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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-14
HONORs
SOUTH CAROLINA CALL,

Governor Stuart yesterday honored
requisition from the Governor of
South Carolina for a man OF many
aliases The party concerned 10 r.
w. Moore. alias ]. H. Caldwell, alias
Robert Craig Thompson. alias r. L.
Eincher. alias G. A. Reeves.
This party IL wanted in Columbia,
South Carolina. on a charge Of forgery,
ard Is now under arrest In Peters-
burg. T. w. Jefferson. OF the South
Carolina city. will Journey to the Cock
ade City for the much named prisoner.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-14
WILL AIM TO Do away
WITH MIOOltnfN
Housewives League VIII Discuss This
Feature As Further Means of
Cutting Cost of Living.
DAILY RECIPE.

California Plum Pudding without
Eggs.
One cup grated carrots.
One cup grated potatoes. into
which Is dissolved one teaspoon
soda.
One cup sugar.
One cup currants.
One cup raisins.
One-half cup Citron.
Two-thirds cup butter.
Two cups -four
One pinch salt.
Lemon peel and spices TO taste.
Mix and put in one-pound
coffee can with strip OF cloth
tied tightly over it. Steam for
five or six hours, according to the
consistency desired.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-14
TOO MUCH LIQUOR,
TRAVELLERS ARRESTED.

Because they were in the state with
more liquor than Is allowed by law,
Benjamin Williams and Robert Shaw.
negroes, were arrested yesterday at
the Byrd-Street Station. They claim
that they were passing through the
city from Philadelphia to North Car
olina. One OF the men had three
quarts and pint OF liquor. and the
other sisht pints. according to the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-14

Tickets to points in Virginia. W~NtRs
Virginia, Ohio. Tennessee. Kentuckya
Louisiana and Mississippi, viii be sold.
at special rates on Decem bers2e.s FIJI
20. %. "a and %, 1916, with AH1
limit for return passage January fDtAsf
l917. Fare to Norfolk and RETURN,
$3.50, TO Lyuchburg and return.
S. 40. For rates to other points, ap-g
ply to { A. Overton. Jr.. city pas-
scnger agent. No. MS East MAIN
street or to sHS3
G. H. BOSLEY, -.
District Passenger Agent.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-14

San Juan. p. r.. Dec. 13.-The first
shipment Of sugar from the new crop
was made today when Guanica Cen
trale forwarded to New York 5000
bags. or 1900 tons. representing
part OF it's first weekly output.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-14

selecting a silver this or real leather
that regardless of it's usefulness or
appropriateness for---brother. so she
tells the smiling clerk
And in the women's department?
An old man slips 'slyly by here. and
looking neither to right nor left ~
young fellow steps to the counter
there. Much needed advice Is given
by the interested saIeswoman and the
purchaser marches boldly out of the
store with an almost invisible box,
where a roll of bills once lay. No one
wonders why this sudden change in
customers for everybody is changing
accordingly-its the sign of the sea-
son.
The merchants on Broad Street
have put on display a wonderful lot
OF stuff, each piece. whether useful
or ornamental, designed to fiji some
ones need and to give someone pleas
ure and, unless appearances are de-
ceiving. they are on the road toward
fulfilling their mission
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-14
Many shopping Early.

People are shopping early. though
of course the delightful rush for little
things put off until the last minutes
will come next week. and the mer~
chants are so quick and accomodat-
ing that no real rush inconvenience
the buyer. A Merry Christmas seems
in store for Richmond.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-14

Washington. Dec, 1s.-Forecast:
Virginia-Fair Thursday. colder In
central and east portions. Friday fair.
continued cold.
North Carolina--FAir Thursday
colder except in extreme west por-
ton. Friday fair. continued cold.
The Weather Bureau tonight an
nounced that off the North Atlantic
Coast there will be moderate and most
ly westerly winds with fair weather
off the Middle Atlantic Coast moderate
westerly winds and fair colder wealth
err. off the South Atlantic Coast. mod
crate west and northwest winds. ex-
cept variable of the Florida coast.
Local Temperature Yesterday.
IL noon temperature ........ Al
p. NJ. temperature .......... a.
p. NJ. temperature ............ IS
Maximum temperature to p, NJ. As
Minimum temperature to s p NJ %
Mean temperature .... 80
Normal temperature ............ ii
Deficiency in temperature yester-
day ........ C
Deficiency in temperature since
January 1....... ...... l.l6
Local Rainfall.
Rainfall last twelve hours. 0
Rainfall last twenty-four hours Q
Deficiency in rainfall since March
Sbs
Deficiency In rainfall since jan
uary 1........ 49,. -. ... 46s
Local Observation 1t 9 r. NJ. Yesterday.
Temperature -. ........,. 81
Humidity .s....... 80. IS
Wind--Direction 1890. N. w.
Wind--velocity ..... ..... -. 10
WsatAss ......... ......... Pf cily.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-14

