Show thanksgiving DAY ever it is true that the great people are those mho ho give open thanks to the power they recognize tor for the good which comes to them something in the strong strong heart has mafla made thanksgiving an instinct of forceful it has been so since the tl tune time ahon miliam ilam the prophetess upon the while her danced and all the uilia israelites ra praise praised gud because e di it rashed the sea the via id creaks made thank offerings to beir and the he bearded norseman horsem Nor semen ri tj ic d thir th ir clamorous farat ilu deato odin and aid chor to the world dom angio saxton with his religion reli gioi glor ot of Cl christ irist came the same impulse and it has hag clung ching to him in each vast wilderness lie he has invaded not only has he bein a giter ier of thanks but he has dignified and ami glorified the duty and madert a feature ot of his national life lie it was almost a matter of course that there should suggest itself to the Purit ians agid and god searing as the moi earnt i of round heads the idea of oc a thanksgiving that s le be formal but it was from the flux of a new natures in influence upon their lives that there cacia 0 a mellowing loel lowing to the character of the day s observance that a certain handless hard less disappeared and that the occa siou become one of 0 open joyousness T alic lie little shrubs of observances planted in 1621 by the good god gov bradford has grown into a mighty tree with flowers amid its truit it was good all that happe happened ried about the tha time of the tha first thanksgiving day the pilgrim fathers wore in a practical jubilant mood for the a on that occasion years of scanty cro crops as and threat tin catering ering had been followed by a beautiful harvest and theras nas an absolute geniality la in the preliminaries to the famous dinner it was to be a game dinner a dinner fit tor for any epicure who ever lived and none so mean in all the colony but should be present so arr iw the hearts of those rugged worshipers that they were not content with even this but summoned old sachem cachera massasoit and all ill his IS swarthy retainers and when the feat feast wo red rc d raan mail and white ie sat sal down together and were brothers here was christian here her was aa exhibition oi ot that broad humanity and care tor for other man taught by hir wile united the strand of cable ll II r q ara and alo shall say that from this hour when such kindly hospitality hospit alLty was vas shown when the good things god has bestowed upon apri men were eaten appreciatively and joyously and when hanks were given wore more sonorously thai in the past there was not lot alien birth to the germ ot of that broadness and joyousness even in worship bip which has become a trait of the Ameri american call character exchange A thankful spirit enables us to met meet me t our trials manfully it lifts us uj above the bisma of despair into the lil 11 ss d light of 0 cheerfulness we getting close to you then thell lay m doyn tills this paper and go and pay up I 1 mid and you can read on at ease and dont you stop paying because the statute of 0 limitation excesses them the open account which you made tor for bread and meat you mus must pay it I 1 in cash or hod god will make you pay it in fire and brimstone god knows no such excuse for paying as homestead exemption when you raise that excuse to keep from paying your debts you can stop 0 O hen I 1 can caa read my title loar clear to mansions in the skies youve got nono none up there |