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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22

GOQ Thanks. 1noy were d very AC-
ligious people, and their Thanks
giving Service" was of the Church of
England Their unique meeting took
place at the Island of Monhegan.
They finally settled at the mouth of
the Kennebec.
The "Monhegan Thanksgiving"
was in no sense the historic source
of our present annual day of public
worship. At a recent date has been
found the family Bible of William
White, in which is recorded William
White married on ye third day of
March, 1920, to Susannah Tilly. Per-
egrine White Born on Board We May
flower in Cape Cod Harbor. Some
born to Susannah White, December
10, 1920. We six o'clock morning.
Next day, we met for prayer and
thanksgiving. We find that the
twentieth day of December was not
Sunday, but Tuesday. The Sunday
previous, however, they had rested
and held Divine Worship. One
narrator speaks as follows:
$50, in the morning. after we had
presently to this resolution, to go
presently ashore again, and to take
a better view of two places we
thought most fitting for us; for we
could not at this time now take time
for further search or consideration.
our victuals being much spent, espe-
cially our beer; and Il being now the
Goth of December"
The season was a most critical one.
The day was very cold, and in their
midst was disease and starvation.
For the curious reader we quote Cap
tain John Smith as follows: After
having been posted nine weeks in
this leaking. unwholesome ship. lying
wet in We cabins, most of them grew
very weak. and weary OF the sea. I"
They had been on the sea nine weeks
III the following autumn there was
held ~Grandc Thanksgiving, the
most condensed account otwhichs can
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22

of one man who had invited his
upon the spacious table was clans
In asking the blessing at the family
table, he thanked God who had
given them to suck the abundance of
the seas and of the treasures hid in
the sands" All that spring, when
the tider were right, they would rise
before daylight, pray until it was
light enough to fish, and hunt the
shores for clans. One of the mos
charitable men of the times appears
to have been Governor Winthrop,
who was known to have given to
distressed neighbor "the last handful
of meal" when ship with supplies
was sighted in the harbor.
Another interesting Thanksgiving
service was held in Old Scituate on
December %, 1886. The authority
for this mention is the church record,
as follows:
SIN We Westinghouse, beginning
some halle hour before nine & con-
tinuing until after twelve aclocke,
We day being very cold, beginning VT
short prayer, then psalme sang,
then more large in prayer, after that
an other Psalme & then the Word
taught, after that prayer-& then a
psalme. Then making merry to the
creatures, the poorer sort being in
vited of the richer" This meeting
is worthy of emulation. On the 18th
of the following October services
were conducted in the same manner
In the year 1912 Governor William
Shirley proclaimed two services. In
1746, when the French feet had
threatened the colony, "a fast day of
Thanksgiving" was held in I'VE old
South Westinghouse, Boston.
Thomas Prince stood up in "publick
prayer" when, in the language of the
poet, the storm
"Came with mighty power,
Shaking the windows and walls,
And tolling the bell in the tower
As it tolls at funerals"
Soon the Sons of Liberty" were
organized, and divisions came among
the churches, yet both "Tory" and
Rebel" held their annual Thanks
giving. 1t was in It'll that Gov
ernor. Hutchinson issued his famous
proclamation, which in part said that
he was thankful for the continuance
of our civil and religious privileges. :"
On November Is, 1777, the Con-
tinental Congress proclaimed the first
National Thanksgiving Day. We
find that honorable body expressing
profound gratitude that God had
been pleased to smile on us in. the
Prosecution of just and necessary
War, for the Defense and Establish
ment of our unalienable Rights and
Liberties.
After the Constitution had been
adopted, day was set apart, as re-
solved by Congress, that the people
be thankful for the goodness of God.
On the 28th of November, 1889, it
was voted that the last Thursday in
November be set apart for a day of
thanksgiving. Thus we have a ma
tional holiday for public worship.
AS each year came around, the day
was more noticed by the members of
all churches, until at the present time
the pages of the leading magazines
of the English-speaking people give
space to the study of the origin of
Thanksgiving as set apart by the
fathers of the movemelt.-From the
Christian Register.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
A STOCK ANECDnTE

Once when Rudyard Kipling was a
boy he ran out on the yardarm Of
ship.
Mr.. Kipling," yelled a scared
sailor, your boy is on a yardarm,
and if he lets go he'll drown"
"Ah," responded Mr. Kipling, with
a yawn, but he won't let 60"
The incident also happened to Jim
Fisk, Horace Walpole, Napoleon Bon
aparte, Dick Turpin, Julius Caesar
and the poet Byron.-Washington
Herald.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
WANTED 1T OVER.

