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FOE A ROYAL FEAST. The Shoemater's ThanfcsffiviiiE. 2 ME OF TM DAY. Cabinet Officers Giye Their Views of Thanksgiving. BY ROSA r.AKL..

kAAAAAAAAAAAAi ALL HDSOB THE DAY. Alien Residents of Chicago 1 mi i LAKE IS HIS PAHTBY: "Peg" Esch, Fisherman, and His Thanksgiving Dinner. Bountiful Dinners WiH Be EARS as If nobody wanted their shoes mended," soliloquized old Simon Hackell. hain't hed a Job for purty nigh a week. Declare fur't.

I'll hev to make out Given the Unfortunate. i eei spirit 01 inanKS. with nary thing fur my Thanksgivin' din ner tomorrow but pertaters ana oreaa. Wnsht I was rich enough to hev turkey. PBOGRAM AT COUNTY JAIL WHY THANKS ARE OWED.

FISH SERVES AS TURKEY. POLES GIVE IN CHARITY. Jest once crackee! I do," he added, in them, to be sure, are employed by Americans who would naturally close down work for the day, but there are many Swedish employers as well, and they will not turn a hand nor allow their workmen so to do on this day of prayer and turkey. One of the editors of the Swedish Tribune came to this country over forty years ago in the fall of the year. He went at once to little place in the Interior of Illinois, where he at once went to work.

He had been laboring for about a month, when one morning his employer took: a big rifle from a pair of antlers and said to his Swedish No work today. This Is Thanksgiving. Come along." Euchre for the Turkeys. I did not know," said the Swedish editor the other day, what Thanksgiving was, but I found out before the day was over, and I also learned that Thanksgiving without turkey was no Thanksgiving at all. I watched my boss and a dozen other men shoot with their rifles at the heads of turkeys which were stuck up one after another through a hole in a box at something like a hundred yards distance.

While this so-called sport was going on I noticed two Americans whispering together at one end of the line of riflemen. They kept glancing at me, and green though I was, I knew something was in the wind. By and by they approached me and remarked that some turkeys which a man had on sale there were p. tone of decision wnicn leu uu iuuiu iui argument, and then, as he flung a last at a venturesome mouse which scampered across the floor and peered at him from be Hospitals to Bestow Evidences He Will Catch His Meal, Cook It, Keturn of Prosperity Calls for a General Observation. hind the safe shelter or tne wooaen dox.

Swedes Make Thanksgiving a Day of Family Reunion. of the Day on Patients. he continued: I hain't tasted a piece of and Eat It on the Shore. nunkln oie sense mother died. Mother couia make punkin pies fittin fur Queen Victory again the monotonous labor of raising the net begins.

But meals are the only bright spot In many a life and Peg does not complain of his lot. Sometimes In fall and spring he hears the honk, honk," of wild geese far above him, or wakes In the morning to see the lake dotted with the black heads of duck. But these visitors seldom tarry long- and the gulls, fishermen too, are too busy with their own affairs to be anything but jealous of Peg's better luck. The old lake Itself is Peg's friend, however. Its changing surface Is the book he reads and studies and revels In.

Shelter of the Piles. Sometimes she humps herself and sends spray clear up to the tracks," says but I get under the lee of the piles, put up my old canvas, and wait till she settles down again. I would not- mind the storms or even the cold If I could have a fire, but if I build one. the railroad watchman 'hustles down from his tower and I have to put it out. All I can have Is an oil stove to cook on and I have to use Topsy here to keep warm with." And Peg rubs affectionately the black muzzle of his dog, who stands on its hind legs to gain his caresses.

'Pegs" household furniture, aside from the oil stove, Jug. and frypan, consists of blankets, a piece of canvas, and the woven wire springs of a cot. No roof is over him save the sky. The springs he puts flat on the ground; then ho rolls up in the blanket, with Topsy lying next to him for warmth, and the heavy canvas pulled over him to keep off rain and spray. Thus he defies the cold and wet, and despite the rumbling trains dashing past him, he sleeps peacefully until the storm Many a business-man tossing restlessly on hair mattresses would envy bluff Peg Esch his long, dreamless sleeps, but ftsw would care to take the sleeping draft of the fisherman.

Peg never sleeps better than in a storm, he says, and If It lasts a day when she hed the flxln's punmn ana sugar AT THE OTHER INSTITUTIONS SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DATE. and sDices and eKgs and et cetery, and when FETE DAY AMONG BOHEMIANS DWELLS BESIDE HIS NETS. Ezra was home she did take more pride in Thankssrivinfr uster be a stewln and a- cookln and pesterln' around with flowers for the tablebut that was way DacK yan-der. 'fore I fell off'n the house, where I It Is the Annual Accounting: Time for "Weighing; Eesulta. Italians Slowly Forgetting Creeds in the Celebration.

r-m RRANGEMENTS are in progress at the various county and charitable In- i stltutions to celebrate Thanksgiving av The ordinary bill of fare will be ninniii at most of them by a feast was and had to hev my leg ONE Chicago citizen wm xaae nis Thanksgiving dinner out of the lake, will cook it in a skillet on the shoro of the lake, and will sit crosslegged on the breakwater bleak or sunny sawed off, and 'fore Ezra went down on the Flyln' Spar just before she reached port. Mv Lord! my Lord! His poor motneri in which the traditional gobbler will play an Tn some Tilaces exercises She didn't care for Thanksgivin then, she WILL BE SINCERELY CELEBRATED remarkably fine birds. They also said that sometimes on Thanksgiving day people GERMANS GEASP TRUE MEANING. will be held. Charitable and church organizations have the festivities In charge In many cases and promise to make the day didn't care for life no more and that day they carried her out for the last time and me a hobblin" along behind her.

