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(Kotolm Itfttrnal . - t v ' -. VOL. XVIII -NO. 36. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1887. WHOLE NO. 920. r ' .COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital $75,000. DIRECTORS: LKANDER GERHARD, Fres't OKO. W. HULST, Yioo Pnw't. JULIUS A. IlKED. R. H. HENKY. J. K. TASKEH. CWiiwr. Baik ef Iepoit, IMhcokb: aad EickaBRe. Callectloaa Promptly JIade all PoIntH. Pay ImierM( ob Time Oepes Ite. 274 COLUMBUS Savings Bank. LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Capital Stock, 8100,000. OFFICERS: A. ANDERSON, Prea't. O. W. SHELDON. Vice Pn't. O. T. ROEN, Treas. ROBERT UHLIU. Sec. o Vill receive time deiosits, from $1.00 and any amount upwards, and will pa the cus toumry rate of interest. GBWe particularly draw jour attention to our facilities for making loans on real e-tute. sit the lowest rate of interest. o tCity, School and County Bonds, and in dividual securities are Ixiiight. lf.june'5 FOR THE WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAN CALL ON A.&M.TURNER Or U. W. HIBLER, TraTeliaK" Malewmaai. HfTljesa orgnna are first-cliu.8 in every par ticular, and so guaranteed. SCHAFFROTH I PUTH, nL.XB8;IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Piaps Repaired on short notice fW-On door west of Heintz's Drug Store. 11th street, Columbus. Neb. 17nov36-tf HENRY G-ASS. UNDERTAKEE ! COFFINS AXD METALLIC 0ASKS AND DKALXRIN rami tar, Chairs, BadaUada. Bu rsa, Tables, Safes. Loangsa, Ac. Picture Framaa and Mouldings. .' tW Repairing of all kind of Uphol atery Good. B-tf COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. PATENTS Caveats and Trade Marks obtained, and all Pat. nt business conducted for MODERATE FEES. OUB OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U. S. PATENT OFFICE. We have no snb-agencies, all basins s direct hemoe we can transact patent business in laaa time and at LESS COST than those remote from Washington. . . 8aad modal, drawing, or photo, with descrip tion. We advise if patentable or not, free of eharge. ' Oar fee not due till patent i6 secured. A book. "How to Obtain Patents." with refer ences to actual clients in your state, county or town, seat free. AdJP""-mftw A m . Opposite Patent Ofice, Washington, DYO. HBaWaVSrS afflS w-.tSSCF-iiWf bRwjSMrK): ftB"T aBlaBBBlBBBBBBBBBBBBWaBBBCSMmm "- AW .WaBBBBBBBBBwJ, d. NEW YEAR'S EVE. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky. The flying cloud, the frosty light; Thf year is dytnjr In the night; Eintr out, wild belU, and let him die. Ring out the oM, riig in the new; Pji!?, liappy Iell9. across the snow; The year is going, let hltn go; Riug out the false, ring iu the true. r.iva out the old ruNO is ran xew. llinz out the grief that saps the mind Pur those that hem w e see no more; lting out the feud of rich and poor, lUug iu redress to all mankind. Ring in the valiant man and free. The larger heart, t!w kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land. Ring iu the Christ that is to bo. Alfred Tennyson. EGBERTS NEW YEAR'S. BY OLIVE HARPER. This day Egbert had been down to tho very end of the garden, to tlio little house that stood by tho edge of tho woods on their neighbor's land, and he looked with childish curiosity tlirongh tho palings, to where he heard voices. A boy of about his own ase, a joorly dressed and not very pretty Ixy, stood uith a woe begone look while a sweet faced woman bound up a cut linger, and then hen it was done he parsed her plump arm around the child's neck and drew the curly brown head to her breast, and with the other she patted his check, and then caressed his curling hair, and finally ki&svd him two or three times very tenderly. Suddenly Egbert's heart swelled and liis throat pained with the effort to keep back the tears. No one leved him like that. "Mother," said the Iwy on the other side of the fence, "'mother, it doesn't hurt a bit now. Shall I go on choppingf' "Yes, dear, but be a little more carcfuL I don't want to find you in a hospital New Year "s day. ''Don't you be scared. You best little mother in the whole v.orld." So the "bet little mother"' went into tho cottage, giving her boy one more beaming glauce of love as she entered the door, and tho lK)y returned to his job of splitting kin dlings. r&SZ NO ONE LOVED HOI LIKE THAT. Egbert stood a little while and then went slowly toward tho house, his brain filled with thoughts and his heart with a vague sense of grief and almost anger. He wanted a mother. lie had none ; no one to love him in that precious fashion that he hod just beheld. His nurse had always been good to him, his father more than good, but why had be no mother? Where was she, or had he