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Eagene City Guard. I, It. CAMrBKLL, Frerleior. EUGENE CITY. ORKGON. NEWS OF THE WEEK interesting Collection of Currant Iinli la C'oudenaed Form From Both Continent. Hear Admiral Alexander Golden Bblnd, U. 8. N., ii dead at hli home in New York oity. lie bad been con flnnd to hit bed (or fire weeks. The lulmr trouble which have been brewing in Handsbnrg, CmI., for aome time culminated Wednesday, when about 100 member of the minera' union went in a body to the Hoxie mine ami peremptorily drove superin tendent Clarke and five men out of the camp fur working below the achedule of the union. , A new industry baa atarted in Owensboro, Ky., with 100 employe. It is to utilize cornstalk celluloto for lining battleships. Matorials for niuk. ing an imitation of lilk and for muking celluloid are among the product. Pa per ia another product V. V. Gibbs, of Philadelphia, i president, and the atockholdera are Easterner. The owner of the German ihip Po triuipos, trandel at Long Bench, Wash, have bought two lO.OUO-pound anchor of the United fit a ten warship Vandal la, which wu wrecked at Samoa several yeara ago, and will ahip them from Han Francisco at once, for nse in floating the Potrimpo next month. It ia exacted that the hip will be put into deep water in lee than a month. A remonstrance against allowing Chinese coal minera to be imported into tha state for the purpose of min ing coal at Wilmington ami other towns in place of the striking miners, will be placed before Governor Tanner in the name of the United Minoworkor of Illinois. . The governor will also be anked to co-operate with the secretary of the miners' federation in keeping nut the coolie labor. Secretary Kyan lays if the Chinese come bloodshed will surely result If Governor Tanner refuses to Interfere President McKinley will be appealed to. Three men wore burned to death in fire at Hot Springs, Ark. Marshal Blanco has extundod a full pardon to all rebels in Cuba. ' A rumor ha reached Simla that a native officer and 85 Sikhs belonging to the Kurram column bare been inter cepted by the tribesmen in a ravine and slaughtered. Two men mot death in Southern Or egon. One wo struck and hurled from trestle by a train on the South ern Paoitlc, the other was run over by the same train while switching in the yard at Grant' Pass. A Naplos dispatch says Mount Vesu vius is in great activity. A mar of lava ia pouring out from the Artiode Cavello crater, which opoued in 18U5. Two wide streams are flowing down in the direction of Vitrova and lliano dol Inestro. A terrible famine ia raging in the province of Archangel, Kussitt. Many have already died of starvation. The people wander about reduced almost to skeletons, the heads swollen to the size of bankets. The only means of sulwist ence i tea. The chamber of commerce of Pan Francisco, has sent the following meg aago to President McKinley: "in the name of humanity and patriotism, the chamber of commerce of San Francisco respectfully urgoB upon you tho prompt j dispatch of the revenue cutter Hear to ' tho Arctic, under command of Captuin Ilealy, with disoietionnry orders, fully equipped and provisioned, to rescue over 400 men imprisoned by ice near Point Barrow, and with authority to use, if necessary, roindour, at the gov ernment station, to fucihtuto the land ing." Tho United States supremo court ha affirmed the decision of the lower court t in the case of the interstate commerce commission against the Alabama Mid land and the Georgia Central railways, and others. Tho case aroso out of charge by citizens of Alabama that the companies were disregarding the long-and-short-haul clause of the interstate commerce law. The point at issue wu whether, when there was competition botwoen railroads and water transpor tation, tho roads must file lower rule with interstate commerce oomiumi sion, ami it was decided in the nega tive by the court The anarchist of New York cele brated the 11th anniversary of tho con viction of their comrade in Chicago, at a public meeting. Thero were about BOO anarchists in the audience. Johunn Most presided and spoke of the "canaille of oupitalism," which he said congratulated itself that the social question had been, squelched, and that peaoe and order prevailed. He wanted to toll tho political bandit that "the anarchists were not gathered to mourn or to shed tears, but to sing a song of triumph, for the future was not fur off. " He called the government a cowboy government, with apologies to cowboy, and ticklod his hearer by saying only one bomb was fired In the Hay