I'd a give a good as the heavens may chance to be and eat it. Perhaps no other of the persistent fishermen that haunt old Michigan will be at his work so late In the season, but this one old-timer, Peg Esch by name, will stay at his Dost until December snows fly. For played cards for the turkeys, and they memorable for tne union.uui.ca. deal If I could a died and been burled up in her grave. But I jest couldn't die pears like 'at folks 'at want to die jest keep on a wound up by suggesting a game or eucnre for the biggest bird in the lot.

I hesitated, but finally consented to play. Tou see, like Bret Harte's Heathen Chinee, it was a game I did not understand, at least they thought I didn't, but the green Swede won six tur years he has persisted In this idiosyncrasy In the County Jail. the bovs department of of dining of a Thanksgiving on nsn insieaa livin' and folks what don't want to die Jest .1.113 UHitaivo ji hcsrui tVi rtav with the aid of surnrise everybody by dyin' and so I haln of turkey, and of setting his table aiongsiao the Illinois Central tracks and in the face dead ylt.pow'rful much as I'd like to be spend- LliC JO.ll Will Mrs. Florence Haythorne Jewell and a number of persons who are Interested in reclalm-1 vmit.h of Chicago. A pro- of the choppy waves.

Moreover, It Is within the range or possi keys from those natives of the soli at one sitting. I had turkey rather forced upon me that first Thanksgiving day in America, and I never in all the years since have disassociated the ideas of giving thanks and having 111K LUQ gram Is being prepared which will Include in' Thanksgivin with them that's on otner side, and I reckon I'll hev keep on a livin unless I git so I can't work and jest peter out, 'y crackee, for want o' vittles. bility that Peg Esch will make a Thanksgiving catch of some strange fish right out musical numoers, aaaresses, auuicuuuu The entertainment will also include the ded plenty of turkey on the last Thursday In I lest hain't nobody amongst em tnat November." "PEG" ECKS LONELY THANKSGIVING DINNER. men count, but 'pears to me the Lord 'at knows I've tried to git along honest and also been tolerabul Datlent when them partln's The Swedish dwellers in Chicago, perhaps ication of a piano tnat nas reteuuj wccn added to the furnishings of the Jail schoolroom. TaAtnrr1 TTnnoocll will Sing, and more than the people of any other national ity except the descendants of early Amer with mother and Ezra jest seemed to tear ail tho joy out o' my life, hain't a gom to De hard on me, and I hain't a goln' to doubt Miss Bogue, who has been drilling the lads for some time In physical culture, will put her class through various callsthenlc movements and drills.

Attnmov tTft-opiAr will deliver an address ican settlers, make a home day of Thanksgiving. The children and the grandchildren, the father and the mother, and the grandfather and the grandmother get together him until I Jest have to. Still along about Thanksgivin' time, I git a little lonsomer beneath the same roof tree for the family an usual and seems strange how childish and Sheriff Pease and Jailer Whitman will dinner. There will be many thousands of a body gits sometimes I ort to be thankful have something to Bay. for them pertaters and bread, but I hain these reunions In Chicago on Thursday next, for the Swedish people form a large Integral Mrs.

William penn JNixon ana ivxrs. renj rs tha wnmnn'R rinh will have charge a goln" to He to myself, a leetle piece o' punkin pie would sorter tetch up my stomach part of the population of this cosmopolitan ana make me a lot thankfuler. And lake city. D11UI.JI of the dinner which will be served to the fifty boys. Mrs.

O. W. Potter will furnish frnm Vior Geneva home for the crackee! If only somebody'd come along with some mendln to do I'd, yes, I would, Bohemians Celebrate with Parties. I would feel almost safe," said Repre I'd buy a hull punkin pie, and mebbe a flower or two, and then I'd try to think floral decorations, and Dan Coughlin will sentative E. J.

Novak, in offering you $1 mother and Ezra and me was hevin' our for every Bohemian that you can find In furnish all the cake tne Doys can eau There will also be special observance of the dav in the men's and women's depart Thanksgivin' together once more." on Thanksgiving who is not prop The old shoe mender might have gone on erly celebrating the holiday. There are ments of the jail. soliloquizing, but a3 he gazed out of hia three kinds of Bohemians In Chicago I little window he saw a horse attached to a mean kinds In accordance with their re Plan for County Hospital. a i. rmmfir TTnsnltal mneclal dinner light buggy coming at a rapid pace around ligious beliefs or lack of religious belief, as the case may be.

There are the Hussites, appropriate to the day will be served the the corner of the street Just a block below his humble habitation. In the buggy sat a child, its fair, tender little face set In a the Catholics, and the Free Thinkers, but one and all will celebrate this seml-religlous frame of palest gold and its big eyes shin and purely American festival of Thanks giving. .1 might go somewhat further than ing like stars. That the horse had been hitched was evident, as the broken strap was my first statement and say that I would hanging so low that every now and then, eel safe in offering a prize to the person patients in eacn wara. in tne evemu umj sort of program will be given.

