The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, November 16, 1910, Image 6
Tbs Abbeville Press and Banner.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
? AT ?
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
Let us have only denatured automotile
races.
Are the aufo races trying to make
bull fights appear humane?
Still, at Its new price, radium will
hardly be a substitute for coal.
The new $5 bills will be smaller.
That's appropriate?they act smaller.
Connecticut woman earned $10,000
last year selling eggs?the real thing.
So far none of our aviators has been
successful enough to break into vaudeville
All-the pessimist can see In an aeroplan
flight is a big crowd and a stiff
neck.
A Buffalo man was given five years
? for stealing a cent Something of a
centence, that.
New York bank thief collapsed when
he was arrested. He was a close second
to the bank.
Someone has estimated that the
earth weighs seven trillion tons. But
cheer up! You're not carrying it
That war in Nicaragua cost 4,000
live?. Men have net yet discarded
the blood-letting system in politics.
The doctor who thinks that the
Adam's apple is responsible for insanity
mav be on the eve of a great dis
covery.
"Venezuela consumes 1,000,000 gallone
of kerosene a year." Why doesn't
somebody start an electric light plant
down there?
Joy riding in the air has this advantage?there
are no chickens to be run
over. The birds have so far succeeded
in dodging.
In South Norwalk, Conn., lives a
heroic young woman who played tennis
in a hobble skirt. Naturally she
broke her leg.
When the aeroplanes dash around
the course at the rate of a mile a minute
they never kick up any clouds of
microbe-laden dust.
If shark meat ever crowds beef In
the world's markets a shortage of rain
on the great plains will make no difference
in the quality.
As a general tiling wnen a gin
wears such an extreme hat that a man
lias to dislocate his neck to look under
It her face is not worth the effort.
The greatest authority on love in
the world is dead. Calm yourself, lav
dies?it's an Italian professor. The
authoress of "Poems of Passion" still
lives.
A woman of sixty years swam Ave
miles in the Mississippi river at St.
Louis the other day. It Is needless to
8ay that she did not wear a hobble
kirt
Bob Evans tells us that an airship
la a plaything and would be of no use
In war. But what will Bob do when
those bombs begin dropping down the
chimney?
I Chicago man marries for the first
time at the age of ninety-two. He'll
have to do some tall hustling to catch
wn with thr> svprajfl Chicaeo record
from now on:
_
That Poughkeepsle society woman
whose pearl necklace was confiscated
by the customs officials might have
had it yet if she could only have kept
It under her hat.
The waiters now ask to be divided
Into classes. Excellent idea! Walters
who wait, waiters who make customers
wait, waiters who are polite and
waiters who are otherwise?
A little while ngo the cheering
word was passed that lobsters would
become more plentiful. Now it is
threatened that there will be a shortage
of salmon and sardines.
It may be none of our business, but
we trust that the sororities will deal
gently with the eighty-one-year-old
woman who has entered the Ohio
state university as a student.
A TTnnsas CMtv woman, sulne for rti
vorce. charged that her husband quarreled
with her for going to a funeral.
Some men are so mean they hate their
wives to have any pleasure at all.
Eighty-two pounds of sugar for
every man. woman and child last;
year! The men may offer thanks
that the women and children got
theirs.
A Connecticut man fired ten bullets
In his head without fatal results. It
is hard to tell which was greater?
the persisting force of his determination
or the resisting quality of his
brains.
That incident in Naples where two
strangers trying to give candy to children
were suspccted by the panicstricken
people of spreading the cholom
nml mobbed with cries of "Death
to the ' poisoners" shows how little
progress has been made since the days
of the plague, in some places. '
A New York man ate 265 steamed
clams. Why don't the clam conservers
get after this sort of experts?
In a coupie of noted oases It has
been resolved to debar from society
the persons who have figured in scandals.
This is the one effective way of
reaching such offenders. Social ostracism
can be used where the law
and the church fail to punish, for ft
1b a weapon whost attack few can
withstand, no matter bow strongly
they meet other methods of punishment
for moral wrongdoing.
_~EEN CaPtf Miles
after landing at what
' is believed to be East
Harbor creek, on the shores of Cape
Cod, the party sat down and drank,
and as Mount records in his journal
"We were heartily glad and drunke
our first New England water wnn as E-ljfy IT a;.,
much delight as ever we drunke drink 1
In all our lives." | & | ?
