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tion is found, of course, in the rOundthe-
world cruise of the battleship fleet. How
ever. elaborate preparations have been
made on every one of the globe-encircling
floating fortresses to have a Thanksgiv-
ing celebration that will conform pretty
closely to the good old American tradi-
tons of this day of joyousness despite the
oriental environment, and If there is any
class of citizens who can be depended
upon TO overcome all obstacles to the
patriotic celebration of a holiday it is
made up of Uncle Sans bluejackets.
There have been occasions on record
in the navy when a warship community
unexpectedly eXiled in a foreign port on
Thanksgiving have been sore put to 1t to
provide the essential of a Thanksgiving
feast. and few years ago the crew OF
p Yankee naval vessel at anchor in a
Chinese port secured the country side
for turkeys, only to return on board with
only half as many of the toothsome birds
as were needed for the menu. However
no such tragedy threatens this year
Ere the battleship fleet sailed from San
Francisco the administrative officials of
the Navy Department took due cogni-
zance of the fact that Thanksgiving
would be spent on the other side of the
globe, and accordingly the storage depart
ment OF the ships were literally stocked
with those delicacies supposed to be in
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was a green plush hat with a brim that
rolled like the ocean wave, and COCKS
feather similar to the kind formerly worn
BY comic opera bandits before the audiences
began to rebel Over one arm trailed an
overcoat revealing a lining with pattern
that was a cross between the hunting
plaid of the Douglas clan and the mark
ings on a tennis court The trousers
were Of a singularly skinny pattern, be-
ing apparently designed with view TO
bringing out the Irregularities OF the
knee Joints and they were turned up quite
"A distance from the bottom. thereby caus-
Ing a well-nigh criminal exposure of low
cut shoes. latched with harness buckles,
and striped hose of q poisonous appear
ance. The coat was a medley of bias
pockets. fretted lapels. cuffs that had been
seemingly worked out on a scrollsaw and
rows of buttons that slanted up the sleeves
and down the front. Finishing touches
were afforded by an infiammatory stock
collar, a pair of yellow gloves with ridges
down their backs like the nine-banded
armadillo and d Sweater-vest in which
green wool fought purple worsted all over
the bosom. with double row of large
pearl buttons acting as referee.
Very kutush." murmured the Hotel
Clerk as he watched the gloritied youth
swing by. Look quick, Larry, and see
ii there's bracelet watch strapped on
his left wrist. If there is. the pictures
complete. only there ought to be a law
against that kind of picture"
Don't be too hard on the KID said the
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appendices draped over the front of II.
And what's the second thing he does He
puts on those brass mounted upholst erirgs
and hunts up photographer. Did You
ever stop to think why 1t Is a couple OF
hundred men will turn out to attend
lodge funeral and walk four miles on
hot day to cemetery on hill. and ar
rive there in such a state that IL ques-
ton which ought to be buried frst-the
remains or the marchers? It's because OF
the regalia prescribed by the ritual for
such sad occasions. that's why. II 1t
wasn't for the sashes and the gladstone
helmets and the shiny swords and the red
cross-belts. the deceased could go out and
bury himself, for all a lot of us would
care But give us a spearhead on a
pole to tote. and a hat with plume on
it to wear, and there's no stranger so
alone in the world but what a large
behind brass band and accompany him
to his last resting place.
mo. Larry: man hasn't lost his love for
the feathers since the time when he was
evoluted out of the peacock period. But
I'D till the present he's mainly managed
to disguise his natural inclinations fairly
well. But now with the fashions for
men what they are and the haberdashers
window looking like a place where
Syrian family has hung out its wash. and
purple shirts and pink socks coming In. L
fear for the worst. II looks like we're
doomed race if this keeps on
'Aw, cheer up said the House De-
tective. Thanksgiving days almost here
and Teddy SAYS we've got a lot to be
thankful fur
Yes, that's what Teddy said, but did
you ever hear any remarks on the subject
by William Jennings B"van@" said the
Hotel Clerk
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panied by at least one and probably sew
eral of his children, will set out for Grace
reformed Church. No matter what the
state of the weather the President and his
young companions will walk to and from
church, the round trip representing a dis
lance of upward of one mile. At the
church the President will probably find a
large crowd awaiting him, for this occa-
sion is one on which the curious public al
ways looks forward to catching a
glimpse of the chief magistrate. Mean
while, Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel,
who are Episcopalans. will probably at
tend Thanksgiving service at historic st.