Just what has not been determined. It will be presented by some church society, as is the custom. Requisitions were authorized on Friday for 1,000 pounds of turkey, 500 pounds of duck, and 500 pounds of chicken, besides several barrels of cranberries and apples. The unfortunates at Dunning will try to consume 2,700 pounds of turkey, besides numerous barrels of cranberries and apples. the horse stepped on It and nearly fell to who would succeed in nnding a single Bo Its knees.

It had been frightened, however, hemian family In Chicago which, on Thursday next, will not have a good, plump and despite the swinging strap was every American turkey on the dinner table sur rounded with all the flxln's which the moment increasing Its pace. The child was too young to realize its danger, but the buggy swayed dangerously, and unless the horse could be checked the child's fate was inevitable. most captious Yankee jealous or the tradi tions of the day might consider necessary In the evening an entertainment ana adiice will be participated in by the Inmates. a. hnanitoia 9 rvnroDriate feasts will round out the feast In accordance with old time ideas.

The old shoemender glanced up and down be served, and at some of them special ar the street, but Just at this Instant no one Some of the Bohemian Immigrants for rangements will be maae to recvo mt friends of the patients. the first few years in this country may sim ply know that the day is one given over by was conveniently near, and; forgetting his dream of punkin pie, mother, and Ezra," he flung his door open and. bareheaded, swung himself to the curb, and then, bal an American edict as a day of celebration Menu of the Vegetarians. Amnnc th most novel celebrations planned and rest from work. Of Its origin they probably know nothing, but their children soon find out in the schools the meaning ancing himself by the aid of one crutch against an iron hitching post, he waited for the horse to pass him.

As it did so he reached forward with the crutch, which he or tne oay ana tne parents are not left long for Thanksgiving day is the banquet of the Vegetarian club of the University of Chicago. It might puzzle the ordinary citizen to figure out a way for a vegetarian club to do justice to the day sacred to roast turkey and stuffed pig, and a Thanksgiving day For Years He Has Cooked It Himself and Dined in Solitude on the Lake Shore 'Within held In his right hand, and as the horse, to FOREIGN born citizens of America will see to It that the observance of Thanksgiving', a purely American holiday of Puritan origin, does not pass away. Americans of Pilgrim, Cavalier, and Dutch descent, simon pure Americans as they are called, are wont to think that with changed conditions of civilization and on account of the great influx of Immigrants to whom the holiday of Thanksgiving was unknown the old Plymouth established Day of Thanks is losing its significance and Its recognition by the people. Investigation shows that if the old-time rejoicing after the harvest is losing any of the essence of praise and gratitude it Is losing It among the very people who express the fear that It may be lost. As the American loosens his grip upon this feast of his fathers, the foreigner tightens his grasp and lays hold on that which he considers good.

Thanksgiving day will be more generally and elaborately celebrated In Chicago among the Poles, Italians, Bohemians, Swedes. Norwegians, Germans, and French than It will be among the descendants of that little band who broke bread and meat in the wilderness on that first Thanksgiving day In -praise to God for an abundant harvest upon a sterile soiL Poles Observed the Day. If the shade of old Governor Bradford, Puritan, who issued that first proclamation of thanksgiving, could wander along Noble street, Chicago, on the night of Wednesday next and see there Polish priests, alien in country, language, and religion to the Puritan, giving out turkeys to the poor of their flocks with the admonition to attend church the next day, as It would be the American holiday of Thanksgiving, the soul of the old Puritan ruler would rejoice in the knowledge that the Pilgrim Fathers had bullded better than they knew. The leaders among the people of different nationalities who have made Chicago their home say that the reason for this regard for Thanksgiving day among their countrymen is not hard to find. The same reason was given in every instance for each body of alien people: They wish to become Americans, and one of the first questions that are asked by the head of the immigrant family after getting fixed In his new surroundings is, What are the American They are told, and the celebration of such holidays after the manner of the Americans Is begun at once, even though the origin and the true significance of the days be not thoroughly understood." A majority of the foreign-born residents of Chicago are Roman Catholics.

The church of late years has done a great deal of Itself to encourage the observance of this Plymouth-born holiday. There is a sharp contrast between the severely simple serv ice in the log meeting-house of Plymouth colony on that first Thanksgiving day and the elaborate ritual of high mass which, amid the warmth of light, music, and color, will be celebrated on Thursday next in the Catholic churches of Chicago. Antipodal though the creed of Puritan and priest Is, yet this later day service of thanks Is founded upon those prayers and praises first voiced In the Massachusetts wilderness. Emphasize Its Beligious Aspect. There are over 200.000 Poles residing within the limits of this big city.

These people have taken hold of the holiday of Thanksgiving more firmly, perhaps, than have those of any other people alien to the soil. The original Puritan Idea was to have a celebration something like the ancient Jewish festival of the feast of the tabernacle. This Hebrew observance, however, was not quite religious enough in its nature to suit the Puritan, and so the meeting-house service of prayer and praise was strictly enjoined before the feast of the day could begin. The Puritans' descendants have largely lost sight of the religious aspect of. the day, and not one In ten of them attends church.

The Poles of Chicago, on the other hand, seem to have looked at the religious aspect of Thanksgiving day first. On Thursday next nearlyall the Polish young men's societies will attend early service in bodies, and the churches will be filled with others of their people gathered together to do religious honor to the day. The Polish people deserve more than the ordinary meed of credit for this observance of Thanksgiving day. The Poles are patriotic to a degree, both as regards their native and their adopted countries, and it is a good deal to ask of a man that he go to church to give thanks for blessings received and then to feast joyfully afterward on a day that is sometimes the anniversary of one of the saddest periods In his native land's history. When Thanksgiving day falls on Nov.

