VOL XIV.
COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, t08.
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THANKSGIVI N G .
Great God, we sing Thy love alway,
For Thou art ever wondrous kind; -
But on this glad Thanksgiving Day
New songs of praise our lips shall find.
From out Thy wealthy larder fed,
We praise Thee for our daily store;
Thou bast our table richly spread,
And we have had enough and more.
When clouds our pathway have beset,
And life has seemed a wilderness,
Thou didst not us at all forget;
Thou then wast near to help and bless.
The year hath told the story old,
The story of Thy love and grace;
Through summer's heat and winters cold.
The same sweet characters we trace.
Great God, we sing Thy love alway,
iny gooaness ever Dear m mma;
And still will praise and still will pray,
For Thou art ever wondrous kind.
Robert M. Offord, in Christian Herald.
"ONE-EGG CAKE."
A Thanksgiving Sketch.
omize," she said, "and probably The
majority will be compelled to, let us
not Degin in the church. Suppose we
oegm at home. The children will
thrive and flourish on bread and mo
lasses, and we may, if we like,-omit
cake from the home bill of fare; but
when we-are making an offering in
the Lord's cause, don't let us set a
fashion of being close-fisted -and
mean. I, for one, would greatly pre
fer serving no refreshments at our
sociable to serving poor ones, nor do
I believe in cutting the slices too tain
or in using the smaller cups. Think
of. the young men and young women
whose only experience of church hos
pitality Is at our receptions. Some
of them are away from home. Most
of them are working very hard all the
week. On Sunday they come to the
church and the Christian Endeavor
and meet sympathy and fellowship,
and are invited on Wednesday even
ing to come to the church home aad
have a happy time. Part of this
happy time culminates in the break
ing of bread together. 1 think the
bread and the cake and whate-er we
give, let the times be what they may
outside the church, should be of the
finest of the wheat and the choicest
of flavoring.:
The little ladv had finished her
speech and resumed her place at the
DacK or the room, others followed
her and the question was tossed back
and forth like a ball from hand to
By MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
"CI
ONSIDERING the hard
times, Madam Chairman,
move that the society
study economy In enter
tainments the coming winter. The
Ladies' Aid is about to give a church
sociable the first of the season. I
suppose there will be others later on;
we have always had refreshments,
and should we dispense with them
altogether 1 am afraid we would have
a lot of empty benches."
The speaker paused, glanced
with a will, had fairs and bazaars,
suppers and concerts, and in one way
or another managed to augment the
treasury by goodly sums of money.
Centreville was famous for notable
housekeepers and good home cooking,
but when the periodical return of
hard times swept the land over like a
chilling frost, the need of frugality
sternly impressed on the poor man
closed down with iron hold on the
consciences and impulses of the richer
neighbor who just then should have
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THANKSGIVING BRIEFS.
BT mUX VAU, WALLACE.
Be thankful that the roses of life
are so sweet that you seldom remem
ber the thorns.
Be thankful that your husband is
the very dearest man on earth and
"not as other men are."
Be thankful if you are somebody's
mother or sister.
Be thankful if there is a little child
anywhere near that you may love and
cuddle.
Be thankful for one true friend.
If you are not as beautiful to look
upon as you wish, be thankful that
you are neither blind, deaf, a cripple
nor a lunatic.
If your clothing does not please
you, be thankful that you may always
j keep your soul charmingly clothed in
sweet temper and peace.
Be thankful that God and His true
children "look not oh the outward ap
pearance."
only kind and sweet and helpful
thoughts "toward" others.
And do not forget that there is no
one else on earth just like you. So
be thankful that you are yourself.
IE Oil II IH
Andrew Carnegie Conies Qui
SAYS PROTFCTION NOT NEEDED
Iron Master, in a Notable Article in
December Issue of a ; Magazine,
Will Declare That Duties on Manu
factured Articles Should be Reduc
ed or Altogether Abolished, and
That Only the Luxuries Used by
the Rich Should Bear a Duly.
public by the officers of the commit
tee and the itemized statement will
be filed for record in the office of tbe "
Secretary of State of Kentucky in
compliance with the resolution adopt
ed by the national committee at Lin
coln, Neb., last July. The statement
made public by the committee in
cludes a certificate of audit by My
ron D. King, auditor of the national
committee.
Briefs of General News.
Gen. William L. Marshall recom
mends . that Congress appropriate
$965,000 for next year's work on tha
Baltimore channels.
