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VOL. XIX.-NO. 36.
COLTJMBUS, NEB. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1888.
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FRAGMENTS.
THE NEW TEAS.
TVTiat is thia fair New Year! i
A flower that dropt from the Wer )
Whew the Old Ytar lay, ere Time bore him away
To the Ac tomb with a tear.
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IN OLDE ENGLAND. !
This U Newe Yeare's day,
whereon to every friend
They costly presents in do bring
and New Yeare's gifts do sende;
These gif tes the husband gives his wife,
and father eke his childe.
And maister on his men bestowes
the liie with favour milde. OIJ Son?.
WHERE IT OEGINS.
Oh. not when winter comes, through fields of snow.
With half worn shoes the new born year begins;
Rut where the streams of life unfettered flow.
And blossoms o'er the sunlit meadows blow
The fragrant hope that strahrbt our credence
vrins. Philip O'Sullivan.
IMS GOOD LUCK.
A NEW TEARS STOBT WITH THE SECRET OF
SCCCESS.iy IT.
E HAD been talking
about tbe turn of fortune
which comes to some peo
ple with the New Year.
Dr. Mason, tho oldest man in the room, said:
I will tell you a story worth writing and
printing. I see that it is now the fashionable
thing for men and women who bare xnado a
little stir in tho world to tell all about the
books which influenced them and tho inci
dents which turned them into the highways
which led to fortune or to fame. Well,
I am not famous, thank heaven, but perhaps
the experiences of a man who has escaped
fame may not be without use to somebody.
I have always believed in luck. I don't at
tempt justify my belief. I know that I
can't hold my ground in argument against
tho-o who say there is no such thing. I only
know that 1 believe in it, Tho superstition
was lora in me. There is a proverb in tho
Castilian tongue which says: "Ho who ex
pects good luck will surely get it." I read
that before 1 was 12 years old, and at once
put faith in it It confirmed tho hope within
me, that the future held something exception
ally good for me. Perhaps each one of us has
that feeling, but not everybody evolves it
into a faith and regularly lives by it. I did.
I had a dreary childhood, a difficult youth
and a struggling early manhood. That
proverb helped me to go through everything
with courage. Usually 1 bated proverbs.
My father had a stock of very disagreeable
ones which be showered upon me at all sea
sons and hours. "They who know nothing
fear nothing," "Birds that fly high light
low," and others of equally discouraging
power were ever on the end of his tongue.
But the proverb 3iat promised good luck
simply because one expected it was both
balm and inspiration to me.
When playing with other boys and trouble
of any kind was imminent I always took the
most cheerful ground, and assured them that
everything would turn out all right. And I
was terribly in earnest, too. I felt that all
would go well somehow. The result was that
every one took hope and met difficulty and
danger as his master, not his victim. The
boys soon learned to depend upon me for
strength and encouragement, and they stuck
to me with romantic devotion. I learned
then the wonderful influence ono mind can
have over others when it recognises no such
thing as fear. Call it supersrivon. foolish
cess, what you will; but my frith in that
proverb was something marvelous. 1 will ad
mit, however, that I am of a credulous nature.
When I was young 1 believed every asser
tiou 1 ever heard or read. 1 was not a ques
tioner or ?onb'" If a man iprrl crii
Ttfp I teliered hint because I supposed that
be knew, else be would not assert. It never
occurred to me that be might lie. Being
honest myself I believed in tbe honesty of
others.
I lived in the country and I longed to live
in the city. My parents were well to do ; but
it was the custom of that locality to live sim
ply and bring tbe children up to work.
Mental accomplishments did not take high
rank in the circle in which I moved for tbe
first fifteen years of my life. I wanted a
better education than I was ever likely to
get. Somehow I fancied that I would get it,
though I could not see how. The holidays
always carry me back in memory to some of
the main events of my life. I believe that
f ortane has a habit of Hng extraordinary
changes, when the Old Year .goes out and the
baSkV mn 2Ff
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new one cornea. Atleaitithasdonesomore
than once in my case; and that is why I now
tell thia story to you younger people, who
naturally think of new leaves of many kinds
in connection with the New Year.
