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EW ENGLAND may have seen
the first Thanksgiving celebra
tion and Philadelphia may
have inaugurated the Fourth
of July racket but the Initial New
Years day observed by white men on
American soil was celebrated on the
Island of Haiti Jan 1 1493 Just what
there was to that celebration will nev
er be known Columbus for he was
master of ceremonies was so busy
with other matters that he failed to
leave a record But it is impossible
that Europeans should have let their
first New Years in a new Avorld pass
by without some observance
It was on the 1st day of January
1492 by tho way that Columbus met
the sovereigns of Spain Ferdinand and
Isabella and concluded with them the
contract for his voyage of exploration
and discovery That might be called
the initial New Years though it was
not spent in America It was a sort of
prophecy as it were of the day that
was to be spent in the then undiscov
ered country one year later
It was not until August that the
three ships got under way Then they
sailed into new seas in search of a
continent that had been hidden from
the knowledge of man all through the
ancient and middle ages But Colum
bus did not know that he was to find
such a continent He was seeking a
western route to India and died In the
belief that the land he found was a
part of Asia He accomplished more
than he knew The divinity that
shapes our ends was kinder to him
than his own prevision
Across the unknown ocean he sailed
until ulmost becalmed in the tropic
seas each of his vessels was like a
painted ship upon a painted ocean It
was then that the crews well nigh mu
tinied Only the indomitable will and
courage of Columbus kept them upon
their way At last floating seaweed
and flying birds told of approaching
land By following the flight of the
birds the new shore was sighted Amer
ica was discovered and a new era was
opened in the history of humanity
It was in October that the landing
was made The thing was accom
plished or Columbus thought it ac
complished of which he had dreamed
from youth Through poverty neglect
ridicule and rebuffs he had sought all
through the intervening years for peo
ple of means who would take interest
in his dream So great was the Btress
of his soul that he had gone white
headed at thirty and now he was far
past forty But he had been faithful
to his vision and his reward had come
From island to island the voyagers
passed until Cuba was reached and
then Haiti where the discoverers flag
ship was wrecked The natives who
were delighted with the visit of the
white men helped him save his wreck
age and cared for him and his crews
until he was ready for the return voy
age It was Christmas morning when
Columbus landed at Guarico and It
was Jan 4 1493 when he sailed away
for Spain So the New Years day was
spent among the hospitable Haitian na
tives
The birth of 190G marks the four
hundred and thirteenth anniversary of
the day since then a very brief time in
the life of the world but a very long
time in the annals of progress The
Spain from which Christopher Colum
bus sailed has passed Into eclipse
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while the lands he discovered support
nations that are in the morning splen
dors of a better age
Whatever the formal ceremonies at
tending the first New Years day in
the western hemisphere its notability
is not lessened That Columbus and
his men took some note of its passage
goes without saying Even in a time
so crowded with other emotions the
fact that he was greeting another year
on the shore that he had seen so long
in vision must have filled the heart of
the daring discoverer with quickened
joy and thanksgiving His mind would
naturally travel back a twelvemonth
to the day that he had completed with
his sovereigns the negotiations for the
voyage that had culminated in success
Just as naturally he would look for
ward to another year picturing the en
thusiasm at his home coming the fit
ting out of other expeditions and the
colonizing of the new land Happily
then he knew naught of the chains and
Indignities that awaited him The fu-
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ture was all roseaie He had discov
ered the western way to the Indies he
would return and find gold and hence
forth fame and fortune should be his
The feast which the Spaniards had
that New Years day in Guarico was
something novel for European palates
First there was bread made of Indian
maize or corn over which Columbus
grew so enthusiastic that he carried a
quantity of the grain back to Spain
Another form of Indian bread was
made from a tuber called manioc The
white men were also introduced to the
West Indian pepper pot which is
still highly esteemed Then they were
asked to try a condiment called aje
which proved too strong even for the
seasoned stomach of a Spaniard There
were meats as well made from a sort
of rabbit a dumb dog a lizard or ig
uana to say nothing of boiled parrots
There were also fruits and vegetables
in such quantities that Columbus wrote
in his journal it was the most protract
ed feast he had ever enjoyed
It is also narrated that after the
feast the Indians smoked the delicious
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PASSED
West Indian tobacco and invited the
whites to do likewise but this was too
heathenish a custom for the dons So
tobacco was a luxury unknown in Eu
rope till Raleigh started it on its way
to make incense around the world
Columbus left part of his crew but
they treated the trusting natives in so
Spanlardly a fashion if the term may
be used that the red men turned
about and murdered the entire outfit
It was here In the West Indies by the
way that the great discoverer was aft
erward placed in chains by some titled
nobody who was sent over to represent
the Spanish king It is not alone re
publics that are ungrateful
But the memory of that Initial New
Years which was also the first day
of a new epoch in the history of man
kind will be cherished along with the
fame of him who drew the veil from
two continents and made It possible for
the weary world to look into a later
golden age in another Atlantis
New Years In French Canada
New Years day to the people of
French Canada is as much of a social
holiday as much of a childrens fes
tival as Christmas is to their English
speaking fellow citizens As In the
United States France and England so
in the province of Quebec the religious
observance of Christmas is very much
more imposing than that of New
Years day but among the French
Canadians the day of social festivity
and family reunions and of the giving
and receiving of gifts Is not Christmas
but New Years To many of the
younger portion of French Canadas
population New Years day is still
known as it was In those provinces of
France from which their forefathers
came as le jour des etrennes the day
of gifts
The Weepine Toad
In the ancient churches of the Tyrol
the sacred edifices are kept securely
closed on the evening before the new
year and the people of that romantic
district are firmly convinced that at
this time when no one is present a
huge toad crawls before the altar and
prays weeping bitterly These toads
are supposed to be the reincarnations
of Christians who have failed to make
a pilgrimage and no one In the Tyrol
ever molests them as they go hopping
about striving perhaps to find their
way to shrines which have long since
ceased to exist
Russias New Tear
In Russia the new year is ushered in
by a long and rather tiresome New
Years religious service which is fol
lowed by strenuous drinking frequent
ly Interrupted by prostrations before
the all powerful icons or holy pictures
without which no Russian household
is safe and which have played so prom
inent a part In the war in the far east
Scandinavias Odd Custom
In Scandinavia the favorite beverage
New Years day is drunk from silver
or wooden tankards or from horns of
the urox an animal now extinct which
custom substantiates the antiquity of
the Norse New Years day Many of
these horns are old enough to have
been used by Thor and Odin
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