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THANKSGIVING
EE OBSERVED.
SHOULD
If MiohIiT Not 11 Slwly ut bat
a ly of 1 lmnkcivinc to -od for
the i:l"C of the lUrvriU Lillian
Vale's View of the Da jr.
if
T HAS HECOMV
moiy or less the
custom of late to
HMak of our cele
bration of u special
Thanksgiving day
with some disdain
as a great oblation
of roast turkey and
cranberry sauce,
mincc-pic and nuts
and raisins, and all
the rest, instead ct as un offering of
thanks which we ought to be glad to
make, if only with pulse und water.
Thotie who have grown to have this
tfeelusjr about the day speak of it as a
"day -of gormandizing, reproach it with
'.the manner of its observation, connect
' its existence in their minds with a re-
uponsibility for gluttouy, und arc n
danger of losing all lofty or sao-vl rs
t sociation with it. As a day o Kal
xthajJcs to a source of all beuuty and
VWand" life they do not (five
It any peculiar regard. They call it
Thanksgiving day because that is its
name, -always has been and always
will be. They do not fail to observe it,
because they are conservative and
want to break in on no established
order of things. They sometimes go
to hear a sermon in which thanks are
apt to figure but little, and politics are
apt to figure a good deal; but on the
whole, they think of it as a reiuai ua
bly good dinner day.
Vet in the relations of every-day life
with one another, if from any hand
one received such a blessing as life, as
love, as freedom from want, as friends,
as family, as the roof that shelters, the
food that loads the table, to say noth
ing of move personal gifts or of the
minor myriad of blessings, it would be
matter' of the most gliuiug incivility
if any dne rendering of thanks were
omitted, and of ingratitude if one even
desired to evade acknowledgment.
The person who has been entertained
over night in a dull country house sends
a note of thanks to the host or hostess
.afterward; the beggar on the street, to
whom a half-dirao has been tossed,
litters a modest word or makes a gest-
j'tT.jHastkm, but those who enter
into none a of the interior reality of
Thanksgiving day, who keep it as a
anatter of form and because others do,
and because it makes one more hoi i
day, and who in return for sunlight,
Bleep, waking joy, all the innumerable
pleasures of existence, for the early
and the, latter rain, harvest, health,
happiness, see no occasion for
a season of special thank-offering,
and in observing the
day observe it rather in a Chinese eom
anetnoration of the ancestors who ap
pointed it than from the force of an
irresistible motion of gratitude ir their
own hearts, those people are less civil
than the chance guest, less decent than
the sidewalk beggar, and are really
;almostas much to be pitied as if they
lhad nothing at all to be thankful for
Tet tiie idea of the day is something
beautiful, that X is a shame
Ihe day itself slumH not always
and everywhere li? kept with
such warmth and fivsi. ess of feeling
as it would be if it were but just newly
instituted every year. It is a day that
Christian and Jew and Gentile, Mo
hammedan and heathen, may observe
with tenderness; for each and all of
these hart one great benignant au-vc
o bless'.ny beyond the vorH f the
(senses, from whom they recognise tkt
tthey receive all, to whom they wnow
is duo a worship which includes thanks.
.And how beautiful might be the offer
ing of this worship and these thanks
when compared with the offerings
THE FAMILY ( IRCLK.
of old: not smoke of sacrifice or drip
jping altars or cuvlinff incense, but the
viewless joyous uplifting- of. tne heart s
irapture, of spirit seeking- spirit.
