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SEASON OF JOY "Whan the frost Is en the punkln ind the fodder1. In the shock." , TURKEY AN "IDJUF At Least That Is the Opinion Farmer Has of the Great American Bird. HOUSEWIVES contemplating the annual Thanksgiving dinner lit tle realize the months of prep aration which preceded the feast. Their cranberries are on the market. Turkeys, dressed and ready for the oven; huge yellow pumpkins, with the earth still clinging to their gaudy sides; oranges, apples, grapes and nuts all await the call of the epi cure. A trip to a market gives the layman an Insight Into the real business of Thanksgiving, and Incidentally a quan tity of rural folk lore which is illu minating. Wandering around the wag ons which line the sidewalks of the market space, a reporter the other day came upon an old resident of Virginia a man with whiskers and a magnifi cent quid of tobacco and a small sup ply of turkeys, the last named alive and protesting vigorously against the confinement of their crates. After a little preliminary conver sation the old farmer dilated upon the ways of the great American fete bird and In his conversation knocked the pedestal upon which the fowl is placed squarely from under Its feet. "Biggest fool bird In tne world," he confided to the reporter. "They ain't nothin' in the world that I've ever found that's as big an Idjut as a tur key." "In what way?" was asked, "In every way," replied the farmer. "I believe that the words 'not sense enough to come In out of the rain was written to describe a turkey. Did you ever know, for instance, that a turkey can drown Itself during a rain storm?" "What!" ejaculated the reporter. "Fact," said the farmer. "Them there birds hold up their heads during a rainstorm exactly as if they was trying to swallow the whole creation. Naturally, they can't drink the entire output. And I tell you as a fact, that I've found cases where they man aged to drown themselves." Continuing on the peculiarities of the bird, the old man said : "They're helpless critters, too. Ain't got as much gumption about them as a chicken. And frail let me tell you, young man, (hat a turkey is the great est natural-born Invalid In the world. They have to be watched every minute or the first thing you know they'll up and die on you without ' a second's warning. ' ' , ; "I been raisin' turkeys for years and years had good luck with 'em, too. But I reckon,! don't understand more than half about them. Nobody does particularly why the Creator, when he made 'em, didn't give 'em minds." "Does that apply to wild turkeys as well as the tame ones?" asked the re porter. The old man spat thoughtfully and profusely at a chip of wood In the street. lie hit the mark. "As to that," he said, "I can't exact ly say. "Mebbe there's something in the idea that a turkey, when he's tame, gets so used to huvln' folks make a fuss over him that he Jest naturally loses all his ambition. There's one thing certain if every wild turkey was as big a fool as some that I've raised there wouldn't be a live wild turkey in the United States within a year." Washington Star. Cranberry Industry, Study of the cranberry Industry by government specialists has shown it to be confined practically to three state j: Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wis consin. Of the total crop, Massa chusetts produces in an average year about 800,000, New Jersey 150,000, and Wisconsin 76,000 barrels. The indus try Is gradually extending to Minneso ta Michigan and Oregon, where 'marshes and climatic conditions are favorable. PREPARED By DOUGLAS MALLOCH W Maybe mmrymt mnnm ami w mi boft ml fUM, W may not ht m (MM ma M otbf ohm, W m rtxjuir lwt mt two, MM k try and bona, A fettle mon rtiUfy to back Ikon t court' Bat in on imHnr wo amum not imh ret. wnn it i Wo miy bo short of mm. ei war and thy of subiiMnhot And low in miaoa and othar wbtamna machines: Wa euf ht to havo an uraplana, or, faaybo two or throw, To imt among tha nounUlatopa or hydro plana tho ) Wa havan't any IiMtnunanU for UMOttal! poisoned gaa But wa can boat tha unirarto at makinf apple ami Wo hava the pumpbina and wa havo tba pippin pig ana nm. And, il you want p edneia lor minei If so m eon a tail acroii tha tea America to try. We'll ihoot them full af apple mm and fall of pumpkin pie, I bet they'll threw theirflaway.beneath that maiic charm, And let tie in America and buy thorn eaah a farm! (Copyright, 1916, Weitern Newipaper Union. J DAY OF REJOICING Thanksgiving Celebration Is a Great Event on Cotton Plantation. THANKSGIVING day on a cot ton plantation means an open heart and hand on the part of . the master and a iuii scomacn, a day of happiness, and, consequently, gratitude on the part of the worker. It moans, ulso, another, and, for that little world, universal token, an of fering up of thanks for the numerous little white pods which bring profits to the master and the winter's provi sions and clothes to the worker. But it also means a day of play