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duck or goose for the regulation THANKSGIVING
fowl. The cost is much less and the satlsiac-
tion equally great-once housenoluer mas
freed himself from the tradition that Inanks-
giving without turkey would not be Thanks
giving. Then, too, the increasing numoer VI
vegetarians and persons who have ADOPTED
diet of nuts or other meat substitutes, nave
devised some very ingenious proxies for the
Thanksgiving dinner-non-meat dishes tnat
even simulate the appearance OF turkey.
However these new-fangled dishes can scarce
ly be recommended as cheap, owing to the
amounts of nuts and the number of eggs the
recipes call for.
In the face of soaring prices In so many
food lines, it is gratifying to note one Thanks
giving Indispensable, the cost of which re-
mains virtually unchanged. This is our old
friend, the pumpkin. dear to youth and old
age alike, in the form of the pumpkin pie. No
person has ever attempted to corner" the
pumpkin crop, and probably no person ever
will undertake such a miracle. The fact that
the great golden globes with their luscious
'fllin'" can be raised in every section Of the
United States, and that, too, without any
trouble, once the vines are planted, is doubt
less responsible for the moderate prices that
always prevail Probably there is no town or
city in the country where good-sized pump
kin cannot be purchased for so cents, and in
most American markets one may buy small
pumpkin-an orb Of Joy with ammunition suf
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learn that Texas leads all the other STATES -
the Union in the number of turkeys prouueuu
Proximity of the market to the ruiai u-s
trfct whence it draws it's supply OF holiday
fowls is a highly important consideration now
adays, because the mistress of a city nome
can no longer purchase her Thanksgiving tui
key from farmer who drives up to ner uool
marketing the products of his own farm. All
the turkeys are handled nowadays through COM
mission merchants, which means, OF course,
that there is a middlemans profit to be PAID
by the ultimate consumer. Another secret OF
the present high prices Of turkeys is founo
in the fact that the live birds are shipped long
distances. If they are transported by express
the expense is considerable, and If they make
the journey by freight the trip is nearly as
costly, inasmuch as the live birds are sent
by freight only in carload lots. which involves
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24
JUST MAKING OUT A CASE
Uncle Jeth Had Deep Reason for .oc-
cupation That Was Seemingly
Improbable.

John Collier, the secretary of New
York's board of moving picture CEN
sors, said the other day:
tits no good getting up objec-
tionable picture plays. We never
pass them. In fact, we turn them
down so invariably that it seems to
me the composers of such plays are
animated by spirit of perversity.
They remind me of old Uncle Jethro
Husk.
Uncle Jethro sat fishing on the
bank of tiny rivulet when stran-
ger stopped beside him and said:
lis 1t possible that there are any
fish in such a small stream as that?'
No, there amt none,' Uncle Jeth
grunted.
but you're fishing!'
"'Yep,' said Uncle Jeth.
What, then, is your objectr
my object said Uncle Jeth, is to
show my wife / amt got no time to
sift the ashes.'"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24
Canada at the
Chicago Land Show
WILL MAKE A MAGNIFICENT Ex
HlBlT OF GRAINS AND
GRASSES, VEGETABLES
AND FRUIT.

