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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-14

tor the real rough stuff"
That's the kindest thing have
heard for two years" said Jake
slowly, as he patted the small hand
that still lay on his arm.
Suddenly no stitfcned in his chair
as thought seized him.
Marie" he asked tenderly. It's
there any fellow. right now. that
YOU think lot OF? You know the
way | mean"
NO. Jake. not now" she answered
slowly. as she understood why he
asked. Then she added. but there
might be if''-
III he we're a right living sort OF
fellow" broke IN jake.
Yes"
The clock on the mantelpiece
struck twelve.
Gee. it's Christmas morning"
sighed Jake.
Yes. Christmas" breathed Marie
softly.
Gould you-do you think. will you
walt unt!l-well. until can get on
the right track?"
She nodded her head In silence.
jake put his arm around her waist
and drew her head to his shoulder.
you do care. Marie?" he whisp.
cred.
Again she nodded ard .hen
turned her lips to HIS.
My Christmas present" SAID
jake softly, the best little girl In
the world"
And mine" added Marie, 'is tina
man that is to be-
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We admire the genius, but We do
not try 20 initiate him.
In the art OF painting, for instance.
much may be learned by studying.
But there are few to whom it IS
not necessary to nix lnboriously their
colors, but who dip their brushes In
the dawn. the dusk, the half light,
the shadows, and just paint.
Much may be learned in regard to
oratory; but there are Il few. the
style Of whose oratory sometimes
bursts. revealing the naked beauty OF
poetry underneath.
There are Il few Who have studied
the secrets of nature so carefully that
they know t by heart. like Michael
Angelo, who made supernatural
beautiful figures of men and women
without using any model Michael
Angelo lay on his back on the Scaffod
to paint the ceiling of the Sistlnc
Chapel, but his hcat was resting in
the lap of Nature, and he reproduced
Nature, greater and more beautiful
than others saw it-Adam and Eve,
gods and heroes. He transformed
the human into something sublime
without violating nature
There has. nlsO, bee one other man
oH"hcSpcdic WHO StnOu IaCc 10
face with Nature and braided her hair
In n thousand capricious ways, as
dictated by his scntimcn: or ms 1t
larmonizcd with his art.
There has been IL Goethe. a nature
in Nature. who knew and understood
Its mysteries. He was the seer, not
the prophet-but in past and future.
With his naked eye Il saw the whole
evolution of the plat tho secrets ne
organism, the transmutations OF pre-
historical times.
There has been mind as highborn
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T7HE soft fcecy snow. floating
down straight from tho
heavens, melted as quickly as
1t struck tho New York sidewalks,
and turned into mud under the
aurrying feet of tho thousands of late
Christmas shoppers.
BLACK Jakio" stood II the shelter
afforded by The elevated road pillar.
dis threadbare raincoat drawn tightly
about him, his hands thrust deeply
into his pockets. as he gently tapped
drst one foot and then the other on
he we; pavement. Not that Jake
was cold. but his shoes had worn
quite thin, and the dirty brown slush
had sought out all the little cracks
through which it might scep and hnt
2 comfortable haven.
IS going to - lean Christmas
.or ne Jake signed reaecuyely 70
TIE cleaning lights o: Broadway.
-Awtul lean"
= hiE pocke: ae singled rs OLE
loae Q1arIer again: tas key o: bis
cheap SIKH avsDue"room and smiled
~ le thought 0. Zhe days vaeH ~
lad .ing!ed gold co-nz. II those GAYS
;5e racing game had been g2o0. and
d-ae as enc .. the bez: known
bool-:e's Il saeepshead Then BE had
been aGiuant He had dressed u TIE
hsigh: 0: Ultra fashion; tho pattern
