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VOL, XXVI. LEXINGTON, S. G, JANUARY I, 1890. NO. 7
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January 30 - Sin. '
NEW YEAR'S CHIME.
OLL, toll, toll!
For the old year i
P?A slowly dying;
////y\ Grim, gaur.t, sere j
\ O" the Lrcast of j
I ^?^cs J'cuth arc
V?[ J Hearts with care
Ho, ye warders of
j the bells,
1 Toll, toll, toll!
For earth's enticing
fashion,
^ Toll for strife's un- j
A holy passion.
Toll for friendship
unrequited,
Toll for hope's enchantments blighted,
Toll for love's fond pledges broken,
Toll for war.t and wee unspoken,
Toll for mourners sadly weeping,
Toll for sin's vast harvest reaping.
T?~ll 4-^11 4.^1 > f
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That while the world shall stand
Sin and woe shall fill the land.
Toll, toll, toll!
Ring, ring, rins!
A welcome to ^ie bright New Year!
Life, hope, joy
On his radiant brow appear.
Hearts with love are thrilling,
Homes with bounty filling.
Ho, ye warders of the bells.
Ring, ring, ring!
For winter's bracing hours.
Ring for birth of spring and flowers.
Ring for summer's fruitful treasure,
if
Ring for autumn's boundless measure,
Ring for hands of gen'rous giving,
Ring for vows of nobler living.
Ring for truth of tongue or pen,
Ring "Peace on earth, goodwill toward men"?
Ring, ring, ring!
That this clad year may see
Earth's accomplished jubilee,
King, ring, ring!
THE GOOD MONTHS.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.
[Copyright, 1S95, by American Press Association.
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A widow lived with her two daughters,
Mary and Helen. The former was
her stepdaughter by her late husband, i
but Helen was a child by a first mar- I
riage. Of Helen she was very fond, but i
poor Mary she did not like at all, and
the more that sko was much prettier !
than her sister. As the girl was not i
vain, she could never understand why
her mother fiew in a rage every time I
she lcoked at her, and why she had to
do all the work and drudgery of the
household, while her sister Helen dress- I
ed herself and went from cue amuse- 1
ment and entertainment to the other.
To all this unkind treatment from her
mother and sister Mary submitted with- !
out reproach.
But her angelic resignation did not
soften their hearts. Every day they bo- <
came more harsh and exacting, and as
the years went by more unkind to her,
for Mary was growing more and more
beautiful, while Helen was older and
uglier. At last her stepmother thought, '
"I must chase her out of the house, this
pretty orphan, or I will never marry my i
own daughter, as all the youths will
prefer Mary, and my girl will remain
an old maid." So both her mother and
sister determined to make her father's
house unsupportable for the poor girl. i
One day in midwinter Helen insisted
upon having violets from the forest.
"You will go to the forest, Mary, in
the mountain, and gather violets. I wish
to have a bunch for my bodice. They
must be fresh and odorous. Do you
hear?" sho cried in a harsh voice.
"My God, good sister," cried Mary,
"you do net think of what you are saying
! Whoever saw violets growing r.nj?
a.. -2?? ?
uer nit; fcuurv ; wnt;u iuu |/vujl u-pjiuu,
sighing.
44 Wretched girl! Do you dare disobey
me?" cried Helen. 44Not a word more
Be off! Remember that if you do not
jgEtevf a I
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4II HAVK COME TO GATHER STRAWBERRIES."
bring me the violets I will kill you."
Here her stepmother added a few cruel
words, and with a vigorous blow pushed j
her out of the house and barred the door.
lhe poor orpnan, weeping yuicii>, |
advanced toward the mountain. The j
snow lay deep, and there was not tho j
slightest trace of human footsteps. Long, j
long she wandered upon the mountain, I
trembling with cold and praying to God |
to let her die.
At last in. the distance she saw a bril- j
liant light, and climbing ever onward j
till she had reached one of the highest j
peaks she cani9 to a bright open fire, |
! round which were 12 large stones. On i
these stones were sealed 12 men. Four j
of them were old, with white hair; four j
less old, and four were young men and !
very handsome. They were all gazing j
S into the fire.
