FRANKL
PRESS.
THE
NUAlBEIl 48.
VOLUME XXL
FRANKLIN. N. C, WEDNESDAY; NOVEMBER 23, 1906.
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J CbanKsfllplnfl Sermon.
BY NEWELL DWICHT HlLUS,
uUVT P.i Chunk.
Mini
Now that 2i2 tears hav nassed.
Thanksgiving has become our firBt
American holiday. It It essentially
tne east of the family. It celebrates
the home and sings the fireside Joys.
The day really celebrates a deliver
ance from danger. The summer of
1623 was unfriendly and the har
vests failed. The Indian hunters re
treated into the forest, food and
fame were scarce, and with terror
the Pilgrim fathers lodkod forward
to the winter and possible starvation
nd death. , In their' hour of extrem
ity the minister announced that on
the last Thursday of November there
would be a day of lasting and prayer
on which they would commend them
selves and their enterprise unto Ood.
But scarcely had they reached the
cabin where the service was to be
held than the sontinel shouted the
announcement that a ship with
weather-beaten sails and blackened
Ides was entering the harbor. The
good ship brought food against the
winter, seed against the spring,
friends and helpers against the ene
my. Delirious with Joy, the Pil
grims came together a second time
(or thanksgiving, and so this day was
born this day celebrating the festi
val of the family. Ours la the only
nation In the world that by a happy
holiday glorifies tho home as the first
of America's institutions.
If other years have furnished
grounds for gratitude, this year gives
them by way of pre-eminence.
Let us be thankful
For four bins stretching across the
continent from ocean to ocean filled
with wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye,
. timothy, clover, alfalfa, cotton
sheaves ripened for the hunger of
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. herd and flock, and above all, food
for man.
For ono bin stretching three thou
sand miles long 31 led with barrels of
apples, Jonathan and Spttzenberg
and golden pippin; with pear and
plum and peach, with grapes and
nuts, with all the preserved richness
of raspberry and strawberry, and the
ruddy yeget; bles potato and beet,
carrot, celery and turnip; the pump
kin and the jiquash.
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For abundant -alns, that .iave
filled the r'.vers, fed the water springs
and reservoirs, and rejoiced the cat
tle upon a thousand hills.
For the comforts and conveniences
for' the homo and fireside that have
brought universal happlnoss to cot
tage and hamlet and mansion.
For the matcn, that has brought
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the fire of Prometheus down from
heaven an I given warmth for cold
and comfort for distress.
For stoves and coal. Instead of the
house blackened with soot, and a
meal cooked with freshly cut chips
from the tree. ,
For the cable, that has brought
foreign capitals near, anchoring Lon
don Just outside Sandy Honk, and
making Bombay the second turn on
the left. Just around the corner.
For these steel tracks, that have
brought us fruits from the sunny
South, furs from the frozen North,
with rice and sugar and coal, and
made the people of the mow and the
winter to enjoy the fruits of the
.ropics.
For the reaper, Instead of the sic
kle, furnishing bread to the wor d.
For the looms, that enable one
man in one year to clothe a thousand
irn against the rains of summer and
e snows of winter.
For the trip hammer, that has mul
tiplied the stroke of man's arm; and
THANKSGIVING DAY.
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the locomotive, that huB lengthened
the stride of his foot; and the tools,
that have hastened the movement of
his fingers.
For th spectroscope, that has
made us at. home la foreign planets.
For the telephone, that has haivel
man's labor and brought distant ac
"jiai. tances near.
For the increasing' Interest In fins
arts.
For the X-ray, that has made tha
body transparent to surgeons and
physicians, I
For anaesthetics, that have less
ened pain, robbod surgery of its ter
rors and relieved sufferers of their"
agonr.
for photography, that preserves
for w. the faces of our departed dead.
For the lossenlnc; of class hatred
and the return of the sp.rlt of rood
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For the announcement that never
have there ween so few children ,
working In.' store and shop, or so
large a proportion In the school
room. For the fart that all the paths that
lead to office and honor and wealth
are now open to nil poor boys. ; . ,
That to the four desirable voca
tions called the profeslons have now
been added forty uore that offer
splenlld prizes to young men who
are fitted for the task.
For the lessening of drunkenness
In our country.
For the new enthusiasm In mu
nicipal reform.
For the enormous gifts'' this year
poured out for college, library and
church and social refoiui.
