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.' The American Thanksgiving day was
j not always devoted to the worship of
l turkey and football. That is the present
: day evolution of a pious ceremony whxh
had it origin on this continent when
i; gravefaced Puritans at Plymouth Rock
lifted their earnest voices in sincere
. prayer of thanks to Jehovah who had
: juided the frail Mayflower tnru storm
? nd stress to an asylum where conscience
"t was free.
In 1621, after their first year in New
England, the Puritans, in October, had
? 'their first harvest festival, the rnnual
'T festival of old England, which as the
year passed was to become the domin
ie ant featura of Thanksgiving day. Eut
at thie time, as in England, thanksgiving
ujri auuumLeu fur uiiie Ddrucuiar
j event, and had no permanent connection
with the ancient harvest celebration, in
: itself almost as old as the human race,
j In 1 623 occurred the second Puritan
j Thanksgiving day. The year had been
f on of disaster for the struggling colon-
ists. Pitiless drought had scorched the
unwilling soil, and the crops were perish
f under brazen sun and rainless skies.
famine and pestilence threatened to wipe
out of existence the struggling colony, In
this extremity, true to their deep religious
instincts, the Puritans, beleiving that their
t sufferings were due to the vengeance of
an angry God punishing them for their
sins, appointed a day of prayer, fasting
and humilation to purge themselves of
their deductive wickedness in order to
placate a vengeful deity. But before the
day set for donning sacke'oth and ashes
the skies relented and pouring abundant
rains on the parched soil and wilted
cps, saved the colonists from their im
pending fate. The appointed fast day
was turned into one of fervent thanks
giving, the second to be celebrated in the
new land of promise.
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tiou of New England. thanksgiving day
meant two long prosing sermons with a
canty cold meal crowded in between the
pious exhortations. Gluttonous human
nature in the flight of years has glorified
that scanty, unpretentious luncn into a
feast that for the vast majority of erring
mortals has crowded the sermons into a
, disappearing background .'
! Thanksgiving day became a political
issue in the first national Congress.
! lhanlsgiving day was proposed in
observance of the establishment of the
Constitution, The proposal led to a long
fight in both the House and Senate. The
anti-Federalists accused their opponents
with designs of sirrply making ths day
a celebration of the victory of the Feder
alists at the palls. The bitter partisan
feeling of the campaign was reflected in
vituperation that inflamed the long debate s
but opposition was fertile from the lack
of votes. The bill was passed and re-
ceiveo tne approval of Washington, who
appointed Nov. 26, 1790, as the first
i national thanksgiving dy.
The next national thanksgiving day was
February 19, 1792. It was appointed
oy r-resiaent Washington with out the
authorization of Congress, and his action
caused considerable criticism from the
anti-Federalists. In Adam's administra
tion two national fast days were proclaim
ed, but the pugnacious New Englander
evidently found little in the trend of events
during his occupancy of the Presidency
to be thankful for, and consequendly no
thanksgiving days were appointed.
Twenty years passed before another
thanksgiving day was proclaimed. The
varying fortunes of. the war of 1812 gave
occasion to President Madison to appoint
at various times three prepartaory day;
of fasting and prayer. When psace v ith
Great Britain was declared Madison ap
pointed a national thanksgiving for April
IS, 1815. This was the last of the
national thanksgiving days for many years,
although the custom was rapidly becom
ing an annual observance in the various
states north and south. It became estab
lished in 1817 in New York, and by 1858
all but six of the states in the Union ob
served the day.
During the period of the civil war, two
fast days were appointed and proclaimed
by congress, one on January 4 and anoth
er on September 26, 1861. The first
federal thanksgiving of the war followed
the battle of Gettysburg and was pro
claimed by President Lincoln for Novem
ber 26, 1863, in correction with the har
vest festival day. Tne following year
was begun the series of presidential pro
clamations which has continued up to
this day.
The above ment.cned dates for puol'c
thanksgiving were a of a national affair.
Previous to 1790 tne various states of
the union had declared a day if general
thanksgiving and dunrg the years (oilowr
irg the war, wnen the government failed
to appointa day for jer.erai rejoic.rg. in
dividual states d d appo nt such a day
and there are few sU'.es that have not
annually observed sjch a isy Sir.ce tney
became states.
MASKED SKATING PARTT
On Christmas r.'gnt the management of
the elating nr.K w.u hod a masked skat
ing party. Tr.ere !s a pr ze for the best
lady costume. E-e-y accomodation wiil
be extended to v.s tcrs a-d the event will
doubtless be an e-vjaile affa.r.
When you're Vr;ke. the Jns are shy
They turn and r'.y wren you come nigh
Brace up old man. shew :orr,e pluck
Taxe Rocky Moti'.atr, Tea: t'wii, charge
y:ur ijck. Newlin Dhuc Co.
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IfT UNION COUNTY JOIN
IN THE THANKSGIVING
Tomorrow , the day set aside as on of
ths year when individuals and families
offer thanks for favors wh'eh fortune has
dealt then, it would be a good day for
Union county citizens, collectively, to be
a little thankful. It certainly has reason
to be.
Below is published a comparative state
ment which reveals some astonishing
figures. Since 1902 Union county has
caused a decrease in its warranted in
debtedness that is surprising, and speaks
well of the skillful manipulation of the
county's finances during that period.
Any resident of Union county, who has
the interests of his county at heart, will
do well to study the table and acquaint
himself with the rapid decrease in the
county's debt, and tomorrow, when he j
has offered up thanks for his personal
ortune. let him also offer one ft r the
county.