tn l,s SUITS had been rifle large.
Bis shirts we!c slways Q: heliothope
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HIS speech wan made to the
young college students upon
their characterization at the
University of Copcn hagen, in Scptcm-
Der, this year:
The guiding thread which conducts
YOU safely into the laoyrinths OF lfo
snd OF. again, which helps you to
conquer even the ctronees. old Min0
taurus, VINO brushes hundred, o: thou-
sands IN his jaws. IS what VIC call
the tdeal
Sometimes the guiding thread Is
almost fo-eibIy pressed into the hands
OF the young people Of country.
Sometimes rs aim reveals Itself to
the young people Of country in a
glory of fight so strong Mat il is i'm.
possible 70 overlook It These young
people Gre given 4 historic ideal. II
Tas thus With the Young pcop!e OF,
italy n the years between ls2O and
1870. Harassed By foreign and native
oDqTessors, Italy suffered ,ortures
fully es hard as those OF Poland.
Many very many things seemed to
prove that J; 7'as doomed to share the
rate Of Poland The rising Of the
Car5onari. was crushed, and Rome
Vas seized Is the French. But MAJ
zini had taught the young .eop!c to
sacrifice their freedom. their work
and their !ires for one great, simple
icen: Italy. one and indlvisible. Then
came Gsribald! and Csvour Province
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ms Shelly's, whose spirit formed a
ladder between heaven and earth, on
which the angels Of song walked up
and down.. In him even the plain
white thought lent splendor from his
rainbow coiored imagination. The
gates Of heaven open ID themselves to
him; he walked across the plains ct
Ida playing ball with the stars, whose
golden simmer clung to his fingers.
There have been spirit; in whom
the Intuition armed the disciplined
troops OF knowledge SO that their
swift thoughts became like the in
fantry, sometimes used as cavalry
the mounted infantry These strike
their large. with amazing rapdity,
now on horseback, no afoot. In such
minds he prose OF knowledge Is
transformed into me poetry of In
tuition, as intuition from the begin.
ming as transform into knowledge.
The philosophers who. like certain
French and American fashionable
philosophers. do no. possess this alert
ness Of vision, who utterl.5 lack this
infallible instinc,, which they are al
ways praisinS TO the dctrimcnt Of the
analyzing mind IL, their smuhies
there re- numerous splendid tools.
large and small hammers, but no
forge. They place their dreams, like
their thoughts, on the anvil cold. For
this reason they are powerIess to pro-
nounce words which fire and ignite,
Thoughts which breathe. as does
living being.
Unless you, young men and young
women. are not geniuscs who do NOS
need my advice, but honest workers
OF the mind, oewarc vi al. researches
without method. and stick to reason
and science
From ''Politiken." Sept rs, 1919.
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THE prodisal slouched round the
large squarc-that square OF
tall. formal houses-each
house perfect pillar OF respectable.
~. and he Kept edging his way to a
house in tho center OF the square
house that blazed with light and
Shere n great feast had evidently
been spread.
II was his mothers house. and he
had shut The hal! door cautiously
behind him three years ago, blinking
out at dawn, the pale ~intry dawn
OF a cold. cherries Christmas Day
driven from his home because he
was afraid TO face that woman OF
Immaculate ylrtuc--h;s cold. hand
some mo;hcr-aId cry out 70 nef
that he had s!nued and gone astray
end now desired forgiveness
&c had been 60 certain that she
would not forgive him. for Rachel
Challoncr WAS not tie sor; Of woman
20 whom II comes easy TO forgive
even tho most trifiihg otfenses; be.
sides. she had been so proud of Paul,