Thus was, with "Blsket and Hoi- |
land Cheese, and a bottle of aquavite," V'*/
the first New England Thanksgiving IIkS!
dinner eaten on the noon of Novem- R?p?||
ber 26, 1620, around "a fire of sassa- ^ ^ A
fras, Juniper and pine, which Bmelled pit
both sweet and strong." |,* ;#f:
Later these hardy adventurers
were able to feast on .wild fowl and
venison in plenty, as have those who
. came after them even unto the present
day, for th^ forests of the cape 1
abound with game, and the waters
with fishes very much as in the days
of the little Pilgrim band who in the W t
Mayflower's cabin signed the first & !g|
New England charter.
Although not set down in the laws, 'iTKj'f f&
the reunion feast became an informal wpf
annual luuLuwii, auu uiti a v^au wuv > ':?*1?&'?9K'*Jlittle
doubt that Thanksgiving day as ?
known to us of the present had Its - W
origin In and was inspired by the ability
of the pilgrim band to soften the
strong waters of the hospitable Dutch ^with
the spring waters of the new "i
world, by chance shall we say? Or - ' J- ' ^
to what cause shall we credit the selection
of the last week of November f< ' '
for the day of feasting and prayer IlSMfflrap
now so eagerly looked for and as care- mmmmimmmmmm
fully observed as Christmas, the New
Year or Independence Day? The day of thanks v
Is more typically a national holiday than is any p
other. It Is American and unique. Every coun- p
try has one or more days set apart to commemo- b
rate independence or the granting of some great f<
boon to its people that may be considered a step tl
on the stairway to liberty, but the Thanksgiving tl
day of the United States Is without a close comparison
in any land. Thanksgiving day begins ^
the winter season.
Wherever you find an American you will, as c
the month of November wanes, find one who ^
thinks more of being at home or at the home of
intimate friends for Thanksgiving day. Clubs; ho- ^
tels, public institutions, all see to It that their ^
patrons, members or inmates are provided with t
A Biimntnniin rpnast fnr the nna irroot fonct rlov
and whenever and wherever possible a great, fat
turkey graces the board. t
The turkey should be our national bird, as It d
Is or, rather, was everywhere In a wild state, i
and helped the original colonists to provide for c
their families. It has for 300 years been the chief J
feature at all important strictly American ban- i
quets, and may be safely called our greatest na- t
tional food delicacy. The Spaniards in Florida, ?
French in Louisiana, Pilgrims in Cape Cod and t
founders of the Virginia company all found the t
wild turkey ready for the sport and table in this i
their new home, and the American of today, from ?
the president of the United States to the hum- t
the back, and
i' i scolding locks
THE REUNION ;i ?vsz
< | party.
A Story of a Thanks- ?| while i was
. . . r~ . . ' | Genevieve was
giving in a Tourist our supplies.
Car V V V V i' Go on with
?1 vised, "and, if tl
By MINNIE E. OLIPHANT. ?| look after the fc
1 She stepped I
stood with her
Genevieve and I were riding in a front of our Je^
tourist ca., headed away from Los An- beS y?ur Pard<
geles, and slowly creeping across want to invite
Death valley. Our thoughts were with Thanksgiving d
the folks at home, who were getting your share of it
ready for the Thanksgiving dinner, but "Thank you,'
-- - - . ? - u ^ i<4
we were talking or otner unngs. woras smueu, ?s ue m
are slow unless thoughts are produc- is your dinner <
Ing them, and, therefore, the conver- "Down there
sation lagged. ting." She nod
Finally, Genevieve turned to me rectionwith
the smile she always wore when reun^on- ?
a good plain plan had Just struck "Where 13 yo
her. broadened.
"Let's make believe," she suggest- c
ed. 'that the passengers in this coach *ere 1 e * ou
are all relatives, and let's have a fam- 0un Z
lly reunion and Thanksgiving din- Y?? 5*11 ^cme
ner.. "With pleasu
? , , assistance."
