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Ks%^ - VP Vpr^i 6 MEXT to a goodly su] turkeys the most tant requisite for cefesful Thanksgivin plentiful measure o y'\\ berries of just the lk??iBnf\k tart flavor. As wel a Thanksgiving without turkey as t BLreSSsyjmSBk the appetizing era sauce. However the of the United State J#jgW& scant cause to woi dffRWwv*" cause of this feat Jfr/vr- their holiday menu. *0* been years since a of the cranberry cr reported and cranberry growers have b Increasing their productive areas that i the increase in demand, due to the co Increase in population and other infli there continues to be year by year a lavish supply of the crimson berries, an seasons find them available at very i able prices. Cranberries, like so many of the othe things of life, are distinctively America cacies. To be sure, cranberries grow i some other quarters of the globe?for ir In Europe, but it is only in the ^United that they have been cultivated ai an art food. Even here the growing of cranbei confined largely to three states?Ma; setts, New Jersey and Wisconsin. How tant an industry it is may be surmised, he I T* * Q^t/vh s-. ?HE autumn of 1621 | waned on a prosperous community. Plymouth, Mass., was both healthy and wealthy. Sickness, though it had i 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 condition and a goodly stock of furs and prepared lumber had been made ready for exnort tn RnsrlanH hv thp next ship. The waters swarmed with fish and sea 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 Massasoit. of the neighboring settlement, who brought 90 people with him. The guests remained 30 days. The company engaged in rounds of amusements, in which military drills and religious services formed a part. Thus, heartily and loyally, was inaugurated the great New England festival of Thanksgiving. For two centuries it has continued to be observed, at first mostly in the eastern states, oui 11 iias now oecome 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 1621, this being followed in 1623 by the first Thanksgiving proclamation, by the governor of Massachusetts. In 1630 there arrived at Plymouth 14 vessels, bringing with them 880 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 colonists. The Dutch governors of the New Thanksgiving Nowadays the Thanksgiving procla & mation of the state and national executives are brief compared to what they were in the early days of our republic. In the case of the latter he doesn't foreshadow his forthcoming annual message as was somewhat the vogue in President Washington's time. This is seen in the Thanksgiving proclamations issued by our great and good first president in the early part of the year 1795, in which he appoint ; S" ^ -rue "c/terrs B pply of from the fact that the lmpor- Cape Cod district In Masa sue- Bachusetts, the greatest [f Is a cranberry region on the f cranglobe, sends to market as proper 1 have many as one-third of a dinner miHion barrels of cranvithout berries in a single season, aberry The average person is people wont to term all berry is have areas "patches," but cranrry be- berries do not grow in ure of patches but in bogs It has and, as may be surfailure mised from the name, most ol op was located adjacent to rivers or ieen so so that they can be flooded despite tumn and kept under v?ater u untry's berries grow on a vine whi nrniinH in a '.lorfprt tan jences, iu mo ? *- ? ? pretty keeping out the weeds and t d most insect pests, which are numer reason- ries do not require very muc attention until harvest time a ir good autumn. Then the cranberry g ji deli- forward to a period of anxiet jFild in ious scrutiny of the weat; istance keep close watch on the weat] States comes ere the crop is harves :icle of sad havoc unless the growei ries is warned and flooded his bog 01 ssachu- fires to keep up the temperat impor- In years gone by the harve ?wever. ries was done solely by the ha /. yap 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 Netherlands appointed occasional days of thanksgiving In 1G44, 1C45, 1655 and 1CC4, and the English governors followed their example in 1755 and 1760, and the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States 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 recommendations by other religious bodies, but no regular annual recommendation by the governor of New York before 1817. The Btruggle of the colonies for independence marks the beginning of in Year 1795 ed Feb. 19 as "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer." The "Father of His Country" was then 63 years of age and was serving his sixth year as president. It was a long document and covered quite a number of points. Of these, I will advert very briefly to only three or four which are peculiarly significant. In the preamble he mentions, as the first subject, "demandine the Dublic f y?Z~&57 f=Of? SORTJNQ ysLfSs&M N aB*F?,e's !z LORP/NQ &RRRELS OF CfPAMBF/W/S3 . /H /f /?erwGEf?