and so amri.io Is on his account,
dreaming great dreams OF all he was
going to do In the future. and he had
disappointed hcr--oh, ye gods, how
nc had disappointed her.
lie couldn't remember his father,
the father who had died when he
was quite youngster, but Challonor
had u vague notion that If his father
had lived things might have COMO
differently with him 1t would have
been so much easier. he reflected, to
have confessed his sins and inqui-
ties 10 a man--his foolish. youthful
frailties--for man would have un-
derstood and foi given, but ii was
go difficult-so cur!ously difficult
20 make clean breast OF things TO
his mother-Rachcl Challoner-who
could not understand how Il boy
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And there Is no Scandinavia on the
map
There is Il strange, sad and sombrc
country not to be found on the map,
either. where 81 IS cold l.. the shade,
9nd & little colder still In the sun;
whore the wicked are stupid and Zero
cious. ana where the good urc not
brave; where woman grows Il little
less womanly every day and man does
f"' grow more manly every day.
Tint country exists, though you do
NOT find il on the map.
The old classification Of men aS
officers. nurscmaids ana chimney
Swccpcrs no longer holds good The
Danes. for instance. are either minis
tors or Journalists They either wor-
ny too much about the morals Of 9th
ers or thy tluttcr about without any
serious interest In anything When
the Dane claims 10 be Iiniable ana
Tree from prcjud!ccs, he will jump
out OF the window To SHOW how light
and airy he IS. When, however. his
mind Is prcoccupicd with the short.
comings OF his ueighbor, he forgivcs
himself every frailty toward women
or the money of others. but never
grows tired Of Judging and condemn.
ing others; ana the judgments he ron
dcrS are supposed 10 cover all cases.
u never occurs 20 him tina, morals
submit every single case 10 an inner
jury.
~ man VINO addresses young college
students ought to be able to moraliZc.
1t has never been my strong point.
Dui shall do the best can.
B0Unrp n U.l,;
dull. When people began to doubt the
existence of tho devil, he was nut on
whiskey bottles and retailcd. Then
Dnnnln hnd 10 hnlinun In hin, na.ai,,
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meet enemies they did not expect
which is called history.
This is why no battle has ever been
won. but every battle has been lost
by the party who lost their way or
arrived too late, wicrcupoa the other
party proclaim themS elves victors and
remain In possession Of the battle
field.
Something very similar happens In
'ovo. lie. IL, therefore. teach you
punctuality.
Beware, finally, Of those who arc
always t~liing you OF the failure Of
science and who run down the mind {;
those who tell you that your mind is
poor tool, made OILY to split and
tear asundcr, while the highest gonls
are reached through intuition and IN.
stinct.
Those people give you the old adj.
vice: "Be like Aladdin! All you have
10 do is to keep you, hands in your
pockets, and the gcnii OF the lamp
Will perform miracles for YOU"
Every importan. progress in science
is due to the testing. experimenting
mind, 10 experiments repeated a thou.
sand times over. Do not disparagc
science. Do not despise the mind.
But do moi misunderstood me,
thinking hat look down upon intui-
ton and instinct. Intuition IS
alpha and omega, the beginning and
the end; but II Is no. the road or the
method Intuition Is no method;
and you. as workers. need Il method.
Intuition and instinct arc the tools
of genius, hut not the tools OF mental
workers. Though tho creative genius.
inventor and artist certainly needs
much intelligence. intuition and i'm
pulse are tho main things to tho
genius
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Thanks soiyjnu,

