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m BY NEWELL DWIGHT H1LL1S,
Ptjtor of Plymtouth Ckttrvh
Now that 282 years have passed,
Thanksgiving has become our first
American holiday. It is essentially
the feast of the family. It celebrates
the home and sings the fireside joys.
The day really celebrates a deliver¬
ance from danger. The summer of
1623 was unfriendly and the har¬
vests failed. The Indian hunters re¬
treated Into the forest, food and
game were scarce, and with terror
the Pilgrim fathers looked forward
to the winter and possible starvation
and death. In their hour of extrem¬
ity the minister announced that on
the last Thursday of November there
would be a day of fasting and prayer
on which they would commend them¬
selves and their enterprise unto God.
But scarcely had they reached the
cabin where the service was to be
held than the sentinel shouted the
announcement that a ship with
weather-beaten sails and blackened
sides was entering the harbor. The
good ship brought food against the
winter, seed against the spring,
friends and helpers against the ene¬
my. Delirious with joy, the Pil¬
grims came together a second time
for thanksgiving, and so this day was
born—this day celebrating the festi¬
val of the family. Ours Is the only
nation in the world that by a happy
holiday glorifies tho home as the first
of America’s Institutions.
If other years have furnished
grounds for gratitude, this year gives
them by way of pre-eminence.
Let us be thankful—
For four.bins stretching across the
continent from ocean to ocean filled
with wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye,
timothy, clover, alfalfa, cotton
sheaves ripened for the hunger of
herd and flock, and above all, food
for man.
For one bin stretching three thou¬
sand miles long filled with barrels of
apples, Jonathan and Spitzenberg
and golden pippin; with pear and
plnm and peach, with grapes and
nuts, with all the preserved richness
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of raspberry and strawberry, and tho
ruddy vegetables-—potato and beet,
carrot, celery and turnip; the pump¬
kin and the squash.
For abundant rains, that have
filled tho rivers, fed the water springs
and reservoirs, and rejoiced the cat¬
tle upon a thousand hills.
For the comforts and conveniences
for tho home and fireside that have
brought universal happiness to cot¬
tage and hamlet and mansion.
For the match, that has brought
the fire of Prometheus down from
heaven an 1 given warmth for cold
and comfort for distress.
For stoves aud coal, instead of the
house blackened with soot, and a
meal cooked with freshly cut chips
’from the tree.
For the cable, that has brought
foreign capitals near, anchoring Lon¬
don just outside Sandy Hook, and
making Bombay the second turn on
tho left, just around the corner.
For these steel tracks, that have
brought us fruits from the sunny
South, furs from the frozen North,
with rice and sugar and coal, and
made the people of the mow and the
winter to enjoy the fruits of the
tropics.
For the reaper, instead of the sic¬
kle, furnishing bread to the wor.d.
For the looms, that enable one
man in one year to clothe a thousand
m°n against the rains of summer
the snows of winter.
For the trip hammer, that has
tiplied the stroke of man’s arm; aud
the locomotive, that has
the stride of his foot; aud the
that have hastened the movement
his fingers.
For the spectroscope, that
made us at home in foreign planets.
For the telephone, that has
man's labor aud brought distant
tual. tances near.
For the X-ray, that has made
body transparent to surgeons
physicians. that have
For anaesthetics,
ened pain, robbed surgery of its
rors and relieved sufferers of
agony- that
For photography,
for uc the faces of our departed
For the lessening of class
and the return of the sp.rit of
will.
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For the announcement that never
there „een so few children
in store and shop, or sp
a proportion in the school¬
For the fact that all the paths that
to office and honor and wealth
now open to all poor boys.
That to the four desirable voca¬
called the profesions have now
added forty more that offer
prizes to young men who
fitted for the task.
For the lessening of drunkenness
our country.
For the new enthusiasm in mu¬
reform.
For the enormous gifts this year
out for college, library and
and social reform.
For the strengthening of the home
of the family ties, and the in¬
movement against easy di¬
.’’or the increasing honor and dig¬
that attaches to the Republic.
For the press, sowing the whole
with the good seed of wisdom
THANKSGIVING DAY.
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and knowledge; for books and mag¬
azines, that have exalted the Imagin¬
ation while they have Inspired the
intellect.
For the return of the tides of
faith in the church and tho decline
of infidelity.
For the lessening of pessimism and
tho increase of joy in life.
For the fact that the whole trend
Is up grade instead of down grade;
that the gains are universal and im¬
measurable.
Never .vere the reasons for
Thanksgiving so many or so weighty.
