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By John Giieeneeaf Whittif.ii
J) A H !—on Thanksgiving Day, when from
K ** East and from IVest,
* from North pilgrim and and from guest, South come the if
When the gray-haired New 1 'if
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sees round his board
The old broken links tf affection restored,
When the care-wearied Ml
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mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the
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What moistens the lip and what brightens
the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich)
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«*iHERK is a beautiful legend of a
T besieged n o£ the by =- lobbeis
1 ter v was
desired to carry off its treasures,
monks took the organ to a river
he flowed close by and sank it in
L hicti in order to keep it
deep water And
the hands of the robbers.
from that, though buried thus
Hip legend is continued
In the river, the organ still
L eive forth sweet and enchanting
busic which was heard by those who
tL e near.
i Every Christian life should he like
Lis <*olden organ. music. Nothing Even should when
ver silence its j
he floods of sorrow flow over it it
hould still continue to rejoice and
lug. such life is
One of the secrets of a
found in the cultivation of the habit
u. thankfulness. Nothing less than
khis will do. Most people have brief
hours in which their hearts are filled
Lfo L. grateful b feelings, and when them. all
!d seems beautiful to
n„t these sunnv times soon pass, and
. t ], v - they give themselves
v,-: to discontent and complaining,
Anvbodv can sing when walking amid
the 2 flowers*and in sunny ways; the
0{ fife comes when the garden
nat> becomes a bit of a desert road,
We are not fully ready for living un
til we have strength enough to carry
as through the hardest places and the
-deepest glooms.
Thanksgiving Day is not intended
to gather into itself a whole year's
thanks. By being full of gratitude
for the one day, we cannot make up
for three hundred anil sixty-four days
of ingratitude. Every day should be
a thanksgiving day.
Of course, there is a difference in
the days. Some of them are dark,
while others are bright. On certain
flays things seem to go wrong with
ts and our affairs get tangled;
other days life flows along like a
jsong. that these We want changes to learn in to circum- live so
our
stances and experiences shall not af
tact us in our inner life. That is
what Saint Paul meant when he said
that he had learned in whatsoever
hate he was therein to be content. It
pas ter and no easier endure for him to have to suf
than want and privation
it is for US. There was no lux
tr J to him in being cast into a dun
m f eoa the an( sfock l flawing his feet made fast
to b. But he had learned not
fret when his condition was un
Pleasant. Win rever we find him he
is singing, never despairing. The
habit of thanksgiving had been
I“ s ght so
u int0 his life that nothing
could . ever break it.
Just how to ie arn this habit of
5 “ ks§ / S ' t0 v >ng learn is t0 the question. One
of i ' tl ' ust - The cause
Wart' a f°, mi) ' iainins ancl
a “'of trust discontent is
iS in God. If we believe
«wvij 5 “r f r re Fat r for her> ufl Ulat and He Put l0VeS at
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distu'l , ands aU matters that
Would b or fret God
self w m , us, IIim
Worrv P us in Perfect peace,
i. c u , 1 to tlle
spirit while - 1 .■, ‘ nothing thanksgiving
from the h so drives worry
song. a, t as a thanksgiving
ing this hit ! !t '! nS ° f tllat thank llo! P 3 in form
ttak u suiv f sgiving is to
beautiful f° '^f, se Y in n S Iife the good and
v ely woriri - This is a
* ise ’foritk ' C0ll,d n °t be other
? adek bea»m r F f ther ’ sworld He
Mhe,hoS .
lt Utl , b ecause it \ to
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8 om e see His children. Yet
"rich n °V‘ UB of tbe loveliness
^erywhere ii ec . tT U them
lBs ' continually
. are
? through y-inasi‘:’ Untry "'JJ raeu tour
ener 1 glorious
faster oh, keeping the
not hi 11 all the time
41 Aran • Luskin’s guests
?ar 'y in Wf often awakened
Joo tii IU by
g a knocking
[tblS °° k 'ng out" r - , call, “Are you
' in
Run,... - response to
»lMn *’ bl o.uld open their
y a rra,. : i , eyes would be
It is that they
it saw.
>o sleeps at night
a Cr intwood, and can
"lad uing to greet his
01 s. I aQ d opens his
e is glory enough
in the morning anywhere
to start our
be well if all 0 f us could be awakened
every morning with the call, “Are
you looking out?” There is always
something worth seeing if we would
draw our curtains and look out.
lhis is true not only of nature, but
of all the experiences of life. We
allow ourselves to be too much im
pressed by somber views. We let the
troubles and the unpleasant things
^ulk to ° lar S e b' in our vision. We
live too much indoors, with our own
frets and cares. If every morning
we would fling open our windows and
look out on the wide reaches of God’s
love and’goodness we could not help
singing. Some one writes: “Many
a day would be brighter if begun
with some thought in the heart that
might open the door to a nobler
. . of life, and
vision would not some
°“ r Iess cheerful moods be dis
pel ’ od hy a wider outlook? ’
0,ir llV0s are all too apt to run in
grooves, and often they are very
row grooves, indeed. Yet all about
,ls are EC(> ues of beauty, not in na
tlire alone > l)ut in the lj ves of
feHow mou - 0ften in the most
expected places, in some nook or
crann >' of a nature that seemed only
forbidding, we shall find some
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u ef lours of meditation, when our
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Hails reach up to the great heart of
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° ’ ‘ n land which too often
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ar “Are you looking out?”—
Ke '- 1 R. Miller, U. D., in Advocate
and Giardian.