For the strengthening of the horn .'
and of the family ties, and the In
creasing movement against easy di
vorce. . 'or the Increasing honor and dig
nity that attaches tevthe Republic
. For the press, sowing the whole
land with the good seed of wisdom
and knowledge; 1 for books and mag
azines, that have exalted the Imagin
ation . while they hav Inspired the
Intellect..
For the return of the tides of
faith In the church and tho Jccline
of Infidelity.
For the fact, that the whole trend
Is up grade Instead of down grade;
that the gains are universal and im
measurable.
Never 7ere the reasons for
Thanksgiving so many or so weighty.
Our. people are justified In looking
forward to t golden era, when all
young hearts shall be. turned toward
school and church, when all feet will
be S'ndalled for a long upward march
along the paths of happiness and
peace. Thankful to-day for barns
overflowing with grain, for stores
overflowing with goods, for stuffed
shocks and shelves, for homes over
flowing with happiness, on which
God'r holiest sunlight falls; thankful
for laws that ire just, for liberty that
Is universal, for new and lustrous
forms of ueauty and of truth, let us
be chleuy thankful for God's un
speakable gift fn the Christ, who
brought immortality to liglt jnd
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From the Youth's Companion,
who, having redeemed the world from
sin and vice, goes on to plant a great,
sweet hope within the heart and
points all those who on Thanksgiving
Day front an empty chair points
them, I say, upward, whore there are
other Tensions and the Father's
House, and where, on a new Thanks
giving Oaf, the 'amlly circle shall be
reunited mldat scenes of unwonted
oy. New York World.
The Home Festival.
Thanksgiving Day is one of those
home festivals whoso popularity will
never wane while American womeo
love their homes. , It is the great
family festival of the year. It bears
no resemblance to tho Harvest Home
festivals of England, which were cel
ebrated with rout and riot and In
public places, While Thanksgiving
Day is recognized and appointed by
public proclamation, It Is in no sense
a public day. It Is never celebrated
by public processions like the Fourth
of July. ; There la nothing to break
the Sabbath-like peace 'of the day
except the occasional parties of Juve
nile mummers In some cities.
Oflfry rVhlfd fVochfj . flint Croj J(li)
Roosr Tuivy,
Chfstnur JuiJuid, Gbitt Grotty
Cronburru ViuCf.
flojtwd fixate, . Huhtyirvt JqiKiyV
, Cream Omcnj i Jutcotn
Cobbqjf Jalad Cracker an&xhwy
-,, ' ftim)in Fit flirme
'. Outtcrnuf kc Crfmv
Hone t?ndc Candid J'lpiilfj, Nulj
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I -"It "on't be like any Thanksgiv
ing I ever kaev:; but, no matter what,
I will be thankful, I will!" mur
mured Sarah Brooks, trying vainly
to checi her tears aJd cowering close
to the little register for warmth. It
emitted teptd air, but slightly modi
fying thi chill of the smhlKback be
room whlci the little spinster had
at a very low figure because She ' ept
It In order herself and used an oil
kmp Instead of gas.
She nad not made -a light yet
Sven kerosene costs money, and the
moon gave light enough to fret by.
Nearly three months bad passed
alnce she had lost 1 er place In Hodge
ft Gammon's store. "
She had filled place after place Jn
this establishment moot faithfully for
nigh to twenty of her forty-three
years. Thre vai no complaint
against her. The firm dropped Hits
Brooks an) Miss Gray, to each of
whom for som years past' it had
been paying $10 a week, simply be
cause It had found a man to do the
work of both omen a. $15 a week.
It mattered little to Miss Gray
sho would be married at mid-November
but fT Miss Brooks, older by
ten years, and without kindred or
lover, the loss was a measureless ill,
Not that she realize 1 It a) such at the
outset. Miss Gray was kinder than
a young woman getting ready to be
- -rrled could reasonably have been
expected to be; and Miss Brooks her
self was of r sweet and cheery na
ture and had no doubt t.at where one
door had shut another would present
ly open. At least, there would be a
place for her in another department
of Hodge & Gammon's, though at
lower wages. Through her long serv
ice and limited experience, her life
had grown Into the very building and
she shrank from an absolute change
almost as from the wrenching asun
der of soul and body. But the gray
streaks in her soft brown hair
stopped her return to the salesrooms
: with bare of adamant.
Those same gray streaks, from,
whict her fresh, unwrlnkled - skin,
bright eyes and trim alert figure
seemed powerless to distract the at
tention of possible employers, proved
her undoing nt every quest. In vari
ous phrasei, softened now with half-conto-nptuous
pity, sharpened anon
with cynical brutality, she was denied
in her tlmU replication bs "too old"
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I tell yoo what, tbere'j fun on fo,
When old ThanKeivin' corneal
The farm's the best piace on the map. V
When old Thankjflivin' comej.
