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DO YOU KNOW ?
t By Fred Williams, Mail & Empire)
Thats although harvest thanksgiv-
ings have been annual festivals of
the Church of England in Canada
ever since that church was establi-
shed,and that yearly services 1Ces of
thanks of the gifts of Providence
!have 'been held by the other churches,
it was not until 1879 that thanksgiv-
ing Day was set aside by Act of
Parliament? The first Dominion
Thanksgiving was on November 6,
of that year, according to Proclama-
tion by the Governor-General, which
set aside that day as "a day of gene-
ral thanksgiving to Almighty God
for the bountiful harvest and other
September 28, 1763, was observed
as a day of thanksgiving at Halifax
for the peace between Great Britian
and France.
And in 1799 Bishop Plessis, of
Quebec, ordered special thanksgiving
services to be held and himself prea-
ched a sermon and issued a mande-
ment of thanksgiving for Nelson's
victory over the French fleet at the
Nile. In this document he acknow-
ledged what the Canadian part of the
Roman Catholic Church owed to the
just laws and the protecting arms
of Britain against what he regarded
as "an apostate and regicide France."
blessings with which Canada has Bishop Plessis also took a foremost
;part in the war of 1812-14, in prea-
chieg loyalty to the British flag and
inspiring the people of Lower Canada
to the heroic efforts they made to
deral setting -aside of the day and is repel the invaders.
followed by similar Proclamations
by the various Lieut -Governors in
the various Provincial "Gazettes,"
the wording being parctically the
same in each case.
For twenty years or more after
the institution of the annual Autumn,
holiday, Thanksgiving was set for
a Thursday. the last Thursday in No-
vember at first, then the first Thurs-
day and then the last Thursday in
October. The mid -week holiday
was found, as modern business con-
ditions developed, to be a disturbing
element. and, at the suggestion of
the commercial travellers chiefly,
the Laurier Ministry altered the day
from a Thursday to a Monday, thus
making the holiday one of three days
instead of once, and enabling city
folks to go out to see their friends in
the country. This worked well until
the question of the celebration of
Armistice. Day became a matter for
legislation, and it was decided that
thereafter Thanksgiving Day should
l..• the 'Monday nearest to November
11, so that while we celebrated Arm-
istice Day yesterday w.• are today
observing. the evil holiday of Thank-
seivi n;:•.
Throe early Thanksgiving can be
noted in Canadian history since
the decisive battle of the Plains
of Abraham. on September 13, 1759.
The first wee held by the vic-
torious navy and army immedia-
tely after the surrender of Quebec
on September 27, in the chapel of
the L'rsulines, loaned for the occasi-
on, and there today the vis!tor ran
see on one side the tomb of Montca-
]m and facing it the pulpit from
which the chaplain of H. M. S.
"Neptune" Breached the sermon,
which was at once a thanksgiving
for the victory and an in memoriam
for James Wolfe.
been favored this year." That style
of Proclamation has been followed
each year since. It is first published
in the "Canada Gazette" as the Fe -
Others notable Thanksgiving in
Canadian history have been for the
success of British arms in the Cri-
mean War and for the recovery of
1 the then Prince of Wales from his
. grave illness in 1872.
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THE ARMISTICE
MOW John and I were sitting
II On the eve of Thanksgiving Day
A-countin up our blessings
In the good old-fashioned way.
At least I was a-countin.
For John he didn't agree;
There wasn't much to be thankful fer
As far as he could see.
So he sat there a-thinkin'.
As I named them one byone;
The children all a-comin' home,
The farm work all well done.
And for our Winter needs laid by
We had a goodly store;
Here John speaks up quite sudden
like, '
"There's someone at the door."
He opened it, and neighbor Drown,
Quite timid like. stepped in,
"Friend John," he said, "I've come
to think.
It is a dreadful sin
For u- to be a quarrelling.
So I've runic to you to -night,
And r want to ask yer pardon,
And try to make things right.'