"A carload Of grain in straw. grasses
and other of the products of Western
Canada arrived at Chicago the other
day, and is now installed in the
Coliseum, where the United States
land and irrigation exposition Is under
way. Those who are interested In
the Back to the land movement" will
find in the Canadian exhibit one of
the best displays of the agricultural
products of Western Canada that has
ever been made. There are repre-
sentative men there, who will be
pleased to give the fullest information
regarding the country.
The exhibit shows what can be
done on the free grant lands of that
country and most of the grain was
produced on the farms of former resi-.
dents of the United States who have
taken advantage of the homestead
lands Of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta.
The vegetable exhibit will attract
a great deal Of attention, and some
marvellous potatoes, carrots, turnips,
IL.
1t is true that the homestead area
is being rapidly taken up and the
bulk Of that now to be had lies north
OF the Saskatchewan river in a por-
ton of the country known as the park
country. Here there Is a large guam
tity of open prairie interspersed by
beautiful groves Of poplar and willow.
Water is in abundance, hay is plenti.
full and consequently fodder for ami
mails is right at hand. Those who
have taken advantage of farming in
these districts and watched the efforts
OF those in the prairie proper feel
that they have the advantage of their
brother, who is not able to secure fuel
and the other conveniences of the
park district on his own farm.
The crop conditions throughout
Western Canada the past year have
been generally good, and some won
derful crop yields of wheat, oats and
barley are recorded. The Canadian
Government, under whose auspices
the exhibit spoken of is being made,
is preparing reports on crops in the
different Western Canada districts,
and while these will not be ready for
distribution at the land show COM
mencing on the 18th Of November
and closing on Dec. 9Th, application
made to the Canadian Government
agent nearest you will bring them to
you as soon as they are published.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24
The Cats Thanks
giving Soliloquy

I'm just about tired of waiting
For my Thanksgiving treat;
see them about the table,
And they eat, and eat, and eat.
They do not think of poor pussy,
Who has had so long to wait;
Why doesn't some one remember
That it's growing very late.
And haven't smelt that turkey
Since into the oven it went?
If they'd give just one drumstick,
Why, then I'd be content.
But no, they sit there talking
And laughing aloud with glee;
/ wish that some one among them
Would throw down a bone to me.
There's Sat greedy little Teddy,
Three times he's passed his platej
And that turkeys growing smaller
At very rapid rate.
And see Jacks facet IT'S shining
With gravy up to his eyes.
l wonder they take no notice
When they hear my hungry cries.
Oh, dear! There's dessert to follow,
The buildings and pumpkin pies
And the fruits and nuts and candy,
And oh, how fast times flies!
All, there's gentle little Ethel,
She's so loving and so kind,
She's bringing me some turkey bones
And grateful cat she'll find.
FRANK H. SWEET
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THANKSGIVING