There's Will, and Don and Soe and Fan.
And Dave and I ond Sarah Ann-
We're all back home, the entire clan,;
Wbtn old ThanhjgLvinLcorpej.
to be of any use. Experience! It
had no chance In the race with : outh.
The gray s'.reaks had widened cur
ing theio dreary days, the refined
features had barpened and the deli
cate color faded. The little !oard
agalmSt the proverbial rainy . ay,
after twenty years of poorly paid
labor, had been small at heet, but It
was smaller even than it need -ave
been, ' for Sarah BrooUl had never
been able to withhold her mite from
a fellow-creature' In distress. : And
now, despite the wonted Insane fem
inine economies In food and atreet
car fare, the tiny hoard wast lessen
ing at a frightful pace, . ? '
She thonght ruefnllr to-night---though
chiding herself for meanness
In the memory of sundry , $5 and
$10 bills loaned on promise of r
payment ' "next . month," to fellow
workers long since departed to fresh
fields and nartores new, and getting
warm at last with the aid of her well
worn winter cloak and the tepid reg
ister, she lost herself In a pltlfu! lit
tle dream -of loiter In the morning
mail In which some one of her .many
debtors should return his or her
Ipan, '
A. per mptory knock on her door
brought her sharply back to reality.' -;
"Gentleman. In the parlor to see
Miss Brooks!" announced Mrs. Yemp
klns, the landlady, with the rising In
flection of- curiosity in her voice, for
women like Miss Brooks, In a cheap
South End lodging house, have few
visitors of the sterner sex. Mrs,
Tompkins lingered while her lodger
l . Tk7c kll it :vt-','(J
Pi ' I II ' ' ,
Clfry ' Olncv
f3oa Turhry i 's' t .
Cranberry Jelly . Maihrtl (jotator s
fih?d iVHow Turnibv t
Doilfd Oniony - pcori pit
t Ldtvce Salad
fu(iif)Kiiv fut he Cream.
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fV &Toy
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made a light and tidied her slightly
disordered hair before the glass.
But the little spinster hazarded no
conjectures as to her caller, though
her heart bounded, Was It a cau of
telepathy T her dream had been so
vivid and so comforting, she tould
pot escape the conviction that some
of her hard-earned money so reck
lessly cast upon the waters In by
gone days was coming back by hand
Instead of by letter.
But the man who rose as she en
tered the Clmly lighted, dingy parlor
was an utter stranger; tall, dark,
shabbily dressed, witb a tuftive face
"WHEN THE FROST IS ON, THE
PUMPKIN AND THE FODDKR'S
IN THE SHOCK."
and a manner half insolent, halt in
sinuating and wholly disagreeable.
"Miss Brooks?" and as the little
woman bowed timidly and seated her
self at the other side of the centre
table with the cracked marble top
"Miss Sarah Brooks?"
She bowed again, and he contin
ued: "It you are Miss Sarah Brooks,
niece and only surviving relative of
John Peter Brooks, who died in San
Francisco on March 12, 1882, I know
of something to your ndvantagj
which I am p.-epared to make known
to you under proper conditions."
"John PetT Brooks was my fa
ther's ouly brother, and I am his only
And jweet-faced
The "bows"
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living relative, as I can easily prove,
since we all were born In Boston,"
110 RUBwnrou, ucr uue aiauuu .
siding. "But I can't Imagine any,
advantage to come to me through I
him. Ie lost his life In a tre, which J
destroyed also all his little effects (
and papers, and, in any case, juaging
from wh".t my parents--they're both
dead over fifteen years always told
me of him, he would have bad little
to leave."'--,-J ' .v-,.-Tf "
,'We must not Judge by appear
ances, Mis Brooks," said the strang
er, portentionaly. It is about forty
yean; I believe, since your uncle last
visited Boston. " - : - . !
'So '.hey told me," faltered Miss
Brookav'-w'-4 'V.f.."- -...;i.r,.'-.
