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WAS THE TELLING STROKE. FACTS ABOUT THE PIE. FIRST THANKSGIVING OBSERVED ON SHIPBOARD IN YEAR 1629 Point of ne Beggar's Tale That Won Her a Dime From a Sceptic. The man and the woman were on their way to dinner just off Fifth avenue down a side street, when they heard a voice back of them say: "For the love of God. lady and gentleman, stop and listen to what a poor wcn.an has to say." They stopped to listen; the woman because she wanted to hear, the man out of politeness because tne woman had stopped.

"For the love of GmI. lady and gentleman." began the voice which issued froni the lips of another woman not poorly dressed, but with rather a stylish hat anil good shoes, "will you give me care fare? I want to go to Brooklyn. There is a lady in Brooklyn who owes me money. If I can only get there she will pay me, Hen she paused to shed a tear. "If I can only cet there maybe she will pay nie." repeated the voice.

"I.auy and gentleman." her utterance was throaty now. full of tears, "will you kindly help me by gHing me money to get to Brooklyn, when? thi3 lady is? I can prove that she owes me money if you will only listen." "Give her live cents." said the woman, and the man frowningly reached into his pocket, produced a dime and handed it to her to give. "God Moss you. lady and gentleman." cried the voice move throafily than ever, but with a triumphant ring, though the tears coursed one by one down her "may the good Lord bless you, may the good But her listeners were out of hearing by now. "What made you let her catch you by that cij dodge?" asked the man.

"She's probably got money in the bank drawing interest." "I've seen hundreds of them downtown who wanted to go to Harlem," replied the woman in explanation. "and hundreds in Harlem that wasted to go downtown, but this is the first one I have ever encountered who wanted a nickel to go to Brooklyn. That's Now York Sun. Among Other Things, Baker Says Germans Can't Make Them. "There's one funny thins about pie." said a New York boss pie founder the other day.

"That's the way Dutchmen cant make 'em. "Almost every other kind of baking is in the hands of Germans, and I don't deny that they make Rood snails and pretzels and rye bread and sinkers. But they are no good on pies. "And why? Because to take a thing right you've got to like it. and you never jet saw the Dutchman who could appreciate a good American pie.

They don't like em and can't make em right. "It takes a Yankee, who caa understand the fine points of a good pie. Our bakers just live on pie eat it all the time and they're the healthiest pang of men you ever met. "Why, out West they've got a pie baker that's a pugilist, and a mighty od or.e. and he trains on pie.

That's right. If he doesn't get proud and shake the pie-works. I expect to see him a champion. 'Tretty nearly every town in this country with more than loo.euo inhabitants has its pie factory with a monopoly of the local business. We've figured it out.

and found that a town n.aller than that won't support a factory. But, of course, the business goes best in New England, where they ai i ciate pie. "And here's something funny. Ail yc.u newspaper people seem to think there's something funny about pie. The alleged comic tramp always steals pics from the young housewife.

If any one gets soaked with anything, it's always a pie. "What's funnier about a pie than about a doughnut or a hunk or rye biead or a pretzel? But you fellows seem to think that pie will draw the laugh every time. Why? Honest, now, why? "Up in Boston, where they've learned what pie. eaten in moderation, can do for the human body and brain, they don't josh it. No, sir.

It's pie for breakfast right along with the champagne on the tables of all the best families in New England." Mftw JU. Milk- 1 La 1 rvCT. Discontent. The peacock heard the nightingale singing. "That seems easy to do," said the big bird.

"I II see if I can't sing as well as that." At the dismal squawk that followed a moment later every living thing within hearing distance fled in terror "Curses on my fatal gift of beauty!" exclaimed the peacock. "Why wasn't I made plain, like all the great mtisi cians!" Acting on the Hint. "Mine is a fashionable congregation." whispered the young minister as they er.ten-d the pulpit, "ana I hope you will not use any er vulgar or nlebian terms to-day." "I'll try not to," replied the eld-fashioned preacher humbly. And. turning to the assemblage, he stated: "My friends we will begin services by siuging, "I love to eaabe zle awhile His Experience.