And John said, kinda =Bin' like,
'Well, Pill. before you came
Jane was n-countin' blessings,
But I couldn't join the game
Because I felt so guilty like,
And I ask yer pardon, too;
Now we'll have a real Thanksgivin'
Like we oilers used to do."
—E.M.M.
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Life History of Herbert Hoover
How he Rose to Fame and Fortune
A New York correspondent writes
of the early life of the newly -elected
President of the United States, who
will take over his duties in March
1929 for the next four years:
Americans know strangely little
about him, though four years ago he
actually entered the presidential race.
If his work in Europe had been car-
ried on at a time when Europe had
been less preoccupied, his habitual
HERBERT HOOVER
shyness would have been broken
through, but his prewar life remains
unknown. American writers are
now actively digging out the facts.
Hoover is a Quaker born, and
though his wife was not a Quaker,
they attend together from time to
time the Quaker meeting in Wash-
ington, where some form of religious
observaance is still more common
among politicans than is, I imagine,
among British M. P.'s, Hoover, all
the same, is no "sissy," a the Am-
ericans have it. He can use strong
language and show an unQuakeliks
temper on occasion, but his Quaker
upbringing has bitten deeply into
him, so deeply indeed in its teach-
ing of the value of silence that he is
one of the worst public speakers in
America.
Farm and School Days.
He was born in Iowa. where his
father was a small farmer and the
village blacksmith with an inventive
turn of mind, which perhaps later
helped his son to become an engineer.
When the boy was about four years
old his father died and Left him and
his brother to the care of the mother,
who became a lay preacher in the
Quaker ministry. Five years later
this gentle spirit passed away and
left the two small lads orphans in
the kindly care of relatives. Her-
bert was taken to the farm of an
uncle, and took his share, like every
other boy in those rude communities,
in the work of house and farm. He
met Red Indians, and played during
a visit to another uncle with young
Redskins. Before he was 14 he had
made the journey of over a week
from Iowa to Oregon. where one of
his father's brothers had set up a
boarding school as a number of that
band of pioneers which started the
modern passion of America for edu-
cation.
From his uncle's school young
Hoover went with his uncle to a land
development office and continued his
studies in his spare time. He sat
at the first entrance examination for
the new university of Leland Stan-
ford, built in memory of the son of
hi
a weathly railway magnate upon
s stranded Amercians :calling at leis
private racecourse. Hoover actually office to borrow the money for their
failed, but struck by his quality, the passage home when their checks prov-
examining professor secured his
entry, and he became first student ed useless. His activities were ex -
of the university, which has since tended to Belgium largely on the
turned out a number of eminent min- suggestion of. Belgian engineers who
ing engineers, the career to which, had worked with him in China and
fired by the tales and specimens of elsewhere.
prospectors who had dropped into the From his war work, President
land office, Hoover had decided to Wilson called him home to become
devote himself. food administrator when America
Student and Miner. Ientered the war. He had exhausted
He worked his way through college the possibilities of his mining career.
mainly by acting as agent for the I He had become a man of large for
laundry of his fellow -students, and tune, and the Quaker desire for
at the end of his course found himself service grew upon him with such
penniless. A summer appointment power that he decided to turn to
on the United States geological survey American politics as a means of its
allowed him to explore the Sierras, expression. Whether the American
but after failing to find other em- voter will appreciate the spirit of
ployment in the autumn he took work that determination is perhaps the
as an ordinary miner, pushing ore • biggest American question of the
trucks underground. Tho fact that year.
a mining expert in whose offie,e he
was seeking work happened to be ,Commerical frauds cost manufac-
faced with problems concerning the tures and wholesale firms more than
region which Hoover had surveyed $1,000 a minute for each business
during the previous summer led to day,
his being given a job. Rio office task Dr, Samuel Williams, for 50 years
was followed by a job in New Mex- , book editor for the Methodist Book
ico, where he made acquaintanee with concern at Cincinnati, celebrataed his
snakes, human and reptillian, and, as 100th birthday recently,
aiu
the most respectable member of the
party, was called on, much against
his will, to say a prayer over a Mex -
'ken who had died an the hands of
I his friends.