"How can we? I asked. . ..you caQ asg
"I'll go around and tell them that thing toward tl
thi3 is Thanksgiving, and we are all He pushed h
relations, and they are invited to our pocket- "I ha-*
section for a family reunion, and that and two sticks
the: are to furnish their own share of are at your dls]
the dinner." 1 on the young 1
I lcoked around the car to see what tendency tov/ai
our "relations" appeared to be like, older man, not
Just hack of or section was a young lace, feared th
man with a fretful baby, and little make sport of
three-year-old p.i.1. He seemed to he leaned forwi
tired, byt patknt, though awkward, a diner on, anc
with the child ion. I had heard him tell in?"
the young man who wore a striped "No, no," ii
sweater, and sat across the aisle, that "we don't wan
be had just !obt his wife and was tak- We want a 'mt
irg the children back to their grand- union here in c
mciher in Ohio. The young tr-an in turning to the
thp sweater lolled around in his sec- and chewing g
lion, dividing his time between a mag- they are the b<
azine, the Los Angeles papers and the The man wit!
desert scenery outside. Hack of him down to the en<
sat a middle-aged Jew, who talked to j of them a drin
__ ?.,?ri tr.nVr.--l <it nn:binir in nnr- i seat. illSt as G
JIU UUU, CliiVi iW.i.u o L ?
ticuiar, as ii he 1^r<.d fo. gotten where put the matter
he was. Just before us was a young j "We are (o i
lady, end all we knew about her was | she began, but
that she had golden hair puled out in ! out his fare, 1:
The Thanh fid Li
The Thanksgiving or a nation is an hood, tlx? i>nrie
act of grace truly impressive in its j pcrience. Hut
significance. The more thoughtful ; of our ideals, t
(. i.ti?/? o o il- p^op'r* o !M hv en'- 1 dard of public
phasis upon the material prosperity of care for the w
uv 1'i.ivvii rii..tcs i.s irir- j the reeognitic
mendous social and moral opportuni- higher than th
ies. For lountiful crop.; aud heavy dividual fortun
jxpe-ts. for high wages and ir.cre-.ving surplus?for th
values it is well to be tlnukful in ?<> ! giv? thanks,
far as these thing.-; minister to the j thoughts into ;
life cf the spirit, the making of man- j bo saved from
?1 ? ?? - _
i i^n^jlffrf^-f'''j blest citizen of the coun,^%i
try, will enjoy the ThanksPIP&Mfl
giving turkey.
^ If one would enjoy a
?-%>>-.: '.V*'.;^':;,--<Wk *. .s ' trrmA nl^ f o c"h f rm oH Th iTlkfl
IbVVU WV.
i giving day at its best the
i true road to the feast lies
in the country. Th;inks!
giving on the farm is nome!
thing to be remembered.
There the whole family is
taken into consideration,
and ifr is safe to say that
each individual member
has been preparing for the
day almost ever since the
celebration of the last. one.
Stores of mince, apple
; and pumpkin pies have
| been baked and range on
the broad shelves of the
store room; apple sauce,
5 preserves, with home-made
j pickles, "put down"
months before required for
use; stores of grapes, apn'ao
neora nrH nnts rare
?>??, jf?-? ? >
fui]y looked over; a goodly
ham. freshened in cold
rater 24 hours, then carefully wiped dry and
laced in a pot of cider to boil 15 minutes to the
ound; a loin of pork, roasted to a rich, golden
rown, to be served with apple sauce, and the
sature of the feast?a turkey, fattened to about
tie 20-pound mark, the pride of the farmer and
- - J VU m|#A
ae joy ui m? wuc.
The turkey, hatched on the farm and as careally
watched as any member of the family, fatened
on grain and meal with a mixture of
hopped nut meats to give It the proper flavor,
:llled one week before the feast and hung in an
uthouse, where it Is kept cold, but will not be
njured by the frost, Is brought in the night beore
for final treatment before being consigned to
he oven.
The great bird is carefully picked and drawn,
he interior wiped out, not washed, which would
lestroy tte flavor, and filled with what is known
u the country as "the stuffin'," a thick mixture
if sausage meat, bread crumbs and eggs, with
ust a faint touch of sage and onion. When pre>ared
and placed in the huge oven to roast It
>ecomes the duty of one cook to watch the oven
ind baste the roast until it is evident to the pracised
eye of the heroine of many such conflicts
hat the turkey is ready to be served with fresh
nade cranberry sauce and a rich gravy, in which
ill the giblets have been stirred with some well>alanced
chestnruts. Now. everything being ready,
that she tucked her is Thanksgiving, and we
up every few minutes from home, so my sister
, ringless hand. . to play that you, and ex
ere to form our family in this car, belong to ou
to invite you home to ou
i studying the people, a Thanksgiving dinner.'
