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THE NEW-iOKM YEAR
YESTERNIGHT the year lay dymt',:
By Ins lowly couch wc mot,
Bringing ivv leaves, and trying,
Some with nmilos and some vith
To romcmbor -or forget
ighing
Now the nursling year ir. waking,
And vc gaze into his eyes
HocdlcsD of his sire's forsaking, -1
In his cradle he is taking
Gifta from earth and sea and skies.
Dawp of fold and sunset gleaming,
Apnl eve and Junetidc morn,
Things of truth and not of seeming.
Those havo glorified his dreaming,
He the heir, the newly born.
In his tiny grasp he treasures
Riches that may soon be ours
Sunlight gold in brimming measures,
Meadow fragrances and pleasures,
Honeyed wine distilled of flowers.
Soon the child will Irolic lightly
O'er his fathers grass-green grave;
Day shall be his playmate brightly,
And his. sleep be sweetened nightly
By the songs of wind and wave.
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New Year Irresolutions
By HELEN ROWLAND
The Widow Discusses Them
With the Bachelor.
mSN'T it hard, said the
widow, glancing ruefully
nt the holly-wreathed
clock on the nmntel-pioce,
to know where to begin
reforming yourself?"
"Great heavens! " ex
claimed the bachelor,
"you nvo not going to do
anything like that, are
you?"
The widow iK)intcd sol
emnly to the lunula of the clock,
which indicated Ut30, and then to
the calendar, on which hung one flut
tering leaf marked December 31.
"It is time," she sighed, "to bogin
mental house-cleaning; to swoop out
our collection of last year's follies and
dust off our potty sins and fling away
our old vices and "
"That's the trouble!" broke In the
bachelor. "It's so hard to know Just
what to thvow away and what to keep
Making New Year's resolutions is like
doing the spring houseclennlng .or
clearing out a drnwor full of old lot
tors and sontlmental rubbish. You
know that there are lots of things
you ought to get rid of, and that aro
just In the way, and that you would
bo better off without, but tho minute
you make up your mind to part with
Anything, even a tiny, lnslgnlflcnnt
vice, It suddenly becomes ho dear and
attractive that you ropont and begin
to take a now Intorest in It. Tho only
NEW YEAR'S DAY IN CHINA.
time I ever had to bo taken homo In
a cab was the day after I promised to
sign the plodgo," and tho bachelor
Highed reniinlscontly.
"And the only time 1 ever overdrew
my bank account," declared the wid
ow, "was tho day after I had resolved
to economize. 1 suppose," she added
pensively, "that tho best way to begin
would bo lo pick out tho worst vice
and discard that."
"And that will leave heaps of room
for tho others and for a lot of new lit
tle sins, beside, won't It?" agreed the
bachelor cheerfully. "Well," he added
philosophically, "I'll give up murdering."
"What!" tho widow started.
"Don't you want me to?" asked the
bachelor plaintively, rubbing his bald
spot. "Or porhaps l might resolve not
to commit highway robbery any nioro
or to stop forging or "
"All of which Is so easy!" broke in
tho widow sarcastically.
"Thero'd bo some glory and somo
reason In giving up a big vlco," sigh
ed tho bachelor, "If a follow had one.
Hut tho troublo Is that most of us men
haven't any big criminal tendencies,
moroly a heap of little follies and
weaknesses that thero Isn't any par
ticular virtue In sacrificing or any
particular harm In kooplng."
"And which you always do keep, In
splto of all your New Year's vowb,"
romarkod tho widow ironically.
"I understand," Interrupted the
widow sympathetically.
"And, by Jovo!" finished the bache
lor, "I had to restrain myself to keep
from going back and proposing to
lior!"
"Now lucky you did!" commented
the widow wltherlngly.
"Hut I wouldn't have," explained
tho bachelor ruefully, "if tho gorl had
restrained herself."
"Nevertheless," repeated the widow.
"It was lucky for the girl."
"Which girl?" asked tho bachelor.
"The girl I broke off with or tho girl
that came afterward?"
"I suppose," mused the widow ig
noring Ihe levity and leaning over to
arrange a hunch of violets at her bolt,
"that Is why It is so difficult for a
man to keep a promise or a vow
even a marriage vow."