I was only 15 years old when one bitter ,
winter I took a contract to chop a large
quantity of cord wood. It was one of the
few ways boys bad in that locality of earn
ing a little money. It seems like a rough
way to me now; but we did not think so
then. I was up at 5 o'clock in the morning,
and by 0 had bad my breakfast, and was in
tbe woods sending the echo of my strokes far
over the hills. I was working for a purpose.
The winter's chopping would give me money
enough to start in a small business upon
which I bad set my heart. It was nothing ,
loss than to buy out a tin shop at ''The Cor
ners," tbe nearest village. In imagination I
saw myself a 'store keeper,' at once a per
son of dignity in the community and highly
satisfactory to himself. I soared even higher
than that I saw myself living in a fine
house, growing elderly, pompous and fat,
and in all probability president of a bank,
like Judge Johnson, for whom I turned of?
the sidewalk every time I met him at "The
CornexV as every other youth did, because
be was so rich and important.
New Year's day found me in the woods,
chopping away as usual. Holidays were not
observed in that community, and festivities
were as rare as angels' visits. An extra piece
of pie in my lunch pail and a bit of some
thing unusual for supper were all that
marked the day from all the other crisp, cold
winter days. But I thought of its being
Sew Year's, and dreamed my dreams while
I made the ax bum. The luck I expected out
of that winters work I could scarcely put in
a 6tnall kingdom. While I was dwelling
upon this interesting theme something
snapped far above my head, there was a
crash, some blinding flashes of light, and
then I was nowhere, at least consciously.
A heavy limb of an old dead tree bad
broiea and fallen upon me. When I "came
to" I found myself hurt and somewhat
frozen. I dragged myself homo only to take
to my bed for the remainder of the winter.
Such a winter as it was so bitter and hope
less that at tinsc3 I almost lost faith in my
good luck. I couldn't finish my contract of
wood chopping, and so the tin storo vanished.
In the spring I was able to be about once
more; but thin, pale, weak, and with a bad
limp. The doctors said I would never be
strong again. This was terrible news to me.
Alas! for the good luck I had expected. And
yet it came, though not as I bad planned.
It has a way of doing that, I have noticed.
In the early spring Uncle Zeph came to
see us. He was a kind hearted, unselfish
man, and be took an interest in me.
"Why, tho boy isn't able to do hard work.
He must be sent to school and to college," bo
said, after ho thoroughly understood the
situation. But my father winced and said
nothing. Education was but little respected
in those parts.
SEXDIXa THE ECHOES OF XT STROKES.
"What tise can be done with himP asked
my persistent uncle. "The boy has a good
head. There's something in him. Give him
a chance. You surelv wouldn't force him to
live his life without resources and tools with
I which to aid himself. It's a shame."
' At last it was settled that I was to receive
a thorough collegiate education. Uncle Zeph,
who was childless, paying half the cost of it.
Here was a piece of luck, indeed; better
even than anything I had expected. It quite
renewed my faith in my only prowl. And
it had all come out of what I had deemed a
stroke of the hardest kind of luck. Take cour
age, then, all of you, and dont think becauso
you can't see light ahead of you that tber
is no light.
Well, 1 was graduated at last from one of
me oest colleges. After th. I took a medi
cal course and went to what was then con
sidered the far west, Indiana, to practice.
Patients came slowly, but I expected good
luck, as I bad learned to do, and had
patience, if no patients.
I was just beginning to be a little known
when I fell in love. The young lady who
had effected this state of my emotions was
Miss Alma Adams. She was very handsome.
She had the dark eyes I am so fond of, and a
placid, unemotional manner that I greatly
admired. She was not rich, and I was rather
glad of it, because I wanted to win ber and to
do everything for her myself. I think a man
who is a man ought to feel that way. I was
very much in love with her, and I thought
that she felt more than kindly to me. But I
wasnt sure. She was a queer girL One
could never tell of what she was thinking. I
put off learning the actual state of her heart
until I saw my way clear to a decent prac
tice. In short, till I put some money in my
purse.
