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Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18

cranberry sauce!' And then we thank
God complacently for our harvests
and our food, and our clothes, and his
love. Isn't it so?"
"Yes," admitted.
Well" continued the girl, "the Pill
grims did that, too, years ago. But
they did not stop there. After they
thanked God for their own blessings
they tried to pass on the Joy to folk
less fortunate than they were. They
even invited the Indians, beings tha.
they had every reason to be afraid Of
into their homes and gave them a lit
tie Of the seasons cheer. They kept
Thanksgiving"
"Then"-I was choosing my words
rather carefully-"then your idea is
not to be thankful yourself-oniy to
give someone else a chance to be
.hankful?"
But" asked the girl softly, isn't
that the right way to be thankful"
Isn't it?
It's very easy thing to pass along
the outside of life without even dip
ping down into the depths, and ever so
many people do 1t because it is the
easiest way. Somehow it is hard to
convince folk that things that tear at
their heartstrings are the things that
they should see and know. It's mighty
easy to eat our Thanksgiving dinners
without thought of our brothers and
sisters who are starving on some other
street in the same city. and it's only
because it is SO much easier. 1 reckon,
that people do forget to pass bit OF
their plenty and peace.
But. as write, can't help thinking
Of filled-to-overfiowing baskets that
l have seen In missions, of eager chill
dren grasping fat turkeys. of mothers
crying happy tears over coal and wood
that will keep them warm and happy.
l can't help having my mind slip away
from the well-filled tables and the
happy smiles and the cheerful com.
monplaces of our own country, to the
dreary homes in Europe that are being
frightened because the people of this
land were willingness, more than
willing-to share their blessings with
others.
Oh, friends of mine. it's the easiest
thing in the world to look for trouble,
and it isn't very hard to find people
who are fretting and crying and count.
ing their blessings in a negative sort
Of way instead of just being happy.
But somehow, when we stop to look
around us and think, the world seems
to be a pretty nice place at Thanks.
giving time.-Margaret E. Sangster
Jr., in Christian Herald.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
Fruit Puffs With Butter Sauce.

Make biscuit mixture by sitting a
pint of flour with two tablespoonfuls
of baking powder and one teaspoonful
of salt; add two tablespoonfuls of
shortening and mix to a soft dough
with sweet milk. Put a tablespoonful
of the mixture into a buttered cup,
add sweetened berries Of any kind,
then another tablespoonful of dough.
Steam for half hour. Serve with a
sauce made by creaming two table,
spoonfuls of butter with cupful of
powdered sugar and the juice of a
small lemon. Pour on half a cupful Of
boiling water and a cupful of the
fruit. Serve with the sauce poured
over each pun.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
Luncheon Eaqs.

Boil hard five eggs and chop them
fine. Put layer Of egg in baking
dish, sprinkle with grated cheese and
then add another layer of egg, and so
on until all are used. Pour over this
a white sauce, made by thickening one
cupful of milk with one tablespoonful
Of flour, add butter, salt and pepper,
to taste. Sprinkle buttered crumbs
on top and brown delicate brown
This makes quite a hearty dish.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
PASS ON THE JOY
OF THANKSGIVING
Making Others Glad Should Be
Considered One of the Chief
Duties of the
Season.
IT'S the easiest thing in the world
to look for trouble and to find it