28 it makes the anniversary of the martyrdom of five Polish patriots who undertook to lead their people to liberty. At best Thanksgiving always falls within a few days of this anniversary. The festivities of the Puritan holiday will scarcely be completed this year before the Poles of the city will be gathered together In the great school hall of St. Stanislaus' Church to hold In Ignorance. All Bohemian business houses will be closed Thanksgiving day.

Of the religious services I cannot speak, for I do not know what they will be, but in the even the Shadow of Millionaires' Homes. avoid the swinging strap, swayed toward him. he dexterously twisted the handle of without turkey might seem HKe tne piay oi the crutch in the bit rein and with a power ing all the Bohemian young men and maidens. Hamlet with the part of Hamietiert out, of the lake off Eighteenth street, where he ful effort Jerked the animal backward. It old men, old women, and children will at conducts all his operations.

He may get a tend entertainments of some kind either at but the Vegetarian club seems to have solved the problem to the entire satisfaction of the members, as the following menu will show: was so suddenly done that the horse for a single instant seemed stunned. But It was German carp, or a rock or silver bass, or a home or In the halls where larger gather gold fish. It was not always possible to only for an Instant, for it reared, and as its iron-shod hoofs came down they struck Mock turtle soup with quenelles. Salted almonds. Olives.

Potatoes on pyramitle with mushrooms, lent yn.iie.ttp. Haricots verts. hook these members of the finny tribe out of the lake, but It has been so since the winter following the close of the World's Fair. It ings of the people are possible. The Bohemian families come together on that day, in many Instances to remote degrees of cousinship and you can see from this that the poor old man, holding himself up with one hand, and, losing his grip on the hitch is not generally known, but the isconsln Farced tomatoes th spaghetti a.

la Mllanalse. Orange eucsses. ing post, he fell forward directly under the the American idea of Thanksgiving has in a double sense struck home. I have no heels of the and in the path of the Maraschino Jelly. Chartreuse of cranDerrlea.

Fish commission dumped Its great fish exhibit in the lagoons of Jackson Park, and the United States Fish commission did likewise with a part of its exhibit. Occasional fish buggy. The crutch still clung to he bit rein, and as the animal sprang forward the or two he sleeps right through It. The waves would tear his net to tatters, so he lies snug until the waters quiet, and makes up for the sleepless nights he sometimes spends when the bullheads run well. The bullhead is Peg's favorite fish.

No other, he declares, has meat so sweet and so tender. Most of the fishermen rely simply on their huge nets, often sixteen feet in diameter, which are lowered into the water with windlasses, but in addition the ingenious Peg has made what he calls a trolley. This consists of 300 feet of strong wire, one end of which Is firmly anchored In tho lake by means of a heavy freight car coupler, the other end being fastened to the pier. On this trolley wire Peg lets down to the water various baited hooks, which, when pulled out after several hours, almost always bring- up a fine fish or an eel. ticed the growth oft the Thanksgiving spirit, taking it in a holiday sense, among the Bo wnoie wneax orea.

Pineapple bavaroise with carmine cream. Pistachio cake. Kisses. Melange of fresh nuta. Mixed nuts with raisins.

Cheese. Zephyrettes. buggy wheels ground their way over the hemians and among other people of for ermen in the park have been amazed at prostrate man and he lay broken, bleeding. eign birth. It may seem passing strange and senseless.

catching or catching sight of strange monsters since that time, but some of the ex Cafe noir. Milk. capUlaire. one day if the life of the festival depends upon those to whom its spirit was at one After discussing this consistent diet tne following toasts will be responded to, Calvin hibits made their way to Lake Michigan and have been mystifying fishermen and small thought foreign." Victor Campbell acting as toastmaster: boys as far north as the government pier. From the Italian View.

Why We Ought to Be Thankful Peg declares that a bibulous neighbor cuson vjrraji aitvwr Greetings from Guadalajara Professor Frederick Starr got in his net a giant crab last summer. WASHINGTON. D. Nov. clal.

What is the value of Thanksgiving day? Why are thanks due? The two questions are often asked sometimes with honest doubt, sometimes In the spirit of the scoffer. Yet Thanksgiving day is one of the festivals most intimately connected with the birth of civilization in the western world and one of the most- significant; and despite statements that the meaning of the day is being lost and its purpose defeated, It still appeals to many, as few other festivals can. In the midst of their busy lives the officers of the Cabinet have stolen a few minutes to write their opinions as to what the answers to the questions should be whether at the present day thanksgiving Is still worth celebrating and whether in the year 1837 the' people of America have received blessings for which their thanks are owed and their answer to both questions is Yes." The statements of the various officers are as follows: JOHN SHEiWflyi, Secretary of State. I believe that the people of the United States, nurtured In tho religious liberties and faiths which have been their proud heritage since 'the first settlement cf our coasts by their God-fearing and God serving forefathers, should fittingly testify at all times and in all places their devout gratitude for the manifold blessings they enjoy, and that It is the more incumbent upon them to lift up thanks to the giver of all good at seasons of abundant harvest and exceptional bounty. Thanksgiving is an annual account day, when every earnest man should take a mental and moral Inventory of himself, and carefully considering bis blessings in proportion to his deserts should reverently render his hearty thanks for the good things that Divine Providence has given him.

