The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, January 01, 1904, Image 3
BL iy r fr Fl f Ls rftv 1 A T y sTmm ore Catarrh tn this section of the conntrr tLVSU SiS toe Put Betbar and until So sreatmanr yonrs doctori pronounced Uaioeaidti can ana presorlbcd local remedlot and by eiUatlr irnHlt Sdonco h Proven catarrh to bo a con tnnil0BdMM0Md therefore requirei conrtltS tlonaltreatmcnt llalla Catorrh Cure mannfaeturea Fhone3r CL Tolei10 0nl the only wn ytltntlonal cure on tho raartet It It ta en IntaraSliy i -- w H coua auraces of the It is easy to induce a friend to laugh at your jokes but be doesnt always do it in a satisfactory man ner Good Things to Sell James Stillman president of the Na tional City bank of New York is a man of few words but he makes those few count A famous tip that he is said to have given a friend two months ago has leaked out in Wall street The friend in question wrote to him askinjj him for advice concern ing the market He had 50000 and wanted to make it a million Here is the reply of Mr Stillman written in lead pencil on a sheet of paper 3x4 Polo ponies steam yachts and New port villas are the best short sales in the world After having traveled hundreds of miles to wed Charles F Bateman a railroad yardmastef of Buite Mont Edna Armstrong 24 years old organ ist of the OBryanville Methodist church in a Cincinnati suburb has re turned to her parents home She dis covered the true state of her feelings soon after she boarded a train with bar admirer and she burst into tears before the city limits of Cincinnati were passed But she kept on travel ing though she cried all the way to Chicago where she and Bateman were to wed Then Detroit was de cided upon as the scene of their wed ding But when we got there says Miss Armstrong Charlie was so dis couraged at the way I had acted that lie bought me a ticket and sent me back home Mr Grovera Case Frederika la Dec 28 Mr A S Grover is now 74 years of ageFor the last 30 years he has suffered a great deal of sickness and although he is a lemperate man and never used spir its of any kind his kidneys had trou bled him very much He said I was told I had Diabetes and my symptoms corresponded exactly to those of a young man who died of Dia betes in this neighborhood My feet and limbs were bloated quite a little I heard of Dodds Kidney Pills and at last determined to try them I took in all ten boxes before I was well and now 1 can truthfully say that I am all right The bloating is gone from my feet and legs I have gained eight pounds in weight and can sleep well at night and every symptom of my trou ble is gone1 It is some time now since I was cured and I have not the slightest return of any symptom of the old trouble Perhaps the time will come when the intelligence of the people will make politics unprofitable In order to be popular forgot to say a good deal ft 7i J i u Vno nunirea aoiiara for any case A Sold tar DrnW fi7 vww V Ha Family Pill tbo bet 31 t 1 Where Bananas Come From Of the 1G3G172 worth o bananas which came into New York city within tho last year 2862000 bunches were from the British West Indies 1152000 bunches from Costa Rica 877000 from Colombia and 355 from Cuba Thoy pay EO duty nVs Wkiolows sootiiiajr nyrup tiEindtlon allay ptm cured wind colic 23cabotth A big heart usually goes with a big f oij but a big head rarely does Real Class House Now Built Glass houses of a very substantial hind can now be built Silesian glass makers are turning out glass bricks lor all sorts of building purposes A Rare Good Thing Am usinff ALLENS FOOT EASE and ciu truly say I would not have been without H so long had I known tho relief it would rivo my aching feet I think it a rare good tnug for anyone having sore or tired feet Matilda Holtwert Providence R I oold by all Druggists 25c Ask to day Greenland Is Thawing Out Tho ice in Greenland is melting more rapidly than it is formed Com parisons of tho descriptions of the Jacobshaven glacier shows that its edge has reached eight mile since 1850 and it has lost twenty to thirty feet in depth No chromos Gt ciieaij premiums but a better quality rnd one third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches The world suspects that a man is in love before he knows it himself One of tho curious things about a man who wants to borrow money from you today is his eager deter mination to repay it tomorrow A Texas preacher says that some newspaper mens only chance of get ting into heaven is on a press ticket Clear white clotues are a sign that the housekeeper uses Red Cross Hall Blue Largo a oz package 5 cents Oldest Librarian in England Delucana Lothrop Bingham who has had charge of the public library at for more ihan twenty year has just celebrat ed his SSlh birthday He is said to bo tho oldest librarian in New Eng land I do not believe Pisos Cure for Consumption has en equal for coughs and colds John P Doteu Trinity Springs led Feb 15 1900 I 1 tRii Romance of the Year Time Civil Ecclesiastical and Astronomical Date of New Year