Mrs. Boofer (meditatively over her
book)-How true this is.
Mr.. Boofer (bracing himself)-Well,
Maria, don't keep me in suspense.
What is it about us men?-Puck.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
CONCLUSIVE.

The Counsel for the Defense-1
uphold that a tomato however well
aimed, could not have caused such
black eye.
The Plaintiff-But it were in tin,
yer honor.-London Sketch.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
SEEMS REASONABLE.

And dear old Mrs -, your aunt?
She must be rather feeble now. Tell
me, how is she?"
. Buried her yesterday said the
major.
Buried her? Dear me, dear me! Is
the good old lady dead?"
Eyes; that's why we buried her"
said the major.-Argonaut.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
THE CHICAGO IDEA.

"The McDougalls are so deficient in
geography"
How SO, Henry?"
why, they said they were going to
take their automobile to jamestown"
Indeed What for?''
ITO go scorching on Hampton
roads. Chicago News.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
EFFORT TO ENLIGHTEN

Father" said little Rollo, what is
an epigram?"
AN epigram," was the answer, els
any sentence of less than thirty
words spoken by man of oratorical
prominence. Washington Star.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
A CLINCHER.

do you think you will ever publish
my poem?" wrote the author to the
editor. And the editor replied:
What have you done to deserve
it?'-Atlanta Constitution.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
LIF E'S LlTTL E
PIE A s ANTRlES
~~e& sa'~-~.
0Ng&9
HOPE.

HOPE.
De hogs kin grunt
Fer about two mont,
But den dey'll grunt no more.
De coon kin roam
Till we fetch him home
En- skin him at the door.
o simmon ripe
I'll light my pipe.
With beer-draps on my chin.
We will have our pay
EMIL see our day
When we gifts de cotton in!
Charlotte Observer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
EXPLAINED.

Mistress-Norah, / told you to give
that man with the hand organ a quar-
ter to go down to the next block and
grind his machine in front of Mrs.
Upps-Tart's house, and he's out here
on the sidewalk again.
North-Yis, mum. He says tn Teddy
in tn next block gave i'm half dollar
to come back here, mum.-Chicago
Tribune
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
KNEW HIS BUSINESS.

Cautious Customer Tin drug store)
How much do you charge for a
dimes worth of tooth POWDER"
New Clerk-Twenty-five cents-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS.

Here, my poor man." said kind
old lady. here is a shilling for you.
Now don't go and spend it in vile
drink"
Thank you, ma'am,'' answered the
tramp, heartily iii not. suppose
you was a-referring to the wretched
stuff they as at the Dun Cow, mum
All, but I'll go to the Black Bull They
keep the right sort there! london
Spectator
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22

1t is estimated that at least 10000
from Tsingtau and Chefoo. Vladivos-
tok is now said to have the appear
ance of semi-C Chinese town.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
No AI.TERNATIVE

The Rev. Tut, tut! How Dare
you come before me and ask me to
marry you when he is in that dis
graceful condition?
Would-be Bride-Weel, sur, pleaz,
sur, he'll no come when he's sober
illustrated Bits.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
THE TATTLE-TALE.

care all these yours" asked the
caller.
"Yes," replied the proud mother of
the four boys, these are all my chick
ems"
"Chickens?' snorted the bad boy in
the next yard; mot much they amt!
They was all in swimmin' this morn
in San Francisco Chronicle.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
RETORT COURTEOUS.

RETORT COURTEOUS.
Mollie-I wish you were more like
Mr. Simpson.
Coddle-My dear, if l were more
like Mr.. Simpson | should have mar
ried a woman more like Mrs. Simp-
son.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
SUCCESS.

my play has met with great sue
cess
why? Are the houses crowded."
mo. A race horse has been named
after Milwaukee Journal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
MOST AUsPICIOUS.

