TITE OMAITA DAILY REE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1003.
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IMBIBE TOE RIGHT SPIRIT
New Americans Obiem Thank'giTing ai
Heartily M Colonial.
BLESSINGS Or FREEDOM ARE APPRECIATED
flew Tome ad Old from Forrla
Laadi Manifest Their Joy am
America' Feast Dtj
tervlew aad Anecdotes.
(Copyright, by E. B. Warner.)
Oo Into the foreign quarter of any Amer
ican city and ask an Italian or Slav, nr
any other Immigrant, whether he celebrates
the Fourth of July, and he will shrug hla
shoulders aa he professes Ignorance of th
day, or answers:
"No; It's nothing- to me."
Auk him If he grows enthUKlastlc over
Deeora'lon day, and you will find that It
leavei'hlm cold. But Just mention Thanks,
giving day, and his face will light up at
once.
"Yes," he will tell you. ''We eat our
Thanksgiving dinner like any other Amer
icans, and go to church and give thanks
and have a good time with the youngsters
In the evening. Thanksgiving clay means
a lot to us, for we have much to be thank
ful for."
The Immigrants catch the spirit of
Thanksgiving day more quickly than they
do any other American Institution. The
new Americans acknowledge that this Is so
by their deeds and words, and the story
ef an Immigrant who caught the spirit the
first day he landed Is typical, even If In
the majority of cases It is not Imparted so
quickly.
On a bleak November morning an old
Roumanian Jew landed In New York from
Ellis Island, with his wife and three chil
dren. The harbor was wrapped In a mantle
of fog, which hid from their eyes the
promise of the Statue of Ubertv, and the
streets of the city were swept by a drii
xllng rain.
It was a depressing scene. The old man'a
spirits sank, and the bustle and hustle of
the Americans frightened him after his
quiet life In a Roumanian village. But his
eldest son, who had preceded hla father to
America and who had sent .the money to
bring the family over, met him at the
dock with a warm, filial welcome.
"Come right along, father," ha cried.
"We ahall have to hurry to get homo tn
time for dinner."
And be ruahed the old man and the chil
dren Into a trolley car and took them
over to the East Side with all . possible
peed.
An Inspiring Scene.
When they entered the house, cold, tired,
wet and hungry, an Inspiring scene met
their eyes. A roaring fire blazed In the
grate, the American flag waa draped above
the mantel, and a good, old-faahloned
Thanksgiving feast waa spread out upon
the table.
The turkey waa there In all It glory,
browned to a turn and stuffed to the burst
ing point with chestnut-flavored dressing.
Big glaas dishes full of cranberry aauce
and celery flanked it at each corner, and
two bottles of claret stood sentinel at
either end of the table. Vegetable dishes,
cakes, sauce and gravy bowla filled up the
vacant spaces on the board, while on a side
table the pumpkin pie held away, sur
rounded by a court of jellies, blanc-mangea
and tarta.
The old man stared In amazement. All
his life long. In Us Roumanian village, he
had been used to black bread, potatoea
and turnips, with meat aa a rare treat
three or four times a year. Here was 'a
feast that might have been spread by the
lord In hla castle. What waa the meaning
ot UT What had happened to hla aon, that
ha feasted thus! It waa no feast day of
bis faith.
The son laughed at his father's surprise.
"Bit down, father," he said. "You must
be hunary. and this la a day when nobody
la supposed to go hungry In America. It Is
Thanksgiving day. Every, man who by the
aweat of hla brow haa earned a Thanksgiv
ing dinner for himself and hla family, la In
duty bound to eat and drink and be merry
and give thanks for the blessings he enjoys
In this rich land of freedom."
Verily." responded the old man, "you
have much to be thankful for when you can
pread such a feast as this, which is only
enjoyed by the richest of the people In the
land of our birth."
And he and all bis family feasted and
nade merry and rejoloed that they had
come to a land where euoh thing were pos
sible. The old man who told this story Is now
tn a position to spread hi own Thanksgiv
ing table, which he says that he never falls
Sm An wllk Anfhiiirinam each reeurrlncr vear.