John D. Rockefeller began testify
ing for the defense in the suit of tha
government to dissolve the Standard
0"il Comuany.
hand. Finally, the decision reached
was that where sacrifices must be
made they should be made at home
and that church gatherings should be
j as affluent of good cheer, as overflow
ing of bounty, as ever oerore. une
egg cake was not to be accented as
the symbol of Centreville Church hos
pitality. To one listener it seemed as if the
Ladies' Aid had been guided to the
wisest conclusion. . Retrenchment is
often advisable, and superfluities may
be cut off, but hard times are made
harder when those who can afford to
do otherwise riuce their expenses
simply bcause the spirit of economy is
In the air. Economy in its root mean
ing signifies government and success
ful management, not merely the re
duction to the minimum of every cent
expended. The woman who in lavish
times runs her house on lavish lines,
should not be suddenly meagre, be
cause her neighbors have to be, her
own exchequer having suffered no re
duction. It is no credit to her to wear
old clothes when she can afford new
ones, thus limiting the revenues of
AN OLD-TIME THANKSGIVING.
Oh. the good old-fashioned dinner
Of the good old-fashioned days,
Served as only grandma served it
With her quaint, old-fashioned wayst
When the uncles, aunts and cousins
Gathered round the festive board
Loaded with the wealth of autumn
With the garnered harvest hoard;
When the waning sun, hi sinking,
Through the western windows crept,
And upon that scene of plenty
Id a golden splendor slept!
Gchbler in the place of honor,
Flanked by ducks and chicken pie;
Sucking pig, with jaws distended
By a polished Northern Spy;
Mashed potatoes, squash ana turnip;
Onions lending of their strength;
Stately plumes of snowy celery
All along the table's length:
At one side the dessert standing
Shining pyramids of fruit,
Apple pie and mince and pumpkin,
Raisins, nuts and sweets to boot!
Grandpa bending o'er the turkey,
As he deftly welds the knife,
Keeping for himself the wishbone.
That it sow no seeds of strife;
Grandma, sweet, serene and placid,
Ever with a watchful eye
Lest the good things in their circuit
Pass some bashful midget by;
Uncle Ned, with endless stones;
Laughter ringing 'round the board 1
In the good, old-time Thanksgiving
' Least of all the harvest hoard.
T. W. Burgess.
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GRACE BEFORE MEAT.
fcfounci tue circle of matrons, ob
served expectation in their faces and
ent firmly on.
"I won't make a motion," she
added, "at least not yet. But with
the permission of the Chair, can we
not discuas this practical matter at
thi; meeting? In view of the price of
gss and butter, of sugar and spice,
r Hour and milk and everything else
that goes into cake, can we afford to
servo rjeh cakes at our receptions?
Shall we not decide to offer our
frhnds one-egg cake and omit strong
coffoo? Weak- coffee is better for the
Serves anyway."
"One-egg cake i., very plain and
the men wiil stay away if we give
them DOOr nnfTpo Pan wo net hftVft
the
same grade of cake as formerly
&nd raake the coffee after the same
tlpe, for economy's sake cutting
cake thinner" and pouring the
coffee into smaller-cups?" This was
the Suggestion nt a wrttnnn Yt-A
long been a social engineer In chursh
matters.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Centre
vilIe had for years done much of the
self-denying work that is part of the
Province of women In most of our
churches. When the church needed a
ew carpet or cushions or renovation
inside or out, when a floating debt
was to be raised or a mortgage de
creased, the women went to work-
been spending instead of saving
money.
Mrs. Foster Arkrlght, who had pro
posed one-egg cake and weak coffee
as suitable refreshments in a hard
times year, and whose will and Influ
ence were usually paramount in the
counsels of the, sisterhood, was a
woman of large wealth and an ihcome
so safely bestowed by the forethought
of her deceased father and the sagac
ity of her husband, that she ought
always to have been distinguished by
an open hand, yet this year of all
years she had set an example of scant
expenditure all along the line. She
had been In the habit of keeping
three maids; she had dismissed two
and was managing her home with a
single domestic. She had bought no
new gowns this year and was proudly
wearing her last year's bonnet. She
it was whose proposition of one-egg
cake and weak coffee had been thrown
as a projectile Into the quiet camp of
the Ladles' Aid. What they would
have done about it had a motion been
made and the question put to vote,
nobody can tell, but as Mrs. Arkrlght
took her seat a modest little lady at
the other side of the room rose. She
addressed the Chair, as everybody has
learned to do by this time, and then
in a low but distinct voice declared
that for one she disagreed with the
previous speaker. If we must econ-
New York, Special. A notable ar
ticle from Andrew Carnegie, dealing
with the tariff, wot appear in the
forthcoming December number'-' tf
The Century Magazine, in which the
iron master takes the position that
" infant industries" no longer need
protection; that the steel and other
industries have now grown beyond
the need of tariff protection ; that
duties on luxuries used by the rich
should be maintained, but that those
6 nfanufactured articles should be
reduced greatly, or abolished entire
ly when no longer needed.
