OOOOOOOOOCXDOCOOOOOOOOOOOOO 3 AThanksgiving a Code—=§ By JESSIE LLEWELLYN 8 THEY stood at a high mansard window and looked out through the tops of bare branches. The stars and the street lights blinked at each other across the cold, blue dis tances. All of human history seemed .marching, ghostlike, through the pale night. "This is Thanksgiving," she said. "Is it, yes?" he asked, irrelevantly. "What a little question in such a big world," she replied evasively, and then, "Thanksgiving! 1 wonder if •everyone nowadays is not more re sentful for what he has not than •thankful far what he has?" Her mood did not please him, be cause it did not include him, for it is rude to be impersonal when alone with one man. She leaned out over the window ledge and drew a long breath: "On a still, cold night like this events of the past seem near—just on the other side of the darkness. I was thinking of the thanksgivings of Miles Stand ish and Priscilla and the others. How little tbey had to be grateful for, and .yet how religiously great in their thankfulness." He had not called to speak of the pilgrim fathers, and so he remarked, somewhat rudely: "I was not aware that you were an ultra religionist." She answered absently, groping her hand along the window sill. "Ah, you mean lighted candles and contribution boxes. It is the courageous faith of our ancestors that thrills one with its dauntlessness. Think of those well-born ladies and gentlemen be come pioneers in a wilderness in 67 short days. After drought and fam ine and visitations from adventurers they could still assemble to worship and to pray on days set aside for giv ing thanks. I believe their prayers were answered —even personally. As for us—we of the twentieth century— we are precious careful not to pray for anything we have not the cash to pay for." "All we owe the pilgrims," he said, being compelled to follow her conver sational lean, "is a vote of thanks for their generosity in the matter of an cestors. Almost anyone in the blue book can now afford at least two fore fathers who came over in the May flower. But to return—you were about to answer my question. Is—" "I can see them now," she inter rupted, "with their broad hats and swords buckled at their sides, and —" uncertain in further details she swift ly oegan again: "How little pleasure they gave themselves! Imagine grown 'THIS 13 THANKSGIVING." SHE SAID, j men in ye olden Plymouth playing I football of a Thanks day! They would have had their offending feet stuck through a pillory in no time!" "Instead of legs done up in surgical splints—wooden customs both!" He refused to be serious. She felt without seeing that he was approaching the window again. The pilgrims wouldn't hold out much longer, owing to her uncertain his torical data. Was William Penn the first governor of the colony? Or was Cotten Mather? She must say some thing, or that inevitable question, and If she were to say 'yes' to this frivol ous person, what should she say to the new Presbyterian minister of the red brick church?" "Is it yes—dear?" There was a very personal note in the voice this time, and a hand was ominously near her own on the window ledge. "If —if you were more serious about things," she began, unsteadily. "Ke ligious things, like Thanksgiving, for instance, if you had a belief or a code or something I could believe in you more—don't you see. Everyone says—" Evidently he saw something which pleased him, for there was an expan sive smile on his face. Suddenly he struck an attitude. "How would a code of thanks meet with your approval, just owing to the day—" "I don't believe you were ever thankful for anything." "My dear young woman, no divine •was ever more so. I am thankful for —for the great commonwealth in ■which we live, with its waving fields ■of—of—" "Hay," she suggested. "I was about to say onions." he •corrected. "And its greater states men—yes, with its statesmen ever greater than its onion fields, possessed as they are of nothing but loV for the wage earner—during presidential campaigns. "I am thankful that in these United I States there avo—are noble reformers j — who find it possible to reap wealth by denouncing it —thereby proving the j possibilities of American statesman | ship." "What are you talking about?" "Proving myself eligible to ask a simple question. 