Fuzzyhead Confound it, barber, what are you doing with my hair? Did you ever handle the shears before The Barber Yes. sir, 1 used to trim hedges. In Real Money, Toe. Foyer "Yon remember what gorge ous diamonds Mrs. Footlight osed'ta wear on the stage?" Parke: "Yes." Foyer "Well, they were sold at a pawnbroker's auction to-day." Parket "So? I suppose they brought a neat, little sum." Foyer "Yes; $3.90." The Old Problem.

"How do you like house keeping "Well." answered the recently mai rled man, "it's only a partial success. The people who come to visit us are well enough pleased to stay a long time, but we can't get the servant gills to agree with them." Washington Star. Quickly Concealed. "My boy," said the benevolent parson. "I hope you do DOf hifle jrW light i.nder a bushel?" "light?" echoed the lad, who wa learning to smoke in the barn.

"Why, when I har dad coming I hide tbe whole cigar under a busheL" Not Hard on the Horae. Fuddy oh, yes, horseback exercise-may be all right for you, but isn't rpther bard on the horse? Duddy I don't see why it ehoald be. Yoi know I rest tiie horse right along; I'm up in the air half the time. Boston Transcript. Voice of Experience.

"You have no idea, young mas, bow injurious tobacco is! Why. the effect of nicotine "But you use snuff, sir, and that is tobacco." "Well, how do you expect me to find out that it is Injurious unless 1 try it?" Heitere Welt. A Question of Grammar. "Did I understand yoa to say that you summered in the mountains V. asked the man with a precise manner.

"Yes." "Well, in stating where you spent the autumn will you say that yot failed or you fell?" Has a Groundless Claim. "She claims she's a fine singer. Do you think she ought to see a vocal teacher?" "No." "Who then?" "A claim adjuster." An Impression. "Do you think that music is of any practical benefit in life?" "Well," answered Miss Cayennr, "judging from the photographs of eminent violinists, it most keep the ha or from falling out." Still Has Some Hope. Chnmpley (gloomily) What makes yoa think there is hope for see? Miss Kidder She told me sfco wouldn't marry tha test mas: living.

OF have been the bill of fare of the aT- erage Boston family on that day, one family, at least, must have enjoyed a bountiful and variegated dinner, for the country people who poured into Boston on the arrival of the ship, a few days Thanksgiving, overwhelmed the governor and his wife with gifts of fat hogs, kids, poultry, venison and other kinds of game. During the succeeding fifty years there appear to have been Thanksgivings averaging about once in two jvars. and appointed to mark some specific and remarkable event, as a victory in th- Indian wars, or a happy solution of some troublesome problem, either religious or political. During all those years, and for many afterward, fast days were even more numerous than Thanksgivings, because the trials of the Puritans far exceeded their blessings. In some instances there were serious differences between the genera) court, which then appointed Thanks-girirgs.

the magistrates and the ministers for the latter always advised in the matter as to which was proper for the occasion, a thanksgiving or a fast. It is to be noted that the custom of appointing a Thanksgiving simply as an annual custom, and without regard to any specific or important occasion was almost unknown until well into the last century and was never habitual till within the last thirty years. Indeed, the theory was advanced more than 200 years ago that a too frequent observance of Thanksgiving, and for insufficient cause, tended to make men "too carnal-minded." Too Great a Resemblance. Bishop Olmsted of Denver is interested in a number of charities, and obtains many generous contributions on their behalf from rich Episcopalians. There is in Denver, however, a mil-lioiiaire who will rarely consent to Bishop Olmsted's pet projects.

He is a generous man. and in his own way he assists the poor, b'lt to organized charity, for some reason, he heartily objects. The bishop often asks him for subscriptions, but these requests are almost invariably refused. the millionaire had his portrait painted. Bishop Olmsted met him the other day aud said: "I saw this morning your admirable portrait." "And did you ak it for a subscription?" said the millionaire, smiling.

"No," said Bishop Olmsted. "I saw there was no use it was so like you." Pumped. In this picker-up of those unconsidered trifles which that master of style, Charles Imb. to dwell on, I may record one of the quaint sayings of a little girl who was recently adopted by a philanthropic lady from an institution for stray bits of infantile humanity thrown from the sea of metropolitan life in which their parents have been wrecked. This tot.

who is as pretty as lue -oroverbial picture and wise beyond ber years, was hurrying with me the other day to catch a train: and unconscious that I was taxing the little one beyond her power. I said, with masculine abruptness: "Walk faster, walk faster, or we'll be left!" "Oh. I can't." was the panting reply; "I'm, all out of air." Boston Budget. Master of Many Languages. Dr.

