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The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-29

people find time to be thankful for or ings that are curing in upon them. The Puritans must have recognized this even in their day, when they in augurated a custom that has become as firmly fixed as the constitution of the United States. While the ad- herents of the Pilgrim church, which vas exiled from England in 1908 and sent a colony over to New England In the Mayfiower in 1920, are unques- tionably to be credited with our na- tional Thanksgiving day, which ap- peals so deeply to the heart of the patriotic American, the custom of thanksgiving was undoubtedly sug- gested by the Hebrew Feast of the Tabernacles" or Feast of Ingather- ing" at the end of the year. Occa- sional thanksgiving was not unusual ln Europe.
 After the first harvest of the colon ists at Plymouth in 1921 Gov. Bradford sent four men out fowling that they might rejoice and celebrate in feast ing together. In July, 1923, day of fasting and prayer was appointed on account of the drought. Rain came while the people were praying and the governor appointed a day for thanks giving which was observed with re- ligious service. There was similar change of fast-day into Thanksgiving in 1881, when supplies came from Ire land. All of these earlier appoint ments, however, were made at various seasons of the year and for special purposes-usually for the timely ar rival of ships with supplies-but in later years on account of the harvests. This substantiated a fixed Thanksgiv- Ing day late in the fall after the har- vest time was over, and also the cele- bration of the day by first religious service and then a feast. When the revolutionary war began Thanksgiv- ing had become national holiday and was annually recommended by con- gress. However, after the general thanksgiving for peace in 17S4 there was no national appointment until 17S9. when President Washington by a request of congress, recommended setting aside a day of thanks for the adoption of the constitution. In later years, during the civil war, Lincoln issued proclamation recommending a special thanksgiving for victory in 1862 and 1863. Since then proclama- tions have been made by the president and governors of the various states, and custom has fixed the date on the last Thursday in November.
 1t is 2S4 years since that first Thanksgiving dinner in New England was eaten, but to many of us the aroma of the turkev as we gather around the table, surrounded by fam fly and friends to offer up thanks for | the abundance of worldly goods With which our households have been SUD- piled, will recall the legends of the old New England days and review the customs of that Thanksgiving in Ply mouth in 1921. With a little stretch 1 of the imagination one can almost dis 1 cern that throng of sober-lookins l bearded men, clas in dark colored gar
 ments and wearing stecple-crowncd hats, with here and there among hem the women with q G.aintly shaped Focd ds
The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-29
The ehuman System Must Adjust itself
 to Changing Tenn per6tureS.

change from warm to cold, when cool nights succeed hot nights, when clear. cold days follow hot. sultry days, the human body must adjust itself to this changed condition or perish.
 . The precipitation incident to warm weather has been checked. This de- tains within the system poisonous materials which have heretofore found escape through the precipitation. ~
 Most of the poisonous materials re- tained in the system by the checked precipitation find their way out of the body, if at all, through the kidneys This throws upon the kidneys extra labor. They become charged and over loaded with the poisonous .excretory materials This has tendency to in- flame the kidneys, producing function al diseases of the kidneys and some times Bright's Disease.
 Peruna acts upon the skin by stimu- lating the emunctory glands and ducts, thus preventing the detention of pois- onous materials which should pass out. Peruna invigorates the kidneys and encourages them to fulfill their function in spite of the chills and dis couragements of cold weather.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-29