''Well, trtrfdam, I can assure you
that 1 hav made a discovery In con
nection wt'hi your Uncle's estate of
the greatest Importance to you, but
It is my right to let you Into it on
my own conditions."! t -
'v "Oh, certainly, sir," murmured the
little woman, with r. faint return of
hope, the while she trembled under
the sinister eyes fixed upot her, V
When one hat been subsisting tor
three or four days on one stale loaf
and an occasional drink of milk and
water; walking meantime mile upon
rrle, In t'.lamal weathef, from one
disappointment to another-, and com
ing back to a cold room and a sleep
less bed, one's courage is likely to be
low. , ; . t , ..it -1
"It you would tell me r ,,t
"I'll tell you, nothing until you
have filled out and signed these pa
pers. 'Sign here! commanded the
stranger, stretching two broad Bheuts
of paper, before her and taking a
fountain pen from his pocket
On was a power of attorney dated
two days ahead, authorizing tho
bearer, Irving Wilson, to collect, a
the. representative of Sarah Brooks,
any claim or claims belonging to the
estate of her uncle, the late John
Peter Brooks, end the other wuu mi
HKi r anient on the part of raid Burnh
rioks to allow said Irving WIIhuii
half of the recovered claim oi
claims for his discovery and trouole
rnd expense In collecting, v.
s She tqgk up the pen, but hesitated.
'How mui . might it be?" she askod
timidly. - , - ' ,
Her ' visitor"-' waxed "Impatient
"Whatever It Is, you'll get none o! it
unlesv you . sign theoe papers.
Qu'ckl" he cried, turning Imperious
eyes upon her.1 "Sign here!"
But t''v frightened, a exhausted
.oman "ii.d slipped to the tloor In a
dead fp'nt, and Mrs. Tompkins, ho
-not liking the 'ioks of the man, as
she explained later bad been listen
ing behind tho shabby portiere, was
! beside t?r In a second.
I ."I'll wa't till she comes to. It s
very Important; all to her own In
terest," said he visitor !tra mlider
tono. - 'i , . ,., j
"It's not so Important, nor so mx.ch
to anyone's interest, but It can watt
till after Thanksgiving,"' she said,
col J. "Here, Norah," to the good
looklug maid who had appears' In
the hallway, "help me get Miss
Lrooks to her room." She watched
the discomfited stranger till he had
gathered p l is pen and papers and
r'luctan'.ly departed, Saying that he
would call to Inquire for Miss Brooks
In the morning.
'It's nothing but starvation," whis
pered Mrs. Tompkins to Norah on the
landing a few minutes later. "I'll
sit with her till she takes this bowl
of beef tea and a Jblt of toast to it
and try to chirk her up a bit. Hark!
There's the bell again."
Another moment and the bedroom
door wis burst open, and only Mrs.
Tompkins' cautious hand saved the
beef tea, rs the bride of a fortnight,
but late Miss Gray, of Hodge & Gam
mon's, flung herself upon her old
r ipmaLo.
'Oh, Sarah, '"ear; what luck! I
saw It In the Wayfarer this morning.
We got back from Washington last
night I told Tom all you ever told
me about your family. He has looked
up everything and It's yours, sure
enough. It was advertised before,
but no one who knew about you" could
have Been It. .. .Nothing to do but
present your proofs and draw your
money. Tom Is down In the parlor.
He's Just as glad for you as I am.
He's a darling, he 1b!"
"But, Caroline. I don't under
stand. First, there was that dread
ful man with the papers for me to
sign, and now you have found out
something. What are you glad tor,
and what has it to do with me?"
"Why, everything in the world.
You haven't seen the Wayfarer, with
th advertisement of the unclaimed
deposits in the People's Saving Bank
your uncle John Peter Brooks
he must have put It In ages ago
$4004.
How" ood the dear home 3emj to all,
When old Trxinkjajyin' comes;
Each well-known room and vine-clad wall,
LfJhon old Thflnksotvin' comes.
dome with hair like jnoJl
And oroybeard jire, moqan swirr yearj gp,
and aim" who farmward roamj
Thanksdivin' comes z-A
"The old rascal! Oh, I don't mean
her uncle," and Mrs. Tompkins
turned from the bride's horrified
face. "Don't faint again, Miss
Brooks; though . you did the best
job of your life when yon fainted,
Just aa yon was agoln' to sign that
scoundrel's paper." ' - .
Miss Brooks had the Wayfarer In
her hand, her eyes riveted on the
heavily penciled line which, held the
potency jot comfort and ease tor the
rest of her days. - . ; r
"Ohthank Ood; thank liod!" she
cried at last "I know Ha would not
fall -me."
' Miss Brooks had the happiest ' of
Thanksgivings, but Mr. Irving Wil
son's reception at the hands of her
landlady that . morning greatly Im
paired his appetite for turkey."