Variable Equinoxes Alone Constant Customs of New Years Observance In Ancient and Modern Times - At this time we celebrate the birth of the New Year and erect another milestone on the road of Time How few think that 152 years ago the year at this season was old How came the change Not by the revolution of the earth for that is practically un changeable but through the interven tion of human enactment Though time as measured by the motions of the earth may be taken as constant yet its divisions into seconds minutes hours days weeks months years eras their beginnings and endings are arbitrary products of the human mind and therefore variable All nations and people have a par ticular epoch fom which they date the era in which they may have lived The Romans dated their chronological events from the founding of the city The expression The year of Rome or the letters A U C ab urbs con dlta refers to that particular epoch The Mohammedans express their se quence of time by the year of the prophet The date is from the Hejira or the flight of Mohammed from Mecca Hejira is pronounced and is an Arabic word meaning flight which occurred A D 622 The Jews reckon their dispensation from the creation of the world but in reality their chronology begins with the Exodus Moses intentionally intro duced a new calendar and makes Abib their first month It has been supposed that the Jewish Sabbath is the same as the seventh day on which God ended His work but as Moses changed the first month to Abib he changed the first day also The first day of this new year was the first day of the first month and the first day of the first week The Sabbath being held on the seventh day it must of necessity have been changed also But being changed it could not be in correspondence with the seventh day of creation on which God rested Christians date their epoch from the birth of Christ the expression for which is the Latin words Anno Dom ini or A D the initial letters of the words Five centuries elapsed before an attempt was made to authoritative ly fix the date of the Nativity This was then undertaken by Dionysius Exiguus little who fixed our present chronology It is now generally al lowed that he was four years out in his reckoning and that B C 4 is the correct year This corresponds with the statement by Ireneus and Tertul lian that Christ was born about the year of Rome 751 Different nations have begun their count of time at different parts of the twenty four hours The ancient Ac cadians Babylonians Syrians Per sians the modern Greeks and the in habitants of the Balearic isles reckon their day from sunrise to sunrise Why the ancient nations began the day at sunrise is evident from their early re ligion which was Magism Fire was a chief object of reverence with them and the sun as the grand symbol of their worship received especial venera tion Hence they began their day as they began their devotions with the rising sun Others like the Athenians the Chi nese and the Jews have counted the day from sunset to sunset Why the Jews begin the day from sunset is potent from their religion The char acteristics of the Jewish religion are in sharp contrast to those of other nations The aim of Moses was to wean them from the grossness of oriental religions Hence the contrasts and antitheses If the worshipers of the elements begin the day with sun rise then the followers of Jehovah will begin theirs with sunset Moses can have no concord with error The Egyptians and pagan Roman priests began their day at midnight Most European nations follow the same rule Americans have also adopt ed the custom Astronomers however begin the day at noon when the sun is on the meridian The day meaning thereby light from sunrise to sunset was in ancient times divided into twelve equal parts called hours A similar division was observed with the night Thus it will be seen the hour was constantly changing in its duration The hour of the day in winter when the days were short was much longer than in sum mer and vice versa The same of course was the case with the nights also So that only at the equinoxes were the two series of hours equal This was most inconvenient and re sulted in much confusion To Hipparchus a Greek philosopher who flourished about B C 150 must be given the credit of dividing tne day from midnight to midnight into twenty four hours or two equal por tions of twelve hours each This sys tem prevails generally at the present day But astronomers count continu ously for twenty four hours The week as all know consists of seven days Christians and Jews hold this division because God created the heaven and the earth the solar system and primordial forms of life in six days and rested on the seventhr But it would seem that pagan nations selected seven days be cause of the seven planets known to them after which they called the days The sun and moon were in cluded in the planets They were Sun Mercury Venus Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn We call three days of the week directly after the