Johns Church, just across the square
from the White House.
Luncheon is served at the White House
about l o'clock and later in the afternoon
the President. probably accompanied by
some members of the family or personal
friends, goes for a long horseback ride.
The great event of the day, the Thanks
giving dinner is served about 7::O o'clock
in the evening. In addition to the Presi-
dents household there are present Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
worth and limited number of close
in the private dining room. President
Roosevelt himself carVes the turkey-the
festive bird donated by Horace Vose. the
Rhode Island farmer who. for a third of
century past has annually presented a
Thanksgiving turkey to the President of
the United States.
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Quentin. the youngest and most mischiev
GUS of the family, will come home from
Alexandria, Va. where he is a pupil at
an Episcopal high school. Quentin's re-
cent exploit in bringing a live pig to the
White House leads to the suspicion that
he may arrive laden with his own con-
tribution to the holiday larder.
If President Roosevelt follows this year
the program of his previous Thanksgiv-
ing days in the White House he will arise
as early as on workdayS-which is con-
siderably earlier than has been the wont
of most PreSidents-and after breakfast
will spend short time in his office at
tending to the most pressing matters Of
executive business. However. the unwrit-
ten laws regarding the observance of the
White House Sunday are followed on
Thanksgiving day at the White House Of
fees. All official calls and other forms
of public interruption are tabooed and
only such employees are on duty are
deemed absolutely neceSsary-for. of
course, the presidential offices never
closed for minute from one end of the
year to the other.
About IL o'clock the President, accom-
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dispensable to proper observance of
Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving morning on a warship is
very much like Sunday in that almost
all of the usual routine of the ship is
dispensed with. Soon after dawn some
enthusiastic sirits among the seamen
start to dress ship according to their
own ideas in honor of the occasion. Not
infrequently greens-be they branches of
bamboo and banana or pine boughs-are
used to adorn the craft or in lieu OF such
holiday emblems ali colors are thrown to
the wind. not merely the Stars and Stripes
at the mastheadS, but long lines of multi
colored signal flags. AS a rule brief re-
morning on every ship that has a chap
lain or In the absence OF such dignitary
the captain may read the Presidents
Thanksgiving proclamation to the as
sembled ships company
However. the breaking out of the mess
pennant from the yard arms at high
noon marks the beginning in real earnest
of tn long-waited Thanksgiving cele-
bration. 1t is the signal for the spread"
which. in the eyes of the ''jackies'' alike
to most other people, is the paramount
feature Of the day. In order that joy
may be unconfined the captain of the
ship is likely to grant general pardon
to the men who have been confined in
the brig for offenses of one kind or an
other. and whose appetites have been
whetted by some days of bread and water
diet.
The Thanksgiving menu provided by the
average American naval crew assuredly
needs no apologies on any score. What
Uncle Sam does not supply in the way of
eatables the open-handed bluejackets pro-
vide with their own funds. Not even on
Thanksgiving are the men on board the
battleships supposed to have any LIQUOR
but 1t requires a watchful officer to see
TO 1t that none of this contraband Is
more than one occasion plump turkeys
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creature that he is in his sassy directoire
coat, and his Louie kahn's Powered even
ing waistcoat and his Chippendale pants,
but that's what he's doing. It's on the
strength of the clothes proposition that
we continue to keep the ostensibly weaker
sex in partial subsection, Larry. To whis-
per a secret to you, we call EN- the
weaker sex. but they're not: on the con-
trary, far from it. But as long as they
think they're the weaker sex. and dress
to match the part. We can still manage to
make 'em think so, too, if we don't fall
into any serious sartorial errors such as
dressing ourselves up like feeble imita-
tons of the original Floradora Sextet.
