II
; if ,
ft
Jctcl.o.cmtern.
In the pleasant cornfield.
All the su:nmer through,
Such a funny playmate
Waited long for von.
Smiely housed and hidden
Where the jay, green leaved,
Bending close together,
Made his rustling eaves.
When the corn wns gathered.
When the flowers were dead,
From the lonely hillside
Peered hid golden head.
Now at last behold him,
With hia open face,
Bmfling broad and cheesy
In the dnrkest place.
Hear him forth in triumph
Through the autumn light.
Jolly jack-o'-lantern
With his eves so bright.
Cemic little fellow.
Come to make yon fun,
When in gray November
Summer sports are iee.
HANKSGIVING IN
OLD NEW YORK
BY MARGARET
Loi:,s ot-fore New York bore its
English name it was worthily christ
ened New Amsterdam by the brave
Dutch colonists who were its earliest
settlers. In 1613, the vast cosmo
politan city now known as Greater
New York had for its nucleus four
little houses, occupied by people
whose business it was to collect beav
er and otter skins and sell them to
traders from Holland, whose ships
had dared the wide ocean in search of
profitable ventures. At that period
Holland led the world in commerce
and the Dutch, then as now, were dis
tinguished for shrewdness, sagacity,
enterprise and an unconquerable love
of liberty. The word "Dutch" signi
fies folk or people, and contains,
strangely enough, a prophecy ot the
cosmopolitan character of the town
that in 1614 was named New Amster
dam. In 1644 New Amsterdam was
taken by the English and re-named
New York.
Archbishop Fenelon said long ago
of New York: "When one beholds
this city, one is inclined to believe
that it is not the city of a particular
people, but the common city of all the
peoples of the world, and the centre
of their commerce."
New York itself is a collection of
cities, as it were, merged into one,
under a single government. It is cos
mopolitan, and the stamp of its char
acter was given it away back in the
early days of New Amsterdam. A
stone's throw from those residential
parts of the city that are the chosen
abodes of wealth and fashion wo find
crowded quarters where the older in
. habitants speak foreign tongues, and
the children only are familiar enough
with English to use it in preference
to the language of their parents.
There are French Swedish, Danish,
Finnish, Italian, German and Hunga
rian quarters in the great city of New
York, and more and more in recent
years has it become sought by an im
mense and steadily increasing rein
forcement of Hebrews, who find here
a refuge from the persecutions of
centuries, and a place where their
peculiar commercial genius may find
room for expansion. The beneficent
agency of the public schools, more
than any other, brings to bear upon
the children of the foreign population
the spirit of American liberty and
trains them In the elements of good
citizenship and in ardent love for the
flag of the republic.
One is sometimes tempted to won
der what Father Knickerbocker would
think, could he visit to-day the city
or Peter Stuyvesant. . Fancy the
ghosts of the people in our pieture
trying to find the localities with
which they were once familiar. Few-
traces linger in the New York of the
twentieth century of New Amsterdam
In the seventeenth. The hurrying,
bustling crowds, the hurling forward
of the motor cars like the rush of me
teors fiercely projected through space,
the demoniac clang of electrie cars.
, the never-ceasing ebb and flow of 'pe
destrians, and more than all else, the
towering structures twelve, fourteen,
Tomato Soup.
Roast Turkey.
Cranberry Sauce.
Mashed Potatoes.
Boiled Onions.
Baked Sweet Potatoes.
Celery Salad.
Cheese Wafeta.
Pumpkin 1.
CoffMr
Ml
Km-
E SANCSTER
sixteen, twenty stories high and more,
would amaze any visitant who left
the earth when New Amsterdam was
a little trading village.
Imagine such a ghost In tha neigh
borhood of the Flatiron Building. It
might feel more at homo on the Bat
tery, but Broadway, through Its en-
OLD-TIME MINSTRELS IN
tire lenstl', would prove a bewilder
ing specc:3. What would a matron
or maiden of the leisurely ways and
generous hospitality of that quaint
period think of modern apartment
buildings, rich beyond compare in
their appointments, but often stinted
for air and sunlight, where families
live In successive layers of brick and
stone, like the cells in a vast hive,
and where a cuest chamber or any
provision for entertaining friends has
become traditional? Maiden Lane
was once the favorite haunt ot young
people, and many a troth-plight was
changed there. The Bowery was a
place of gardens and farmsteads. The
most rapid growth of the city, how
ever, and Its almost miraculous
changes, hare taken place in the last
100 years.' Instead ot bridges span
ning the East River, a century ago
people crossed in row boats, and as
tor tunnels beneath the rivers and
underground railways they were not
thought ot In the wildest dreams of
those who lived in New York so late
as 1S07.
