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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-11-18
Started a Wild Turkey.

I am to think that one can't be happy
and thankful anywhere in the world !!
Why, If Dick were only well again
would be the most delighted woman
in the universe. But we will have a
Thanksgiving dinner in spite of you ="
she turned and shook her fist at the
Horn of Plenty below. Il will make
some mincemeat-sq squirrel will help
some, although I hate to kill the dar-
lings-and those wild grape preserves
I made will be delicious! Why didn't
l think of it before instead of grum-
bling? I'm afraid Dick has noticed
my downheartedness. Well, l won't
give way again"
With this resolution Hester lifted
the gun and fired several shots in
the direction of the Dowd place. She
thought she heard a signaling shot in
return. and, satisfied that help would
soon b. on the way, she went back
to the cabin and discovered that Dick
was sleeping quietly.
1t was a lonely day for her. for
Dick slept far into the afternoon. She
completed her plans for Thanksgiving
day, and while she stood in the door
yard watching the trail along which
she expected to see Lin Dowd's. mules
come galloping at any instant, a great
plan took form in her mind.
"If 1 could only blow the old Horn
of Plenty to bits, Dick would admit
defeat and go home with me. There
he could have some chance in fathers
Office and l would work, too, if neces-
sary. This suspense is killing him."
She opened the door of the tool
shed and rolled a keg of gunpowder
into the mouth of the tunnel. Then
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-11-18
Events That Concern the Two
Hemispheres Recorded So as
to Be Read at a GIanCe.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS EPITOMIZED
Paragraphs Which Picture Executive
and Legislative Activities at the
National and State
Capitals.
WASHINGTON

Sir Auckland Geddes, British am
bassador, Informed Secretary Hughes
that Prime Minister Lloyd George will
sail for this country within two weeks,
providing domestic affairs permit him.
Congressman Fish and Hustled of
New York urged President Harding to
appoint Ithinelander Waldo, former
New York police commissioner, as vice
governor general of the Philippines.
Senate agreed that the tax on candy
shall be u flat rate of 3 per cent.
The wool growers are not satisfied
with the rates on wool as provided in
the Fordney bill. The basic rate is
25 cents per pound. of clean content.
The wool growers insist that this
does not afford adequate protection.
Chairman FOrdney, of the House
Ways and Means Committee, declared
In the House that soldiers bonus bill
would be passed at the next session of
Congress.
Renewal of the fight in the Senate
for the passage of the soldiers bonus
bill resulted in a further setback for
the tax revision measure.
A resolution was adopted by the
Senate authorizing appointment of a
committee of five Senators to hear
charges made by Senator Watson, of
Georgia, that American soldiers in
France were treated inhunanly and
hanged without court martial proceed
ings"
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NATIONS BUSINESS

Special committee of the American
Steamship Owners Association and
the United States Department of Com
merce at Washington reached al
agreement on the proposed reorganiza
tion of the marine bureaus of the de-
partment.
An American syndicate has secured
claims for twenty miles along the Up,
per Peace river, in British Columbia,
and will begin dredging there mex:
season for gold.
All Liberty bonds and Victory loan
the year, presumably us the result OF
the Federal Reserve Boards action in
reducing rediscount rates.
4 bill authorizing the opening of
100000 acres of land in Alaska for
homestead purposes passed the house.
The land is now classified as coal land,
but it is regarded as land valuable for
farming purposes.
Pennsylvania crude oil has been ad-
vanced so cents barrel to $4.
Eight of the II Federal Reserve
Banks announced reductions in redis-
count rates ranging from one-half of l
per cent to l per cent. The Reserve
Banks in Philadelphia and New York
reduced their rate to Az per cent, and
this stands as the lowest in the fed,
eral reserve system. The previous rate
in both cities was 5 per cent.
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FOREIGN