E. G. d'Erf Brow ne, explorer In the orient for the British Natural History society, has been visiting the St. Louis fair, where he caused great commotion among the Asiatics connected with the shows and industrial exhibits. Dr.

Browne speaks twelve oriental dialects, besides as many languages. whenever he appeared in the fair grounds he was received with noisy demonstrations of welcome. One day, when surrounded by a crowd of Asiatics, he spoke half a dozen different dialects in as many minutes in reply to affectionate greetings. Shop Hours Act." The "shop hours act," passed at the latest session of the British parliament, gives cities to enforce any earlier closing arrangement not earlier than 7 p. and.

on one day ot the week, 1 p. m. on petition of of the employes of any given trade in the city. The arrangements will be binding on the other one-third. Places in which medicines, intoxicating liquors, refreshments, to bacco and newspapers are sold are outside of the law.

Soon Over. "Gee whizz! this steak is complained the cranky boarder. "Yes," replied the optimist beside him, "but. fortunately, our portions are very small, and so it isn't so bad as it might be." Proof Positive. Hawkins That pickpocket they caught ie a really intelligent fellow.

Sampson No doubt of it. He proved that by his ability to locate a lady's cocket. Judse. Herr Conried Is Worried. Herr Conried looks as fatisued already as if he had been through two opera seasons.

He is never seen without a paiwr volume in his hand. He rides in his automobile with such a book before him. He walks in to lunch holding the same kind of a book so close to his nose that he has to be steered to hia table by the waiters. He places the paper volume before him and guides his food to his mouth as accurately as poscible without looking at it. The opera director is reading plays enough for the whole season at his German theater, where many are needed.

"And it's the hardest part of the business," he says. "I would rather stage, manage and produce twenty plays than have to read five. Once I have selected my repertoire for the season, the rest is easy." New York Siin. Gave Up All for Religion. Ali Kuli Khan, a Persian nobleman, who has given up lands, title, family and position, is now living in Boston in obscurity because he regards his religion as more important than any of the temporalities he is relinquishing.

His father was ordered executed for becoming a Babist, than which no religion is more feared by the Mohammedan clergy of Persia, but owing to the influence of his uncle, who was prime minister of the late shah, the order was commuted. Ali is at work translating into English the works of the Babist writers at the request of American converts to the faith. Suggestion for Liquor Drinkers. Rpt. Madison C.

Peters of New York suggests this as an improvement on Bishop Potter's subway saloon: "A gallon of whisky costs $3. and contains sixty-five 13-cent drinks. Now, if men must drink, let them buy ft by the gallon and make their wives, sisters or mothers the barkeepers. Pay them for the drink, and hen the gallon is gone they will have a net profit of on every gallon. Let that money be put away and when the drinkers have become drunkards their wives, mothers and sisters will have to keep them from want." Senator Scott's Las? Campaign-Senator Scott of West Virginia, says that this is his last national campaign.

With the death of Frederick S. Gibbs and Henry C. Payne he has lost all of his old associates in national committee work, and he feels that it is time for him to step aside and let younger men take up the party bur-df n. Dangerous Cases. "What became of the brilliant young lawyer?" "He fell by the wayside.

Too many cases." "But I didn't think a lawyer could have too many cases?" "Yes cases of champagne." Not in His Line. "I don't know what is the matter with me, doctor," said the parson. "I can't lie on either side." "Of course, not. parson." replied the pill dispenser. "Only a lawyer can do that." His Cynical Theory.

"Father," said the small boy, "why do they call a speech made at a banquet a toast?" "My son," was the answer, "it is Drobab'y because they are so dry." SffAMMSCrtlfS. SreJio ePAAt -run From the beginning, with but few exceptions. Thanksgivings have been kept in the late autumn, owing to the harvest time, of course, and more frequently toward the end of November. No one knows how the custom of appointing Thursday originated, but some light is doubtless thrown on the subject by a controversy over a proposal to change the day of the week, about 1G90, when the dissenters argued that Thursday was preferable, because of the Thursday lectures, or midweek religious services, that took place every week In communities of considerable size, a joint observance of the two days rendering it unnecessary, of course, for many to sacrifice a day's labor, esjiecially for Thanksgiving. Although the pilgrims were the first to observe Thanksgiving on this continent, the Salem colonists, on their voyage over here in observed Thanksgiving on shipboard, in which everybody, passengers, captain ami crew, took part, as an acknowledgment of a favorable breeze that had followed a preceding day of fasting and prayer.