District Passenger Agent.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30
Feast of the rabernaeIes.

The feast of the tabernacles In N
Old Testament times was also n hm'
vest celebration and took place on The
seventh day OF the month. which cor
responds to our November, sometim, =
lasting for whole week. They gail 9.
cred in the temple in great process
sions. holding palms, and In the streets
were booths decorated with the flow
ers and fruits of autumn.
Among the Indians Of America n 2
custom of having Thanksgiving feast
was practically universal-at leau
among those who had any amount Of
planting As corn was the main att.
Gle grown. their dances and feasting
were generally In honor of the hRf.
vesting Of that food. The writer's OF
several hundred years ago who firgt
studied the Indian on his native heath
ali speak of these festivals and the
elaborate ceremonial with which they
we're attended While most Of tie
tribes have vanished as such. there are
stlll some left on government reservG-
tlons which observe. though possibly y
IN modified degree, the ancient cuy-
tom OF their race.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30
is an Old Institution.

Despite popular opinion TO the CON
trnry, Thanksgiving day us an insti.
tuition is not peculiarly American.
For history shows that all ancient ma
tlons used to celebrate some feast Of n
thanksgiving nature, while most Of tie
tribes OF our American Indians had n
big gathering and n harvest feaIt
years before the white man ever set
foot on the shores OF the new world.
by the Greeks and Romans the fes-
tival days in honor of the goddess of
agriculture were times of rustic spt rt.
Of professions through the fields aud
the decorating OF the home with fruits
and flowers. The people Of Egypt On.
ioycd a time Of feasting after gather.
ing in their harvests and laid the
fruits of the year on the altar OF Ih,
Goddess Isis.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30

TNtIIS is the week of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving day Is nn Ameri-
can custom started by the PHI
grlms who landed on The new
continent and faced hardships which
few can realize who are reared In
the wealth and luxury of the land to-
day.
The season had been hard one.
Many had died and the prospect of
starvation during the cold winter with
its ice and snow loomed large. So,
when the harvest yielded enough to
keep them until another season would
produce the necessities OF llfe they
met that last Thursday In November
Ia year 1921, and gave thanks to their
God. who had remembered them.
Thankfulness is usually In inverse
ratio to the value OF the thing for
which we give thanks This Is no dis
pnragement Of the things we are CRATE.
full for: but humanity does not think
Of thinks until it has felt the tcrrors
OF distress.
The rich who live In luxury and ease
do not thank with their hearts. Their
thanks are but formal expressions Of
meaningless words. How can words
mean anything when one has not felt
the things which make for thankful.
nessg
But the poyerty-striCkeu who have
faced starvation pour out thanks from
their humble hearts for the things
that have saved their lives.
Those who live In gorgeous homes
with comfortable fireplaces do not
think OF thunks. But those who live
in the little novel with big cracks in
the walls and creylces about the doors
and windows and without fuel, give
thanks for the comfort of fire.
We do not prize health until we have
lost II. and we do not appreciate life
until we have faced the danger OF hav.
ing 10 give II up.
That which We have we are likely to
accept as matter Of course; but be
deprived OF Il and the sudden reallza-
tion of It's value Jars our souls like an
earthquake.
We are thankful In the full sense OF
the word for things necessary to life
and happiness only when we have had
10 do without them.
We are not thankful for that TO
(which we are accustomed and accept
thoughtlessly. But when we are de-
priyed of the necessities OF life and
face the hardshlps. including death.
that cofue as a result, we are thankful
with all our heart.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30
WHERE THE WILD TURKEY CALS-THE REAL THANKSGIVING BIRD

