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Old Fa By HARRY 'TI * Mtght*19 -4 f -9a- - "M fW e atern Newsanper Union. I came with Spac We two sat here As two twin King Sit side by side a While eons came In ceaseless pass. And all was still -And black as mo< Then age by age. W a. j~otc~jNVWe watchdnth Whcame thg Spa The tas here Asnto ten romno Sit sde byhie ar in cselessm glass And cka Tme Then aes by a Wile though thu The OSdtarhee NI OsAnds from oa Through ae o i A Snd g of Timee 'Till lastoMan cu And gave to me Old Father Time I As close I glean I walk the Earth Yet ever sweep Forever old, yet I'd rest-but nor Again I raise my Another Sand HER NEW YEAR RESOLVI CwNE. UJP ANY TNNt'C her Time [RVING GREENE 'PAmuiomm., e, adhn i ad alne s feua ih throne~w , and eens went ingfliht isdnen deep, e vond hnd ns cont, >ing flight it ungetonsmeepace -a miplona ear -and from it fell, -the first New Year. tched them come and go, it no more, ew-like falling rain, shore. dist, and age cf storm, ping Flame, me with gift of speech, my Name i, he calls me now, my tithe. with silent thread, my Scythe. doomed to live, e is here. Glass and pour a new, New Year. MAKE TH ESE RESOLUTIONS. I will take good care of my b~ody. I will have hiouse cleaning in the house I live in. I will not procrnstinate in in sittutinug preparedness agalinst -I will ke'ep clean inalde and I ilavoid dirt. I will cultivato goodl cheer. , I will avoidl anger, hate andl Reverle of the Old Year. S Iu( lis4tenI ! Th'e old year l aspeaking "Iliow st range a thing ls the ingrati t ude of mann,'' he says in~ slow, f'altering necets. "Mani is not satisfIed wlthu al the benefits the year has bes9towet Supon hin, but must scoff at wintei and regard him as a mortal foe. 'Thus winter falls A hea~vy gloom oppressive o'er the world Trhroutgh Naturo shedding influenco mna lign.' 'Pray, what would these creaturei have-sunuuer the year round? I there nio one who will say a good word .tg lvinter?"-Countryside Magazine, OI Izola orresfer (Copyright.) Twas at suprreme test of frienidship, visiti.ng the Del mars lil N e w ear's. Wrnl3lJlued to her va rs in fur, with a1 cip n-vetiing h14.r. cillar, Wii fIe sto)d onl tie. bleak lit it phIt form at lhyers' Cor nl'rs .ind11 looked through the snlowfll for any thing that seeled to be a coi veyalnce. She had left 9loston at 5 :45-plenty of time to reach Windyheath in good time, Anie hadt(] written her. "It's .lust a nile little run over from Providence (itn the Providenice anid W\It limantic line. We'll meet you at Byers' Corners. The trtins only stop there on signal or to let off visitors, and the only visitors that ever come are ours. If Itoif or I can't come over I'll send a wotierful substitlte." 1-vidently Rolf, Anne and the sib titulte had been overcome by the storm. Tradins haid been delayed from Bost on to Providemce 111d on Ile little local line they lual wi)ted again and again lloig lill- way. There had been no real tved of4 ally signal to let her off when Byers' Corners came In view. 'The drifts were so high that it took the train 20 minutes to get out of JyWrs' Corners, let alone getting lin. lilt( again Anie had written: "'Ib)m't feel discollraged getting to us. We live in the quaintest little viA itge prclled onl thle top of i hill, but it Is wonlcerful whenI you get here, ani we're piling on big logs for you - ; -- ~ - Stog else bth Blea Lite Pafoeler and the tip tsel.ringifrgeds e arounthie othe ie h ofl rile, tiy t ltstn antd heard ices. Ahii man3(f who aing aebot toe lway of tieachtter Uthe Dehnmars, and the stocky dIriver of a two-horse sleigh demurred evualvely, S"It's tulle tmiles ordlinairily up there and we'd have to go roundb~out by Butts' bridlge tonight 'etause the roads ain't b~len broke t hrough t 'other way, andi then lke enough we'dl never make it. It's worth five dollars to drive over there, evecry cent of it."' "I'll paIy you five," sald the stranger, "Ihturry uip." "Icnt guatrantee to get you there, but I'li do tty best. ThIs here's the only, team In town yout could get to night. There's d (lance over at Ponm fredt GIreen and everybodly's gone. I meant to go, but I had to lake some foldks (down to this trainl, 5o 1 dlon't mind~l malkintg ai little gointg si :.ce I had to earIn some cotmintg." "Ohi, could I go with you, p~lease?" Wimifred broke in. "'I'd pay half, don't you know, fand there's plenty of room. I'm going to the Illlmars, too," It seem ed too good to 1b0 true when she found herself safely tucked awaiy on the balck seat, with lbuflflo rob~es airound her aind the two horses taking upl the r'ond~ spletndidly, their hoofs throwing back a spray of light snow. Iie was Giregory Itarnadell, lhe told Iher', writer and1( globe trotter. Ije had just got balck( from a year at the front in Euroneo and he said Connecticut ~EW hills looked better to him than ill th old world put together. Even in th( darkness the pine trees stood out, theib branches heavy with snow, and befort them here and there in the fields wer clumps of white birch and red oak with dry leaves still clingiug to theib boughs. The stars shone famously uj in the winter sky. Gregory half turned in his seat andI talked. They had many frilends in voin. nen. Tie had known Rolf since they w-re boys back in Denver. N ''it her o. the-m notied after five ml.s had heet1 cov'rel that the horses were walk. ing, l'iren- sting tile drifts and literally wilding through, until they 'arine to 1 dead 111111t anld the driver .nimai ciii out 'i'liey