IIls experience is that of the majority of
Immigrants, who share hla approval of the
(Teat American festival.
Loyalty of the Hew.
'.Even those dyed-in-the-wool Americans
whose ancestors came over In the May
flower will not celebrate Thanksgiving day
more loyally and heartily than the thou
sands of newly-made Americans who swarm
tn the foreign quarters of New York, Bos
ton, Philadelphia. Chicago, Buffalo, Pitts
burg and other great cities. There Is no
piore striking proof of the assimilation of
the Immigrant Into the American common
wealth thqn the rapidity with which he
catches the spirit of this national festival.
This Is only natural, he says. "Have we
not cause to rejoice above all other Amer
icans?" asked a venerable Jewish rabbi on
the East Bide of New York, who came to
the United States someyears ago to escape
the persecutions to which he was subjected
In Russia. "In this country even the
humblest and the poorest of ua Is entitled
to 'Ufa, liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness.' The career 1 open to the talented.
There s Justice for all, and a chance to rise
fur every man who can take advantage of
It. In the eyes of the average American we
may seem .poor and wretched; but we are
all Immeasurably better off than we were
In the old lands from which we were driven
by poverty and persecution. Truly, we
uirltt to give thanks."
. Tills is the feeling of nearly all the Immi
grants who come here. If you talk to Rus
sians. Poles, Jews. Italians, Dane. Finns,
Irishmen. Germans. Frenchmen, Greeks and
men of a score of other nationalities, you
will find that all of theYn understand and
endorse the Thanksgiving Idea. Out of
their earnings, oftentimes scsnty enouirh.
they ssve up money for eeks previously
with which to buy the turkey, and their
womenfolk learn from their American
tteltr bora . ho w to make the Indlrnensabln
era n berry since and the pumpkin pie.
Among them there is many a Thanksclvln
ouch as an Italian frtilt vendor, with a
fairly good business, described.
Saving; for tse feast.
"My first Thanksgiving." he said, "was
spent five yesrs sgo. I had only landed six
psenths before, and M strugrllng to make
a living with a push-cart. I hadn't enough
money to buy a turkey and make a great
feast, but I sived a few nickels and dimes
week bv week, so that my family could
enjoy the festival Ilk all aood Americans
"Tn the morning we went to mans, as
wantea to isks out me push-cart trier that
and try to do a Itttle trade, but roy wife
aald no. She Insisted that we muat have
a real holiday fur once, so we all went
meik to our house . and ' played the old
Jtaian tinea, aa we used to pj.y tbaia
In Naples, when we were children.
"Then In the evening, I took the wife
and the bambino to a cheap restaurant,
where we had turkey and cranberry aauce
and pumpkin pie, with a bottle of chlantl
for the wife and myself and a cigar for
me afterwards. I spent all my money, but
I felt good next morning because we had
enjoyed Thanksgiving day and done a all
good Americans do."
In some cities where there are large
foreign colonies of one nationality the
new Americans' celebration of Thanks
giving day sometimes takes on a foreign
aspect, but it is none the less hearty on
that account.
A colony of Scotchmen, for example, will
meet together and hold their ancient Cale
donian games, as they would on St. An
drew's day, and wind up with a dinner at
which the haggis, "great chleftan o the
puririjn race," follows the turkey In the
place of pumpkin pie. Italians, too, will
Insist on having spaghetti aa well as cran
berry sauce; and Irishmen contrive to drag
St. Patrick and Wolfe Tone Into the day-
festivities somehow.
Influence of Children.
The children of the new Americans are
largely responsible for their parents enter
ing Into the spirit of tho day. They go to
the public schools and hear American
youngsters talking eagerly about the fun
they are going to have on Thanksgiving
day, and naturally they go home and tell
father all about It. He turns It over In his
mind, comes to the conclusion that he has
a good deal to thank God and the American
people for, and determine to have a feast
of hla own if It takes his last nickel.
