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UNION. S. C., DECEMBER 20. S!? 5.
You iiiny look for a good crop
next year if there he any virtue in
the old prediction that a good crop
year is always followed by a dark
(hristmas, and tins was a t hnstinas
in the dark of the moon. l?ut yon
will have to work all the same, Ik cause
the seasons wont make a crop
without work.
OUR VALEDICTORY.
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We have during the entire year endcivorod
to give our many readers
something new and interesting
every week. We have catered to
the. taste and given to our patrons
o lr best efforts with a view to
please end compensate them for
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e-asy task for us, although many j
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ipistake was ever made, for then '
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editor, because his is all brain work j
and never ending. We have done ?
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May you each and all have a
happy and prosperous New Year
is the wish of The Times.
TOMORROW--THE NEW YEAR.
We stood on the bridge?the
bridge of time that spanned the I
space I ctwoon the old and the newyear.
ft was near the midnight
hour, a density of stillness that1
could be felt and was oppressive, 1
when the whole earth, every living
thing seemed wrapped in profound
slumber, unmindful of the passing
hour which was slowly but surely
bringing the dawn of another day!
and another year to be reckoned
and recorded against all living
"lathings
animate and inanimate. We,
seemed to eling with peculiar pleasure
to the old year, as to a friend
with whom we were familiar and
to whom we were attached, around j
whose past were entwined fond
memories and sweet associations
and we did not feel willing to let
go, because we did not know what
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the now year had in store for i s
an I we shuddered when the thought
enne that we muot give up tlic old
year for the new. The hour past,
it was hut a step across this bridge
of time and we found ourself facing
the relentless tide of time which
h.ul ushered us into the stern rehlities
of the r.cw year, the unknown
future. <>! how fraught with conjecture
of what it would bo or bring.
Not gifted with prophetic vision we
bow with bumble submission to
V I I A u IOV 1.TIUI1 V* JMV* I\IV llVVt
To the thoughtful tl?i^ is n sad hour,
to the unthoughtful, a reckless,
criminal indifference. What a
Strange truism that is, there is no
tomorrow, for today is all that the
human mind can grasp with any
degree of certainty, for of it alone we
can feel assured. When it is here,
we are aware of its present presence,
for today is all we have and never a
tomorrow, as it is always today.
There is no bridge of time spanning
the space between today and tomorrow,
for the close of today
brings the dawn of another today,
and so it will ever he for all time.
CHRISTMAS DAY AT JONESVILLE.
C3'Je.(jc Boys and Girls at Home for the
Holidays?Rev. D. E. Camak Preaches
and Receives a Pounding from the
Ladies of the Church.
Jon-sviile, Dee. 2o.?Christmas
conies with a bright and lovely day,
calm as the summer breeze. Our
town is unusually quiet this morning.
Some of the stores are open
and others arc closed. I would like
to see them all closed and business
entirely suspended, hut it seems
lwv ft r t/Vtt f/kli tw.wl.t altwl
klhlt IIJ1 l^l|]|n<UlWll I'M U.lUl. (lliU
to make money prevails. The mill
school an 1 all public work is suspended,
but work goes upon the
lepot- all the same.
Rev. I). E. Camak preached his
irst sermon for this conference year
it the Methodist church last night,
le took for his subject, "Babe of
3cthlehom." The Methodist have
>ut in an extra stove and new gasoin-3
lamps which is quite an imjrovement
in both heat and light.
Mr. J. R. Rush, of Midway,
fenn., after disposing of a drove of
togs and a carload of corn, returned
o his home last Friday.
List Thursday evening Rev. 1).
10. Camak and his good wife received
a handsome pounding by
die good ladies of the church here.
Mrs. Carrie Odom and two children,
of Chesterfield, are visiting
her father's family, Mr. J. H.
Little job n.
The hoys and girls from the different
colleges are all at home for
the holidays, except Miss (trace
Fai r, who is at Winthrop College,
that never gives any holidays.
There rules are like the laws of the
Modes and Persians, they never
change.
1 heard of one man that don't
live a uunnreu miles irom Jonesville
that had a daughter at Winthrop
and after hearing that they
would give no holiday, he wrote for
his daughter to come home and
spend the holidays, just what I
would have done.
Ths merchants had a good trade
Saturday and will take stock this
week'.