Our people are justified in looking
forward to a golden era, when all
young hearts shall be turned toward
school and church, when all feet will
be sr.ndalled for a long upward march
along the paths of happiness and
peace. Thankful to-day for barns
overflowing with grain, for stores
overflowing with goods, for stuffed
shocks and shelves, for homes over¬
flowing with happiness, on which
God’r holiest sunlight falls; thankful
for laws that are just, for liberty that
is universal, for new and lustrous
forms of oeauty and of truth, let us
be chieuy thankful for God's un¬
speakable gift »n the Christ, who
brought immortality to light and
who, having redeemed the world from
sin and vice, goes on to plant a great,
sweet hope within the heart and
points all those who on Thanksgiving
Day front an empty chair—points
them, 1 say, upward, where there are
other r'ufisions and the Father's
House, and where, on a new Thanks¬
giving Day, the *amlly circle shall be
reunited imidst scenes of unwonted
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THANKSGIVING HYMN.
Lord of the years! To Thee we bring
The tribute of our praise,
For happy memories of the past
And hopes for coming days.
Fair bend the sunnv autumn skies;
And nature, freed from toil,
With smiling eyes and generous bands
Pours out her wine and oil.
She paints her autumn sunset clouds
With tints of gold and rose;
And lends the year her brightest flowers
To crown its peaceful close.
On busy mart and harvest-field
There rests a Sabbath calm.
As in Thy glad temple-courts Thanksgiving we lift
Our psalm.
To Thee, O Lord! our harvest hymn
With With grateful glowing memories hearts we of raise; the
And hope for future days! past
—Irving Allen, in Pilot.
Arrangement of the Table.
In arranging tho
do not, in the name of common
go to tho absurdity of using
decorations, which really have
raison d'etre on any table. The
damask cloth or the polished
or oak needs no such fic¬
and unmeaning frivols r.s
and loops of ribbon. If flow¬
arc used, golden chrysanthe¬
dark red asters or spikes of
: alvia—gifts of the late :.u
always appropriate. Pos¬
some one has brought home
of bittersweet or branches of
barberry from the latest out¬
If so, well aud good. Fruit al¬
makes an effective centre for
Thanksgiving table, and one truer
to tradition than flowers; not
oranges, nor yet California grapes in
this climate, but apples, red and yel¬
low, burnished until cme can see her
reflection in them; yellow-brown
pears, and the rich purple, pink or
green Niagara grapes. Arrange the
fruit on a low glass or silver dish,
placing a reflector under it, if
dian «* basket *> •» *?»W or a half pumpkin
or jar
hollowed out and lined with oiled
paper, all make pretty and appro
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fruit with an eye to the color effect,
and this, with the scarlet of the rad¬
ishes or deeper red of the cranberry,
the crisp green and white or the cel
ery and rich brown of the turkey,
will give all the color necessary. If
dinner is served in the early after
uoou, no artificial light will be need
ed. If lights must be used, caudles
are the best means of lighting, as
they do not vitia' ; the
of the >cm.
The tea gardens of Northern India
extend over r>tMi.099 acres, and they
produce 190.090.‘!0>! pounds of : a
per annul, at a profit of about $100
an acre.
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The Home Festival.
Thanksgiving Day is one of those
home festivals whoso popularity will
never wane while American women
love their homes, It is the great
family festival of the year, It bears
no resemblance to the Harvest Home
festivals of England, which were cel¬
ebrated with rout and riot and in
public places. While Thanksgiving
Day is recognized and appointed by
public proclamation, it is in no sense
a public day. It is never celebrated
by public processions like the Fourth
of July* There is nothing to break
the Sabbath-like peace of the day
except the occasional parties of juve¬
nile mummers in some cities.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
November’s fields . ■ brown and sere;
November's winds are bleak and drear;
The thin ice covers lake and mere
Thanksgiving Day.
The sluggish brooklet lonely creeps;
L^ier'li^d'lealU'flw'vmlftsleeps Thanksgiving Day.
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'p 0 Southland bent the wild birds fly
Thanksgiving Day.
p 0 Hi m who b-.n and barn hath ttored
Thanksgiving Dav.
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x ur ns back in home yearning and mother's memory
To love and knee
I hanksgiving Day.
() d and Father of us all,
Who marks and mourns the sparrow's tall.
Each homesick wanderer homeward call
Thanksgiving Day.
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NEW STATE CAPITOE.
Recently Dedicated by President
Roosevelt at Harrisburg, Pa.