taking an Inventory of He saw what she mej
baby reached out towarc
your invitations," I ad- understood, too. Genev:
hey are accepted, I will little one in her arms. '
able." the baby is willing, and
)ack down the aisle and should 'lead you."
hand on the neat in "Oh, of course, we wl
vlsh "friend to 'De." "I accept your kind invita
m," she began, "but I children won't disturb t
i you to come to our- "No, indeed," she assu
[inner, and to furnish need children to make a
dinner complete," and, s
' he looked up and in her arms, she walked
ted his hat, "but where golden-haired lady.
:o be?" "Will you Join us in
where my sister is sit- party?"
fled her head in mv di- ! "Thank vou." returned
ire going to have a fam- I have my dinner with n
"Very good! We wai
ur family?" His smile your dinner in with ours,
size of your basket, I si
oach who will come." you have more than all
ng man in the sweater put together."*
md she addressed him. "But I am going to
, too? And??" young lady protested, '
re, if I can be of any make my lunch do for a:
"Oh, I see, you are a
1st by furnishing some- eat too much of it." Shi
le dinner." ting down beside the i
is hand down into his holding the baby in her i
re a piece of chocolate will eat with us, you \
of chewing gum, which open your basket. It is
posal." The frank smile we want, but you."
nan's face revealed no The girl still hesitated
rd freshness, but the or told me not to get ac
being able to see his people on the train, fc
at he was inclined to thing might happen, be
my sister. Therefore, never been out of Cali:
ird and said: "There is and she is afraid for me
I I think we could go a long trip alone."
"Are you afraid of i
iterrnptcd Genevieve; baby?" asked Genevieve,
t to go into the diner. "Oh, no, I'm not afr;
ike believe* family re- but mustn't speak to g
mr 'private' car." Then less I am introduced to
young man, "Chocolate "Well, my dear girl, v:
fum are acceptable, if our dinner party just be!
ist you have." knowing that you are eat
) the children had been The young man in the
1 ol' the car, giving each of his last Thanksgivir
ik, and returned to his and our Jewish "relative
. nevleve was ready to the best jokes he had i
before him. laughed in the proper
lave a family reunion," nsked for more. Then
seeing a shadow pass name over some of the tl
lastened to add: "This glad about.
? and easy contcntmont,
jC from that ruinous. cvni<
hiiig of the average ex- ^ich casts dark shad
for the enlargement '?K? ?I 'uxnry .and WCJ
:he raising of the stan- r^:iRksgiving day
: duly, the increasing riShteousnejs and from
oak and thrj immature. PaIr* 33 wel1 as from th<
.n of responsibilities ^ose who would mak
o mere piling up of in- an,useuient. Lot it be a
r,s and a government 'Jur 1? rich and poor of
ese things we may well and power of the thankf
Turning our grateful
such channels we shall The modern version?
narional Pharisaism hath much, much shall I
r' '
the family and guests (and there are sure to be
guests In country at a country Thanksgiving dinner)
troop into the long dining room, to find the
repast not only ready, but served with all the
pomp and state the feast deserves.
The turkey is placed before the host, while
the roast loin of young pig graces the, opposite
end of the table, with the boiled ham in the center,
flanked with mashed white and baked sweet
potatoes, turnips and cauliflower, with boats of
gravy and bowls of sauce within easy reach of
all. "Now pass up your plates," is requested from
each end of the table, and the oftener this repeated
advice is followed the more the face of
the good matron glows with satisfaction. The
great pitchers of foaming cider pass along the
board and the diner at a farm Thanksgiving feast
finds It all so novel and good that the vision
comes up before him frequently while struggling
with a complicated menu at his club or sotne hotel
or mincing through the series of problems presented
at a French or Italian table d'hote dinner.
On every Yankee warship in the hot lands of
the far away Malay islands, Cuba, Guam, Panama,
the Sandwich islands and under the flag that
floats over every American consul's home or
office Thanksgiving day will be celebrated, and,
like another Btitch in the great bed quilt of liberty
and indepc-ndence will knit the fabric closer together.