When does a man look more foolish
than he does any other time? The answer
is easy; when he's trying to match sam
pie for his wife in department store.
How much foolisher he'll look when he
goes around trying to match a sample OF
elephants breath or mashed cantaloupe
tint in order to complete the color scheme
of his own winsome costume.
1T seems natural for a woman to crave
Open-work clothes and a shirt waist that
buttons up the back. 1 guess maybe the
first figeaf that Eve wore was worm
eaten, and no doubt the primitive armor
of the Amazons was made in one piece.
And so long as the women stay interested
In picture hats that are not pictures, and
period gowns that are not periods. but
exclamation points, we needn't be afraid
that the suffragette movement will jam
US through the back-not yet awhile.
II knew a man once that let his whis-
kers grow until he washed his face by
wiping off his forehead with a damp
towel. There was rumor in his neigh
borhood in the latter years of his life that
when he wanted to locate any particular
feature he had to send a terrier in to
find it, But he retained the respect of the
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community. except the barber and kept
his domestic affairs we'll in hand. because
nobody could ever have any ground to
suspect him of trying to look ladylike. He
reminded you a good deal of a lichen
growth, but he likewise bore some resem-
blance to a man.
'And 1 knew another chap that quit
growing about the point where most
lashes, and there wasn't enough of his
face to cover his front teeth He had an
impediment in his speech, Of a liquid
nature. like a siphon. and II he talked
face to face with you five minutes you
were entitled to a rain check. If you spent
half an hour in conversation with him
you'd feel as II you'd been sitting under
the needle shower in Turkish bath with
your clothes on. He was mild-mannered
in the extreme. You couldn't conceive Of
him leading forlorn hope over the breast
works You couldn't picture him sitting
in the White House as President 1t
look long, strong stretch of the mind to
imagine him intimidating a pet white rat
or lording it over a well-broke goldfish.
But in the course of time he married a
large, strong lady who'd been a tennis
champion. She could swim farther than
he could go in rolling chair without
feeling fatigued. Yet he remained the
boss of the home establishment Cause
why? Because he wore ordinary mans
duds and learned to smoke cigar that
looked like yellow clarinet, and never
under any circumstances or in any temp
tation permitted himself to be all Clar-
enced UP like in spectacular habiliments.
The roof of his main office was invaria-
bly, one of those three dollar felt derbies.
His benjamin was intended to warm him
exclusively and not to light up the win
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work that when England's king wants
to know 1t is not surprising that as
practical man he sends for the former
longShOreman and agitator.
A Big Montana Nugget.
From the Anaconda STANDARD.
Johnny" Kearn, who has spent many
years in the placer mines OF the cid high
land district. was in Butte yesterday. MIR.
Kearn achieved considerable distinction
last winter when he discovered the largest
nugget ever found in the Highland dis
trict it netting him $1.22S when it was
sold in the assay office in Helena. Il Will
tell you how I found it, he said to re-
porter for the Standard. Il took up some
ground of my own on the head of Poodle
Dog gulch. where no one had claim.
went up close to a big slide and began
working where placer miners had worked
forty years ago and again twenty years
ago. | left the cabin pretty early and
built a fire on a place which looked like
there used to be side ditch. You could
trace it. although it is grass grown. [
thawed the ground out and then l began
digging. Pretty soon / got down to the
ground, through the black dirt to the
gravel / had not shoveled for more than
ten minutes before found him. His
nose was pointed right toward me, and
you bet I got busy with my shovel, and
in a little while I had him in my hands.
l saw it was nugget weighing pounds
he weighed five of them-and l knocked
off work and came to town. l took him
to Mr.. Johnson of the Clark Bank. and he
put him in the window, where people
looked at him for six weeks. and then he
was sold to the assay Office. Where T
found the nugget men had worked forty
years ago and twenty years ago The
last work was done by some Cinnamon.
and they We're within three or four feet
of the big nugget when they quit work.
If they had found him they would have
torn up the entire mountainside looking
for more like him.
