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Show HORRORSI SQUIRREL ANCRY AND PROFANE. guvmug ; Expressed Himself Strongly as Character of His Detpoiler. thcjjnugcaf With reverent heart we turn anew An untouched page of time. fill with noble deeds Or stain with sin and crime; Then ere we mar its surface pure Ere we begin anew, Tis ours to Tis well that o'er our last year's We take a short review work Though mental retrospection shows That shine exceeds the shade; Too late we would erase the blots Of past mistakes we made. Then turn the new leaf. Look not back To grieve o'er loss and pain, But view the future's spotless page Where we begin again; And here resolve, by God's own grace, That we. will do our best To keep life's record clean and pure And trust Him for the rest mil 9, R)DPJf Four Celebrations of New Year s Day of perfect sunlight. But the reaction has set in. It Is th glad hours and uot the sad ones that are to be made to count. Let us tarry awhile At the sign of the smlls is the watchword which even pious pilgrims are sending out to upset the ancient reckoning. "Let the smile become the Christian's rather than the devil's sign" they cry in chorus, and the joy of the spirit become the measure of its days. Good Isaac Barrow's picture of the child of heaven "smilseing always with a never-endinrenity of countenance and flourishing In an Immortal youth" has at last taken hold of the Christian world and, spurred on by the new thought rhapsodies, promises to turn back the calendar of all our days. Counting time by heart throbs is no new method, to be sure, but the kind, of heart throbs that "always find man young and always keep him so" were rather lost with the sun and nature worship of the early world. When men went to nature for their reckoning It was as Wordsworth tells us They felt As If the moving time had been A thing a steadfast aa the scene On which they gated themselves away. Centuries young were those children of the morning, before even the sun dial had begun to tell them of the flight of time. ' It remains true still that whether nature or the soul In the human strikes the breast, the poet's question rises to the lips: O what have I to do with time, For this the day was made. Man Has His Choice. Good or bad, the years come out of the bosom of the infinite bearing some boon from i!e eternal for man to lay hold of If he will. To choose the per manent from out the mutable and fleeting Is the life secret they carry, and how much hnngs upon the choice There are t ternlty alone can tell. watchmen at the gates who assure us that each year brings gifts peculiar to Haelf, and one year or one world does not restore the lost offerings of the other. "Long after we have passed nway out of men's sight and out of men's memory the world with some thing that we have left within It. will tie going on still," says Phillips Brooks, "and long after the world has passed away we shall go on some where, somehow, the same ' beings still, carrying Into the depths of eter titty something that the world has done for us that no other world could jjNSf NMSSISUawal Hall. into the life of things." How many rose of morning and ripe fruit of the golden noon shall then return to him the science of life, which permits no lost good, nor wasted atom even, in all creation's bounds, may gloriously de clare. "Where are the snows of yes teryear?" whispers the tender poet, but the green of spring and the bloom of summer are nature's answer to his yearning cry. And shall man be less blessed than nature in garnering the treasures of the year? Is that evil genius, that the ancients beheld standing at the door of the new year, forever to give lethe to drink that he may wander blindly into the unknown way, shorn of the best boons and talismans of the past? Ah, the poets who try life and love know better. Each new year Is a leaf of our love's rose: falls, but quick another rose leaf grows: So Is the flower from year to year the same. But riches, for the dead leaves feed the It . flume. Thus they read the riddle and the "milllon-centurled- " sweetness that Neither is man goes with it drugged by any god or enius but the one within him, that he may "tell no tales" and carry no tokens from the departing year. What he tells to cheer or depress his comrades, what he carries to help or hinder both them and himself, is in the power of his choice. Perhaps the own open-eyebest hint that was ever offered to guide him is the brief and pointed one given by the sage, when he writes: "A man should make life and nature happier to os, ot he had better never been born." It is the one ly in the air at the present moment It would fill all the newspapers in the land and drive the quotation-abhorrinof the stout editors mad if maxims of this nature which the times offer should demand place in their col umns. Already their humorous writ era are trying to demoralize them and send some of the cheerful and cheer-ing-u- p people over to his Satanic majesty, where no doubt they are needed since the dry season set in. to-da- one-quart- Life's Logic Quaint If there be such a Satanic monarch probably he loves the cheerful sinner just as heaven must love the cheerful saint. Yet the IokIc of life is against him. The smile is not legitimately the devil's sign. It is the pessimist who is playing into his hands, treating his sovereignty as if it could overthrow heaven's and all the power of the Eternal Goodness. To act as '.they had a faith worth smiling over would seem to be the altitude of men who believed