, salads, ''cakes and plum porridge; while the oentre of each of the long tables was adorned with a large basket overflowing with wild grapes and plums and nuts of every variety. "It was the time of the Indian sum mer. The soft, mellow sunlight shone warmly through the drowsy haze, illuminating the aombre woodland with a rioh golden light, while the gentle winds of the south, laden with the sweet perfumes of the forest, came as a lingering dream of summer to add to the joy and brightness of this Thanksgiving feast. Upon the balmy air arose the hum of many voices and the merry musio of laughter, as the rilgriras with their Indian guests par took of the feast that the Provider of all things had givon them." First Thanksgiving Proclamation. There is iu the possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society a proclamation announcing a Thanks giving for a victory in King Philip's War, and during the following year, 1677, the first Thanksgiving proc lamation was printed. Mr. Gobbler's Fear. If my wife sees that, aha will have ! nervous prostration. Fall In Line. Get ready for Tbanksglvln' Jest sot youl table flnnl An' put the flnost erock'ry out, an' make the silver shine; No matter how the country goes Jest carve the turkey's neck; An' while the cnrrln's goln' on, be thank ful you're on dockl Oct ready for Thanksglvln' jost fall Into your place, An' If the preacher ain't along, be suje aa sny the grace; No mntter how the oonntry goes Jcsi carve the turkey straight, An' with a smile o' thankfulness pitch It an1 pass your pistol F. L. Stanton. A ThankngMng Dinner. Roast turkey, mashed potato, tur nips, boiled onions, cranberry sauce, beet pickles, celory rusks, spiced plums. Apple pie, pumpkin pie, spiced cake. Coffee, apples, nuts, raisins. Roast Turkey Soleot a turkey with black logs, short spurs, broad breast, with yellowish white skin. When properly cleaned, sprinkle on inside with salt and pepper, also on outside, or thin slices of fat, salt pork may be laid over it instead. Stuff it with a dressing made of a loaf of stale bread, not using any hard crusts, add a qnarter of a pound of butter, two bentcn.eggs, pepper, salt and pow- uerea sage, parsley or minced onion, sage being the seasoning nsually pre ferred. Do not press the dressing in too closely or it will be solid. Then the way to hove the tnrkey appear on the table in a fine condition, is to roast it thoroughly, from three to four hours for a fair-sizod bird, and to baste it often. Have the oven hot, but not so that it will scorch or shrivel np. In turning never pierce with a fork, al lowing the juices to escape. Potatoes should be boiled in salt water, drained, mashed, seasoned with butter, pepper, a little sweet cream added and then beaten several minutes with a spoon or wire potnto masher. Turnips, rutabagas preferred, should be boiled an hour in salt water, drained, seasoned with butter, pepper an,d a little white sugar, then mashed thor oughly. Onions should be sliced, Bonked in oold water for an hour, boiled in plenty of salted water for nn hour, then drained and a dressing of rich sweet milk, seasoned with butter. pepper and salt, added. Let come to a boil and serve iu side dishes. Husks Two cups raised dough, one oup of white sugar, half a cup of but ter, two well beaten eggs, flour enough to make a stiff dough, sit to rise, when light mould into high bisonit and let rise again. Sift sugar and cinnamon over the top and bake. Apple Fie Feel sour apples and stew until soft and not much water left, mash fin 3 or rub through a col ander. For each pie nse one whole egg and the yolks of two others, well beaten, one-third of a cup of butter and one-half cup of sugar. Bake in one crust and when done cover with a meringue made of whites of two eggs, frothed, sweetened and flavored. Set in the oven to harden and eat oold. Pumpkin Pie For eaoh pie take one beaten egg, a good half cup of sugar, twotablespoonfulsof stewed pumpkin, half a pint of rich sweet milk, a little salt and ginger and cinnamon to taste. Spioed Cake One cup of sugar, one cup molasses, two-thirds of a oup of butter, One oup of sour milk, three eggs, one teaspoonful soda, one tea spoonful eaoh of nutmeg and cloves. one and one-half teaspoonfuls cinna mon, three cups of flour, one heaping oup of seeded raisins. Bake in gem- irons. MaryS. Stelson. A Thanksgiving Day Mann. - When Thanksgiving Day began to be generally celebrated in New Eng land, where it had its first stronghold, the regular dinner of the day was very much the same everywhere, varying somewhat as to quality and quantity. A New Yorker s Thanksgiving Day dinner in 1897 may include anything and almost everything. The one familiar feature which still obtains is the tnrkey, which seldom fails to form the piece de resistance every where. Here is the menu of what claims to be a simple, good, old-lashioned Thanksgiving Day menu, although some few concessions have been made to the times: Oyster soup. Broad sticks. Olives. Celery. Chicken pie. Creamed macaroni with cheese. Badiahes. Boast turkey. Mashed potatoes. Bweet potatoes Turnips. Onions. Squash. Cranberry sauce. Lettuoo salad, French dressing. Mince pie. Apple pie, Pumpkin pie. Cider. Apples. Nuts. Italsins, Coffee. Cheese wafers. The wafers are the crisp, small, salted crackers, upon which a little good cheese is grated. They are well seasoned, cayenne pepper being used, and placed in the oven just before serving. They are then very hot and the cheese is thoroughly melted. The bright red and yellow apples, with chrysanthemums, are the only decorations of the table or the room. They give the appropriate fall tone. New York Times. Firs Thanksgiving