CAFE MAY HERALD, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER J4, 1904.

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••Bv the President of the United States of A meric*: "A PROCLAMATION. -It has plessed Almighty God to brinR the American people in safety and honor through snothfr year. and. in accordance with the long unbroken custom Handed down to u« by our forefathers, the time has come when a special day shall be set apart in which to thank Him who holds all nations in the hollow of his hand for the mercies thus vouchsafed to ns. "During the century and a quarter of our national life we. as a people, have been blessed beyond all others, and for this we owe humble and heartfelt thanks to the Author of all uleaslngs. The year that has closed has been one of peace within onr oar borders, as well as between us and all other nations. The harvests have been abundant, and those who work whether with hand or brain are proapering greatly. "Reward has waited upon honest effort. We have been waited upon to do our dnty to ourselves and toothers. Never haa there been a time when religions aad charitable effort has been more evident. Much has been given to us, and much will be expected from ns. •‘We speak of what has been done by this nation in no spirit of boastfulness or vainglory. but with full and reverent realization that onr strength Is as nothing unless we sre helped from above. Hitherto we have been given the heart and the strength to do the tasks alloted to ns as they sever ally atoee. We are thankful for all that has been done for os in the past, and we pray that In the future w* may be strengthened in the unending struggle to do onr dnty fearlessly and honestly with charity and good will, with respect for ourselves and with lore toward onr fellow men. •'In this great Republic the effort to combine national strength with personal freedom is being tried on a scale more gigantic than ever before in the world’s history. Opr success will mean much, not only for ourselves, bnt for the future of all mankind; every man or woman in onr land should feel the grave responsibility resting upon him or her. for in the last analysis this snoceas most depend upon the blgl; average of onr Individual citizenship. upon the way in which each of ns does his dnty by’himself and his neighbor. "Sow, therefore, I. Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the Mth of this November, to be olserved as a day. of festival and thanksgiving by all the people of the Unltad^ljfea at home or abroad, and do recoBbead that on that day they cease from their ordinary occupations and gather ia their several places of wotshlp. or In their homes, devoutly to give thanka onto Almighty God for the beNefiU He has conferred upon tzs as indi-

my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the cHv of Washington this I rst day of November in the year of our laird one thousand nine hundred and four and of the Independence of the 'United States the one handled and twenty-ninth. “By the President: THEODORE ROOSEVELT. “JOHN HAY, Secretary of State.’'

Policy Toward the 8

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The Outlook happens

aeaaioD of Information which leads tt he suggest that no man perhaps ever went into the White Hoorn with a keener desire to be of real and perms

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fcfebest type of both wkMe and colored 9*oplo concerning the political desires awl needs of both the block and the WUte races and the stetw aad Marts •f thafr relations to tbs fedaroi gov

ernment. This Information was Bought for by tbs president before bo became president and even before be became The president. The Outlook happens to know that while Mr. Roosevelt waa bolding the position of governor of New York be outlined a policy which be would attempt to pursue if he should ever be called to the presidency. Tbe policy which be then stated he would pursue was one which the dullg press of the south aa well as the pfcbllc men of tbe south had long advocated. The Outlook hai>pens to know, further, that tbe president has pursued and consistently followed the policy outlined before be became president as nearly aa it has been possible for any bumeu being to do. To begin with, in Mississippi tbe president, while not seeking to overthrow or ignore tbe old political machine. went straight to the heart of conditions and selected for his adviser E. 8. Wilson, s gold Democrat the former secretary to L Q. c/hamar, the Miaalaslppl correspondent of the New Orleaua Picayune and the brotber-ln law of Governor Longlno. It would at least seem that this man bad tbe con fldence and reepect of tbe south, and of Mississippi people especially. Prom tbe day of hia appointment by tbe president this gentleman has been one of tbe president'* southern advisers. In seeking his advice upon southern politics the president insisted upon one limitation, and only one. His adviser was to recommend non* but clean men to him for appointment, giving Republicans tbe first consideration, but where clean Republicans could not be found, then Democrats of good and prttred character. The result is that tbe United States district attorney Is a white Democrat, and tbe same la true of the register of tbe United States land office and tbe United States t ahnlshlp. These are native southern white men who stand high in tbe estimation of their neighbors, and these are but examples of what has been done In doacna of other caaee in Mia sUalppi alone. Now. aa to tbe negro officeholder In tbe south. Tbe complaint that haa been made ngulust every Republican president alnce the civil war has been that many offices were filled by a horde of ignorant and characterless colored politicians. How did President Roosevelt meet this niton lion? He baa appointed to office In the south fewer colored men than any other president, and in doing so haa not only decreased the quantity, bnt improved tbe quality. He has not only tried to do no, but has actually done 1L To bow many of our readers has it ever occurred that, notwithstanding all tbe discussion that haa taken place regarding Mr. Roosevelt and the tooth, practically no criticism haa been made upon the character of the men holding office under him. white and black alike? Fault haa been found in a few cases because of their color, bnt not with their character. Not only has tbe class of white and colored men appointed to office in the south been of such a high character aa to escape criticism, but Mr. Roosevelt has dene what no other president has done, and what the south has all along claimed should be done. He has appointed colored men living in tbe north to Important positions In that section, as, for example, William H. Lewis, appointed to tbe place of assistant United States district attorney for

