The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-26
DAY OF THANKS PROCLAIMED.



ing Thanksgiving proclamation:
A national custom dear to the
hearts of the people calls for the
setting apart of one day in each
year as an occasion of special
thanksgiving to Almighty God for
the blessings of the preceding year.
This observance acquires with
time tender significance. It en-
riches domestic life. It summons
under the family roof the absent
children to glad reunion with those
they love.
Seldom has this nation had
greater cause for profound thanks
giving. No great pestiience has
invaded our shores. Liberal en-
ployment waits upon labor. Album
dant crops have rewarded the ef-
forts of the husbandman. Increas
ed comforts have cor.e to the
home. The national finances have
been strengthened, public credit
has been sustained and made
firmer. In all branches of indus
try and trade, there has been an
unequaled degree of PROSPERITY,
while there has been a steady gain
in the moral and educational
growth of Jour national character.
Churches and schools have
fiourished. American patriotism
has been exalted. Those engaged
in maintaining the honor of the
flag with such signal success have
been in large degree spareFfrom
disaster and disease. An honor
able peace has been ratified with d
foreign nation with which we were
at war and we are now on friendly
relations with every power on
earth.
THE trust which we have as
sumed for the benefit of the people
OF Cuba las been faithfully ad
vaned. There is marked progress
toward the restoration of healthy
industrial conditions, and under
wise sanitary regulations the is
land has enjoyed unusual exemp-
ton from the scourge of fever
The hurricane which swept over
our new possession of Porto Rico,
destroying the homes and property
of the inhabitants, called forth the
instant sympathy of the people of
the United States who were swift
to respond with generous aid to
the sufferers.
While the insurrection still con-
tinues in the Island of Luzon, busi
ness is resuming its activity and
confidence in the United States is
being rapidly established through
out the archipelago.
For these reasons and count
less others, |, William Mckinley,
president of the United States, do
hereby name Thursday, the thir-
tieth day of November next, as a
day of general thanksgiving and
prayer, to be observed as such by
all our people on this continent
and in our newly acquired posses
sions, as well as by those who NAV
be at sea or sojourning in foreign
lands, and | advise shat on this
day religious exercises shall be
conducted in the churches or meet
ing places of all denominations in
order that in the special features
of the day its real significance may
not be lost sight of, but fervent
PRAYERS may be offered to the Most
High for continuance of the Di-
vine guidance without which man S
efforts are vain, and for Divine
consolation to those whose kindred
and friends sacrificed their lives
for our country.
. / recommend also that on this
day so far as may be found prac-
ticable labor shall cease from It's
accustomed toll and charity abound
toward the sick, the needy and the
poor.
In witness thereof, | have sci
my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
(Signed) WILLIAM MCKINLEY. y
The most stubborn cases of Bron'
chitis succumb to Ballard's Hore
hound Syrup. Price 25 and so cents
City Drug Store, w. B. Frame.
The average loss by fire In the
Omitted States has been reduced IL
ten years from $6,922 to 81 800
The insurance loss in the same
period was reduced from So, 993 t
81 ,056. The prevailing use of elec
tricity has brought about large
increase in fires, owing to crossed
wires. Ten years ago there were
sixty-five such fires and last yea
95S Defective fiues are respon
sible for over II per cent of tht