#TOf? Cfl/? ! theae tracts are years, however, has lakes or ponds. Now almost all cran In the late au- aid of machines, an ntll spring. The work manipulating tl ch nestles close about that most of gle, and save for have been forced ou >attling with the task Is largely In thi ous, the cranber- Skillful of whom rece ih cultivation or The picking macn pproaches in the has the appearance rower must look the bottom of which y, a careful, ser- metal bars, tipped v, her. He must close together. In tier, for if a frost shoved with some c< ited it will work . tangle of cranberry v has been fore- ward and backward built great bon- vines which have bee ure. metal bars but leave isting of cranber- large to pass throug ,nd picking meth- vines, and. in consei ; J5_y- ; VEL MILIAMS ! | i ? * s. . ! : - - ?"S3&3fc> . ' /pstmajne-D . THIRTY ? c?flK5 I general observances of days of thanks- i giving In this country. The congress r of 1777, the one which prepared the c articles of confederation for adoption I by the colonies, adopted a resolution setting apart the eighteenth day of t December, 1777. to be observed as a t day of solemn thanksgiving and ? praise throughout the United States. 1 Washington, during his admlnistra- f tion. issued two thanksgiving procla- t mations, one in 1789 and the other in 'c 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 colonial custom to be followed and the proclamation made emanated from the governors. The western Btates, largely people from New England or New York, early followed the lead of these portions of the country. As we have seen, the annual recommendaattentlon on this solemn occasion, our exemption from a foreign war" and next proposes, as "an object of gratitude" the "increasing prospect of the continuance of our exemptions from a foreign war." Which propositions evidently relate to the settlement, through special envoy, John 'Jay, of our serious troubles with Great Britain, growing out of the continued oc cupation by the British of the western c forts on Lakij Erie, contrary to the treaty of 1783; and the seizure of i American vessels bound for French ' Vr?- . }Jk, hoiiK? a. :: ? od, much as raspberries their ste o r strawberries are they are picked, and most of the er c; cranberry picking was machlne done by women and chll- . . dren. The "Cranberry to a doz< King" used to hire as The < many as 1,100 pickers placed li on his great bogs on & nea Cape Cod and the pick- passed t! ers, many of whom jour- tor," wh! neyed; long distances, other foi "camped out" on the the ellm bogs during the picking ries and season. The past few hauled a witnessed a revolution. c?^8 to berries 'are picked by the to the c d because It 13 tiresome slvely. 1 lese machines It has come heen soli the women and children tlon In tl t of the Industry and the 'or whlcl e hands of men, the more orated pi (lve from $3 to $5 per day. 01 crant :lne most extensively used Bearing of a huge wooden scoop, able kin 1 Is made up of a row of hut In t rlth sharp prongs and set money b operation this scoop Is y0ar the jnslderable force Into the the grov Ines and then Is drawn up- their lnt with the result that the fact that sn caught slip between the brought i the berries, which are too rel Is act h the openings, as do the been yej iu<;nce are stripped from the price < 4*,! 'I1111 'I1 fl > '!mH. ! < .> .f1 Ion by the governors of New York >egan In 1817. From that time the ibser'vance gradually crept southward ind westward, and In 1885 Governor Johnson of Virginia adopted It, and hough In 1857 Governor Wise of Virginia declined to make the proclamaion on the ground that he was unauhorlzed to Interfere in religious maters, In 1858 a Thanksgiving day was aroclalmed in eight of the southern states. Decorative Com For the Thanks\ The pious, hard-driven, worn-out, but :hankful Puritans who sat down at ;heir tables one November, a few cen;urles ago, and made the first Thanksjiving Day, never knew to what engths they were to drive the Ingenuity of their poor descendants. 