to all Ilard as is the labor of the cotton plantation hands, they do some extra work willingly for Thanksgiving day for several weeks beforehand. It is a suro sign of the approach of Thanks giving day when one sights here and there through the woods the bobbing, smoking pine torches that light the way for a dozen black, shining, grin ning faces. It Is the usual hunt for Mr. Possum that keeps them from their beds, and makes them scramble through thickets, jump ditches and wallow through marshes. For several nights the woods for miles around the plantation are the scene , of night activities. It Is easy enough to find the troll of a 'possum, and when once located the dogs lead a running, howling band in the hunt. Mr. Possum Is, however, a slow mover, and when he hears the yelps of those hounds and the howls of the negroes and sees the glare of the torches, he gets up the nearest tree and settles on a limb. ! Somehow the light fascinates him and he usually settles on the lowest limb. It Is Just what the hunters want. Mr. Possum Is noted for his fondness for dead meat, consequently a 'possum that is shot Is not the most savory of meats. Their object 1b to catch him alive and when the tree Is reached he Is surrounded by a ring of blaztog torches and howling blacks un til in sheer fright he drops off, plays dead and Is bundled Into a sack, to be hustled off in the morning to the plan tation pen. Sometimes two or three are caught in a night and some of them show light Once in the pen they ire fed for a couple of veeks with food that takes away all trj.ee of their natural food and rounds out their sides with good, sweet meat Severul days before Thanksgiving day some of the hands are taken from the cotton fields and put to work around the plantation buildings. This is, with the exception of Christmas, perhaps the most enjoyable task of the year, for it means the preparation for the feast which the plantation is to give its hands on tho day when thanks offerings are made. 1 Usually this is spread In one of the big ' buildings on the plantation, perhaps a barn or a cotton shed. The hands are set to work at first to clear out the place and make It clean. Then they put together a dozen or more long improvised tables and benches, and lastly they decorate the building with all kinds of flags and bunting. On the side near the center they also put up tho fiddler's stand, for luter In the day there comes the usual dance. Sev- eral days before, also, some of the hands make barrels of ginger beer and 1 sweet cider and stow them away to i ripen for the feast Enemy of the Cranberry. An enemy which would rob the Thunksgiving table of cheap cranber ries Is the cranberry root worm, and the government has been attempted to circumvent this destroyer, too. Ex perts of the department of agriculture have found that by stimulating the growth of the plants with fertilisers a practice that has not been followed in the paet the ravages of this or dinarily destructive creature can be made almost negligible. Worthy Supplication. ' For all blessings which may help to make the land we love more worthy of its fortune, its founders, Its destiny. ANTICIPATION eoW ' 1 .v. m .. 1 - 1-,-! It's awful bliss To think of this Th day we all set down And tat. and sat, And sat, and sat That turkey good and brown! Sunday Magazine of the Philadelphia Record. Season is a Time for All to Re member the Blessings of the Year. WHAT does Thanksgiving mean to you? Does it meun only a day of special feasting? Does it bring to you only the pleusure of rich foods and elaborate meuls? Or do you remember in the midst of feasting thut It is a day for giving thanks? We should all take the time from this duy, filled wfth pleasures, to look back over the past year und remember all the blessings for which we have to bo thankful. 1 No mutter how much sorrow and trouble may have to come to us In the past 12 months, there have been many blessings us well If we will stop to consider them. Perhups at the time of trouble we were blinded to the blessings, but now, If we look back with clearer judgment, we can see that they were there all the time, some times blessings in disguise, but bless ings none the less. Wo can surely afford to spare from this whole day of pleasure a couple of hours for silent retrospection and ap preciation. Let us each slip away from the crowd for just a small part of the day and give ourselves up to a mental review of the past year, with a special eye to the benefits we have received. It will como as-a surprise to many to see how many the blessings have been and how comparatively few the misfortunes. - : There Is first of all, health. Those who huve sound health never stop to be grateful for it, it seems so much a part of them. And yet were these healthy ones laid on a sick bed for months at a time they would soon realize how much of a blessing health really Is. The chronic invalids In their beds and wheeled chairs appreciate to the full the blessings of good health. Let