We do well to have a Thanksgiving feast. We
thank the great Creator for our being, our sturdy
forefathers for our great country, our Burly British
ancestors for our love of country and good
things to eat, our bustling energy for rapid
progress, our wives and mothers for domestic
atmosphere that makes life enjoyable and success
certain and the rulers we ha^e placed in power
for unparalleled prosperity.
are all away I saw the young man in the sweater
and I decided give the golden-haired girl a look that
rerybodv else made me wonder if he had noticed her
it family, and dainty appetite and silence, or whethir
section, for er he was glad to have her present at
' our reunion. "I am getting back to
ant, and the Chicago," he said, "to attend my als1
her, as if it ter's wedding, and I suppose that I
leve took the ought to add that I am thankful I am
"You 6ee that going to have a new brother next
a little child week."
"I'm going to a wedding, too." The
ill be glad to golden-haired girl had forgotten that
tion. If my stie was not to speak to a gentleman
he party." without an introduction. But she reired
him, "we membered in time to lean round be
Thanksgiving hind me.
dth the baby "Whose?" In coming to her rescue I
I down to the had forgotten that no questions were
to be asked.
our dinner "My brother's," she replied, somewhere
back of my shoulder.
the girl, "but "perhaps her brother is to marry my
tie." sister." The young man had heard
it you to put her answer. "She is to marry a Calland
from the fornia chap that I have never seen,
lould imagine i I barely know that his name is Harthe
rest of us mon."
"Will Harmon?" Again the girl was
Chicago," the startled out of her corner. "My broth'and
I must er Will is to marry Miss Jenkins."
II the way." "Sure enough!" The young man
fraid we will reached across me. "Shake hands, for
s laughed, sit- we are almost relatives."
;irl, and still Geneviev^ rose with as much digirm,t
/?fU nity as she cou*d command under the
von t need o cjrcumstances. "Miss Harmon, allow
no your oo tQ lntro(juce to you Jenkins."
. Our dinner was over, as everything
I. My motn- ,, * . , ,
auainted with eatable was gone" The P?rter carrled
ir fear some- lhe cups ana saucers DacK to tne aincause
I have car, and cleared away th? paper
fornia before, sacks and crumbs.
to take such The golden-haired girl sat alone no
more on that train, and the young man
ne and this with the sweater read no more magazines.
They may have been talking
lid of ladies, about the coming wedding, but as we
entlemen, un- were about to leave the train at Salt
them." Lake City, our Israelite "relative" said
e won't enjoy over ^he back of our seat.
lind you here, "There may be more than one weding
all alone." ding."
sweater told "That is the romance of our Thanksig
in Alaska, giving dinner," suggested the father
" brought out of the children, whose baby was at
n stock. We last asleep, and lie had time to enter
places, and into a conversation.
we agreed to "Now, her mother can't blame us,"
lings we were put in Genevieve, "for they would have
met in a few days, anyway."
as well as Knew Where to Get One.
;al pessimism "i will marry you when you get a
JVY& u^ua an | nero meant.
ilth. Let us will have it tomorrow night."
from self- "Do you know of some deed of heunmanly
(le- roism you can perform?"
i light trifling "No, but I know a hero that I can
o of it a mere lick."
yearly romin
the simplicity Source of Information.
ul life. Giles?1 le says that Screecher Is a
popular singer.
-To him that Mih.u?Who sa; s &o?
jo forgiven Giles? Screecher.
? :
ftijjpi
President of The United States
Issues Proclamation.
A YEAR OF GREAT PROSPERITY.
Some of the Things Which Have
Contributed to the Happiness and
Success of Americans?No Wars
Hflio Hiwinphpr)
Washington. ? The vigorous
growth and progress of the country
is reflected by the records of population
and harvests and the general
conditions of international poace,
are things for which thanksgiving is
especially due for the year 1910, according
to the annual Thanksgiving
Day proclamation issued by President
Taft. The prolomation is a^
follows:
'This year of 1910 is drawing to a
close. The records of population
and harvests, which are the index
of progress, show vigorous national
growth and the health and prosperous
well-beinsr of our communities
throughout this land and in our
possessions beyond the seas. These
blessings have not descended upon
us in restricted measures, but overflow
and abound. They are the
blessings and bounty of God.
"We continue to be at pease with
the rest of the world. In all essential
matters our relations with other
peoples are harmonous, with an
ever-growing reality of friendliness
and depth of recognition of mutual
dependence. It is especially to be
noted that during the past year
great progress has been achieved in
the cause of arbitration and the
peaceful settlement of international
disputes.