1 thank thee, Life. for many, many gifts;
For wealth of bloom and tender song that lift
My life the heated highways path above;
But most of all thank thee. Life, for Love!
thank thee for the body's health; for friends
The daily bread thy kindly bounty sends;
For all the goodly things that are or were;
But most of all thank thee Life. for Herr
For Her count of good thine utter store
That surfeits avarice. Thou hast no more.
No boon to win one covert sigh from me
When have that whose giving beggars thee.
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other commodities in Manchester fell
one-half.
The success of this canal started
the duke to build one which would
connect Manchester with Liverpool.
To procure the funds he reduced his
personal expenses to 9400 year.
So straitened was he at times that
the London bankers hesitated to dis
count his note for $500. Sometimes.
when "nard up" he would send his
steward upon a collecting tour among
the tenantry of the ducal estates. The
steward would ride from tenant 70
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are for the November holiday have been
Sreatiy increased In number or variety Your
hearty diner demands on THANKSGIVING the es-
sent1als such as turkey and celery and Gran.
berry sauce and pumpkin pie, which were the
stand-bys of the feast in the days of his father
and his grandfather before him. The point is
that some of the eatables are unuuestionably
more haVory than were their counterparts of
several decades ago, and-with all due respect
to the kind that mother used to make-some
Of the modern recipes seem to put it all over
the old-timers in garnishes and the prepare
ton of buildings and pastry, etc.
And, speaking of the changes that have
come about, take the case of the toothsome
turkey, headlner of the whole holiday menu
1t would be futile to try to convince the high
liver of the twentieth century who revels in
his milk-fed or chestnut-fed turkey from Rhode
Island the middle west that his forefathers
ever enjoyed anything so delicious. Certainly
turkeys have increased in size, too, judging
by the average weight those that find their
way to market However, this latter develop
ment is clearly traceable to the tendency Of
turkey raisers to devote themselves almost
exclusively to the Bronze. the largest Of the
six standard varieties of turkeys.
However, there are two sides to this turkey
story, and the housewives who preside over
small families are the ones who have had
brought home to them the Instantaneous
side of this boom in the size of turkeys. With
the big bronze birds weighing from 16 to SO
pounds apiece usually nearer the latter
than the former figure the market
1t is becoming every year more difficult for
the buyer Of family of two or three people
to find a satisfactory six, seven or eight pound
turkey. 1t really begins to look as though the
small families would be driven to hotels on
Thanksgiving or else be compelled to take in
boarders or entertain all their friends at the
holiday dinner
Turkey buying, too, is the phase of the
Thanksgiving marketing where the increased
cost of living most severely pinches the man
with the stationary income A .dweller in any
of our large cities may consider himself de-
cidedly in luck these days If he succeeds in
getting tender turkey at Thanksgiving for
25 cents per pound, and he is much more likely
to be asked any figure up to 3S or 40 cents per
pound, which prices have prevailed every
Thanksgiving in recent years in the New York
and Boston markets for the choicest birds.
The people OF the central west have an adj
vantage over eastern turkey eaters. because
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me dinner is decidedly the most important fea-
t6re OF the program, for, of course, there is no
football game and matinee such many
Americans rely upon for Thanksgiving diversion
and In the case of many of the exiles who OBJ
serve Thanksgiving overseas there is not even a
thanksgiving religious service such as is uni
versal at home
II Is not merely, either, that the officers and
men OF our army and navy have introduced the
Yankee Thanksgiving dinner to benighted lands
long In ignorance of it's delights. To be sure the
eplcurean bluejackets and the lads in khaki
nave been responsible for much of this CASTRO
nom1c missionary work." but 1t is also a fact
tnat American diplomatic and consular officials
and indeed all classes of Americans resident
ABROAD have done their share to preserve all
the traditions of the Thanksgiving dinner as
reality In every transplanted home Especially,
where there is little American colony" in an
alien environment, is the THANKSGIVING dinner
right jealousy guarded.
But whereas the American Thanksgiving din
uer mas been winning its way around the world
IL mas likewise come to enjoy more and more
prestlge at home. The one Earring note in any
presentday eulogy Of the Thanksgiving dinner is
TO be found in its greatly increased cost over
Inc expense involved for a corresponding menu
lew years since. No person who grasped the
import OF the high cost Of living" issue in the
recent political campaign can fail to realize
that the matter is very grave one to the aver.
age housekeeper and especially when 1t oh.
lrudes itself In connection with a holiday repast
winch ought to be an occasion for carefree feast
ing instead of domestic perpIexities.
The one consolation, If not compensation IN
this situation is to be found in the knowledee
mat our Thanksgiving dinners in this day and
generation are vastly better than the like boli.
lay spread of years gone by. 1t is not no much
mat the dishes that go to make up the bill of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24

Disappointed in marrying the most
beautiful woman in England, he de-
termined to unite by means of a canal
his coal fields with Manchester, then
beginning its career as manufac-
turing town. In those days good roads
were the exception. bad roads the
rule The cottons of Manchester and
the woolens of Leeds were conveyed
from place to place on pack horses.
width logged along in single file. The
freight charge rom Leeds to Lon6on
was 363 ton. When the dukes canal
was finished the prices of coal and
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ries is quickly reflected in the price However.
cranberries are never so very much OF an ex'
trayagance because it requires such modest
norton to make up a batch of cranberry sauce.
When cranberries are plentiful they sell whole
sale as low as 50 per barrel, but few years
ago. when there was a cranberry famine. the
price went as high $40 per barrel.
The business side of the problem of supplying
a Thanksgiving dinner for the American people
is by no means the least interesting phase OF
this subject. The city of Chicago alone re-
ceives during the week ten days before
Thanksgiving as many as half million turkeys,
valued in the aggregate, at wholesale prices. at
much more than a. millions dollars From Cape
Cod, Mass, the greatest cranberry growing dis
trict, there are shipped each autumn more than
onethird of million car loads of cranberries,
and the major portion of this harvest finds its
way to Thanksgiving dinner tables, Many car
loads of celery from Michigan and other states
swell the total cost of our Thanksgiving dinner
to millions.
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the rental of a special
type of car for the jour-
ney and pay for the
services of a man who is
sent along to feed the
birds en- route.
Owing to the mount
ing prices of turkey and
an. occasional shortage
of supply = although
there is no prospect Of
a turkey famine this
year-has induced an in
creasing number of fam
lilies all over the coun-
-. - o,,hCfif11to ahiQRpn
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Tilted, Builds Many Canals