"I had never thought much about it,"
said a hard-headed, horny-handed Swede,
"but one day little Henrik came home from
school and asked me:
" 'Father, what are we going to do on
Thanksgiving day? Is mother going to give
us a turkey? Are we going to go out and
enjoy ounelves? All the othtr boys are
going to have great times.'
"I got mad. 'Nonsense!' I said. 'There
are too many holidays as it is. We've got
holidays of our own, and we have nothing
to do with all these American holiday '
But I happened to glance over at my
wife and I saw she looked wistful. Then I
thought It over. After all, we had a lot to
be thankful for. Over there In Sweden we
never had a dollar to bless ourselves with
from one year's end to the other. We
never got any decent food only potatoes,
rye bread and bad fish. We could never
get decent clothes or educate the children
as we liked to educate them. America had
made a man of rre, and given my children
a good chance In life. Ought I not to Join
In the American thanksgiving as much as
the next man?
"I looked over at my wife again, and saw
a question In her eye.
" 'All right, then.' I said. 'We'll do it
for once. We'll have the time of our live
on Thanksgiving day.' And so we did.
and we've been doing so ever since when
the day come round."
Two Exceptions.
There are, so far aa can be found, only
two communities of new Americans which
do not enter heartily Into the spirit of
Thanksgiving day. Those are the Chinese
and the Syrians. John Chinaman is not
much of an American, anyway, new or
old, and he counts thnt day lost whose
low-descending sun does not witness stren
uous toil In his laundry or chop-suey res
taurant. As for the Syrians, their excuse
was given by one of the leading mer
chants of their race In New Tork.
"It la true," he said, "that the Syrians
do not celebrate Thanksgiving day as a
people, though a few individuals may do
so. -'Tou must remember that most of
them are very poor and ignorant. They
have not been in this country long, and
they know little about America or Amer
ican Institutions. Many of them, too, be
ing helpless peddlers, are 'shaken down'
by police 'grafters' in various cities; and
so they do not teallse the real excellence
of American law and the American system
of government.
"But it will come In time. Already they
are beginning to understand, In some
cases, what the day means; and the chil
dren are being educated In the schools.
In a few years the Syrians will rejoice on
Thanksgiving day as much as anybody.
They alread value American citizenship;
and all of them become naturalized at the
earliest possible moment."
At present most of the Syrians, Armeni
ans and Greek Catholics In America cele
brate their own national and religious fes
tivals rather than those of the people
among whom they have started a hew
life. But this is a habit that wears Itself
out rapidly, and their priests encourage
them to become Americanized.
I teach them,", said a priest of the
Greek orthodox church, "to come to
church In the mofnlng to give thanks to
God, In the true American way, and then
to go and enjoy themselves for th re it
of the day, as the custom of the country
appoints. I tell them It la their duty tr
become good Americans and give ' thank
for the benefit which they enjoy In thl-
great free country."
That Is the attitude or most or the mn
Isters of foreign churches In America
Thanksgiving
How American Indiars
Th interest In Thanksgiving day and Its over that of a few year gone. which mean, that all of the tribe are at
observance " Just a. Intense these day. The Apachea and Cheyenne, are In the liberty to rush forth and aecure their por
among the reservation Indian, a. In col- habit of holding a pony .moke; often the tion. A half beef 1. .warded to each
fe.7town. "here great foot ball game. Osage. Indulge in'thi. expensive fe.Uval. quaw." The beef U cleaned and cookd
Lr. .cnldu ed I to occur Epeclally 1. this A pony smoke 1. a friendly meeting of two on a fire on the open plain, while the medl
ar acheduled to occur, tapec uiiy x ..racially appropriate for the cine men dance their approval and the war-
true in . tw.
hi iii iT f lata vears Th. whlU
SSSFS mrVen'ont InVhlsday
Sf Lversalgood cheer than do these .am
dunky redBKins.
