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Heavy Gates Tor Panama canai. The" order for the Panama lock gates covers no fewer than 58,000 tons of steel, distributed over 46 gates, or 92 leaves. IO DRITE OCT MALARIA AJND lilllLU Uf TnE SYSTEM rafce the Old Standard UKuVBS TArti'liiLKnA tlilLL 'IONIC. Von know what yon are Laning. Ttn formula U plainly printed on every buttle, howtnif it la simply Oulnlno and Iron in a laai Inss iorm. The Quinine drltes onl the malaria and tne Iron builds 'jp the system, bold by ail dealers lor oU years. rice 60 cents. "I am greatly encouraged," said a man today. "A good many people knocking on me lately; that is a sign.' I am amounting to something." For COLDS and ORIP Hicks Capudinb is the best remedy re lieves tBe aching and feverlsnness cures the; Cold and restores normal conditions. It' liquid effects iminediatly. 10c., 2Sc and 60a. At drug stores. aW" .-V A II 'V i if II LI EXT to a goodly supply of turkeys the most impor tant requisite for a suc cessful Thanksgiving is a plentiful measure of cran berries of just the prop tart flavor. As well have mi . 1 yxfAWS'll inanKsgivmg aumei Vp5X without turkey as without the appetizing cranberry or tne united states nave a; scam cause iu wuuj uc- cause of this feature of their holiday menu. It has Jf'j been years since a failure of the cranberry crop was rejjorted and cranberry growers have been so increasing their productive areas that despite, tfce increase in demand, due to the country's increase in population and other influences, there continues to be year by year a pretty lavish supply of the crimson berries, and most seasons find them available at very reason able prices. Cranberries, like so many of the other good things of life, are distinctively American deli cacies. To be sure, cranberries grow wild in some other quarters of the globe for instance in Europe, but it is only in the United States that they have been cultivated as an ,rti.clei of food. Even here the growing of cranberrie' is confined largely to three states Massachu setts, New Jersey and Wisconsin, How impor tant an industry it is may be surmised, however, mm, S:i. hit from the fact that the Cape Cod district in Mas sachusetts, the greatest cranberry region on the globe, sends to market as many as one-third of a million barrels of cran berries in a single season. The average person Is wont to term all berry areas "patches," but cran berries do not grow in patches but in bogs and, as may be sur mised from the name, most of these tracts are located adjacent to rivers or lakes or ponds, so that they can be flooded in the late au tumn and kept under water until spring. The berries grow on a vine which nestles close to the ground in a perfect tangle, and save for keeping out the weeds and battling with the insect pests, which are numerous, the cranber ries do not require very much cultivation or -attention until harvest time approaches in the abtumn. Then the cranberry grower must look forward to a period of anxiety, a careful, ser ious scrutiny of the weather. He must keep close watch on the weather, for if a frost comes ere the crop is harvested it will work sad havoc unless the grower has been fore warned and. flooded his bog or built great bon fires to keep up the temperature. In years gone by the harvesting of cranber ries was done solely by the hand picking meth- od, much as raspberries or strawberries are picked, and most of the cranberry picking was done by women and chil dren. The "Cranberry King" used to hire as many as 1,100 pickers on his great bogs on Cape Cod and the pick ers, many of whom jour neyed long distances, "camped out" on ' the bogs during the picking season. The past few years, however, has witnessed a revolution. Now almost all cranberries are picked by the aid of machines, and because it is tiresome work manipulating these machines it has come about that most of the women and children have been forced out of the industry and the task Is largely In the hands of men, the more skillful of whom receive from $3 to $5 per day. The picking machine most extensively used has the appearance of a huge wooden scoop, the bottom of which is made up of a row of metal bars, tipped with sharp prongs and set close together. " In operation this scoop is shoved with some considerable force into the tangle of cranberry vines and then is drawn up ward and backward with the result that the vines which have been caught slip between the, metal bars but leaye the berries, which are too large to pass through the openings, as do the their stems and remain In the scoop, whence they. are transferred to the tray which each pick er has close at hand. An expert picker with a machine will do the work of from half a dozen to a dozen hand pickers. The cranberries as' picked on the bogs are placed in huge wooden boxes and transferred to a nearby frame building, where they are passed through a machine known as a "separa