These men were the 12 months of tho j
i year, and great January, who was seat- I
| ed higher than the rest, had a long, j
; white beard and snowy hair. In his
! hand he held a wand.
Mary at first was paralyzed with fear,
j but after a few moments of stupor and
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silence r.he regained her conrage, r.ri l I
approaching them said: "Men of <r..d, !
allow me to warm myself by your tiro. !
I am trembling with cold."
Old January raised his i.e.id and said: j
"Why are yoa here, my maiden? What
do yen seek?"
"I am seeking violets," answered
Mary.
"It is not the season of violets," said !
January. "Do you not seo snow lying j
everywhere?"
"I know it is not, but my stepmother ;
and sister have sent me to the mountain i
to gather them, and if I eanuot Cud any
they will kill me. I entreat you, fathers,
tell me where 1 can find some?"
Slowly old January roso from his seat
and approached one of the younger men.
Putting his wand in his hand ho said,
"Brother March, seat yourself in my
place."
March went and seated himself cn the
high stone and waved the wand over the
fire. At once the flames rose to tiro sky, j
the snow melted, the trees began to bad, !
while beneath them the grass grew green
and tho ground was covered with primroses
and cowslips. It was spring and
the ground was quite blue with violets I
that grew under tho brushwood.
"Haste end pluck them, Mary," cried
March. "Quick!"
Tho beautiful orphan, filled with joy,
hastened to pluck tho fiowc-rs and scon
had a large bunch. Thanking t he months
politely, she ran home, happy and gay.
Great was tho astonishment of her
stepmother and Helen when they saw
the bunch cf fresh violets.
They quickly opened the door and
soon the house was filled with the perfumo
of tho flowers.
"Well! And where did you find
thcin?" asked Helen.
"Far up on the peak of the mountain,"
replied her sister.
Helen at once seized the flowers. She
inhaled their perfume with rapture and
lot her mother smell them, but not giving
a single violet to Mary cr even
thanking her for her trouble.
The next day, as Helen stood warming
herself by tho .stove, she had a sudden
fancy to cat strawberries and called
her sister. "Mary," she said, "hasten
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SUE JCTFULLT SHOOK THE TREE,
to the mountain and gather me strawberries.
They must be very sweet and
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tripe.
"My God, whoever heard that strawberries
ripened under the snow!" cried !
the orphan. j
"Mot a word. If you do not bring me ;
the strawberries soon, we will kill yen. :
Remember, you are warned."
After this 1 hrcat her stepmother seized !
ber violently and thrust her cut in the J
courtyard, barring the door.
The wretched orphan, her eyes filled
with tears, began tocliuib the mountain.
She already knew the way, and withe ut
hesitation climbed rp the peak, where
the 12 months sat round the fro, old
January, as before, on the highest sear.
"Men of God," the said, "let mo
warm myself by vcur lire! I am trom- I
bling with cold."
Old January lifted his head and ask- {
ed:
"Why havo you come here and what
do you seek?"
"Ihavecomo to gather strawberries,"
said Mary.
"It is now midwinter and strawber- j
ries do not grow under the snow," an- '
swered January.
"I kuow it," said Mary sadly. "But
my stepmother and sister have ordered
me to bring them ripe strawberries. Tell
T .1 i.1 >>
me wnere x can gamer mum.
Old January rose slowly from his seat,
approached tho month that sat opposite
him, and giving him his wand said,
"Brother June, seat yourself on the
highest stone,"
The month of June went and seated
himself on the stone that marked the }
highest place. He waved hii; wand over j
tho fire and the flames rose to the sky.
In a moment tho snow was melted, the
ground covered with grass, while the
birds sang and the earth bloomed with
flowers in the forest.
Under the brushwood one saw innumerable
little white flowers, thick as
though oue had sowed them, and as one
looked the flowers changed to ripe fruit,
and all this in a few moments cf time,
so that Mary could hardly cross herself
before the ground was red with strawberries,
like a sea of blood.
"Quick, quick, Mary, pick them!"
said the mouth cf June.
Filled with joy, sho began to gather
them, and soon had a nice amount in
her apron, when, thanking the months,
she started joyfully homeward.
Helen and her mother were surprised
to see her coiue home with the strawberries.