Miss Adams' parents had in the family a I TT!,L'; ." ""! I?, av BTt
ieceaboutAlmage.aplain little Mf&EZZ?
niece
who was somewhat deaf and, therefore, some
thing of a bore to a selfish young fool like
me, who had only eyes and ears for the girl
he adored. But Laura, this cousin, was
good if she was exceedingly plain, and tbe
girk were very fond of each other.
At last my unspoken love became almost a
burden. I thought of bat little else than
Alms. Rivals I bad, to be sore, fast none
whom I really feared. Young "Wilcox, son
of the richest man in the crowing young
town, nnng arouna ner constantly; ana
George Carey, a middle aged swell from "the
east," was also devoted to her. But I was
not afraid.
One evening as I parted from her my man
ner betrayed more tenderness than I had
meant to express, though not more than 1
felt. In thinking of it afterwards I was
happy in remembering that Alma bad not
seemed surprised or annoyed at my expres
sion of feeling. "And she must havo under
stood," I said to myself. As I walked to my
lodgings I determined to tell her outright
that I loved her, and ask her to marry mc
the very next month. The next day 1 wai
called away to tho bedside of my dying
father, and did not return for two mouths.
Then I was a comparatively rich man, with
my share of bis estate. That i.s, rich for that
time, not for the present
I returned to Crestfield on Xew Year's day.
I lost no time in going to see Alma. Vision
of this moment of happiness bad filled my
raiud for days. I met Liura just coming out
of the bouse. Full of childish delight at
"DO TOD llEALLT MEAN IT, DR. MASOXr
being once more so near tbe littlo home circle
which held ci- happiness, 1 rushed up to bei
and held out both my bands, saying: "I am
so glad to seo you. I shall bo grateful if you
are half as glad to see me."
Her eyes opened wid?, with a look that was
part pleasure and part astonishment, blended
with deprecation. She had tho appealing
eyes which so often belong to the young whe
are afflicted with deafness. Something in
her look told me that she had not really un
derstood my words, but was honestly glad tc
see me. So I rattled on telling her how mucb
I had thought of all of them while I had been
away, still holding both her bands in a
hearty clasp.
"I wish you a Happy Xew Year and many
Happy New Years," I said finally. "Your
welcome makes mo very, very happy. Now,
let U3 go and find Alma."
"Do you really mean it, Dr. Mason f and
she looked up at me with a strange, yearn
ing expression on her plain face, which was
flushing with red, like an early morning sky.
"Mean it Mean is every word, with all
my heart," and I held her bauds tighter than
ever in my enthusiasm. "Now let U3 find
Alma, for whom 1 have what I hope may be
glad tidings."
She smiled, and her smile was very sweet,
although she was so plain. I noticed, too,
that her eyes had a strange light in them
which made them resemble the eyes we some
times see in dreams, which speak so much
more meaningly than do thosi we see in our
waking hours. This light was the light of
joy and nothing else. One doe3 not see it
often in woman's eyes. Sometimes only
once in a life time.
She slipped her arm in mine and we walked
into the house down the wide, old fashioned
hall to the sitting room.
"Alma, dear," said Laura, as we opened
&e door and the tall, dark eyed goddess of
my heart arose and canto towards us, "Dr.
Mason says I have made him very happy,
and he wants to tell you of it at once, and so
doL"
The goddess glanced at both of us, a faint
pink color coming into her white cheek, and
smiled at us as she would have smiled at two
children, while 1 was longing to take her in
my arms and tell her that I adored her. In
stead of greeting mc, or giving me a chance
to greet her, sho bent and kissed Laura, and
then turned to me, saying:
"You have won tho sweetest heart in the
world. Dr. Mason. I congratulate you. I
know that you will return an equal amount
of gaxl wishes when I tell you that I have
promised to marry Mr. Carey. We will be
marrijd next month and go to New York to
live at once."
I stood, rs the novelists say, "rooted to the
spot." Tho whole scene seemed unreal. 1,
who a few moments before was full of joyful
anticipation, now found myself engaged to
marry a woman whom 1 did not love, and
hearing tbe woman 1 did love tell me that she
was soon to marry one of my rivals. At first
I could not understand what Alma meant. 1
thought that she and Laura were enjoying
some joke too obscure for me. At last tbe
beaming look in Laura's eyes enlightened me.