those of us, then, who are well and strong be thankful for our health. Then there is love. Those of us who have the devoted love of a mother or father, of a sister or brother, of a child or a husband, will do well to send up nn extra peun of thunksgiving for the blessing of this love. Only too often, the only ones who appreciate the full blessing of love are those who have lost all earthly ties. If the family circle about the fes tive board Is unbroken is not fhat a reuson for full rejoicing? When so many futhers, husbands, brothers and sons ure fulling on every side in Eu rope a Inhuman wiir we should give thunks with all our hearts that our own dear ones go unharmed. So each of us will find, If we search our minds, thut we have many bless-. Ings to be thankful for. It is only the burdened heart which feels no grati tude. And we should all fill our minds with love and appreciation on Thanks giving day, of the great good we have received in the past and the hope to be more worthy of it In the future. Proper Spirit of the 8eason. The proclamations of those who hold high station as the representa tives of the people very properly be speak the spirit the nation should manifest. The manifestation of that spirit is, however, not alone In feast ing and the joyous acclaim of thou sands on the field of sport The con sciousness of blessing and the re turning of thanks therefor by every man according as he Is blessed, no less than the voicing of a prayer that he be made ever more sensible of all his blessings, will make the day for all the holy duy It should be. Grati tude for the guidance thus far; strength to meet the trials still to come. " A Thanksgiving. For days of health, for nights of quiet sleep; for seasons of bounty and of beauty, for all earth's contri butions to our need through this past year: good Lord, we thank the.- WUliam Gannett ifh. F 11 iAaitej jK-AA i cr cot Brief Rcsre of fell Kcws frsa All Arod the Earth. Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed lor Our Busy Readers. While hundrads of parson puied tn crowded street In Chicago, Charles Lichtenberger, 61 yean old, eat bolt uptight for four noun dud in hi, au tomobile. Henry Tuerke, 20 month, old, who wai pronounnd cured in Now York after receiving tho serum treatment for infantile paralyiii laat lummer, la dying from a taeond attack. Two ChinaVnen enteral the .tore of Wong Ling, a prominent Chinee, mar chant at Salem. Or.. aroused him from bed and forced him at the point of a revolver to deliver .500 in the tale. Santa Clam will pay no more for toy, thit Chriatmaa than in yean gone by, according to toy dealen of San Franciaco. Frieee for all aorta of toya will nmaln about the aame becauae of increaeed production by America, Iron ballast weighing 120 tone brought over in the German aubmarlne merchantman Deutsehland ia to be con- verted into "Deutaehland iron men' to be aold aa souvenirs for the beneflt of German widows and orphan, of the war, it ia reported. i A man who waa identified aa T. Q, King, one of the biggeat fruit grower. in the vicinity of Wenatchee, Wash., aeen to jump off a bridge 101 leet above the Columbia river into the river. At laat report, hie body had not been recovered. The warm weather in Alaaka con tinue,. Rain ha, fallen continuously since November 10. Ice which had formed in Twenty-Mile river, on the U. S. railroad. 66 mllea north of Sew ard, went out becauae of high water, taking 160 feet of the railroad bridge. The National Association of Tan nery in. convention in Chicago, said there would be no advance In the price of shoe leather unless the nation, at war make too bis a demand on the sur plus stock now on hand. Hides and kins, however, were declared scarce. Nelson Carol, recently aent to jail for six month, for throwing fume bombs in San Franciaco restaurants during the waiters' strike, was de clared by the attorney representing the law and order committee of the cham- bar of commerce, to be the victim of a frame-up." A special committee of the Chicago school board authorized John u. Snoop, superintendent of schools, to negotiate with the War department for the serv ices of military instructors and to ar range for the inauguration of a aystem of military training for pupils in the public schools. Becauae of "intimate friendship through prosperity and adversity," as outlined in the will, John r. Mtley, of Milwaukee, Wis., will receive ap proximately $60,000 from the estate of the late George H. Barrett, founder of the Barrett store in Mllwauke, who died recently in Los Angeles. The Adamson eight-hour law is at tacked in Salt Lake City in petitions Hied in the Federal District court by the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line, asking that the government.be restrained from Instituting any pro ceedings growing out of this act of congress on the ground that the law is unconstitutional. Of 225 women candidates for county offices in 92 of the 106 counties .in Kansas, 151 were elected, according to latest