in a sovereign of love and omnipotence rather than one of mal evolerice and black arts, and it may be that the Christian world is at last finding it out. Certainly the Gospel evangel "Rejoice, rejoice!" is sound lng anew through all the realms of Christendom and becoming a part of and every philosophy culture "Be counsel: Fuller's where. in the hariDV present moment and put not off being so to Mm. In rnmA as though that time should be of another make from tlo. this," prevails Alexander Mocked. in the IntelNew worlds, with each new year, lectual as religious world, to conquer, mock the cry of Alexander and declare Indeed a new kingdom and promises wherein to reign. Closer and closer to show "life to whole comes the promise of that awakening hour when man shall in truth become more than a nd "with an eye handful of "a living soul," seers and made quiet by the power of harmony, tad the deep power of Joy," shall "see is get, Joy-not- e TffEW YEAR is celebrated in this country at least on tuur uiuervui uait'B IU bu dltlon to the regular na- tional New Year's celebra- tlon on January 1. The first of these foreign celebrations will be that of the Greeks and Russians and a few other nationalities which adhere to old style dates. They will have New Year on January 14, 13 days later than the New Year of the new Btyle. Next In order conies tho Chinese New Year, on February 13, and, but a day later, February 14, comes the Mohammedan first day of the year. The Jewish New Year fatls nealy nine months later, about the middle of Sep-be- r, on the first day of the month of & S 48 As the Years Mark Time for Mankind The sun dial, after all, was the true time piece. That little pocket sun dial that ... we are i.u turn tuuuicu all the hours "when the sun shone" made the perfect record of human days. The noisy clocks and remorseless calendars that told off the worst and weariest of time's movements 1 1 1 e r a 11 y spoiled the reckoning. History began to build Itself upon wretchedness of a people, and all cre ation to take note of time by Its loss Instead of its golden gain In the hours When irritated a rod squirrel can come the nearest to being profane of any animal I ever saw. One day when I happened to stop under a large beech. Soon the burrs began to drop, and, winning to rest, I began shelling and eating the beech nuts. I had been doing this for some time, when the supply ceased and the squir rel came down to look after his nuts. On seeing me where he expected to find the nuts, he (lew into the greatest fit of passion I ever saw any ani mal Indulge in. He was so enrased that he lost all sense of fear and stood head down on the tree within arm's length of me, railing me all the vile names the squirrel vocabulary is capable of. It was perfectly evident that he was using language which would not look well In print I tried to reason with him, told him that there were nuts enough for both, that he was the spryest and could get more; but It was no use. I bad taken his nuts, and he abused me so that I was obliged to leave him, still using language Btrong enough to walk ou. Manly Hardy, in Forest and Stream. stlll-huutln- g Alas! we scan through tears the page We meant should be so fair The blotted page where records live Of hope and toil and care; The page that ends the finished year Of loss and gain and strife, Of love and home's sweet happiness, And peace that blesses life. So much there is of pleasantness Our record has to tell And so much done unworthily We might have done so wellf Warprrt Srott to "Tishrl." The celebrations vary both' in ac cordance with the religions of the various peoples and their climatic, racial and national characteristics. With the Greeks, Russians, Servians, Bulgarians and Macedonians, all of whom adhere to the Greek Catholic church, Nev Year's is one of the most pleasant if tot the pleasantest festival of the year. With the Jews, on the contrary, the New Year, Rosh Has-ban- a, as it is called, is far from being a pleasant affair. It is a day of retriIt is preceded bution, of Judgment by weeks of prayer, fasting and penitence, and is followed by ten days known as the days of repentance, which wind up with Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, a most grewsome and weird day, dreaded by every orthodox Jew. Greeks Celebrate Two Days. The most interesting and Joyous celebration of the New Year is that of the Greeks. The Greek New Year lasts two days. In these two days the Greek nature with its unbounded Joy of life comes into its own. The heart of every Greek thrills on that day with he unbounded Joy. Passionately awaits the evening, when in his little Greece, in a genuine Greek restaurant, with male cooks and attendants, he can get his genuine Greek food. Hellenic dishes, and wash them away with Greek wine which was purpose ly Imported into this country for the holidays. "Christmas is a great holiday with us," said a prominent Greek, "but it is after all a solemn day. It is a rellg lous holiday. No gifts are exchanged on Christmas and the three days which the holiday last are given over to How different religious meditation. it is with the New Year! Next to our national holiday on March 25, which commemorates the date of our independence. Just aa July 4 commemo rates the birth of the American nation. New Year's days, for we have two of them, are our greatest holidays. In Greece New Year is essentially a family holiday. There we have a chil dren's afternoon which is devoted entirely to the young ones, who are giv en the utmost