New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-12-04
THANKSGIVING. !.
BY REV. JOHN HALL, D. D., n. 7.
Going to church, to-day, Fred e"

dolng 70 cnurcn, To-Day, FREQ
well, I hardly know. | guess not.
You will have to do the thanksgiving for
the family. havn't much to say IN the
line of thanksgiving
"Then come, Fred, and join in the
-supplications. I have ever so much to
be thankful for. All my stocks have
kept up, Fred"
i'm glad to hear it. It is more than
I can say of mine. But I'd like to know
your investments"
"Well, Fred.-I have you, and I put
that down at half million; I don't say
that stock is going up. On the contrary,
it is depressed little to-day; but with
out reason, Fred. It will come up again.
And I have the children; put them down
at hundred thousand each, and they are
appreciating isn't that the word p
every month. So am thankful
eyes, Bessie! You're like the fellow
who could make no showing to the man
he wanted for father-in-law He consult
ed lawyer. That astute gentleman ask
cd him would he take $4,000 for his
nose. He said, no. Well, then, said the
lawyer, you can tell him you have de-
clined $4,000 for what you have. The
trouble is with you, and the man with
the nose-you cannot reallze-may trouble
exactly"
The foregoing conversation occurred in
the well-furnished apartment OF Mr.. and
Mrs Frederick Sibley, on the morning of
that Thursday which the President Of the
United States and the Governor of the
State had designated for nsslonaL. APP
proach to Gods throne, with grateful &C
acknowledgements of Divine goodness
through the year. Of course, there was
to be service in church, and the Rev. H.
Carpenter sensible clergyman would
preach as usual.
Mr.. Sibley was in business, and lived
at the rate of about fifteen thousand a
year, which dill not seem excessive in
what he called "good times. ,; But the
''good times" dated prior to 1878, and
ran into the war-days when the nation
was pouring out blood and treasure,
and he was heaping up bonds and stocks,
varying his plans by an occasional piece
of property" These pieces would not
go off at their expected prices, the
scale having been mentally set during the
good times, and they would not STAY
without costing a good deal. At the
same time many of the bonds and stocks
were declining, and Mr.. Sibley feltleen-
ly that he was making no money. This
was the understood ground Of his hest
tation about his Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Sibley is wise woman. She
rorn1 - with hor l,o,o lorl a,.J
never lectured him. If he ever took the
role of Jobs wife and spoke foolishly she
looked little sorry, and she always said
and did the right thing herself, but so
quietly and unconsciously that no one
could see the label in big letters on her
bosom, :'BehOld in me model wife and
superior Christian''
The dressing was finished. and 90 one
could have detected in Mr. Sibley's attire
could have detected in Mr.. Slbley's attire
or comforts any indication Of Strengthened
circumstances. Mrs. SipIey apologized
for leaving the table little early, as she
had to see about Jane, who used to be
cook, and who, poor thing! was without
a place, in failing health, and with a pro-
vision for old age, amounting to JUST fifty
four dollars in the Savings Bank. Mr..
Sibley knew that, for at his wife's request
he selected the bank, and got the book
written up. The mail brought letters
from Harry at college, full of regret that
| it was too far to come home, inquiring il
a piece Of the turkey could not be sent tc
MIN. and full Of the dignitied gravity
common among happy fellows a,
college. Lille Sibley, who thought he1
brother Harry an eminent genius and the
best boy in the State. read this letter
aloud, and emphasized the good point:
admirably. There was indeed one sac
communication, announcing the death O
poor Miss Johnson, who had been Lilies
governess, and who supported helples.
and penniless mother. Mr.. Sibley wa:
not selfish man. He said quietly, eve
must look after the poor girls mother
and Mrs. Sibley's face took on look O
approving tenderness, but she said moth
ing.
By and by there was a ring ana con
fused noise in the hall of questions thai
| got no answer, and laughter, and extreme.
~ loud and ostent; tious kissing-no
silent remote touches of the lips to some
exposed facial surface-but downright
old fashioned kissing. It was Fred
young Fred. slbly-and his wife. They
had come in to see father and mother
as there was no office that day, and i
was on the way to church. They chatte6
and laughed, and made it plain tha
whether they thought of it or not, they
had much for which to give thanks
Mr.. Sibley listened, and talked, anc
frightened; he seemed to be looking a.
things through these young eyes. And
when church time came. he was found