First College President-What sort
of an opening did you have?
Second College President-A new
fullback and three crack linesmen.-
Nashville American Weekly.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
WANTED FULL INFORMATION

How many miles will gallon o..
gasoline carry an automobslist?"
straight ahead or straight up?"-
Houston Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
A BRICK.

Bertie-Well, mother, I dout care
what you say, think she is regular
brick.
Mother-Very likely. She certainly
seems to be throwing herself at some
body's head.-Punch.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
A WISE MAN.

1--WE were dared to get married,
parson and we never take dare"
Very good. Come around once a
week and I'll dare you to stay mar
ried." louisville Courier-Journal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22

"They asked him to select hymn
to be sung at each of their meetings.
and he suggested Knocking Knock
ing, Who Is There?' Brooklyn Life.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
CAUTIOUS.

care you a divorce lawyer"
Il ~ometime handle cases of that
sort"
What will couple of good di.
vorces cost me?"
Are you married to two women"
mo, but want to make sure of the
Job. Nashville American.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
CRUEL CRITIC.

II had no idea when l penned this
little child of my brain"
The poem shows it, madam
Houston Post
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22

l RRING Sund ay,
there is no day to the
average New Eng
lander held more sa-
cred or with a higher
pride than Thanks
giving. Its first men
ton in American his
tory was on August
z, 1907, the Popham
co1onists "Givinge
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22

The Japanese lover, instead of an
engagement ring. may give his future
bride piece of beautiful silk to ba
worn as a sash.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22

A cottonwood tree recently cut In
Mississippi contained 1900 feet of
lumber.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22
TO PERTINENT,

THE Womens Sewing Circle of our
church is ripping mad at our new
minister"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22

The grand jury of New York Coun-
ty returns on an average GA indict.
nents each day
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22

The first use of a menu at BAN
quet in Germany dates back to 14s9.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-11-22

Cotton growing in Peru dates lack
beyond the time of the Spanish con-
quest.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24
Rode Wheel in Her Sleep.

Fort Dodge, Iowa.-The ghost-lille
apparation of girl astride a bicycle
fitting about the streets after midnight
will not startle resident in the east
end any longer. For weeks pedC Cstrians
abroad late at night have been scared.
Clad in flowing white garment. with
hair streaming behind her and the gas
lamps revealing bare feet and ankles,
the ghost rider had excited a good deal
of interest as well as fright. Several
attempts made to follow the rider had
failed because the bicycle always dis
appeared
One night recently policeman, at
tracted by a crash and a scream, ran
around corner and solved the mys.
terry. He found a young and pretty girl
clad in a thin night dress which had
suffered severely when the wheel she
was riding struck brick. The girl
was dazed. but told the policeman
where she lived. He escorted her home
and startled her father, well known
merchant, who thought his daughter
was safe in bed.
The girl said she had no recollection
of her night rides. She had been fit
ting about the streets on her wheel and
in her nightdress asleep.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24

ernment back into the hands of the
men who champion corruption and tyr
amy In the name of order So it is
with this movement for securing JUS
uce toward all men and equality of op-
portunity so far as it can be secured
by governmental action. The rich man
VINO with hard arrogance declines to
consider the rights and the needs of
those who are less well off. and the
poor man who excites or INDUCES in
envy and hatred of those who are bet
ter off. are alike alien to the spirit of
our national life. Each of them should
learn to appreciate the baseness and
degradation of his point of view, as
evil in one case as in the other. There
exists no more sordid and unlovely
type of social development than plu-
tocracy. for there is peculiar un.
"holesomeness in "A social and govern
mental ideal where wealth by and of il
self is held up as the greatest good.
The materialism of such view,
whether it finds its expression in the
life of man who accumulates vast
fortune in ways that are repugnant to
every instinct of generosity and of
fair dealing, or whether it finds it's ex-
preston in the vapidly useless and
se!t-ndulgent life of the inheritor of
That fortune, is contemplate in the
eyes of all men capable of a thrill of
lofty feeling. Where the power of the
law can be wisely used to prevent or to
minimize the acquisition or business
employment of such wealth and to
make it pay by income or inheritance
tax its proper share of the burden of
government. | would invoke that power
without a moments hesitation.
But while we can accomplish some
thing by legislation, legislation can
never be more than a part. and often
no more than small part, in the gen
eral scheme of moral progress; and
crude or vindictive legislation may at
anF time bring such progress to halt.
Certain socialistic leaders propose to
redistribute the worlds goods by re-
fusing to thrift and energy and indus
Try their proper superiority over folly
and idleness and sullen envy. Such
legislation would merely, in the words
OF the president of Columbia univer-
slty, wreck the worlds efficiency for
the purpose of redistributing the
worlds discomfort" We should all of
us work heart and soul for the real
and permanent betterment which will
lift our democratic civilization to a
higher level of safety and usefulness.
Such betterment can come only by the
SLOW, steady growth of the spirit which
metes generous. but not Sentimen-
tai, justice to each man on his merits
as man, and which recognizes the
fact that the highest and deepest hap
pinesS for the individual lies not in
selfishness, but in service.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24
BIC ROBBERY
OF U. S MAIL
OVER A QUARTER MILLION DOL
LARS SAID TO HAVE BEEN
STOLEN.
NO CLUE TO ROBBERS
THEFT MAY HAVE OCCURRED AT
UNION DEPOT IN DENVER OR
ON THE TRAIN.