reports. Kansas now has 126 women holding county offices, Fifty eight women were elected superintend ent, of instruction, 86 registrars of deeds, 25 clerk of District courts, 15 county treasurers, five county clerks and two Probate judges. It is intimated in the joint Hexican- Amenean commission, in , session at Atlantic City, that an agreement -may be reached to withdraw U. 8. troops from Mexico, in a few day,. With a large cat, the family pet, curled up on its face, the two-months- old child of Mr, and Mn. Bruno No vick, at Superior, Wis., waa found dead in bed, by its mother. The child had been smothered, physicians Mid, by the eat seeking a warm place to aleep. The British steamer Taming, which has arrived at Manila from Amoy, re ports that the British cruiser Cornwall confiscated four sacks of Manila mail for the purpose of examination at Hongkong. . carried out by air craft operating with the British forces in Egypt, aaya an Mfflrtlal innMnu-Ma-f KL- mI. raided were Magfadaba and Blreaha. A ton or nign explosive waa dropped. Two Fokker machine were brought dflWn bv tha Tairiine- unnlinj, all tt I which returned safely. . I" limn 3. 11 r.T 'h , Washington, D. C President Wll- ou.imhI.v ,Amallv hv mrnalama- Itlon, designated Thursday, November 60, as Thanksgiving uay. nr. lows the President's proclamation: !. haa tana- ham til. Mlstnffl of OtO iwuinla tn turn in th. fruitful BUtUmn or the year in praiae ana uuu-..iviua to Almlgncy uoa lor nis .many -w ings and mercies to ua and to the Na tion. "TIm waa- .hat ku .lanaail ainSB WO last observed our day of thanksgiving has been ncn in oieesings htit tha whnl. fMAA of the world has bean darkened by war. In tuv aaaiUBw ua, vu nmw v. "-rr- our thoughts dw.ll with painful dis quiet upon the struggles and sufferings a-k, a ma , .air nff nn. riaMAaa ann nasisTiiiiHsam. of the nations at war ana oi me pw nlaa nmn whnm war haa brnUffht die- aater without choice or possibility of escape on ineir pan. we caniiui -uma of our happiness without thinking of their pituui aisueas. New Austrian Envoy. XOUNT TARN0W5KI Count de Tarnow-Trfrnowaki, who was secretary of the Austrian embassy at Washington from 1S99 to 1901. has been appointed ambassador in place of Dr. Dumb-, recalled at the instance of this government He haB been accept ed by the American government. The Count Is a Pole, his home being in Gallcla. "Now. therefore, I, Woodrow Wil son, President of the United States of America, do appoint Thursday,, the 30th day of November, as a day of Na tional thanksgiving and prayer and urge and advise the people to resort to their several places of worship on ,tjit day to render thanks to Almighty uoa xor tne DiesBings ox. peace ana un broken prosperity which he has be stowed upon our beloved country in such unstinted measure. "And I also urge and suggest our duty, in this, our day of peace and abundance, to think in deep sympathy of the stricken peoples ox the world, upon whom the curse and terror of war has so pitilessly, fallen and to contrib ute out of our abundant means to the relief of their sufferings. ' 'Our people could in no better way show their real attitude towards the present struggle of the nations than by contributing out of their abundance to the relief of the Buffering which war has brought in its train. "In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the City of Washington this 17th day of November, in the year of (Jut Lord, 1916, and of the indepen dence of the united States the 14 lit. "WOODROW WILSON. "By the President" ROBERT LANSING, 'Secretary of State." Doctor Killed for Being American; Gen, RreviM Leaves Qiihiahua City St. Louis The State department, in a telegram sent to Representative Dyer Saturday, confirmed the killing of Dr. ti. U. r isher, a former bt. Louisan, at Santa Rosalia, Mexico, November 2, by Villa bandits. Information received in private ad vices by William Fisher, a brother, is that the bandita demanded and re ceived $2000 on a promise to spare Dr. Fisher's life, and afterward killed him because he was an American. El Paso, Tex. An official statement from Chihuahua City reached the bor der Saturday conveying General Trev ino's announcement he was himself taking the field against Villa, and the vanguard of his troops had gone to Santa Uosalia, which is to be the base of operations. General Gonzales Cuel lar will take charge in the Chihuahua capital, It was announced. Ueneral Travemo a announcement caused much surpise and considerable alarm here among Americans and Mexicans who have interests in Chi huahua City. : Tong War Feared at Salem. Salem, Or. Fear that the hold-up and robbery early Saturday of Wong Ling, a local Chinese merchant, by two masked Chinese, may -precipitate a tong war here, led the police to take precaution against trouble in the Ori ental quarter. Wong Ling was forced to open his safe by the masked Chinese who wen armed with revolvers. They took $600 and after tying their victim to hia bed and gagging him, disap peared. An