market, but it did excellent execution. Consul Duester, at Crolfeldt, Gor many, report to tho state department at Washington a discovery made there which it is laid revolutionizes tha mothods of illumination. It is an in candescent gas lamp. Single jets of or dinary size can emit a light of much tnoro than 1,000 candle power, and tine print can be read at a distance of 100 feet. The inventor says the cost for a light of 1,600 candleKwer Is only 4l cents per hour, while that for an or dinary electric light of 40 caudlepower I 14 cent per hour. John 'II. Mooney, Kate Mooney, hi wife, and Michael Dromey, .Mrs. Moonye' brother, were found dead in their beds at San i'ranoisco, having been Hsphyxiatod by gas. The? were in cotufo'table circumstances, anl it ia believed the gas jets had been left open accidentally. Passenger t radio on tho ' Western roads is rapidly increasing. Late re ports show that recent earnings are fur in advance of those of the correspond ing period last year. The Improvement notcti ia noi oonnntxi io nny particular class of business. It is clearly divided , twlween local nud through InUUo. AGAINST THE CANAL. tnre to Bo Mia Ooposltooa mt tho Covin leaden. Washington, Mot. 15. One of tb prominent measures which will be brought be for congrei at th coming session I the consideration of th Nic aragua oanal. From the present out look it i probable that no action will be taken, and that a final Tot on th bill will not be reached. The main proposition which I now pending i th construction of the oanal by a com pany, the bond of which to the amount of $70,000,000 shall be guaranteed by the government It is not strange, In Tiew of th re cent complication whioli bave arisen, that member of congress hesitate about going into a scheme involving any such guarantee. It may mean that the Uni ted State will not only pay the interest, but, in the end, will be compelled to pay the principal of these bond. There is also fear of a soberae or trick by tome underhanded and underground meth od. People do not car to be entangled with concern which i operating for it own profit Many men would gladly vote for the building of the Mcaragua canal it the United State would have abaoltue control, and it it whs assured that it could be built for 1100,000.000, hut, a the matter stands now, it is Terr doubtful whether the canal can be built for that amount, and it ia also doubtful whether the company which own the concession will be able to carry out the plan and purpose of the bill which ha long been pending before congress. It fa well known that th greatest benefits that would come from building the canal would accrue first to the At lantic coast New York and New Eng land then tho Gulf states, next the Pacific states, and following, possibly the state bordering on the Mississippi river, which would ship their product to the Pacific coast by way of the Nic aragua canal. It must be acknowl edged that the interior state would dp rive little benefit, and is it not to be wondered at that their representative hesitate about them embarking in any such undertaking. Even big Tom Reed, th speaker of the house, hailing from Maine, great maritime stale, hesitate about putting the teal of hi approval, or, in other words, allowing the Nicaragua canal bill to come before the house, when it involves such a Tast expenditure from the United State treasury. These are the reason that will pre- Tent the consideration and passage of the Nicaragua oanal bill at the coming less ion. X" RAY IN A DAMAGE SUIT. RESPITE FOR DURRANT Condemned Murderer Given Another Lease of Mfe. LAW ALLOWS 60 DAYS OF GEACB Roentgen's Discovery In Court for th First Tim.. New York, Nov. 15. "X" rays were used in court for the first time in this country In a damage suit before a jury in the Brooklyn superior court. Martin Hutchinson, 9 year old, wai subjected to ray examination for sev eral minutes. He wa injured on Christmas night, 1805, by being eject ed from a street car. The plaintiff contend that the head of the left humerus wa fractured from the boy's full from the oar when the oonductoi threw him off. A dynamo wa plaoed in front of the jury box and near the lawyer' table, and largo Crooke'i tube was usod. Soon after the case had been resumed young Hutchinson' jacket and outside shirt were removed. The arm aud houlder were exposed. Before the examination the question a to whether any possible injury would result from the examination was discussed. J. Stewart Itoss, who rep resent the plaintiff, Insisted that a limit as to tho time of the examination should be set It was decided that it