It Is a day cf fe:st!ns. rJS end em
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ng, wun raim ........ .
only comes once a year to tnem nowadays,
when they hav had to forsake the scalping
knife for the plow. Their wild nature
reviled at the Idea of work, and It has been
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wun mucn um.cu..y i - -"
agenta have mad farmer out of the young
braves. A day of rest and amuement Is
considered good for their better nature and
the government autnormes in w.mu.b -i
Thanksgiving day shall become a restai
time for the reservation wards of th na
tion.
Tk. .nrt Comanches. who have
but recently been placed on allotments, will
h.v forsaken many of their wild plans of
amusement this Thanksgiving, owing to the
fact that they hav been cut off the free
llst of beef issue. They hav arranged to
draw gras. money on Thanksgiving, and a
aoodly iortlon of this will be spent In pur-
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At night
cnasing iw. - " A "'
they win taae pan ""
at which prayer, will b. ottenO. to the
urwt npim ior in. .. ....... .....
hav had th last season. I ne spirit oi
thankfulneta pervades the Indian celebra
idlan celebra-
tion.
The Osages hold a .big feast at Pawnussa. pa.tur.. The young men of th trib their children, neat-appearing boy and
their capital city. All membei or tne ino are mounted on mustaug and hav hlnlng girl, and they hear .trange words, but
are invltod to take part In th festivities. flw1 (pjn wuh ,n- good wUhM of the Mem, for tna j,, For not
At the. beginning and end of each meal- ,,uaw. and niedlctn men ringing In their their children happy amid all of the., sur
aud ther are many the aged missionary eax, ,hey rlJe out lo klll the catUe. Th rounding, wher they are being advanced
who live among them la invited to de- ,1. ,ave no chance for life whatever, in the ways of the white people? It eer
liver a short prayer thanking the Great The chase Is accompanied by an undue talnly has a good effect on the old people
Spirit for the good things which the agent amount of wild yelling, while excitement of these tribes.' Th Thanksgiving day ex
has sent to them. The food I cooked by grow Intense in th camp. The smell of ercise at Chlliwco hav been duplicated by
th quas, and, while it could be pre- frtmh blood make th aquaw wild. a. it a number of mluor Indian schools through
pared la a much cleaner and more tasteful war. After all ef th cattle have been out th southwest, and ail are satisfied with
cnauntr, th cooking to aa Improvement hot down, tnea the killers give a signal th result
cities, and it haa much to do with the
speedy assimilation of the Thanksgiving
spirit by the bundreda of thousands of
new Americans who flock to our shores
every year. BA8SETT STAINES.
PRATTI.B OF TUB TOl'SUSTERS.
Sister Ethel I do wish I were prettier.
Little Brother Dick Well, quit looktn' In
th' glasa all the time an' you'll feel all
right."
Little 4-year-old Elsie waa crying and her
grandmother asked what the trouble we.
"Oh, everything goes wrong," sobbed
Elsie. "I Just wish I had my whole life
to live over again."
The minister had preached about the
necessity of a new heart, and on the way
home Margie said: "Papa, please give me
a penny."
"What for, dear?" he asked.
"I want to buy a new heart at the candy
store," she replied.
"Oh, mamma," exclaimed small Willie,
"I dreamed thnt I had a real live pony."
"And what became of It, dear?" asked Ms
mother.
"I think it runned away at the place I
woke up," answered the little fellow.
A western teacher. Instructing a'class in
composition, said: "Do not attempt any
flights of fancy; be yourselves and write
what Is in you." The following day a
bright pupil handed In the following: "We
should not attempt any flltes of fancy, rite
what la in us. In me there Is my stomach,
lungs, heart, liver, two apples, one piece of
mince pie, three sticks of candy a hull lot
of peanuts and my dinner."
A lad of Enid, Okl., In the geography
class, was deeply Interested In learning
the points of the compass. Said the
teacher: "You have In front of you the
north, on your right the east and on your
left the west. What have you behind
you?"
Artcr a few moments' reflection Charlie
excluimed. "A patch on my pants." And
to make the Information more binding
Charlie continued, in a shame-faced man
ner: "I knew you'd see It. I told mamma
you would."