"Now, therefore, I, William Howard
Taft, President of the United
States of America, in accordance
with the wise custom of the Civil
Magistrate since the first settlements
in this land and with the rule
established from the foundation of
this government, do appoint Thursday,
November 2\, 1910, as a day of
national thanksgiving and prayer,
enjoining the people upon that day
to meet in their churches for the
praise of Almighty God and to return
hertfelt thanks to Him for all
His goodness and loving kindness.
"In witness thereof, I hav6 hereunto
set my hand and c&used the
seal of the United States to be
affixed.
"Done at the city of Washington,
this fifth day of November in the
yoar of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and ten, and of the independence
of the United States the
one hundred '^.id thirty-fifth.
(Seal)
"WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.
"By the President:
"ALVEY A. ADEE.
"Acting Secretary of State."
SUNDAY CONTRACTS VOID.
Papers Printed on Sunday Violate
Law in Missouri?Advertising.
Kansas City, Mo.?Contracts for
advertising in newspapers published
on Sunday were declared void by
Juilge J. M. Johnson in the Kansas
City court of appeals.
The Sunday labor laws of Missouri,
the court sai'd, were violated
when such newspapers were printed
and therefore, any contract for
work in connection with the publication
would also necessarily bo illegal.
,
The decision was handed down in
the case of the owners of The St.
Louis Republic against Jeremiah
Culbertson, president of an exploration
company.
Twelve Tons of Records.
Manila.?E. L. Worcester, a member
of the Philippine Commission;
Frank W. Carpenter, the executive
secretary of the Philippines; Ignacio
Villamor, Attorney-General and
Chas. H. Sleeper, Director of the
Bureau of Lands, left here on the
steamer Manchuria for the United
Slates. They are on their way to
Washington, and have with them all
ilm pnnni'Hs honrinor nn thfi nonnf.ro
versy over the friar lands in tV
Philippines. These records weigh
about twelve tons.
Fast Auto Kills Chauffeur.
Middletown, N. Y.?A chauffeur
was killed and three prominent
New York City men were injured
when an automobile at a rapid pace,
turned turtle near Walden.
The dead man is Alexander Ehbel
and those injured are John F.
Roosevelt, a relative of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt; John T. Sill, a financier
of 29 Broadway, and J. H. Robinson.
Mr. Roosevelt was badly bruised
about the legs.
Appeal For a "Peace Sunday."
Boslon.?The American Peace Society
has issued an appeal to the
clergy of all Christian churches of
the counlry and to I lie leaders of all
other religious organizations to ob
serve the third Sunday in December
of I his and succeeding years as
"Peace Sunday" and on thai date in
urge by prayer, song and sermon
"Ilie abolition of war, and ttie substitution
of imperative, universal
arbilralion."
Punished For Selling Bad Efjfls.
Philadelphia.?The first prison
sentence imposed under a recent act
oT (he Legislature for seising eggs
unlit for food was passed by Judge
Barred, when ho sentenced George
i). Ellis, a Water si reel, commission
merchant, to Mure months in the
county prison. Thomas I>. Ellis was
lined $v>nO ami I lie costs of the
prosrrniioti. Abraham Staples, another
c^rir i? ; ?!?*r. \v!io "made a practice
of buying up decayed evil's aial
shipping Ihem lo New York bakers.,
was also sentenced to three months
TENNESSEE'S GREAT SON
Hooper Was Found on Streets of
Knoxville a Waif, Fortjr
Years Ago.
Nashville, Tenn?Ben. W. Hooper,
the ^ewly elected Governor of Tennessee,
was found on the streets
of lfnoxville less than forty years
ago. The waif, whose parentage is
not known, was committed to the
care of an orphan asylum where
he received his early i trainings
When he was 10 years old he a\r )
traded the attention of Captain
Hooper, of Newport, Tenn., who
gave him an education and hte
name and before he was 21 years l
old he had graduated in law with
distinction.
While he had achieved some distinction
in his home county, having
tfeen sent to the Stale Legislature '
for two terms, Hooper was not generally
known in the State before
he was nominated as the Republican
candidate for Governor.
He is a successful lawyer and is
considered wealthy.