never had one? His father gave him everything that money could bny or affection devise, but ho had never known a mother, nover heard the name even, at least as applied to himself, but now he suddenly felt that be had needed a mother always and he had never had one. V.'hat was tho reason? Did everybody have mothers, or only tho poor, for ho realized that theso people were poorer than others, and yet as so remem bered that sweet comforting smile and that tender caress ho felt wronged and defrauded. "I will have a mother, too," said ho, "even if 1 havo to live in a cottage and wear old clothes and have no playthings like that boy; I'll ask father right away." Egbert Fallon would be 10 years old on 3few Year's day and he had never known any other home than this, which was in a suburb of New York and closed against intrusion. Ho saw no children, except when ho rodo on his pony beside his father in their excur sions, and no visitors came there, nor did Mr. Fallon visit any person. The servants were the same that had come there when he did, and no ono of them ever said a word that could give this little fellow tho idea that life had ever held any other ties f cr him than those he now had. Egbert returned to the house slowly and thoughtfully and went to the study, where ho expected to find his father; but he found no one, and so he went on up stairs, but there ho did not find him cither; so almost mechani cally he went on until he reached the garret, where he went over to tho east window and looked out toward the little cottage, all the while with his heart full of this new longing. After a little he began to look about and notice the quaint old broken furniture that was stored here, and finally his glance fell upon a queer, old fashioned little hair trunk bound with iron bands, studded with brass nails. He thought what a pretty place this would be to store his smaller playthings in, and knowing that everything there would will ingly be given to him, he tried to open it and see what it would look like on the inside. The trunk was locked, but he soon found means to open it, and he found it filled with women's clothes. He tossed them out impatiently, and then at the very bottom of the trunk he found a portfolio full of papers. Among them was a letter sealed and ad dressed to his father, and a picture painted on porcelain of a lovely woman, who some bow looked familiar to him, but he knew he had never seen her, yet he loved her, and ho put the picture in his pocket and took up the old portfolio and went back down stairs. He scarcely knew what he was about or what he was thinking of, and his little brain was as confused as his heart was fulL He entered the study and found his father there talking with the nurse, who seemed to hide something; tinder her apron. . Egbert smiled a little contemptuously as ifiiiJ i i?& lie ut ouco understood that it naa something j to do with New Year's some new gift. I "Father," said he, "were yon thinking of giving me anything to-morrow;"' I "Why, yes. It is New Year's, and your birthday. Is there anything you would like . to have particularly J" jigoerr. oebitatea ana grew red. "Father, I dont know as I could, but if I j could have ono, I should like to have a mother. If a knife had pierced that father's heart, ho could not have grown more pale than did Mr. Fallon when his boy stammered out that pathetic request. He groaned in agony as he staggered for ward and stretched his arms across the table, and hid his face upon them, while he trembled in every limb. Egbert camo close to his father wonder ingly, but he could not understand this sud den dispday of emotion, and he laid tho port folio down on the table with the picture, and finally seeing that his father seemed so grieved, ho put out his hand instinctively, and tried to caress his father's hair, as he had Been that poor woman do. This light touch brought Mr. Fallon's mind back to his child, and he slowly lifted his face from the tablo, and then drew the boy to his knee, a very unusual demonstration for him to make. "What rnado you ask that question, Egbert I Who has been talking to your "No one, father, only I saw that poor children had mothers, and today I somehow felt that if I had a mother of my very own, I should feel so contented and happy, and I felt, too, that I had always wanted one, only I never knew it until today, and I thought you could get me one, iwrhaps, instead of any play toys. I am tired of all kinds of toys, and when I saw that boy's mother love him o tenderly, I made up my mind to ask you. I should lovo you just tho same. Father, why is it I have no mother, or don't rich people have themf "My boy, I havo tried to keep this sorrow from you, and