I
RELIGIOUS.
VV. T. Durbln, governor of Indiana, has
built a beautiful Methodist chapel recently
In the suburbs. Governor Durbln Is a mem
ber of the Methodist church.
The children of the late J. M. Constable
have presented to the Church of the Incar
nation of New York one of the costliest
and mo3t most beautiful memorial chapels
In that city.
The Rev. John. J. Glennon, archbishop
of Bt. Louis, has started a crusade among
the Catholic churches of that city and
vicinity against eucher parties and festi
vals for the raising of church funds.
The American Bible fcoolety has sent to
the Philippines an especially prepared edi
tion of tne New Testament and the entire
Bible, bound In the khaki which is used
by the United States army. The Bibles
are of good print and of convenient size
for a soldier's outfit.
The clergymen at Elmlra, N. Y.. have
united in a protest against funerals being
held on Sunday. They state that a funeral
necessitates many people working on Sun
day who would otherwise enjoy a day of
rest and also that one doubles the duties
of a r., ulster on that day.
Cardi.ial Richard, archbishop of Paris,
has been summoned to Rome, It Is supposed
for the purpose of ending once for all
the long existing conflict between the
French government and the religious in
terests of France, which ia becoming more
and more accentuated.
Verv Rev. Godfrey Schilling, a Cincin
nati priest, who was for many yeara con
nected with the Franciscan college, has
Just received a notable distinction among
his brethren In distant Egypt In being ap
pointed to the office of guardian of one
of the largest monasteries of the Francis
can order Tn the world.
At the Christian Endeavor convention
recently held In Ahmednagar, India, nearly
2.UU0 young Christian Endeavorers marched
In procession to the theater, where a meet
ing was held. The Hindoo owner of the
theater charged a nominal rental of one
rupee for the use of his building. The
chairman and all the speakers were con
verted brahmins.
Kaiser Wilhelm has plenty of palaces to
retire Into If he wlehea to withdraw from
pubiiu function and save his voice trom
undue exertion. He owns in his own name
no less than fifty-four. Each has to have
a castellan and numerous huntem, guards
and caretakers. One of the hardest tasks
of the court marshal Is the regular round
of visits to Inspect all these palaces, hunt
ing boxes and show places.
Susun Grant, daughter of Sir Alexander
Grant of Edinburg. has come over to this
country in charge of a gift from the bishop
of Argyl and the Isles to Bishop Satter
lee. for the cathedral which the Protestant
Kpiwopul church is going to build In
Washington. The gift la a piece of the
rock where St. Columba, the Irish mls
Btonary, preached Christianity in lona, in
the year 6ti8.
The family of the late Episcopal Bishop
Richard Hooker Wllmer of Alabama has
selected the Rev. W. C. Whlttaker, rector
of St. Andrew s Episcopal church, Jackson,
MIhh., to write his biography. Bishop Wll
mer was the onlv southern bishop of his
church elected and consecrated during the
Mvll war. He wan long known an the
"Rebel Bishop" because he refused to
pray for the president of the United States
when General Thomas and his army were
iccupvlng Alabama. At the close of the
war Bishop Wllmer said that lie had no
"grets and was making no apologies, and
he northern church finally agreed to ace
I ept him as the bishop of Alabama.
Among the
Observe a Holiday Instituted
occion. The tribe giving th amok Is
aupposed to bear .11 of the expose. Thy
Jd. the best gam. and ve.etab,.. In
T.X XIZZ tr?t
. . . ftf
lng them. A. a tribe consl.t. of from 800
to BOO families, the expense. .oon mount echools. where an entirely different pro
ki.h Th, nu,., twinv th. riches re.fr- gram Is carried out. The Chllocco schools
vatlon Indians there are today, can better
afford to hold pony smokes, and combined
nh k.i. ,k. ..n.n !,.
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,evera, hundred guests from th Poncaa.