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Why She Married Him.

John J. HAYES. the Marathon cham
} pion. was describing in New York the
enthusiasm that the Marathon race caused
among Americans in London
That race" said he. was the chief
motive that took us Americans abroad
last summer. Indeed. coming back on
the boat l heard an almost incredible
story about the races attraction
There was a very pretty girl aboard
who seemed unhappy. Her unhappinass
was due to her husband She was mar
ried to rich but very old man; he
might have been her grandfather.
''She was a very frank sort of girl, and
she cOnfided her marital troubles to one
of the ladies at her tabla. From her
confidence 1t was plain that the aged
husband was a brute
but. my dear child said the lady,
whatever induced you to marry such a
man.
well, you see.' said the girl. 4 was
SO anxious to see that Marathon race.''
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of the cabinet and president of the local
government board. the most powerful de-
partment In the government, is regarded
as the one man competent to deal with
the terrible problem of the unemployed
which now faces the government Hence
he was summoned to Sandringham to
give the king the benefit of his first hand
knowledge of conditions.
England's king has most absolute con-
fidence in Burns. He speaks of the for
mer longshoreman always in terms of
greatest admiration. 1t is always my
friend Burns that is used when Edward
refers to the former leader OF the agi-
tators who used to gather in Hyde Park
TO tell their troubles, and who were ever
a menace to the peace o. the city till
King Edward listened to their pleas. and
by the preference shown their leader,
John Burns. demonstrated that his sym
pathies were with them, and that he was
only too eager to assist in any way he
could.
1t is a startling transition that has
come into the life of Burns, and one to
which many man of lesser balance
would find it hard to accustom himself.
But Burns is not the kind of man to
have his head turned. His first thought
ever is to serve those from whom he
springs.
AS a prominent member of the cabinet,
it is now his privilege to go to Buckng-
ham Palace and see either the king or
the queen as becomes necessary, but
this fact hasn't changed his mode OF life
The $4,000 he gels yearly IS a mem
Der of the cabinet is largely spent in the
cause for which he is working and in
order that he may be able to devote the
greater part of it to the cause he con-
tinues to live just rs modestly as he did
in the days OF his struggle for bread. The
fact that Burns has become great in the
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land has made no difference in the man
ner of those whose champion he is.
When they meet him gong to his mod
est little workingman's home in London
suburb their greeting is still:
'Howdy, John
And it is with a Hello mate" that
he answers.
There is no servant in the Burns home.
When anybody comes to see him, it is
Burns himself who opens the door. Were
he still a laborer on the docks of Lon
don there could not be less pretens on,
yet this man is the trusted repre sentative
of the King of England, and any sums of
money he may ask to spend among the
poor of the greatest city in the world are
Immediately granted. With Edward
when Burns wants anything there never
is any debate.
In his own modest little eight-lne BIZ
ography which he wrote for who's
Who" Burns says of himself:
II came into the world with d struggle,
am struggling now. and there's prospects
of my continuing to struggle
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House Detective. Hes probably color
blind and don't know~nv better. He looks
purity callow, anyway"
"Quite so.'' assented the Hotel Clerk.
"At least sixteen callow-power, l should
say. and maybe thirty-two Any time that
lads intellect should totter on it's throne
l bet 1t would be but a tiny tot. l don't
blame him. But there's lot of men old
enough and fat enough to know better
that's been guilty of dressing up like a
Chinese New Year this fall-they're the
ones I'm bitter against"
"Aint a Darty got a right to dress the
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ter landscape. He never felt that his ter
minal facilities required anything to set
them off except plain human hose and
congress CATERS But just suppose he's
come home some evening under a green
plush lid with a ROSTERS feather in it.
His wife would have had his real number
in thirty seconds. You can't dress up like
a lightning bug. Larry, and pass for a
bald eagle, not In this variable climate.