"Oh, 1 don't know." The bachelor
leaned back and regarded the widow's
coronet braid through the smoko of
his clgnr. "it isn't the marriage vows
that aro so Olfllcult to keop. It's tho
fool vows a man makes before mar
riage and the fool promises he makes
afterward that he stumbles over and
falls down on. The marriage vows
aro so big and vague that you can get
all around them without actually
breaking them, but if they should in
terpolate concrete questions Into the
service such ns, 'Do you, William,
promise not to growl at the coffee '
"Or, 'Do you, Mary, promise never
to put a daub of powder on your nose
again?'" broke In the widow.
"Nor to look twice at your pretty
stenographer," continued the bache
lor. "Nor to lie about your ago, or your
foot or your waist measure."
"Nor to juggle with tho truth when
ever you stay out after half-past ton."
"Nor to listen to things that that
anybody except your husband may
say to you in the conservatory oh,
1 see how it feels!" finished the wid
ow with a sympathetic little shudder.
"And yet," reflected the bachelor,
"a woman Is always exacting vows
and promises from the man she loves,
always putting up bars for him to
jump over; when If she would only
leave him alone he would bo perfectly
contented to. slay within bounds and
graze in his own pasture. A man
hates being pinned down; but a wom
an doesn't want anything around that
she can't pin down, from her belt and
her theories to her hat and her hus
band." "Well." protested the widow study
ing tho toe of her slipper, "it is a sat
isfaction to know you've got your hus
band fastened on straight by his
promises and held in place by his
own vows and that he loves you
enough to "
"Usually," Interrupted the bachelor,
"a man loves you in inverse ratio to
his protestations. Tho lover who
promises all things without reserve
Is too often like tho fellow who
doesn't question the hotel bill nor ask
the price of the wine, because he
doesn't Intend to pay It anyway. The
fellow- who Is prodigal with his vows
and promises and poetry is generally
the one to whom such things mean
nothing and, being of no value, can
be flung about generously to every
girl he meets. The linn with tho big
gest front ofllce Is likely to bo the
ono with the smallest deposit In the
safe. Tho man who swears off loud
est on New Year's Is usually the one
they have to carry homo the morning
after. And the chap who promises a
girl a life of roses Is the one who wll
let her pick all the thorns off for her
self."
"Perhaps," sighed, tho widow, chow
lug the stem of a violet thoughtfully
"tho best way to cure a man of i
taste for anything, after all, Is to lot
him have too much of It instead of
making him swear off. If you want
him to hate the smell of .a pipe Insist
on his smoking nil tho time. If you
want him to sign the temperance
pledge, servo him wine with every
course. If you want him to hato a
woman, invite her to meet him overy
time ho calls, and tell him how 'suita
ble' she would bo."
"And if you want him to love you,"
finished the bachelor, "don't ask him
lo swear it, but tell him that ho really
ought not to. The best way to man
age a donkey human or otherwise
is to turn his head In the wrong di
rection and he'll back in the right
one."
"Then," said tho widow decisively,
wo ought to begin tho New Year by
making some Irresolutions."
"Some what?"
"Vows that wo won't stop doing tho
things we ought not to do," explained
the widow.
"All right," agreed the bachelor
thoughtfully, "I'll make an Irresolu
tion to go on making love to you as
much us I like."
"You mean, as much as I like, Mr.
Travers," corrected the widow severely.
"How much do you like?" asked tho
bachelor, leaning over to look into
the widow's oyos.
The widow kicked the corner of the
ug tentatively.
"I like all but the proposing," srtip
said slowly. "You really ought to
stop that"
"I'm going to stop It to-night."
The widow looked up in alarm.
"Oh, you don't have to commence
keeping your resolutions until to
morrow .morning," she said quickly.
"And are you going to stop refusing
me to-night," continued the bachelor
Hrmly.
The widow studied the corner of
the rug with great concern.
"And," went on the bachelor, tak
ng something from his pocket and
toying with it thoughtfully, "you are
going to put on this ring" ho leaned
over, caught the widow's hand and
slipped the glittering thing on her
third linger. "Now," he began, "you
are going to say that you will "'
The widow sprang up suddenly.