She, being somewhat deaf, had mistaken my
warm greeting for a declaration of love, and
responded affirmatively.
With Laura's arm still within mine 1
walked to a sofa and sat down, she by my
side. I bad net uttered a word since I met
Alma. Speech had utterly forsaken me. And,
indeed, what could Isayf Could I tell the
trusting creature by my side that it was all a
mistake; that she had misunderstood me;
that I did not love ber; that I loved ber
beautiful cousin? No ; I was too shocked and
dazed to do anything but sit there in silence,
with tbe perspiration standing in cold drops
on my face and my eyes staring vacantly
ahead of me. I think I could have
spoken had it not been that Alma stood
before me looking placid and even happy in
telling of her engagement to Mr. Carey. I
accepted the situation in desperation. Tbe
whole face of life bad been suddenly changed
for me and I saw nothing but gloom ahead.
I thought myself a strong man, but is it
any wonder that 1 wept like any child on my
pillow that night r What a New Year's that
was! Whither had my expected good luck
gone?
I put the best possible face on my misery
and went on in the dismal path fate bad
marked out for me. Since I could not have
woman. It was fortunate that she expected
no extraordinary demonstration of affection
from me. Truly 1 could not have given it.
My heart seemed frozen or dead. Yet I
c-uuiu uui ueip seeing coac ane seemea quietly
happy. Her plain face actually began to
glow with new life, and there were times
when she looked almost pretty. It occur led
to me that I might forget my own misery by
trying to make ber happy. The idea was a
mrk fronxthe mind of infinite lova. for it
orougnt a Etna or peace to my sick souL
I threw myself into tho role of promised
husband with all tso energy I possessed. I
suggested that we should be married on the
same day that was fixed for thj wedding of
Alma to Mr. Carey. I can assure you that
in those weeks I demonstrated, to myself at
least, that I bad something of tbe heroic in
my nature.
Well, we were married. Alma and her
husband went away, and Laura and I "went
to housekeeping," as they say of newly mar
ried folk. I did my best to give Laura no
cause to suspect thatl was unhappy. Tbe
quiet happiness which shone day after day
in her face became a joy to me. It even re
buked me, too. It was plain that she loved
me devotedly; and she was so unselfish in hex
love, so wise, so sensible that I soon found
myself admiring her. In the wish to do
everything possible for her in order to recom
renso her for the love I did not have to give
her, I thought of trying to remedy her defect
vie hearing. We went to Philadelphia for that
purpose, The best aurist in the city made
an examination and at once assured us that
the trouble wa3 caused by a blight obstruc
tion which wou!i yield readily to simple
treatment. In two months Laura returned
perfectly cured.
Then I began to notico what a very bright
woman my wife was, and she seemed to grow
sunnier and sweeter every hour. In less
than six months 1 loved her a thousand times
more, it seemed to me, than I had ever loved
Alma. When I began to realize I blessed
Fate over and over again for giving mo my
own, even through such incomprehensible
wnys. "1 might have known it," I said to
inyseif. "I always expected to have happi
ness in my home, and I might have been sure
of it, although the light refused to shine for
awhile."
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I TOLD UER THE STORT.
At tco end or a year I was so infatuated
with my lovely littlo wife that I told her the
story of how 1 camo to marry her. That she
regarded as the best possible proof of my
love for her. Then she confessed to me that
she had loved me almost from the hour when
she first saw mc, but bad imagined that I
cared for Alma. Yet when I met her on
that Vevr Year's morning with such extra
ordinary cordiality her heart rather than her
reason caused tho misunderstanding. Yet
she declares to this day that what she seemed
to hear was, "I love you. Come and let me
make you happy all the days of my life."
Perhaps my wiser self spoko to ber in some
silent, heart ward way and I knew it not. At
all events I am grateful that she thought she
heard these words if 1 didn't say them.
I did not seo Alma forfivo years. Then I
wondered how I ever could have loved her.