hour later he loosened the gag and summoned help. The police arrested Wong Sing and .Chiog Bing. I mm . '-wawaa- rsvsfiTiris Of Cmertl Interest ' ' About Onrcn 15,337,809 Acres Are Open ' T, i - lor Settlamant In t'J Salem Figures collect! by O.P. Holt, state labor eoauaiaaloner, from Oregon land offices show that Jul; 1, 1B18, there were 16,887,809 aene(of vacant public lands in Oregon open to settlement and entry under the provis ions of the toaostead law. Of this amount 18,9.8,840 acrea are aurvtyad This acreage ia a decrease In the year of 104,869 acres and 632,037 acre since July 1, 1914. Much of the acruee taken up in th. last two year was under the timber and stone acts, mineral, coal, desert land entries and withdrawn for power sites and public water reserve.. K amall portion was taken under the homestead act. "From the records obtainable' said Hr. Hoff, "It would appear that desirable homestead lands are scarce In Oregon, especially in the part lying west of the Cascades." - Of the 13,942,348 acre of surveyed lands only 267,718 acres, or about 18 per cent, are situated in Western Ore gon, and a very amall percentage of this area is suitable for practical homeateading. Many Oregon counties show an in crease in the public land area, and of this total 24,822 seres lie west of the Cascade mountains and represent en tries that have been canceled for non fulfillment of statutory requirements, or relinquished for the reason that they were found untenable for home stead purpoen. In the high plateau regions of East ern and Central Oregon, where irriga tion and dry farming methods are used and enlarged homestead act applies, there is abundant opportunity for set tlement and entry, and it is in this re gion that the great bulk of , the home stead settlement has taken place dur ing recent years. Grants Pass is Host to Sugar Beet Growers Grants Pass John Mills, of Talent, won the title of the "banner sugar beet grower" at the beet growers' cel ebration held in Grants Paaa Saturday. He reported a crop of 28 tons per acre, yielding a gross return of 1164 per acre, the cash outlay being only 129.79 per acre. . Beet growers and prospective beet growers from all of Southern Oregon gathered in Grants Pass aa the guest of the city, 800 farmers and their wives coming by special trains from a far north as Oakland and from Ash land on the south. Inehxttngi the lecel people S000 men and women got their first view of the inside of the factory, through which they were piloted by the officials of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. The factory was in full operation and waa slicing beets at the rate of 600 tons per day, while a sack of augar was be ing put into the warehouse every 40' seconds. Upon the factory ground the visi tors were escorted through the feeding pens where steers were being fattened upon beet pulp while farmers were seen loading tons of the pulp to be hauled to their farms for feeding to fattening stock and to milch cowb. At noon, after inspection of the fac tory, .the visitors were guests of the city at dinner, the hundreds being fed at the Commercial club. Cranberry Crop is Cut. ' Marshfleld North inlet, the cran berry producing area of Coos county, has only 26 per cent of Its normal crop this season. Some flne berries are being marketed here. Growers are re ceiving $8.60 a bushel, and it ia doubt ful if any cranberries will be exported this fall. Reports of shortages every where is likely to increase the selling price to 84 or 84.60 bofore the winter is over. There are about 20 acrea in cran berries at North inlet, and instead of harvesting the usual amount of from 8600 to 4000 bushels the ranchers will not obtain much more than 1000 bush els. The shortage Is attributed to late frosts and the presence of water on ' the vines for too long a period, that is, until after the blooms were out. . Farmers Use Cars More. 'Albany Automobile are being used more and more by farmer in this -vicinity in 'bringing farm produce to town. One farmer residing near Al bany surprised people on the streets one day thia week by driving into the city with a wagonload of .potatoes, tied to the rear oinne car. others have hauled eack of potatoes to the city piled up in the car. Clover seed and other produce has been hauled the same way. One man recently brought a calf to town in his car. Garden truck is frequently hauled to the city in this manner. Some of the garden ers, however, have regular auto trucks. dolt Ends Power to Sing. Albany As the result of a jolt he received recently, William M. Ander son, who resides southeast of Albany, haa been literally knocked "out of tune." In other words, he cannot carry a tune, either whistling or sing ing, since the shock. Previously he was a splendid singer. Several day ago he was engaged in building a silo v and was holding a board which another man was nailing. A Mow on one end of the board while the other wa against th Bide of Mr. Anderson's head, disabled his power of melody.