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RED CLOUD. NEBRASKA, CHIEF Kfcv m oil y1 fAeto Ay dnercjt jj Ann. P" "&-- l ifla By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN FT Kit Armistice day ThiHiksKlvlii I T li o one u day of martial thrills ami, miiyluips, poignant memories; tlio other with its les son that "pence hath its victories no loss re nowned than those of war." Wo may not know Just yet how to eelehratu November 11, hecause of its newness as a day of na tional observance, Hut ThsuiksjdvlnK is real old-fashioned. So we know all nbout the proper celebration of lids old American holiday. Popular opinion insists upon flxlns the lli-ht TlmnkslvinK day in 1(521, when the Pilgrims celebrated the Kiith eritiK of their first harvest. They cer tainly had n large feast ; It lasted live days, and they and their Indian guests ate at least live deer. The first Thanks giving day observed In nil the states was on Peeemhcr IS, 1777; It was rec ommended by proclamation of the Con tinental congress after the surrender of Ilnrgoyne. For 11 years there after congress recommended n dny of thanksgiving, and the several states made appointment In accordance. Then there was an Interval in which the fix ing or the date was left wholly to the states. The llrst congress under the federal Constitution adopted a reso lution asking President Washington to recommend a day for national thanks giving and prayer, and the President's proclinnatlon named Thursday, Novem ber 2(5, of that year. The anti-Federalists made such a rumpus over It that it was not repeated until 1705, when President Washington, without recommendation by congress, set Feb ruary IP as a day of thanksgiving. Then Thanksgiving day apparently went Into the discard as a national holiday. Anyway, until 1S1." there was no other national appointment. In that year, by a resolution of con gress and proclamation of the Presi dent, April 14 was set apart as a day of national thanksgiving for the res toration of peace. That was the end of an olllclal national Thanksgiving dny for nearly half a century. It was revived by President Lincoln when ho appointed n special day of thanksgiving for the vic tory of Gettysburg. August 0, 1S03. In tlio meantime tlio American peo ple bad been celebrating Thanksgiv ing day pretty much all over tho Union, without bothering about presi dential and gubernatorial proclama tions. Tho American knows a good thing when he sees it. President Lin coln, being of tlio people, took occa sion with bis Gettysburg proclamation to nationalize the November Thanks giving day. jio for (50 years or so Thanksgiving eats have been attacked and demolished ns n patriotic duly. Theoretically, of course, wo should bo planning to nttend church In the morning to give thnnks to nivlno Providence for tho mercies and bless ings of the yenr to us both as Individ uals nnd as citizens of tho grentest and wealthiest and most fortunate na tion on earth. Individually, as com pared with tho peoples of other na tions, wo Americans are most of us Wireless Fence On opposlto corners In a Ilttlo town Ilvo two men. Ench has n lawn, which, since spring, has been used as highway and thoroughfare by all who wanted to snvo flvo feet In round ing thoso corners. Ono man's sign rend: "Keep off," and was re-enforced by n wire fence. Tho otlw's wns longer nnd rend: "Suggestion If you don't walk ncross hero, It may bo a lawn nam's day." This one had no I . -. ' 4.tf ' " CL ".TCa.NatI.ls3k ome hats ! &ota iiv fatfrfffnnaf pretty well oft much better off than we realize. And really, you know, It is the easiest thing In the world to And nil kinds of proof of tlio working of Divine Providence in our American history. Hy rights a public and pri vate thanksgiving on n commensurate scale should bo tho nation-wide fea ture of Thanksgiving day. hut, if the truth must be told, most of us are looking forward to our Thanksgiving dinner as the main fea ture of our Thanksgiving day think ing of the good tilings we'll have, t wo have the price; wondering where it will come from, If we haven't. Yes; "Thanksgiving Dny Some Eats" comes pretty near being the slo gan of our great American homo and Family festival. So now for the cats: Would I could say with Charles Lamb when ho wrote his odo to goose berry pie "Full of my theme, O Muse!" Still, the debating societies continue to thunder over tlio question, "Is anticipation superior to realiza tion?" So mnybo I am better off as I am. Certainly it would be a terrify ing task to write this right after an old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner, hlack