and devoid of ribbons, jewelry and or naments. It was such gathering as this that Hester Prynne faced when condemned to wear the scarlet letter. Stern and unrelenting-the ex- fled from the mother country on &C., count of their religious tenets, they brooked no breach in those funda- mental laws that formed the basis of their theological system. The laws of New England must be obeyed and jus tice, cruel, swift and certain, fell upon the evil-doer. The genius of Haw- | thorne has painted in our minds this picture of the Puritans. The green clad mountains and the waving trees are brought before us. We sigh for poor Hester and pity the young minis ter's struggles between manhood and self, while the witch antics of Mistress Hibbins recall vividly those dark days of superstition at Salem.
 Then has another master hand con- 1 jured up for us those scenes
 In the old colony days in Plymouth, the land of the Pilgrims.
 We have followed the courtship of Miles Standish and have heard the message of love borne by John Alden l for another The struggle of the fair haired youth has been as our own. We have heard him plead the cause of his friend before the Puritan flower,' Priscilla, while his own heart was breaking for the love he would not tell. We have smolled the sweetness of the Plymouth woods; we hay" heard the brawl.l.s of the brook over pebble and shallow at the ford. We have seen the bloom of the May flow- CTS and we have caught the sacred aa. them sung by the sweet-voiced maid en- Our hearts have gone out to John Alden and we fain would have spoken for him. Then we have laughed, too, when amid her spinning
 Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter.
 Said, in a tremulous voice: "why don't
 you speak for yourself, John? Thus has the immortal poet led us through the paths of love in that quiet New England village. But it was not always the songs of peace that he sang for he tells us how Paul Revere says to his friend:
 If the British march
 | By land or sea from the town tonight ! Hang a lantern aloft on the belfry arch 1 Of the North church tower a signal
 light
 One if by land and two if by sea; | And I on the opposite shore will be l Ready to ride and spread the alarm l Through every MiddleseX village and farm For the country folks to be up and to
 arm.
 And then it is an easy step in our reveries to join Ik Marvel, that prince of bachelors, in his reveries over the wood fire in his quiet farmhouse in New England. One almost can see that broad bachelor bedstead now, 1 with the soft warm feathers upon it, and hear the cracking of the oak and hickory on the hearth, between the whistling of the wind through the 1 broken pancs of glass. Thus are we led through sweet dream r'emories to better understanding and dearer appreciation of that rugged stock which has been the bone and siEew of this great, strong, progressive American people, and we teach with pride our children and our children's S children the homage due to our sturdy ancestors on this great national Thanksgiving day,
The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-29
North Carolina a Woodworking State.

North Carolina a Woodworking State.
 North Carolina" said c. J. Field, of High. Point, 'is rapidly becoming the greatest woodworking state in the country. We are now second only to Michigan in this particular industry and at the present rate, of increase will soon pass that state. In the city of High Point we have 50 furniture factories and make everything from hall rack to the finest bedroom suits.
 Nine hundred solid carloads of fur niture are shipped out of High Point every month. Our trade is not con- fined to the United States, for we ship furniture daily to China, Japan. Aus tralia, Cuba, England, France, Ger many, and ill fact to nearly every civ fIized country in the world. Wash ington Post.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-29
pe.ru-na is a World Renowned R e m-
 edy For Climatic Diseases.

remedies have been used by doctors and by the people in Europe and America for a hundred years.
 Peruna has been used by Dr. Hart man in his private practice for many years with notable results. Its efficacy has been proven by decades oi use by thousands of people. and has been substantiated over and over by many thousands of hornes.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-29

Anticipate Honor for New Yorker.
 Rev. Dr. Magnee. recently elected assistant rabbi of Temple Emanu- Fl, in New York. is spoken of as the next president of the American Federation of Zionists; at present Dr. Frieden- wald, of Baltimore is the official head of the federation.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-29

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had very low standard of it in his mind. --HaZlitt
The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-29
NOVEMBER AILMENTS
THEIR PREVENTION AND CURE.

November is the month of falling temperatures. Over all the temperate regions the hot weather has passed and the first rigors of winter have ap- peared. As the great bulk of civilized nations is located in the Temperate
The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-29
Murderers in Maine Prison.

Maine has 31 prisoners serving life sentences for murder in the state prison at Thomaston.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-29

Zones. the effect
 of changing sea sons is a ques- ton of the high est importance. When the weatn- CT be gins 10
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-04-05
MuldOOn on the Human Mind.
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average man are INCONSISTENT, they
nlver attain perfection in it's low
est foorm, because the fish, in
nanny cases, predomynates over
the brain intirely. Wan imynint
scientific asserts that intelligence
in it's highest sinse is insanity par
ixoillince. I sicond the motion
an unhisytatingly add, that in
tinse concentration fer amy lingth
av time is possyble only to ligity-
mate loonytic.
livery game has it's min an most
min hov games. The same can be
said av indyvidjools. There is no
skipticism in insanity, fer the SIM
pie rayson that the subconsious
mind is subjective no longer, but
has become a normal faculty,
h1nce It's mistaken belafe in the
chimerycal visions that surround
it.
The afinities av DOODLE mind
are revealed in our drames, some av
thin maxim man swift icicles an
snowbawls till CONSCIOUSNESS re-
turns. Imagine, if you can, an
indifnate SUSPENSION av this power
to differintiate an ye how ixaotly
what constytootes the horryble
ixistince av our unfortunates. AS
most av me frinds are familiar wild
the phaynomeny WITNESSED in rig
ular impooriums, I will commince
a moo chapter on monomania.
This is only light attack, but
bein' av faymale origin it has as
nanny VARIATIONS as patent mid
-icine advertisement. Among the
promynint vans at close range,
are surprise parthies, simy-savage
disyhbell, fightin' wild the neigh
Doors over the fnce, an chasin'
thimsilyes to dith collictin' prize
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-04-05