Miss Leila Lambright, of Landrum,
who has been stenographer
and typewriter for the Jonesvillo
Manufacturing Co. for the past two
years, has resigned her position and
will return to her home and rest for
awhile. She has been succeeded by
Miss L. I'. Barton, of Townvillc, S.
C. Miss Lambright is an expert
stenographer and typewriter and is
a young lady of sweet disposition
and has made many friends during
her stay in Jonesvillo who regret
that she is to leave our town.
Messrs. Wilkes and (ieorge Brown
who have l>een with the J. J. Littlejohn
Co. this year, will both
leave the first of January for other
fields of business.
I Jr. ! . M. hderhe has gone to his
home in Marion to spend the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. ('. II. Foster arc
spending the holidays in GalTney.
Mr. C. M. MeWhirter, of Union,
is spending Christmas with his parents.
Mr. G. 0. Pcrrin, Jr. is hiking
his Christmas in Union.
A happy New Year to the readers
of Titk Tim ks. Tlxki'iioMv.
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IVAN'S CHOICE IN
THE CHRISTMAS GAME J|
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It was Christmas time in Itussia.
Ivnu Ivauovltch went the rounds of the
village announcing that the usual festivities
would be held at his house aud
that the marriage game would he play1
od. In this game the youug girls are
muffled so that they canuot be (llstin!
gulslnHl. The youug meu one by one
nrc admitted to the room where the
' girls are sitting and each man chooses
j a girl. She is unveiled, and the man
j must either marry her or pay a heavy
forfeit.
i Now, Peter Olizoflf had met Sonia
j Nicholaevna and had fallen in love
with her. Though he had l>een thrown
with her on several occasions he could
uot discover that she showed him any
preference. Possibly this may have
been because Peter was too bashful or
too uueertaiu of meeting a favorable
response; possibly slio did uot care for
hhu: possibly she loved auotlier. Peter
went to the Christmas celebration,
knowing that Sonia would bo there,
with very conflicting emotions. If in
the marriage game he could pick out
Sonia be would be very happy, but bis
happiness woidd also depend upon Sonia's
desire to bo picked out by him.
Hut if Souia had any preference for
him she would have Indicated it, for,
Miwu-11 in? n.ni lUMt'i r*|pji\i?ii ni.n ju\ v,
ho had looked it, and 110 girl is so stupid
as to l?o ignorant of a man's preference
for hor. especially when betakes
no pains to conceal it. Hut then, us 1
have said, the two bad met but a few
times, and it was not likely that a
girl would he won so soon and without
! a courtship.
| At the Christmas festivities Sonia,
dressed In the costume of the country,
looked enchanting. Sire wore a skirt
reaching to her ankles. About her
waist was a girdle of narrow blue ribbon
wound several times around, tbe
ends gathered loosely and banging in
two streamers, each end tipped with a
coin. The early part of the evening
was passed in dancing, singing and ordinary
games. Peter tried to get a
dance with Sonia, but she was always
engaged?at least she always claimed
to ho. and Peter was discouraged.
Even if be should happen to choose her
in the marriage game it would bring
him no pleasure, and he would pay the
forfeit rather than marry one who did
not prefer him to all others.
At last Maria, the wife of Ivanovitch,
announced that they would play the
marriage game, to which they had all
been looking forward expectantly.
Maria took the girls nil into an adjoining
room, where each was enveloped
in a sheet. When all was ready the
young men drew lots to determine the
order In which they should enter. Of
course the first man, If ho had a preference,
would have the best chance to
secure it. The last man would have
but one girl to choose. Peter drew the
liflh entry. When the first couple came
out the girl was smiling and blushing,
and all knew that she had been chosen
in accordance with her wishes. The
swain did not look displeased, only
silly. Tbe second couple were both
pouting, and both bad evidently bad
bad luck. In tho ease of the third the
man was radiant with happiness, the
girl evidently displeased. In the fourth
it was plain that both had been unicli
disappointed.
It was now Peter's turn to enter the
room and choose. The varied appearance
of the couples who had emerged
had told him how slim was the chance,
first, of his choosing Sonia, and, second,
of her being his willing bride. Nevertheless
be bad been caught by the spirit
of chance. He was wild with desire
to choose Sonia, and lie would at least
have the privilege of seeming to he
glad of the alternative to pay the forfeit.