IT'S the easiest thing in the world
to look for trouble and to find it
waiting, grim and terrible, for
your search. 1t isn't very hard to
count your blessings in a negative
sort Of way, by saying, Yes, it's very
nice, but it could be much nicer" It's
quite the usual thing to hear folk COM
plain-and complaining is heard more
often than praise and thankfulness.
Yet-so they tell us-a little over three
hundred years ago band of sturdy,
verturesome Christian folk were very
thankful indeed and praised their Lord
fervently over handful of parched
corn and bit of unleavened bread.
Once year we set apart day, con-
secrated to their memory, and try to
throw aside the customs and complain
ings of the world as we know it. We
gather ogether-families of us-and
eat turkey and plum pudding; we talk
of commonplaces and sometimes we
feel bored and tired. Yet we are sup
posed to be celebrating.
We have bushels of things to be
glad for this year-hundreds; it seems
more than we ever had. AS we offer
up our blessings it won't be hard to
remember that across a dividing bit
of ocean other people are starving to
death. and that ought to make US just
a bit more thankful. AS we see our
families sitting around talking COM
monplaces it may help US to think of
other families in other countries that
are fighting and dying on blood-stained
battlefields. AS we hear the crisp No
vember wind banging in the trees, we
ought to be mighty thankful that 1t
isn't the sound of cannon and bugles
and screams that we're hearing. Oh,
friends Of mine, 1t won't be very hard
to be thankful this year!
As was walking down Fourth ave.
nue. few days ago l was thinking,
with my head in the clouds, Of many
things; thinking so hard that l did
not notice exactly where my feet were
taking me. 1t was only when stun.
bled against little boy who was run,
ming around a corner that l came
down to earth with bump.
"oh! I'm so sorry said. Did
hurt you?"
OATS a right, lady" said the little
boy with dirty Raphael-cherub grin
Il was only running!"
"oh!"-he was lingering at my side,
so felt 1t necessary to make conver.
sation-"you were running-playing
something?"
Huh" the little boy grunted
beatifically as he pulled up one ragged
stocking. "Oh, no; was JUS running
fer fun"
His little face crinkled with smiles
again and he trotted on out of my
sight.
Just running for fun, for the pure
Joy of living. A little boy with moth.
ing else to make him happy-and yet
a number of us frown and fret in the
midst Of all sorts OF pleasures.
I was talking to chum Of mine not
long ago. and some way our conversa
ton drifted around to Thanksgiving
time, and our Interpretation of the
day.
ITS all wrong" said my chum
earnestly. "all wrong!"
'Why?" / asked curicusly. I'm al
ways thankful for my blessings on
Thanksgiving; so are most people
Why is 1t all wrong?"
WELL" answered my chum, ION
Thanksgiving day we sit around and
talk and ALPHABETICALLY. l once
asked little girl what Thanksgiving
day meant. and she said turkey and
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
Fried Chicken,

Cut the chicken in pieces, lay it in
salt and water, which change several
times; roll each piece in flour; fry in
very hot lard or butter, season with
salt and pepper; fry parsley with them
also. Make gravy of cream seasoned
with salt, pepper and little mace.
thickened with a little flour in the pan
in which the chickens were fried, pour
ing of the lard.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
Furniture Polish.

Highly polished surfaces and auto
mobile bodies are much benefited by
polish made of boiled olive oil to
which few drops of vinegar have
been added. Apply in moderate guam
titles and rub with soft flannel cloth
to a luster.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
Roasted Cheese.

Slice graham or white bread thin
and cover with slices of Swiss cheese.
Sprinkle with paprika and salt and
bake in hot oven till the cheese is
melted.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
Suhstitute for Cream.

II a recipe for soup calls for cream.
and 1t is not at hand, try milk and
egg as a substitute. Boil a cupful
of milk, and when it is cooled add a
beaten egg. Strain, and add table,
spoonful of butter. Add this mixture
to the soup, bring it to the boiling
point and serve at once.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
For School Lunch.

Line muffin rings with good paste.
Fill with stewed apples well sweet
ened and favored with dash Of spice
or nutmeg. When baked. cover with
n meringue and brown slightly in the
oven. This may be varied in maly
ways.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
Grapes With ORANGE Juice.

Cut the Tokay and white grapes in
halves after washing and draining
them well and extract the seeds.
place in sherbet cups and sprinkle
lightly with sugar. Squeeze the juice
of half an orange over each cup and
serve very cold.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
leek Salad.

Boil and drain leeks and let them
become cold. Make dressing of oil.
vinegar, pepper and salt. Cut the leeks
in one and one-halt inches and pour
over the dressings.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18
To Prevent tho Chopper RustIno.