Accoordin' to the raycint con-
fission av late brain SPECIALIST,
half av the payple. are booghouse
an plinty av the rist hov cracked
soundin' boords. Yis, not count
in the eternal puerility av fay
males, he behaves the masculine
mintality waz confused be hard
jolts in youth, an sthill harder
vans in majority.
Thin Explosive sintymints are
also corroborated on page twilve
av DR.. Chase's condinced hospital,
but fer the sake av brivity an
comprehinsiveniss [ will wave
thin into small novillitt.
Scientifcs, as a rool, are too
outspoken wild their thayories, at
the same time, while the apparint
trooth av the above clue is obvi-
GUS, the shockin' vulgarity av tx
prission augmlnts its personal sig
niGcance tin-fold. IT'S this foorm
av enunciatioa that has spilled so
nanny fine autybiographies in the
past. I am a SUCCESSFUL scientific
mesilf, an tho an unpretintious
wan, I hov sufishint RESPECT fer
the law av silf-priservation to kape
mesilf intact.
Yis, I worruk me systim on a
safety plan be calm loonacy
aphasia, in fact amy appillation
that is condoooin' to lonjivity.
There are differint kinds az safeties,
to-wit: safety pins are wan whin
they are closed, safety-valves if
they open befoor the biler, an
literary compositions whin in
dorsed be an anonymous nom de
prune.
I will introjooce the studint to
the mysteries av the human mind.
The intilliotual faculties av the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-04-05

newspapers as we'll as from Dis
trict Attorney Jerome, Of New
York. The Philadelphia Inquirer
says: I'm view Of their obliga-
tons to protect the interests CON-
mltted to their charge, the officers
did just right
The Spectator insurance, New
York; says: "When insurance
officials see their funds imperiled
by any political movement, it
would seem to be as much their
duty to protect them to the best
of their ability as it would to
guard them from burglars and
thieves"
District Attorney Jerome, when
asked if he intends to proceed
against the insurance officials, re-
piled: eff the statement is true
that the contribution was made to
protect the policyholder from pos
sible disaster, I can see no GRIM
inal intent in the act"
And the Chicago Inter Ocean
says: ''There is not policyhold-
er of the New York Life, if he
will sit down, lay aside academic
theories, and fix his mind solely
upon the welfare of his wife and
children, who will not say that his
trustees in the New York Life did
we'll and did right for him in thus
using part of his money.
"For such an emergency in such
situation the bylaws of the COM
pany did not and could not pro-
vide. But the emergency arose
and it was met as it should have
been. What was done was not
regular, but necessary 1t was
not according to technical rules,
but it was right!'
I do not believe that any one
should hold out hand for even
that cheap and unappreciable Of
fering, sympathy, for those who, as
trustees, manipulated sacred
fund to their personal profit; but
I do believe that in a country
where graft is SO universal as in
this country, the renovating should
begin where it is most needed,
and if no institution were more
corrupt than the insurance compa-
MES have been found to be, there
would be little or ND demand to
investigate as long as all concerned
were getting all they paid for.
E. B. D.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-04-05