should be three minutes. When the boy took hi scat with bis left shoulder about six inches from the Crooke's tube, he smiled at the jury and the lawyers. Dr. William Morton looked at the boy's left shouidor through a flouroscope, and Judge John son, who presided at the trial, stood up and timed the proceeding. George L. Fowler then took the flouroscope and looked at the boy's left arm and should er until time was called. Dr. Morton and Dr. Fowler will tell on the stand the result of the examina tion. They are witnesses for the de fense. Previous to that made in court thore bad been examinations of tho boy's I houlder. The examination were made to show the lesult of the frac ture. Outlook lias Improved. Now York, Nov. 15. A dispatch to the Herald from Madrid says: The out look as regards the United State is considered to have improved. Greater quiet prevails here. It is reported here that the papal nuncio at Madrid who ia at present in Home has received Instructions fom the pope to exhort the Spanish clergy against espousing the cause of Don Curios. Weevere' Demands Granted. Philadelphia, Nov. 15. The 50 weaver employed by F. A. Daohman & Co., who struck about three weeks ago for higher wages, returned to work this aftornon, tho company having granted them an advance of from 5 to 8 per cent. The strike of weavers threw nearly 1,000 persons out of work, Polar Expedition. Stockholm, Nov. 15. King Oscar and a number of private persons have contributed sufficient money to Insure I the dispatch of the Swedish polar ex pedition in 1898, which will be led by Professor Natborst, the geologist. The cost of the expedition ia estimated at 70,000 orowns. The Peore of Autonomy. Madrid, Nov. 15. The royal decree granting autonomy to Cuba will be formally gazetted November S3. I.lquor to Indians. St Paul, Minn., Nov. 15. Justioe Mitohell, of the supreme court, in decision handed down today, decide that under the law of 1894, liquor can not be told to any Indian, no matter whether be has abandoned hia tribal relations and become citisen of the United State or not The court bold that the itatut i a proper police regu lation. Gas ii t be utilised in the burning of bricks in Attica, N. Y., where a ' gas well has been struck on ground near j a brick kiln. I Supreme Court of California Hears nit rotltloa and O rente Stay of Kiaeutlon. San Francisco, Nov. 15. William Henry Theodore Durrunt will not be banged at San Qtientin tomorrow morn ing, after all, the supreme court of this tat having granted him another respite at the eleventh hour. Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon, when the new wa flushed over the wire from Sacramento that the court now in session there had granted a writ of probable cause, and had instructed Warden Hale not to carry out tho exe cution of Durrant until further orders, there was apparently no further hope for the condemned murderer of lllanchu Lamont, a hi attorneys, Messrs. Dick inson and Boardman, had made a futile effort to secure another writ of habeas corpus in the United State circuit court, and had not even Ix-en granted permission to appeal from that decision to the supreme court of the United State. Meanwhile, however, Attorney Don prey hastened 4o Sacramento and ap plied to the state supreme court for a writ of probable cause for tho purosu of staying the proceedings against his client, upon the grounds that no official knowledge of the aotion of the supreme court of the United States in the mat ter of Durrant' appeut from the decis ion ot the federal court had yet been received; that the superior court had acted too hastily in sentencing Durrant to be hanged tomorrow, a the law re quired that he be given at least 00 duys of graoe, and, consequently, that tho pendoncy of another appeal in the supreme court affecting the condemned man 1 of itself sufficient cause of a atay of execution. The matter wa partially argued in chamber, and later argued liefore the full court and taken under advisement. Shortly afterward the court announced its decision, granting the writ applied for, in which all the justices concurred. Shortly before midnight. Attorney Eugene Deuprey, of counsel for Durrant, arrived from Sacramento, having crossed the bay in a steam launch. ' The pur pose of this trip was to make personal service on Warden Hale of a oertitled copy of the order of probable cauao issued by the supreme court at Sacra mento. The precaution was taken that there might be no pretext for eiocnting Durrant tomorrow. The warden wus asleep, and was deaf to all efforts to arouse him. Captain Edgar accepted the servioe