Tonkawas nd urrounalnf trlbe. Those
4Cceplng tne nre ,uppo.e(1 t0 re
turn tna glft wlh eqUaiy expensive ones
utr on but few of tnem can d(J ,
... them on that day. For several days prior
The Poncaa hold every Thanksgiving as a to Than,,., lne trails leading to Chl-becf-lssue
day. If th agent doe not ,.. hAnl - ,lnM, w1th w..on. indd
rome forward and present them with a herd
of cattle for thls occasion they mortgage
their property and buy cattl. of aome
Mfchborln.; ranchmen. A beef lsu 1. h
mo,t tPl"! f the redskin and also th
noBt Ptureaaue of Indian Thanksgiving
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manner of an old-time issue, but ou erna-
elal occasions they are allowed the amuse
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m,nt 0f killing their own meat. It ia .aid
by (h BOV,rBment offlcerii who ,UCCeeded
. . . Dractlc .tontjed. that beef
Indians wilder and
wiia sports oi toe uiu Hvin, wnu are
more aimcult to civilise.
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CRANBERRY NOW IN DEMAND
Half a Tear's Crop is Marketed W'thin
Thirty Days, !
HARVEST IS A BOUNTIFUL ONE
From Cape Cod, Whence Come the
Earliest Berries, to Alaska the
Yield I Urge-Gtowi tat
Sand and Peat,
Thanksgiving day and the cranberry are
one and Inseparable In the United States,
During the year the cranberry has aa
steady a market as the cabbage, but in the
month of November the demand f6r It
la phenomenal, a ltt)e less than one-half
the year's crop be'... disposed of in the
thirty days. This year iiie total yield is
estimated at 1,300,000 bushels, and over
400,000 bushel will be needed for Thanks
giving. The cranberry-grower is a sharer in the
general prosperity of the times, hla vines
yielding him nearly twice the crop of laat
year. From Cape Cod, where American
cranberrlea were first cultivated, to the
remote Island of Kodlak, Alaska, the
northern and westernmost point where
the fruit is grown, the same reports of a
bountiful harvest aro given.
Of all familiar fruits It is nafe to say
that there Is none of which so little is
generally known as the cranberry. Orig
inally it grew wild, as.' in fact, it does
today in several of the states bordering
on the Canada line, In the salt-marshes of
the coast states, in the glades of the
Alleghenles, and as far south aa Virginia
and the Carolines. Unlike the strawberry,
the wild cranberry .is distinctly Inferior to
its cultivated relative. Both grow on a
small, hardy shrub, about six inches in
height. . The fruit takea its name
Aborigines
by the White Man.
rlor alng In their glee. The feast follow.
with more dancing and the whole day 1
thu. .pen,, ending lat. at nlght with a final
'buT while thi, ceremony Is going on
among the Panca. lust north of their res-
ervaiion n mnes. are me tnuocco inaiaa
trm th largest government educational
Institute in the southwest, .ome 600 young
Indian, attending. All tribes are allowed
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tnere. Every Drancn or siuay, to ay notn-
n of the Industrial training department,
I taught ther. Thanksgiving is a day of
much interest to thuse students. Those
who have parents are aiiowea a visit rrom
wlth innlan. Thv camD on the Chlloeco
reMrvatlon. The .indents are allowed to
ro ,nt0 c,mp wlth thelr paren, but cannot
,pen(, the nlght wlth them, tor fear of evil
eflrecU. Dn Thanksgiving morning the .tu-
dent, . brou,ht mto the chapel, where
they recite and play musical inatrument.
uj me pnae or ineir instructors ana amase-
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mem or ineir DareiiiB. who are kuchii ui
honor. In the afternoon the Chllocco foot
ball team contests with a team from some
nearby town, while the girls play basket
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port of the old savages,
seated around th circle a spectators, are
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fection, bears a marked resemblance to th
neck, head and bill of a crane. Hence
the name "craneberry," which usage haa
made Into cranberry.
Fertilise with Sand.
