Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-25
GRATITUDE AND GoBBLERs.

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tus, an / were people less disposed to
credit all their good fortune u them
selves and all their illior,une to some
outside agency, there would be less oc-
casion than there now Is for designating
one day in the year as Il day whereon
there should be a general giving ot
thanks. But oia,l
Emotions ofthe Human Heart
there is probably not one more difficult
To arouse, or more thansitory in its ma
ture, than gratitude. Even the favors
done 10 one from whom favors have
been received are more apt to be the
grudying acknowledgements OF claims
which cannot be ignored, or the gener-
Gus expressions OF warm friendship,
than an admission OF obligation. Thus.
there is a sort OF necessity that Especial
effort should be made at leSst once a
year TO feel grateful.
Whether the sentiment OF gratitude
Would Become Extinct
were the observance OF Thanksgiving
dav 10 cease, is a problem on which the
philosophers have spent much time
without coming to an agreement. u
cero held the affirmative Cf this ques-
ton. and in his essay, "De Senectute,
or Concerning My Tutor Seneca, oc-
serves that the neglect of the PontlleX
Maximus Tor several wears to issue the
usual Thanksgiving proclamation had
resulted in the neglect Of the day, AMI
an habitual ingratitude on the rart "t
the people. which was evinced IN Their
,eiussl to elect him Consul Gen.
,ral at Rome for
AThird Term.
But Seneca did not hold the views oi his
pnpil. With that firm faith in the con
slant influence on human beings oil the
Great Spirit which has always charac-
,eriz.d the Senecas, some of whom stu
surylye IN the vicinity OF Rome, y. u,
this great philosopher held that graft
tude was innate aud ineradicable IRON
the soul, and that, although like the
soul of which il fOrmel a part, 1t was
rarely visible to the naked eye, YET u
meyer ceased To exist. socrates, whiie
mo-, perfectly clear on this point, seems
,o nave agreed with Cicero, Tor In one
of his less known dialogues with fiho
he inuuires Low il is that the fiesh oil
the turkey. in which the most eminent
microscoplsts Of Athens had failei To
Iisroyer \ trace oi gratitude, could pre-
duce yra,itu le in man, more particular
ly Ii eaten with the
stewsd B.rries Of the Gran,
a plsnt which NAV still be seen IN the
marshes of Cape Cod. Plato was unable
20 answer the question. The Neo'Pla-
ionic school OF philosophers have & ,ner-
siIv belieyed that Socrates held as hrm-
Iv 10 the doctrine that the flesh OF fowls.
esnecially the turkey, was the cause oil
or,titudt. as Gov. Eudicott, OF Massa-
ehusetts. did, and that he desired
Cock to be Killed
ior his family physician because he had
NO, the means of sending him turkey.
This is rendered the more probable py
the fact that, according to tablets iounu
i'm the ruins OF the acropols, goou tur-
kew was worth, about the time that SOC
rates unfortunately drank himseh 10
death. not less than three drachmae'
price far beyond the reach oil man 50
Door as Socrates VIGOROUSLY was.
Galen brought to the solution OF this
problem his profound knowledge ot
snatomy, moIiaa mediea and histology,
and his theory was that while neither
the human stomach nor the flesh OF the
turkey contained any trace OF gratitude,
that gratitude resulted from
Bringing the Two Together.
His experiments were conducted, not
only with the turkey but with other
fowls, aud it is interesting to know that
even when he placed some OF the tough
aesh of q very aged rooster within
human stomach he obtained gratitude
bnt in very small quantities,
and only when the stomach had been
entirely empty for some days.
The practice OF observing Thanks