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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25

lonely. The power to hear what
natures voices have to say is in our
hearts, not merely in the ear. We
must have tho beauty in our souls be-
fore we can see beauty anywhere
Hence there are many who are really
blind to the loneliness which God has
strewn everywhere, with most lavish
hand, in his works. So we must have
the music in our heart before we can
hear the music which sings every
where for him who has ears to hear.
If We have thanksgiving within us, we
will have no trouble in finding glad
ness wherever we 60. It is a sad and
cherries heart that makes the world
seem dreary to certain people; If only
they will let joy enter to dwell within,
new world would be created for
them. If we allow our heart to cher.
ish unlovingness, bitterness, evil
thoughts or feelings, we cannot hear
the music of love which breathes
everywhere, pouring out from the
heart of God. But if we keep our
heart gentle, patient, lowly, and kind.
on our ears will fall, wherever we go,
sweet strains of divine music.
Then a glad life makes a life of
gladness wherever it goes. 1t leaves
an unbroken lane of sunbeams behind
it. Everybody is better as we'll as hap
pier for meeting one whose Christian
life radiates gladness and cheer. We
can do nothing better either for our
selves or for the world in which we
live than to learn the lesson of praise
and of thanksgiving. LET us learn to
sing unto the Lord with thanksgiv-
ing" There are troubles in every
life, but there are a thousand good
things for one trial. Sometimes we
have disappointments but even these
are really Gods appointments, as
some day We shall find out. If people
are unkind to us, We must go on low
ing just as before, our hearts full of
unconquerable kindness, and it will
finally win. The most deep-seated ten
dency to sadness can be overcome and
replaced by happy cheerfulness. The
gospel of Christ comes to us and tells
US that we must be born again, born
from above, born of God, and our very
nature will be recreated. Then d.
vine grace assures us that it is not
impossible even for the most unholy
life to be transformed into holiness.
The being that is saturated with sin
may be whittier than snow. There is no
nature, therefore, however unhappy
it may be because of its original quail
ity or it's early training, which cannot
through divine help learn the lesson
Of happiness and thanksgiving. The
secret of Christian joy is the peace of
Christ in the heart. Then one is not
dependent upon circumstances or con-
ditions. st. Paul said he had learned
in whatsoever state he was therein to
be content. We know we'll that his
circumstances were not always con-
genial nor easy, but he sang songs in
his prison with as cheerful a heart as
when he was enjoying the hospitality
of loving friend. There might be
hardships, sufferings, and want; but
in himself he had the peace of Christ;
and this sustained him. st. Paurs
secret of contentment is the Chris
tian'S true secret of a haDnv life
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
breath came shorter, the sweat stood

breath came shorter, the sweat stood
thick upon his brow. Darlington grew
cooler after the first flush of passion
consequent upon his slight wound. His
strength grew greater. He pressed
Strathgate harder. But the earl was
not yet done. Nerving himself, sum.
moning all his resolution to his aid.
In series of brilliant onslaughts he
sought to bring to sudden end an af-
fair for which, If It should be much
more prolonged, he knew his strength
would be unequal.
But Darlington met him with .
wrist of steel and blade quicker than
the light itself. How it was done,
no one could see, but after q series of
rapid thrusts and heterogeneous, the
spectators saw Strathgate suddenly
throw up his arms. His blade fell
wavering to the ground. Those who
stared saw two feet of bloody steel
thrusting out from his back. Caring
ton had seized an opportunity and had
lunged with such force and power and
uAOClucSS tuoI lu0 4u1llOuS VI luC u1lL
of his rapier had actually struck the
breast of Strathgate as he ran him
through the right shoulder over his
guard. The thrust just grazed the
lung. Darlington strove to withdraw
his weapon, succeeded partially, when
Strathgate collapsed utterly and
crashed to- the ground, swapping off
the projecting end of the blade behind
his back as he fell upon it.
He strove horribly for q moment to
rise and then settled back biting his
lips to stifle a groan of agony. Car.
rington stood over him with hand up.
raised. Which had the winter face
it would be hard to say.
"Strathgate!" cried my lord, bend.
ing over him.
Harrington" murmured Strathgate
in his agony, fairly wrenching the
words from his lips, you're damned
fool. The woman loves you-not-
mel"
He stopped.
BY this time Blythedale and the doc.
tor were by Strathgate's side. Park
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25

man also woke to action. He ran
to Carrington's side and drew him
back.
"A damned fool" cried my lord
hoarsely, lay, that I've been.'
Parkman said nothing. He fetched
Carrington's coat, waistcoat, sword
and shoes and assisted him to put
them on.
1--WE had best go now. Bernard he
said when Darlington was clothed.
Find out how he is yonder before
We leave" said Darlington, looking
toward the group busted about poor
Strathgate.
Presently Parkman came back with
news.
Hes desperately hurt. Your blade
just grazed the lung"
"Will he pull through"
"Nevinson doesn't know. He hopes
so. God! it was a terrible thrust. !
thought he had you at first. never
saw such play, but, man, you were his
MASTER"
fTN RE CONTINr1Cn>
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
Festival Dear to Americans.