and agreed to deliver tho document to hi mperior in the morn ing. Warden Hale had stated in the evening that be wa in doubt as to what course to pii'sue. He said that, in any event, he would delay tho exe cution until the latest legal limit of time noon tomorrow but that be had been advised that be should proceed to hang the prisoner, as he had received no personal service of the stay of execu tion. However, be finally decided to act on the following dispatch, received from Prison Director Devlin, of Sacra mento: "Supreme court made an order and has stayed all proceeding until further order ot the court Accordingly you will postpone the execution." After reading this, Warden Halo said he would retire, and thore would be no hanging in the morning. No further developments are expected tonight. ON THE HOOTALINQUA. FROM EGG TO AX. V ".1 lem it'.. a ' 'I 1 .-- X p i IIP 1 a J III II I . M f- , 4, V jr t 1 ' I I 111 A I. W 'K W, ' taken by no ot. but roun." I M souTwhst merely to e wb t effect tb inclusion would bav. on tk PH. . "it look bad for m. sir. oe!ll " JotZ ring. wa. found lo mj overcoat pocket" . n i That Iat fact count for nothing, i marked, wd added: "Tell f cndidl. Orr, bsve you no theory upon which tb thing can b explalued'f "So sir. I bT not; It seem very I clo't understand It." he said. rToU trembling perceptibly, and hi. eves sialn lilli" with tears. " trill mysterious, my nan friend" I said, rWng. "But I somehow LXve you sr. not the guilty lj. I will . the "TK-aut to glv you a more comfortable place than this for th. rdght In lb moral!. I will see you again. W hen the cam up at the Jeffereon Market im.IIc ot.rt next day I secured an a! nurn. nnt. Then I went to work rigor. nut on the theory of Frank a Innocence The... It ws flir ht JR,,""r "V d not himself bsve stolen, the goods He might bsv. hsd an accompli., however, who may bsv been eonrealed somewhere In th" room, and carried off the Jewelry White KMI.U was tsking his two-uilnute ,i i of the horee. In the alley. Tin. fh W ,lgbt have dropped-me ring " - - We Follow th. Caatoana of Pllurlm Fatbare in Observing tb Vmf. K uav every rea.on for believing tb.t our forefather celebra ted their flrit Thanksgiving Dar with heaven' blue dom for a roof and tb brown earth for a floor. They bud been niccessful In their effort to found hoines for them- In tli. allilu. mS necs. and their heart were full of gratitude. In the mercies they remcmbereo tbey forgot the fearful hardships tbey had endured, and when the mellow Indlau summer of 1UU1 eiuiie they felt themaelve moved by a fervent desire to thank God publicly In a generul way for their Improved position and tho measure of comfort granted. "Our harvests being gotten In," ssy tb record of Edward Wimduw, "eur Gov ernor sent four men fowling, so that we might, after a special manner, rejoice together. The four In on day killed as much fowl, as with a llttl help beside, " jur wild tn.l, house. whl..K 18 U.iot rT' PWij Patched t I...:,. i iiur-uiiy about th. K. . ' Ma..a.olt sndu'C nyeu on the oUukr; " " utiour, lltiU Ue m even d women sad children "Ur,iH with to wildy.. snn unriV enjoy lh h,....,. Vt MVln J...... public building., Wi, M women sad children whn 1 V" ""h" iur in front of ii. i ho.ue. Soon the , " .,,U,tK edthehourofprayer.t"1,0'' gun without thl. rii.du followed holldM, of fIti7 1 ... .....nig uie xwo mcrw.1;. . 1 .ri'MutTri w.c i-mmren romped shout It ? 4 the young men indulged B , 7 M aud game In frled, j'HSJ SONQ OF THE THANKFUL TIME. We think "t Thsuk.u'lvlng at veiling time: In Hie ewrlllng. uiif.ildliig. ImhWIhx Hi;; When tbe loan of uitliir and Uearle ;f "itn l(J... e 111 II urih gn.wii yuimif S"ln- V e drrnni i.f Mif lirvi-t. f fl-ld sn.l AuJ gruimrle. full, at TUankxglvl.ig ihii-. We tbliik of Tlinuk-tflvliig In g"'1";. la tbe lime ol Uowern. aim iu .....--Wbeu'VuTpalm. uf tUe year's .twg Wl.b"frr'ul'!.'.e. with grain, and with sweets When iha'drVam f h,.e I. s truth ...blbne. Tbeu our besrt. mske roulu lor iu- ! Iliue. A Itleh Strike Ua. Been Keported Near the Paaee. Skuguay, Alaska, (per steamer Fur allon to Seattle), Not. 15. Kiel, gold discoveries are reported on the Clin tock river and brunches of Houtalin qua, some running as high as f 10 a duy to the man. There has been quite a rush to the now fields, which will be prospected during the winter. The Canadian government ha re called a number of customs officials who have been stationed at Tagish house, between Lakes lien net t and Tugish, and the British Columbia au thorities have also reduced the num ber of provincial police who have been stationed