The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-01

childhood! What with broken tops and torn kites and the trial of losing the best marble and stumping your TOOL against a stone and somebody sticking pin into you to see whether you will jump and examination day, with four or nve wise men loekings over their .spectacies to see if you can parse the 'nrst page an Young's Night Thoughts until verbs propositions get into grand riot worthy of the Fourth ward on election day.
 How things have marvelously changed! We used to cry because we had to go to school Now children cry if they cannot go. Many of them can intelligently dis Cuss political topics long before they have seen ballot box or. leased by some poetic muse, can compose artclss tronomy and chemistry have been so i'm proved that he must be genius at dull ness who knows nothing about them. On one shelf of a poor mans library IS more practical knowledge than in the 100000 volumes of ancient Alexandria, and education is possible for the most indt- gent. and no Legislature or Congress TOT the last fifty years has assembled which has not had in 1t rail splitters and farm CTS and drovers or men who have been accustomed to toiling with the hand and the foot.
 The pen which Moses dipped in the light of the first morning, and Jeremiah filled with tears, and Ezekiel thrust in visions of fire, and Matthew touched with the blood of the cross. and St John dipped in the splendors of beatific glory that pen has wrought marvels for atl classes of our people. Today our libra ries and colleges and schools and pub fishing houses and churches celebrate the ever-growing conquests of the Amer lean pen, and our prospects are all the time brightening.
 Fullness of the Harvest.
 The grainfields have passed their. har- vests above the veto of drought and de- luge. The freight cars are not large enough to bring down the grain to the Eeaboard. The canalboats are crowded with breadstuffs, Hark to thel flushing of the wheat through the great Ghifa gp corn elevators! Hark to the r0lAnk pi the hogsheads of the CincinhAtF pork packers! Enough to eat and at low prices; enough to wear, and or home manufacture If some have. aud some have not, then may God, help those who have to hand over toF those who nave not! Clear the track for the rail trains that rush on bringing the wheat and the cotton and the rice and the barley and the oats and the hops and the lumber and the leather and eVfrything for man and everything for beast!
 right hand, at the glorious prospects. Build larger yo1r barns forth hafvests, dig deeper the Vats for the spoil or the vineyards. enlarge the warehouses TOT the for the pictures and statues. Advance, o nation of Gods right hand. but re- member that national wealth, if unsane- tified, is sumptuous waste-is moral rum, is magnificent woe. Is splendid rotten neSs, is gilded death! Woe to us for the wine vats If drunkennesse wallows In themi Woe to us for the harveSts 1T greed sickles them! Woe to us for the merchandise if avarice swallows 1t! Woe to us for the cities If misrule walks them! Woe to the land if God defyins crime deba uches if! Our only satety lA in more Bibles, more churches, more free schools, more good men and more good women, more consecrated printing presses more of the glorious gospel ol he Son of God, which will yet extirpat all wrongs and introduce all blessedness.
 But the preachers on Thanksgivins morning will not detain with long SC. mons their hearers from the hom sroup. The housekeepers will be angF if the guests do not arrive until tn yiands are cold. Set the chairs to tn table-the easy chairs for grandfathe and grandmother, if they be still aliv the high chair for the youngest, but n. the least. Then put out your hahd .ake the full cup of thanksgiving. LII 1t and bring it toward your lips, you hands trembling with emotion. and 1T th ,halice shall overflow and trickle te irops on the white cloth that cover the table, do not be disturbed put
 t suggest to you the words or th psaimist and lead you thanktutiy L. ,ay. My cup runncth over!
 CCopright, 1901, Louis Klopsch, N. f)
 Brown-It's curious about peoples be liefs They will give entire credence | she most absurd things and put no fat.
 yhatever in the most obvious truths Rlack-Yes. I've noticed it. There, Greene, now. He hasn't the least corn fence in hash; but hell eat all the gre
 ,uets and mince pies you can se' Oe'U'