Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-11-23

streets or our great clJleS udy III anu
day out He pleaded for work. He |
pleaded with starving eyes and parch- |
ed tongue. He lived among human |
brutes who were once men, but who |
had become embruted by hunger and
were wild because they were starving
and could not find work. o my broth
er. on this coming Thanksgiving day
be grateful. Deep down in your heart
be grateful that there is now work,
plenty of work. for all honest. capable
men who are willing to work.
It's been hard times for the country
Under the stripes Of red,
Giving US thorns for roses,
Giving us stones for bread
But they're singing a song of promise
That rings from the wales and hills.
And we're hoping to hear the music
OF the wheels of the grinding mills.
It's been hard times for the country
And never the fault of the soil;
The seed still followed the sunlight
And climbed to the scythe of toll,
And the fields were piled with plenty,
But still by the wales and hills
There was never the song of the turning,
The hum of the turning mills.
Hard, hard times for the country.
But darkness has flown to the past.
Is the song of the seas and the mountains
The answer of God at last?
Yes. at last the day is breaking,
And the lights on the hills and rillS,
And the firm, fair world is, shaking
With the thrOb of the moving mills.
A Nation of Happy Homes.
Another cause for national rejoicing:
We are. as a nation. great collection
Of hor n Low
| our own firesides. The name that is
| most honored in our ears is not that of
| general or prince or king or cardinal,
| but that of father and mother, hus-
| band, wife, brother, sister. son. daugh-
| ter, grandchild. So honored are the
domestic terminologies among us that
| one of the greatest encomiums ever Civ
en- to our martyred president. William
| Mckinley, was that he was a tender,
| loving husband. The best speech he
ever made, the one that touched most
deeply the hearts of his countrymen.
| was not political speech, but the gen.
tie words he uttered to his sick wife.
To her he was never impatient, never
unkind, always the tender and protect
ing lover and friend. Those little lover
like attentions to his invalid spouse
thrilled American hearts because the
American nation is essentially col
lection of loving. happy homes.
OF course in making such a statement
as this we do not affirm that the Amer
lean people are entirely free from do
| nestle scandal and divorce courts, but
we do affirm that, in comparison with
the millions upon millions of happy
American homes. unhappy homes are
the rare exception. And we do affirm
that the longer we live the dearer those
homes become to us day by day. |
know that this fact is true in reference
to myself and my many friends. When
was boy | was sent away to mill
tary boarding school. People said that
l would get homesick when | left my
mother and sisters. Well, that was
true. | did get homesick. But as a
small boy l never got so awfully home
sick in leaving my mother and sisters
as l do now when | have to leave my
| wife and my children. Why, home is
| becoming so precious to me that peOHle
say l am getting foolish and unreason
| able about it. l. myself, not only
| never want to leave home. but | never
| want any of the members of my family
to leave it. If one of my children
gone even for a night there is left
great. big aching void. Is not my his
tory that of almost every one of us
Are we not, one and all. members O.
J happy homes? Shall we not then thanl
? God for the love that CLOVIS around ou
firesides. for our many blessings do
nestle?
r Cause For National Gratitude.
t Another cause for national gratitude
2 Our national solidity and political per
5 petuity This was not always self evi
: dent. When the United States govern
ment was formed there were thousand
of foreign statesmen who derisivel
h shook their heads. These wiseacre
2 said: THAT nation will never be ru
o successfully. No people were ever com
a petent to govern themselves" Blu
9 strange to say. just as the scientifi
i wiseacres argued against the practics
8 bility of Robert Stephenson's locomt
8 tive. and it ran after all. so. after til
O Revolutionary war. the United State
a government ran smoothly and success
# fully. 1t ran in spite of the evil propl
If ecies that kings and princes and Eur
I jean statesmen uttered against it.
If Then came the dark clouds of tt
% ,ivil war. Oh, how dark and ho
x threatening were those clouds! tt
II cannonadings of the most awful a
| nv11f
IT than the roarings of the guns at Wick
IS burg and Gettysburg and Atlanta ar
rs Petersburg The worst flashes of a
t mospheric lightning never blinded Il
s. eyes as badly as did the flames of bur
st Ing homes in the southland or Il
Is sheets of fire leaning out of the ca