Show 4 THE 4 W fl M it 90 9 0 t the fourth day of the new year the decorations of lobster which signify reproduction cabbages which mean riches and oranges which mean good luck are taken down and replaced with boughs of fruit trees and flowers this Is to signify the near approach of spring when the winter garment ot of repentance shall be thrown aside BY DANIEL W CALLAGHER GALLAGHER the old earth s outer crust ENDER mid dust bed rock fragments and lave lava watching the axis turning slow the old year stood at his dynamo in the power plant which time maintains and numbered losses and figured gains ive I 1 ve done quite well said the aged seer my record s good as an eng neer I 1 ve kept things humming above below I 1 alks can t complain that I 1 ve been slow and now I 1 in off when m calls then he started doffing h s overalls he washed his face and brushed h s hair then leaned far back in his arm chair in pensive mood till a sturdy chap clambered up to the old man s lap andraid and said old year they tell me aou ou are sorter thinking of getting through right you are cried the aged man 1 your task awaits you little jan get into your duds and start right in I 1 will wa we t right here until you beg n for or I 1 w sh to see if I 1 rightly guess which of the levers you first will press then jan marched up to the dynamo he passed the levers pf want and woe nor touched the levers of war or fame stopping the while to read each name then a handle grasped as he turned to go the old year a face seemed all aglow so when the dawn of that day began man thought of his stricken brother man with ready help and an honest tear for them that knew no glad new year the lever of love in the midst of gloom that jan had gripped in the engine boorn |