"But where did you find them?" ask- i
ed Helen sourly.
"Up on the peak of the mountain.
They are not hard to find under the
brushwood.''
Helen took possession of all the bor- j
ries. A part she gave to her mother, and i
devoured the rest.
The third day Helen, satiated with
tho strawberries, longed for fresh picked
red apples.
"Mary " she called, "bo quick and
nimble. Go to tho mountain and seek
for red apples."
"My God, sister, yon know that during
tho winter the trees are without
leaves or fruit!"
"Ugly lazybones! Go, climb quickly
up the mountain and bring mo back up- |
pies, or remember wo will kill you!" j
As usual her stepmother caught her j
rudely, thrust her out of tho house and
tarred the door behind her.
Tho poor orphan, weeping bitterly, j
passed through tho forest that ied to the j
mountain, bhe climbed up to the peak,
where tho 12 months sat by the flaming .
fire. They all sat motionless en their
stene scats, and old January as usual on
tho highest.
"Men cf God, let mc warm myself
by your fire! The winter wind freezes
me," she said.
Old January lifted bis head and be- j
gan to question her, "Why have yen i
come hero and what dj yqq sgpfc?"
"I seek red apples," said Mary.
"It. is midwinter row, " said old .Tannery,
"and not the time for red apples."
"1 know it," said the poor girl. "But
my sister Helen and my mother have
ordered me to bring them red apples
from the mountain or they will kill
me."
Hearing this, old January rose from
his reat and went to one of the older
men and gave him his wand.
"Brother September, seat yourself in
the place cf honor."
The month of September seated himself
on the highest stone and waved his
wand over the lire. The flames sprang
toward the sky, taking a red tinge,
while the snow melted rapidly. The
leaves of the trees fell, one by one,
blown heio and theie by a cold breeze,
and tho sun shone veliow. The orphan
saw bat very few flowers, and those
only autumn cms. In the dells meadow
saffron ami hi oh ferns were growing between
the autumn brushwood and brambles.
Mary looked in vain for red apples
till all at cnce sho noticed a tolerably
tall apple tree.and up on the top branches
she saw a few rod apples.
"Hasten to gather them," cried September.
Tho young girl joyfully shook the
tree, and one applo foil. She shook it
again, and a second rolled to her feet.
"Ygu have enough," said the month.
"Hurry home again."
The orphan picked up the apples, and
thanking the months hurried home.
Helen and her stepmother were astonished
to sec her return with the apples
and ran to open the doer.
"Bah ! How did you manage to pick
them?" asked Helen.
"A few still hung on the apple tree
on the top of the mountain," said Mary.
"Why did you not bring more?" cried
Helen angrily. "You ate them up en
the way, you ugly minx!"
"No, good sister, I did not taste one,"
said Mary. "The first time I shook the
tree one apple fell; the second time another.
That is all. I was not permitted
to shake the tree a third time, but ordered
to go home."
Helen, who loved fino fruit, left cfi
persecuting her sister for the time, and
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cious, the sweetest she had ever eaten,
and licr mother agreed with her, br.fc
both, after having oaten one, were dissatisfied.
They wished for more.
"I'll tell yon what, mamma," said
Helen. "Give me a cloak and I will go
to tho mountain myself. That horrid
girl would finish by devouring all the
apples on her way home. I will be sure
to find the mountain and the apple tree,
and once there tho fathers may scold as
they like. I will not leave them until I
have shaken down all the apples."
Heedless of Iter mother's disapproval,
Helen put on tho cloak and a warm hood
and started for tho mountain. Her
mother stood by the door and gazed after
her till sho was lost to sight.
Tho ground was covered with snow;
not a human footstep was to bo seen,
but after wandering here, now there,
Helen saw the flamo of (he fire, far
above her, end began climbing. After a
short time tho reached the peak of the
mountain end saw the fire, round which
the J 2 months were sitting. At first sho
hesitated and was frightened, but seen
recovering herself sho went boldly to
the Cie, and stretching out her bands
warmed herself without asking permission
cr even noticing the 12 months.
"What brings you here and what seek
you?" asked old January sternly.