to so till a mother's place that you would never miss her, but it is useless. Nature has spoken. You had a mother once, but you have none now. You can never havo another." "But-whero is sh, father! Is she dead?" "Yes, child, dead to us alL" "Lut when did she dier "Eight years ago, Egbert Now, my boj', listen. You must not speak of her again, never, never. I cannot bear it, to me nor to iny one else. You must think no more about it, and bo as happy as you can with me. Am I not good to you?" "Oh, yes, and I will try," said the boy, try ing to struggle against the tears; and then he rose and went out of the study and up to his room, where he went to bed to think and try to understand this first sorrow and first mystery of his young life. Mr. Fallon remained iu his study a prey to violent-emotion. This child, whom ho had surrounded with $uch tenderness, and who hud nil that was left of bis broken heart, found that not mough, and his innocent nature cried out for mother love, not even knowing what it was. And that mother, weak, unworthy, sinful ind abandoned, what did she care if the little heart broke tor want of a mother's tender ;are? Hot tears forced themselves through his yelids, nnd obs racked his breast us he ;iiought it all over. He had taken his young bride to his heart u J home, with pride and love, deep and true, and in two short years she had proved unworthy of his name. Even while her first born lay upon her breast she was a guilty wretch, and then, when his cousin had discovered all tho wrong, ind had proved it to him, she dared deny it aud so mako it all the deeper. Then he had driven her forth, torn from her false arms the pretty baby, and she had gone out of his home and life forever, leav ing tho blight of her sin upon them both. Then he had made a recluse of himself for the sake of his child, and had tried to so fill this little heart that it should never need an other love, and yet that little heart missed something. Ah, well, he would havo to know it some day. Perhaps it was best that he learn it now, while too young to understand. The bweet, innocent face that she bad! How could guilt have lodged in that heart? How could she have sacrificed husband, child, good name, all? Yet she did. The proofs were too strong for doubt. Those letters, their touch withered his heart and life at once, eight years ago when Amy was driven forth a wanderer and an outcast, weeping and declaring her innocence to tho last, in spite of the proofs in his pos session. Then she had taken her shattered life homo to her parents, and they had sheltered her. They believed in her innocence. Well, sho was their child, and they ought to be lieve her. "Oh, Amy, little Amy, I loved you so!" ho murmured. "I could lovo you now, God help mo! I believe I do yet, in spite of nil, and I forgive j-ou, for you were so j-oung!"' "FATHER, WHY IS IT I HAVE SO MOTHER?" At this moment his eyes fell upon the port folio rying upon the table, and mechanically he opened it, only to start, hold his breath and strain, his eyes to the utmost as he ex amined one by one the papers which proved ujxm their face that the poor wife, so wrong fully accused, had been driven away, the in nocent victim of his cousin. It did not need the letter which she had written on her dying bed to him, confessing her crime and begging forgiveness, to provo that Amy was as pure as an angel; and now he sprang to his feet, with new life in his veins, new hope in his heart, new light in hi eyes. For six long years that latter and tho port folio, with the rough copies of the falso let ters which had condemned an innocent woman, bad lain almost under bis hand aud he had never known it. When Lydia died her little trunk had been sent to him, but he never looked beyond the -top, and he never knew that her hopeless love for him had been the motive for this crime. He closed the portfolio, saying: "She is dead now; I will forgive her when Amy forgives me." And as he moved the book the picture lay exposed. He grasped it, and through blind ing tears he kissed the face of his poor wife, and then ho rose with a new energy, saying: "I will start this hour, and if they will let me see her I will pray her forgiveness on my knees, Mv ooor. Dersecuted wifA" A soft rustle of garments, a breath of per fume sweet as a clover field, then a low, ten der voice whispered: "Clarence, she has long ago forgiven yon, and baa loved you always." "Amy, oh, my wife!" After awhllav whaa they oold talk. Amv "" - "" '"" S MOTHER AND CHILD WERE IS KACH OTHEB'S ARMS. told him that her longing to JenoiG fter csiiu had been so great, that bho had stolen then liko a thief, and had managed to gain en trance, and then sho had hidden behind