Winthrop colony, in 1030, also observed a Thanksgiving, apparently entirely without any inspiration from the pilgrims, but in accordance with their former custom in England, the motive in this case having been gratitude for the safe arrival of their fleet at Charlestown. where purely religious services were held beneath a tree, for it was in hot weather, July 8. The Winthrop colony's second Thanksgiving here, which is commonly spoken of by historians as their first, was about eight months later. Feb. 22, when having moved over to the peninsula of Shammut and taken up their abode in log houses, huts, hovels and even holes in the side of Beacon hill, their number sadly depleted by diseases caused by putrified food, and even absolute starvation, the arrival of their fellow townsman.

Oapt. William Peirce, with a shipload of provisions from Ireland, and, best of all. "good store of lemon juice" to crrest the ravages of the scurvy, furnished them with good cause for devout thanksgiving and gastronomic dissipation as well. The colony probably comprised 200 or less, no church had yet been built, and it Is doubtful if there was any public religious observance of the day. Neither can the bill of fare of r.ny of the households have been sumptuous, according to our ideas, judged by the record of the ship's cargo, which shows that the best the Boston cuisine could have then afforded was -orned beef or boiled salt park, oatmeal or wheatmeal mush, without milk or sirup, and ship's biscuit with cheese.

Yet who shall say it was not deemed a rich feast, when we learn from one w-ho participated in it that a repast consisting of "meal, water and a little salt, boiled together, was so pood that none could ask for a better meal." Digestion was facilitated by copious drafts of ale. If it could be had. from a single large pewter or wooden tankard, whicb was passed around from one to another at the table, after the lashion of the modern loving cup. The household environment of those early Boston martyrs who had com 3,000 miles into the savage wilderness, to escape persecution, was as rude and as simple as their bill of fare. Household furniture there 'was practically none, save a table of rough boards or planks, and enough ttree-legged 6tools to accommodate the members of the family.

There were tablecloths of very coarse linen, but neither table knives nor forks, the fingers and spoons of either wood or iron meeting all the requirements of the then prevailing table etiquette; china was unknown, and as tea and coffee had never loen hoard of. iiie cream pitcher and the sugar bowl were not needed. Trenchers, useu plates or platters, were made by scooping out a hollow in a piece of plank, about 10 or 12 inches square. For sixty or seventy years, if not longer, the religious phase of i hanks-giving differed in no appreciable way 1 L. hdi 1 0nrltucm Jmt ti, tod, Hji.

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It is evident that in those days the dinner must have been decidedly a minor affair. It was not till 1721 that the afternoon service was abolished, asnlnst vigorous protests from some of the church members, although the change was brought about by fear of the smallpox, then prevalent in the town. A third Thanksgiving was observed in the Massachusetts colony Nov. 11, 1631. to express the popular joy at the arrival of Gov.

Winthrop's wife and another shipload of provisions from the old cowtrj-. Whalarer may A priwed proclamation of that Thanksgiving, the earliest broadside of its kind known to be in existence now, is in the library of the Massachusetts historical society, and a reduced facsimile is given with this article. The general tone of the composition reminds one of another Thanksgiving, some years later, which was observed only in Boston, for the purpose of thanking heaven for sparing Boston, while Charlestown. across the river, was threatened with depopulation by the yellow fever. A Boston menu of this period, which is in striking contrast with the early dinner of corned beef and mush, enumerates roast beef, turkey pie.

boiled pork, fowls and tarts. Plymouth, which was not yet united to the Massachusetts colony, had its Thanksgiving that year Aug. 17. five days after the killing of King Philip in Rhode Island, and it so happened that Major Church and his little band of heroes arrived in Plymouth just at the close of the Thanksgiving forenoon service, bringing the great chief's head, which was borne by the major's Indian guide, who had himself shot Philip. Not Always in November.

In the early history of the Massachusetts colony Thanksgiving was usually appointed each year. Usually, the day camo in the autumn not always in November, but sometimes la October, and Bomettam.