ing with the cost, and the dishon-
est kind is invariably conspicuous
by it's cheapness. We want cheap
or insurance, and if the recon-
mendatiohs of the Armstrong
report are made law, and those
laws enforced, we will not be dis
appointed in the cost, but surely
in the quality.
The means whereby this legis-
lative committee would lessen the
expenses of the insurance compa-
MES, and thereby reduce the cost
Of insurance, are as>follows: They
would limit the amount of bust
ness to be done and so do away
with the largest item of expense
soliciting; they would prohibit
campaign contributions and thus
save at least $4,000 every presi-
Dental election year; they would
prevent lobbying by requiring full
publicity with regard to expendi-
ture of all moneys, (which would,
of course, also do away with the
yellow dog fund.-. Now all
these things sound we'll, but the
question is: Can they ever be
realized?
In the first place, would it be
constitutional to limit the amount
of business any individual or cor
poration saw fit to do? Does any
one really believe that contribut-
ing to campaign funds can or ever
will be prevented? And is there
any way of prohibiting lobbying
whether done in the interests of
insurance companies or other in
terests? And tho the Armstrong
committee admits in their report
that professional services in pro-
noting legislation may be entirely
honorable and are frequently nee
essary," yet-.they would prohibit
what is nowadays necessary ex-
pense to every large industry,
namely, the distribution of few
500 bills among INSCRIPTIONS leg
islators, and for appearance sake
charging the same to ''Rents and
Taxes" account. In other words
they would have law to enforce
the one against bribery and what
makes it seem the more ridiculous
is that it would be applicable to
insurance officials only.
AS for the campaign contribu-
tons let me quote from prominent
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-04-05

tags. Av coorse they how small
pstes which might incapacitate
the brains growth, anyhow, what
is lost in sinse is multiplied siver-
al times wild jaw.
Shure, the last gang at the sha-
toe piddled information that made
me fale like whistlin' dirge as
lay behind the dure; this alone
shows absinse av a guilty con-
science. All av thin, aven the
countiss, rooned their hoosbands
character in aich others eyes an
goozled rain barrel full av tay
wild the impunity av wather tanks.
Fer loquasciousniss, tay has an
intoxycatin' affect on the fmynine
brain which proves beyant q doubt
that it hasn't stringth to distin-
guish the rale article, inaybriates
ixcipted.
Surprise parthies an the imy-
tatin' av Igorrotes in all but atm
the dawgs, is wan av the worst
imbecilities we how to contind
wild. The latest fad in surprises
is to drop the babby in the coal
pail an yill, to make it successful.
liz fine DECEPTION to ingratiate
the hostiss in the eyes av the in
vaders, sometimes KILN the bah
by or only LAWN a corrugated
IMPRESSION on the ind that lights
first.
Finnegan's small Paddy missed
the pail, an he sthayed pale, offer
in strange contrast to the flow
ers that scinted the room.
The stoodint will now observe
that faymales are mostly false,
alarrums, but they git there wild a
vingince. as I how amply illus
trated in the desint av Paddy
whin his NAV pitted him aginst
the laws av gravytation.
Befoor closin I must discuss
the safe av sinsation. Siveral
physicians hov declared that the
brain waz the main dispinser av
pain in all it's foorms. l big to
announce if it waz, me hid wud
ache fooriver. Sinsation is where
it fales like wan, luks, smills, or
tastes like wan, governed be in
tinsity be how yez apply it. APP
'plication lissons or Enhances it's
value, whittier the mind appreci-
ates it or not. Whin man slips
on foor-pinny tack he don't how
a pain in the hide; not on yer life;
it is all in the pint. b. B. FL.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-04-05
The Folly OF the Insurance Investigations.