planets Saturday Saturn Sunday Sun Monday Moon and four through the Saxon names for the others Tuesday Tuesco Mars Wednesday Woden Mercury Thursday Thor Jupi ter and Friday Friga Venus The month no doubt originated from the phases of the moon These sharp and well defined are four in number the new moon first quarter full moon and last quarter Each of these phases occupies about seven days so that from new full moon to new full moon there is something more than twenty nine days which is called a synodlcal month or lunation No nation up to the present time has devised a system of absolute ac curacy in the measurement of the colar year Some ancient nations such as the Chaldeans reckoned the year as 360 days This is the principle of that most ancient astronomical term the Zodiac The Zodiac is a belt en circling the heavens on each side of the ecliptic within which the planets known to the ancients always revolve It extends eight degrees on each side of the ecliptic It is divided into twelve equal parts called signs of the Zodiac It is a great cycle and is di vided into 360 degrees like all cir cles hence 360 days in the Chaldean year The Egyptians counted 365 days in their year As the year contains 26514 days nearly such systems could not fail- to work great inconvenience for the seasons would move round in a cycle from one time of the year to the other Let me make this quite plain Take the winter solstice for instance which happens on Dec 21 At the end of four years the solstice would be not on Dec 21 but on Dec 22 The sun would be behind time In order therefore that the seasons should occur at the same time in the civil year it was necessary to take account of this fraction of a day Julius Caesar the great Roman em peror determined to rectify the error He called the celebrated Egyptian as tronomer Sosigines to his aid Sosi gines suggested the addition of a day every fourth year This day was add ed to February and is known to us as Leap Year but to the Romans as Bissextile Bis twice sextus sixth This corrected calendar became known as the Julian But as it made the year consist of 365 days 6 hours it was in excess of the actual time by Z minute 103 seconds Small as was this fraction it accumulated to about one day in every 134 years The calendar needed reform Time civil and ecclesiastical required re adjustment But to urge the neces sary change was dangerous as the learned Friar Bacon found to his cost For pointing out errors in the calendar he received as a reward for the ad vocacy of the truth a prison where he remained ten years As often happens ecclesiastical requirements minister to civil neces sities The immediate cause of the correction of the calendar was an error in the time of observing the Easter festival The Council of Nice in A D 325 decreed that Easter is the Sunday following the full moon next after the Vernal equinox Owing to disputes arising from this decree Pope Hilarius in 463 ordered that the paschal moon should not be the actual full moon but an ideal one falling on the 14th day of the moon by the metonic cycle so called from Metoni a Greek philosopher who discovered it It consists of nineteen years at the end of which the sun is in about the same position he was at the be ginning In 1582 it was found that the real equinox fell ten days before the nom inal one and from the error in the Metonic cycle Easter had got four days wrong Then Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar called after him the Gregorian calendar by the aid of Clavius a learned Jesuit The equinox of 1582 which should have fallen on March 21 fell on March 11 Gregory cut the Gordian knot by decreeing that Oct 5 of that year should be counted as Oct 15 To the question What is time We may give the answer duration as measured by the solar system For everyday purposes and artificial di visions mechanical contrivances are necessary The first method of measuring time as far as we know was by means of the obelisk The pyramids of Egypt very probably answered the same pur pose Josephus states that Moses erected at Heliopolis in Egypt a pil lar for such purposes The cloudy pillar that accompanied the Israel ites in their forty years wanderings in the wilderness and which was a pil lar of fire by night most likely an swered the same purpose Pliny states that an obelisk now on the Thames embankment in London and known as Cleopatras Needle was erected by Mesophres about B C 1700 likely for similar uses We all know I hope the reference in the Bible to the sun dial of Ahaz about B C 740 Accord ing to St Jerome who revised the old Latin Bible into what is called the Vulgate Version of the Holy Scrip pfeepsVlr1 tures it was a pillar erected near a flight of steps translated degrees in the English Bible Berosus was the first to construct a sundial proper in B C 540 the first recorded in pro fane history But sundials are only useful when the sun shines hence some other measures of time became a necessity The Egyptians were successful in in venting such a