"You have no right to question rue,
old gray beard! Why do ycu wish to
know what I seek:" answered Helen
haughtily, and turning her head and
back to tho fire she went toward the
forest.
Old January frowned and waved his
wand over his head.
In tho twinkling of an eye the sky
was filled with heavy clouds, the fire
burned low and large snowflakes began
to fall, while an icy wind howled through
the mountain. In the midst of this
dreadful storm Helen began to curse
her sinter and call on the good God, as
she knew the cloak could not keep her
tody ircra stiiiernng ursti ircezmg.
Her mother waited impatiently for
her daughter. Every little while she
went to the window, then to tho door,
to look for her, but the hours passed and
she did not return. "Have the apples
bewitched her so that she cannot find
her way home?" thought her mother.
"I must go and seek her."
Hastily wrapping herself in a cloak
and hood she set out. The falling snow
bad obliterated her daughter's footstep*,
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"oil, my god:*' said she.
and not a human traco was to bo seen,
while no voice answered to her loud
call. Long she wandered at hazard in
the snow, while it fell in avalanches and
an icy wind blew from the mountain.
Mary in the meanwhile had cocked
tho dinner :md milked tho cow, but
neither Helen nor her mother was to bo
found.
Her daily work was now ended, tho
day had gono and night was coming on.
What can have happened?
"Oh, my God!" said he excellent
girl, and opened the window to look out.
Tito storm had ceased, tho sky was
brilbcnt with stars, while tho snow
piirnu:.'red like diamonds by their light
?net a trace cf a human being was to
be sect. Mary sadly shut the window,
t-'kr* made the sign of the cross and prayed
for her sister and stepmother. In vain
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the waited lor tljom at oreaiuasi uau
dinner. They never came.
Both Helen and her mother were
frozen in (lie mountain, and Mary inherited
the little cottage, the cow, and
a sa:i!! II:-I.I. Ir was not long before she
married ;;n honest farmer, and they both
lived ;n fence and happiness ever after.
A fresh arrival of fine French can
dies, just received at the Bazaar.
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PAST AND
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Vi;W vf.A TJ AfOTTOKS i
i.1 JLi I! JL JUi.X JLI AIi. v; i A V Ai'-A
POINTS ABOUT SUCCESS FROM THE j
UTTERANCES OF GREAT MEN.
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Hero Will En Found Much That Will Tend
to Help Every Aspiring Young Man In ' ,
Successfully Fighting the Battle of Life. (
KD )UBTEDLY a :
/v Vvw" H$f ^ |! &reafc In ail j who
fiffi /l'S |j read this have c!e- ,
y 1 i] I fj termined whether ,
'*/ >L_/ by formal resolution
or net to try to nmko 189G the ,
most successful year of their lives. To (
these a few of the mottoes and sayings ]
cf successful men, together with here
and thero an anecdote, showing hew I
they put their notions into practice, may
possibly bo helpful. If i'oad aright, ^
much that follows will <?jw that one
essential feature of success is hard work. | ]
Genius may bo necessary for the highest !
success, but given ordinary intelligence i J
no one need fail who is willing to exert
himself continuously. Eat thero must
be mental toil as well as physical. The
day laborer who is satisfied to exert his
muscles only will never rise above day ^
wages. The clerk who is satisfied to do j
his work perfunctorily without exerting i j
his mental powers in striving to become j
something better than a clerk will re- | ?
main in that station. The handicrafts- f
man who does not work with his brain i j,
will always be a handicraftsman. But j c
in striving fcr snccess it must not be ;
forgotten that there aro other and better ] r
successes than thase of a financial na- j j
ture. It i9 better to achieve character | s
than wealth, but character may not be j
won without intellectual activity any ! y
more than money. I s
I>o Not Neglect Your Opportunities. j j
Quito as important to success in life j t
as continued activity is the seizing of ( f
your opportunities when they come to ! v
you. many eminent men have expressed t
this idea in many ways. Here arc a few t
such expressions which have been gath- j 1;
ered by Orison Swett Marden and print- t
ed in liio first chapter of his hook, t
"Pushing to the Front:" z
Things don't turn up in this world
until somebody turns them up.?Gar- v
field. e
We live in a new and exceptional age. j
America is another name for opportu- t
nity. Our whole history appears like a c
last effort of divine Providence in behalf a
of the human race.?Emerson. g
Vigilance in watching opportunity; I
tact and daring in seizing upon opportu- j t
nity; force and persistence in crowding t
opportunity to its utmost of possible t
achievement; these aro the martial vir- j t
tues which must command success.? h
Austin Phelps. j
"I will find a way or make one." 1 a
There never was a day that did. not : I
bring its own opportunity for doing |
good that never couhl have been done I
before and never can be again.?W. H.