She was still beautiful, of course; but de
voted to a life of fashion and show, and was
not at all tho woman I had imagined she
would be. She never knew how she had
figured in the romance of my life.
You see, I always expected good luck and
always got it, but not always in the way
I had expected. After my blundering mar
riage turned out so well I never doubted my
Spanish proverb again. It has never failed
me throughout my life, and I will be eighty
in December. If I were to preach a sermon
to young people every day in the week, I
think the concluding sentence would always
be: ''Expect good luck and you will get
it" If I could send a New Year's mes
sage to every soul on the earth it would be
to expect the good. Put it on your New
Year's cards. Write it in your letters. Tell
it to the little people. Keep it ever in mind.
Believe in it and live by it The truo phil
osophy of life is in it "Expect good luck
and you will get it"
Gertscde Garrisox.
Tliwyscr Is dead! Oh. no! oh, not
The ywr still lives! oh, ho! oh. ho!
The rain and i ind have ceased, and so
Long life, New Year, to you!
All sounds ard hushed, above, Lelow;
Soft on the pane the snow ! the scow!
A winding sheet that hesheth all
In lowly hut or lordly hall
A winding sheet for tbe Old Year No!
A mantle for the Xew!
LONG LIFE.
Oh: bright New Year, with snow white train,
0b! glad Now Year, you've come again;
Covering tho earth, its every stain.
With snow white train from mount to mala.
May good live on In you!
The beautiful and truo!
-ong life, long life to you!
SWEARING OFF.
OX. BOW A NEW LEAF 18 SOMETDOS TCBSED
CVKS,
This is the day of all the days, when every
body thinks it pay to overturn a brand new
leaf. This is the day when all our grief b
heightened by tbe past year's sin. This is the
day when we grow thin reflecting over last
year's fun and thinking what we might have
done.
Heigh Ot I'm sad, now it's too lata when I
remember 'SSI Think of the money I have
spent Think of the bills (Great Scott! the
rent!) 'Bout all I've done is earn my bread.
My boy, you ought to soak your head! What
use are you upon this earth? Why, pshaw
I tell you you're not worth tbe powder that
would blow you up. I'm blue today. Well,
well, my cup is very full It makes me mad to
think that I have been so bad.
But after all, what is the use! What's
done a done. Come, come! a truce. My
boy, brace up, 'twill be O.K. a hundred years
from yesterday. It does no earthly good to
fret The thing is done, and vain regret
won't make it better. Come, don't pine;
twill be all right in '89. All right? Well, I
should faintly smile. Yon bet; I've done
with all past guile.
This raking up of chestnuts old is all
played out The dayll be cold when you ob
serve upon my brow such wrinkles as were
there just now. It's just as plain as day to
tna the reason we unhaooT be. Mv son. it's
T"fc
will power.tnac wait "Exert it, ana OW
Nick will fall Why, all you've got to do is
say "I won't!" By George! it's just as plain
as day. Let's sec, I'd better mako a list, so
that nothing will e'er be missed.
No more m thrum tho gay guitar and
wake the neighbors near and far. Til make
no bets, nor will I spring old chestnuts from
tho circus ring upon my fr.'ends, nor will I
seek to borrow money on my cheek. I'll
wake up ia tbe morning bright, and in the
dark Pll strike a light and start the fire
while my poor wife ia bed is lengthening
her life, I'll hustle round and put in coal
and saw up wood, upon my soul! I'd better
keep a diary, too, to chronicle what I will
da No more tobacco! I have spoke. By
Jove! a man's a fool to smoke. And in re
gard to spending cash I'll not throw it away
on trash. This year ha! bal by hook or
crook, I'll put down figures in a book. I'll
save? Let's see, well I should say, a cool
five hundred in this way. No more you'll
catch me out of nights. How transitory
those delights. I tell you, will power is tbe
thing. I've been my day. I've had my
fling.