Certain characteristics bestowed
upon the town by the Dutch are still
Ineffaceable. The city is fearless,
friendly an! far-sighted. It plans al
ways for the future. It still keeps
Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New
Year very much as those days were
kept by the fathers and founders. In
the pietnre, one sees minstrels going
from door to door, singing to the
praise of Almighty God, while their
friends step over the threshold to
Join the song and give them a hearty
welcome. Perhaps we may call the
little processions ot children dressing
in queer eottumes and gaily masque
rading, processions we are sure to
see in new York at Thanksgiving, tha
blstorto seqnenee of th. prettier cus
tom of leaf age. -Thaaksftrtnc,
wherever It hat been
kept in America from the time of Its
introduction by devout New England
era, has been not only an occasion
when we recognize what we owe to
Almighty God, but as well a time of
good cheer and abounding hospital
ity. Kinsfolk hasten from far and
near that they may sit together at the
family bonrd on Thanksgiving Day.
Parents and "children, grandparents,
uncles, aunts and cousins and mem-
Itrlnglng Home a Fine Thanksgiving
Turkey,
litf "f.' A. 1 1 fi f -T '8
ivri
Will 0. llelwig, Ohio, m Leslie's Weekly.
bers of the clan to the remotest de
gree unite In the celebration of this
peculiarity American festival. Father
Knickerbocker again, and any of the
Immediate circle of the Pilgrim Fath
ers, would be horrified beyond meas
ure could they observe the absence
from church on Thanksgiving Day of
younger people who have seized upon
the holiday as especially appropriate
to outdoor games. College football
interferes not a little with the mid
day dinner once universal. Notwith
standing this, which we may hopo is
transitional, our churches are open
and soodly congregations assemble
NEW AMSTERDAM.
to listen to patriotic addresses from
the lips of eloquent clergymen, and
to sing with heartiest devotion, "My
County, 'TIs of Thee." House par
ties fly from the city td the country
to spend Thanksgiving, but they sel
dom lose the distinction of belonging
primarily to kjth and kin.
The life of the Dutch in Manhat
tan was full of homely Joy. Domes
tic fidelity was the rule and there was
a great deal of wholesome hilarity
around the fireside. The ladies were
fond of rich dress and wore it on
state occasions, as did their good
men. Mrs. Amelia E. Earr, In her
beautiful story, "The Bow of Orange
Ribbon," h,-iS Tainted a realistic pic
ture of social life In old Now York.
The book is of perennial attractive
ness. In this year of grace shall we not
find that the list of mercies sent- to
us straight from, God Is by no means
short! We thank God for health
and strength, for honest work and
honest wages, tor free schools and
open churches, for good government,
tor the love-of kindred, for the smile
on the faee of the mother and the
clinging hands of the little child.
Alike for the son who reaehes his
manhood and the baby who laughs
iij the cradle we offer thanks to our
Father In Heaven.
When the barn and brve are safe, when
flocks are in the fold.
When far and near the burdened fields
have bowed 'neath harvest's gold,
When clusters rich have drooped from
manv a blushing vine.
And genial orchards, wide and fair, have
owdpi me toucn nivine, ,
Then up from grateful hearts let joyful
nraise arise
To Him who gives the waitiig earth the
blessing ot the skies.
The Christian Herald.
Central Park, New Yoift, Is to be
lighted by eleetrielty. Tl will take
14 arc lamps to light the park.
Hard Luck.
Turk (gasping) "Well, to think
after training and starving for six
weeks and escaping the ax, a party of
Thanksgiving Joy-riders should hand
it to me!" (Expires.) Judge.
Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Day is welcomed as
a social and religious festival. So
thoroughly la It pervaded with tho old
New England spirit, love of home and
the need of rellgiouB worship that it
does not loso its own peculiar distinc
tion. Each year our blessings broaden
and deepen, but on Tlianksglvlng Day
we do well to compare them with the
days of our forefathers. To them
their mercies were abundant, and
they rendered their grateful thnnks
to the Lord of life. It seemed go
much to have one day of comfort, and
oven .luxury, after the kindly old
earth had done her best and the
precious harvests had been gathered
in. The Pilgrim said, "God bo
praised," at every step, and he kept
an open hearth and a generous heart
for a less fortunate neighbor. If one
of those bleak country towns could
have cnught a glimpse of lighted
Btreets and well-stocked libraries, of
dainty home fabrics stitched on pol
ished machines, of grain cut and gath
ered without hand labor and of whis
pered messages of kindness to friends
a hundred miles away tho vision
would have been as bewildering as a
sight of the Eternal City was to St.
John at Patmos, and the electrls cars
would have seemed to them like the
chariots of fire In which Elijah as
cended to heaven.
What Incredible distance between
their holiday and ours! Their grati
tudo for blessings received was main
ly expressed In an ascetic way, out
sldo ot the home in the "meeting
house." Only a vestige of that upward-looking
thankfulness remains
among tho moderns. Is l because
we have thought to enshrine religion
In the home or tried to Instead of
keeping It apart In some mqro formal
ly consecrated place? Partly so, but
tho prevailing quality of present-day
religious feeling is more than ever
a love-quality and a heart-sympathy,
and in this we have been gainers,
whatever of loss there has been in
other respects. Deny it as many a
descendant of Pilgrim or Puritan
may, our November holiday is no
longer tho Thanksgiving Day of old.
Transformed by tho latter-day re
ligion of humanity, which makes tho
most of hearty, kindly fellowship and
sympathy, tho festival Is now a time
for tho warming of hearts rather than
tho giving of thanks, and doubtless it
is all approved by the Divine Giver.
To-morrow is n day for gladness,
and to turn the searchlight even upon
sorrow and suffering for what allevia
tion It may reveal. The hard times
of life are so Bharp nnd severe, their
experience Is so vivid that tho short
nets cf thdlr duration, as compared
with length of days, is apt to bo over
looked. Tho hurricane and tho storm
blot out tho memory of the long,
peaceful days when the outline of tho
hills stood soft and purple in the dis
tance.
The past season may bo recalled as
peculiarly Interesting on account of
the weather. Each month has
brought a surprise. August and Sep
tember apparently changed places,
each offering to the other the best it
had to give. The result was a com
bination of which our climate may
well be proud. The lato summer and
fall came as near perfection for hu
man enjoyment as New England
could glvo. Tho Indian summer, hazy
and mellow, was prolonged beyond its
usual stay, and the lato flowers have
persisted in their right to blossom.
Small Souls Ungrateful.
There is nothing narrow or nig
gardly about the thankful heart. In
any environment the broad, deep, lov
ing, magnanimous nature will find
abundant reasons for thanksgiving.
Those who are most thankful often
seem to ordinary observers unreason
ably so, they have so many burdens
and crosses to bear and suffer so
many afflictions. To the heart that
believes and loves gratitude is as
natural as song to the bird or frag
rance to the rose. La Salle A. May
nard. Give Thanks in Everything.
Am I to thank God for everything?
Am I to thank Him for boreavement,
for pain, for poverty, for toil? . . .
Be still, my soul; thou hast misread
the message. It is not to give thanks
for everything, but to give thanks ia
everything. Rev. George Matheson.
New Bteel orders over the last four
months have been coming in at a rate
that would warrant the statement
that a temporary lull in business was
near at hand. It would be Impossi
ble for steel companies tot continue
booking business at the rate reported
in September and October for any
great length of time. The belief pre
vailed thac buying would show consid
erable reaction by tho first of the cur
rent month, but Instead the demand
has developed record-breaking propor
tions. Ail the mills are conKosted and
would welcome a slackening up In de
mand In order to aiiow them to catch
up with deliveries.