Soviet Russia does not favor the
arms conference.
Alleged hardships suffered by Brit
ish emigrants at Ellis Island were dis
cussed in house of commons.
British firm is building huge mono
plane to cost f150,000. 1t will accom-
modate $50 persons and travel 40
miles an hour. The schedule from
London to New York is "a hours.
Alleging that aliens were being
smuggled over the border at Sarnia,
Ont, American immigration officials
made all persons entering the United
States at this point undergo a rigid ex-
animation.
Sir Robert Borden, heading Cana
says responsibility of preventing war
rests on United States and Great
Britain
Greeks are invading Albania from
the south, according to London re-
port.
In disorders at Jerusalem four Jews
and one Arab were killed and 13 per-
sons wunded. Order has been re-
stored.
American Agricultural Commission
in London reports meat market there
heavily overstocked.
All the Sim Fein political prisoners
ir the Ballykinair Camp, 30 miles from
Belfast, were unconditionally released
by the British government.
La Prensa of BuenOs Aires demand
ed that government contracts with the
Baldwin Locomotive Works and the
Middletown Car W0"lsz be abrogated
in favor of German companies.
Arrangements have been completed
to receive former Emperor Charles
and former Empress Zita of Austria
Hungary as eXiles on the Island Of
Madeira, according to a telegram re-
ceived at Lisbon from Fuchal the
chief city of the island.
No reduction will be made in the
3 cent price Of French newspapers for
the next u months, it was decided at
the general assembly Of the French
press held at Paris.
British Columbia Legislature passed
a resolution requesting Dominion gov
ernment to amend the immigration act
of Canada to provide for total restric-
ton of Asiatic immigration.
Premier Lloyd George took irrevoca-
BILE steps for the cancellation of his
massage on the Aquitania. 1t Is now
unlikely that he will arrive at Wash
ington earlier than the end Of Novem>
her,
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much better. He said he felt as strong
as lion and would get up and eat
some of the tOOthSOme viandS whose
odors filled the cabin with reminders
of Thanksgiving days in New England.
Hester had actually shot and killed 3
wild turkey and she was jubilant over
her Skill The turkey was roasting in
the oven now while Hester put the
finishing touches to her timed vege-
tables and the pumpkin pies she had
made.
81 suppose you covered the dyna-
mite, Hester?" asked Dick suddenly.
II forgot, dear" she replied, and
she had also forgotten her intention
of blowing up the mine. Thanksgiv-
ing preparations had driven despair
and bitterness from her heart. Il Will
run down there in a few moments"
81 believe 1 feel able to go myself"
began Dick, who had dressed himself
and was trying his strength.
Hester made such protest that he
compromised on walking as far as the
big rock.
She stood in the doorway watching
him with tender eyes. He paused by
the rock, waved his hand and
scratched a match to light his pipe.
He tossed the flaming match end
aside and Hester, watching it, saw it
flame on the ground and then a sullen
streak of red ran down the hill to-
ward the shaft.
"The fuse-fuse!' she screamed,
running toward her husband.
But she was too late! The quick
fuse had accomplished its purpose. 1t
reached the gunpowder-there was
deafening explosion, followed by
detonation that shook the hillside as
the store of dynamite tore into the
earth.
She found Dick rising to his feet,
white and Stern-looking.
"What was that Hester?" he asked.
Tearfully, Hester made her confess
sion, and she had scarcely finished
when they were confronted by anoth-
er disaster-the little cabin they
called home burst into flames, ignited
by the overturned cook stove.
Half an hour later, they faced each
other amid the smoking ruins of their
home Below was q jumbled heap of
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-11-18
Many Reasons for Thanksgiving

roar he soon finds out it has the same
effect as perpetual silence. There is
no sound loud enough to interrupt the
roar. One gets no contrast. SO with
life. A life of constant success or
idleness or endless pleasure becomes
a mOnotony. An adversely now and
then, a little bitter here and there,
make the cup taste the more sweet.
Adversely now and then is the stone
upon which we whet our tastes and
appreciations. They put the edge up
on life.
There is. more JOY in the holiday
for the laborer than for the man
whose life is speEt in idleness.
Why should we not include advers-
ity in our list of causes for thanks
giving? Why should there not be
rejoicing for the necessity of toll, or
that days should be dreary, or that IL
pain should make some part of our
anatomy a little uncomfortable? The
sunshine, the day Of rest from labor
ig all the more to be enjoyed.
We ere no. going on this sole,un
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through their neighbor, Lin Dowd,
five miles away, she had to admins
ter the simple remedies at her COM
mand until she could devise some
way of getting word to the doctor::*@+
Presently Dick was muttering rest
lessly in the little bedroom while Hes
ter picked up his gun and went quick
ly up into the woods behind the cabin.
If she could only make Lin Dowd
hear the report of the gun he might
suspect trouble and come to her aid.
Once in the dim aisles of the pines
she started a wild turkey which fiut-
tered up with a raucous squawk.
"There is our Thanksgiving din
ner!" cried Hester. "What an idiot
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-11-18
SPORTING