America has more to be thankful for
yearly. than any other nation In the
world; but our thanks are tempered
by the gravity OF the sorrow of our
neighbors.
The year has not been one Of great
happiness, peace and prosperity. II IL
a year of travail for humanity-the
travail Of a people being born again.
But out of It will come disciplined
and sober people; 1t people who will
know the realities of life better.
We will learn that life is n serious
matter, and no silly. simpering affair.
The war has brought us again TO an
understanding OF the terrible earnest
ness Of the thing we call life
The cartn is In process, and we still
have earthquakes and volcanic erup-
tions
Humanity, too, Is in process. and
strife and sorrow and death will con,
tlnue to be its lot. We must face life
resolutely and meet destiny undls-
mayed.
This year we will not he thankful
50 much for the blessings we have re-
celved for the things that have been
given to us-for being pampered by
prodignl Providence-und being re-
lieyed of our burdens, as we will be
thankful for the strength to bear them.
In the shrine of our hearts our deep
est prayer is not that we shall be re-
lieved of our burdens; but that we
shnll be given the strength TO bear
them, for we are great in the degree
and the manner In which we face our
tasks and perform them. The Great
Souls are those that have suffered
and endured.
our Thanksgiving this year will he
no perfunctOry, infantile prattle be-
cause of safety.
This Is year OF reckoning with
fate; OF being thankful II we. our
selves, have not fallen In the wreck
age. We are thankful not for what
has happened; but for what has not
happened.
Life Is not trivial pastlme IL is
deadly earnest. II is the course that
destiny takes. and let MS be thankful,
not for less OF life, but for more OF Il,
aud the courage, the fortitude, the
strength, and the persistence to meet
It's difficulties and continue It's course
undaunted by disaster and unspoiled
by success.
We are thankful for Character, not
charity and for iron wills that have
not been broken by the Inevitable =
From the Sunday Magazine.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30

said the pastor, would throw cold wa
ter on the whole service"
well, a little cold water amt going
TO hurt Baptist, is it?" asked April,
with something that approached Il
chuckle. And, not quite so pleasantly,
he said he would see.
April Jones was suspicious per-
son; and that night when Dan asked
him II he wouldn't come TO the Con.
gregatiOnal service, he roared:
What are you fellows up to? |
amt no heather, that you have to start
misslonarylng me !"
Ii took little time to convince him
that there was no conspiracy of cordi-
ality against him. Suddenly the old
fellow got up. raised one finger at
arms length above his head, and said I:
IL tell you what I'm going to do:
amt going to any of 'em, and I'm go-
Ing to 'em all" And with this para
doxicnl prOnouncenent he stomped off
to bed.
Next morning April Jones sent the
cashier to ask the three clergymen TO
meet him at the bank.
I'm much obliged to you all for your
invitations" he said. while the Congre-
gatlonalist looked at him mystified, and
the Methodist and Baptist looked at
each other, but | can't be in no three
places at once. That shows you the
ruinous effect of competition. Now.
I'm going to suggest this: Let's open
up the school auditorium and have one
big, bang-up Thanksgiving service and
invite the whole town."
That is how the famous town
Thanksgiving in Hometown came
about. Before they got through April
Jones was made chairman of the com
mittee of arrangements, and Dan Meek
er was called over from the grocery
and made secretary. II was agreed that
the Methodist minister was TO omen
the meeting, that the Baptist pastor
should offer prayer, and that the Con.
gregatlonal brother should preach the
sermon, with the Methodist TO pro.
nounce the benedictlon.
"And Wen have three choirs get IN.
gether up ut June's house tomorrow
night" suggested Dan, "and practice
each others hymns !"
So one idea suggested another. and
before Thursday arrived the whole
town had been invited, and had agreed
10 come.
No one Ia Hometown will forget that
Thanksgiving service in the school au.
ditorium. What singing there was by
that chorus of pearly thirty voices
mingling In the best old Methodist
and Baptist and Congregational
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30
Thanksgiving Fable.