just after he had attained his major
ity. A dispute arising between the
couple. the match was broken of.
The dukes otagrin caanged the course
of his life. He gave his first and last
ball to the London world of fashion
and then buried himself among his
coal fields at Worsley. Eschewing
tie society of women. he refused even
to employ them as servants in his
manor house.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24
Inland Navigation of Great Britain
Had Its Inception by Disastrous
Love Affair Of Duke.

The British system of artificial in
land navigation. which includes sew
eral thousand miles of canal, may be
said to have had its origin in mat
rimonial disappointment The duke
Of Bridgewater, the originator of the
u,stam- was engaged 70 b married
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24

tenant. getting s5 here and Sfs
there. When he had collected money
enough he would return and pay the
canal laborers their weekly wages. In
a few years, however. the dukes can.
ais paid him an annual revenue Of
$4,000.
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Barney.

A Brooklyn woman who had spent a
great deal of time in trying to teach
her cook to make good drawn butter
gravy, but to little avail, had occasion
severely to rebuke the domestic in the
presence Of others. Ellen" said she,
sternly, this gravy is absolutely Bit
ter this evening"
"lndade I'm sorry, num-" came in
iugubrious tones from the cook.
How do you account for it, Elem
asked the mistress, persistent in her
efforts to get at the bottom of the
matter
Il can't say, mum, unless it werc
the tear ! dropped in it, mum"
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Illinois, Indi-
ana, Ohio and
other states
a l o n g t h g
backbone Of
the country
are the great
centers of the
turkey indus
try, although
it will doubt
less surprise
some Of our
r q a d erS to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24
Lose ThsIr Freedom.

"All men are born free and equal
said the philosopher.
II know" said the matter-of-fac
person. '.Bs$ snzns Of 'sm get hsazvte'
afterward.s
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Incurabie.

InCurdple.
''You say you are your wife's third
husband?' said one man to another
during a talk.
"No, am her fourth husband" was
the reply.
Heavens, mani" said the first
speaker. "You are not a husband
you're habit"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24
The GiSt of IL.

The Gist of Ii.
Two and two make four. This is
platitude.
Two and two make three. This is
demagogism.
Two and two make one hundred
and fifty. This is high fnance.-Lip-
pincott's Magazine.
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No Proof.

Blanche-Where was Percy educat-
ed?
Belle-In his head-but don't won
der you ask
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Agricultural.

Mother-Yes. Johnny. the queen bee
Is boss.
Johnny = How about the presiden-
tial bee?
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Proved.

Orator. thought your paper was
friendly to me?
Editor-So it is. What's the mat
ter?
Orator. made a speech at the
dinner last night, and you didn't print
a line of it.
Editor-Well, what further proof do
you want?-London Opinion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24

The man who looks for good cam
not look for anything he will be more
certain to find.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24

The man who is envious of evil
doors will soon be one himself
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24
Surprised.

do you mean to tell me you really
live in Chicago?"
yes. You speak as if you thought
1t remarkable for me to DO So"
why, l supposed people merely
stayed in Chicago until they got
money enough to live in New York"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24