Thanksgiving day is the day when
every one says he is thankful, and
wants to eat turkey to prove it. If you
haven't anything else to be thankful
for, you can be thankful you are not a
turkey.
Thanksgiving day was first observed
by the Pilgrims, who were thankful
that they had five grains of corn
apiece. In these eXtravagant times
man wouldn't be thankful If he had ten
grains of corn-which shows conclu.
sively that we are prosperous. The
trusts are doing noble work in rem
edying this evil condition.
People have various unreasonable
reasons for being thankful on Thanks.
giving day. Some men are thankful
they took wife, and some are thank
full they didn't take two. Bachelor
maids are thankful they are not "hor'
rid bachelors" and married woman
is always thankful that her husband
has a good wife. 1t Is easy to be
thankful If you go about it right.
But the thing people are most thank
full for is their money-even though
they came by it honestly. The more
man has, the more thankful he is that
it isn't less, and the less man has
the less likely he is to be thankful
because it isn't more. Be thankful,
therefore, that you haven't too much
to be thankful for. Turkey tastes all
the better for coming but once year.
-Lippincott's.
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BEST SPIRIT FOR THE TIME
Good Idea Is That Thanksgiving Is the
Noblest Work That
Man Can Do.


Thanksgiving: The act of rendering
thanks, expressing gratitude for favors
or mercies; a public celebration of di-
vine goodness.
Thanksgiving day: A day set apart
for religious services in acknowledg-
ment of the divine goodness.
BY nature man is religious; and
Thanksgiving day is an annual re-
minder of this innate tendency. The
very first Thanksgiving and the man.
ner of it's observance are not very
we'll defined in history Perhaps the
following paragraph will give as sue
clint an epitome as is possible at this
remote distance:
"The fishermen were ordered TO
'scour the seas for spoil the hunters
to shoulder their matchlocks and
bring in such game as would allow
the Mayfower colony in more special
manner to rejoice together The re-
suit was a supply of wild turkey, deer,
bear and game of every sort in SUCH
abundance as amply to feed the colony
for week. They had as guests the
friendly chief, Massasoit, and 80 of his
Indians. The Indians contributed to
the feast five deer and a great basket
of oysters This was the introduction
of the young colony to its afterward
favorite shelliish, and the women
cooked them as they best knew how.
The menu of that immortal dinner has
not, alas been preserved, but it is
known that the two dishes most fully
appreciated by the Indians as well as
the Americans were the brown roast
turkey and the pumpkin pie The
great feast of the week was outdoors,
for the air was balmy and the sun
bright. Massasoit was there in all the
bravery of a scarlet coat trimmed with
lace and copper chain, given him
some time previous by Edward " jns-
low. In a strange medley of Indian
garb and borrowing of European cos
tune, cementing there the bond of
friendship with the white settlers
which held good Al years"
In 1921 Governor Bradford after the
first harvest made provision for the
colonists' rejoicing together with
praise and prayer. In 1923 a day of
fasting and prayer in the midst Of
drought was turned into thanksgiving
by the coming of rain during the pray
ers; gradually the custom prevailed of
appointing annually thanksgiving
day after harvest. These appoint
ments were made by the governors
proclamat!ons. During the Revolution
airy war a day of national thanksgiv-
ing was annually recommended by con-
gress. For many decades the presi-
dent has annually appointed such a
day and the governors of the various
states have supplemented the same.
words are but empty things" Since
actions speak louder than words
thanksgiving is the noblest thanksgiv-
ing. To abound in thanksgiving is
Scriptural injunction. See that ye
do this said Paul.
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For Which We Owe Thanks.

That we have much to be thankful
for no one doubts or denies. 1t is not
necessary to rehearse details. We
know that we are happy and favored
people. We are rich, prosperous and
free. Our problems, great as they are,
are as nothing compared with those
that are distressing the nations Of the
old world. But the things which we
regard as blessings, and for which we
are supposed to give thanks, are bless
ings only as we use them right, and
only in so far as we humbly acknowl-
edge that they are the gifts of God.
The danger is, not that we shall at
tribute too much to the divine power.
but that we shall take too much credit
to ourselves. This has always been
true. Far back in Old Testament times
the people were warned against think
ing that they themselves had got the
wealth which they enjoyed, and were
told that it was God who had given
them the power to get wealth. The
old religious idea, therefore, rather
than the new one, makes-if 1t is cor.
rectly understood-for national and
individual humility.
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CUSTOM HAS ALWAYS BEEN
Popular Error Holds That President
Lincoln Issued First Thanks
giving Proclamation.

There is some discussion as to the
origin of the present national CUSTOM
of observing Thanksgiving day. 1t
was held by large number of people,
until recently, that the custom was
first established by President Lincoln
during the Civil war. Examination of
the records showed that this was
mistake. A number of the presidents
who preceded Mr.. Lincoln issued
Thanksgiving proclamations, the prac-
tice dating back to Washington. They
had been desultory, however, and there
had been no regular repetition of the
proclamation until after it had been is
sued by Mr.. Lincoln.
The custom of observing a day of
thanksgiving and prayer is as old as
the civilization Of the country. 1t was
inaugurated in New England very
shortly after the arrival of the first
English immigrants, and 1t gradually
became the day Of all others in the
year, for SURPRISING Christmas in the
enthusiasm and universally of its OBJ
servance. In the southern states, prior
to the Civil war, it was quite general,
though there was no common day CT
celebration. The governors Of the
states issued their proclamations with
out reference to the dates set by the
governors of other states, and 1t not
infrequently happened that the cele-
bration would occur in Maryland on
day different from that which was OBJ
served in the neighboring states. There
were commonwealths, prior to the
Civil war, where no proclamation was
issued, and there was no observance
whatever.
The proclamation of Mr.. Lincoln
seemed to electrify the country and to
cement the states in their observance
of Thanksgiving, though there were
commonwealths which for some years
afterward selected a different date.
This gradually ceased, until now the
celebration has become a thoroughly
national and universal event. For a
while it eclipsed the Fourth of July,
and in New England today 1t far sur
passes Christmas In interest. With
the disappearance of sectionalism,
however, the Fourth of July has as
sumed its normal place in American
holidays, and is not likely again.
through any combination of circum.
stances, to lose 1t.
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Happy Thanksqivina Custom.