3ut It wasn't their fault after all, that he preparer of the Thanksgiving feast :oday has to attend just as much to :he turkey's surroundings as to the ;urkey Itself. It was good enough for hem to have a well-stocked larder rom which could come the turkey, the :elery, the pumpkin pie, the cranber les and all the other goodies which llstory puts down to their .credit 5Jven the comparatively recent New Snglanders were content with all ;hese as long as they looked tempting ind tasted good. But today, even the mportant fowl Itself Is hardly more mportant than the ribbons, the canlies, the favors, the adornments of ill kinds, which must appear on the Thanksgiving table. "Don't bother about having too nuch to eat," an up-to-date daughter vas heard to say to her New England nother the other day. "I want plenty >f room for the ribbons and the candy >oxes." It's the same way with other d&ughers of an esthetic turn of mind, rath:r than a practical one, and It looks is If their ambitions to "make things ook pretty" may be realized this year, or there is a goodly array of Thanksgiving favors and table decorations of ill kinds. Of course the turkey reigns su)reme, even if it is in paper, and is ;een in all sizes, all kinds, roasted to i beautiful dark brown as the cook>ook says, or standing Important and najestlc with its big fan-shaped feath>r tail high in thb air. In most cases he favor turkey is meant for candy, >ut certain new china turkeys are nustard cups. The pumpkin is next in importance tnd is seen in many of the novelties, ["here are large paper pumpkins for lenterpleces and all sorts of small >orts by British ships and the lmprls>nment of American seamen. Another cause for thanksgiving, ac:ordlng to the same high authority, Is 'the great degree of internal tranlulllity we have enjoyed." To which s added "our cause for thankfulness or the recent confirmation of that ranquillity by the suppression of an nsurrection which so wantonly threat;ned it." And in another place the president epeats this idea, asking his people 'to render a tribute of praise and grat . - - * '* ' sms and remain in thd scoop, whence transferred to the tray which each picklose at hand. An expert picker with a will do the work of from half a dozen >n hand pickers. iranberries as picked on the bogs are a huge wooden boxes and transferred rby frame building, where they are hrough a machine known as a "separaIch takes out all the leaves, twigs and elgn matter. Then they are sorted for lnation of any bad or worm-eaten berflnally are placed In barrels, which are way to railroad yards to be loaded Into the tune of from 220 to 240 barrels ar, refrigerator cars being used excluCTp to the present time cranberries have i In bulk, but this year sees an Innovale appearance of evaporated cranberries, 1 are claimed all the advantages of evapjaches or apples, and In the Introduction lerries put up In pasteboard cartons, cranberry bogs of the most deslrd cost from $600 to $1,200 per acre, t bumper year a grower may get his ack the first year, and during the worst Industry has known In a decade most of rers made from 10 to 15 per cent on restment, and that, too, In spite of the cranberries were so plentiful that they only $2 a barrel, whereas $5 to $7 a bar:ounted an average price, and there have irs when a famine of cranberries sent > up to ?l0 per barrel. / |,MiiMMH,.||iMiiHl,t ******** WW4 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 other tendencies, and President Lincoln put upon It the seal of his official proclamation.- President Lincoln's first proclamation was In 1862. on account of the first impor tant victory of the national arms. He Issued a similar recommendation In 1863. ceits and Favors giving Festivities 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 prizepackages 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 flower among the paper bowers, 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 INSPIRA-ftON. "I am gratified," said the first prom* ' lnent citizen, "to observe the undercurrent of Joy In the Thanksgiving proclamation of the governor. Hitherto the proclamations have been along 1 the old cut and dried, stilted forms, 1 but In this Instance there Is a certain 1 tone of Joyouaness.of thankfulness, of pure gratefulness that Is really Inspiring." "Yes," agrees the second prominent . citizen, "but it's no wonder the govern- , or felt good when he wrote that proclamation." "No. He has started on what seema 1 destined to be a good administration, already there is talk of promoting 1 him to some higher office In the gift of the peo " ' "And besides," Interrupts the second 1 man, "the governor owns one of the ' largest turkey farms In the state. I , itude to the Great Disposer of all , events, for the seasonable control which has been given In a spirit of ( disorder In the suppression of the late i Insurrection." What the president < had in mind in this allusion was the "great whisky insurrection" in Pennsylvania in 1794, caused by the pas- 1 sage by congress of acts imposing du- < ties upon spirits distilled and upon , stills. It was finally suppressed by