-John Sherman, Secretary of State, RUSSELL fl. ALGER, Secretaiy The observance of Thanksg iving each year should be a part of the religion of every American citizen. This is true for all time, but especially so for this year, when prosperity has spread over the land. There is cause for deep thanksgiving in every home In the United States, and I believe that the present Thanksgiving day will be universally observed. Kussell A.

Alger, Secretary of War, CORNELIUS BLISS, Secretary of the Interior. Thanksgiving should be observed generally throughout the country, for this year the American people indeed have much to thankful for. The conditions existing a year ago have been overcome, and wher there was doubt and perplexity as to th future, the American people, by their industry, energy, and confidence In God, have brought prosperity upon the land. This prosperity Is far reaching, and has undoubtedly influenced every home in the country. In each of these, I believe, there will be a sincere rendering up of thanks for these blessings of the Almighty.

CORNErjXJS Buss, Secretary of the Interior. JflJHES fl. GARY, Postmaster General. We have been peculiarly blessed by the Almighty during the last year, and I think it only right and fitting that we should observe TTianksgiving and render up thanks for the favors which have been so bounteously bestowed upon us. In the improved condition of business affairs especially there is abundant cause for thanksgiving.

James A. Gary, Postmaster General. JflJAES WILSON. Secretary of Agriculture, I sincerely 'believe that if the American, people ever had cause for thanksgiving, they have this year. The vast majority of people in this country are devout Christians, who believe in the interposition of the Almighty with the affairs of men.

These men will observe Thanksgiving and they will devoutly render up thanks to God that the distress which has so long prevailed has this year been turned Into prosperity. President Mc-Kinley Is one of these men, and no one In all the length and breadth of the land will be more sincere than he Is in his observance of the sacred day of Thanksgiving. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. JOHN D. LONG, Secretary of the Navy.

To me Thanksgiving Is always a consecrated day, because it is associated with so many memories of New England life, running back to the time when, in the hilla of Maine, we lived a simple, rural life, each family doing its own work, living on a moderate income, and helped out with a garden and a few acres. John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. JOSEPH M'ENNH, Attorney General. The custom of Thanksgiving Is distinctively a sentimental one.

and its observance comes only from true appreciation Of the favors God has bestowed upon us and a sense of gratitude at his liberality. Each Individual feels thankful in a different sense, perhaps, although the day Is made the occasion of a family observance. This year, in addition to the other blessings bestowed upon us, we should feel thankful for the prosperity that has spread over the country Of course, the prosperity of the nation as a whole affects the Individual only in a relative sense, but I believe the majority of the American people are deeply thankful for this prosperity. There la cause for thanksgiving in every home In the country. Joseph McKenna, Attorney General.

LYjaRN J. GAGE, Secretary of the Treasury. I think President McKinley's Thanksgiving proclamation dealt with the observance of the day very satisfactorily, and I have nothing further to say than that I heartily concur in every word of It. The President virtually spoke for the whole Cabinet, and certainly expressed my Ideas perfectly. Lyman J.

Oagb, Secretary of the Treasury. Glasa Eyes for Horses. Glass eyes are now made for hovses, cats, and dogs, as well as for human beings. These animals use a larger eye than man. and several are ordered or them at the same time, as a new one is nwfssirv about once hauled it just out of the water, and seeing the beast crawling toward him gave a cry The Vegetarian Club Augustus Wood The Turkey We Did Not Eat Jacob William Braam This season it is doubtful If the proposed results has been made among the Italian residents In Chicago In recent years to induce them to celebrate the American holidays with the same spirit they show in commemorating those of their native land.

Thanksgiving dinner will mark the end of The Logic of Vegetarianism Peg's autumn sport. He aspires to stay of dismay and fled across the tracks, scaled the stone wall, and was not heard of thereafter for a fortnight. Another neighbor brought up a 28-pound eel-pout early in the season. The swinging crutch beat the horse like a flail, It puzzled It, this strange weapon which swung like a pendulum, and presently ts pace slackened and a dozen hands were clinging to It. Then the child was caught from the floor of the buggy, when It had fallen, and In another moment the old shoe mender was borne Into the poor little place, which he called home, and gently, very gently, laid upon the humble bed.

It needed no physician to tell those gathered around that bed that the shadow was hovering near, but all at once there shone a wonderful radiance from the upturned eyes and when it faded away they knew that the shadow had fallen, and as the lather of the child bent above the old shoe mender his lips moved and like a far off song of the sea a voice whispered, Mother, Ezra thank flod!" out until December. jonn xiuwa.ru uiuuib At the Flower Mission. The Chicago Flower Mission will give its ponents of modern Italian thought. One FOR THE THANKSGIVING TABLE. annual Thanksgiving donation on Tuesday at Memorial Baptist Church.