coffee, tobacco and peace Is what a man wnnts then. Turkey and cranberry sauce, Hint's tho mnln thing. Really, you know, the rest Is just llxln's. Nature's a pretty good old dame, after all. What if she had given us turkey and had forgotten all about the cranberries? Why, the two are Just mnde to go together sort of gastronomic nihilities. One shud ders at tho thought of egg without salt, goose without apple snuce, duck with out currant Jelly, hut turkey with out cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving is unthinkable. The man who deliberately and with malice aforethought eats turkey before Thanksgiving day should bo put in Jail until after Thanksgiving day, or put through a psychopathic third degree, lie's sticking out his tongue and mak ing faces at old Mother Nature. Did you ever get so thirsty that every sop urate atom In you was shrieking like n toothache for water? No? Well, that's tho way to find out how cold spring water tastes. Did you ever shoot all day on u duck marsh when tho spray froze on tho paddlo and push-polo? No? Well, that's the way to find out what a blazing llreplaco feels like. That's Nature's way. Why, n man ought to approach that sacred Thanksgiving dinner only after wire fence. Such, Is tho perversity of humnn nnture, that many people still get their exercise by Jumping the wlro fence on tho llrst man's place. J ho other is undisturbed. Collier's Weekly. Peat-Cuttlno In Ireland. The pent-cutting Industry Is carried on very profitably In Irelnnd. Work usually begins at tho bogs at the end of April. Tho skilled cutter, who tins two men with low sldeless wheelbar rows In attendance, uses a kind of purification like that of tlio knights of old. He ought to go to It hungry. Ila ought to go to that turkey fairly trem bling with the anticipation of nearly a year of abstinence. You know thut. 1 know It. Everybody knows It. Alas, that this Twentieth century civiliza tion of ours with its manifold food vagaries Is no longer sane, safo and sober I And someone with renlly devilish In genuity should think up punishment to lit the crime for the housewife who blocks the way to the turkey with ape tlzers and cocktails and soups and oysters and such Hike. Mo, I want to sit hungry and plumb emptS" and watch the carving of the turkey and tremblo with expectation and water at tho mouth. I want my tlrst mouthful of my Thanksgiving dinner to bo turkey and cranberry sauce turkey and cran berry sauce, and nothing else. Of course I expect to fuss around later with shilling and mashed pota toes and gravy and mavbo candled sweet potatoes and innyho even creamed onions. And doubtless I'll llnd time for more thnn one long swig of sweet cider. Hut turkey's my ment Thanksgiving dny. Tho rest Is Just llxln's, as aforesaid. Salad? Well, It all depends upon the man and how many times Ids plate has gone up to tho carver and what's coining. And If there's pump kin pie and Herkimer county cheeso coming as thero should be I know one man who Is not Interested In tho salad or In anything but that pie and thnt cheese. The festive board may groan with good tilings, and keep on groaning for nil ho cares. And whllo wo nro sitting nround after, at peace with all tho world and the Inhabitants thereof, let's pause to give n kindly thought and grateful to Lo, the poor Indian. For It was ho who Introduced the wild turkey to tho Pilgrim Fathers. And It was ho who discovered to him tho pumpkin pie. The Indian of eastern Anierlca may have been a poor, Ignorant savage, ac cording to some standards, but ho had good tasto in ents. And ho was 'no fool ns an agriculturist. Ho plant ed his corn In rows. And up tho cornstalks climbed tho benn vines. And between the rows grow the pumpkin, shading the ground and keeping down tho weeds. Hominy, com pone, corn menl mush, stowed pumpkin, succo. tush, niaplo sugar, cranberries, mil nutter why, somebody ought to set up n monument to those noblo red men alongside Plymouth Itockv spade, cnlled a slano, tho sods being cut up and removed o dry Innd. A fow days inter, when tho sods have become a Ilttlo less soggy, they aro, spreail carefully all over tho ground and left to dry. Tho next stop Is to pllo tho turf Into n sklllfully-mndo heap, which allows tho wind to pnss between tho different pieces. Usually It .Is two or three months before the peats aro ready for uso as fuel. Peat Is used in, Ireland to such nn extent that few people In tho country districts ever burn coal. Amecican LEGION (CopyrlKlit, mi, American I'rcua I.e8U8.) the American l.eitlnn ,NVvn