opportunities to enjoy In this country, howthemselves. ever, It is slightly different Out of the 13,000 Greeks living in Chicago only 200 have their families here. There are only between sixty and eighty children, and as we are only Just planning to build a school of our have not yet the means not the call for a children's afternoon on New Year's day." Still, many of the Greek families will observe this ancient custom in this country. They will have their children's afternoon. They will have their delicious New Year's pudding known as "king's pudding." In fact, in many cases the pudding will be even mor delicious than it would have been In old Athens. For one of the ancient customs among the Greeks is to hide some gold coin in one portion of the pudding and he who gets the share of the pudding with the gold coin In it becomes the favorite as well as the leader of the two days' joy and sport. In this country, where gold is more plentiful than In Greece and where it is more easily earned by the Greek father, the pudding promises to contain more gold and be much mere delightful to the finder of the same. Perhaps the most unique Greek dish on New Year's eve is tho roast lamb, set up in Greek style, of which each son of Hellas must partake. The roasting of the lamb is attended with a great deal of pomp. The entire carcass of a lamb is set up on a pole and this Is held over a fire until it is duly roasted. Then it is sliced and apportioned among the various persons present at the feast and the roast is eaten along with the other strictly Greek dishes and washed down with Greek wine. Russians Like Our Food. Russians in this country celebrate but one day, and they, too, attempt to How produce a home atmosphere. ever, home food is not thought of. The bread, the meat, and the wine of the United States are considered as good as and even far better than the products of their own land. The Macedonians, Servians and Bul garians celebrate the New Year, per haps less elaborately, also on the same day' as their Greek and Russian co religionists. The Turks celebrate their first of the year with the modesty characteristic of people who have not yet any bold on a place. The Chinese will have their cus tomary celebration of the Chinese New Year on February 13 with feasting and enjoyments with which the holiday la observed In the Celestial smplre. In striking opposition to the spirit of Joy and happiness which pervades the New Year of the Greeks and Christendom generally is the New Year of the Jews. With the Jews, who also observe the New Year for two days, the days are not days of feasting and enjoyment but days of judgment According to the belief of every orthodox Jew, every member of the Jewish race is tried on the New Year. The books kept in heaven are opened on that day, the record of each man for the year Just ending is looked through, and taken under advisement for ten days. On the tenth day, the day of atonement, the fate of each man tor the coming year is drawn up, whether he should live or die, prosper or be poor. On the day of atonement the fate is sealed and nothing can change it any more. own, we "What's the trouble, Zambo?" "I thought It was missionaries, but It's a load of Altruists." Youthful Confidence. Is a period in every child's life when he feels himself master of some profesttlon. A little boy of this pnitlculur age 10 years old was no- tlct'd making great efforts at his INTOLERABLE ITCHING. Fearful Eczema All Over Baby's Face Professional Treatment Failed. A There What are you drawing, dear?" bit mother asked him? "A picture of God," was his ready reply. imt, try dear, no one knows Just what Uod looks like,' said the mother softly and with an air of reproach. "They will after they see this, con fidently answered this young prodigy. Important to Mothors. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOKIA a eafo aud sure remedy tor infants and children, and see that it otCfft Signature In Use For Over Perfect Cure by Cutlcura. .'SO Years. Tho Kind You Have Always Bought "When my little girl was six month old I noticed small red spots on her It Would 8eem So. right cheek. Tbey grew so large that Giles The camel should be the I sent for the doctor but, Instead of his ointment most courageous of all animals. helpiug the eruption, Miles Because why? seemed to make It worse. Then 1 Giles Because it is nearly all backwent to a second doctor who said it was eczema. He also gave me an oint- bone. See? ment which did not help either. The KKnROMO OriNINK" IM,Y l l.AXATIVK IHK'Mo (Jll.NINM. Iik disease spread all over the face and That tlw WuriS the Immtura of K. W. (iKOVK. 'Mm. the eyes began to swell. The Itching over to Cure a Cold la Oua Day. I'khI grew intolerable and It was a terrible And it sometimes happens that a sight to see. I consulted doctors for months, but they were unable to cure man la married to his boss. ', the baby. I paid out from (20 to $30 Allen's Foot-ra- a without relief. One evening I began Cnret tiled. aweailni feet. uu. Trial package X. A. B.OliuaWU.UiUui.N. to use the Cutlcura Remedies. The frae, next mornirg the baby's face was all A singer doesn't weigh his words oa while Instead of red. I continued until the musical scale. the eczema entirely disappeared. Mrs. P. E. Gumbln. 8heldon, la., July 13,'08." h ta Potter Drag a Cbem. Corp, Sole Props Vostoa. mm JUST A TEST. the what's "Goodness, sonny, trouble?" 'Nawthin. I just wanted to see if I had forgotten how to cry boo-hoo- ! 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