The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-11-29

For one bin stretching three thous-
and miles long filled with barrels of APP
pies, Jonathan and Spitzenburg and
golden pippin; with pear and plum and
peach, with grapes and nuts, with all
the preserved richness of raspberry
and strawberry, and the ruddy vegeta-
bles-potatoe and beet, carrot, celery
and turnip; the pumpkin and the
squash.
For abundant rains, that have filed
the rivers, fed the water springs and
reservoirs, and rejoiced the cattle up
on thousand hills.
For the comforts and conveniences
for the home and freside that have
brought universal happiness to cottage
and hamlet and mansion.
For the match, that has brought the
fire of Prometheus down from heaven
and given warmth for cold and comfort
for distress.
For stoves and coal, instead of the
house blackened with SCOT, and meal
cooked with freshly cut chips from the
trees.
For the cable, that has brought for
eign capital near, anchoring London
just outside Sandy Hook, and making
Bombay the second turn on the left,
just around the corner.
For these steel tracks, that have
brought US fruits from the sunny
south, furs from the frozen north, with
rice and sugar and coal, and made the
people of the snow and the winter to
enjoy the fruits of the tropics.
For the reaper, instea of the sickle,
furnishing bread to the world.
For the looms, that enable one mar
in one year to clothe thousand mer
against the rain of summer and the
SHOWS of winter.
For the triphammer, that has multi
piled the stroke of mans arm; and the
locomotive, that has heightened the
stride of his foot, and the tools, thai
have FASTENED the movement of his fin
gers.
For the telephone, that has halved
mans labor and brought distant &C.
quaintances near.
For the X-ray, that has made the
body transparent to surgeons and ply
sicians.
For anaesthetics, that have lesseneG
pain, robbed surgery of its terrors anG
relieved sufferers Of their agony.
For the lessening of class hatred anG
the return of the spirit of good will.
For the announcement that never
have there been so few children work
ing in store and shop, or so large {
proportion in the school room.
6 For the fact that all the paths tina
lead to Office and honor and wealth are
now open to all poor boys.
That to the four desirable vocationt
called the professions have now beer
added forty more that offers splendid
prizes to young men who are fitted fol
the task.
For the lessening of drunkenness il
our country.
For the new enthusiasm in municip
al reform
For the enormous gifts this yeai
poured .out to college, library and
church and social reforms.
For the strengthening of the home
and of the family ties, and the increa-s
ing movement against easy divorce.
For the increasing honor and dignity
that attaches to the Republic.
For the press, sowing the whole lane
with the good seed of wisdom ant
knowledge; for books and magazines
that have exalted the Imagination while
they have inspired the intellect.
For the return of the tides of faith il
the church and the decline of infidelity
For the lessening of pessimism anC
the increase of joys in life.
For the fact that the whole trend il
up grade instead of down grade; tina
the gains are universal and immeasur
able.
Never were the reasons for thanks
giving 50 many or so weighty. 0uI
people are justified in looking forward
I to golden era, when all Young hearts
shall be turned toward school anC
church, when all feet will be sandalet
/ for long upward march along tn,
paths Of happiness and peare. Thank
fall to day for barns OVERLOOKING will
grain, for stores overlooking with