the curtain as her husband came in, and so had been a silent spectator of all. Morning dawned aud Egbert dressed and went downstairs, feeling :is if something un usual was about to happen. Tho remembrance of the conversation with his father weighed upon his young heart, aud chocked the curiosity aa to hU expected pres ents. Tho door opened and his father camo in leading the lady of tho portrait. One look at that face wax enough, and mother and child wero in each ocher's arms. Tho little heart had nothing left to long for, ho hail hu mother, and yet two pearly tear.; swam in his eyes, and his lips quivered, but it was with puro joy. GIVING NEW YEAR'S GIFTS. Tho giving of New Year's gifts is a custom that has long been practically obsolete, but in tho olden days gift giving on New Year's was us strictly observed as on Christmas. Like many of the Christmas customs, it was derived from the Romans, among whom, at one time, tho day possessed tho proud distinc tion of being the only one in tho whole year on which gifts could be legally demanded. Among common New Year's gifts in the early days of England's history wero oranges stuck with cloves oranges and cloves were great rarities then gloves and pins to the ladies, etc. The common gift from a tenant to his landlord was a capon, and Cowley, an early English poet, recognized this custom when he wrote the lines: When v. Itli low legs un J in an humble guise He oifered up a capon sacrifice Unto his worship at the New Year's tide. Among the characters in Ben Jouson's "Masque of Christmas" is "New Year's Gift in a blue coat, serving man like, with an orange, and a sprig of rosemary on his head, his hat full of brooches, with a collar of gingerbread, his torch lieaver, carrying a marchpane with a bottle of wine on either arm." Sometimes in the placo of gloves or pins, dearer then to the feminine heart, even, than now, for they were costly and used only by tho rich, sums of money were given; hence the terms, still in common use, of "glove money" nnd "pin money." The bribing of judges was not at all uncommon in those days, and money paid to the administrators of the law was often concealed iu handsome gloves presented as polite offerings of friend bhip. Once when a lady of tho name of Croaker sent a pair of gloves to Sir Thomas More lined with forty golden sovereigns that judge returned the gold with a note in which, "since it were against good manners to re fuse," her New Year's gift was accepted, "but as for tho lining," ho went on, "I ut terly refuse it" It was the custom then to make New Year's gifts in profusion to the reigning sovereign, and lists of such gifts are still religiously preserved. Queen Elizabeth received more New Year's gifts than any previous ruler of England, and among the articles named on her lists wero necklaces, petticoats, looking glasses, bracelets, silk stockings, etc. It is believed that the famous silk stockings given to this queen by Mrs. Montague wero New Year's gifts, and it is recorded that Elizabeth liked them mightily, ami thenceforth sho never wore cloth hoso any more. The giving of New Year's presents to superiors was a cus tom generally observed, and, of course, be came a cloak for all sorts of jobbery. Tho Banquet of Jests, published in 1634, tells a tale of a New Year's gift made by one of the noblemen of tho reign of King Charles I to the court jester, which it terms a "pleasant story." It seems that the jester was not satisfied with the number of pieces of money he had received, so ho shook the coins discontentedly in his hand, whereat the nobleman begged tho return of them for a moment, "and by tho wa3V ho added, "there is one of them which I would bo loath to part with." The coins were returned and the jester waited patiently for a larger gift But tho nobleman pocketed tiie cash, re marking with givat brilliancy: "1 once gave my money into tho hands of a fool, who had not the wit to keep it." The fact that this story has,been preserved from oblivion for more than 00 years by means of constant republications in England, and that all the wits of that island havo doubtless laughed heartily at it, may per hais be considered sufficient exeue for its insertion here. There is a father with twice six sons; these sons havo thirty daughters apiece, partly colored, having one cheek white and the other black, who never see each other's face nor live nbove twenty-four hours. Chambers' Book of Days. AN OLD POEM ON TIME. Why sit'st thou by that ruined wall. Thou aged carle, so ftern and grayf Dost thou its former prido recall. Or ponder how it passed away? Enow'st thou not meJ the deep voice cried. So long enjoyed, so oft misused Alternate in thy fickle pride, Desired, neglected and accused? 