Sand and peaty ground form the proper
soli, and Inatead of fertilizing the grower
la obliged to give the vines or bushes
liberal coatings of sand. The ground i.v.ist
be low, aa it la kept under water much
of the time. The marsh, or bog, aa It la
variously termed, is so arranged that
any section of It may be flooded at the
Clacretlon of the grower, the system of
ditches and sluices being the same a those
used in Irrigating the arid lands of the
west.
The making of the bog ia an ex
pensive process, Involving an expenditure
of from $300 to $5C0 an acre, and an interim
of five years elapsea before the yield Is
ra.lly profitable. After that each year
should give a larger return on the in
vestment. No rotation of crops la neces
sary, and the shrubs live and bear and
Increase endlessly.
Planting a new section of bog la a simple
process. A small handful of twigs la
twisted together and thrust deep Into the
sand. They take root Immediately, and
within a year put forth new uprights and
begin to send out runners. The planting
Is eight or ten inchea apart In rows.
Gradually the space between fills up, and
in an old bog the shrubs grow as thickly
aa bultalo-grass. 'All they require then
Is weeding, sanding and flooding.
Flooding la necessary not only for the
growth of the plant, but to protect It from
the early frosts of autumn. It Is no un
usual sight to see a half-hundred pickers
at work In one section of a bog while the
adjoining section Is eighteen Inches under
water. Beneath the transparent covering
the berries are seen, the water only in
tensifying their brilliant coloring and the
deep greea of the surrounding leaves.
Picking cranberries la a task for nimble
fingers. The picker, sitting or kneeling on
the damp sand, plunges both hands, with
fingers slightly spread, into the vines, and
with a quick movement atrlps the berries
from the stems and tosses them into a pan
beside him. When the pan la filled it is
emptied Into a pall holding one-third of a
bushel. The size la uniform and the plokera
are paid by the pall. The berriea are finally
put into crates holding a bushel each. Be
fore they are ready for market, however,
they art winnowed of leave and weeds,
and are ready for th consumer.
Cope Cod Bog Yield Earliest Berries.
Th first cranberrlea come from the Cape
Cod bogs. There picking begin early In
September and lasts until severe frosts put
au end to th season. The Long Island and
New Jersey berries reach th market two
weeks latar, or about the middle of Sep
tember. In the middle state and the west
the crop I not quite so early. Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and northern
Iowa are cranberry states. The west con
sume, practically all it. own product and
also a part of th eastern yield. The west
ern berry rarely find It way Into th mar
kets of the east. In th coast state, th
cranberry I. a remarkable favorite, and
without It a mere turkey would be consid
ered anything but a piece de resistance oa
the New England day of day.. New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New Eng
land consume more than half the entire an
nual crop. New York City alone requiring
250.000 bushels a year.
For these berries this year th produoer
will average a minimum price of $5 a bar
rel. The consumer pay. at retail from
to 10 cent, a quart,, generally the latter
price. The price 1. governed by the abund
ance of the yield. Sifting these figure It
will be seen that a large amount of money
goes to someone between the producer and
the consumer, but it must be borne In mind
that cranberries, Ilk apples, roust pay th
price of long storage. Sometime, when
the producer tea afford It, he put. away a
large part of hi crop, and let It remain
in storage until the last of December or
the middle of January, when, as a rule, the
price advance. There have been time
when cranberrlea brought $8 and 10 a
barrel.
There 1. a popular Idea that cranberry
growing Is a sure road to wealth. One of
the sages among grower., Mr. E. I Brown
of Calverton, L. I., call cranberrlea a
"young man'a crop." Thla means that a
man who rhooaea cranberry-fanning a a
road to etfluenc must b willing to wait,
and to work steadily and with persever
ance wull he wait. A few year ago a
wealthy resident of Detroit, stirred by th
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No abbreviations will be counted aa mis
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fclorlfled accounts of cranberry profits, In
vested 1 250,000 in an attempt to raise the
berries on a large scale. He r.handoned
his enterprise at the end of the second
year, losing almost his entire Investment.