Service ) THE TEXAS HOSPITAL PLAN Stato Department Places Work First on List Financing the Responsi bility of All Units. "Tho department of Texas places hospital work llrst and considers It a privilege to do everything possi ble In this serv ice," writes Miss Ada May Mad dux, secretary of the department of Texas. And her report of the hos pital work which lias been done In Texas during tho past year bears out tlio state ment. A state hos Mrs. Edward C. Murray. pital fund was instituted May 23, 121. The llrst check which came Into head quarters was from Santa Anna, a unit so young that It had not yet received Its charter. The Wichita Falls auxil iary, known as "Ma hurdick's unit," Was among the llrst to contribute. Since then approximately .?(5,f)(K) has been deposited In tlie hospital fund, four Legion posts having sent In, with out solicitation, about $.100 of the hinounty One post held a goat-roping contesto raise fuixls and others sent In the receipts of their poppy sales, Tho object of the state fund Is to make the Ihianclng of Hie hospital work the responsibility of all units, not limited to the ones nearest the hos pitals. Tho State hospital committee, a chairman elected by the state con vention and three members from each unit situated near a hospital for ex service men, handles the money that comes In. The clinlrnian directs tlio work, Instructs her committee, ap proves btntements and vouchers, pre pares bulletins and does an enormous amount of work among the bojs them selves. Mrs. David M. Duller of Hous ton served faithfully In that capacity last year, and Mrs. J. Ward McKeo, also of Houston, Is the active chair man. The report says: "Mrs. Murray's messages to the units In the hospltnl bulletins and her vision In the hospital work lias Inspired the Texas units to accomplish nil this. It was her Idea, also, thnt tlio units adopt patients and break the monotony of days In tho hos pltnl wards by writing to them and sending little gifts. Greatest help is given to men without compensation, but men with compensation who need cheering nro adopted also." Mrs. Edward Clinton Murray of Houston is president of the depart ment of Texas, and is also one of the national vice presidents of tho Ameri can Legion Auxiliary. She was one of tho llrst organizers of the auxiliary in Texas and wns elected to tho stato presidency when tho organization wns formed In Snn Antonio In December, 1020. Under her direction mnny units hnve been formed nnd It Is her pur pose nt 'present to establish a unit for each of tho 201 Legion posts In Texas. Two of her policies are Justice for dis abled soldiers and discouragement of memorials which nro not of some liv ing good to the men. The department of Texns was first to contribute to the national hospltnl fund. LEGION MEN FEAR FOUL PLAY Thomas Stuart Bloodworth Mysteri ously Disappears From Ills Home In Natchez, Mississippi. Thomas Stuart RIoodworth disap peared from his homo In Natchez, Miss., September 13, and members of tho American Legion post, the Herbert J. Ite mondet post No. 4, arc seeking news concerning him. It Is feared ho may have met ivlth foul play. (1 1 o o d w o rth is twenty-tlirco years old, 0 feet (5Vj Inches in height, w e 1 g h s 14 0 'I nomas S. Blood, worth. pounds, Is fair complcxlonod, lias dark brown hnlr and black eyes. When ho disappeared ho wore an O.D. army shirt und corduroy trousers. Ho is married and has a nlne-montbs-old child. Any fnformatlon concerning him should be sent to W. A. Gelsonberger, commander Herbert J. Iteuioudct post No. 4, Natchez, Miss. Legion Hotel In London. London (England) members of tho American Legion thero aro American Legion posts In virtually every country have opened a big hotel, where vet erans of tho World wnr aro finding n homelike place to stay. Though the London post has only 128 members, tho hotel project was launched success fully and, known as the Amerlcun Le gion hotel, already has gathered an excellent patronage. Tho hotel has rooms, lounge, dancing and entertain ment parlors, etc., and furnishes the post with ofllccs, a meeting place and entertainment facilities Tanlac Put Him Back on Job, Says Davis "I've never been much of a hnnd nt praising medicines, but I can certainly say something good for Tnnlnc," said Geo. Davis, 110 Naglee St., San Fran cisco, Calif. "I had u bad case of ptomaine poi soning iiml It came pretty near laying me out altogether. For three months I was In mi awful condition und suf iVrlng constantly from diarrhea. I be came weak all over. nnd was going from bad to worse. I tried everything I knew