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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
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within tho last year 2862000 bunches
were from the British West Indies
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877000 from Colombia and 355 from
Cuba Thoy pay EO duty
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A big heart usually goes with a big
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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
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H so long had I known tho relief it would
rivo my aching feet I think it a rare good
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Tho ice in Greenland is melting
more rapidly than it is formed Com
parisons of tho descriptions of the
Jacobshaven glacier shows that its
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1850 and it has lost twenty to thirty
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The world suspects that a man is in
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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
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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
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