Profitable aa cranberry-raising may be,
under light conditions, to cultivate the
berry successfully means that the grower
must often carry a hctivy burden of care
and anxiety. So It la simple truth to say
that In this year of bountiful harvest, of all
the thank expressed on the appointed day,
those of the man who growa cranberrlea
will be even greater and more fervent than
the appreciation of the thouaands who de
light their palatea with the cranberry.
TABLE AND KITCHEN
Mean,
BREAKFAST.
Cereal. Fruit. LYeam.
Bacon, Cream Potato Mince,
Flannel Cakes, Maple Syrup,
Coffee.
LUNCH.
Dainty Egg Toast, 8hrlmp Salad,
Brown Bread. Grape Juice,
DINNER.
Puree Mature,
Breaded Venl Cutleta, Cream 8auce,
Mashed Potatoea, Spinach,
Fruit Salad,
Cheese, "Wafers,
Coffee.
Recipes.
Candled Sweet Potatoes. Boll two pounds
of sweet potatoes until they can be peeled.
Remove the skins, If large cut them in
half 'and put them in a buttered pan;
spread with a little butter, then pour a
spoonful of molasses over each and set in
the oven and brown a light color.
Sugar-Bake Sweets. Parboil four or five
medlum-.Ised sweet potatoes until you can
removo the skins. Cut In slices and place
a layer In th bottom of a baking dish;
sprinkle thickly with sugar, adding bits of
butter. Fill the dish up with these alter
nate layers of potato, sugar and butter.
Then nearly cover the potatoes with hot
water and set them in the oven to bake
for half an hour.
Sweet Potato Pyramids. Boil or bake six
large potatoes and when done peel or scoop
out the contents. Seoaon with salt, pepper
and a tablespoonful of butter, then put
through a vegetable press and add a little
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cream or the yolk and white of an egg
beaten separately. Line the bottom of' a
buklng pan with buttered paper, make"
the potato mixture up Into small pyramids,
place In the pan, brush with beaten egg
and brown In a quick oven. Place a bit of
parsley in the top of each one, after ar
ranging on a hot dish.
Southern Mashed Sweet Potatoes. Boll
six good-sired sweet potatoes. Peel thorn
and maun fine, adding a tablespoonful of
butter, two of sugar and salt and pepper
to taste. Beat them very light and then
heap them up In a buttered pudding dish.
Brush with milk and bake In a moderately
ho oven until brown.
Eweet Potato and Tomato Scallop. Boil
the potatoea tender; peel and mix with
butter and a seasoning of salt and pepper.
Simmer a quart can of tomatoes for fifteen
or twenty minutes, , rub through a sieve
and season with salt, pepper, celery .alt
or a little powdered mace. Put a layer of
eoft, rather coarse bread crumbs, entire
wheat or white, In the bottom of a baking
dish, then put In potatoes, then moro
crumbs and more potatoes. When "all ore
used pour the tomatoes over them, filling
up the chinks. Sprinkle cru-nbn and bits
of butter over the top and
Sweet Potato Croquettes. Thebe may be
made In same manner as white potato cro
quettes. Mashing the boiled or baked po
tatoes, seasoning with rait, pepper, onion
juice, minced parsley, a little grated nut
meg and mixing in a beaten egg. Form
into cylinders, dip In beaten eggs, crumb
and fry.
Sweet Potato Pudding. This used to be a
favorite Sunday pudding in the south and
found on the table of many planter., "befo
de wab."
Two pounds of potatoes boiled very aoft,
but not aoggy. Mash while warm and add
a cupful of butter and beat the mixture
until very light colored. Then beat four
eggs with a cupful of white sugar and
pour Into - the other mixture, stirring
briskly. Add grated nutmeg to suit the
taste, half a pint of sherry wine, a pint
of rich milk and the grated yellow peel
of a lemon. Mix, turn Into a pudding dish
and bake In a quick oven.
Rockefeller Wilt Assist.
The subscriptions collected for the New
ton Theological Institution endowment fund
now amount to 1146,304.76, which will be
duplicated by John D. Rockefeller,
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