II several weeks or months are to
elapse when the food chopper is not
in use run n piece of suet through It
before putting 1t away; then there
will be NO danger of 1t rusting.
Gilpin observer., 1915-11-18

We plow the fields. and scatter
The good seed DER the land,
But 1t Is fed and watered
BY Gods almighty hand
He sends the snow in winter
The warmth 90 swell the grain.
The seed time and the harvest
And soft refreshing rain.
All good gift r1und us
Are sent q rnaven above.
Then than'7 ofh oh. thank the
For all hi
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27

When the Hopi Indians In Arizona flew the track,
Scout went down and brought them back. Only a
year ago when more of these sporadic disturb.
ances started, this time in the Navajo country,
Scott had to leave his cavalry command on the
Mexican border and adjust matters. These are
but a few instances.
How does he do it? Because he knows the
savage and the savage mind. He knows how
the savage thinks. He has the ability to put
himself in the place of the savage.
Brothers" he begins, when he has to do with
a band of Indians who are war dancing. tell
me what troubles you"
And straightway they tell him of this wrong
they have suffered at the hands of the officers
appointed over them, of that indignity which in
their opinion has been put upon them.
My heart bleeds for you" he tell them. 81
grieve that this trouble has been made between
you and the great father at Washington, whose
soldiers are as the leaves of the trees. ! do not
want them to come among you and kill you. Is
there not some manner in which we can adjust
the differences; some way to restore the friend
ship between you and the great father who
wishes you well?"
And then they get down to a settlement.
One of General SCOTS ancestors was Benjamin
Franklin-the generals mother was a great
granddaughter of the immortal Ben. It would
appear that some of the genius, the philosophy,
the diplomacy and the conciliating powers Of
this, the first American diplomatist, has descend
ed upon the new chief of staff.
But, like old Ben, whoHe phrase on the sign
ing of the Declaration Of Independence, I'VE
must all hang together. or we shall hang sepa-
r%ately," is immortal, General Scott knows when
to abandon pacific measures and to fight.
So it was when, IL 1909, he became governor
of the Sulu archipelago he determined that this
was no time and no place to brother the bel
Igerent natives. The Malay mind he mastered
as he had mastered the Indian mind. A licking
first and brothering afterward plainly was the
course marked out for him,
And such a licking he gave them!
Then came the task of breaking up the slave
trade in the islands of the archipelago. Alter
nately "brothering' and Furnishing, Scott
achieved his purpose, He wiped out slavery abb
~solutely.
And when, in 1906, he came to leave. the people
wept. Here was a man they could understand; a
man whose word always was kept. They asked,
through their chiefs, that he remain to rule over
them, but his tour of duty was ended.
Back he came to the states to instill other
lessons as superintendent Of the military acad-
envy at West Point, for a period of four years.
Adaptability, that is one Of his qualities. He
is adaptable because he knows men, civilized
men as well as savage men. Is 1t any wonder
they made him a doctor of the humanities?
Seldom does 1t occur that a young officer just
out OF West Point-"a shavetail' as the army
knows such an oficer-gets his baptism Of fire
within a few weeks of his graduation. Scott is
one of the few.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27

In 1878 Lieutenant SCOTS regiment was at
Camp Robinson, Neb, and parucdpa'eu ~ rHe
cheyenne expedition. Then, until 1881 the !ouns
officer served continuously on the plalns' nsnt-
ing and studying and learning nMu p 80"
he became the acknowledged Indian authority
in the army. So when the ghost dancing craze
of 1891 came along he was sent alohe lo uo Il
work which ordinarily a column OIL cavalry
would have been called upon to do-and ne onu It,
You have heard of old Geronimo, the famous
Apache warrior, who gave the government SO
much trouble in the days when the Apaches
were on the war path in the Southwest? Well
General Scott and Geronimo for three years came
near being "buddies."
You see, after Lawson and Wood and the rest
of them had brought in Geronimo and his band
of Chiricahua Apaches, the problem of what to
do with them was difficult. Finally, they were
held as prisoners at Fort Sill, and in 1884 Gen
eral Scott was sent to take charge of them. He
remained on that duty three years, 1S94-97.
Here was a frst.class ethnologists laboratory
ready to hand, a bunch of the widest Indians
ever assembled on the continent, herded togeth-
er. unable to get away, o1ering a fruitful held
for study and observation. Tie keeper and the
kept became fast friends, and the Indians i'm
parted all their plains lore to the stubborn but
extremely military person who had them in hand.
Then, naturally, General Scott was ordered to
Washington for duty in the division of military
information, and assigned to the bureau of eth
nology in the Smithsonian institution, where he
proceeded to write his famous report on Indian
sign language.
But then CAM the Spanish-American war.
General Scott closed the door on that portion of
his mind devoted to abstract science, and opened
up the military section to it's fullest. Once more
he was the fighting cavalry man. AS Ludlow's
adjutant general he went to Cuba, and presently,
after the fighting was over, he was ~adjutant gen
eral to General Wood, commanding the island.
For three years, from 1898 to the evacuation May
20, 1902, he was General Woods right-hand man
in doing in Cuba that historic work that has re.
hected so much credit on the nation.
Higher in rank now, he was just as eager and
enthusiastic in his study of the Cuban people as
he was in those shavetail days of 1876 away off on
the Northwestern plains in studying Indians
And, as General Wood tells it, very much Of the
success of American administration in the island
was due to the thorough understanding OF TIE
people possessed by this Woodworking adjutani
and to that ~adjutant generals sympathetic atti
tude toward them.
Then to the Philippines as major OF the Third
cavalry went Scott. there again to justify his
reputation as the greatest little paci6er In the
army" Equally apt in p~acifying with a machine
gun and with sympathetic acts and words, Scot
once more demonstrated his many-sidedness.
1t is given to few men TO be able to shoot vi
a country and make the people like 1t. Scott Il
one of the few. He did that very thing in tn,
Philippines.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27