Lafayette, with the most powerful
team it has sent to Franklin Field,
Philadelphia, defeated Penn 3S to 6.
After two years of tie score football,
Princeton broke through and defeated
Harvard by a score of 10 to in the
Palmer Stadium, Princeton, for its
first victory over the Crimson in ten
years.
In defeat that was more or less ex-
pected, there was satisfaction aplenty
for Columbia at the Polo Grounds,
New York-delight over the teams
ability to hold the powerful Cornell
eleven to a small point total than had
Dartmouth the week before and joy
over the scoring of touchdown. Final
score, Al to Z.
The University Of Nebraska football
team surprised the Pitt Panthers at
Pittsburgh by defeating them by a
score of 10 to 0, outplaying the Blue
and Gold in all departments.
President Harding and Sir Harry
Lauder defeated E. B. Mclean and
Secretary George Christian one up in
a two-ball golf foursome.
According to Manager Wilbert Rob
inson of the Brooklyn Dodgers there
will be a record number Of young
pitchers taken south next spring by
the major league clubs. "Robby" de-
clares there is a marked shortage OF
hurlers in the majors and every club
needs at least two more slabbistS.
Donald B. Lourie of Peru, ILL.,, all
American quarterback in 1920 and field
general of this years Princeton team,
was awarded the Poe Memorial Cup
for 1920 by President Hibben at a
mass meeting of the undergraduate
body.
Willie Lewis, the veteran boxer and
manager, who brought out Abe Gold
stein. has discovered another very
promising little boxer in the person of
George DAILY, a genuine tlyweight, who
put up a real battle at 112 pounds.
The English women's hockey team
added another win to their unbroken
string of victories on their tour of this
country by defeating the Sargent
School of Physical Education at Cam
bridge, Mass, II to 1. The Sargent
girls crossed the visitors goal line in
one brilliant dash during the game.
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GENERAL