A festival peculiarly dear to Amer
leans is nigh. 1t has been the Of
spring Of the mating of two funda-
mental institutions in our social struc-
ture-the Christian church and the
Christian home. From the pioneer
days of early New England all through
the history Of subsequent pilgrimages
Of New Englanders to remote from.
tier communities and the islands of
the sea it has been day when man
escaped from the just charge of that
basest Of crimes ingratitude - and
when scattered families came to
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
ThankfuIness as a Necessity.

In everything give thanks is not
only righteous demand which God
makes upon us, but, like all his other
commands, it sets before US a neces-
sity of our own nature. For, until We
learn to give thanks in everything
we cannot be properly thankful for
anything, we cannot have full conf
dence in God and cannot love him in
such a way as to enjoy fellowship
with him.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
Sing unto the Lord with Thanksgiving. Psalm 1874

~ THANKSGIVING is one Of
eNYN our highest and hottest
f. y IN duties. There are in the
>cAN Scriptures more COM
S%,SS mands and calls to praise
than to prayer. Yet few
duties are more frequent
ly neglected than this. There are
many people who are always coming
to God with requests but who do not
come to him with thanksgiving after
their requests have been granted. Ten
lepers once cried to Jesus for cleans
Ing, as he was passing them at a dis
lance. He graciously heard them and
granted their plea. When they had
been healed, one of the ten returned
to thank the healer, but the other nine
came not again with any word of rec
ognition of the great favor they had
received. So it is continually-many
are blessed and helped, but few show
gratitude. Our Lord felt keenly the
ingratitude of the lepers who re-
turned not. Where are the nine?" was
his panied question. God pours out
his gifts and blessings every day upon
his children; and whenever no voice
of Thanksgiving is heard in return he
misses it. If one bird of the forest
Is silent in the glad spring day, he
misses it's song. If one human heart
fails to utter it's praise amid life's
countless blessings, he is disap:
pointed.
Many there are who think that II
certain definite days are set apart for
praise 1t is enough. For example,
they will be grateful for a whole day
once In a year, touching then every
chord of praise in their being, think
ing that this is the way God wants
them to show their gratitude. But the
annual Thanksgiving day is not in
tended to gather into itself the thanks
giving for a whole year; rather it is
Intended to give the keynote for all
the years life. LIES true concert
pitch is praise. II we find that we
are below the right pitch, we should
take advantage Of the particular
Thanksgiving seasons to get keyed
up. When the strings OF life begin to
grow discordant thanksgiving will put
US in tune
The ideal life is one of gladness
Unthankfulness and fretfulness are
discords in the song. We have no
right to live gloomily or sadly. Go
where we may, we hear the music of
Joy, unless our ears have become tone
deaf. The world is full of beauty and
full Of music. Yet it is strange how
many people seem neither to see the
loneliness nor hear the music. It
were we'll If many Of us would train
ourselves to see the glory and good
ness Of God, as revealed in nature. It
will be sad to leave this world, after
staying in it three-score or four-score
years without having seen any of the
ten thousand beauties with which God
had adorned it. Consider the lilies."
said Jesus. Every sweet flower has a
message Of joy to him who can read
the writing. One who loves Gods
flowers and birds and trees and noun
tains and rivers and seas, and has
learned to heed the voices which every
where whisper their secrets to him
who understands, can never be sad or
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25

Thanksgiving does not depend on u
special day; any and all times are sea.
sOnable.
Thanksgiving makes a crust sweet:
the want of it, turkey bitter.
Thanksgiving begets more favors for
which to be thankful.
For life and love and health and pelf,
For just the chance to be myself;
For books and food and clothes to wear
For woman's power to do and dare;
For sun and moon, for land and sea,
For what now is and what's to be.
For everything that comes my way,
I'm thankful on Thanksgiving Day.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25

gether to make real in fact what was
ideal In theory-the unity of the fam.
lily circle, parental and filial love fus.
1ng. What was sectional and Puri.
tan and Pilgrim festival is now a ma,
tional one; and Manila will celebrate
it this year with Honolulu, San Juan.
Sitka, as well as Plymouth and
Oberlin.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
Health and COOKING.

Good cooking is rapidly becoming
lost art. They who prepare the
food for the world decide the health of
the world. You have only to go on
some errand amid the hotels of the
United States and Great Britain to an.
preciate the fact that a vast multitude
of the human race are slaughtered by
incompetent cookery. Though young
woman may have taken lessons in
music, and may have taken lessons in
painting, and lessons in astronomy,
she is not we'll educated unless she
has taken lessons in dough.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
Labor and Love.

Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving to
be genuine must embody the Naza,
rene's life, labor and love. The natu.
raj man needs to be educated into
seltless living. self-sacrificing, doing
good to others first, being Loyalty al
truistic; then, and not till then, shall
the world be brought to thankfulnesa
and blessedness.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
7hanksuivino in the Home.

It is eminently proper that there
should be cultivation of the spirit of
thanksgiving in every home. The
home should be considered the first Of
all American institutions. In it are
reared the future useful men and faith.
full women of this nation.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
The American Thanksgiving day is
without doubt the offspring of that

O1ASpIlIl6 VI IudI
f e a S t which in
England is known
as " H arV S t
Home" and in
Scotland is called
Nell Supper
But the giving of
thanks to some
god at the close
of the autumn
season for the
fruits of the earth
is ageless; and
can be traced
back as far as
civilization goes.
In Exodus the Is
raelites are COM
manded to keep
an autumnal feast,
more explicit de-
tails for such a
feast being given
in the Book of
Leviticus. T h e
feast was to last
seven days, and
on the first day
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
Mr., NeI, Peck,

Says Mr.. Hen Peck: 1T is not SUI
prising that troubles never come s!l
ne: they are all IaaExied.s
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
For True Thankfulne..

Ras it occurred to you that tho
double-dtstilled essence Of all thanks.
giving is unselfishness In thousht
word and deed?
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
SYNOPSIS.

The Escapade opens, not in the ro-
nance preceding the marriage of Ellen
Siocum, q Puritan miss. and Lord Car
settling in England. The scene is placed.
just following the revolution, in Caring
ton castle In England. The Carringtons.
tilt, caused by jealousy. The attentions
Of Lord Darlington to Lady Cecily and
lord Strathgate to Lady Darlington COM
ieave the castle. Pre H to flee. Lady Lady
American girl, met Lord stratheate at
away. He Attempted to % take her to his
castle, but she left him stunned in the
road when the carriage met with an ac-
SHE and DSebe then struck out
Ellen.s fight. Lords Darlington. and seton
y set out IN Rursut Seton rented fast
bleeding from fall, dashed on to Ports
mouth, for which Darlington, Ellen and
Seton Seton were e. also headed by different
Elen's ship had sailed before her.
Strathgate and Darlington each hired q
upon WICK eac% 5hs YrSms sn vessel Ssd
sailed. Seton overlook the fugitives near
Portsmouth, but his craft ran aground,
Just as capture was imminent. Ellen won
the chase chase by boarding American vessel
ana toiling her pursuers. Darlington and
wrecking of latter's vessel, engaged in an
lmpromptu duel. neither being hurt A
war vessel. commanded by an admiral
friend of Seton. then started out in pur-
suit. of the women fugitives, Seton con-
Tossing love for Debbie. Flagship Britain
ma overlook the fugitives during the
n agE.in me two women escaped by again
taxing IHI to the sea in a small boat. Lord
Darlington is ordered to sea with his ship
put refuses to go until after meeting
strathgate in duel. They fight in the
grounds of Lord Blythedale's CASTLE
Encounter is watched by Ellen and Deb
hiding.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25

For what Thou dost withhold!
! thank Thee that. howe'er we climb
There yet is something higher,
That though through all our reach Of
time
We to the stars aspire,
Still, still. beyond us burns sublime
The pure sidereal fire!
I thank thee for the voice that sings
To inner depths of being,
For all the upward spread of wings,
From earthly bondage freeing;
Tor mystery-the dream of things
Beyond our power of seeing.
Florence Earle Coates
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-25
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3e6e51E<U

, OW gracious plenty rules the
board.
And in the purse is gold,
By multitudes, in glad &C.
cord,
I Thy giving is eXtolled.
All, suffer me to thank Thee.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-11-06

uate our government as free republic,
governed by the people; but we have
been laboring under wrong impress
sion, and are inclined to think that the
actual wishes, hopes, desires and am
bition of this supposedly free ~ Amer
lean people are for Master-a Mon
arch-a Gar, to rule over them, and
that they welcome with joy the sur
rendering of American Independence
TO the ROOSEVELT DYNASTY with
Teddy, the First, as a starter and Will
liam, the Corpulent, and Nicholas, the
Naughty to follow in regular order.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-11-06
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1908.
The Tax Is Still There.