What the president baa done In Mississippi In lifting up and purifying the public service has been done in s larger or smaller degree in every southern state. Special examples were tbe throwing over of tbe old aad corrupt gang In Louisiana and tbe appointment of former Governor Thomas G. Jones and Judge Roulbac, native white southerners, to important positions in Ala-

The main thing, however, that tbe public ought to know about is that In falling to be controlled by old and corrupt political organisations. In going outside of his party to select men of i character for office, tbe president was running a political risk which required the very highest degree of moral courage and devotion to public duty to perform. He waa taking a chance, as far aa his political fortune* ware concerned, which no other president had ever taken. Time and time again Mr. Roosevelt was warned of tbs political risk ba was taking, but not ones did be change his policy In tbs allgb(-

sioa replied to friends that be would rather be defeated for the presidential a lion than secure it by yielding vicious element of tbe south. Bopublican or Democratic. Over and over again it baa. been assarted by those who bars not taken tbs time or the pains to invsoMgato tbs real facta in tbe matter that President policy has canoed of lawlessness at tbs south, id by lynchings, burnings, etc. What ta tbe truth? Lynching* In this country reached tbe highest number I* 1882. whan Banja mis Harrison waa president, the number of lynch-'

periods represent tbe high water mark of lynching. During the two years la wbicli Mr. Kooserait has been in tbe White House there have been fewer lynchings than In any year since 1RSS; in 1UU2 there were INI lynchings and in 1MJCS there were but 10L These two years represent the smallest number of lynchings since 1883. We make the prediction that before be leavcN tbe White House tbe south will learn that It baa never had a wanner or more consistent friend In the pnwiUcutlal chair than Theodora Roosevelt. ^

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Notable Kvente of (he Week BrteOr Ch resided. The new cruiser Pennsylvania has arrived at Boston to make preparations for her speed trial. A movement ia on foot to get i*re*ldent Roosevelt to arbitrate the difference between Panama and the corporation of foreign bontfbolders in regard to the Colombian debt Detectives left Bluefleld. W. Vs., for New York, baring in charge Pro'essor Popp, who will l>e turned over to the Austrian consul, charged with complicity in the robbery of the poatoffice at Budapest. The Netherlands governlnent has notified tbe American charge d’affaires that Qtleen Wllhelmlna will tie glad.td are the second peace conference meet at The Hague and that tbe United States may count on tbe co-opera non of tbs Netherlands. Monday, Rot. SI. The pay wagon of Korepaugh & Sella Bros.’ dreus has been robbed of $32,000 at Tartioro. X. C. w Profcwsor Samuel R.‘ Shearer, for four terms county superintendent of the Cumberland county schools, has been found dead in Noble's wo kIh, about a mile south of Carlisle. Pa. Hunters near Hickory Ridge. Pahare discovered the nude and’ headless body of a man containing five bul let wouuda. Search Is being made by the police authorities for the missing bead. The Ixiring Andrews company. Jewelers; the Rudolph Wutertitzer 6ompany. nrudcal instruments, and tbe Pounsfonl Stationery company were burned out at Cincinnati. 0. Tbe loss la, estimated st $300,000. Thomas F. Watson, defeated candidate of the People's barty tor president, spoke at his home. Thomson. Ga. He said that be proposed to campaign actively during tbe next four years and declared a “fight to the finish.” The bronze statue of Frederick tbe rest, presented to tbe American people by Emperor William, was unveiled by tbe Baroness Speck von Bteruburg, the wife of the German ambassador, In the presence of President Roosevelt and a large gathering at Washington. Mrs. Sophie Merritt and Biglsr. Charles, Alanson and Nancy Johnson, her children, have been committed to await the action of the grand Jury on the chargs of murder. They are charged with killing Bigler Johnson's wife and Annie Benjamin, her eleven-year-old niece, at' Towanda, Pa- and cremating their bodies by burning the house in which they lived. Setarriay, Hwv. IB. The Anglo-Swias treaty of arbitration haa been signed. A similar treaty between America and England will aoon be signed. Meeting! and demonstrations are taking place In many Italian cities to protest against Austria's action In the Innsbruck incident Four persons were killed and a score of others were injured by a aeries of gas explosions that baa completely destroyed the plant of tbe Pyle Electric Headlight company In South Chicago. Twenty-ooe person* were rescued from tbe big freight steamer Mohawk of tbe Central Vermont railroad’s fleet which was burned to the water's edge off Morton's point in Long Island Mind. Miss Sadie Kennedy, a young aodoty roman of Denver, who started to acrub tbe steps of the capitoL said to Governor Peabody as be approached: “This is all your fault governor. I am paying my bet that you would be dect-