Proclamation by at - Governor. In 1817 came the first Thanksgiving proclamation from the Governor of a State outside of New . England. Thanksgiving Day proclamations were issued in an irregular sort of way for many years after that date, but the day waa not a fixed holiday. After the battle of Gettysburg, in 1863, President Linooln reoommended tha people to set apart the 6th day of August "to be observed as a day of national thanksgiving, praise and prayer to Almighty God." The follow ins; year the President issued another proclamation, and they have bsen an nual fixtures aver since AWHEEL. Dntnty msld, with checks sglow, Hy my side so blithely wheeling, Little can your pure heart know What the heart within rue's feeling, ' Tarn o' Hhnntor nil nwry, t'urly hair the brcewi caressing There's a npnrkln In your eye. With very Joy your re effervescing. As we pcdnl on our way, ( Hwirtly, silently progressing. How 1 wonder what you'd sny Hhould I start my love ooiifeiulngt Would yon frown on me and doubt Would you fetch n glance beguiling? Would you shake your bend and pout? Would you cheer my henrt with smiling? Hubert T. Hnrdy. Jr., In Munsey. HUMOROUS. When the bill collector is round, it is time to get square, "I say, Mick, what sort of potatoes are those you are planting?" "Baw ones." i "Pretty Polly!" said the lady. "Can Polly speak?" "Polly," replied the Boston parrot, "can converse." Walker Did yon soy your wife's a member of a secret society? Talker It was secret before she joined. After a man learns how little he knows he begins to suspect that pos sibly others do not know as much as they pretend. An enterprising merchant advertised "Male or female umbrellas." Prob ably a female umbrella is one that won't shut up. Priscilla When Charley started to kiss Clara the other night she called out for help. Patrice Couldn't she hold him alone? ".Ma,'' snid Tommy Turner, "am I descended from the monkeys?" "Not on my side of the honse,"replied Mrs. Turner with much positiveness. She You never pump my tires for me any more, though you did before we were married." "No I don't; but I raise the wind to keep yon going ia other ways," Wife Why, Begin aid, these trou sers have no pockets in them! Hus band I know. I expect to save enough by not having them to pay for the whole suit. Two denf mutes, they snt and courted Just as lovers in ali hinds, Only that, with love transported, Ncllaor held the othur's hands ! A young fellow who had been rend ing the comic papers was surprised the other day. He proposed to a girl, and instead of her saying, "It's so sudden," she said "It's about time." - "How terribly Mrs. Walkinshaw stutters. It must be very trying to her husband." "Not at all. He likes it. He is able to get out of the house at night before she has time to ask him where he's going." "First shirt, then collar buttons, then suspenders, then trousers, and now ami now my diamond frame!" He crouched in the bay window and through a mist of blinding tears watched his wife wheel away. He I was a great friend of your late husband. Have you any little thinor nf Ilia taii cmiM Int. ma liava tA f remind me of him? Disconsolate Wid ow Wha what's the matter with ne? You-you can t-take me if y-you c-o-care to! SaUie Twitters is to be married," said Mrs. Kilduff to hor brother, who is a crusty bachelor. "Ah," replied he, "who is her viotim?" Then, see ing a baleful look in his sister's eye, he added, "I should say, who is her accomplice?" His Wife-Well, I'm surprised that young Mr. Jenkins turned out wrong! He seemed to be a good yonng man, and he sang so beautifully at meeting. The Pastor Well, you can tell much more about a man's voice from hia 'singing than you can about his soul. The Rev. Dr. Thirdly And now, children, I wonder if any little boy or girl here knows who was the best man that ever lived. Ah, there's a hand up. Well, Johnny, who was the best man that ever lived? Johnny Second crop Please, sir.it was mamma's first husband, sir. Keep HnakoB as Pets. "There is a pet snake in nearly every house in Brazil," said a Cbica goau who has returned from a journey through that country. "They keep them just as we do cats or dogs, and, indeed, for much the same purpose, using them to kill the rats at night. The snakes are a species of boa from ten to fifteen feet long, and are per fectly harmless to mankind, while they are quite affectionate and, like cats, become attached to the bouse where they are kept. These snakes are sold in the markets, where I bought one that died on the voyage from Bio Jan eiro to New York. "A scientist, to whom I spoke of these snakes, told me that no snakes are really dangerous to man. He said that never had a snake attacked a man . unless the man had first attacked it. The reptile is defensive, but not offen sive, and has no desire to pick a quar rel. But if you tread on a snake the thing cannot know that your inten tions are not inimical to your welfare. So I always avoid snakes." Chicago Times-Herald. Klan Long and His Physicians. There used to be related a ouriou aneodote of old Kien Long, emperor of China. He was inquiring of Sir George Staunton the manner in which physicians were paid in England. When, after some difficulty, his ma jesty was made to comprehend tha system, he exclaimed: "Is any man well in England that can afford to be ill? Now I will inform you," said he, "how I manage my physicians. I have four, to vhora tha oare of my health is committed. A certain weekly salary is allowed them, but tha moment I am ill tha salary stops till I am well again. I need not inform you that my illnesses are 0u ally short." Harper's Bound Table.
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