Governor Lee of Maryland, with 15,000 1 troops, acting under orders of the 1 i president. ' I | SOUTH CAROLINAj # ^ DISPENSARY SALES INCREASE. Dispensary Auditor Reports Total Sales For Six Counties. ( Tlie sum of $26,830.48 represents the increase of sales by the county dispensaries of the State for the month of October over the mouth of September. The operating expenses increased by $513.05. This * announcement was made by Dispensary Auditor Daniels. The total sales of the dispensaries ! in six counties of the State amount- ; ed to $207,667.50. The sales for ; September were $180,831.02. Richland county shows the greatest increase in sales. The total sales for October for Richland county were $63,916.88, as compared with $50,991.55 for ths month of September. There was a substantial increase for all counties. Following is the report for October: Aiken County?Total sales, $24,039; operating expenses, $1,367.64. Beaufort County?Total sales, $16,659.30; operating expenses, $957,09. Charleston County?Total sales, $56,396.84; $2,920.58. Florence County?Total sales, ooo.io; operating expenses, $834.19. Georgetown County?Total sales, ?11,417.75; operating expenses, $322.51. Richland County?Total sales. $63,916.88; operating expenses, $2,735.20. For Entire State?Total sales, $207,667.50; operating expenses, $9,127.72. . CITADEL HAZERS DISMISSED. Three Will be Punished?Broke Resolution of Cadet Corps. The court-martial has maae decision in the cases of the eight caHoto nf fho r.ifaHftl whn Wftl'ft tl'ioil several days ago for hazing. In spite of the resolution of the cadet corps not to engage in hazing, the cadets in question were charged with practices pi the kind and the trial by a court-9iartial followed. Col. Bond, the superintendent stated that mree cadets had been dismissed, three will be punished by disciplinary.feethods of the institution and t\v(?were acquitted. Col. Bond would not furnish the names of the offending cadets, but it is understood from reliable sources that Cadets Passalaigue, Price and Cudd are the boys who have been shipped. CALF SWALLOWED $108. Woman Dropped Pocketbook and Veterinary Recovered It. While going milking Mrs. Luther Calvert, who lives at Clinton, dropped a pocketbook containing five / twenty dollar bills, a ten, a five and three ones, besides a silver quarter: The money was missed an hour la* 1 U A ler ana inougri seaiuu icvcaicu mu quarter which showed signs of having been chewed upon by a calf, a young heifer in the yard had a guilty look and a veterniary surgeon was summoned. The roll was extricated from the stomach of the calf in a badly mutilated condition. The bills were taken to a local bank cashier who sent th^m to Washington to be redeemed. Aiken Offers $78,000 Bonds. The city of Aiken is now offering for sale $78,000 #Torth of coupon bonds, voted some weeigt ago, for the purpose of constructing a system of waterworks for the city, inasmuch as the present system is entirely inadequate to the needs of the city, which is growing rapidly. The bonds are issued for a term of 40 years, with the privilege of redemption after 20 years. The commission, recently elected, are hard at work. Robbed of $50.07. O. O. Bragg, a farmer residing near uienaaie, was ncia up uy iuur negro men and robbed of ?50.07. Woman Gets $6,300 Verdiet. The jury of the United States Circuit Court at Columbia, returned a verdict of 86.300 in favor of Mrs. Elizabeth H. Haughlon against [he order of United Commercial Travelers. Judge Brawley did not announce his decision pending a motion for a new trial. The full amount of the policy will be given. Summary. Three members of the Greenville police commission, Dr. W. C. Black, r. O. Lawton, and T. FJa'mison resigned. Dr. Black, the chairman, declaring that the body had been unfairly criticised by city council and Tiinisters of the city. It is staled by Mr. M. J. Cr.plos, seneral manager of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio, that'orders have heen nlaced for 1.000 additional 50 ton steel hopper ears to be deliver-' ?d as they are needed. Mr. Dave Logan, the oldest, son of Sheriff John R. Logan, of York jounty took his own life by shooing himself with a single barrel shot gun. The Rev. A. T. Jamison, of Greenwood, who is president of the South Carolina Conference cf Charities md Corrections, reports that the arogramme for the second annual nceting is now about ready. The conference will meet this year in .he city of Florence, December 8-9. VITAL PALMETTO EVENTS Condsensed'Nevrs Items of General Interest Gathered Within the State Boundary Lines. _ v|| IVHITE DOCTOR SHOOTS NEGROk St. Matthews Citizen Uses Pistol to'Protect Aged Father. . . ? Dr. L. M. Able, a prominent