The moment man begins to love
his enemies he has the devils hate
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TEADILY growing in signifi-
canoe year by year and in the
fame of its appe.izing attri-
butes the American Thanks
giving dinner has become
very much of an institution.
1t might almost be said that
1t has become more of an in
stitution than the American
Thanksgiving, itself. At least
If the feast does not over
shadow the holiday at home
1t does in foreign parts. For,
be is known, the American
Thanksgiving dinner is now
eaten around the world"
and in these detached realms
-
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ficient for at least a couple Of
pies-for the modest sum of four
or five cents. The newspapers
have given prominence this year
to the exploit of an Indiana farm
er who has raised a pumpkin as
large around as wagon wheel
and weighing $50 pounds. How
ever, the record in pumpkin
growing is claimed by Colorado
planter, who gets credit for pro-
ducing a few years ago a pump o
kin weighing more than 300
pounds.
Cranberries are a Thanksgiv-
ing commodity the price of which
fuctuates widely In different
years. And yet we feel that we
must have them, almost without
regard to price, for If Thanks
giving is incomplete without the
turkey, certainly the turkey is
incomplete without the cranber-
ry sauce. Cranberries arp Guilt
waited to any extent in only three
states, namely, Massachusetts,
Wisconsin and New Jersey, and
the producing area being thus re-
stricted it naturally follows that
when there comes a lean year
the, shortage of the rudy ber-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-06-16

briel. who tolerated him simply be-
cause she didn't much like Josie; but,
blighted by J0ses supreme indltfer-
ence, this budding passion dropped and
fuilcd by mutual consent Of both par
ties concerned Angie Tuthill became
more conspicuously than ever the ORD
Of Tracey's universe. Duncan walked
home with Josie on two week day even
ings and twice on Sundays and learned
how to play hana and parcheesi. The
drug store pruspered in moderation.
Sothern & Lee vainly contrasting Its
conquerlng campaign. And Duncan
grew thoughtful
One has more time to think unself-
lshly in Radvile than In a great city,
where there's rarely more time than
enough to think of ones own concerns.
And Duncan was making time to think
about others, notably Betty Graham.
The girl was. as usual. shy. reticent,
reserved. She kept her thoughts TO
herself, sharing the most Intimate not
even with old Sam. who would talk.
But Duncan OWNED that she was ul-
happy.
He saw her go and come. wlst1ul
shadow on the borders of his occupa-
tons, self contained, Il little timid. but
at the same time brave In her own
quiet, accomplishing fashion. Ana the
distant look In those soft eyes he dl-
yined to be one Of longing for that
which she. might not possess-the adj
vantages that other girls had. socially
and educa. ionally; the pleasures they
contriyed, the attentions they re-
ceived. the thousand and one slight
things that make existence life for
woman. He saw her dropping insen-
sibly day by day. growing little
paIer. a shade more aloof and listlesS.
And he became infinitely concerned
for her.
Tie told himself he had solved the
problem of her disease. but its remedy
remained beyond his reach. The bust
ness was doing very we'll indeed, but
1t was still young and must be sub
iected to as few financial drains us
possible AS it ran there was an in
come sufficient to board. lodge and
clothe the three of them. maintain the
credit of the partnership and now and
again admit. Of a slight but advan-
tageous addition to the stock Of fix
lures. Things would certainly be bet
ter in the course Of time hnt--
fro BE Continued
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hours and closing up time. He at
tended church with admirable regu-
larity, both morning and evening serv-
ices. on Sunday, the midweekly prayer
meeting and Friday evening choir
practice, for in the course Of time he
had been won over to join the choir
and modestly discovered to our edifi-
cution a baritone voice wholly un-
trained. but not unpleasing. Josie
Lockwood sang contralto and Bess
Gabriel what we were informed was
soprano-only Radville called it ire
BILE. Tracey Tanner pumped the organ
and puffed audibly in the pauses, a
singular testimony to his devotion to
Angie Tuthill. who lust sang" with
the others chiefly because she was Jo-
sizes nearest friend.
Nal lG!u Sell:eu GOWN TO q pretty
steady correspondence with Kellogg,
chiefly on business matters. kellogg
was investigating old Sans burner
and seemed quite impressed with its
possibilities. He had quarreled with
Roland's friend Burnham on Dupcan's
representations and ordered him out
of the offices Of L. j. Bartlett & Co., it
seemed. Later he opened up negotia-
tons with a CORPORATION known as th-