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General Huertas, commander in chief of 9>e forces of Panama, has resigned, and President Amador by a decree accepted his resignation, tearing Huertas tbe rank of general unattached, but with a salary, which la equivalent to a

Two policemen In Wyandotte, Michtwelve mites down tbs river from Dorse and buggy of Fourth and Oak streets with H. J. HUtebrand and Mrs. W. J. Milter of Detroit tying dead

The stability of tbs French cabinet to be eerionely threaten■ignatioo of the war min

Mount Vernon. Vs., placed a wreath on the tomb of Washington and planted a Use on tbe old estate of the first president Frank J. Hacker has resigned as a member of the Panama ennui commla aion. He give* as his reason for resigning the evil effe«l Of the Panama climate upon bis health. Four men have huen asphyxiated by gas at the plant of tbe Dover. lto<-kn-Way and Port Oram Gas company nt Dover. N. J. They constituted the entire working force of the plnut. The larger of two men Abo rohlied n Thermopolls <Wyo.) saloon has lawn captured. He appears to fill the descrtptlou of the one who shot Cashier Mlddsugh In the attempted bank rah bery in Cody. A street car with trailer attached got beyond the control of the motonnau and crashed through the guard gnto of the Grand Trunk railway at Toron to. A Montreal freight train struck the forward car, grinding It to splinters. Twelve passengers on the two cars were hurt, two dying of their Injuries. Ia an automobile accident in tbe suburbs of La* Angeles. Cal.. Hum phrey Praed. assistant general manager of tbe Ban Jacinto Land company of Riverside. Cal- was Instantly kllh-d and Mtss Mina Rudolph, leading lady of tbe “Ban Toy” openrcompany, and C. 8. Fry. chauffeur, seriously hurt. TharaSag. Rev, IT. I-erd and Lady Mlnto hnvg left Ottawa. Ont., for England. Lord Mlnto has been governor general of Canada for six years. His term has now expired. and he will be replaced by Earl Grey. Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker, recent Democratic candidate for president, has Opeded a ‘law office at 82 Liberty street New York. Mr*. Parker will Join him. and they will make their home there. Ex-President Grover Cleveland told the story of tjie killing of a fine big black bear, which he sen* to the chef of the 8t Deni* hotel to lie roasted for the dinner of the Canadian Camp soclatlon at New York. Priceless Jewels, heirloom* of the Stevens family, are missing, according to Chief of Police Hayes of Hoboken. N. J- who says be Is searching for them on instruction from tbe family at Castle Point who think that tbe valuables hare been stolen. The president has ended the Alaska court scandals by announcing thA Judge Melville Brown'of the Juneau district has tieen called upon to hand In his resignation and Frank H. Richards. United States marshal for tbe Nome district ha* been dismissed. We*BM*ar. Rov. 10. Charles Bonier of Buffalo, wbo was under sentence of death for tbe murder of FrantfTreher. will have a new trial. Destroying four large wooden buildings In which were penned live hogs and sheep, a fire in the stockyards nt Jersey City. N. J.. early In the morning canned a loss of fSUl.OOO. It has been known by the world’s fair police that two masked men hare robbed a train on tbe miniature railroad at tile world’s fair. After securing money and valuables amounting to $100 the ibbers escaped. The Marquise des Monstlera, nee Caldwell, an American woman, cabled from Borne that she has renounced the Roman Catholic church, to which she bad given $300,000 for tbe establishment of a divinity college In tbe Catholic university at Washington.

If fashlonablesociety should ottracisze the divorced, tbe penalty might frighten those of 1U members disposed to get rid nates objectionable to them; but after all. the civil law which grants divorce Is the expresrlon of a far larger and wider social rentimenL The sum and substance of it all is that the church can enforce Its law only on the consciences of those who firmly believe 1c Its full and Divine authority.