tor, which takes out all the leaves, twies and other foreign matter. Then they are sorted for the elimination of any bad or worm-eaten ber ries and finally are placed in barrels, which are hauled away to railroad yards to be loaded Into cars to the tune of from 220 to 240 barrels to the car, refrigerator cars being used exclu sively. Up to the present time cranberries have been sold In bulk, but this year sees an innova tlon in the appearance of evaporated cranberries, for which are claimed all the advantages of evap orated peaches or apples, and in the introduction of cranberries put up in pasteboard cartons Bearing cranberry bogs of the most desir- , able kind cost from $600 to $1,200 per acre, but in a bumper year a grower may get his money back the first year, and during the worst year the industry has known in a decade most of the growers made from 10 to 15 per cent, on their investment, and that, too, In spite of the fact that cranberries were so plentiful that they brought only $2 a barrel, whereas $5 to $7 a bar rel is accounted an average price, and there have been years when a famine of cranberries sent vines, and in consequence are stripped from the price up to $10 per barrel. Cb r : rr-n T7 1 SiA waned on a prosperous I fMiyX .. Tr.V. . I Umfi I community. Plymouth, W,mM VI Mass., was both i&fS- v!!" WJ&$$8T I M0Mm healthy and wealthy. 'mMjB W A" & ivy S? . A " N i - HE autumn of 1621 waned on a prospei'ous community. Plymouth, Mass., was both healthy and wealthy. Sickness, though it had destroyed one-half the -company of pilgrims, had ceased, and the crops, as a whole, had been good, the peas alone failing. All the houses in the settlement had been put into con dition and a goodly stock of furs and prepared lumber had been made ready for export to England by the next ship. The waters swarmed with fish and eea fowl were abundant. The call of the wild turkey was heard in the woods and the patter of the fleeting deer was nothing strange. The summer was past; the harvest ended. The pilgrims decided upon a period of recreation. The governor . sent out four huntsmen, who in one day secured game to last the colony a week. Hospitality was extended to MassasoJt, of the neighboring settle ment, who brought 90 people with him. The guests remained 30 days. The company, engaged In rounds of amilsements, in which military drills and religious services formed a part. Thus, heartily and loyally, was inau gurated the great New England festi val of Thanksgiving. For two centu ries It has continued to be observed. at first mostly in the eastern states, but it has now become national, its annual return finding a welcome from boundary to boundary, both at top and bottom and either extremity of the nation. Thanksgiving -day Is peculiarly an American custom, though there are some writers who claim that it is not possible to determine the date of the first ' observance. John A. Goodwin, in his historical review, "The Pilgrim Republic," is positive, however, that the first celebration occurred in the fall of 1G21, this being followed in 1623 by the first Thanksgiving proclama tion, by the governor of Massachu setts. In 1C30 there arrived at Plym outh 14 vessels, bringing with them 8S0 colonists, making the number nearly 1,200 instead of a mere 300. On July 8, 1630, another Thanksgiving was held In acknowledgment for this Accession to the ranks of the colon ists. The Dutch governors of the New tlon by the governors 6f New York began in 1817. From that time the observance gradually crept southward and westward, and in. 1885 Governor Johnson of Virginia adopted it,' and though in 1857 Governor Wise of Vir ginia declined to make the proclama tion on the ground 'that he was unau thorized to interfere in religious mat ters, In 1858 a Thanksgiving day was proclaimed in eight of the southern states. The day had thus naturally grown to be a national institution of almost universal observance, when the Civil war brought to sudden ripeness this along with many oilier tendencies, and President Lincoln put upon it the seal of his official proclamation. Presi dent Lincoln's first proclamation was in 1802, on account of the first Impor tant victory of the national arms. He issued $ similar recommendation In 1863. Decorative Conceits and Favors For the Thanksgiving Festivities Netherlands also appointed different dates for public thanksgiving, from time to time, and in some historical works there is record of a dispute as to which of these colonies deserved the credit for having first inaugurated the day. Most of the best founded historians, however, give the credit to the New England states. The Dutch' governors of New Neth erlands appointed occasional days, of thanksgiving in 1044, 1615, 1655 and 1CC4, and the English governors fol lowed their example in 1755 and 1760, and the Protestant Episcopal church in the United State's in Its prayer book, ratified in 1789, recommends for Thanksgiving