of, hut It was beginning to look like nothing would ever reach my case. "Then, n friend of initio recom mended Tnnlnc to me. And it's u fact, four bottle have made u clean sweep of my troubles nnd built mo up to where I feel like n new man. I am working every day now und when It comes to recommending Tanlac I can't put It too strong." Tanlac Is sold by all good druggists. Advertisement. Delicate Instruments. An English scientist has perfected n wireless receiving set containing In struments so line Hint they are affect ed by waves less than half an Inch In length the smaller wine lined ordi narily being ahiitit 2(H) yards long. WOMEN HEED SWAMP-ROOT, Thousands of women have kidney nnd lil.'idiW trouble nml never Mienrct it. I Women's complaints" often piove to he nothing cle but kidney tumble, or the result of kidney or hl.idder dipence. If tho kidneys nic not in t healthy con dition, they may cause the oilier organs lo become di'-eau'd. i'nin in the back, headache, ltm of am bition, nervou?ties, are often times tymp tnuiH of kidney trouble. Don't delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Hoot, a physician', pre-t-eription, obtained nt any drug store, may lie jut the lemedy needed to ovetcomc moh conditions. Get n medium or largo pizc bottle im mediately from nny drug stoic. However, if you wixh lirst to tcit this preat preparation Fend ten cents to Dr. Kilmer &. Co., ltiiighamton, N. Y., for n sample bottle. When writing lie sure and mention this paper. Advertisement;. A man never tries to convince you thnt he Is perfectly sober unless he Is partially drunk. No amount of good advice ever made a bad egg fresh. WESTERN CANADA f ? Wheat Growing, Cattle Raising JCSL ana a AAuppy iiuiuc riusHoiuub I-UUH3 uuu uuppy nonius uwait uiosc who are desirous of enlarging their present resources and securing for themselves homes in a country that while vet in its infancy, has TI T 1 IT made itself famous by the quality of excellence ol its live stock. There are Millions oS Acres of the htchest class of soil available for the own landlord, and who wishes to share in ,Iia llimia.nit. rt Atn.rlpnn. wlin h.ulni. iiiu iiiuu.aiiua v. ..in... .v.ii.a n ..w, ,.a . ...,. o.m.iiu k.. iii-diiiiimiii.uii .u.i.ia .... uui i small means, are now writinu home to their friends, telling of what they have done. Lands are cheno and homesteads farther from lines of railway are f no to settlers. Upon these lands can be grown the best of M MBMMBa.aMMaMMMMMWMWV SICK HEADACHE CARTERS IITTI.E INZER PIL Difference in Outlook. A circus wns mining und Hilly inir tlculiirly wimtod '-!." cents. A neighbor nskod him to lino his no tutocs, hii.vIiik: "I'll make It nil right with you." Hilly hood oncrgotlcnlly, nnd when tho Ji!) wns llnlshed, went over for his pay. When ho returned, 1 nsked, "Did ho innku It nil right with you?" Deploying ono lone dime, tho little fellow mild, "Mnyho It's nil right for him, hut It'H nil wrong for inc." Kx change. Cutlcura for Sore Hands. Souk linudH on retiring In tho hot suds of Cutlcuru Soup, dry and rub In Cu tlcura Ointment. Remove surplus Ointment with tlfisuo paper. This Is only ono of the things Cutlcuru will do If Soup, Ointment and Talcum nro ued for nil toilet purposes. Advertisement. Part of the fabulous snlurles soino actors get is real money. Ho sure ot your Tatted calf heforo trying tlio prodigal role. Refreshes Weary Eyes When Your Eyes feel Dull nd Heavy, uio Alurlnr. It Ire tantlyKelievctthatTlrtdFMlIng Mikes them Clear, Uiliiht and FpatklUig. rUrmleii. Sold and Recommended bv All Drugs lite. imtlKkh Mrs. W. H. Avis Council Muffs, Iowa. "A few years ngo after motherhood I could not gain hack my strength. I developed quite n severe case of woman's trouble, suf fered with bearing pains which would be so seere I would have to He down. I became so weak that all I wanted to do was He and rest. It seemed that every spark of vitality hud left me. I consulted u doctor nnd he said nothing but an operation would help me, hut I would not consent. I hud seen Dr. Pierce's medicines advertised, so at vnico began taking the 'Favorite Pre scription' and the 'Golden Medical Dis covery' ami It was not long until I noticed my appetite was returning, I could eat. so I knew the medicine was doing me good. 1 look uhqut twelve bottles and if wa wrll worth It for It completely rostyred me to health, without the operation." Mrs. W. II. Avis. Illl S. 10th St. All druggists sell Dr. Pierce's Fam ily medicines tablets or liquid. WL.DOUGLAS $56 $7 8 shoes an W. li. 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