No better proot of the extraordinary
activity of ttie steel industry could be
had than in the dully average orders
of the steel corporation for the first
three weeks of the current month. Ac
cording to a high authority, orders
have been averaging close to 70,000
tons a day, which Is at the rato of
21,000,000 tons a year, not Including
Sundays. Should the steel corporation
continue to book business at this rate
for tho next six months and operate
full capacity, it would have a full
year's business on its books at the
end of that period. This would mean
congestion in the worst form possible
and throw tho entire Industry Into a
state of contusion. It is because of
this that the steel companies have ex
ercised such extreme caution In ac
cepting orders for steel. No specula
tive business will bo countenanced,
and orders aro Immedltoly cancelled
when not specified against on the
dates agreed upon.
Many of the Bteel companies are
now asking advnuces of $1 to 4 a
ton on steel calling for delivery in
the first half of next year. As a re
sult, it will not be many weeks before
prices for material nre close to what
they were in 1907 unlesis some con
certed action is tHken to check the
advance. So far the large companies
have maintained prices at what con
sumers regard as a reasonable level.
The former realize that exorbitant
prices mean demoralization In the
end, and it is because of this that
they aro not taking advantage of the
heavy demand for material by succes
sive advances In quotations.
Tho steel corporation today has an
unfilled business on its books close
to 5,500,000 tons, or approximately 3,
O00.U00 tons below tho hljh level
reached in tho latter part of 19'iti.
These 6.000,000 tons, however, ure
more substantial than the 8,600,000
tons reported three years an. It will
be remembered .nat tho corporation,
as weil as other steel companies, were
then not so particular as to the char
acter of tho business booked as they
are today. As ono steel manufacturer
put it, nearly all the business now on
tho books of the steel companies will
be spociiled against, whereas in 1900
CO per cent of the unfilled business
was of the doubtful class.
The railroad3 are regarded as . the
greatest consumers of steel. Many
trade ' authorities estimate that tho
railroads consumo close to 40 per cent
of all the steel produced in tha United
States. For tho past several weeks
the railroads have been the heaviest
buyers of steel and equipment, and
orders from this source are expected
to reach large proportions before the
end of the year. Based upon actual
orders atd inquiries, the equipment
companitd aro assured activity for tho
next twelve months. This will also
mean activity for the blast furnace
and steal mills.
There are no Indications of a falling
off in .the reduction of finished steel
for six months. New business could
fall oft 75 per cent and the steel com
panies would have all they could do
to execute orders calling for delivery
up to the end of April. There has
been a seasonable falling oft in the
demand for certain lines of finished
steel, but this has been more than oft
set by the demands from the railroads
and equipment companies.
The earnings of tho steel companies
next year will establish new high rec
ords in the event of a continuation
of present activity. Ono steel manu
facturer estimates that the combined
net earnings of the blast furnace and
steel and allied mills of this country
next year will run in excess of 'J00,
000,000. Washington, Pa., county court
in a final decision by agree
ment involving the use of safety ap
pliances in bituminous coal mines,
settled a question of great importance
to doal operators and miners. The
case grew out of a report made by
Mine Inspectors Pratt, Adams, Ross
and Phillips, following an examina
tion ot the Manifold mlnea of the
Youghlogheny and Ohio Coal Com
pany, two miles north of Washington.
The decision is to the effect that
all parts of the mine be worked with
locked safety lamps, except those por
tions which are unused and the work
ed out and isolated portions and ex
cept in main haulage passageways
which are to be determined by the
mine Inspectors and company. The
safest known explosive recommended
by the state mining departniont shall
be used.
Similar conditions exist 'In a major
ity of the mines in the Pittsburg dis
trict and similar "agreements In most
cases will be made.
When steamers first came into use
very little attention was bestowed
upon the consumption of fuel. It
was not until the Cunard steamers
were started crossing tho Atlantic
In 1S40 that reliable records of fuel
consumption began to be kept systematically.
"Increasing industrial activity, better
demand for coal and better prices
sure to follow, will warrant the de
mand on the part of the miners at
the next Joint convention for better
working conditions and possibly bet
I
ter wage rates."
National President Thomas L, Lewi
of the United Mine Workers mad
this statement Monday while in Pitti
burg en route to Toronto, Can., as
delegate to the annual convention (
the American Federation of Labor.