1 am thankful for the female brains which discuss the ques tion: 'Shall women propose?' occupy ing themselves with the discussion they do not propose. "I am thankful that we do not live in the days of Puritanism, otherwise THE MINISTER SAW NOTHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR. a certain girl in a certain window would have been burned for a witch dead certain. "I am thankful that said girl"—he lowered his voice in a telling way—"is going to say—" "Yes," she finished softly. And the Presbyterian minister of the red brick church saw nothing whatever for which to be thankful on the day "set apart and appointed." Spirit o£ Thanksgiving "It Is More Blessed to Give Than to Receive." *>« ** | rvs HILOSOPHERS and philanthro \Js pists not only indorse the famil il iar and beloved aphorism, "It la more blessed to give than to receive," but go a step further and claim that the capacity to receive is absolutely depend ent on a capacity to spend; that to main tain a receptive attitude towards all the good and enjoyable things of this world, one must spend. The same truth is ex pressed again in the statement, "He that loseth his life shall find it." We have come to interpret this paradox as mean ing that true happiness is attained only when the seeker gets as far from his own personality as possible and inter ests himself in the life of the world or of the individuals around him. In pro portion as we give spontaneously will we receive freely. The gift need not al ways be tangible and material; it may be the more valuable because of its spir itual quality, but into whatever we be stow some part of ourselves should en ter. As Lowell puts It: " 'Tlx not what we give, but what we share. For the gift without the giver is bare." Thanksgiving Is the festival of the family and for that reason is a sad anni versary to the exiles from home, or to those who, lacking home ties, are alone in the world. It offers an especial occa sion therefore for the bestowal of hap piness. There is a certain embarrass ment about inviting the stranger to a Christmas feast because custom calls for an exchange of gifts, but no such obli gation rests upon the Thanksgiving guest and the poorest may accept with out loss of dignity or pride. The Farm ers' Voice is right—unless we can truly feel that we have occasion to rejoice over our own or some one else's good fortune, we would do better not to mock honest sentiment by going through the form of an observation of the day; but if the Thanksgiving spirit is ours, wherever It is possible let us take down the bars of consanguinity and open our hearts to the family of the world, instead of spreading the spiritual and material feast for "me and my wife, my son John and his wife; us four and no more." Prepared. Mrs. Todds—Good heavens, John! You're not going to dinner in that sweater? Mr. Todds —Yes, my dear. The land lady told me last night that she was go ing to call on me to carve the turkey.— Judge. CAUSE FOR GRIEF. "Why dost thou weep, poor child?" "Papa's gone and turned vegetarian just before Thanksgiving day."—N. Y, Evening Journal. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1904. WHAT HE COT THEM WITH No Ailments In the Crowd, But ths Fakir Had Something That Sold Quickly. "Gentlemen," began the fakir an h» ar ranged numerous bottles on a little table at a downtown street corner and prepared for business, "has anyone in this crowd got a toothache?" No one answered, relatea the Chicago Inter Ocean. "Has anyone an earache or * head ache?" Not a man had anything to any. "Very well, then; but are you troubled with insomnia? Are you low gpiiited, and do you lind yourself thinking of sui cide?" Ihe appeal was like the other—in vain. The crowd elbowed each other, but no one advanced. "Very well, gentlemen; rery well. Now, ia there anyone here who indulges in in toxicants and wishes to conceal the fact from the women folks? If so, 1 guaran tee that one drop of thia marvelous preparation placed on the tongue will in stantly remove the odor of any—" There was a mad rush from all direc tions, and for the next five minute** he gave change and passed out the bottles with both hands. RIGHT ON HER DIGNITY. American Heiress Had Inherited Just as Easy Money as Any body. "I understand," aaid the dignified English matron, "that your father mad* his money in—in trade. "What do you mean?" asked the Amer ican heiress. "That he amnsßed-hia wealth by buying and selling commodities that the common people needed." "lie did nothing of the sort!" retorted the ansjry heiress, relates Judge. "I want you to understand that papa did not work a lick for a cent of his. ll* made it every bit by skinning people with watered stocks. 1 guess that's just aa easv money as the kind that you lnhtrit. isn tit?" Rewards and Penalties. "It is difficult for people to get what thev really deserve in this life. 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