couldn't go on, he saild. Tie snow% w*as up1 to the top of 1hr. fences am fat. as ri- could see. Ife could turri arounil arid get thei up to the oh( Annabelle Smiith place, where ther wis i teh-pholne, and they could cal up Windhyhe'ath. "It's onl y ine-thIrty," Gregory sal(] rssuringly. "And we don't get atl ;cl'venture every day. Let's go." h'le( Siith place was dark when the) rea'hed it, but the driver knocke( lustily and finally there was a faint frightewd voice from the inner sid< (if te front door asking who it was ai that time of night. Gregory explained with the driver's help, and they wer admitted. "Bit you can't get word through to night. The wires don't work. The3 never do after a big storm on thesm here party lines," said Miss Smith holding up a big oil lamp. "Just stel right out into the kitchen and you sti up the fire, Ira. Make yourselves t< home, folkses. Ira can drive back an maybe telephone from the village ul there.". . Winifred never forgot that Nev Year's eve. After Ira had gone, the sat out in the cheery old kitchen drinking tea, eating nuts and apple: and mince pie, and getting fearfulli well acquainted, as Miss Smith put I laughingly. Gregory carried In woo( and split kindlings for morning, ant locked up for the.night. While MIs Smith went up to look after her ol bedridden father, they sat together b, the fire, and someh6w talk died away The old clock up on the chhmrny'man tel softly struck twelve in tie silence Winifred looked up and smiled, lei head leaning back on the cushionet top of the old black rocker. "1a1py New Year !" she said. "Isn'l it the queerest thing, our being wa, up here miles from everyone we know and not knowing each other even, ant starting off the new year together?" "It's great," Gregory clasped hi: hrands around onre knee, seated on the woodibox under tihe big Dutch oven "I'mii not ~superstitious, but r'fter ramb~ ling for a year ov'er there tis seem; awfully much v~orthr while. You knov I'd almost begun to think, if you won mind my saying so, thrat there wasn' anyone like you in the world." Miss Sithr hurried thrroughr tire eri try way. "Ira's back with a bigger team ani ire's going to take you thr'ough al r'ighrt, he says, Hie drove over thar haid spot in tihe roads and broke it fo you. Arnd he's telephoned to Mrs. Del mrar that you're conming." It wits urearly two wrhren they reactl ed Winidyhieath. All of the window of tire big country house were lightel up, and( Anne hrerself', wraipped in wondlerful velvet arid furr hrousegown ran down the steps to meet them, "Oh, my dear, my dear' !" shre criei when she had Winifred sarfely upstair In her room, "You poor child I" "I'm not poor," Winrifred said ra (diatly. "I've had tire most berautifu adventure of my whole life, and I'm 11 love. I agree with you anti fate ti tirme." "But it isn't Gregory I want you ti meet," faltered Anne. "You haven gone and fallen in love with dear o01 Greg?" "I have," Winifred laughed hrappily "Both of us have. I never believed Il love at first sight before, or anythini like it, but I've made some wonderfu resolutions for the new year tii timtie." "Now listen to me and tire wholi comedy. Anne curled up on tire be< confidentially. "The man you were t< marry is right dlown smokIng wit! Itolf this minute, lie's Madison iForb~et with money, position, everything, im; dlear. But he didn't think you'd tr, to make lire trip such a night, so I've breern 'phonring madly everywvhere ti tindl out if yolf hand arrived and where Tihe(n I would have tried to get to you WVe sent out a car and it couildnr't go through, and tire horses couldhn't ei t her." "Don't wvorry," WVinifred smiled a her reflection In the triple mrirror a tire dressing table. "I don't give a ral abiout tire money or position or any thing, Amnnra. We've been right out in to the pr'imitive world together, los ini tire snowy, rind I'di go with hinm .t. tihe ends of the world if this blesse old world had any ends. He said, jus ars we were driving ini her'e, It was th most promising New Year's he ha' over known." AAM New Year's day has coie to rar of the Flowery Kingdom's holidays. feasting and good cheer, though od servances. The above picture sho their way to the temple for prayer of New Year'f t Here you see .. a parade of Tokyo firemen on New Year's day on their way I aual inspection, one of the big features i first day of the year in every Japanese cit and equipment pass in reviewv before the c eand te fremen -t ake ~part in 'eon-' a tests of various v' kinds. The tire en t glne has only re t cently been intro duced into the Isi -and Kingdom and the modern auto 1 truck is not yet iknown there. In . 9 t .the lower picture r are shown the fire .'men with their bamboo scaling lad ..ders . which are s 'used not only for ci life-saving and as ~ 4 a an elevation from i, -which to direct the ___ water from the e hose nozzle, but as a ram s with which to knock dowvn buildings too far gone to save .and so prevent the spread of Sthe conflagration. The Japa nose firemen are wvonderfuI s acrobats and perform tru ly remarkable feats on the tail ladders, scaling them twith the agility of mon keys. Men, women and children turn out to watch the exhibitions. Note the odd costumes of this brigade from Tokyo. t ~1 k as one of the most popular As in Ameriea it Is a day of fly tempered by religious ob s three Japanese belles on before starting cna round calls. to the drill grounds for the n the way of celebratingr the( ity ffiial, afer hic fiehl I I l~ m