Denver.-Marvelou in its audacity.
tremendous in its financial importance.
pointing TO the criminals of national
disrepute, a robbery of quarter of
millions dollars from the United
States mails has astounded federal OF
ficials and has caused the starting OF
an investigation by an army of gov
eminent inspectors, Burlington rail-
road detectives and bank officials.
Three mail sacks of registered pack
ages and letters disappeared from
mail car en- route from Denver to
Omaha last Thursday night, the Bur
lington road carrying the shipment.
This is the assertion made from
Omaha.
That robbery of enormous size has
been committed is admitted by the
postoflice inspectors in Denver, who
differ, however, on two points in their
statements of the remarkable crime.
These postotiice inspectors believe
that the amount of the loss is not as
great by far as given in the dispatches
and they add that it is possible from
evidence now on hand that the mail
sacks never left Denver, but were sto-
len at the Union depot.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24
Snake Causes a Wreck.

Waterbury, Gonna snake that fell
from tree into rapidly moving au-
tomoble near Pleasantville caused
Miss Anna Comstock, who was steer
ing the car to faint, and the machine
was wrecked by colliding with a farm
er's wagon.
The party, five in number, Ralph F.
Comstock of New York. +. G. Burton
of Boston, George Dillingham; of New
ark, Miss Comstock of Springfield and
Miss Gould of Philadelphia, were go
ing at fair clip. Miss Gould was on
the front seat with Miss Comstock, and
the three men We're in the rear
None saw the reptile fall from the
tree, and the first they knew of it was
when Miss Comstock screamed and lay
back apparently lifeless in the cart
Miss Gould grasped the steering wheel.
but it was too late. The machine
crashed into wagon driven by Frank
Seville, upsetting it and its load OF
milk cans.
1t was not until Miss Gould climbed
from the machine that she saw the
snake at her feet, and then she nearly
tainted, too. The auto wrenched
wheel and lost a mudguard. Miss
Comstock, when she recovered con
seriousness, became hysterical and is
now being cared for at farmhouse.
The damage to the farmers wagon
was settled for $50 cash, and then the
young women discovered they had lost
some valuable jewelry in the wreck
The snake was of the harmless va
riety that abounds in the woods of this
section. 1t was about two feet long
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24
Kills Two to Save Self.

Trinidad, Colo.-To save himself
from the hands of an infuriated mob
of drunken MeXicans. Constable Fran
cesco Gonzales of Weston, a coal camp
twenty miles west of Trinidad. fired
into the crowd, killing two. Cleofis
Lucero and Cashmere Gomez were the
victims. The double tragedy followed
a dance at Samoa Plaza. four miles
above Weston. The guests had i'm
bibed freely of liquor and became bois-
ferrous. When Gonzales ordered them
to be quiet they attacked him. The
whole crowd made rush for him. il
is said, but the officer. fleet of foot,
succeeded in finding a safe place back
of wagon. He fired one shot into
the air in an effort to frighten his as
sailants. This failing to check the ad-
vance of the mob, he emptied his gun
at them. Lucero was shot through
the head and a bullet passed through
Gomez's heart
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24
Situation in China Growing Serious.

