Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-12-02
ORIGIN OF THANKSGIVING DAY.

ORIGIN OF THANKSGIVING DAY.
The origin of the observance Of Thanks
giving day, like many other interesting mat
ters, is little understood by those who most
would like to know of it. 1t is supposed
that the day was originally suggested by the
Hebrew "Feast of the Tabernacles, which
was held at the end of the year. The pro-
testant Episcopal prayer-book, which was rat"
ifed in 1889, recommends the first Thursday
in November as the proper day, except when
some other one is appointed by the civil au-
thorities., The last Thursday in November
has of late years been generally selected. The
first recorded observance of the festival occur
red on October 8, 1915, when the good peo-
pie of Leyden, in Holland. gave thanks for
their deliverance from a seige. In l60o,
when the pilgrim fathers were exiled to Hol-
land, they temporarily revived the occasion,
In America the first known celebration was
in 1921, shortly after the landing of the pill
grims, when Governor Bradford, according
to history, "sent four men out fowling that
the people might in more special manner
rejoice together" Ever since that time
Thanksgiving day has been generally OBJ
served in the New England States, the COVER
nors annually issuing the proclamations for
that purpose, but it was not until leSo that
it became recognized annual custom. TO
20 back a little in the recountal, day in
July, 1929, was appointed a day of fasting
and prayer on account of drought, and it is
recorded that rain came abundantly while
the people were praying; for this another day
was appointed for thanksgiving the same to
be observed with religious exercises: In
1855 60 the English governors OF New York
also named days for the giving of thanks.
During the Revolution, Thanksgiving day
was national institution, being annually
ordered by Congress. After 1854 there was
no national Observance until 1889, when, by
request of Congress, President George Wash.
ington recommended day of thanksgiving
for the adoption of the Constitution also
in 1895, on account Of the suppression OF
an insurrection. In April, 1915, President
Madison followed the. example Of bis illus.
trious predecessor. Since that time the Gus
tom has annually been observed in an ap..
propriate manner. In New York the day of
thanksgiving was not the subject Of any Sc.
rious thought from its chief executives until
1917, and its adoption by the Southern States
did not occur until several years later.
DRIVING A HEN.-When woman has
hen to drive into the coop, she takes hold OF
her skirts with both hands, shakes them qui-
etly towards the delinquent, and says "shew,
therep' The hen takes one look at the ob.
iect to convince herself that it's g. woman and
then stalks najestically into the coop in per.
feet disgust at the sex. A man doesn't do
that way. He goes out doors and says: "lt
is singular nobody here can drive hen but
me-" and picking up stick of wood, hurls it
at the offending biped, and observes: "Get in
there you thief" The hen Immediately loses
her reason and dashes to the other end of the
yard. The man straightway dashes after her.
She comes back with her head down, her
wings out, and followed by an assortment Of
stovewood, fruit cans and clinkers, with much
putting and very mad man in the rear.
Then she skins up under the barn, and over
fence or two, and around the house, and
back again to the coop, and all the while
talking as only an excited hen can talk, and
all the while followed by things convenient
for handling, and man whose coat is on the
saw buck, and whose hat is on the ground,
and whose perspiration and profanity appear
to have no limit. By this time the other
hens have come out to take hand in the
debate and help dodge missiles, and the man
says every hen on the place shall be sold
in the morning, and puts on bis things and
goes down the street, and the woman has
every one of those hens housed and counted
in two minutes, and the only sound heard on
the place is the hammering Of the oldest boy
as he mends the broken picket--Selected.
These plans of driving are applicable to
the cases Of other things than hens. The
person who goes about the business gently
and calmly will seldom fail Of success, while
for him who resorts to the fire and thunder
plan we may always look with doubts as to
successful results.-Mobile Register.
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