There will be Other Sorts Are Caught. Besides the carp and the bass, catfish. a short entertainment in tne evening, ana vi me eunurs or nana puts tne labor along these lines in these words: We wish to get all of our people to recognize the sharp distinction which modern thought makes between church and state. We have succeeded in convinrlner manv ItolUr, Novelties in Dinner Service and Deco the mission hopes to secure many donations sheep's head, suckers, croppies, calico-bass, and sunflsh are all caught either of provisions, clothing, and reading matter to help them in their work. ration Which the New Season Has Popularized.

during all the year or at certain seasons. cleties that work for the state and honor of the state does not interfere with man's Tho sheep's head are the biggest fish and come late In the fall. The meat on them Thanksgiving: day gives an opportunity for religious duties, in this way some of the celebrations of a religious nature, and they were leeion in numhpr hoi-o hun the display of all of the latest novelties In CHEER FORTHE HALF ORPHANS. is coarse and so Peg will not have sheep's head on his Thanksgiving menu, although he hopes to catch one by chance on that dinner service and decoration. There are uivicu and the ooservance of national days has two distinctly new dinner sets to choose great holiday for the value in the fish's lucky laneii meir piace.

nis is true as touching stones. These are two bony disks in the The Chicago Charity Hospital, at Twenty-ninth and Dearborn streets, is arranging for a Thanksgiving day feast. This hospital Is not supported by public funds and takes no pay patients. Its managers find it difficult to meet any extra expenses, but it Is hoped donations for this occasion will permit the Inmates to enjoy a special dinner next Thursday. The usual newsboys' dinner will be served at Woolf's clothing house, Madison and Hal-sted streets, at 6 p.

m. on Thursday. FREE LECTURES TO BE GIVEN. from if one wishes to be strictly up to date. Both of them are exceeding rich in design, head, hard as stone, and marked with the One of the Interesting Charitable Homes in Chicago Where Unfortunate Tots Find Refuge.

the richest that have been placed on the market for the last ninety years. The letter and if that doesn't stand for luck, Peg Esch does not know what it does stand for. For more than nine months in the year ituua.ii ana auring the last few years we have brought a great number of bur countrymen living in Chicago to the belief that as citizens of this country they should celebrate its holdiays as well as those of their native land. As a result of these efforts you will find Thanksgiving day in the Italian colony, as it is called celebrated this mmf np- vcov n-v. colors are becoming richer every year and the decorations heavier.

One of these is a does Peg dwell on the shore at Japanese and Louis combination. The colors old blue, dull red, as well as the flowers are Japanese, but the arrangement and general effect Is that of the time ardor as it is by any of the many nationali of Louis XIV. The old pinks, shading Into red with a little gilt, make the most beauti ses icpjeaeuiea in xnis city, not even excepting the Americans of long descent Turkey? Why. it is little short of felony ful of combinations, and the finish is as ex not to have a tur- quisite as may always be expected from the famous old Cauldon works in England. The other choice is French, in green and gold.

There Is a great demand for greens in china, as there is in millinery and dress a meeting in memory of the revolution of 1S30, and of those men who suffered martyrdom in the cause of freedom. It will be hard to find a Polish family In Chicago next Thursday whose dinner tahl Is not graced with a turkey. A Polish attorney says that the ideas of turkey and Thanksgiving are soundly connected in the 1 a lowl or BOme Wnd on his table Thanksgiving day." Germans Appreciate the Spirit. The Germans of Chicago form the largest They, perhaps, more than the people of any other nation, have come in touch for the years that are past with the English-speaking people of this Western metropolis For years and years the Germans have celebrated Thanksgiving as generally and as generously as have their neighbors whoe only tongue Is the English. In fact, it might be rather a hard task today to induce some of the younger generations of German descent to believe that the holiday was not one which had descended to them from their forebears from their land beyond the Rhine The German of Chicago attends church on Thanksgiving morning In about the same proportion as do his neighbors who have sprung from other peoples.

Church-goers or not, as the case may be, they are unani minds of his people. He tells a story of a young girl who cried when her father brought home on Thanksgiving eve a big goose for the next day's dinner. The child actually feared arrest for her parent be List of Those for the Winter Under the Auspices of the Armour Institute of Technology. Following Is a list of free lectures to be given under the auspices of the Armour Institute of Technology: Dr. F.

W. Gunsaulus, The Patriotism for th Hour." Dean T. C. Honey, A Study of Robinson Crusoe." Professor L. C.

Monin, Education; Its Meaning and Scope." Professor C. V. Kerr, Historical Development of the Steam Engine," illustrated. Professor W. M.

Stine, Roentgen Rays," Illustrations and experiments. Professor T. G. Allen, What to Bat and How to Prepare It," illustrated. Professor V.

C. Alderson, Mathematics In Nature." Professor A. M. Feldman, A Study of Modrn Russia." C. E.

Freeman, Electricity In Everyday Life," Illustrated with experiments. Professor S. McClintock, William B. Gladstone." Dr. Frank Jay.

Anaesthetics and Narcotics; Their Use and Abuse." Miss Carrie Wright, Sir John Millals and Hol-man Hunt." stereoptieon views. Otto PfefTerkorn, piano recital with illustrations from the masters. The Rev. Duncan C. Milner, Sensational Miss Isabel Bullard, Nineteenth Century Domestic Science." Herman Walker, The Evolution of Song," Illustrated.

Miss Anni I. Bryan, The Child's Education Today." Miss Rosa Lang, William Tell. goods. In china this started several years ago with the lightest opalescent tint, and developed Into a light green, which was called the Ma green," as It so closely resembled the early tint of the opening leaves in spring time. The proper color now is a deep green called the true emerald," which shows the richest effects obtainable In china in combination with gold.