Asked as to what the probable n
vance in wage rates would be tl
mine workers' leader said it was ti
far Into the future to safely predl
the changes to be asked in workin
conditions.
'Things may change before the con
ventlon is held; they may Improve
and may not, but In any event the
national body will adopt a policy mat
will give ample protection to the min
ers and their families and secure the
best possible concessions from the op
erators," he said. "The United Mine
Workers as a body has grown In
membership and in power, through
the value of experiences of the past."
The fact that the dominant faction
In the Pittsburg district miners' or
ganization has been one of the more
active opponents to the re-election of
President Lewis made his statement
concerning his own candidacy the
more interesting.
'I'm a candidate for re-election, all
right," he said, "and I guess you can
see by my appearance that I am not
worrying much as to the result. Nom
inations in 'the locals all over the
country closed lr.st Friday and the in
dications are most satisfactory. In
fact, I personally believe it Is only a
question of majority that will be set
tled when the count begins. However,
I am ready and willing to defer to
the judgment of the men at work in
the mines to determine this issue
They will do this December 14. In
the" meantime I shall consider the
many matters thut are to be present
ed to the joint convention of the op
erators and miners and to prepare to
meet the operators between the con
vention In January and the expiration
of the biennial scale. April 1."
At Cleveland, O.. on Nov. 8, a con
test over the wage scale between coal
miners and operators In the Pittsburg
bituminous district is forecasted by
statements issued tonight by Presi
dent F. M. Osborn of tho Pittsburg
Vein Coal Operators' Association, and
by President T. L. Lewis of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America.
Mr. ORborn announced here tonight
that conditions will possibly demand,
a decrease in wages at the expiration
of tho present contracts in the spring.
This, following tho earlier statement
of President Lewis In Pittsburg that
the miners will nslc for an increase,
indicates that the lines are already
being drawn for another contest be
tween tho employers and employes.
"It will not bo possible under pres
ent conditions for the operators to
consent to an increase in the wage
scale," said Mr. Osborn. "Operating
expense must bo reduced Instead of
Increased. Although there is a great
er demand for coal, the prices are
lower and there la a shortage of -cars,
which has its deterrent effect on bus
iness. It may be found necessary to
reduce the scale."
It is announced that the H. C.
Frlck Coke Company, fuel end of the
United States Steel Corporation, will
grant an advance of more than 15V6
per cent on present wages for the
coming year. Tho advance, a restor
ation of the wage scale of 1907, tne
highest in history, will be announced
as a Christmas gift to 25,000 em
ployes, with the hope that 5,000 emp
ty places may be fined at better
wages.
An increase of sixteen cents on the
present estimate production cost of
$1.04 per ton of coke, is the arrange
ment to bo submitted. The rapid in
crease in the price of coke has made
this Increase In wages possible. The
scarcity of labor has made it imper
ative that the corporation bring its
working force up to the standard of
1907, when 50,000 men were employed
all the time.
The H. C. Frick Coke Company is
admittedly five thousand men short
of its requirement, to get out the coke
demanded by the corporation mills for
next year. The wage increase, it la
hoped, will draw to the coke region
five thousand more good men.
A great percentage of the foreign
element which left the coke regions
for Europe at the opening of the
panic of 1907, has not returned. Near
ly all have returned to America, but
have gone into the west. Industrial
centers there have offered them in
ducements better than the coke mak
ers and they have gotten the men.
Thla Is why the Frlck company finds
it imperative to offer additional in
ducements to workmen to come to the
region and assist In getting out the
coke required.
A feature of this ease is that the
independent concerns will be forced
to follow the lead of the Frlck con
cern. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. C More
than 150 members of the Industrial
Workers of the World were arrested
here on charges of disturbing' the
peace by speaking In the streets with
out police permission. Riots appear
ed to be imminent during the day but
tonight leaders announced there would
be no night street gatherings because
ot the danger of serious disorder.
Two companies of the National
guard and the fire department are
held In readiness to assist the police
If necessary. Among the leaders ar
rested is James Wilson, editor of the
Industrial Workers' paper.
Lord Strathcona, Canadian high
commissioner in London, has given
halt a million dollars to McGlll unl
verstty.