Ho entered tho room with a throbbing
heart. There sat a line of girls
looking very like large Indian papooses.
Peter cast his eye along tho lino, vainly
endeavoring to distinguish the girl lie
loved by her size or some other feature,
but Sonia was of the middle height and
several of tho girls were very nearly
her size. Peter dallied.
"Choose," said tho matron.
Peter, still hoping to discover through
the sheet some guide, still hesitated.
"Come, choose," said the matron;
"others are waiting."
Peter, in despair at having to trust to
luck, was about to stop forward and
choose haphazard when Ids ^ye lighted
on a little coin hnngiug below a fold in
1110 sheet that enveloped one of tho
girls. In a twinkling he remembered
that the ends of the ribbon encircling
Sonia's waist were tipped with coins.
He had not seen the coin 011 first running
his eye along the line and was
sure it was not then visible. Indeed,
while he looked it disappeared, hnvhig
been exposed only a few seconds.
A flood of joy welled in Peter's heart.
Sonia, who before had given liim no
sign of preference, wlio could not even
save u dance for him, who had given
any of the young inen present more of
her favor than he, had contrived to give
him a signal. More than this, she had
come to the gathering with tho ribbon
loosely wound about her waist, so that
she might drop It at the choosing of the
man she wanted, and hud dropped It
i<>r uiiii. concerning ins Knowledge by
looking again over tho lino, making
feints at selecting a girl, bo at last
chose the one who had dropped the
coin.
Bho arose, and Marin, unwinding the
j sheet, dropped it and there stood Sonia
i with a happy smile which she found it
i difficult to repress and a twinkle In tho
glance she gave Peter. When tiio two
Bteppcd Into tho adjoining room so
plain was It a pair of lovers had been
made happy that they wcro received
with n clapping of hands.
, CUARLO^Ttf SIIERWOOD.
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New Yf?r'? on the Xlle.
Iii nil ages and all lands much Importance
has attached to New Year's
day. In Egypt the new year fell between
the 17th and the 20th of Juno
and was called the "night of the drop."
The sacred Nile was thought to flow
down from heaven, and at Its lowest
ebb?about the middle of Juiie?a tear
from Tsls fell Into llie stream and caused
it to rise. Consequcntfy at this season
the priests and people kept a sleepless
vigil at the river's shore, watching
for the miraculous rise which should i
bring such riches to the whole land.
When the "night of the drop" came the
priests cleared the altars of old ashes
and lighted the sacred tires for the new
year. Every one of the faithful carried
a coal from the altar to light the
Are at his own health, and from end
to end the land was ablaze with light.
The people put off their old garments
and arrayed themselves in white,
anointing their heads with sacred oil,
crowning themselves with flowers and
hearing palms in their hands, while
chants and songs and feasting and processions
filled the homes.
An Invocation to the New Year.
Aureole our angel cake generously
with imported jam; teach us to forgive
our creditors; see to it that the
straight and narrow path is sprinkled
with ashes always and with hannnn
skins never; put plenty of silver luto
our wallets and not any into our whiskers;
cement our ties of love and friendship
more closely together and till the
hearts of our wives to overflowing j
with the friskiness and enthusiasm that )
were theirs at that divine moment
when we measured their lily lingers
for solitaire diamond rings and prepared
to camp out on their fathers' incomes;
clip the wings of riches and of
love that they may not fly out of our
window, but remain with us forever,
ami if possible elip the rook in tlie
same way and for a similar result.?
it. K. Munkittrlck in New York World.
Now Venp'n In CnoNiir'M Time.
At the Iioinan festivals of the god
Janus, held on the enlends of January,
gifts and good wishes were exchanged,
friends met together, and feasting aud
dancing, masking and mumming were
the order of the day. January derives
its name from the god Janus, who was
represented with two faces looking In
opposite directions, as the month was
considered botli to look back upon the
past year and forward to that wlilcb
wan coming.
Klnllrrrd ller.
"Yes," said the fair young girl, "everybody
soya I'm just the picture of
mnmiufi."
"Well." replied the gallunt youth,
"you're certaiuly a flattering picture."
Stlninlntlnff.
She?Where do you got your Inspiration
from? The Author?From my creditors.?Life.
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