at Lake Bennett and Tugish house, since the great rush to the Klon dike country began lust July. Deputy. Collector of Customs Fred W. Davey, who has just returned from Tugish, said to a press correspondent that duties hud been collected during the seuson on 400 outfits. Euoh outfit represented from four to seven men. The duty collected on each outfit aver aged (U0, and the total amount collect ed aggregated $25,000. Duties were levied upon everything belonging or in any way apertaining to an outfit, even the clothes that a man wore were not exempted. Several cases of attempted smuggling were detected, the goods be ing confiscated In most Instances. Travel down tho lakes has practical ly ceased, and Mr. Duvey suys that hundreds of people will be caught iu the ice aud forced to go into winter quarters wherever they may happen to be when tho ice surrounds them. We think of Th.nkneiv.ng in " ; And tbe Idiiebllig maple, .j r. . e Wueu Hie barn, are full wlib Hie imrwm And lUeT-r'owulng. thankful day draw. near. We think of Thsnksipv ng m " v elreie colnpn-ie" 1 ; ..,, Ill the wing r Hie. in m "" !." '. '.. ...T .1.. ...ii ..f ,ur reiim. slid then Vi ..It a. Ihe g,e of Ibe Kla highway for the d.wu uf our euul tbank-glvlng dny. -Itowi llartwli'k Thorpe. rblladelphla NaturHlliatlon Fraud.. Philadelphia, Nov. 15. United State District Attorney Ureck has sent to Washington forassintinun In rn,,i., down the naturalisation frauds which were recently unearthed iu this city. Mr. Breck bus also notified Secretary Oage that the frauds have assumed gi gantio proportion. While Attorney. Oeneral McKenna may not personally take part in the triula, some member of his official staff will be bore wheu the defendants appear in court. Every furnace Operating. Pittsburg, Nov. 15. For the first time in over three year every bluet furnace in Allegheny oountv is in operation. The starting of furnace"F" ot the Carnegie Steel Company yester day made the resumption complete. There are 80 iron furnaces in the coun ty now, and all are running, making from two to three blasts every 24 hours. The daily output of smelter iron in this county now is approximately 10,000 tons. Thore have never been more than 28 furnace in bla.t here before, but the Carnegie have lutely built four new plant. JUST IN TIME F0U DINNER. ASIDE, from some noted criminal prosecutions which I conducted several year ago, the Incident wtiiili I am about to relate was one of the most Interesting chapters in my pro foional life. It had bivn a stormy No v nilT duy. During the illuming the raiu had come down iu torrents. Toward noon the water began to crystallize us it de scended, and ail afternoon the suow had been blowing and drifting In a very un comfortable way. It grew dark early. Perhaps it was becaune of this that 1 de cided to go home uu hour earlier thau usual. I say perhaps, because 1 have al ways thought that providence had some thing to do with my going out on to the strvet at that moment. Passing up Broad way I turned into Fourteenth street to cross to tne eievaieu nuirouu ui, Near the comer 1 encountered a crowd of men nnd hoys, in the center of which stood a bluccoat will, a prisoner. Stand ing on tip-too. I saw that the prisoner was a young Ind with n remarkably hand some face aud gentlemanly manner. A call had been sent In for a patrol wagon, and tho policeman was waiting the re sponse. The hoy looked thoroughly fright ened. As I reached the ssit he was pro testing his Innocence and begging to be released. "I tell you honestly, sir, It Is a mistake. I know nothing of the jewelry. I am In nocent, sir: I am. truly." "That's all ritht, yon young rascal," tho policeman replied. "Nobody that's ar rested ever steals anything. But when we got our clutches mi 'en. they don't generally turn out such innocents as they claim." Just then tho patrol wagon dashed up, two ofllcers alichtcd, and tho boy was quickly hustled up the steps of the wagon ami driven olt. "What nation?" I asked as they drove off toward the south. There was no re ply, hut by walking rapidly in tho direc tion taken by the otllcors I soon brought np at the Mercer street station, where, ns an attorney, I soon obtained sn Interview with the lad whoso face had so greatly Interested mo. When I was shown to hia coll he was weeping bitterly, and appear ed to be in absolute dsepnlr. "I snw jou at the patrol box," I said by way of Introduction, "and thought I would like to Hud out a little more about your case. I am a lawyer; nnd If you are In nocent, as I think you mifst be, I will see what cau lie done to get you out of this. My