A cull from the London mining
firm of Bewick Mareing & Co. for
an American expert who would try
out the new American methods in
Western Australia, which had just
been hit by the mining slump, decid-
ed his destiny and led to that course
1 of life which makes it possible for
his opponents today to say, "Yah,
1 Internationalist !"
I Within two years the young man
; had swept aside useless mines worth
on paper millions of pounds, and had
developed a new technique which had
turned mines containing low-grade
ores hitherto profitless into paying
propositions. I•Ir had laid the feu-
, nidations of his own fortune, and he
had made a reputation by his insis-
tence on decent conditions in his
Mining camps and the banning of
camp -followers.
In the Boxer Uprising.
I His firm offered him a now post
es adviser to the government con-
troller of the mines in China, and he
and his bride, for whom he made a
'dash all the way to California and
back to China again, settled down
with their base as Tien-Tsin, but they
spent several months traversing
China with a train of servants, sold-
ers and advisers, examining the min-
eral prospects of the Chinese Empire.
The Boxer uprising, in which they
were caught and from which they
escaped after some degree of danger,
ended that episode. Hoover return-
ed to the office of his firm in London
and took up work as one of its direct-
ors. From that time on he visited
every part of the world where sued-.
ous metals or minerals lie avaibale
beneath its surface. He maintained
offices in San Francisco and New
York, and the mining journals of
both countries record his movements
from one country to another, into
Alaska, Burms, Australia and Russia.
He became a figure in mining fina-
nce and contributed technical articles
and letters in defence of his position,
more orthodox in America than in
London, that a mining engineer
' should invest his own money in the
mines he was dealing with as one
method by which the undoubted evils
connected with mining finance could
gradually be eliminated.
The Oldest Book on Mining.
His home in West Kensington be-
came a centre for American visitors:
especially those from the Far West
and he and Mrs. Hoover, herself a
student o fmining and geology, spent
thole spare time for several years in
translating the oldest book on mining,
a Latin treatise, which at least one
other American group had given up
as a bad job, largely owing to the
, unknown technical words used by the
i ancient author,
! When one of the partners of his
firm absconded, leaving th efirm in
difficulties, Hoover played a charac-
teristic part in issuing a statement
without consultation with other direct-
ors that the firm's debts would be
honored and then devoting several
years to the fulfilment of his promise.
Shortly before war broke out he
was administering two large groups
of mines in Russia which had sunk
into such poor condition that a huge
work of relief for the miners had to
be carried out before actual mining
could be re -started.
War Relief Work.
When war broke out he was drag-
ged into its activities by a stream of
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MENACE OF RATS
.,early Ten Million People In India
Have Died of Plague, Which is
Iltreotly 'I raeeab]e to !tuts.
In the course of twenty years, said
Dr. Gabriel Pett, a distinguished
medical man, rats have caused tho
death of one million of the people of
India,
This, unfortunately, is a grave an -
der -estimate of the faots,,deciarcd a
health authority to the kltetesman, of
Calcutta, for, he added, in the last
twenty -flue years nearly ten million
people in India have died of plague,
which is directly traceable to rats.
He suggested that a determined
effort should be made to reduce the
number of rate by educational pro-
paganda, Introducing new building
regulations and other means.
"Every medical man is aware that
bubonic plague is directly due to inti-
mate association of rats with ma.n.
Plague primarily is a disease of rats
and other rodents, and human
plague is really an accidental occur-
rence resulting from an epidemic of
plague In one or other of these
animals,
"There are certain animals which
feed very largely on the same food
materials as men, and of these, fats
are the worst, because they have so
largely accustomed themselves to live
in close association with man, In
fact, they may be considered almost
to be domestic animals. In many
parts of India houses are built of
such materials and in such a way as
to encourage the largest possible
number of rats.