A Thanksgiving Dinner Table Trick
This is a curious little experiment
dinner ''. 11,11 will interest everybody for’nothing at the
table, for it calls
except what you are likely to find on
th e table.
( utan orange into halves and from
one-halt remove the pulp, leaving the
peel entire in the form of a hollow
mnisphere or cup. With a penknife
ot a toothpick bore two holes in the
bottom of this cup and put it into a
tumbler, forcing it down about half
way.
The tumbler should be a little
smaller than the orange used so that
Km wifi have to squeeze the peel-cup
a K*tie in order to get it in.
I hen it will press firmly against
ta e glass and stay where you put it
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instead oi dropping to me bottom,
Put the cup in right side up, that is,
with the yellow peel below, and pour
|- ed wine into it. The wine will run
through the holes and you must keep
on pouring until the level of the wine
in the glass just touches the bottom
of the cup. Now fill the rest of the
glass above the orange cup with wat
or and aivait results,
! Soon you will see a thin red jet of
wine rising like a fountain through
the water from one of the holes. At
the same time, though you cannot see
! it so well, a colorless stream of water
I flows downward through the other
hole.
The two liquids do not mix much,
i but merely exchange places, so that
Hn a few minutes the lower part of the
glass, below the cup, will contain the
j water and the upper part will be filled
j j with This wine. Is as it should be, because
water is heavier than wine and natur
'ally goes to the bottom. The curious
| thing is that the wine and water do
, not mix but each selects one hole foj
itself. It is hke the trick with the
candle burning in a lamp chimney
with a partition at the top, so that
cold Iresh air goes down on one side
while the hot air and smoke escape
on the other.
Oil may be substituted for the wine
or you may fin the bottom of the glass
with water and then pour in milk or
some thin-colored syrup.
A Thanksgiving Conversation.
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Turkey—“Well, there’s this conso¬
lation about it — the most distin¬
guished men on eaath w r ent to the
block.'
Possum (gloomily) — “Yes, but
tljey were not broiled and roasted af¬
terward for the benefit of block¬
heads. ’—New Orleans Picayune.
A THANKSGIVING LETTER TO
GRANDMA.
“Dear Dranma, 1 linked I would rite you a
letter
To tell how I love you—a bushel or
Mamma more; hopes
that now your sore foot is
all better;
And we 11 come to Fanksgiving as we did
before.
“Please make us some pies and some pud¬
A turkey ding and jelly,
with stuffing and onions, aYid
then
Please don’t you forget that I like stuffing
Of smelly
sage. From your 'feetionate Charlie.
Amen.”
And grandma, dear soul, as she pores o’er
the letter,
\\ ith a smile on her lips and such mist in
her eyes
1 hat she wipes off her glasses to see
Plans through them better,
out a whole shelfful of puddings
and pies—
Of tarts and of cookies; of custards and
A goodly jelly;
battalion of gingerbread men;
And last, but not least, a fat turkey cooked
Of “smelly” for
sage the youngster who wrote her
“Amen.”
—Mary Clarke Huntington.
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The Fat One—“Huh! What have
you to be thankful for, you lean,
skinny runt?”
The Thin One—“Because I am so
blamed lean and skinny.”—New Or¬
leans Picayune.
BROKEN THE -‘SOLID SOUTH”
B b resident Roosevelt Says He Could
Have Carried Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga.—President Roosevelt’s
only disappointment over the result
of the presidential election was the
v?=
u e E5 he ’"•« •»"
,, T p r i, j l peen candidate for
1 a pres
•. dent this
time I would have carried
Commffistn d br °ri e the S ° lid south> ’ ”
ner 1Iudsoa a Quotes Presi
* oose voR , as having said to him.
p Colonel , Hudson has just returned
to Atlanta from Washington, where he
velt abonfHfh* President Roose '
'inn h j? th COU f try ilfe commis
sion. it was upon the occasion of his
visit to the white house that Mr.
Roosevelt voiced the belief that he
would have carried Georgia.