Although the most intelligent lead
ers of the race are proud of the folk
lore songs as the rhythmic cry of the
slave, there are those who feel
ashamed of them because they bark
back to the days Of ignorance, super
stition and childlike trust. Doctor Du-
Bots says Of them: They are the
music of unhappy people, of the chill.
dren Of disappointment; they tell of
the death and sufferings and unvoiced
longings toward a truer world of misty
wanderings and hidden ways. They
are the most beautiful expression of
human experience born this side OF
the seas"
Special emphasis is placed on these
songs in all the southern colored
schools. especially in Tuskegee,
Hampton, Spellman and Fiske univer.
sity, to which the Negro folklore will
always be indebted for its revival. The
Fiske jubilee singers sang the slave
songs so deeply into the hearts of a
half-credulous world that it can never
wholly forget them again.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27

In Europe the landowners are the so
cial and political leaders. How i'm
portant the ownership OF land ia in the
eyes of Europeans is demonstrated by
the zeal which European immigrants
show in getting hold Of farms in this
country. They labor ceaselessly to OBJ
tain land, and when they secure 1t they
cling to 1t with bulldog persistence.
But the phenomenon noted in the
wal dispatch has its cheerful side. The
resoluteness with which the peasants
maintain their hold on the land and
continue to cultivate 1t even while bull
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27
saIvatIon In Work.

Work" said Doctor Meyer before
the Congregation Emanuel, rs the sal
walton for idle wives" The good rabbi
might have added that work is the
salvation OF eyerybody--the very salt
OF human life. The man or woman
who does not work is a parasite. a
corrupting influence. and q decaying
quantity. ANY scheme OF life which
looks to avoidance OF work cuts
athwart every sound principle OF nv-
ing. Most dssastrously OF all It af-
fects him-or her--who escapes work.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27

away. These farmers are apparently
fearless for their own personal safety.
but keenly concerned for their homes.
many of which have been destroyed by
shell fire.
How tenaclously these poor peas
ants of Europe cling to their land!
Not ven the machine guns and the
artillery fire a dislodge them. They
are as uneasy and unhappy when d.
vorced from their little acre of soil
as a sailor debarred from the sea.
They know the meaning and the value
Of the possession Of a piece OF land.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27
one on the Pin compiler.

Il always cure my own hams" re.
marked a prominent physician at a
banquet the other evening. IF that is
the case. DOCTOR" rejoined a lawyer
who was present, "I'd rather be one
Of your hams than n OF your pa
ents."-Indianapolis Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27
LAND APREcIoUs POSSESSION
Peasants Of Europe Cling Tremendously
to the Few Acres They Own
and Cultivate.