The only way we hold the women down in
this country is By keeping 'em so busy
with their private wardrobes that they
haven't got time to take charge of our
official bureaus. Any time we take to
cutting in on their domain they'll take to
cutting in on ours, and then l shudder to
think where We'll be, because any female
that can do with a hairpin what you and
me can't do with a tool kit and a book
of instructions could beat any man alive
out of his job If she only made up her
mind she wanted it
well. If we don't go delrious studyin'
the new fashion plates, we've still got the
bulge on the women one way, anyhow,
said the House Detective. by nature
men amt as vain as women
x X
Il wouldn't like to commit myself too
far on that point replied the Hotel
Clerk, slowly. LAS the college professors
say, yes and no. Did you ever seen a
man with wishbone legs and a chest de-
velopment like the letter A that wouldn' t
always pick out the Richard the Lion
Hearted costume for his when he was
going to a masquerade ball, with the Sir
Walter Raleigh outfit as second choice?
What's the first thing an ordinary man
does when he gets an appointment on
some governors staff? Why, he has him
self measured for a uniform with nine
pounds of gold lace and gilded vermiform
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sure. every day on the Presidents cal
endar is strenuous enough. judged by the
standards OF the ordinary citizen. In
preparing TO spend the day of Thanks
giving at the presidential mansion in
Washington Mr.. Roosevelt is departing
from a custom which he has followed Tor
several years past.
During the earlier years of the Roose-
Welt administr ration ii was the custom of
the Roosevelts to make each recurring
Thanksgiving the occasion for family
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The prophecy here is likely to be real
lied for Burns is the representative Of
a constituency whose needs are never
completely satisfied.
The future adviser of the King Of Eng
land began his manhood life as long
shoreman. He had no education. but
was a reader and an observer and the
wrongs of himself and his fellows became
the thought of his life. When the time
came for the great longshoremens strike,
Burns was accepted as the leader, and in
that mighty battle of labor against CAPT.
tai Burns led the strike with power and
reSourcefuness. and brought a victory,
even though England in all classes had
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How to Keep Violets.
From Harper's Bazaar.

From Harper's Bazaar.
I always keep my violets for five days.
I wear them all day and when l come
into the house I sprinkle them with very
cold water, and allow the water to run
directly upon the stems Of the flowers.
Then I saturate oiled paper with cod
water and wind this around the stems
ard place a piece Of oiled paper. well
sprinkled, over the top of the violets ana
place them back in the box. l generally
keen the violets on the sill outside OF my
window.
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ROOSEVELT plans
TO spend his final
Thanksgiving in
the White House
quietly. By this 1t
is meant that the
c h ! eff executive
does not contem-
plate any especial
activities on the
November holiday,
although. TO be
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been made to suffer by the paralysis of
commerce.
In the battle Burns was arrested. and
he occupied convict's cell in Penton
vile prison for insisting on the rights of
England's workingmen to be heard in
Hyde Park.
The brief martyrdom added to Burns
popularity. He came out after his term
the idol of the British work;ngman.
During his days of manual toll Burns
had become 6. machniSt. and he gradually
worked himself till he was a skilled en-
gineer.
But the time came when the working
men of the nation decided that they need
ed him to be their spokesman on the floor
of the house of commons. Burns did not
seek the place. He made no fight for it.
Against him was waged a most powerful
campaign by those who felt that it would
be a peril to the country to have in the
popular body man of ideas SO radical.
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Burns was elected and took his place.
Being a member made not the least diff
ference in his manner of life. He contn
ued to wear his old coat and his work
tngman's hat. He had dignity and power in
his conduct as lawmaker, but he main
tanned his independence and neither at
tempted to ape the ways of the rich and
brilliant who now surrounded him nor
gave way to them when the interests he
presented came into clash with theirs.
And the first thing Burns knew the
government instead Of finding him peril.
had come to see in him a valuable fac
tor for dealing with the great problem
of London's poor. He had such great con-
troll over his clientele that anything that
came from him satisfied them. If Burns
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HANkSG / V / n G.
day. 1908, is unique
in the annals of
the American Navy
in that il finds a
larger percentage Of
officers and men of
our fighting service
spending the holt
day in foreign wa
ters than has ever
here tofore been the
case The eXplana-