“Yes,” said Colonel Hudgson, “Pres¬
ident Roosevelt’s chief regret at de
clining to accept a third term seems
nn,J lla he V ', aS e ed chance
to r> ,he ,h State , 0f * K- hlS mother s ua_
tivitv
7 , _ _ Said ... ^ 6 W °, U ,, d , have
snpprhLGeorgia Snd captured u hnnself, i made the a state few
surety } ’ ’’
Colonel Hudson’s replv was non¬
committal—he , told the president
lie had that
many friends and admirers in
Georgia.
CONVICTS MAT FLAY BALL.
Captain Wiley Williams Suggests i
Baseball Teams and Erass Bands. ■
Atlanta, Ga.—Rival baseball clubs , 1
composed of convicts at the state
prison farm, and a well trained brass
band, composed cf juvenile offenders;
withm *■ i • the iV ie slate reformatory, are
realm of possibility in
Georgia. Captain Wiley W illiams, a;
prison commissicner, is earnest and
enthusiastfe in his advocacy of the
innovations.
REFORM FISCAL
Change Needed In The Finan¬
cial Conduct of the State
REDUCTION OF STATE TAXES
From Five To Two Mills Is Suggested
By Govenor Smith.—Much Property
Not Returned.
Atlanta, Ga.—That Georgia’s fiscal
system is in need of some kind of re¬
form is the opinion of every state
bouse official connected with the finan¬
cial conduct of the state. This was
very clearly brought out in the dis¬
cussion as to whether or not there
would be an unsual deficit to be as¬
sumed by the Joe Brown administra¬
tion next July.
At present the state’s fiscal year is
from January 1 to January 1 The
.
taxes for the year to pay appropria¬
tions made bv the legislature, which
meets in June, come in mainly during
December and January following. The
delinquents continue to come in dur¬
ing April, May, June and even as late
as July.
Thus, for example, although the
state prohibition law went into effect
January I, 1908, the proceeds from the
old tax ou liquor received during the
present year has amounted to $14,600,
according to the figures in the office of
the comptroller general.
Yet to every suggestion of a change
in the present fiscal system there is
strenuous opposition. If it is pro¬
posed to change the fiscal year so that
it will stand from July 1 to July 1,
there is objection. If the proposed
change affects the time at which tax¬
es are to be returned, there is still
more vigorous complaint.
Still some system of tax reform is
universally agreed to be necessary.
Governor Smith favors the appoint¬
ment of a tax equalization board,which
will bring into sight for taxation,
property qot now returned, and which
there is no way of reaching.
It is his idea that the work of this
board would result in reducing the
taxes on the great body of the people
by forcing certain classes of people
to bear their full share of the burden
of carrying on the state administra¬
tion.
In discussing the evil of lax dodg¬
ing, Governor Smith said that, if some
system could be devised to force the
big corporations to pay taxes upon a
fair valuation of their property, the
state’s tax rate could be reduced from
5 mills, which is the constitutional
limit, to 2 milles.
FLMAL ELECTION RESULTS.
All Counties Have Made Official Re¬
turns—Brown’s Majority 104,052.
Atlanta, Ga.—The final consolidated
returns from every one of the 146
counties of the state show the final
results in the recent election for gov¬
ernor:
Joseph M. Brown, democratic nom¬
inee, 116,801; Yancey Carter, nominee
of the Independence party, 12,749. Mr.
Brown’s majority was 104,052.
In the table published giving the
result of the election, it was stated
that Mr, Brown’s majority would be
over 100 , 000 . In that table the re¬
turns from the counties of Bartow,
Berrien, Hancock, Jenkins, Miller and
Towns were estimated, as the consol¬
figures fron; these counties had
not been reported. The official fig¬
ures have now been secured from ev
county. Those formerly missing
appear below;
County, Brown. Carter,
Bartow........ ,. 1,006 285 •
.. ........ 685 27
620 4 [
^'” 8 * ......... 5 1
ivrn uer 3Ga IK
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wns •;.•••••••• 2 j
counties in table ..113,55^ 12,412 j
Grand total......116,801 12,719
.. . . .... 12,749
Brown’s majority ..104,05^
run through the counties of Lowndes,
Brooks and Colquitt. Its building is
practically assured, and the inccrpo
| rators state that the work will begin
immediately after a charter is secured
! probably within sixty days ’
The nM turn n
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business A- A.™*.*, succ^”Ini‘ farmer^and
man of Washington “I kent
pretty close account of expenses and
labor and I am certain that the 800
bushels did not cost me over $65 ”
Besides having been produced at tlie
remarkably low cost of 8 cents per
bushel, the corn which Mr Almand e^
spoke of was as large and fine in
ery particular as the'best bottom land
Of the state canproduce
Warren A. Harrison has been ap
pointed rural carrier and W. T.
Chamblee substitute route 5 at Cum
ming, Ga.