Burleigh. f
Aro you in earnest? Rcize this very minute. 0
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. u
You Mast lie Itesolute. j v
I "The truest wisdom is a resolute de- i h
termination," said Napoleon oucc, and fi
his career was an exemplification cf his t
words. t
Mr. Marden gives tho following en- c
tries cn the fly leaf of tho Greek lexicon i
! owned hy Edward Irving as another ex- v
amplification of the same idea: : t
"Six o'clock a. m.?I, Edward Irving, ' a
promise, by '.lie grace of God, to havo v
mastered all the words in alpha and e
beta before 8 a. m. e
"Eight o'clock a. m.?I, Edward Ir- t
ving, by the grace of God, have done it." i
I Russell Sago, who has certainly won v
: success of a financial sort, once told the i c
writer that he had saved himself from r
failure almost solely hy the strength of t
his will. I asked him what lie did when c
ho met with an apparently insurmount- 1
able obstacle. t
"I never met with such a thing," said r
the financier and railroad man. "When- ' c
ever anything has been in my way, I n
i have jest removed it. The young man t
who has will enough ran always remove ;
the obstacles that confront hiin."
" 'Tis not what a man does which
! exalts him," said Browning, "but what
! he would do."
r
You Must Bs Persistent.
j The great violinist, Geradini, being j
| asked how long it took him to learn to j
play, replied, "Twelve hours a day for ;
j 20 years." i p
j This is virtually the keynote to the j
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j? ' n >v~j^0T
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PRESENT.
success of many eminent men in all
lines. Edison, the electrical inventor,
expressed this idea with regard to himself
when lie said:
"Anything I have begun is always on
my mind, and I urn never easy until it
is finished."
Darwin, the great scientist, whoso
theory of evolution has wrought a greater
change in the views of thinking men
than any other theory that has been
broached in modern times, owed much
to persistence. He was almost always
ill. "For 40 years,1' said his son, "ho
never knew* cno day of health." Yet
duriug those four decades ho used to
force himself unremittingly to pursue
the work which lio had set out to do.
Many a man with the strongest constitution
would have shrunk from the enormous
toil performed by Darwin, but ho
stuck to it with a patience that was
marvelous.
Charles II. G'rair.p, the shipbuilder, in
talking of success and how it could be
obtained, declared its greatest secret to
be "practice, practice, practice!" "If
rou want to win," said he recently,
"yon must never let up. If you do, you
will surely fall behind. I have always
found on returning to my business after
in absence, no matter how brief, that I
bad something to learn over again, that
[ had to work harder than ever to catch 1
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Teaching Pheasant8 to Peck In Ceylon. <
Walking down a road one morning
vith a neighbor we suddenly noticed a
ittle ball cf Cuff between my feet, and
could hardly avoid stepping on it, as
t stuck close to mo; almost immediiely
another appeared at my friend's
cet, and wo saw they were newly
latched pheasants, the mother probably
arricd off by some wildcat. As it was
iifficult to walk with these little things
turning so close and in the way, we
ifted them into the short grass nicngidc,
and hurried on some CO yards. t
On returning we had forgotten them, r
mt one ran out, and so pertinaciously (
tuck to my boots that, to savo it, I put *
t into my pocket, and cn cur arrival at c
he bungalow tried to feed it with small t
ragments of hard boiled eggs, rico and c
vbitc ants. Of all these it took no no- t
ice. Nest morning the other chick was i
cund at the feet cf tire bungalow steps, 4
mving probably followed us unnoticed i
he day before. I then called my "ba- C
in," as ".[ could not get them to eat, 2
urd he said, "They must bo taught." c
He put the gauze wire cover they ?