4, Before my breath, like Mazing flax, 5 Man and his marvels pass away; L' And changing empires wane and war. Are founded, flourish and decay. Redeem mine hours the space is brief While in my glass the sand grains shiver. And measureless thy Joy or grief. When time and thou shalt part forever. The Antiquary. THE DIVINING HORSE. BT ACRELIE.V SCHOLL. The Count X has in his stables six horses of all styles of beauty, and beside them, in a stall which touches the wall, stands an old horse covered with scars and with great cal louses upon his knees. This frightful speci men of the equine race is treated like a son of the family, and is caressed and cherished. They make him a soft bed; they serve him with hay from tho Maison Doree and oats from Bignon's. They exercise him every morning for a short time, and when it is ever so slightly cold or foggy they cover him with a warm blanket. He lives like one who is enjoying his revenue. "Where the devil did you find that horse?" asked a friend ono morning while they were harnessing the break. "It is a very simple story," answered X "In the most dolorous circumstance Of mv life this animal vraa thn nnltr hoinff who could understand me. In a voyage to iuuy x naa encountered at capri a woman for whom I conceived a erand rawrinn. or, t more truly, the only passion that ever in vaded my heart She wiScither English or ! American, and I was destined never to see j her again. Remembrance tortured me. I , paced tho streets of Paris, in EH tho senses of the word, m order to forget her or distract my mind. I had but one imago in my heart, one name upon my lips. My friends, whom my melancholy saddened, drew away one by one, and when ono day I wanted to confide in one, and I named to him my mysterious passion, he began to laugh, saying that those sentiments were not for our days. I quit him brusquely and recommenced my vaga bond existence." "Last New Year's day, re-entering Paris, I hoard the rolling of a drum. A saltini banquo was gathering a crowd and a clown was ranging them in a cirelo. I pushed my way to the first row of the crowd. "By the side of the drum stood a horse curiously accoutcrcd. On his head was a bunch of three colored feather-, faded and stringy, and on his bock a mando, once red but now a dull brick color, and with fringe which may have been gilded the first year of Duqucsners direction of the Odcon. "Thin and rough of coat, trembling on his fogs, the "poor animal contemplated JI At . M. 1-A-- At- the crowd with an air of tad resignation. i Wf'M; i& ns -' y s THE DIVIXIXG HORSE "Evidently ho was hungry, and death alone could put an end to his sufferings. "The clown blow a trumpet, while the other man continued to beat the drum. "Tho music ceased nt last and tho clown commenced his harangue. " 'This horse, ladies and gentlemen, is the one which bore tho duke of Orleans the day of the execution of Louis XVI. Later he became tho intimate friend of Robespierre's pack mule. This horse, pupil of Mile. Lenor mand, can count up to a hundred, only we stop him at twelve, so as not to tiro tho pub lic He divines the character, the faults and the good qualities of the spectators. The price of the consultation is fixed at ten centimes.' "The old rnck-o-bones on four legs desig nated successively tho most lazy person, the most gluttonous and tho most obstinate. " 'Now, gentlemen,' added tho clown, 'this surprising animal will designate the person f you all who is most in lovo. He fixes no prico for that exercise and relies upon the generosity of the public' "A few pennies fell upon tho carpet and the horse made the circuit of the crowd twice, looking each cue in the eyes and hav ing a reflective air. Then he seemed to take his resolution aud came straight to me and took his stand teforc me. " 'Is it this j'oung ladyr asked the clown, pointing to n pretty little washerwoman, who blushed as red as a cherry. "The horse shook his head for a negative sign. tit! W l!if' Jr- 4S-ss LT . J r S?ffCjJ?yN.fi f --.l - rS-& 't-'i- i. I L. -A - J oc.