Two runners of the Corn Exchange
National Bank of Philadelphia were
held up and robbed of $500.
Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md, will
be returned under the direction of Sec
retary Weeks to the city of Baltimore
as soon as the Public Health Service
vacates the reservation.
Public Utilities Commissions of Kan
sas, Nevada, North Dakota and Ari-
zona petitioned the Interstate Com
merce Commission to order carriers
operating in those states to reduce
their intrastate and interstate freight
rates on wheat and coarse grain ap-
proximately 16 per cent.
A cut in wages of all classes of en-
ployees of Eastern railroads, to be eff
fectiye the early part of December,
was decided upon unanimously by the
chief operating officials of the various
roads of the Eastern Division at a
meeting held at the Grand Central
Terminal, New York.
Henry w. Gates pleaded guilty at
Lapeer Mich, in Circuit Court to
wrecking a fast Grand Trunk train
and was sentenced to life imprison-
ment. Three persons were seriously
injured in the wreck.
Four earthquake shocks were felt
In Lima, Peru.
Treasury official announces tax on
medicinal beer will be 40 cents case.
Republican leaders in House notified
Senate leaders that under no circum-
stances would the House accept the
sales tax in amy form.
Seven hundred and fifty union milk
davers in Greater Cleveland have gone
on strike, refusing to accept wage re-
ductions.
Secretary Hoover before the house
Military Committee, Washington. urged
that $4,O00,0O0 worth of surplus army
supplies. mainly medicine, be turned
over to the American relief admins
tration for use in Russia.
Charges of Senator Watson that
America soldiers in France were hang
ed without trial and were subjected to
barbarous treatment were declared to
be 'prep0sterous and incredible" by
Newton d. Baker, former secretary of
war
The regular army is below the mini
mum peace strength of 10000 set by
Congress. The official total was 1885,
600 on October 81.
A. c. TOwnley, president of the Ma
tionaI Nonpartisan League, began serv-
ing 80 day sentence at the Jackson
county Jail, Jackson, Mimi. for viola
tpu of the sedition l..w,
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The little cabin clung to the SCARED
hillside and pine trees clustered
around it as if to protect the tiny
home from the cruel blasts of the ap-
preaching winter.
In summer it was very lovely there.
Birds nested in the deep pine woods
behind the cabin and robin had built
in the tallest pine over the roof. But
now the robins had fled and the woods
were quiet save for the scolding chat
ter of blue jays and the occasional
bark Of squirrels. The grass had
died under the touch of blighting
frost and the wind whistled keenly
down the mountain.
Hester Prentice leaned against the
doorway and looked sorrowfully at the
bleak hillside and the dark hole in
the earth where her husband had
delved for many months. A few
f1ecks of gold had rewarded his eff
forts and although he still maintained
an outward air of cheerfulness Hes
ter read growing despair in his
stopped shoulders and evasive eye,
and only this morning she had noted
with little shock that his dark hair
was silvered around the temples.
"And Dick is only thirty" she muir
INJURED to herself with a catch of the
breath. ''That awful mine! With its
alluring promises that are never full
filled it is sapping his life of youth
and happiness. Such a mockery to
call 1t Horn of Plenty The YAM
pire' would be better name"
Tears clouded her blue eyes and
for the moment she lost the cheer
fulness that had sustained her ever
since her marriage to Dick Prentice
six months before. Family and friends
had protested at her foolhardiness in
risking everything upon the mining
claim staked out in distant Montana.
''There is Dick, you know" she had
smiled confidently at them. with
Dick, would go anywhere-take any
chance in the world!'
So she had married him and the
summer had been an ideal one. but
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Our forefathers had good reason
to give thanks They could see their
fondest dreams beginning to come
true. Their hopes of freedom and
plenty were growing stronger. A new
day was dawning.
If the people of Governor Brad
ford's time could find reasons for
public outpouring of their gratitude,
how much more should we give ex-
nression to our benificencies? If they
had one cause to give thanks, we have
dozens of them. In fact, who now
could enumerate the many blessings
he enjoys? No one has had so much
trouble or misfortune but that he
could easily find cause for thanks
giving 1t is splendid habit to cul-
tivate, 1t is one that can be attained.
Summer is all the more enjoyable
the longer the winter and the north
east breezes are continued. Perpetu-
al sunshine becomes wearisome. a
cloudy day is great relief.
When one stands by the Falls of
Niagara listening to Its desfening
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upturned rocks that marked the site
of the Elusive Horn of Plenty.
Hester, wide-eyed and pale, was
afraid to meet her husbands eyes.
This was indeed a cruel Thanksgiving
her own fault, too!
A shout came up the hill. Lin Dowd
had heard the roar of the explosion
and had lashed his mules up the trail
to the Prentice claim. They saw him
leave the mules and come a-foot up
the slope He stopped at the mine
and studied the ground, then he came
hurrying to meet them.
"Anybody hurt?" he asked anxious
ly, and finding that the young settlers
were intact, he tossed his hat down
on the ground and proceeded to exc.
cute a weird dance around the embers
of their home.
"Are you crazy?" demanded Dick at
last.
almost" admitted Lin breathless-
". pausing to confront them. "You
folks better come down to our house
TO dinner. Sarah's got a wild turkey
with all the trimmings. You two
will want to give thanks all the rest
of your Iives-understand?"
1--WE don't understand" replied Dick
grimly.
"Come with me, then" Lin led the
way down to the upheaval that marked
the site of the mine. Look at this
and this. The explosion has cut into
the vein that you always believed
was there-you wouldn't have found
it any other way, and, well, L guess
you're a millionaire for keeps!
THAT Horn of Plenty mine has GER
tainly overflowed with gold-and I'm
darned glad of it-and if you folks
can stop hugging each other you bet
ter come along down and get some
Thanksgiving dinner
Copyright. 1921. Western Newspaper Union.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-11-18