vcre under and the crushed rice, egg, t
te., on a hard wood table, and taking a r
>encil from his pcckct and collecting a
he eatables together, close to the edge
f the gauze cover, ho lifted its edge, I
nd, with the pencil point inserted, be- c
;an sharply tapping among the rice dc- t
iris. The two chicks at once ran over 1
o that place and bent over, watching a
he tapping, and, to cur astonishment, 1
hey began tapping with their little f
:caks the same way, and before long
ind begun to feed cn their own account,
ust as tire "babu" had predicted, and
fter that lesson we had no trouble.? : I
saturc. ! t
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Blood and rvrarria~c. j p
The other day several members of a i o
amily, who wcro either deaf or dumb, j n
r both, came within the writer's cog- j h
lizanco, and it was ascertained that all j ]
rero the offspring of first cousins. It j o
ins long been an established maxim that j o
irstcousins ought not to marry, though d
he rule is very often broken. Theqr.es- t!
ion of the actual anatomical and physi- u
logical causes of physical disabilities p
n the offspring of first cousins is well ti
worthy of ihe most thorough invcsliga- i b
ion. xbat if persons of the same blood ti
ud family, such as first cousins, all of ) ii
'.hem must necessarily be more or less I fi
imilar in structure and function, marry ' p
acli other then their peculiarities will : tl
end, not to bo diminished, but to bo ' a<
creased, perliaps doubled. If people g
rould but bear in mind that the union d
f persons who have similar defects, ii
ore especially if they are blood rcla- b
ions, tends to intensify those defects, T
xactly as piling coal on a bright firo n:
fallibly produces augmented heat, j
hey would save themselves much bitter
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lass of imperfect human beings who ;
iot seldom curse the day they were j
tern.?London Hospital.
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New Year's was not observed as a r
Christian festival until the year 4?7, I
,ud there is little mention of it in the r
ccords before the eleventh century. It \
vas n >t included in the liturgy until c
550 A. L). j \
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TEMPUS PJGiT.
I A Frw Paragraphs From the IVns of NYvrg'
paper PhitcsopluT* on the Flight of Time.
In our boyhood time walks, in middle
life if ambles, and in old ago it pants in
breathless hasto to reach the goal ami
have dene with as. A day is a week to
tho child, and a week is hat a day to the
aged.?Mew York Herald.
The months mry speed as they will.
Tho days may come and go like lightning
flashes. Age may creep cn apace
and youth hasten to middle life. November
blasts may chill <iliu December
snows cover tho sod like a shroud. It
matters lit no. mere will be other years
in other climes, and the work we leave
unfinished will be brought to completion
after the grass has grown cn our graves.
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No time is so short as that cf (ho man
who has passed tho three score milestone.
Thy clock no longer ticks tho
seconds away, bat the days. Tho very j
weeks flash by. Hardly do the flowers | ,
of April bloom before the frosts of Oe- ,
tofcer set in, and hardly do the frosts ,
carve fantastic pictures on the window ,
pane before the sun of another spring
makes tho meadow green once raore.? ,
Exchange. ,
Time was when it was considered a
sure sign cf death before tho next NewYear
to see your own shadow in the !
moonlight cn tho 1st of January.
January is still called by the old Cel- !
tic name?Juis Gcnver, the cold mouth
?in Cornwall, England. Tho Saxons t
called it Wolf llonat, because the wolves
were unusually ravenous in January. By
the Saxon it wa3 termed Aefer-Yule.
Pins were invented in the sixteenth
century at Gloucester, England. They
straightway became a popular New g
Year's present, but later money for their
purchase, called "pin rucney," was
given instead. it
s
In the days of our European forbears
it was believed that unless misfortuno e
were courted no one should leave the b
house on New Year's day till some one
had entered, and the visitor to bring a
fine brand of good luck should boa dark p
haired inan. ?
Black cats, generally thought to be of ^
extremely evil omen by tho supersti- q
tious, are considered lucky visitors on ft
New Year's day.
a
In Wales fires are frequently burned ^
on Jan. 1 to purify the house for the entrance
of the new year and the ashes of J'
these fire3 are often kept most sacredly te
from year to year. They are supposed to .
possess special medicinal virtues, being
particularly efficacious against "failing fr
sickness" or fits. ^
Joggling; With Figures.