An aged Turkey, once upon time
had occasion TO read the Riot act to IA
Grandson because the latter was a
Glutton,
at Behooves you to Fast for n few
weeks" said the Wise old Bird. for
Thanksgiving draweth apace-that
season when long-legged Blpeds
Swoop down upon Us without Warn
ing and give II to our Family in the
Neck"
"Oh, go tot" exclaimed the Young
Glutton. "You think because Old Age
has made you Gouty and rendered you
Unable 10 Partake of the Good things
Of Life that you can Stun me. I'm
Dead Next See?"
every WELL" answered the Grand
sire. Keep right on getting Obese
and you viii be Dend Next for keeps ;
then Youll see who does the Stufiing."
And the late November returns
showed that the Old Turk knew
Whereof he Spoke.
Moral--If you would Live Long aud
Prosper, Don't get Gay.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30

Thanksgiving: | think we ought to
give something more besides giving
thanks
There's Il young fellah setting down
here that mas been secretary of our
committee of arrangements, who has
been Citing off lot of ideas up ut our
place about us folks Citing together,
and want TO tell you they're sound.
move you that we go into commit
tee of the whole, or something. and
that after we git organized, that Dan
Meeker be made secretary OF the
blamed business. whatever 1t is"
1t didn't take more than minute
to make Dan secretary. They wanted
to make April president, but he
wouldn't have It, But he would act as
treasurer so the Methodist minister
turned over the collection.
wait minute" said April Jones,
you amt through with this here col
lection yet. Here's this hill west OF
town, that sends half the farmers TO
Spragueville with their produce be-
cause it's too hard to haul. How many
hhSh ~ biNV uuy y NoTh WIN NunS
TO grade her DOWN.
Fifty hands went up in the air like
bnyonets. Good" said April Jones.
That's the first thing we tackle. Bur
were going to git power plant at the
old dam, and we're going to pay Off the
mortgage on the Methodist church, and
do few more things. And, as for the
mortgage, put me down, Mr.. Secre-
tary. for two hundred for starter"
TheGe isn't any mortgage ON the Cen.
tral NJ. Il. church at Hometown, and
there is a power plant at the dam, and
Dan Meeker is working in the bank.
No, April hasn't taken him into part
nership.
But June has.
tcopyriSht 1915. Western Newspaper unlon.l
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30

He give us navigable river, but II
amt never been navigated by anything
much but bullheads and canoes. He
give us n high hill to shut Off the
west wind. but there's some of us that
mint been tC the top of 1t yet. He
give us good soil, but we're keepln'
II more or less Of secret. He give
us lot OF natural advantages, and
quite bunch of natural loafers. one
of whom | guess | am which. Fac.
is, he give us a darned sight more than
we ever give ourselves. Six days he
labored and made Hometown; and II
ain't never had any next week since"
OF course, it wasn't as bad as that
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30
Their ThanksolvIno s.rlou,

When that serious-minded Old pil.
grim, Governor Bradford, ordered n
day set apart for prayer and thanks
giving for the first harvest In the new
country, he certainly never dreamed
of the elaborate feasts that would be
served up on that occasion for nearly
300 years. And as for all the nlccties
of table service and fruit and floral
decorations ana the etiquette of lnvi-
tatlons and all that sort of thing. why
the mere thought of IL would be-
enough TO cast any housewife OF those
days into outer darkness. For the
stern members of the Plymouth col
ony considered shch superauIties as
so many traps cunnlngly balted for his
perdition by mans worst enemy.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30

a help. but a hindrance. II made too
hard a haul. aud IL shut Hometown
in 50 that II almost forgot about the
world outside. Even HOmetown's ad-
vantagcs were In some ways a disad-
vantage.
Three squares q day have come so
easy to most OF US here" said Dan to
himself. that we've kind OF forget that
there is anything else"
There never was a town so good
that II couldn't be made better. Dan
thought Il would be fine Idea 10 get
up some kind OF a community club or
something and take up the work where
Harry Dee claimed creation had lefi
OF. Harry Dee agreed with him. but
that Is all he did. II doesn't take
much effort TO agree Dan did well as
n clerk In the grocery, but as o slim
ulator Of the town he didn't make
much progress. Likewise he didn't
make much progress up at the Jones
place. June smiled. but April stormed
As Thanksgiving approached. the
three local pastors began to think
about their Thanksgiving services. The
choirs we're rehearsed. and certain
Thanksgiving sermons were busted OF
looked over and rewritten. one dny
the minister Of the Methodist church
said to his wife:
There's April Jones. lie has more
to be thankful for than any Of us, as
far as this worlds goods go. Wouldn't
Il be fine thing to get Ape out to
our Thanksgiving mceting?'
Ills wife Immediately said It would
and she couldn't help wondering II
ii might not ultimately have some
effect on her husbands back SALARY
although II was worldly thought. So
that very afternoon her husband called
at the bank and invited April Jones.
April Jones said he'd see--and he
was so decent about it that the min.
lister told his wife that April Jones
was misjudged man. The Baptist
pastor saw them through the bank
window and, as May taught in the sBap-
list Sunday school and June sang In
the choir, he decided that it would be
no more than right 10 drop in and have
a talk with their father and mention
the Thanksgiving services.
THE absence of our lending citizen
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30

