Show ar THANKSGIVING DAY f f r y a 4 I There is an old and familiar story of a jovial mariner who fell from 1 some part of the ships rigging to r the deck and broke his arm whereupon where-upon he expressed thanks that it was not his leg Itecsvering from the injury he fell again and broke 1 t his leg when in his cheerfulness he J was thankful that it was not his 1 arm The gratefulness of the unfortunate = p un-fortunate sailor furnishes a grand example to the race Everybody has something for which to be thankful All have occasion for thankfulnessthe rich that they do not want for warm clothing comfortable com-fortable homes and dinners to their own tastes the poor that they are not poorer and more miserable the healthy for appetites and good digestions t diges-tions the sick that their disease is I not smallpox or if it be small pox that it is not yellow fever or Asiatic cholera Sometimes when one looks about him and sees how others have prospered while his ventures have I been failures how hers broken down in health and others are hale and vigorous how his wife and little t ones are cold and hungry and the I wives and children of his neighbors f are warm rosycheeked and well fed how as compared with others t he seems in everyway tha most 1 t I miserable he wondersjhow he can be expected to be thankful And i yet if he would throw a screen overt over-t t the dark side of the picture and 1 gaze only at the bright he would Or G discover much to call forth sincere and heartfelt thanks We cannot p I picture a person in so wretched a condition that he has nothing about i him to excite gratefulness He is miserable beyond description 1 who cannot be truly thankful thank-ful one day in the year I for blessings received from the H J Giver of all good gifts A man with Y an utterly thankless heart should have no place among man He belongs be-longs to another world than this Our Thanksgiving day festivities are material as well as spiritual spirit-ual nor do we observe and celebrate cele-brate because of the civil proclamations I t proclama-tions If it were these gubernatorial t guberna-torial suggestions or orders that induced l duced the giving of thanks the act j would be formal and spiritless We r perform the spiritual part of the g 1 ceremony by humbly acknowledging acknowledg-ing our obligations to the Almighty for blessings received and mercies I mer-cies shown our material thankfulness is shown by gathering in family groups about well filled boards and testifying our gratefulness grateful-ness in feasting and rejoicing And one can be no more pleasing in the sight of our Allwise Creator than the other Then while we are not neglectful of our responsibilities to the Author of Goodness let us feel i that it is equally a duty that we owe to our natures and desires to have good dinners and eat them in the happiest way possible The voice of hearty good cheer and the laugh of wholesome merriment are evidences of material thankfulness To banish the dismal and melancholy melan-choly to the dreary and hidden garret 1 gar-ret and express our gratefulness and thanks with joy and gladness t are natural and therefore proper 1 Here in Utah we have grand and glorious occasion for thankfulness The year has been full of rich and bounteous blessings for the people I who have prospered as never before k Scourges and evils have passed us by and heaven and earth have both been kind to the community Ont On-t every side are seen peace and plenty joy and happiness In every I + house there is occasion for thankfulness I thank-fulness and rejoicing Then in I every dwelling and in all hearts let this Thanksgiving Day be observed ± and celebrated in the manner that i the grateful merry heart suggests t and the custom demands |