November was upon them and Thanks
giving only few days away.
HomeSicknesS tugged at her heart
strings. Back there in New England
they were making elaborate prepara-
tions for the great festival. They had
written and urged the young pion-
GERS to come home for Thanksgiving.
Hester smiled bitterly. Why, there
was scarcely a bushel of flour in the
house and the bacon was almost gone
what could one do with nothing
coming in?
Dicks hopefulness had Jared on
her nerves. Only this morning she
had spoken sharply to him when he
had made some remark about Thanks
giving. A pang Of remorse now sent
her hurrying down toward the shaft.
At the very edge of the opening she
hesitated and peered within the tun-
mel. Dick was there-sitting on a
keg, his head bowed in his hands
alone with his disappointment
'Dick, Dick!" she cried, going to
MIN anu lOlukdS LlS hCtio III hCI al LIS.
"Come up to the house. Leave this
dreadful placer
His face was hot with fever and his
eyes were bright.
"I believe 1 will come up for a
while, dear" he laughed uncertainty
"This hole in the ground has rather
got on my nerves, and if 1 could only
sleep for a hile-there-there I've
forgotten to cover that dynamite-''
"Tll come down and do that, dear"
protested his wife. "You know I'll
be Just as careful. Comet"
Hester supported Dick up the hill
and somehow got him into bed, and
because they were twenty miles from
the nearest town and there was no
direct means of communication save
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occasion to overlook the old home
and the fond parents waiting there.
Those of mature years as well as the
younger ones feel deep sense OF
gratitude that these dear old ones
have been left. They will get gen
erous share of our thoughts on this
occasion. And, if it should be they
have crossed ION over some time
will be spent in thinking over the
family gathering of the past.
On the whole we have great
many causes for thanksgiving this
year. Many more causes will enter
into the thoughts Of the reader. Each
will add many reasons, all of which
will go to make this strictly Ameri-
can day the happiest and best of all
the Thanksgiving days.
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she inserted a fuse into the opening
and carried the length to a large rock
halfway up the slope.
There, you greedy old Horn of
Plenty, you've swallowed all our hopes
and our money. When you have van
ished, perhaps we can begin over
again somewhere else!'
Hester did not light her fuse then,
nor for several days, because Dick re-
quired all her attention. Lin Dowd
evidently had not heard her call for
help and she was compelled to do the
best she could alone and unaided.
On Thanksgiving morning Dick was
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-11-18

The true worth of Sunday to us all
depends on our coming to find in 1t
the opportunity, the hope, the means
of some such rising above this world
as that of which st. John speaks: some
approach towards that entrance among
things eternal which he links with the
Lords day.-Francis Paget.
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Thankful for Existence.

OF necessity our forefathers cen
tered their causes for thanksgiving
npon the material things of life. they
we're in Il hand to hand fight with
adversely for their existence. Food,
or the lack of 1t, stared them IN the
face. It was the cause nf the,s cLlaF
concern,
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David Iaments AhsaIon1,s Death.

And the king was much moved, and
went up to the chamber over the
gate, and wept; and as he went, thus
he said, o my son Absalom, my son,
my son Absalom! would God, l had
died for thee, o Absalom, my son, my
son III Samuel 1S :33.
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and bear it." Its
most recent de-
vel pm e n t / @
manifest in the
appointment OF
Smile 'em up"
committees. This
attitude may have
some value. 1t is
surely better than
com pl a int and
morOseness. But
it falls infinitely
short of the plane
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS !.
The soul united to God in

The soul united to God in
strong bonds of love makes
every day one of Thanksgiving
to God for the numberless bless
ings that flow uninterruptedly
from Him, but it is we'll to unite
often in public thanksgiving that
we may teach the minds Of the
forgetfuI children of the Father
their duty of gratitude.
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Thinos That Are In the World

Love not the world, neither the
things that are in the world. If any
man love the world, the love Of the
Father is not in him.-I John 2 :15.
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The Joy of
Temptation
BY REV. JOHN G.. PAGE
Teacher of Bible Doctrine. Moody
Bible Institute, Chicago.

TEXT-My brethren, count it all JOY
when ye fall into divers temptations;
knowing this, that the trying of your
faith worketh patience But let patience
have her perfect work, that ye may be
perfect and entire, wanting nothing
Jas. 1:24
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The Awakened Heart.

The heart that is soonest awake to
the flowers, Ia always the hrst to be
truched with the thorns.-- Moore.
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There is a philosophy of life which
expresses itself In the words, "Grin