-y,;,. &&1 .V" THE MAN MOST IX LOVE. "'It is this gentleman, thenf asked the clown, nnd from head to foot the horso an swered, Yes. "The idiotic crowd began to laugh, whilo tho girls looked at mo with mischievous glances of sympathy. "I caressed tho old "horse; I offered him even a fat gingerbread man, and slowly withdrew. The poor beast threw mo a inel archoly look and went on to another part of tho crowd to continue his business of saltim bauque. "It was not until uieht, in a feverish in somnia, that a feeling of remorse oppressed my heart. One being had understood me; one alone; and Iliad let that friend de part forever. Poor animal I Artist of tho ring! With what sympathetic attention he had looked at me! "And I dreamed that I went back to Capri, guided by tlutt old horso. How he had tra versed tho gulf of Naples is not explained, but he was there with mo, searching for tho unknown. "And the next day I hastened to tho Place of the Throne. I found the saltimbanque nnd proposed that he should sell me his horse. At first he rejected my proposition. That horso supported three persons; they would havo to teach another, and it would take too long, etc. "At last, however, tho saltimbanque con sented to cede him in exchange for a second hand merry-go-round, which happened to be for sale on account of death. "I brought my friend proudly homo; proud ly, though' at a walk and behind a cab. Ho has seen hard times, no doubt, during his long career, but I give him a happy old age, and ho shall sleep in his luxury affectionately watched by him whom he alone could under stand." NEW YEAR'S IN MANY LANDS. In China New Year's Day is tho chief festival of the year. It comes, by tho un certain calendar of our antipodes, late in January or tho beginning of February. It is celebrated with many of the observances peculiar to Now York. Visits are exchanged, presents made; the Chinese, clothed in their finest dress, hasten from house to house to call upon their nearest friends. Winen, cakes and confectioneries are offered; con gratulations are exchanged and good wishes for the new year pass from guest to host It is not said that the Chinese ladies share in the festivities', but they probably consumo their sweetened balls of rice and their sugared fruits in the inner rooms of their dwellings. The resemblance between the Chineso cele bration of New Year's Day and that of eur ancestors Is so alike as ulmostto prove that tho one is borrowed from the other. For thousands of years tho Chinese havo exchanged visits and good wishes on New Year's Day when Casar penetrated the Belgic marshes, and when the errant Gauls descended to the sack of Rome. We may be sure that the custom has never changed. One of its peculiar traits may well be borrowed in other lands. On New Year's Eve every Chinaman pays his debts, and is freed from every liability. For ten days before tho new year business ceases, accounts are balanced, books written up. Honesty is a Chineso vir tue, and the unlucky bankrupt in bis remorse is often driven to suicide. The Chiaew 1 & f VMM& cmsmim fWwm- : 31"t" XX H 4 flSfcA t ivinir i -'!. r. j. .i5?i . b tjsu;.iTA. i-- r TffM II. -A4 :-msizfr 1 MJrAVTl IS Ufjf AT71I IA . Vl m among themselves are a contentea, cneerrui, . uncomplaining people. Family Iifu among them is usually happy and united; the teach ings of Conf uciu3 and Monclus are full of hope. ! But the intense superstition of tho race fills ' China with a constant disquietude. On New i Year's Day it is supposed that the "Spirit of tho Hearth" makes his annual visit to the skies. If he should go away in anger the ' good fortune of tho family would be lost for ever. He is followed with incessant prayers and a farewell from each member of the I household. A peculiar kind of sweetmeats is ' offered him to clone his lips together, and some beans to feed tha horsa on which ho is supposed to ride. Even the educated Chineso share these ideal fears. In a recent inunda tion of the Yellow river, that was followed ( by a wide devastation, one of tho most learned and powerful of the Chinese officials ' fell on his knees before a water snake that had crept out of the flood, beseeching it to save tho country from any further danger. ' On our own continent, long before Eng- land and Holland had adopted the eastern i custom, New Year's Day was celebrated with ' btrange and fanciful ceremonies in the splcn J!J .?.l T1 i.- iWt . uiu ciuw oi lucatan. xne story or aiaynn , civilization is as yet only imperfectly known. But wo may still wander amidst the ruins j of its great capitals, along highways onco j trodden by countless travelers, and lift in part tho veil tliat hides its fallen splendor. ! Fifty cities, it is said, covered the penin- sula of Yucatan. Thoy were joined by fine ! roads paved with stone. Their temples and I public buildings wero of enormous size. ; They wero not far behind the Chineso in many of tho refinements of a civilized life, i To tho Mayan the new year came as to all other races the symbol of a new existence ! The temples were swept and decorated anew perfect cleanliness was a part of their ' faith. Tho huge idols wero carefully freed I from dust. The children of the schools, the ; priests and noble3 joined in tho work of puri ; flcation. Many persons fasted for thirty j days before the new year's ceremonial. But : when tho morning