The peculiarity of the date of 1S9G is
its involved connection with the digit 3.
As that number is regarded by those
who hold superstitious belief as a proverbially
lucky one, from its association
with certain Biblical events, it is to to p,
hoped that the coming annual cycle may
prove this cue particular theory to be 1S
true, and that Jan. 1 will usher in an
auspicious season of material and finan- aE
cial prosperity.
Tho number 1896 is equally divisible in
by 3. So is the sum of its digits, 1 plus th
8 plus 9 plus 0 (and tho reverse is nec- ,
essarily tho same) equaling 24, which,
again united, 2 plus 4, equals C. Sepa- pa
rating its hundreds from the tens, 18 pC
and 96 or 81 and G9, they are still multiples
of 3. The sum of the first and ?e
last digits, 1 plus 6, equals 7. Added to th
!ho two middle figures they produce SG, Q?
which is the last two units of the date,
seing equally divisible by 3, as is its 101
mm, 0 plus G, equals 15. Bi
The centuries 18 are divisible wholly <
jy 9, G aud 3; the number reversed, 81,
:y 9 and by 3, by tho product of these 032
wo numbers (9 multiplied by 3) 27, de
nd tho sum of the digits, 1 plus 8,
:quals 9. The sum of the first two lig:res
in tho date, represented as digits, ed
iquals the third. Eighteen plus 9G p0
quaIs 11-1, and 9G minus 18 equals 78,
iver which tho mystic 3 lias full cou- 1D?
rol, as it does over tho sum of the digits ne
11 these latter uumbers, 1 plus 1 plus [ ?0
i equals G, and 7 plus 8 equals 15. f.
).nd 15 minus G equals 9, wliilo 15 plus
i equals 21, the sum of whose digits, tio
> plus 1, equals 3. Tho product of the in
ligits in tho year, 1 multiplied by 8 by
i by G, equals 432, a multiple of 3, and cu:
he sum of tho unit figures, 4 plus 3 spi
dus 2 is 9. Eighteen minus 9 equals 9, ^jc
ud 9 minus G equals 3.
From this can be derived the infalli- ^er
do rule that when the sum of the digits po:
f auy number is equally divisible by 3 fcn(
he number itself is a common multiple,
'or instance the numbers 2G1 (equals 9) ne*
ud 3441 (equals 12) must necessarily g0^
o equally divisible by the mysterious ,
actor 3. Albert P. South wick. se
aec
Old English New Year's Customs.
There is one ceremony common to
England and Scotland which is someimes
observed in the United States on 1Dc;
Cew Year's eve?that is the ringing of
lie bells to announce the death of the
Id year and the birth of the new. In 4
rany churches an impressive service is
eld at the hour of midnight. Another 1
luglish custom is the one of sitting up tha
n the la.st night of the year till 12
'clock, and as the hour strikes, the cuter
cor is opened and with great formality 0 ,v
bey "let Gut the old and let in tho the
ew." The "mummers" or "guisers" car
lay an important part in the celebraion
of Mew Year's in Scotland. All the me
oys in the village who can sing prac- fro
ice songs for the occasion, and on the p^npoitant
night they borrow old shirts .
:oin their fathers and cut out blown ;
apcr miters, from v.Uich hang masks ! Ch
lat conceal their faces. Each guiser is j
ccompanied by a squire dressed as a I
irl, who go^s before him to open the Th
our when he sings. While the song is i "qj
1 progress she swe ps the floor with a I v
roomstick or plays s ae utrious prank. |
hey receive in return small pieces of j
loney. i the
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ALBINO HUCKLEBERRIES. j a j
l Curious Fruit Sai-.l to Ho IVontiar to j ble
the State of Wooden Nutmegs. j
Farmer F. B. Crandnll cf Bozrah, sis j .
ailes west cf this city, came to town ls (
eceutly with five quarts of albino hue- ! i3 !
;leberiies, which l.e readily sold fur a ^
ound price to merchants and others ^
vho fancy freaks of nature. Mr. Cranlall's
fruit was the linest sample of
vhite huckleberries ever seen in Ncrvicb.