The following figures tell the story of
the decrease in warranted indebtedness.
Outstanding Total warrant
warrants indebtedness
1902 $229,445.23
Est. In. acrj. 45,637.38-$275.082.61
1903 210,733.61
Est.In.acru. 59,441.00- 260,174.61
1904 189,021.86
Est.ln.acru. 52.749.09- 221.770.94
1905 160,902.37
Est. In.acru. 23.546.92 184,449.29
1906 123,996.00
Est.ln.acu. 13,464.19- 137,460.19
With the above data to work with, the
following fact can readily be calculated:
The total decrease in warranted in
debtedness since September 30, 1 902, to
September 30 1906, is $137,622.42.
The decrease since September 30 1905
is $46,989.10. The average decrease
each year for the last five years is $27,
524.48. Taking the average decrease
for the last year as a basis, and following
the expense account for the county in
1906 to be the average expense, for
each subsequent year, it will be found
that five years hence, to the day, the
county will have paid all its outstanding
warrants and be perfectly free from any
warranted indebtedness.
POSTPONED
The social whice was advertised by the
Commercial Club to have taken place on
next Friday evening has been postponed
until next Monday evening as the previous
date conflicted with an opera house
date.
CIGAR STUMP DID IT
'-'rlprs News Annotation)
St. Louis. Mo.. Nov. 28 -A cigar stump
thrown into an elevator, which being
tempsia'ly used as a clothes hamper,
caused a fire in the Salvation Army bar
racks, in which four men lost their lives.
More deaths may result as eighteen were
badly injured. The dead were killed by
leaping from the windows. The barracks
were crowded to tneir capacity on account
of the CDid weather. Two hundred and
fifty faced death before the police opened
the avenue of escape. Life lines were
hooked in each room and oniy one person
thought t.) use them.
The sixth v.ct.m cf the fire died this
forenoon. Six more are unconscious and
wiil probably die.
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DISEASES
SAVCD HCR SON'S LIFE
My son Rex was taken down a year sro with lung trouble. We
doctored some months without improvement. Then I began giving
Dr. King's New Discovery, and I soon noticed a change for the better.
I kept this treatment up for a few weeks and now my son is perfectly
well and works every day. MRS. SAMP. RIPPEE, Ava, Mo.
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PARRABlt Of LIGHTS
I Ad'antrd from thtOocpal of Buddha) ,
The Hindu slave. Annabhara, having
just cut the grass on the meadow, saw a
disciple of Buddha coming with bowl
begging for fond. He threw down his
sickle and ran into tne house for the rice
that he pad provided for his own food,
which he gave to the medicant The
disciple first ate and then gladdened -the
slave with words of religious comfort. The
master of Annabhara saw it all from the
window and imported his slave to share
with him the doctrines that he had learned
but the new convert, uncertain as to his
duties, said; "Master 1 pray thee, first let
me ask the venerable man." To the dis
ciple he said:. "My master asks me to
share with hjm the bliss that you gave
me. Is it right that I should divide with
him?'. The disciple of Buddha then made
answer in parable:
In a village of one hundred houses a
single light was burning and the night
was dark. Then a neighbor came to the
house of light with his lamp and lit it; and
in the same way came another and an
other; and the light was thus communi
cated from house to house until, lo! every
one was lighted, and the brightness of
the village was very great. Yet was the
lamp of the one in no wise dimmed. Thus
the light i f knowledge may be diffused
without stinting him who communicates
it. Let the bliss of thy knowledge be
diffused. Divide it treely with all thy
neighbors."
This parable, which is 2.50C years
old, has a meaning for those
who have understanding regarding the
virtues of Osteopathy as a means of cur
ing the sick and relieving deformity. There
are hu idreds of persons who suffer need
lessly for want of this light. If you have
the light and knew such invalids, you will
bless them and yet not stint yourself of
the benefits of Ostepathy as you may
need it to communicate your knowledge
to them. You may be the means of help
ing someone regain health if you make it
a point to convince him that he ought to
put his case in the hands rf an Ostepath.
SHORT COURSE IN AGRICULTURE
The announcement of the short course
in the Oregon Agricultural college is out
and several have been received in this
city. The bulletin outlines the course of
study, explains the lecture work, and ex
plains the special course in dairying that
the college teaches. Expenses and condi
tions for admission are also dwelt upon.
Those who contemplate availing them
selves of the opportunity of bettering
their present knowledge of scientific
farming can secure one of these instruc
tive bulletins by writing the college at
Corvallis.
SOCIETY ROUNDLY CONDEMNED
(Hcrlpps News Aaeoelatlon)
London, Nov. 28. -As a result of the
recent assembly of the Baptist Union of
Great Britain and Ireland at Huddersfield,
the committee appointed to report on the
best means of extinguishing the idle classes
today issued a pamphlet, of considerable
length, m which social unity was pointed
out as the only means to remedy the ex
isting state or affairs, society was
roundly condemned and was described as
a crowd of silly people drivelling their
lives away in self indulgence and extrav
agance. Concluding, the report stated
that what was needed today was a church
that would bear swift witness against the
paimi sis or Kegenl street and the ex
travagance and folly of Mavfall; against
the midnight orgils of Piccadilly and the
perpetual sacrifice of young girls.
KILLED HIS Wlft
tSi-rli'K News AHKoclatlon)
Jacksonville. HI.. Nov. 28. Alonzo Pitts
pleaded guilty today to killing his wife in
a fit of jealousy last May.
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