Hello, who's there? Come in. Why, Jack,
my boy, how came you back so soon? I'm
glad you're here. Come, shake, old man. A
Glad New Year. Sit down. Can't stay Why
what's on hand? No, no. mv boy, I've too
much sand. What's up? Yes? Well, who'll
be there? Only this time. Don't kuow's 1
care. Remember then, this once I'll go; but
after this uo more. No; no. Oh, what a
jolly tmio 'tw ill be! Only this ouce. mind,
Whoopeo! What is tho use of feeling down
in heart? We'll go and paint the town!
Tom SIassox.
siamcao New Year.
All Siamese birthdays are celebrated at
New Year's, and at this time tho curious cus
tom of "hair cutting" is observed. When a
boy reaches the age of 11 or 15, and a girl
that of U or i:, they are considered no longer
children. Up to this time a tuft of hair is
allowed to grow just above the forehead, and
is always dressed with great care. It is
twisted into a graceful knot and held to
gether with a long gold or jeweled pin. At
the base of this knot is worn a wreath of
fragrant white flowers. The ceremonies of
hair cutting often last five or six days. It is
the "coming out party" of the boy or girl,
and thereafter they are not iermitted to
mingle with tho other sex as children, but
are considered to have arrived at a mar
riageable age.
A Happy New Ycarl Why not? Tbe path
of duty is tho path of safety ever, and the
separations of the good aro for time alone.
We are moving in a veritable journey. Our
earthboat swims through seas of light sus
tained by the power that launched it into
space.
Have your shrubbery in the front yard
boxed up on New Year's day. We once knew
a Galveston caller, an otherwise estimable
young man, to tumble down the front steps
of a lordly mansion and break a valuable
tree all to flinders with his head.
His Hands FoC
Jinks Make any calls today?
Binks No. I was too busy receiving.
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"WALKING EGYPT."
A Singular Xew Tear Cnstosa Assess; tfss
Nexrues of tbe Sooth.
F tbe old slave
customs of the
southern states,
now that tbe ne
groes nave been
free for nearly a
quarter of a cen
tury, many are ob
solete. Tbe "old
sperretunls." as tbe )
aged colored Chris
tians call their peculiar byms, are either
given up entirely or modernized and refined
till tbey are barely recognizable. But as the
old goes and the new takes its place, we can
still see and it is a "persistence of type"
worth the attention of philosophers that the
genius of tbe original African is still there.
The song may be an adaptation. from Watts'
Hymns; but all the same it is an Africanized
Watts.
When a traveler or man of science attends
a "colored revival" in the back districts of
the gulf states and bears this roaring chorus
from one thousand throats
I see St Petah a standhV tn the do'.
Dip In the Golden Sea!
An all my ffien's what went befo'.
Dip in tbe Golden Sea!
O. dip me. bathe me, sistah. you;
O. brothers, won't you help me through?
We'll all ride behind the milk white steeds
An dip in the Golden Sea.
he perceives at once that this is African,
not Saxon, imagery. And by the eye of
scientific faith he can look back 300 years to
the time when the ancestors of these people,
under the palm or on the sandy shore, sang
and rioted in praise of Bennainiicka or
Mumbo Jumbo.
The negroes have also hail one experience
common to all fired people. At first there
was a violent reaction against everything
that belonged to slave times; they carefully
discarded the most trifling customs which
might servo to imply a slave origin. By and
by, when their freedom was an assured thing
and taken as a matter of course, there wa a
counter reaction: they took up tho old songs
and customs, but gave them a tone that im
plied a sense of deliverance. Thus, "Roll,
Jordan, roll," became an emancipation song,
and "Old Nicodemus" was completely trans
formed. And by a similar evolution one
phase of tbe old "Juba dance" became
"Walking Egypt" This is, in plain English,
only a mildly religionised form of the walk
ing dance or dancing walk which the Afri
cans, like all heathen people, have always
had. Tbe Indians' "corn dance" and "sun
dance" are but variations of the same thing.