There's a tender "Reminiscences that is
surging through my soul
AS gaze upon the doughnut with a
thin ring 'rouud the hole;
IT'S memory abiding of the halycon
days of yore
When hollered for protection and
demanded -four years more"
And kept up campaign singing in a
very lusty tone
That just what the country needed
was ''let well enough alone"
Now the captains have departed,
hushed tile loud, tumultuous din
And the dinner pail is empty-but the
tax is on the tin.
Yes, the dinner pail is empty, but the
tax is on the tin;
Aud tax upon my clothing, and the
clothing wearing thin.
There's tax upon the cradle of the
babe Of which I'm proud;
There's tax upon my table-there'll
be one on my shroud.
Yes, cried out for prot elton" till my
throat was raw and hoarse,
And got it, @ l got it-but twas in
the neck, of course.
Yes, the promise was as empty as the
argument was thin,
And the dinner pail is empty-but the
tax is on the tin.
-Four years more" we gladly shouted;
"we'll let well enough alonep'
But the tariff soup was gobbled by the
trusts-we got the bone.
"Workmen must have protection p
was our rising battlecry,
And the tariff barons cheered us AS we
marched so proudly by.
Now the barons have departed to gay
scenes in Paris, France,
And the badge of our protection is the
badge upon our pants,
And We lift the lid aud ponder as we
sadly gaze within
That although the pail is empty, still
the tax is on the tin.
Rockefeller has his millions that he
grabbed through tariff graft;
Carnegie has just as many, and they're
both of them for Taft.
Morgan, Havemeyer, Dupont. and the
whole protection bunch
Live in fatuess while yours truly only
gets hot air for lunch.
Once pail filled to repletion, now a
doughnut with a hole.
And protection" that's as scanty as a
tariff grafters's soul.
D, they fooled us good aud plenty just
as soon as they got in,
For the dinner pail is empty-but the
tax is on the tin.-W. M. Maupin,
in the Commonor.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-11-06

they will be disappointing, to
such, let them remember that the
same guardian watch is over our
Republic, that its standard is
not going to have one star upon
it dimmed, and that the honest
verdict Of a free people is always
right.-Goodwin's Weekly, Oct.
81, 1908.
But was it an honest verdict2
Was it rendered freely and vol
unfairly? Was not a large cor
ruption fund used? Shall your
children be taught that honesty
or patriotism is the only true
road to wealth and fame, when
they are confronted, daily, with
proofs of the contrary? That
the man who is the best schemer
and the best boodler is the one
who gets the highest Offices in
this Gland of the Free, and
Home of the Brave2"-Ed.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-11-06
WRONG IMPRESSIONS.

We have been under the impression
that the producing class of the United
States desired to receive fair remun-
GRAFTON for their product, be it labor or
some commodity that they produced
and of necessity wished to sell hut we
have been mistaken. They only make
a pretense of such desire. We thought
that the wage Garner, the farmer, the
mechanic, the middle class of what-so-
ever vocation, believed 10 the principles
of the Declaration of Independence, of
freedom and self government; but they
don't. They love their masters. They
enjoy the gracious privileges of being
slaves, serfs and hirelings of some great
corporation, although at times thew
make a great show of discomfort and
the air is filled with the means, groans
and wailings of this class of humanity
for the great deprivations and persecu-
tions they suffer from the hands of the
plutocrats-lheir masters. Yet they
do not really mean it; they ar simply
playing politics, talking through their
whiskers, causing the air to vibrate, to
stimulate the honest reformer in his
endeavors to better the condition cf
mankind. And when the time comes
for action; when the opposing forces
are lined up in battle array and they
have an opportunity to prove them
selves as trne patriots and worthy sol
diers for the common good, they ego
way back and sit down" and repudiate
all promises and pledges, desert to the
enemy and become the plant and will
ling tools of the trusts and corporations.
Like Lawson, we believe that the
spirit of patriotism has died in the
breasts of the American people, or has
been so subdued or hypnotized by the
System" that, all the common poop
as mass will do when the day of ac-
ton arrives, is to stand back and
"GRIN"
OF course there are exceptions
There are few patriots left; but will
they ever be able to lead the masses
through this labyrinth of capitalization
to the goal of freedom and self govern
ment? Can this ever be accomplished
by the ballot? We fear not. If re-
ports from the recent election are true,
and that the labor element of the
country would not, as body, follow
the advise of such men as Mitchell,
Gompers, BRYAN, and other noted. good
and true patriots, who have devoted
the best of their lives to the effort of
uplifting the common people to a higher
plane of living and citizenship; if these
reports are true and the great mass of
producers aud laborers have bent the
servile knee, taken the bride, betrayed
their fellow laborers and forsaken their
manhood, then there is very little hope
of their ever being able to shake off
the shackles that are being rapidly and
securely fastened upon them aud their
posterity. Worse, yes thousand
times worse, than chattel slavery is the
servitude into which We are drifting.
We have always believed that the
masses of the people wished to perpet-
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-11-06
The Majesty OF 1t.

If ALL that is gross and vile
and grasping could be eliminated
from "a national election for Pres
ident, would it not be aspectacle
sublime2 The majestic roll OF
the states is called and ninety