Adequately to describe the new
State Capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., one
has to use superlatives. The world
has been ransacked and no money
spared to make the building beauti¬
ful. The thousands present at the
dedication by President Roosevelt on
October 4 saw a structure that, for
magnificence and artistic adornment,
has few equals in this country.
The length of the building is 525
feet, its breadth 254 feet. The
height from the ground floor to the
top of the allegorical figure sur
mounting the dome is 292 feet. The
area of the building is .86,275 square
feet, or 2000 square feet, larger than
St. Paul's Cathedral, in London. In
its construction 40,000 separate
piece3 of granite were used, weigh¬
ing from one to thirty-five tons each.
There are thirty-two monoliths in the
structure, weighing thirty-five tons
each. A total of more than 400,000
cubic feet of granite was used on the
exterior of the building alone. The
building covers a trifle more thaD
two acres of ground, and if a man
walked around the completed struct
ure, following all the embrasures and
offsets, he would go'half a mile be¬
fore reaching his starting point. The
weight of the dome is 52,000,000
pounds. The entirexost of the struc¬
ture and its furniture is over ?12,
000,000.
Architecturally described, the Cap
itol consists of a main building, with
imposing facades and two wings. One
enters by a flight of wide stone steps
through the bronze doors to the ro
tunda. Opposite the entrance is a
broad marble staircase, with elabor
ate balustrades and massive electric
light fixtures of bronze. Overhead
is the dome, 280 feet above the tiled
floor. Done in gold, cream and rob
in's egg blue, the dome displays a
wealth of color, softened by the light
that finds its way through amber coi
ored windows. By an arrangement
of electric lights the effect of the
c mbination of colors is heightened
at night.
On the first floor are the House
and Senate caucus rooms. The corri
dors on this floor are to bo decorated
with paintings by Violet Oakley, John
W. Alexander and W. B. Van Ingen.
The sculptures are by Barnard, The
entrances to the Senate and House
are from the galleries on the second
floor. In the Senate chamber, which
is eighty by ninety-five feet in size,
the colors predominating are green
and gold. From the walls at inter
vals four Doric pilasters, fluted in
gold, rise on each side from a marble
wainscoting. The ceiling is ribbed
into curved recesses, gilded in quaint
designs. Six immense glided chande
liers suspended by massive chains
provide the lights.
Tho House chamber is wainscoted
In marble. The ceiling has a baek
ground of solid blue, with arabesques
wrought in gold. Stained glass vvin
flow’s add to the beauty of this room,
Great care has been taken to iudi
vidualize the decorations and furni¬
ture of each room. The chairs and
desks are made to conform to the
decorations of each department, and
ir. wiil be impossible to take even a
chair from one »jf the rooms and
place it in another room without
marring the harmony.
The Governor's rooms are tho
finest in the Capitol. The Governor's
private office is a room thirty by thir
tv-five feet, wainscoted to r. height of
eleven feet in panelled oak, carved in
rich and costly design. The mantel
is of African marble, the shelf sup
ported by fan caryatides. The recep¬
tion room is also of panelled oak.
The other floors in the main building
and wings are finished inadull Indian
red and marble wainscoting, relieved
at intervals by white Vermont mar¬
ble columns and pilasters. On the
upper floors are the various working
departments of the State government.
The style of architecture is Roman
Corinthian. In its detail the House
is Corinthian, the Senate Doric.
As one looks up to the massive
dome the following inscription catches
the eye:
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The words are by William Penn.
Heard Marriage by Rhone.
At the wedding of Charles Harry,
of Coatesville, and Miss Sarah M.
Black, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Jackson Black, of West Chester, at
the home of the bride's parents, the
mother of the bridegroom was unable
to be present, so a telephone service
was installed.
By this arrangement she sat in her
i home at Coatesville and heard the
words of the ceremony.—Philadel¬
phia Public Ledger.
Forgotten French Toilers.
The weekly day of rest imposed by
the French Government does not ap¬
ply to large classes of workers. In¬
numerable cooks, chambermaids and
maids of all work have written to us
concerning their unhappy fate. Why,
they ask. since the Legislature occu¬
pies itself with bakers and restaurant
employes, with clerks and errand
boys, does it systematically neglect
domestic servants?—Le Petit Pari
sien.
A flower plucked in the morning
continues fresh twice as long as one
plucked later in the day when th*
sun is upon it.
Aii-AJNJlC coast line.
PASSENGER SCHEDULES.
"NOTICE: These arrivals and
partures are given as information,
well as connections with other
panies, but arrivals and
are not guaranteed.”
Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, Gsu,
In Effect May 27th, 1906.
Departures.
For Savannah and points North and
East.
Train No. 58 leaves .. 7:40am
. . ..
Train No, 82 leaves .. ..11:25am
.
' Train No.. leaves
80 .. . ., ..11:20pm
For Way cross and South, west.
No. 89 leaves .. 5:00am
.. ..
No. 85 leaves .. . ..11:30am
No. 21 leaves ... .....4:45am
No. 57 leaves .. .. .. 8:35pm
For Jacksonville and points south
via Short Line.
No. 85 leaves 11:30am
For Fojkston via Short Line.
No. 27 leaves 5:0oain
Arrivals.
From Savannah and North and East.
No. 89 arrives .. 4:55am
No. 85 arrives .. .. 11:15am
No. 21 arrives .. .... 4:40ipiu
>Nio. 57 arrives ., .. . .. 8:30pm
From Jacksonville and points South
via Short Line.
No. 82 arrives .. .. .....11:20am
From Waycross and points South
and West, via Waycross.
No. 58 arrives .. ..7:35am
No. 82 arrives .. ... . ..11:05am
No. 80 arrives ... ..11:15pm
No. 22 arrives .. .... 7:45pm
From Fcikstcn via Short Line.
No. 26 arrives 7:30pm
Nos. 26 and 27 dally except Sunday.
All other trains daily.
Connections made at Port Tampa
with United States mail steamship of
Peninsular and Occidental Steamships
line of Key West and Havana, leavina
Port Tampa Sundays, and Thursdays,
at il.4u n. m.
Fur further information, through
strvxico. trains making local stops
and schedules to other points, racily
TICKET AGENT, JESUP, GA.
h. T. .MORGAN, Traveling Pas¬
senger Agent, Savannah Ga.
■E. M. NORTH, Division Passenger
Agent, Savannah
T. C. WHITE, Gen. Pass. Ac.: . Wil¬
mington, N. C.
W. I. CRAIG, Pifcs. Traffic Mana
~*r. V, ilmingtcn, X. C.
SLAVERS thanked by jury.
Remarkable Verdict Over Kill
ir«g of Asheville Negro Desperedo.
At the inquest held over the body
of Will Harris, alias Bufe Lindsay,
the desperado, who was shot to death
by a posse of officers and citizens,
the coroner's jury at Asheville, N. C. r
returned the following remarkable
verdict:
"The said Will Harris, alias Rufe
Lindsay, came to his death at the
hands of public-spirited citizens who
at the time were in the fearless and
unselfish discharge of a public duty,
that the law might be vindicate ! and
justice administered: that said Wi!I
Harris, alias Rufe Lindsay, at th*^
time of his death was resistin' ar¬
rest and attempting to shoot and kill
fjlf , r ;ti 7C n3. above referred to. 1-011
sistir.r of the posse who were attempt¬
ing under due authority of the law
to affect the capture of the said V- il'.
Haris, alias Rufe Lindsay.
-That the citizens above referred to.
constiuting the posse aforesaid, as
well as others who participated in the?
search and spontaneous efforts to
briti?: to justice this incarnate fiend
r.id savacre desperado, are entitled to
the commendation and thanks of the
whole community.”
GINNING REPORT ISSUED.
Eureau Bulletin Places Bales GT.r.ecf
to 14ih cf November at £,531.43f.
The r.moant of cotton of the crop
of 190S ginned up to November 14. ac¬
cording to a bulletin issued by the
census bureau at Washington Wednes¬
day, wav R.531.486 Inics, coaming
round bales as half ba ; es, as against
7.501,169 la*: year. The number cf
active ginneries is given as 27,581
agains* 2S.3U' last year.
The amount given by states is as
follows: Alabama 5?.i,?7 r >, Arkansas
458,472. Florida 432.481. Georgia 1.7!><>.-
627, Indian Territory 238 242, Kentucky
S33. Louisiana 539.791, Mississippi 789,-
454. Missouri 23.C91, North Carolina
383.356. Oklahoma 243.338. South Car¬
olina 653,375, Tennessee 142,970, Texas
2.982.698. Virginia 7.576.
The number of se? island bales in¬
cluded are 23.133 for 1506. distributed
by state® as follows: 'V-ticia 1^77.
Georgia 12,658, and South Carolina
1,498.
Teller Accused cf Big Shortage.
B. G. Cavagna. receiving teller of
the First National bank. Chicago, was
b nested Wednesday by United States
Marshal Lewis. It is alleged that Ca
vagna is short $33,6€0 in his accounts,