dawned all was joy and J congratulation. Tho women of Yucatan, j like those of China, took little part in the ceremony. But tho princes, nobles and l priests, clad in fine robes, filled the courts of the temples. A banquet of Mayan delicacies : was provided, wine and intoxicating liquors flowed freely, tho people drank madly, and the barbaric sceno usually closed in aficrco and bloody contest. ! In their wild superstitions tho Mayan!? sur j passed even the lowest savages. They fed on I tho bodies of their captives and slaves; their j temples rang with the shrieks of their vie- tims. i Roman, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek rejoiced j with tho new year. At Rome an imago of t tho golden ago was imagined. Tho slave bo i camo for a moment free; perfect equality ruled in the Roman home; gay sports and i laughter filled up tho fleeting moments of tho Saturnalia. The Roman celebration passed down through the Middle Ages, andsome I thing of the license that had prevailed iu the houses of Casar and Sail ust was adopted in ' tho homes of our European ancestors. But to tho modern the conception of the new year and its duties is of a higher and happier na , turc. It is not tho Mayan, tho Chinese, or even the Romun festival. It is tho opening I of a new ieriod, in which bettor thoughts end purer motives may have freer play. Wo re ! joiee, visits are exchanged, good wishes shared, the hopes of the future rekindled, the J new pago of life surveyed with no desoud in? eyes. In the new year that opens upon us we havo much to do. We are to rememlei more than ever that we are but men. W. are to study more than ever how to help each other. Eugene Lawrer..-" iu Harpers Weekly. Superstitions ItegartSJcjr New Year' Day. In England there u a iopular idea thut if an. unmarried person trips accidentally whilo going upstairs on New Year's day, that person will be married before the year is out. In Bulgaria it is believed that the child born on Now Year's will never have to work for a living. Also, if any one, while eating a New Year's dinner, lets fall a piece of breed upon the floor, that person will come to want before the end of tho year. Among the Oriental races in. general all tho grown jKople endeavor to have in their pocket silver, gold and copper at the dawn ing of that day to insure abundance of money during the year. Some of the eminent people who were lorn Jau. 1 wero Baron Von Trenck, 1710; Ed mund Burke, 1730, and Maria Edgoworth, 1707. TIME'S DARLING IS DEAD. From out the crystal snow, A year ago, " The angels made her; ST And the sentinel stars of night Gave his blue eyed darling light; Then they pillaged the moon of her crown To fashion a pure white gown; And they circled her waist amain i -r F With the wisp of a comet's train. From out of the eastern gray Of a new born day They took a strand; ''2' And they bound the silver line With a ray of the sun's decline: And they wove them well in a loom, Tho threads of hope and of doom. Till they formed a beautiful car Made fast to a meteor star. Than down from the gates above. A bit to love. She came to his band; But the crimson and silver were one. And his hopes but a mist in the sun. The clouds in their sorrow may weep. While the stars no more vigilance keep, Aa they search on planet and sphere For his darling, the dying year; But they wander and weary in vain To restore tho living again; For under the crystal snow, A nigbt ago. The angels laid her. Curlnns Old Alnmuacs. With the New Year we all betake ourselves to new almanacs. And these almanacs of ours are very different from those of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth century. Hero is the title page of one of them: "A Prognossicacion and an Almanack fast ened together, declaring the Dispocision of tho People and also of tho Wethor, with cer tain Electyons and Tyines choacn both for Phi&ike and Surgerye, and for the husband men. And also for Hawekyng, Huutyng, Fishyng and Foulynge, according to tho Science of Astronomy, mado for the Ycaroof our Lord God M.D.L., Colculed for the Merydyan of Yorko, and practiced by Anthony Askham." At tho end, "Imprynted at London, in Flete Strete, at the Signe of the George, next to Sol t Dunstan's Churchy by Wyilyam PowelL cum privilegio ad im primendum solum." Then follows the Prognostication, the title page to which is as follows: . "A ProansoasicaeioB for the Yer ef eur Lord M.CCCCC.U, Cnlouled upon the Merydyan of tho Towne of Auwarpe and the Country thereabout, by Master Teter of Moorbeeko, Doctour in PJiysieko of the suine Towne, whereuato is added tho Judgment of M. Cornelius Sehute, Doctour in Physicke of the Towno of BrugvS in Flanders, upon and concerning the