merchant and druggist, shot and wounded Jim Buyck, a negro of unsnviable reputation, on the streets ,3 of St. Matthews. Buyck had fused some very severe language to Dr. A. \ R. Able, the aged father of the man who did the shooting. When he was asked to explain his conduct, Buyck reached for and drew his pistol.. " < The younger Dr. Able, standirig near by, perceived his father's danger and fired upon Buyck. Five shots were fired, four of which took effect. The wounds are not thought to be of a serious nature. Buyck was taken charge of and his wounds given attention. Dr. Able and his father surrendered immediately to the authorities. Sues Merchant for $10,000. Lester R. Partlow, a telegraph Jj operator of Cheraw, has entered suit at Roanoke, Va., for $10,00(1 against boiomon nosenDerg ana others of Roanoke, in which he 1 claims $10,000 damages for' false, arrest and prosecution on the ' charge of the larceny of two 3Uit? of clothes and the alleged state- j ment by Rosenberg that he would prove Partlow stole the clothes. Partlow lived in Roanoke before going to Cheraw. When the war- . rant was sworn out for him he went to Roanoke, stood trial, and was" acquitted by a jury. The trial of the damage suit was set for November 17. , ? v < ' i j Raced Without a Driver. . ? As he was about to start , in e 'M trotting race at the Spartanburg fair for gentlemen's roadsterfe, J. S? -i McKinney, of Jone9ville, was M thrown from his sulky by the. rear- .* ing of his horse, Black King. The ! j IU rruriu nit: uMiiiiii i air i mc ao clii the testimony has been transcribed, ' v: In addition to Mr. "Cansler of Tirzah," the following applicants for railroad commissioner run the number up lo twenty-five: C. Jones, of Wards; L. D. Corbilt, of 5 Swansea; Perry C. Dukes, of Branchville. Commissioner Watson' 'as the pioneer in the work of State publicity," has been invited by the Iowa Stale board of agriculture to attend a meeting in Des Moines on December 13 and tell how he has exploited the , resources of South Carolina. The commission appointed by the* last general assembly to revise the school laws of the State has formu lated a report which will be made lo the legislature. The members of / the commission are: M. L. Smith, Camden: W. H. Hand, Columbia; S. H. Edmunds, Sumler, and J. E. Swearingen, Columbia. In Iht' election in Union county on the question of issuing $75,000 in bonds inr a now couri. nousc, me vote was i71 for and ii9 against, giving a majority of 22 in favor of the issue of the bonds. Columbia Cotton Market. Good middling lt'/i Strict middling 14^ Middling 14 Strict low middling 13% The Only Rc'e fcr Him. Torpid Thomas?What do you t'lnk, old pal? A swell guy approached me pcsterday an' warred me ter act in a movin' r-irt?'-'e play. Languid Lawrence?Sufferin' hobos! An' why didn't yer. yer idiot? Torpid Thongs?Th^re wuzn't no sittin" part in the drama be wuz perducin'. ingiiieueu animal dianeu uuwu uw v ?V.-% track at a speed not attained in the race and had everything to himself for a few minutes. The track in J| front of Black King was cleared in ,-j a trice and as the 'maddened horse 'M dashed in the direction of the fence jj the crowd scattered. ' ' The horse could not escape from the half mile track and was' on its second lap before it was halted. Mr* 51 McKinney was unhurt. -*j| G. & C. Spartanburg to Augusta. " The Secretary of State has grant* '5 ed a charter to the Georgia & Caro-v i lina railway, which is *o run from ?,'* Augusta to Spartanburg, a distance' '-"0 of 130 miles. A commission was. V/ recently issued to the company. The road will pass through Edgefield,, Saluda, Newberry, Whitmire and ' thence to Spartanburg. J. W. Thurmond, an attorney of Edgefield, was in Columbia and secured v| the charter. The road has an inii* 1 * 1 _ 1 ^ r AiAA rtAA ' f ?t.4 Qsa uai capnai ui <piuu,uuu. .5 1 Mysterious Street Car Accident. E. W. Hornsby, a white man, liv-.' j ing just beyond the Columbia limits, is in the hospital with a broken1. leg and other injuries. The claim is made that Hornsby was knocked down and run over by ?+2 the street, car. The conductor and .'{ motorman say they never saw the man until more than a half-hour J later on a return trip when the ambulance had already been sum- /i: moned. L - ? , " ~ :ffl Summary. The woman's industrial fair and Ij boys' corn contest at Florence was a magnificent success. \ The general assembly will be ask ed to appropriate the sum of $5,000 for a summer school to be held at Winthrop next summer. Just when the railroad commission will take up the standard tariff and, the cotton rates hearing has not boon announced. It is not thought that it will he necessary ?_ U II.-. 1 I l-s ?tl