A woman who has an almost old.
fashioned faith in Providence keeps
what she calls her thank offering
box" Into this goes through the year,
from one Thanksgiving to the middle
of the following November, sum of
money for every accident escaped,
calamity averted or special joy.
These offerings are not confined to
her own escapes but each time some
member of her family bobs up from
some threatened woe into the box goes
the money offering OF thanks.
Not the same amount is given each
time, and rarely large sums, for the
woman is not rich, but nice little sum
is realized.
This is devoted to giving some one
a happy Thanksgiving day. 1t does not
always go into regular channels. AS
the woman says-the poor and hos
pitfalls are usually well cared for in
holiday seasons.
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Have Cause to Give Thanks.

If we remember what were the con-
ditions, circumstances, events and in
cidents of the first Thanksgiving day,
and allow thought to traverse even
rapidly and superficially the path of
blessing until this Thanksgiving day
of 1913, we shall have faint vision, at
least, of that for which the land should
offer praise. If we dwell only upon
the great benefits that affect the gen
eral welfare, abundant reason appears
why we should set a season apart, as
semble in our places of worship, and
lay upon the altar our united Offering
of praise. And this Is not alone for
abundant harvests, for commercial
prosperity, for continued peace and in
creasing power; not alone for good be
slowed, but thanks for evil spared; for
q fires of trouble from which we passed
unharmed; for the floods that threat
ened but did not overwhelm; for the
casting down that yet did not destroy;
for all calamities endured and over
past
Surely if ever land should in humil
ity bring tribute from multitudes of
grateful hearts, ours should make this
a true Thanksgiving day.
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For the BLESSINGS Bestowed.

Thankfulness makes the ordinary
and simple gifts Of God shine with a
morning luster, and exudes the rarest
perfume. There are two ways to get
rich-one is to increase the number OF
our dollars, the other is to increase the
value of the few dollars we already
have. Thankfulness raises the bless
ings we already have to higher de-
grees of worth, and thereby enriches
US. II thankfulness does not create
new roses, it paints a finer hue on
those we have; If it does not load our
table, it puts a delicious sweetness in
our simple fare; if it does not clothe
our bodies in costly raiment, it lends
a sweetness of behavior to our bodies,
so that we do not need such raiment
to make us attractive. All other beau
tiful graces of Christian character are
lacking in luster without the shining
grace of gratitude to God for his
abundant mercies and unceasing Low.
ing kindness to the children Of men.
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Blessings Enumerated.

AS nation we individual citizens
of the United States have reason
above all other peoples for the giving
of thanks. Where others have within
the year been menaced by war, by dos
mestic disorder, by revolution within
or enemy without, Americans have
been at peace at home and enjoying
peaceful relations with all the world.
Our government has been honored
with the leadership in a movement for
the limitation and eventual ending Of
war. The broad principles of demo-
cratic government upon which our re-
public rests have been an inspiration
to less favored peoples even in the
most backward quarters of the earth.
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Thanksuivinu PRAYER.

For days of health, for nights OF
quiet sleep; for seasons of bounty and
beauty, tor all earths contributions to
our need through this past year, good
Lord, we thank thee. For our coun.
try's shelter; for our homes; for the
joy of faces, and the JOY of hearts that
love; for the power of great examples;
for holy ones who lead us in the ways
of life and love; for our powers of
growth; for longings to be better and
DO more; for ideals that ever rise
above the real, good Lord, we humbly
thank thee! For the blessedness OF
service and the power to fit ourselves
to others needs; for our necessities to
work; for all that brings us nearer
to each other nearer to ourselves,
near to thee, we thank thee, o our Fa.
ther!-Selected,
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Time to Danish Depression.

You, perhaps, have had trials of the
severest kind, rebuffs, bitter disap
pointments, trouble that has clouded
life's sky, but there is compensation
in your life. The fine balance that ma
ture shows in her great scheme does
not stop with the natural world 1t Is
continued on through evolutionary
lines and finds compelling, convincing
expression in our lives!
Trouble is sometimes another name
for character builder; disappoint-
ment frequently acts as fine balance
wheel. The story can be carried on In
all directions CT experience.