Disposiciou, Estate, aud Condiciou of certaino Prynces. Coutreys, and Regions, for the present Yere, gathered ouU of his lYognossiui cion for tho sauit Yere. Translated outo of Duch into Englyshu by William Har rys." At the end, "Imprynted ut I)udon by John Daye, dwellyne over Aldersgate, and Wyilyam Sores, dwellyno in Peter CoMcdge. These Bokes are to bo sold at tho News Shop by the Lytle Cunduyto iu Chepcsyde." And hero another: "An Almanacko nnd Prognostication for the Yeare of our Lonlo MDLL, practystxl by Simon Henringius and Lodowdyke- Boyard, Doctors in Physike and Astronoraye, &c. At Worcester in tho Hygh Strete." And another: "A Nowo Almanacko and Prognostication, Collected for tho Yere of our Ixml MDLVIIL, wherein i3 exprcssod tho Change and Full of tho Moonc, with their Quartcra. The Varietie of the Ayre, and also of the Wiiides throughout the wholo Yere, with In fortunnto Times to Bio and Sell, take Medi cine, Sowe, Plant, and Journey, &c Made for tho Meridian of Norwich and I'oloArc ticke LII. Degrees, and serving for all Eng land. By William Kenumgham, Physician. Imprynted at London by John Dayo," dwell ing over Alderagate." Pleasant Greetings. ir Two policemen on sidewalk talking in storm: "Happy 2qv.- Year's, is it? Nobody's of fered cie a nip or a tip today !" "Me, too." The dog does not testifv. Too Much Tandy. Hundreds of tons of candy have probably been bought by parent, tor their children within the last week. The swei-t but treach eroiif. compound is a nevossary part of our civilization. The Nineteenth century holi days would Iw Iucoiut let..- without it Whether it is conducive to health in its best und u rest form is doubtful. Those who lead a thoroughly vigorous out door life can probably take a good deal without nny bad effect But it is not thoM us a rule, who are the great candy eaters. They crave a more folid food. It ij generally the stay at homes who do most execution :i sweet things. A girl of 15 will sometimes consume an amount of candy which would make strong men turn lale. Very young children, when they get the chance, limit their apatites by their ca pacity. Moraine; Dew for Her Complexion. A young woman who claims Augusta as her home, nnd who oflicinted as maid to a New York l)elle who spent last sum mer at Bar Harbor, has just cleared tip what was regarded, even ut that resort, used as it is to queer freaks, as mysterious actions Every morning my lady's maid was seen to leave the hotel between 5 nnd (J, and spread on the grass something that looked very like a fine white handker chief. Then, having vrnited a few mo ments, she would gather up the article and return to her mistress' chamber. She now explains that it was part of her du ties to wet a lace monchoir as the lady called it with the early dew of morning and then lay it over the face of the New York belle, who had nn idea that it soft ened and added leauty nnd freshness to her complexion. Privately, the maid ad mitted not expecting to be engaged by the same damsel another season that the young lady's ruse was a failure, as her complexion always looked moist and rather shiny, instead of having the clear tint she hoped for. That the first snow of winter is commonly supposed to remove freckles is an old conceit, but that the morning dew enhances the complexion of city belles is indeed a new "fad." Lewis ton Journal. Hallway Knterpriae In Turkey. An important railway enterprise is an nounced in Turkey, a syndicate of British financiers having received from the gov ernment the right to construct a grand trunk line to traverse the central plateau of Asia Minor and connect Constantinople with Bagdad, covering a distance of l,;i30 miles. It is said that for years past this undertaking ha3 been the goal of rival speculators. English, French, German and American companies have all sought to obtain the franchise. The line to Ada Bazaar from Ismid Is to be commenced forthwith and finished in two years. In four years the line is to be finished to An gora, and eight years after to Bagdad. It is estimated to cost some $90,000,000."" Chicago News. Time for Mariners. The plan of signaling accurate time from sea coasts was first adopted by Great Britain about thirty, years ago. That country now has on its coasts fourteen time balls and five other time signals, and its colonics and dependencies have twenty slx time balls; Germany has seven time balls; France, four time balls and two other time signals; Sweden and Norway, Austria-Hungary, Holland with Belgium, and tho United States, have five time balls each; Denmark has two; Spain and Portu gal, one each; Italy, none. Arkansaw Traveler. Esaniple of Chlnrsu Cruelty. 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