Berlin.-A special dispatch from
Shanghai saws that the situation in
China, especially in the Yang-Tse val
ley, continues unsatisfactory. 1t is
impossible, the message adds, to say
whether general outbreak is impend-
ing, but the revolutionary movement
gains strength daily, and the secret or
sanizations are growing visibly. The
Chinese officials say that thosuands of
revolutionists are concealed in the for
eign quarters Of the cities. thus pla-
cling themselves outside the jurisdic-
tion Of the Chinese courts The revo-
lutionary agitation recently was car
ried into the army. The provincial of
ficials are doing their utmost to sup
press the revolutionary movement and
promote reforms, but they feel them
selves helpless. Murderous plots
against the Manchus continue to be
discovered in Peking.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24
Greatest Veterinary College in West

Fort Collins, Colo.-Probably mere
interest center around the opening of
the veterinary department of the Agri-
cultural College than any other one
thing at the Agricultural College this
TALL. There have been appropriations
already for $1,000 for equipment and
all the arrangements have been made
for the preliminary work.
Dr. George H. Glover, who is dean of
this department, expects that it will be
one of the greatest schools of veteri-
nary science in the country. 1t is one
of four in America, which require "A
high school graduation before en-
trance. The standard will be high and
will be maintained so. This high re-
quirement will no doubt keep out a
number of students, but the faculty
and DIR. Glover are determined that
hey will keep up their standards and
urn out only men of the highest quail
ications. A corps Of seventeen instruc-
ors has been engaged. of whom fve
are veterinarians.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24
Milk of Human Kindness curdIes

Stamford. Conn.-The milk of hu
man kindness is curdling within Jo-
seph O'Neill, the titian-haired youth
who is caretaker of the bathhouse at
Shippan Point. At the risk of his life
O'Neill has saved two women and
two men from drowning. Only last
Sunday man who can not swim got
out Of his depth while bathing With
out taking OFF his coat O'Nein plunged
in, and seizing the drowning man 3
hair as he was sinking for the last time
and dragged him ashore
You came precious near pulling out
all my hair grouchily said the man he
had saved. to O'Neill
mat was the limit" gloomily re.
marked the rei-headed young man to
day. Neither the women nor the
other men | saved said as much as
Thank you, Joe | remember reading
in my copybooli at school "A live mouse
is worth more than a dead lion But
that is not always true. BY the law in
this state anyone who finds a drowned
body only has to anchor it, notify the
coroner and get So reward OF course,
don't want to see ANYBODY drown, 3"
said O'Neill. but s. is S. and So is a
good deal of money to me"
Il hardly blame you, Joe. | never
saw such ungrateful persons as those
YOU yanked out" sympathetically re
marked Richard Elias, who runs the
lighthouses.
I know you will not let anybody
drown. Besides, remember, that drown.
ings spoil business
1t is rumored that certain timid
bathers at Shippan Point have signed
contracts promising O'Neill that he
will fly to their rescue in case of need
and they will give him at least So
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24
Stick" Says TeIegraphers.

Denver.-"Stick." That's the battle
cry of the Telegraphers' union.
From Maine to California the
knights of the keys are wearing little
silk ribbon badges with the above in
scription just below the insignia of the
order.
The officers of the local union re-
celved notification from New York
that this badge had been adopted by
the national organization and a suf-
ficient supply was printed to give each
member one to wear on the lapel of
his coat.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24

The laying OF the cornerstone
of the Cape Cod Pilgrim memo
rial monument at Provincetown.
Massachusetts, gave President
Roosevelt occasion to deliver
what probably is the most not
able address of his entire ca
rcer. He grasped the opportu-
nifty to thrust and slash at his
pet aversions-the predatory
rich and the apostles of disor-
der. The address was most eff
fective and is bound to produce
results that will be felt at the
farthest corners of the country.
Its most strenuous paragraph
was altered twice within twenty
four hours, and as ultimately de-
livered was about as plain
gage of battle to criminal
wealth as the President has
ever uttered.
The Glenwood post., 1907-08-24
sehmitz Not Authority.

San Francisco, Cal.-The State Su
preme Court today rendered decision
in the McKannay salary case. sustain
ing the legality OF the removal of
Mayor Schmitz and the appointment of
Mayor Taylor.