for pOllcyhOlder either TO allow
the president of the company to
vote for him by proxy, or not to
vote at all; and this practice, in
itself, is the best possible proof
that the affairs we're attended to
to the entire satisfaction Of those
interested; that the contracts with
those companies we're observed in
every detail; that, tho there were
occasional cases where the pay
ment of policy was contested, it
was nothing more than an abso-
lutely necessary precaution against
possible fraud, and was approved
by the policyholders' action. And
by this manner of management
have these insurance companies
become gigantic and are entitled
to the highest rank of monied
institutions. True, they have
been practically in the hands Of
the few, and I think always will
be; and if 80, in unquestionably
more able hands than if each in
terested individual insists on the
voice in the matter that has here
tofore been wisely reposed by
proxy. For no more can we ex-
pect that Chauncey Depew, for
instance, can operate a one-horse
hayrake, than that the average
pollcyholder can dabble, with sue
cess, in Wall Street finance; and
by thus reasoning we arrive at the
conditions that will prevail i'll the
life insurance world in the future,
if the power be taken from the
few who understand, and placed
in the hands of the many who do
not understand the most vital in
dustry of modern times. Not
alone for this reason, but because
of the distrust, which has now be-
come universal, I venture to say
that there will be more poorer
widows and orphans in years to
come than it has ever been this
country's misfortune to have.
This is perhaps the most import
ant and unfortunate of the evil
effects of the recent probing; and
it is safe to say that never again,
or at least, not for many years, will
so good insurance, or In other
words, opportunity of. investment,
be obtainable as was afforded by
these alleged robbers of widows
and orphans" y
Now let us take up the gravest
of the charges of maladministra-
ton and see what they amount to.
One of them is the large salaries
paid to officials. At first thought
it seems incredible that any one
could be worth the handsome sal
aries paid to the presidents and
their subordinates; but it is not
to be expected that where men
take upon themselves the respon-
sibilities connected with concerns
of this kind and magnitude that
they do So for the honor there
may be in it. Special attention
has been directed to these "exces-
sive salaries" and to make it seem
more like 9 crime, they have been
referred to as being twice or three
times as large as that of the presi-
dent of the United States; but
when we consider the latter and
compare it with that of other
heads Of governments, it makes us
feel small and wonder whether it
is not somewhat of a disgrace to
the dignity of this great and glori-
GUS nation Of course, all admit
that 500, 900, is rather large sal
airy for whatever kind of position,
but our own Roosevelt remarked
very wisely in this regard anent
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-04-05

Liza UAO hlohAOA Ill -
the large insurance compa-
MES were conducted prior to
the Investigations that have
been, and are yet being prosecuted,
was to the best interests OF the
policyholders will, perhaps, be a,
hard matter to explain to the salts
faction Of people in general; be-
cause when such men as Lawson,
and he in particular, undertake to
stir up public indignation, they
do so with ample assurance OF sue
cess. In this case there was a
deeper motive than the welfare
of the "poor widows and orphans. !"
It was one of a purely selfish
nature. There was revenge, per-
,sonal gain, and the notoriety that
attaches to all scandal and it's
promoters; and when such is the
goal there is no hating at how
ever undetermined or unfair the
means are by which the aim is
obtained.
The American people, as we all
know. are ardent admirers of ia
kris, and the one that has the
best spiel gets the crowd. Now,
since Lawson evidently got the
worst of it by being let out of the
confidence of the ''big thieves
as he is pleased to call them, he
turned traitor to the cause that
made him what he is financially,
and began a cry that he knew
would arouse any people to deeds
of desperation, if the occasion war
ranted, and in this case to demands
they never knew or dreamt they
thad any right to.
But I did not intend to write
about Lawson or his colleagues.
The feasibility of his plan having
from the start been questionable,
his motive no less so, and on the
whole, he has never been taken
seriously. For, as all thinking
men know, the control of those
companies can be obtained only
by special leglslation-and we can
not legislate by proxy. Nor is it
likely that matters will be bettered
by ousting such men as the Nc
Calls, McCurdys, Hyde, Alexander,
Depew, and substituting therefor
such as Ryan, Rogers, Rockefel-
ler, Morgan and Belmont, with
Grover Cleveland as ''harmonizer."
And in this movement, which is
in every sense one of reform.
it seems indeed strange that Nor
ton, the railroad rebater; Orr, the
friend Of the Traction Monopoly;
aid Peabody, of the Coal Trust,
should be men who are better fit
to guard the savings of the people
than were those who have built up
the strongest financial institutions
ia existence. Neither do I wish
to dwell, except briefly, on what
has transpired in life insurance
circles during the past year, but
rather to point out wherein, in my
estimation, it would have been far
'better for the country at large had
these concerns; been left to con-
duct their business as they have
for these many years.
We can not say aught against
the management of those compa-
mics so far as their soundness is
concerned. The layman is not
qualified to pass judgment on that
which requires in it's operation
the best legal and financial talent
in the land; nor is he supposed to
understand that contributing to
campaign funds has come to be
recognized as just as legitimate
and necessary as it is to be pro-
lid With hurrlar. nroof safas and