In a story from the western battle
front the following bit of information
was cleaned:
One of the most striking features
of the battlefield. and n entirely in
congruous with the work in hand. was
the sight OF peasants blowing their
fields as e war were hundreds OF miles
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27

] lob of bringing
a to the trou-
bled Indian souls
than to send out a
squadron OF caval-
ry, as was done in
ancient days.
Back in 0 8,
when Scott was
eerving as superin-
I e n d of the
military academy at
West Point, the
Nayajos in New
Mexico and the Mex
lean Kickapooi in
Arizona started
trouble. Scott was
yanked away from
West Point, sent
among the hostiles
practically alone,
and presently the
trouble was all over.
Again in 1911
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27

Talk of cutting down next years
cotton acreage in the South-which
may be an economic necessity-comes
largely from white planters. What the
mass of poor Negro tenant farmers
will do is a distressing problem, as
Booker T. Washington has said. They
have lever been taught to plant any
crop but cotton, and the system under
which they borrow money in the
spring to carry them and their fam
lilies until the harvest is based on cot
ton growing exclusively. If many of
them cannot plant cotton in the COM
ing year they will be idle and plunged
into the deepest poverty. The North
now has it's une -ployed; the South
may have a horde of Negroes to look
after before the end of 1915.-Spring-
field Republican.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27

Spain has Just given assurances to
the officials OF the Panama-Pacif In.
ternational exposition that her par
~ticipation In the exposition will pro-
coed according to original plans, and
that the war will have no effect on
Spanish participation
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

One Of the very important phases Of
the work of the Manassas Industrial
School for Colored Youth Is a summer
ers during July of each year. To this
come about a hundred teachers from
the rural districts, men and women,
who are heart and soul in the work.
Some Of these teachers are well
trained and competent, but the greater
number are wholly unfit to teach.
Many have had no training above fifth
grade, and often can only read and
write with great difficulty. During
the winter of teaching, they often have
to travel many miles to their school
houses, which are usually meager di-
lapidated frame buildings, neither wind
nor rain-proof, where they are COM
PEELED to teach all grades and ages
in one room. For this they receive
pitifully small salaries, and If they
want to add any special work over the
regular curriculum, the pennies of the
children, with a share OF their own
small income, are forced to meet the
added expense.
They must find enough inspiration
during this one short month at the
summer school to carry them through
their trying winter. The state of Vir-
ginia contributes to the work. Be-
sides this summer school, there is held
for these rural teachers of northern
Virginia, a Teachers institute during
the Christmas holidays, where all
questions relating to school life and
work are discussed by prominent
speakers, as well as general discus
sions on subjects of school hygiene
and teaching methods.
There is no doubt that the work
accomplished by the school, both in
its training of the children and in the
broader field of its community work,
is of vital Importance to the people
of northern Virginia-not alone to the
colored man, but to the white nan as
well. That the white man fully real.
ICES this a be judged by the fact
that the mayor of Manassas says that
the colored community all love and
WI v NhC oShOOAS III LOA6OI W SCI
drunk and get into Jail. One mayor
told a friend of the school, some years
ago, that he attributed his empty jail
TO the influence of the Manassas In
dustrial school.
The great financial stress confront
ing this country on account Of the Eu
ropean wa, and the diverting into
foreign channels of much of the sup
port which in ordinary years goes tt
our own philanthropies, has forced
Manassas, as we'll as other schools o
this type, into a very difficult posi-
ton. The vitality of this work is to-
strong to let it die, but if the strug
gle for existence becomes too great
the work must suffer. There is daI
ger of the Gripping of n of our mos
valuable institutions, which has onl.
gHined power for good through year
CT untiring effort and sacrifice.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27
TAR 90
TER

Born in Kentucky in 1852, he was graduated from
West Point in the class of 1876. That summer Gus
ter had gone out with his regiment, the famous
Seventh cavalry, as part of General Terrys column,
in the expedition against the Sioux. Custer and FIVE
companies of his command we're cut off and wiped
out to the last man on the Little Big Horn river in
Montana.
Scott and a number of other graduates OF MS
class were hurried West to take the places in the
regiment of those killed. He joined his regiment
at Fort Abraham Lincoln. on the Missouri river, In
Dakota territory, and he, with five other officers,
slept their first night in the room formerly occupied
by Custer.
Then to the field. Through all the Northwest
country the Indians were in arms. The Seventh
was sent down the Missouri to disarm and pacify
the Indians. 1t was bitter, trying work, & mixture
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27

The Henry s. Denison memorial
building for medical research at the
University of Colorado has now been
made ready for use. 1t contains labor
atories for research in bacteriology,
pathology, physiology. chemistry and
clinical methods.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27
Whales.

The whale is not a fish. In every
thing which characterizes a true fish
and separates It from other classes. as
reptiles, birds and animals, the whale
resembles the last named uhe mann
maln) and differs radically and sunda-
mentally from the hsh.