This craze will never end until It has taken in the deep Russian greens which will be the next favorite. The decorations of such a table may be most varied, the white linen and green and gold china making a most effective background for any color desired. The epergnes are no longer in silver, but in the most delicate and beautiful glass vases, made In groups and clusters In such combinations that they may be arranged in whatever shape or design desired to produce a most beautiful and fairyland effect. The fern stands of china are used for decorating the table as well, and are equally beautiful used alone or with floral effects. The crystal com Eighteenth street.

Even now while the bleak storms are signaling the shining herring to the southern end of the lake he tolls on, and again so soon as the Ice loses its hold in March he will return with his net newly mended. Other lake fishermen stick to their tasks but a few hours at a time and go to their homes daily, but as locomotion is difficult for him the champion makes his home with his net. The plan has its advantages. He is always ready for business night or day when the fish are plenty and when they disappear he sleeps until a change of wind or current brings them back again. So Peg Esch, the long-timer, prospers.

His wooden leg gives him not only his name, but tieterrofines his vocation. There are not lacking fishermen, unlucky ones, who sleep comfortably housed, when the solitary Peg Is toiling in the cold and gloom, to aver that that same wooden leg brings him luck. Certain It is that no other net along the ipiers catches In the year a tenth part of the fish taken out by Peg." His fishing place Is so near the Pullman home that the great brown stone pile casts its shadows on him when the sun is In the West, and he can see the group representing the Fort Dearborn massacre when the rising sun turns the bronze to gold. Eyes Not Turned Landward. But his eyes are seldom turned landward and he knows nothing of the score of Chicago wealthy men who live almost within a stone's throw of his net.

It is from the lake he wrings his sustenance and his watchful eyes note its every change. The land nt3 BOOd fishing in summer when the little fish come shoreward for gnats and flies blown from the land, for the big fish follow the small ones. But the signs change with the seasons and only an expert can tell when to work the net and when toil is sure to go unrewarded. "ciu But the life agrees with Pee Esch Bluff and hale he is. with hearty manner and hornv hand.

Clear of vo cause her mind held firmly to the belief that there was a legal enactment which made It compulsory on all families living in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving day. Charity Not Forgotten. Report Is current In a tremendously big house In Burling street that next Thursday is Thanksgiving. There are 195 otherwise homeless children lodged there, ard some of them, who have been sheltered less than a year, know no more about what Thanksgiving means than they do about Pentecost; but there are others who have had experience with the day as It is related to plum pudding and turkey, who are scatter ng traditional tales and stirring up the appetites of the younger ones. This big Burling street house Is the Chicago Day Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum, and Its Btreet number is 175.

If any one has an extra barrel of apples or a peck of cranberries or a score of popcorn balls to contribute to the Thanksgiving dinner of these 193 youngsters the gift will find its way to the proper spot If addressed to 175 Burling street. This half-orphan asylum was an Institution in Chicago long before the great fire. It was started as a day nursery for the care of children during hours when their mothers were out earning a living, and In answer to needs which even yet are nowhere else supplied In Chicago, and expanded quickly into a half-orphan asylum. To secure entrance In it, then, as now, the condntion was that one parent should be dead, or the same as dead." In cases where the remaining pa rent Is unable to pay any charge for Its keep none Is made, but where a small payment Is possible any sum from 25 cents up to $2 a week Is accepted. Should the parent be able to pay more the child Is not received at this Institution.

Thus it is a charity and yet not a charity. At any rate the 105 children are looking forward to a Thanksgiving dinner with great expectations of candy and oranges and cookies thrown In to make it worth while. There are two big dining-rooms in the Institutions and wide and long dining tables in each. One room is for the nursery childrenthose under 6 years of age and there are now sixty of these In the asylum. The Thanksgiving spread In this dining-room will, of course, be more simple in its makeup than the dinner in the larger dining-room, where the 135 children of ages between 6 and 13 are served.

Mrs. William C. Gowdy Is President of the Institution and Mrs. Abljah Keith Vice President. With thirty other philanthropic women these officers comprise a Board of Managers.

These are selected from various churches of all denominations which have taken an Interest in the nursery and asylum." At present the securities held amount to about $195,000, Including general endow mous on the subject of turkey, and there When the shadows of th night of Wednesday begin to fall on the towers of tht. Polish churches of St. Stanislaus. Holy Is not a small boy of Teutonic origin who when viewing the good things at the table does not inwardly bless the man who invented the day, whether he be Puritan oi Teuton. Turkey for the French.

unnuy, and fct. Johns, the lights in the i-hop windows as one after another they begin to glow will show hundreds of people hurrying" by, burdened with the spoil of the market. Perhaps the steps will be directed homeward from the very shadow binations are the latest, however, and are of English origin, that nation being in the lead on table decoration at present. There or the church towers, where some priestly are a great profusion of designs, from the The Canadian French who are In Chicago have known the value of turkey as an edible or sisterly hand has given in the name most simple to the most complex, the floral bowers which can thus be arranged form R. P.

So Relle, Stenography in Practical Ed for generations, for turkeys grow fat in the of charity that the feast of the next day ucation." land washed by the St. Lawrence. No Acw- may not te warning. For there is poverty ing tne cnier delight lor flower lovers. With this exquisite harmony of china, and The lectures are to be given In the chapel of the Armour Mission.