And with those, and they arc still a
multitude, who make a real festival of
the day, the return to the home and
hearth of the family the patriarch's
ihearth from which the new families
ihave gone oit is like the going up of
:tho tribes to be numbered at their
.rret eitv. All over the land what
io-lad confusion they make, what jour
neying, what hurrying eastward and
westward, totneJSorin, to ine aoutns
From th Pacific shores the trains are
hastening, laden with travelers, sons
onrl rlauo-hters cominff back to the old
home; from the Atlantic they go, carry
in the oider people to see the new
I i
hmn! that the younger ones have
made; from North and South on the,
crossing and interlacing line, brothers
and ulsters and friends hasten to each
other' houses this one season in the
year, perhaps this one year out of
many; mothers are speeding back, if
they have been away, and fathers,
whose errands have taken them into
distant regions, make all haste to be at
home again. What a wonderful human
net-work is it thus stre.?'..'.l orcr the
land, all pulsing and es : :.a l expect
ant of joy, heart-beats running
along each line, love radiating
rom h line to h mi.1, till juti aii'a
think the very air above the:n woald
be electrified and vitalized with the
human warmth! And what previous
freight it has lorne thus the pr-arls
and silks and teas and spices of the
Orient far less so precious with all
that makes life dear, for wealth may
go ami health may go, but those we
love are not to be spared, and their
price is above rubies. And should
disaster befall any of these Thanks
giving trains that go thus loaded,
greeted at every station by glad faces
of those that give some welcome and
others godspeed, delayed at every sta
tion, to, by entering and departing
groups, what heart-break and what
ruin follows!
Thanksgiving day, then, is a day
that stunds for home and humanity
more than any one day of the round
year. Into the other great annual
festivals, with the exception of those
that are purely political, the divine
element enters into u much stronger
degree than into this day, which is not
of divine appointment, nor of the rec
ognition of any deific event, but
only of our own gratitude to heaven
and need of expressing it. It
might be thought by nny disinter
ested and unprejudiced observer, say,
from another planet or another uni
verse, were such thigs to be conjectured,
that loaded tables, good appetite, sufli
cieot digestion, friendly faces and all
that sort of thing which might be de
scribed in Sir Lucius O' Trigger's
I10.VK ron TltAN'K.-GiVfNn.
graphic words, "I hope there is no dis
satisfied person here but what is con
tent," were subjects deserving instant
and spontaneous thanks with
out waiting to reason upon
them: although the fact is we
are too prone to think that what we
have is our own, won and deserved by
our efforts, and due not at all to kindly
Providence or heavenly permission.
Hut if not for special providences and
detailed blessings, thanks must by any
intelligent mind be held due for the
great laws and their operations by
which these blessing's have been
brought into being. And in this view
let us all accept the day as another
gift from heaven, and offer thanks not
alone for all our separate happiness,
but for Thanksgiving day itself.
THANKSGIVING OBSERVATIONS.
How tlio Dur U Observed In Out-of-the
Way Places-
Half of the observers of Thanksgiv
ing day do not know how the other
half spend that fine old Puritan festi
val. On the plains of Montana and Wyom
ing tne cow-uoys supplement tneir
Thanksgiving dinner with the grand,
mysterious mince pie, so dear to the
traditions of the day. It is the chef
d'umvre of the prairie cook, ami the
boys drop their lassos and revolvers to
watch the operation with breathless
awe and expectancy.
Another picttire incidentally illus
trates the perils of gossip, particularly
in a case where vigilance is the price
of the dinner; and the fattened goose
mysteriously vauishes, stuffing and all.
The women folk will no doubt do up
the affairs of their neighbors to their
own mutual sausiacuon; out. mean
while, "empty is the oven, goose is
gone.
Truly, this festival of the last 1 hurs
day in November ought to be universal
there are so many general as well as
individual reasons for giving thanks.
We can be thankful that the elections
are over that Christmas is coining
that the beginning of frost is, the end
of yellow fever -that people have set
tled, or at least dropped, the question,
"Is marriage a failure?" Aud un
fortunate indeed is he that cannot at
least fall hack upon the stoical old
maxim and be "thankful that things
are no worse than they are."
Tiie Christian, Observe It.
Thanksgiving day is now celebrated
1)V union services in all the Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish churches in the
I'nited States. In the homes of citi
.enti, without respect to religious faith
or church affiliations, it is made a day
nf merriment and feastinc-. at which
families long separated are reunited,
and ceremonies of a social character
prevail.