contrivance They called it the Clepsydra kleps to steal and hudor water by which time was measured by a continuous fiow of water at a uniform motion The Clepsydra is first mentioned by Empedocles who flourished in the fifth century before Christ It was brought to a high degree of perfec tion by a philosopher of Alexandria named Ctesebius and continued down to the invention of clocks probably in the fourteenth century Watches fol lowed in due course till they have become an almost necessary requisite of everyday use Most people are under the impres sion that the rotation of the earth has never varied from one complete turn in twenty four hours But this is an error The motions of both earth and moon have not been invariable There was a time when the lunar month was twenty nine days instead of twenty seven as it now is Sir R Ball Time and Tide The synodical month therefore was between thirty and thirty one days A synodical month is the interval from one new moon to the next So that primitive man reckoning the month as a synodi cal period or lunation may not have been so inaccurate as we in our su perior wisdom imagine Going back from this epoch to the infancy of the moon we come to a time when the day and month were of equal duration about four hours each Going forward to the old age of the earth we come to an epoch when the day and month are again equal But this time instead of being four hours each they will be 1400 hours Just think of it One day last ing 1400 hours When the day will equal fifty eight of our present days what will be the length of the year But we must not stop at a 1400 hour day Going still forward in the far off future we come to a time when the face of the earth will be always turned to the sun as the moons face is now turned to the earth and as she will continue to be Then there will be a perpetual day for the sun shall never set literally fulfilling the words of the prophet Thy sun shall no more go down neither shall thy moon withdraw itself Is lx20 The romance of time How it fascinates The new year has been observed with festive rejoicings from remotest antiquity Its celgbration by religious as well as secular observances pre vailed generally among the nations of antiquity And Egyptians Hindus Chinese Persians Jews Romans and Mohammedans although differing widely as to the time from which they reckon the new year all regard it with especial interest of a joyous kind In olden Roman times the new year which began in March was inaugurat ed by a festive procession with the priests of Mars carrying the sacred shield before the people The people wished each other good health and prosperity and exchanged presents The Chinese begin the year at the Vernal equinox and make it one of the most splendid festivals All classes mingle together and unite in thanksgiving for mercies received and prayers for a genial season and good crop With the Hindus the first day of the new year is sacred to Ganesa the god cf wisdom to whom kids and wild deer are sacrificed amid illumina tions and rejoicings Among the mountainous tribes a buffalo is sac rificed before vast multitudes of peo ple In ancient Persia prisoners were liberated and offenders pardoned The Persian new year much resembled the Sabbathical year of the Jews The Sabeans held a grand festival on the day the sun entered Arus one of the sfgns of the Zodiac Priests and people marched to the temples and sacrificed to the planetary gods In the British Isles the Druids be gan the year on March 10th with tjtie solemn ceremony of cutting the mis tletoe from the sacred oak On that day two white bulls were tied by the horns When a Druid clothed in white robes mounted the tree and cut off the mistletoe after which the sacri fices were offered The Mexicans on new years day adorned their houses and temples and engaged in various religious cere monies On such occasion human sacrifice was offered to propitiate the gods In modern times it is also an occa sion of social rejoicing and inter change of courtesies In England under old style the year began on March 25 On the change of date to Jan 1 great opposition was offered by the people generally Many really believed they were being deprived of eleven years of their existence Rev F P Duffy Secretary Ameri can Church Bible Institute Ravenswood Illinois and to protect from climate and disease these wise and prudent Sisters have found Peruna a never failing safeguard Dr Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over the United States A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit Mich reads as follows Dr S B- Hartman Columbus Ohio Dear Sin The young girl who used the Peruna was suffering from laryngi tis and loss of voice The result of the treatment was most satisfactory She found great relief and after further uso of the medicine we hope to be able to say she is entirely cured Sisters of Charity The young girl was under the care of the Sisters of Charity and used Peruna for catarrh 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