day the first Thursday in November, unless some other day be appointed by the civil authorities. There were also occasional recommen dations by other religious bodies, but no regular annual recommendation by the governor of New York before 1817. The struggle of the colonies for in dependence marks the beginning of THE GLUTS tS pjs-MAiHfrO . THIRTY general observances of days of thanks giving in this counlry. The congress of 1777. the one which prepared the articles of confederation for adoption by the colonies, adopted a resolution setting apart the eighteenth day ,of December, 1777, to be observed as a day of solemn thanksgiving and praise throughout the United States. Washington, di Hng his administra tion, issued two thanksgiving procla mations, one in 1789 and the other in 1795, just after the suppression of the "Whisky rebellion," which had threatened the peace of the country, and President Madison issued one upon the declaration of peace In 1815. However, In the early years of the nation the rule was for the co lonial custom to be followed and the proclamation . made emanated from the governors. The western states, largely people from New England or New York, early followed the lead of these portions of the country. As we have seen, the annual recominenda- The pious, hard-driven, worn-out, but thankful Puritans who sat down at their tables one November, a few cen turies ago, and made the first Thanks giving Day, never knew to what lengths they were to drive the in genuity of their poor descendants. But it wasn't their fault after all, that the preparer of the Thanksgiving feast today has to attend Just as much to the turkey's surroundings as to the turkey itself. It was good enough for them to have a well-stocked Jarder from which could come the turkey, the celery, the pumpkin pie, the cranber ries and all the other goodies which history puts down to their credit. Even the comparatively recent New Englanders were content with all these as long as they looked tempting and tasted good. But today, even the important fowl itself Is hardly more important than the ribbons, the can dies, the favors, the adornments of all kinds, which must appear on the Thanksgiving table. "Don't bother about having too much to eat," an up-to-date daughter was heard to say to her New England mother the other day. "I want plenty of room for the ribbons and the candy boxes." It's the same vay with other daugh ters of an esthetic turn of mind, rath- t r than a practical one, and it looks as if their ambitions to "make things look pretty" may be realized this year, for there is a goodly array of Thanks giving favors and table decorations of all kinds. Of course the turkey reigns su preme, even if it is in paper, and is seen in all sizes, all kinds, roasted to a beautiful dark brown as the cook book says, or standing important and majestic with Its big fan-shaped feath er tail high In the air. In most cases the favor tufkey is meant for candy, but certain new china turkeys are mustard cups. The pumpkin is next in importance and Is seen In many of the novelties. There are large paper pumpkins for centerpieces and all sorts of small ones in papier mache or tissue paper which are candy boxes. Fruits and vegetables of all kinds seem to be suggestive of the season of feasting, and many good imitations are found among the candy box collections. Goblinesque little men are made' of paper fruits and fixed up to have a very grotesque appearance, and funny little figures are made of peanuts, and mounted on cards. Nuts are tied up in ribbons and are found to be prlze jpackages for the receiver, for in them are neatly packed little stick-pins, whistles, etc., all carefully concealed within the paper shells. The place cards allow of a great many new designs, and an especially new feature among these is some small mirrors. The chrysanthemum is the leading Uower among the paper boT.ers, and those in yellow or orange seem to be the most desired shades. Other imitations which are especially "life-like" are the painted piece of the pumpkin pie, the tin of Boston baked beans, the plum pudding and the ear of corn. LENT INSPIRATION. "I am gratified," said the first prom inent citizen, "to observe .the under-, current of joy in the Thanksgiving proclamation of the governor. Hith erto the proclamations have been along the old cut and dried, stilted forms, but in this instance there is a certain tone of joyousness.of thankfulness, of pure gratefulness that is really in spiring." "Yes," agrees the second prominent citizen, "but it's no wonder the govern or felt good when he wrote that proc lamation." "No. He has started on what seems destined to be a good administration, already there is talk of promoting him to some higher office in the gift of the peo " "And besides," interrupts the second man, "the governor owns one of the largest turkey farms In the state. 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