$:( Hated.
Yoick, Neb., Nov. l'.t, Wl.
Editor Almance-Isdehendent:
In answer to your request for report
on county funds deposited to the creo.it
of the different counties will say:
Y ork county has on an average about
$10,000 on depotit at 7 per cent, inter
est. D. S. Zimmerman,
County Treasurer.
Gybsljs.
Goi-sips may ha found In ever". com
munity. They are that cla jf po
pis who make it their business to at
to: d to other people's busine-s.
They know nearly a.l about their
neighbors' concerns, acd what they
don't know they arc very anxious to
find cut: They know j Jst how wicked
the'r neighbors are, and how dirty
tbeir neighbor's wives are. They
know just bow lazy thu school teacher
it lit. i -.1
is and now WlOiieu uie prcacuer useu
to be.
'I hey know every foolish little thing
a young lady dors, just how often a
fellow goes courting and how iate he
stays, and how worthies he is. Gos
sips never find out anything good.
They don't seem to know that anyone,
except themselves, ever did anything
good.
Their highest delight is to injure the
fair character of some young man who
is trying to work his way up in the
world, or some young lady who has a
bright and happy future before her.
They are not only tale-bearers, but
they are tale-growers; a story in their
mouths will soon grow to huge dimen
sions. If any unpleasantness occurs in a
neighborhood all the gossips begin
searching for it like bjz.ards alter
carrion.
If they can't find out all about it
B0m9 one passes an opir ioi and this is
told by tho next one for tbe truth.
When there is no foundation in fact
for a story, it is easy for the first class
gossip to manufacture one.
While other people are listening to
the cheerful happy voices of their fel
low beings, the gossip's eari are listen
ing for cioss words, brawls, lie s and
oaths.
While other eyes are looking at the
beautiful and pleasant things around
them tho gossip's eyes are employed in
looking for dirt In otner people s nous
es, and faults in other people's dress or
actions.
While others are are uttering words
of kindness, encouragement and love
tho gossip's tongue is twisting ltsell
around some vile and poisonous slander.
While others are scattering sweet
(lowers in the patnway of their friends,
to cheer the rough places of Ufo the
gossip is engaged in hiding poisoned
thorns in too patnway oi omors to
pierce their leet anu naruek tneir
hearis.
There are many people who thought
lessly driuk in the false reports circu
lated by these agents oi t-aian. iuev
listen and believe. Indeed they are
only too ready to believe these vile
slanders. This ought not to be. Every
true man and women should turn from
tho crnssin as from a deadly serpent.
Every young person snouia resoive
that, thov will treat both gossip's and
c 1- - . , - ,
their words with tbe scorn and con
tempt which they merit.
Resolutions of Condolence.
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty
God to remove from our midst the
companion of our worthy brother, W.
E. Brown on Saturday, November 5th,
1892. In her death our brother has
lost a loving and affectionate
wife, the community a near and dear
friend. Therefore ba it
Resolved, That the secretary of Union
Alliance No. 852, be requested to pre
sent a copy of these resolutions to
Brother W. E Brown in testimony of
our regards for tho deceased: also send
for publication to Thk Alliance
Independent and county papers and
cause the same to be spread upon the
records of the alliance.
J. A. VANHOOSEN.
James Watts,
C. L Stoner,
Nov. 1G, 1892. Committee.
Think They Deserve a Flag.
Byron, Neb., Nov. 12, 1892.
Editor Alliance-Independest:
If General Van Wyck is not elected
governor it n not trie lauic oi uyron
precinct, Thaver county. Without a
single speech from the independents,
and very little independent literature
except THE alli ance-i ndependent j
she gave General Van Wyck eighty-
hve votes to the other three candidates
forty six, almost to to one. I think
the general should give isyron a nag
for her loyalty to the people's cause,
and especially to the General himself
l ours lor the good cause,
I. H. Page.
Low Kates for Nebraska State Teach
ers Association.
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