Boston Post v . , ,
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Where West Point Cadets Worship,
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NEW CHAPliL
From a drawing by the architects, Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson.
DUTCH GARDENING.
Trees and Slnubs Made to Take on
Queer Shapes.
The letter "B" In shrubbery and
the shrubbery pig here shown are
striking specimens of topiary, or
Dutch, gardening as practiced In
England. "It would seem," says the
fatler, London, "that there were to-
A Pig Cut In Box at Compton.
plary gardens In England as far back
as the twelfth and thirteenth cen
turies. Long before the time of I
Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare
these formal gardens existed In our
couiitry. Of course, the practice goes
back to the time of the Romans. All
that we owe to William III. Is that
Tree Shaped Like a "B."
he accentuated the prevailing taste
and that he carried the thing to such
an extreme as to produce a reaction,
so that the gardeners of a little later
began to cut down all these beauti
ful fancy shrubs in a most cruel
fashion.
C'
:thb last of thb
."Curiously '.', enough,, .the age ln
which literature and in many phases
of life we consider the most arllfl-clal-that
is to say, . the age of Pope
and Addison was that in which the
protest against formality In garden
ing came to a point.' Both Pope and
Koine-Made M Ilk Cooler.
It la uot an easy task for those who
nave but a small quantity of milk to
care for to do it with economy. Tho
large cooling tanks or refrigerators
which dairymen on a large scale can
afford are not for the man with the
single can, hcoea he must resort to
some plan on the home-made ldet,
Take box, which may be hought-at
ttsy stor, for a low piica, hlh
chough to contain a barrel of good
Al' WUir FU1.M.
Addison were eloquent In prose and
verse in favor ol letting nature work
Its way In freedom, In a plea for lux
urlancy of boughs and branches aa
against mathematical figures."
A Fishing Trick.
There are plenty of patented hooks
and devices for catching fish, but
when they are not available all aorta
of Ingenious devices are rigged up by
those who tire of sitting In the sun
for hours wondering why the fish
don't hook themselves. Here Is one
of them. It Is not recommended
when there Is a scarcity of bait, but
otherwise It can be used with suc
cess. It must be kept in mind, even with
this device, that all fish do not bite
on a hook and pull anxiously In the
hope of being caught. Jhp slightest
How the Hooks Are Placed.
pull of a line should be responded to
by the fisherman, who must pull hard
enough to Jerk the barb of the hook
through the very tough fiber ol
mouth. With this in mind, a Ther
niaHkiabetter chances with, -this de
vice than o"nTVrtTThepIaln hook.
Each hook should carry a very
small piece of bait, nicely covering
the point and barb. The bottom
hook can carry the attractive bait,
but the others are used to catch tho
fish. New York Mall.
SOLE SURVIVOR OF A FAMOUS
RREED OF CATTLE.
Changes in the Cattle Business Wit
nessed by an Old Texas Steer.
Of the million long horned cattle
which roamed the vast prairies of
Texas thirty years ago only one sur
vives. This last survivor, a spotted
steer, long since past the span of
life supposed to be allotted to his
kind. Is an honorod guest in the
choicest pasture of - Ranchp de la .
Parra, In Cameron County, South
west Texas. The patriarch might
well be overcome with amazement at
-f :
th
texas long horns.
the extraordinary, advances In the
business of cattle raising which have
taken place In his lifetime, but as he '
is only a longhorn he merely chews -his
cud In placid content and lets '
others do the wondertng.-f-G. F, Car- -ter,
In the New York Tribune.
dimensions. Fill In the -bottom of
the hot several Inches deep' with
sawdust, and ou this set a barrel cut
down to that when a milk can Is let
Into It It will come Just below the :
level of the top of the barrel.
Around this barrel, eight Inches deep,
pack sawdust Set the can of milk
in the barrel and pour in cold water
and, If possible, add several large
pteet-s of Ice.'. Arrange a faucet which
shall run through'the barrel and the
box lo that the water may be drawn
off when It gats warm. The Illus
tration allows the Idea plainly, in
the small drawings at the bottom "Hf l
represents tho box, "L" tlr barrel
and "A" tho can of milk, and In the
drawing to the loft "Q" Bhows how
the faucet Is placed near the bottom
of the box. Any one can readily
make this milk coole at small ex
pense, lDdlatiapollj News.
In Crell's "ChlmlsAe AnnaJan" of
the year 17S4, reference Js innde
women student!) attending lecfnrci
on chcrv.ii: ry !.l C;r!lt