"Oh. don't, don't, don't!" she cried.
"In a moment we'll me making promises!"
"We don't need to," said the bache
lor, leaning back nonchalantly, "we
can begin by making arrangements.
Would you prefer to live in town or
at Tuxedo? And do you think Europe
or Hermuda the best place for the "
"Hermuda, by all means," broke in
the widow, "and I wish you'd havo
that hideous portico taken olf your
town house, Billy, and" But tho
rest of her words were smothered in
the bachelor's coat lapel and some
thing else.
"Then you do mean to marry me,
after all!" cried the bachelor tri
umphantly.
The widow gasped for breath and
patted her hair anxiously.
"I I meant to marry you all the
time!" she cried, "but I never thought
you were really in earnest and "
"Methlnks," quoted the bachelor
happily, " 'that neither of us did pro
test too much. We haven't made any
promises, you know."
"Not one," rejoined the widow
promptly, "as to my flirting."
"Nor ns to my clubs."
"Nor as to my relatives."
"Nor my cigars."
"And we won't make any vows,"
cried the widow, "except marriage
vows."
"And New Year's Irresolutions."
added the bachelor.
"Listen!" cried the widow softly,
with her fingers on her lips.
A peal of a thousand sliver bells
rang out on the midnight air.
"The chimes!" exclaimed tho wid
ow. "They're full of promises."
"I thought it sounded like a wed
ding bell," said the bachelor, disap
pointedly. "Maybe," said the widow, "it was
only Love ringing off." Los Angeles
Times. '
GREAT SCHEME.
"Are you still troubled by your
neighbor's chickens? sked one man
of another.
"Not a bit," was the answer. "They
aro kept shut up now."
"How did you manage it?"
"Why, every night I put a lot of
eggs in the grass very carefully, and
every morning, when my neighbor was
looking, I went out and brought them
in."
THOUGHT CHILD WOULD DIE.
Whole Body Covered with Cuban Itch
-Cuticura Remedies Cured at Cost
of Seventy-Five Cents.
"My little boy, when only an Infant
of three months, caught the Cuban
Itch. Sores broke out from his head
to the bottom of his feet. He would
itch and claw himself and cry all tho
time. He could not sleep day or night,
and a light dress is all he could wear.
I called one of our best doctors to
treat him, but ho seemed to get worse.
He suffered so terribly that my hus
band said he believed he would havo
to die. I had almost given up hope
when a lady friend told me to try the
Cuticura Remedies. I used the Cuti
cura Soap and applied the Cuticura
Ointment and he at once fell Into a
sleep, and he slept' with ease for tho
first time since two months. After
three applications the sores began to
dry up, and In just two weeks from the
day I commenced to use the Cuticura
Remedies my baby was entirely well.
The treatment only cost 75c, and I
would have gladly paid $100 if I could
not have got it cheaper. I feel snfe in
saying that the Cuticura Remedies
saved his life. He is now a boy of five
years. Mrs. zana Miner, union uity,
R. F. D. No. 1, Branch Co., Mich., May
17, 190C."
A Lost Art.
A Richmond housekeeper had occa
sion many times to employ a certain
odd charncter of the town known as
Aunt Cecilia Cromwell.
The old woman had not been seen.
in tho vicinity of the house for a long
llmo until recently, when the lady of,
tho house said to her:
"Good morning, Aunt Cecilia. Why.
aren't you washing nowadays?"
"It's dls way, Miss Annie," replied
Aunt Cecilia, Indulgently, "I's been out
o' wuhk so long dat now when I could
wuhk J finds I's done lost man taste
fo' it." Lipplncott's.