After the opening here as well as elsewhere, though happily Englander knows more fully the food value of this bird than does his northern neigh crystal, and flowers, there are a great num- uure is cnarity to onset It. The first Polish bor. To the French-Canadian, perhaps, if rer of delightful changes in the wine Klasses. of the year they win De given every Thursday evening until the list 13 completed. liospital erected in Chicago will, on this day was turkey first and Thanksgiving after and their arrangement forms one of the or American crigm.

celebrate its first holi They are to be given as part of the course ward, but the colony of these people living most Interesting parts of the whole fourteen day. The building is at Paulina and Di courses which is at present the fashionable vision streets, and the Sisters of the Holy of Nazareth will see to It that there number. The table is one gorgeously beau- In Chicago shows that same aptitude for adapting the day to the bird that Is evinced by the thousands of their fellow-countrymen who are now overrunning- New Eng and shoulder, bearded and bronzed larire of girth he is also, for the breweries are not tuui gutter when thus arrayed. The new true cause for thanksfirfving and rejcie est design in these wine glasses, which is car- Ing among the sick and the helpless. The land, which is the birthplace of that essen riea out tne full sets, is of the lotus-shaoed iai uuw me ranroaa iracK a dime will fill a large brown jug with cooling beer Messengers never fail "Pee" fnp children In tho Polish orphan asylums on tially joyful feast the festival of Thanks top.

the same shape being preserved through tier charge of the same sisters and" those of Notre Dame will be told the significance giving. out me iuu aeptn ot the glass, but the bottom being squeezed in, so as to make it a of Thanksgiving and will be given some rand. Be the long breakwater apparently deserted Peg has only to clink his empty jug- upon the rock fillings, and men like thing to make them truly thankful In the pear snape. These sets include all sizes, even to tha erwA lol. GIVES TWO LECTURES ON CHINA.

The Very Rev. J. M. MaeVeigh to Talk itoaericit uau a touowers appear from be- Jilnd everv noint nf vantacre. Snmc chape of turkey and cranberry sauce.

Swedish Spirit of Observance. There are two new glasses which recently have been placed on sale, one of which is for an entirely new purpose the serving of a coffee ice called cafe parf ait," the glass taking the same name. This ice is served t) v. incoa fellows Peg gets to peddle his fish on Prairie, Calumet, and Indiana avenues, and to deliver them to rpff-nTni- mstnm.n 0.1.1 The Swedish people of Chicago Hk planned for the city. I TOIiD HER FAIHY STOREES.

I told her fairy stories In the old days long ago-. As we used to sit at evening In the firelight's lamblent glow. She was a tiny maiden, Yet she loved me then, I know. When I told her fairy stories In th old days long ago. I told her fairy stories When we had older grown; Those tales of love and courage That lovers long have known; When we used to watch the shadows Like a tide's incoming flow.

And she whispered that aha loved In th old days long ago. I tell her fairy stories Almost every evening now; But they've lost their old-time glamour And we've changed about somehow. -For we've married one another, Tet she loves me still, although Eh don't believe the stories As In the old days long ago. Sui an. Irmvelai, on the Progress of Civilization During Fifty Years.

thanksgiving day. The creed of the people roundea it -is largely In consonance to the markets, but this is too much like work in six months. The edges become roughened and produce irritation from the acids of the secretions affecting the enamel. Tlaanksffl-rlng for Destitute The managers of the Home for Destitute Crippled Children, 40 Park avenue, held a Thanksgiving fund party yesterday from 10 a. m.

to 10 p. which was open to the public. There are thirty-seven little mouths msieaa or me old-fashioned Roman punch. The other new riass is of snMai C. M.

The Very Rev. J. M. MacVeigh, Hissionarv AnnMtnlir wKr, lor many ana tne majority prefer playing Ganymede to the fisherman's Jove. When spent thp and is called the fountain hollow-stemmed champagne glass." There the jug returns good cheer begins, for eighteen years in China, will lecture in iti ments, me lurnisnmg tund, and the bed endowment fund.

The general endowment is under control of a Board of Trustees of which Henry W. King is President and Owen F. Aldis is Vice President. The interest on this fund is turned over each year to the managers to meet the expenses of the institution. For those children who are under 8 years of ago there Is a school and a itindergarten in the asylum, and those over 8 are sent to a nearby public school.

A hospital Is conducted in connection with the Institution where the children are cared for during tn with that of their forefather. Miles Stand-Jsh and Gustavus Adolphus, in the minds of the Swedish people, were kindred characters. A great many of these people of the North now resident here are members jof the Episcopal Church and especial service cf Thanksgiving in the Swedish language Pee is iovial and cenerous. friod Church of St. Pius.

Ashland avenue and low stems before, but this stem is shaped, like a long, narrow cone, the top of which West Nineteenth street. Imlnv at 1ft crisp in Peg's spider, and potatoes from the same dish are the almost unvarying food on the Progress of Civilization in China 01 mese leasts, duc lane air gives an appetite and lake water cause thlmt fnr jwill be held In the Church of St. Ansgarius lu" "ie, ana ue bowl of the glass above the neck is also quite rounding. The ehape of, the stem causes the champagne to effervesce more and more, until It fairly Mjuimts me rasi ruiy tears aiso at the Church of the Annunciation, Paulina street and Wabansia avenue, at 7 p. m.

on the same to mi there every day. Italy Leads In Murders. In the number of murders Italy Ifs if Europe. In the number of suicides BUi. cs unursaay next, umcago sweaes will thing else so beer, fish, and spuds quickly disappear.

Peg's friends do likewise and jaot work on Thanksgiving day. Many of A ia ahead..

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