name Is Lnwson, what is yours?" "Frank Orr," ho an id promptly, as a wave of tratitude and hope swept over his face. Then lie added: "This is very kind of you, sir. The whole miserable business Is a mistake, I miver took, a bit of the Jewelry; not a bit." Then I sat down on the cot beside Frank and asked him to tell me nil about his trouble. Ills home was in Western Vermont, he said, and he had boon in New York about a yetir. lie had come here to get a start in the world. While his success hud not been all that his fancy used to paiut it, yet, considering the hard times, he had done very well. Once a month he had boon able to send a little money to his mother, who needed his help sorely. For six mouths past he had been employed in the shop of a uiamifaeturiug jeweler. Thnt day twenty vnlimhle rings nnd some oth er articles had disappeared from a show case. They were missed just after the noon hour. During that hour tho work men were always out at lunch, and Frank and another young mnn named Irch wore usually in charge. But to-day I.erch was sick at homo, and Frank was iu the shop alone. "iHd you aeo uo out about the promises during that hour?" I asked. "No one but Hogan, the janitor." "Was he In the room?" "No, I a m sure he was not." "Did you see him at all between twelve and one?" "yes," suit! Frank, "he came to the rem door and cnllerl me to go back and look at a team of flue horses in the alley." "How long wore you out of the room?" I asked. "Not more than two minutes." "Could a norsou enme from the front hall during that time without your kuow Ing It?" "No, indeed," said yonng Orr, earnestly; "1 locked the door before I ran out to look at the horses." "Thtu if the Jewelry was taken while vou war in rharg it could have been w pocket so as to point suspicion toward its owner. My theory proved correct. A guarded talk with some people living near the home of Hogan, the janitor, made mo ac tpiiiluttil with his character nnd habits. What I learned was not to his credit I also came Into possesion of the fact that he had been soon the previous night at a Bowery Miloon In company with a fellow named Tingle, who had done time at Sing Sing, nnd who wns now under surveil ance by the police. I went to the saloon named, hut learned that the men hail only boon there a few minutes earlier In the evening. "They had no money and wore sober," the bartender explained, "so guess they ain't been Into no crooked work of late." The fact thnt they were not spending money ninde me believe thnt If these men were really the thieves they had not yet sold their plunder. So I decided upon a bold movement. Securing the aid of a trusty detective who had once served me In somewhat similar case, I wont to Ho gnn's house. A red-faced woman admit ted us. "Mr. Tingle left some rings and other jewelry with you for safe-keeping," I said in confident tone, purposely refrain ing from giving any hint that suspicion also rested upon her hushnnd. "The property is not Mr. Tingle's, and If you wish to save yourself from trouble you will deliver it up to this olllcer nt once," I added. Tho wo.nim turned pale and hesitated. A thrent to place her under arrest brought her to a decision, and a parcel containing tho plunder wns placed In my hand. At the police court next day Ilogan and Tingle were confronted with the evidence of their crime, and Frank Orr's eyes danc ed witl. Joy when the Judge expressed re gret that so serious a mistake hnd beeu made, and told him he was at liberty. It was now noon of the dny before Thanksgiving day the day toward which Frank Orr had boon looking forward joy fully for many weeks. But since his un just arrest he hnd abandoned all hope of going, and a message had boon wired to his mother, announcing that unexpected circumstances would prevent his being there. "Now, off for Vermont," I said as we came out of the court room together. "You will not have much time to lose, but you can make your train and reach home in time for dinner yet. Come back ns soon as you can," I said, when we parted, "and come straight to my oQlce. No more work Iu a jewelry shop for you' Orr." ' In this lltUe sketch I have told you of the remirkable circumstance under which I became acquainted with my pres ent law partner. The neat sign over our otllce door now reads: eeteeeeeeeee lawson & onrt, ATTORNEYS. Frank Orr has spent many pioaieant Thanksgiving days since he csme to New York, but he still declares that none have beeu half so delightful a the day he rum bled over tho snow-clad hills of Vern.out ra up the old lane under the apple trees' greeted old Nero with a shout