But "Walking Egypt," as it now is, dates
from emancipation, and is performed on
New Year's eve that is, when they "watch
the old year out and the new year in." One
description, by a white lady who saw it from
the gallery of a Georgia church, is as fol
lows: "Tbe leader took his place on the floor and
began tbe wild, half harbario chant: then
one oy one, as the excitement grew, tne
others followed, Soon the whole line was in
a tremor of excitement, and shouts and im
provised lines like these:
Who's dot yoadah dressed in black
Ob. It's aa angel dressed ia black,
"The walk is byaslight forward jerk of the
foot As the walkers warmed to their work
and grew wilder in their movements It was
easy to seo why tho better educated colored
people are opposed to the walk; for the men
and women took most abandoned attitudes.
The scene recalled pictures of the orgies of
'hashish' maddened fanatics. Tbe walk went
on for hours, up one aisle and down the
other, new ores taking the place of those
"WAUCI-tO EGYPT."
who dropped out exhausted; and at daylight
several of tbe iiarticipators were down on
their knees, still crawling around tb
church."
The "Egypt part of it is an evident refer
ence to tbe "Walk" of tbe Israelites out of
bondage, for that is a parallel case in tbe
mind cf every freedman. But in prosaic fact
the "walk" is only one of the thousand ways
in which undeveloped people minglo the re
ligious manifestations with the social, the
musical and finally tho voluptuous. And, of
course, as tho excitement increases tbe first
element yields to tho second and both to the
last In short, the walk is but the survival
of some old African fetich worship, and is
therefore possible only among tho undiluted
blacks of the most ignorant class. It is sim
ple matter of truth and justice to add that
no freed people in history have ever pro
gressed faster than the negroes; and if they
maintain their present rate of development,
another generation will sco tho last of
"Walking Egypt"
Numerical Strength of Rellglos.
The numerical position of Buddhism
in the world will lie found, says Monier
Williams, to bo very much below tliat
with wliich it is commonly credited. It
has entirely died out of India proper, tbe
place of its origin, and is rapidly dying
out in other Asiastic countries. 31 v own
belier in that 100.000,000 Iiudliists(inonts
and laymen) for the whole world would
boa liberal estimate in the present day.
It seems to mc too that owing to exag
gerated ideas in regard to tho ."opulation
cf China, and to a forgctfulnesa of the
millions who worship no one but their
ancestors, the number of Confuciaaists
is generally overstated. On the wholo 1
have no hesitation in allirming that even
in numbers CTh-istianity now stands at
the head of all the religions of tlie world.
Next to it I am inclined to place Hindu
ism (including Erahminumi. Jainism.
demon and fetich worslup). wliile per
haps Confucianism 6hould probaLly be
E laced third, Mohammedanism fourth,
iuildhism lifth, Taeisci sixth, Judabm
seventh and Zoroastrianism eighth.
New York Home Journal.
Mourning Color?.
Besides black, tire following are used
as a sign of grief for the dead. Black
and white striped to express sorrow and
hope among tho South Sea Islanders.
Grayish brown, tht color of the earth to
which tho dead return, in Ethiopia.
Pale brown, the color of withered leaves,
is the mourning of Persia. Sky I.hio to
express the assured hope that the de
ceased 1ms gone to heaven. This fa the
mourning of Syria, Cappadoeia and Ar
menia. Deep bluo in Boklusra. Purple
and violet to ccprcis "kings and jueenj
to god." The coiar of mourning for
cardinals and kings of France. The
color of mourning in Turkey is violet.
White (emblem of hope), the color of
mourning in Chins, ilcnry VIII wore
white for Anne Boleyn. The ladies of
ancient Home and Sparta woru white.
It was the color of mourning in Spain
till M83. Yellow (the sear and yellow
leaf), the color of mourning in Egypt
and in Burmali. Anne Boleyn wore
yellow mourning for Catharine' of Ara
gon. Notes and Queries.
Points for New Year's Caller.
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When yoo desire to light your cigar, don't
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Several year ago, James ISircliard. of
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doctor .said he .va in 1'on.Hiimjitioti.
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but advised him. id . i last rt.-.sorr, to try
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J. S. Bradley, Maiden, Mass., writes :
" Three winters ago I took a severe cold,
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and Consumption. e I was so weak that
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Jess, and all agreed that I was in Con
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a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
From the first dose, I found relief.
Two tiottles cured me, and my health
has since been perfect."
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