The be rries were all large, hard,
inn of texture, sweet and luscious and
ibout as white as milk. Albino berries *
ue extremely rare?in fact, "about as *al
bapsggr^n ?g TeajyatsaaB?
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skecrce as heW teeth," said Mr. Crandull,
after he had pocketed 20 cents a
box for some of the fruit.
There are r.ot more than half a dczon
places in Connecticut, probably, where
they grow, and it is not known that
they grow in any other state. There ia
a patch of albino bearing bushes in the
hilly town of Salem, which adjoins Bozrah;
another in Hartford county, a
third in Windham county, and there are
two cr three more in different parts of
tho state. The Salem albinos cluster
about the apex of a wind swept, treeless
knoll in the middle of a heavy wood,
and the whole plot is not more than 15
or 20 feet in diameter. By many persons
it is believed that the berries are not albinos,
but a distinct species of whortleberries,
since they never mix or amalgamate
with the common black huckleberry.
Neither are they greatly disposed
to propagate themselves or spread on
new ground. All tho widely separated
plots arc of about the same dimensions,
while in the case cf the Salem patch it
is known to be of just about tho same
size now as ICO years ago. In most respects
thi albinos differ nut at all from
the black berries except in color, although
some country people affirm that
when fully ripo they are a trifle sweeter,
with a more decided flavor. Liko all
ilbinos, whether of the animal or vegetable
world, they aio irradiated with a
faint pink hue, seemingly from a light
flowing within tho rind, which is as
beautiful as it is curious. Most of the
llbino patches yield not more than a
piart of berries each.- - *
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contain JxLurctiry,
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As mercury will sar6ly destroy the
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the whole system when enterag
it through the mucous surfaces.
!jch articles should never be used
xcept on prescriptions from repota- .
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m11 do is ten fold to the good you can
oesibly derive from them. Hill's
Jitarrb Cire, manufactured by F. J.
Ibeney & Co., Toledo, 0, cootaits
o mercery, aDd is taken internally,
cting directly opon the blood aod
incois surfaces of tke system. Is
ying Hill's Citarrb Care be sure
oa g< t the gtnnine. It is taken insroal
y, aod made in Toledo, Ohio,
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Th* Monroe Doctrine.
The following is the full text of
resident Monroe's utterance which
known as "the Monroe doctrine:"'
"We owe it, therefore, to candor
id to the amicable relations cxistg
between the United States and
ose Powers to declare that we
ould consider any attempt on their
irt to extend their system to any
ation of this hemisphere as dan
rous to our peace and safety. With
o fvish'nr* onlnnios or dependencies
any European powers we have not
terferreil and shall not interfere,
it with the governments who have
clared their independence and
lintained it, and whose indepennce
we have, on great consideran
and on just joiinciples, acknowlge,
we could not view any intersition
for the purpose of oppressj
them, or controlling in any manr
their destiny, by any European
wer, in any light than as the manstation
of an unfiiendly disposin
toward the United States. But
regard to these contingencies, cirmstances
are eminently and coniciously
different. It is impossi;
that the allied powers should exid
their political system to any
rtion of either continent without
Jangering our peace and happiss;
nor can any one believe that our
uthern brethren, if left to themves
would adopt it of their own
:ord. It is equally impossible,
irefore, that we should behold
:h interposition, in any form, with
iifference."
A. Legend cf the Mistletoe.
myth of the middle ages says
it before the crucifixion of Christ
i mistletoe was a forest tree; but,
ing to its supplying the wood for
s cross, it fell into disgrace and bene
a mere parasite as a lasting
morial of its ignominious use. If
m folklore and myth we turn to
iiclogy, we iind another point of
erest in this associate of the
ristmas feast. Its name consists
two words, "inistle" and ''toe."
e former of these comes from
ist," an Anglo Saxon root which
.1 different meaning?mist, gloom,
rkness, the meaning now used by
i former in "inistle," and in old
itch glue or bird lime. In "toe"
final n is dropped, and the sylla;
represents the Anglo Saxon
in," a twig, so that the whole word
equivalent to bird lime twig and
so called from the viscid matter
lich surrounds the seed within the
try.
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