Uncle Sam’s m^n oealnd the big gens of the navy art noted for their accurate shooting. It la now the intention of the department to drill the enlist sd force In small arms practice, so that in the use of the lighter weapons they can make as good records as with the larger. That Is In line with general American military training. The country wants every soldier and sailor as ef-

ficient as possible.

men ted on the fondness of the children for singing, and the quickness and accuracy with which they learn new aonga, says the Tooth’s Companion. A returned traveler, who was In a Filipino school on Washington's birthday, says he never heard the “Star-Spangled Ban-

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Th* stock marks* boom^ the crags am ] la. the country U richer than ever if ora, with money more ptentifkl la all asosa. Is the midst, however, of the sweiUng anthems of prosperity there needs also be heard the small voice

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Christmas Magazines A beautiful cover deatgti sod a varied cooteau, to which many well known writers have cootribuUd. combine hi making the i December issue of ‘•bueuM Magazine" one of surpassing attract)rrons. The leading nrtlcle,"The JC ver-tf viug Fairy-lore of Cbristmaatidr.” by Richard I* (iaillem.*, recalls to us tbe magical talm «*.-t delighted our cblidbood fancy. Cinderella. Tbt Sleeping Beauty. Babes in the Woods. Jack, the <i Uni-killer, Hop o' my Thumb, and other heroes and heroines of fairyland, are charmingly portrayed by G. Alden Pierson in illustrations accompanying the article. AspIranU to grand opera will find helpful reading !o tbe article entitled The American Girl ia Opera.'' by Heinrich Courted, director of the Metropolitan Opera Company. New York Alfred Henry L«wlsUa frequent eonlrih.ifor and this mouth he haa written a spl- • ilid article ou "Men Who Have Matched op. portttnlty.*’ Tbe December Delineator, with it* message of good cheer and belpfaluea^, will be welcomed in every borne. The fashh.i. pages are unusually attractive, lllnatraui.g and describing tbe very latent modes In a way to make their construction during tbe busy festive season a pleasure Instead of a task, aud tbe literary and pictorial features are of rare excellence. A selection of love Songs from tbe Wagner Operas, rendered Into English by Richard Le GalHeune and beautifully Illustrated in colors by J. C. I*yrndrcker. occupies s prominent place, and a chapter In the Compoaer*’ Series, relating the Romance of Wagner and Coaima, is an interesting supplement to the lyrics. A very clever paper entitled “Tbe Conn Circle* of the Republic," describing some unique phase* of Washington nodal life is from an unnamed contributor, who ia said to writ* from tbe Inner circles of society. There are short stories from the pens of F. Hopkinson Smith. Robert Grant. Alice Brown. Mary Stewart Cutting and Elmore Elliott Peake, and such interesting writers as Jull* Mngruder, L. Frank Baum, and Grace MacGowan Cooke bold tbe attention of the children Many Christmas suggestions are given in needlework and the Cookery pages are redolent of tbe Christmas feast. In addition. there are tbe regular departments of tbe magazine, witn many special articles ou topic* relating to woman's Interests within snd without the home “Onr Lady of Christmas is Mother ' sister of the angels, beloved messenger of the good God.” With these words. Pastor Charles Wagner sums np his delightful “Christmas Message" in the December number of The Booklorers Magazine. In his beloved^klaace they speak of “Mother Christmas, «ot “Father Christmas." aa We do. Pastor Wagner telis ns why, in a deliciously naive account of bow Christmas was celebrated in his own home, “when I bad grandfather, grandmother, father and motiier. and ad the wraith of life ai.d bopy which God sows with lavish baud ig the soul of a child.” It was the custom there, snd doobtIe*a it is so still throughout Alsace, for the Christmas lady, on the evening of Christinas Day, to enter the room where the festivities were in progress, “hearing aa a forch the dear little tree,” on which the Chrestmaa gifts were hnng. M. Wagner tells bow It was, for some years, an annual surprise to him that his mother was always absent whoa the celertial visitor came with her tree. One year her excuse bad been “a visit to an elderly neighbor.'” Gradually the truth behind the dear Christinas fiction became revealed: that “our Ladr of Christmas was Mother!” But tbe diecorery did not destroy tbe eternal charm of tbe innocent deception, and the Pastor pleads most eloquently the cause of tbe Christmas Myth as against those severe devotees of truth who would divest Sants Claus of his reindeer snd his traditional furry trapping*. and leave him with only a conventional sack coat, creased trousers and derby hat to dole out his presents In a shamefaced way on the morning of the year sacred to tbe soprrmeet flights of delightedly expectant Imagination! Pi arson's Magazine tor December presents tbe unusually numerous collection of six special articles aad eight sparkling

of Lords,” hr David R Barry, la the tend Ing article, aad toUs of the perquhritea and sinecures of United Stetea Senators; as they are to ooaveae on the flnt Monday of December, this paper is peculiarly timelj. A sketch of the philanthropic career of the late Louie Fletechmann relates the history and the details of his world-famous Bread

Visitors from this country and teach- Line, one of the night sights of Now York, era In lbs Filipino schools have com- Still another ttmaly article ta H. P. Rurcfa-

Illustrated with photographs. In his story Mr. Burcheil briefly recounts the results year's American sporting achieve-

esmSss-ssS ram whain heegaa aa Imariw starrtag of the Far Seat whither aB eyes are cratered. walehlag the forging el history.