that woke tho echoes, and burst Into the dear old home Just in tun tor dinuer. Lawrence )won. served the company nearly a week. At which time, among other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming among us, among the rest their greatest king, Massasoyr, with some nine ty men, who for three days we entertain ed ami feasted, nnd they (the Indians) went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plnntstion and bestowed on our (iovernor and on the Captain (Mylos Standish) and others. And al though it be not always so plentiful with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want thnt we often wish you pnrtnkers of our plenty." Being such a sternly religious people, probably the Pilgrims aimed at repeating In this somewhat probngod open-air fes tival the Biblical Feast of tho Tabornn cles, which Includes the Feast of the "Harvest of the Ingathering." It wn evidently a hearty, healthy public play spell, a few days of much-needed re joicing and good cheer. We moderns, with our luxurious taste, would not have much gratitude for the short commons they called "good cheer," but even we might havo approved of the wild urkeys, which tradition tells us sometimes weighed lxty pounds. There were also wild geose in their season, and as one writer assures us, "over 200 varie ties of fish, including shellfish." Love for the latter seems almost a gift of heredity with New Englanders. The relish for oysters is undying, aud as for cIouib, the rule still prevail at the annual clam bakes on the seashore that a feastor must eat till the pile of emptied shells in front of him screens him entirely from view. For several yenrs there were occasional appointments of especial days to return thanks for certain mercies, such as "a re freshing rain which had fallen In time to revive the crops perishing from drought." In 1(108 colonial records of Oct. 28 say: "The Court, taking notice of the goodness of God in the continuance of our civil and religious liberty, the general health we have enjoyed doe conceive that these and other favors doe call npon us for returns of thankfulness." Then, remem bering only the mercies nnd forgetting the horrors and sorrows which have beset them and the famine that almost came, the proposal is made that all unite to keep the 25th of November aa "A Solomne dny of Thanksgiving, with respect to God' goodness in the particular above men tioned." There are no more record of Thanks giving days till KWO. Then another lapse till KKK), when Nov. 20 wa ppolnted. All these celebrations were In Plymouth Colony, and probably the bitter expe riences that visited the truggllng ettler made fasting take the place of feasting and prayers of agonized entreaty for the safety of live and homes seem more ap propriate than praise and rejoicing. First Thankagtvlng Dlulnep. The first Thanksgiving was appointed by Gov. Bradford, at Plymouth, Mass., In 121, the year following the loading of the Pilgrims, In order tbst the Colouhtts In a more special way could rejoice to gether at having all things in good and plenty writes Clifford Howard In the Ladies' Home Journal. In preparation for th fet "gunner were scut into th Indians; the little American H twenty neu, under the leadership Standlnh. wont throuub Its drill ill ual of arms, to the gteat delight tonishmoiit of the native, wnuei" i hnylnl tlieinai'lves in the nrffi Darntion of tho excellent mult were eaten In tho open sir. A Thanks-living Hjm We thank Thee, Lord, for dally f Kor sll received of dully g'1"': For aun.hlne and the sniiga of bins And nielody of loving rdi. We thsnk Theo for the hmkr stall And for the hooka of hooka " For hopes of earth so swwM And for th higher hope, of M" For children's voices f"'l ' Kor the bright olomla that Mt And for the tenrs we've amufW"" Kor sorrows other thnu our on. For loved one. here and loved nr Who still, with Thee, keep kaW"' Kor spirit tones thnt sonijc"". i .l h ernaa that I over IU Just the Beasoa. "Where are yot. going. "jT..T urbkU j "I am going a-walklng. ' TaV "You Had better ue - ia Or some one will si youU, lino' Kphrat.n G,T'," t k- An i.nwrl fo' tie crispy 'r. rf . oHhkllu' rrua' on ue Fo- do life dst froha In ol o" Ks Noveinbah ore" VshwW N' ls' night, ft. no, Et de hen house Uo , K- I stepped In . f , rV ter tlo n.yiaabketla. Er-trenihllu' like Fo' feah my '""Vreen Iieukln Oreeu Hod swop tie. 'rJ.7t'."k! FMaelber..! Thanksgiving The shsdesof night wjr ' , As turkeys ft w -ear fl yln V & To Hnd the trees new w j Until the night bad gro f, not They rsngeti ."' 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