Mr. Carnegie's article is entitled
ULJ liApCIlCUOC rt iLU U1U T AC IT 9
Upon the Tariff."
Mr. Carnegie says :
"We have already become by far
the greatest of all manufacturing na
tions. While the tariff as a whole
even today has ceased to be primar
ily beneficial as a measure of protec
tion, it has become of vast import
ance from the standpoint of revenue,,
and it is to this feature I bespeak the
special attention of readers of all
parties, for duties upon imports, not
for protection, but for needed reve
nue, should not become a party ques
tion. Reasonable men of all parties
may be expected to approve this plan
of obtaining revenue."
He says: "The American tariffs, in
happy contrast to ethers, almost ex
empt the poor and heavily tax the
rich, just as it should, for it is they
I who have the ability to pay as re
quired by the highest economic au
thority." Mr. Carnegie says of future tariff
legislation:
"The next Congress dealing witn
the tariff will probably be inclined at
first to reduce duties air around and
perhaps to abolish some, but its first
care should be to maintain present
duties, and even in some cases to
increase them, until all articles used
almost exclusively by the rich, and
this not for protection, but for reve
nue, not drawn from, the workers but
from the rich. That is the first and
prime duty of Congress.
"Its second duty is to reduce du
ties greatly upon manufactured ar
ticles and to abolish entirely those no
longer needed.
What Democrats Spent
Chicago, Special. The Democratic
national committee received in all
$620,644.77 and spent $619,410.06
during the recent presidential cam
paign, leaving a balance on hand of
$1,234.71. So reads a statement made
Cleveland Street Car Strike Catted
Off.
Cleveland, O., Special. At a meet
ing of the local union of the street
railway motormen and conductors it
was unanimously voted to call off the
strike against the Municipal Traction
Company, which was begun last May.
The company was forced into the
hands of receivers who now are in
charge of the railway property. The
Mutual Traction Company refused to
grant an increase in wages, which
was demanded by the union and the
strike was ordered.
Raised 121 Bushels of Corn to Acre.
Gaffney, S. C, Special. The com
mittee appointed by the Merchant
and Planters' Bank to decide who is
entitled to the $50 prize offered bv
it for the largest yield of corn from
one acre of land in Cherokee county,
awarded the prize to O. P. Hill, who
raised 121 bushels. The total num
ber of bushels of corn raised by tho
seventeen men who competed for thisr
prize is 1,38413-80, being an avreago
of more than 80 bushels an acre.
RlrTEiEPiOIIEs!
Are a Necessity
in the Country
Home.
The farther you are removed
from town to railroad station, the
more the telephone will save in
time and horse flesh. No man has
a right to compel one of the family
iu uc in agony ior nours wnue ne
drives to town for the doctor. Tel-i
ephone and save half the suffering.
Our Free Book tells how to or
ganize, build and operate tele-!
phone lines and systems.
Instruments sold on thirty days'
trial to responsible parties.
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We thank Thee, Lord, for daily food;
Thy gifts are ever wise and good ;
Thy bounty hath our table spread;
IjrlVe 113 mis uay our- uaiijr uicttu.
the dressmaker and the milliner, nor
to set her servants adrift while she
can as well as ever before keep them
and nay them wages. People who
begin their economy, so to speak, at
the church door, curtailing tneir do
nations, taking sittings instead of a
pew and halving their contributions
instead of doubling them, almost
tempt Providence by an attitude full
of insult to tbe Divine goodness.
The Christian Herald.
, Tasty Chickens.
"Ton see, mum, as these chickens
are fed on the. duck food and the
pheasant food, yon get three flavors
In the one bird." Tatler.
KING TURKEY.
Sir Oyster is a gallant knight
In pearly armor clai,
And Lady Mallard Duck can make -
The worst dyspeptic glad;
Lord Sainton is a noble sight
In silver scales arrayed,
Prince Terrapin can fascinate
The heart of man Or maid.
The Duke Plum Padding cuts a dash
When snow begins to By
And shares his social honors with
,The - Marcuis ife Jtfmee Pie;
But when the pumpkin's gathered at,
And skies are gray and murky.
The centre of th.tab1e then
Is held by old King Turkey.
A Guilty Conscience.
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"Please, Mr. Gobbler, 'twaant 1
who said that you were to be killed.
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