For example, houses built of mud
with country -tiled roofs form ideal
shelters for these animals, 'and vil-
lages In the Punjab, the United Pro-
vinces, Bombay and Behar and Oris-
sa are always honeycombed with rat -
holes. The foolish habits of casting
out food refuse at their very doors
and of stocking grain in their dwell-
ings In receptacles easily accessible to
rats encourage the propagation of
these creatures on an enormous
scale.
"Plague infection is ordinarily con-
veyed from rat to rat by means of rat
fleas, but when many rats have died
the fleas are compelled to find other
sources of blood and in these circum-
stances they resort to man, taking
plague infection with them• Bo long
08 people are content to allow rats to
multiply in large numbers within or
near their dwellings, plague will
persist.
"In the last twenty-five years near-
ly ten million people have died of
plague In India. The majority of
these deaths have occurred in the
Punjab, the United Provinces, Bom-
bay, and Behar, and Orissa. Bengal
has suffered far less than most of
the other provinces, and though Cal-
cutta has on oecaelon been attacked 1
with serious outbreaks of plagues,
very few cases have occurred in re-
cent years. The explanation of the
relative immunity of Bengal from
plague is probably to be Bought in
the physical and climatic conditions
of the province and in the character
of its main harvests.
"Bengal is almost wholly deltaic ,
and enjoys a very heavy rainfall
which often floods village sides. This
obviously be drowned owing to the
multiplication of rats, as they would
obviously bed rowned owing to the ,
rise of the water. In this connection,
it is quite possible that Calcutta owes
her relative immunity in recent years
to the periodical flooding of the city.
Whenever streets are flooded, a little
observation will show that many rats
perish in the waters.
"As regards the effect of agricul-
tural aonditlons it may be pointed out
that many of the provinces in India
subject to plague, depend more upon
dry crops than upon. rice. In many
areas there has been a sudden de-
cline of plague prevalence in April
and May, as soon as the harvest has
been reaped."
Bird a Tea Drinker.
A very rare visitor has just reach-
ed the London, England, Zoo -so
rare that Regent's Park has only seen
one other of the kind, and that one
lost little time before dying.
This Is the big blue Plaintain-
eater or touracu, a bird from Uganda,
Bast Africa. The newcomer, in spite
of its name, distinguishes itself by
tea -drinking whenever it gets a
chance, sipping the stream of liquid
as it flows from the spout of the pot
Into the teacup.
This specimen was a household pet
before it arrived, and still longs For
human companionship. It raps
against a door to be let into a room,
follows anyone about, and likes to be
fondled.
It wears a handsome blue suit with
a yellowish waistcoat and has a crest
of black feathers shaped like that of..
a peacock.
The Liver Fad.
The fad of liver eating which has
sent the price of this poor man's
beefsteak soaring may do harm to
healthy individuals and .deprive triose
pernicious anaemia sufferers of this
life-saving meat which they really
need, the American Medical Associa-
tion was warned in a program devot-
ed to the latest reports upon the con-
quest of this hitherto hopeless dis-
ease. Dr. W. S. Middleton, of Madi-
son, Wis:, reported that other types
of anaomia do not respond to the spe-
cific element in liver, although the
Irlinot-Murphy diet, which includes
liver, has been generally successful
In treating secondary anaemia.
World's Smallest House.
The smallest house In Great Bri-
tain, if not in the world, is to be
found in Conway, an interesting old
town hs North Wales, The cottage,
which stands directly underneath the
walls of the castle where Edward II.,
the first Prince of Wales, was born,
has a front of only six feet and a
Wight of only ten feet. It has tsvo
rooms, one on the ground floor and
the other directly above it. Por a
great many years it was occupied 111is
any other house, as a place of reel-
thence, but it is now in charge of a
saretaker,(who exhibits it to maw -
sus tourists lora penny fee.
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