When the Macon Voluteers, Hus
sars and Floyd Rifles are inspected by
Major Palmer a new method of grad
in g the national guards will be adopt
ed. News has been received companies in Ma
con that in the future the
will be graded according to the a ver
age attendance throughout the year,
the conditions existing about the ar
mory, in both the officers’ quarters
and locker rooms, the condition of the
uniforms and guns, and also the at¬
tendance on the night of inspection.
James M. Johnson has been appoint¬
ed postmaster at Winchester, Macon
county, vice A. M. Brown, resigned,
Rural carriers appointed for Atlanta
loutes; Attapaha, routes 2 and 3,
Erastus T. Shockley, carrier; Lonnie
J- Gay, sub; Milltown, route 3 , Thom
as Howard, carrier; John C. Harvell,
in the Brunswick city election Mr.
Hopkins was re-elected as nravorover
Captain Tote Newman by a large ma
jority. Aldermen were selected as
follows; First ward, W. R. Cox- sec
ond ward, L. G. Goldsmith; third ward
M. A. Baker; fourth ward, J. H. Leo.
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
Sherman Thomas, white, aged 24,
was arrested at Rome on a warrant
sworn out by Southern railway detec¬
tives, charging murder, it being alleg¬
ed that he deliberaiely wrecked the
northbound freight on the morning of
October 23, which resulted in tho
death of Engineer Charles F. Pease
and Fireman Watts of Atlanta.
Cleaning day under the auspices cf
the Civic Improvement Club was gen¬
erously responded to at Bainbridge.
The officers of the Civic Improvement
Club feel greatly encouraged, and
they assert that no diseases will show
up in this city which cleanliness can
subdue. From mansion to hut the re¬
sponse for “cleaning-up day’’ has been
uniformly respected. Notice from the
Civic Improvement Club that cleanli¬
ness of premises was desired met with
bonfires from city limit to city hall.
The biggest fire in the history of
Xorcross occurred in the freight de¬
partment of the Southern depot. The
depot was completely destroyed, to¬
gether with a large amount of freight
and over three hundred bales of cot¬
ton. There were about five hundred
bales of cotton on the platform. Citi¬
zens helped to save a portion of the
cotton. Three freight, cars were burn¬
ed. There were eight freight cars on
the sidetracks. The citizens pushed
five of them away and saved them.
The loss, which falls almost entirely
on the Southern Railway is about $50,
000 .
Mr. and Mrs. Landon A. Thomas, re¬
siding on the Sand Hills, a suburb of
Augusta, have received a telegram
from President-elect William Howard
Taft, accepting an invitation to be¬
come their guest. Mr. Taft and fam¬
ily will arrive in Augusta December
18. For the first few days they will
be entertained at the Thomas home.
Mr. Taft will personally select one of
The Hill cottages that has been offer¬
ed him. He and his family will take
their meals at the Winter Resort Ho¬
tel on the Hill, near the cottages. Wil¬
liam H. Taft, Jr., and Miss Helen Taft
will join the family during the holi¬
days. Mr. Thomas is a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Augusta, being pres¬
ident of the Jno. P. King Manufactur¬
ing Company, one of the largest cot¬
ton mills in the south. He and Mrs.
Thomas entertain elegantly. Their
home Is one of the most exquisite
on the Hill. The cottage, which Mr.
Taft will likely select is a very short
distance from the leading hotel.
St. Paul's Church, Atlanta, was chos¬
en as the meeting place for the North
Georgia Confertnce next year by the
delegates of the conference in session
at Gainesville. The contest for this
distinction was spirited, and several
short and witty speeches were made.
Seventy seven votes were cast for
Madison, and 116 for St, Paul’s. Dal¬
ton withdrew and Roy, R, A. Edniond
son moved to make it unanimous for
the Atlanta church.
The current rumor that Tallulah
Falls is to be absorbed by a financial
syndicate and devoted to manufactur¬
ing purposes has been the cause of
renewed activity in the effort to stir
up such popular interest in the mat¬
ter as to cause either the state or the
federal government to acquire the
property and make it a park or simi¬
lar reservation.
On the 29th will be celebrated at
the home of his grandfather, J. R. Lee,
at Redan, the first birthday of a re¬
markable baby. The child, notwith¬
standing the fact that he is not yet
a year old, is both walking and talk¬
ing. He first began to talk when he
was only is*Theodore five months of age. His
name Lee Wilkinson, be
lng named for President Roosevelt
and mother's family. His father, R.
A. Wilkinson, is a well known young
farmer, who lives about five mile 3
from this place.
The state of Georgia will soon be
gin litigation to compel the lessees of
the Western and Atlantic railroad to
pay an income tax to the state.
Valdosta and Jacksonville have
made application for a charter for the
Valdosta, Moultrie and Western rail¬
road, a new linp to be b> fit from Val¬
dosta wili be to Moultrie. The new roaif