Habitual
Constipation
May bepennanenfy ovacomeljy proper
personal ctjoris vviimnc ahiiancc
of the ono uruly JboncJicVal taativc
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remeay, oyrup ojugs ana tiuwr ojciina,
Advice.
which enabled one to form rcul
kabitft clailv So that assistance to tm-
"So you are anxious to go into pub- fuiX! may be gradual) cltepenBcdVM
c life," said the influential man. w1ken no lonrneeaeM astKebtof
II
1 es- V" " 3 medics,when Ycouircd, arcTo assist
K"WeTif Vou are personally am- Uurc aninoUo SuppUttKc noW
bitlous I should suggest politics. If of jwcUon$,hich depend ulh
wf. ic anoiiiiiv nmhitimm I ihatcii unoii ttrorjCV houtisrnnem.
. ft
should suggest diplomacy
The Breakfast Is a Poetic and
liglous Rite.
Re-
Except at the Chinese New Year,
which comeB in February, it Is vory
hard to catch a glimpse of children
in China. Little beggars will run bo
side you for miles to earn one "cash,"
a copper coin with a square hole in
tho middle, of it, worth tho twentieth
part of a cent; but children who have
parents to care for thorn seem to bo
kept indoors all tho tlmo, or only al
lowed to play in wallod yards, and gar-
dens, writes Ilortha ..Runklo in St.
Nicholas. Wo used to say to each
other: "Why, whore aro tho chll
dron? Haven't thoy got any?" But
at New Year's wo found out that thoy
had.
This is tho great holiday of all tho
year in China, when everybody hangs
out flags and colored lanterns and sets
.off firecrackers. (Wo borrowed our
custom of firecrackers for tho Fourth
of July from Chlneso New Year's.)
All tho people put on their very beet
clothCB, and the children tho best qf
all, Jackets and trousers of bright blue
or green or yollow or purplo, tho boys
and girls so much alike that you can
only tell them apnrt by tholr hair.
Tho boy's, of course, is braided In a
pigtail, and the girl's is done up on
hor hoad with silver pins, or, if sho's
a vory grand little girl, with gold or
jade. Thus decked out, tho children
go walking with their proud papas and
mnnunns, nnd often go to tho theater,
which is a raro treat for them.
Porhaps Chlneso children have romp
ing plays together, but thoy al
ways look as If thoy wero born
grown up.
Caution.
"No, I've nothing for you," snapped
tho woman. "Why don't you look for
work?"
"Madam," responded tho applicant
for a handout, "no later than this
morning 1 road of a man near hero
who starved to death while looking for
work. I do not desire to annoy tills
hospltablo community by expiring In
its midst."
MEASURE A STRINGENT ONE.
Our First Law Against the Freedom
of the Press.
Under the provisions of this law,
anyone who wrote, printed, uttered or
published any false, scandalous or
malicious matter against tho govern
ment, tho congress or the president
of tho United States, or which tended
to bring thorn into hatred or con
tempt, could bo punished by heavy
lines and Imprisonment; and tho
statute was so worded as to penalize
not only honest criticism of tjio execu
tive, but oven tho free expression of
opinion. No legislation more fatal to
tho popularity of Adams' administra
tion could possibly nave noon noviseu;
hut although tho solo responsibility
for Us onactmout haB frequently boon
charged to lho prosidont, it cannot
justly bo laid at his door. His fussy,
sensitive, conscientious, frotchety,
tactless nature had doubtless been
moro stung by tho lampoons aud
critical attacks of tho pamphlets and
Iv unoii ttrorjCV
proper effovtk,ad vifcKt living general!.
Togetito beneficial effects, alwaVs
.. .,..,... .,..t, tl.c Mint rtf iiiiv nthm- nf- I buV the Genuine
flcinl; but the abuse of the press Hail Cvkwvtf1?:Ac0kv.irhyirof3v1i
been so general that scarcely a man V f M tai7; '
in niiHo Hfn lin.il nscanod defamation. " ITT '
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and the act had been rushed through
both houses of congress by a vote
which distinctly stamped it with tho
approval of the whole administration
party. Harper s Magazine.
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New Year's Calls.
Tho custom of visiting and sending
presents and cards on Now Year's day
Is recorded almost as far back as his
tory goes. The practice of using visit
lug cards can be traced back for thou
sands of years by tho Chlneso. Their
Xow Year's visiting cards are curiosl
ties. Each one sots forth not only the
name, but all the titles of Its owner,
and, as all Chinamen who havo any
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