He will be the flrst Republican
Govenor Tennessee has had in
many years and the third in the
history of the State. He was tile
choice of the Independent Demo
crais as wen as nis own party ana
his campaign has been a remarkable
one. Although Tennessee is a
safely Democratic State, he has received
the support of some of tte
leading Democrats and on every
stump' where he has spoken, Confederate
veterans have sat on tbe
platform.
Hooper's career, has been romaatic
and spectacular, starting in
orphan asylum and finally leading
to the Governor's chair. He was a
striking figure in a romance- whiob
led to his leaving Tennessee for
the West, where he grimly del?mined
to make good because be '
had been taunted with the fact tbai>' ;
he did not know who his parents :>-**
were. From a small investment be
made a fortune in a few montl?
, one) rofurnoH fA hia IToTinOQQPP hnnifl
to practice his profession. Later
he married Miss Annie * Jonea,
daughter of one of the wealthiest
men in east Tennessee. He has four
children.
CENSUS COTTON REPORT. 1
Shows 7,339,983 Rales Ginned to
November 1.
Washington.?The census burean
report shows 7,339,983 bales of eoi-,
ton, counting round bales as half
bales, ginned from the growth of
1910 to November 1, compared wiih
7,017349 for 1909 ; 8, 191,557 for 1908,
and 6,128,502 for 1907.
Round bales included this year
are 81,187, compared with 109,631
for 1909; 149,868 for 1908, and iS&,785
for 1907.
Sea island this year is 40,516 bales,
compared with 55,237 for 1908; 46,479
for 1908, and 33,331 for 1907.
The ginning by States follows:
Alabama, 747,162; Arkansas, 323,674;
Florida, 38,287; Georgia, 1,241,130^
Louisiana, 154,756; Mississippi, 57fl>373;
Nortji Carolina, 386,114; Oklahoma,
584,850; South Carolina, 729,023;
Tennessee, 129,781; Texas, 2>403,981.
All other States, 24,838.
The distribution of sea islarffr"fcotton
for 1910 by States is: Florida,
15,191; Georgia, 22,507; South Carolina,
2,818.
Doctor Guilty Criminal Operatioa.
San Francisco. ? Dr. Robert
Thompson, charged with the murder
of Evan Swan, was found guilty
of murder in the second degree. The
body of Miss Swan, who died as the
result of an operation, was found
two months ago buried under the
basement floor of a deserted cottage.
I .
Friends to Hate a Feast.
New York.?Twelve friends of the .
late Ratje Siedenburg, a well-to-do
business man who died here last
October, arc directed by the terms
of his will, filed for probate, to eat
a dinner costing $500 or $41.66 2-3 a
ptote, at the expense of his estate.
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The selection 01 ine guesus auu uxo
time and place of the dinner are left
to his executor, with the sole proviso
that the dinner must be eaten within
three months of the testator's-death.
Cruel Fate!
Atlanta, Ga.?Within a few weeks
of liberty after serving more than
four years of a 5-year sentence in
the Federal prison here, Henry H.
Davis of Kentucky, was killed when
he fell front a scaffold around the
new administration building &fc the
prison, a distance of 47 feet. Hie
death was reported the following
day. Davis was convicted of coun- ,
terfeiting. His re 'ives it is said, ;
now are living in OKlahoma.
Two Strange Fatal Accidents.
New Orleans?Two accidents, one
fatal, and one possibly fatal, led to
much comment in police circles.
\Y\ 0. Fitzgerald, a painier iiurrying
homo with an oyster loaf,
stumbled against B *^ost and, supposedly
knocked ii..-^nsciou?, felj
into a shallow puddle of water. He
was drowned. Thomas G. Fitzgerald.
with an oyster loaf tucked under
his arm. rushed from a resfauraut
to hoard a car. lie fell beneath
the wheel and may not recover
from his injuries.
Stepfather Worse Than Brute,
Fairmont, W. Va.?Herman Child
n ? j oil r.n u,. Tncl ir>o A mno 9
PI'S was llld'U CII.W v.y _
of Fairmont, and was placed under 3
a peace bond, having been found I
guilty of cruelly treating his 16- B
months-old stepdaughter. The in- I
formation was made by Agent I
liraml. of I In* Humane Society. It is I
alleged thai at a hotel where the fi
family is slopping. Childers tied 9
!ho foot and hands of (he baby and ?
|n al it unmercifully. Mis ex plan a- I
li..ii VMS lhaf (ho child was unruly I
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