with Chautauqua last summer. came
about the best people In the world in 1t
industrious in their work. honest In
their dealings and kind TO their neigh
bors. But II hadn't any navigable river
Harry TO the contrary notwithstand-
ing. The old mill dam below, long
out OF use since the sawmill was gone.
but still In existence, backed the river
up for a mile and bred canoes and bull
heads. The hill west of town wasn't
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30

are going to do with this money. Us
folks here in Hometown have got IA
lot to be thankful for, but we don't
know 1t. We ought TO give thanks for
these three brothers here. who are pull
ing the weeds in our little vineyard.
We ought to give thanks for our good
school. We ough! to give thanks for
cur good soil, ana the good power in
our river that we ain't never developed
yet. But tell you what ] think about
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30
The Thankful Spirit.

Cultivate the thankful spirit. IL
will be TO thee perpetual feast.
There is, or ought TO be. with us no
such thing as small mercies; all are
great, because the least are unde-
served. Indeed, really thankful
heart will extract motive for gratitude
from eyerythlng.-J. X. Maeduff.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30

hymns How the preachers Wed with
each other in eloqnencei And when
the Methodist minister took up col
lection. although nobody knew exactly
what for. everybody laughed right out.
But that was April Jones turn TO
speak. Il don't know whether it's
lust regular for me to speak now, after
these good brcthers," said April. "or to
speak az all. but tell YOU what we
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30

iaOuln "a which he WIS born. Especial
ly since he had had to go through life
with the nickname APE" a natural
shortening Of his longer name. but one
that was not so very complimentary.
"A darned good name. April or
Ape. said Harry Dee time and again.
II it's Ape he's as sociable as
gorilla. Aud. II it's April. he's as
pleasant as the breaking mp OF hard
winter"
Yet April had acquired funds. u he
hadn't made friends. And he had 9th
er riches. Chief among them was
Jnne, daughter. named for her birth
month. like her father. She was well
FAMED. too-for she had roses In her
cheeks. and eyes that we're twin
patches of blue sky. Nearly every
body preferred her 10 her sister May
Dan Meeker certainly dld-Or to any
one. April, May and June were the
whole Jones family.
AS for Hometown, and the kind Of
town Hometown was. this is the way
Harry Dee described II when he went
down To the city, and they asked
Hometown is the best little town
The Lord ever made but there amt
anybody else ever worked at 1t much
When he quit. everybody else laid of
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-11-30
APRIL JONES
GIVES THANKS
>DouqIas MaIIoch

pIiil. Jones was the
worst Crouch In Home
town. Perhaps II was
enough TO make a man
grouchy. to have had
parents with no more
originality than TO name
him april" because
April happened TO be the
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-09-26

are pomegrana,cS and iig trees in
bloom and the honcy,ucklc Is blooming
around the ycranda. sending ou, the
sweetest ol perfume my lady would
wish for And to- also the red berry
oi the McN,can chill pepper /, to be
seen there setting sharply of the col
ors oi the grape fruit, the oranges and
the lemons, which now have the color
.o' the grccucst green, although the
beans are pi the yellow green hue.
Watermelon at Christmas.
For Christmas we have been invited
To partakc with tic family Of fresh
watermelon, sweet "tatcr," and fresh
tomatoes and We nigh, get fresh straw
berries II everything works out right
Sergeant Howell. who went home the
fifth OF TIM, month ,o his mother
dcathbcd, came back today after hay
ing attended the funeral and settled
some ot her estate The sergeant ,
home is in Shawnee Private Carter i,