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Rough-cast dwelling In a downtown location, eight rooms, nice home for $4,000. a7 pe aE yd & RASH COVERED CHEST AND BACK tiching and Burning Pimples Spread. Clothing Irritated. Used Cuticura and Cuticura Ointment, Well in Three Weeks. HHH be: Ip i eis £ Hit irsdi On the Track of the New Year | EW YEAR'S was a long time (in settling upon Jan. 1 as the Proper time for its celebration. Even now, in Greece und Rus- sia, where the Jullam calendar is in forée, New Year's does not arrive until twelve days after the year is well on its way in the rest of the civilized world. The ancient Egyptians and Persians begin the new year at the autumnal equinox, Sept. 22, and the Greeks of Solon's time at the winter, solstice, Dec, 21, but in the time of Pericles the, date was changed to the summer sol- stice, June 21. The Romans began the year from the winter solstice until Caesar changed it to Jan. 1. With the Jews the new year begin in September in civil affairs, but in their ecclesiasti- cal reckoning the beginning of the year dates from the vernal equinex, March 22. And, as this is astronomi- cally the beginning of spring, the date is a logical ene, and that of the 25th of March (25 being a more fully rounded number) was accepted generally by Christian nations in medieval times as New Year's. In England Dec. 25 was New Year's autil the time of William the Conquer: or. His coronation happened to fall on Jan. 1, and accordingly the year was ordered to commence on that day. But the English gradually fell into union with the rest of 'Christendom and began the year.on March 25. When in 1582 the Gregorian calendar was promulgated and definitely located New Year's on Jan. 1 most Catholic countries adopted it at once, but Eng- land did not acquiesce. until 1752, In ancient Rome New Year's day was given up to feasting and frolick- ing. Sacrificial fires burned continual- ly on the altars of the twelve gods. All litigation and strife were suspended. ALL RATIONS DRINE A NEW YRAR'S HEALTE. reconciliations took place, New Years calls were made and New Year's gifts bestowed. There also originated the New, Year's resolution, for every Ro- wan resolved on New Year's day to so regulate his conduct that every word ind act should Le a happy augury for all the days of the ensuing year. On account of the orgies which mark- ed the New Year's arrival not only | among the Romans, but among the leutonic races, the 'early Christians looked with scant favor upon the whole season. By the fifth century, however, Dee. 25 became the fixed fes- tival of the Nativity, whereupon Jan. 1 assumed a special sacred character as the octave of Christinas day. The giving of gifts on New Years 'to do "th or 0S you are race question is the same with Dicky's New ow He Came fo Attend the Grown Folks' Party. ICKY sprawled ungracefully on the dour, and at times he be stowed a sly and naughty kiek upon the nuresisting legs of § chair that stood per hh THs liesy bnpulse was to feel sorry for doing this. his second to ok aroutld nnd see if any one lad noticed this litle out burst of tetaiper. 18 may be that the Christus festivi ties of a few days before had Leen too much for him: hut, whatever it wns Dicky was certainly cross nnd inclined to weep easily However, neither his mother nor lis Aunt Gertrude noticed how he kicked the chair nor the wiy lie scowled upon the world in getieral from under his tawny curls. They were absorbed in their preparations for entertaining the guests of that evening nod for ounce Dicky was forgotten: "If 1 was going to have a party and | invite all the people in the world 1'd invite my own little boy, Dicky. too I wouldn't leave him out," quoth Dicky out of the silence. "What's that?" asked his + mother carelessly, absorbed "fn hér own thoughts, "No, no, Dicky: this is a par ty for mother's #Ad [nther's (riends You wouldn't enjoy it." "Oh, but I do want to come." persist ed Dicky. "I've heat sou nll t: about it, and } wunt fo see the year come in the window." "What is the child talking about?" asked his aunt. "The new year, It's coming in the window, and I heard mother tell how you were all geing to open it to wel come it in," replied Dicky, somewhat impatient at his aunt for not under standing so obvious a meaning. "Nothing will come In at the win. dow, dear," wild his mother gently. "It's just a pretty custom. There will not be anytliing for you to see, and you will bé much happier upstairs in your nice warm bed." Dicky wept a little at the time, and when the hour came for bed under the stern eye of his father he rebelliously consented to be tucked in by his nurse, although not without further remon- strances. Finding them of no avail, he sobbed his woes into his pillow, while his father and mother went below to receive thelr guests. By making a brave resistance to the drowsiness that was stealing upon him Dicky managed to keep awake until the party had assembled in the parlor below. Then he crept out of bed and bung over the banisters, eagerly trying to catch sight of the brilliant people in the gathering. A man passed along the hall. - Dicky thought it might be his father and scampered back to 'bed again as fast as his little bare feet would carry him. And then without more ado he soon fell asleep, "the world forgetting. by the world forgot." Downstairs the hours passed merrily, and the vid year drew to a happy close. First there were only fifteen minutes of it left; then there were only ten. Finally the old year had bat five 'hort periods, counting sixty seconds «ach, to live.' The men and women rathered together showed nothing of the solemnity that underlies the mer riment of all such gatherings. Four minutes, three minutes, two minutes ah! They turned from the windows in surprise to see Dicky standing in the doorway. . He was not dressed for the party, ind his little nightgown afforded scant protéction against the drafts of the ower room. He was not expected at the party, either, and thé expression on his father's face suggested that he> was not even welcome there. These considerations might have disturbed an adult guest, hut they mattered little to Dicky. aE » He did not look or speak to any one. Ordinarily his father's sternness would have sent him with a beadlong rush to the protection of his mother's arms Turning neither to the right nor to the left, he went to the window, and, al- though his eyes were closed, his little hands unlocked the catch that fastened it and opened the great casements without a mistake or hesitation. His mother, choking back a cry, took a furred wrap and went to cover htm tis father looked, half in fright, at his brother, who was standing pear, "Be careful not to wake him sudden- ly," said Dr. Tom. "He's walking iu his sleep!" He raised the child gently fn his arms and held him in the full blaze of the great chandelier, but Dicky's closed eyelids never qulvered as the light struck against them. When he opened bis eyes he was amazed to find himself at the party after ull, surrounded by men and wo- men, who all said ¢ ily, "A bap py New Year to yon! Dicky, dear!" He was too drowsy to be frightened, but as his father carried him back to bed the child heard the great bells of the city calling ont to him: "A happy New Year, Dicky, dear, and many of them!" The good guess would be more val- uable if there were a cortaiii way of knowing it is good. A divores suit is different from ons The Old Year done, vant," will usually eat burned food. And the New WATCHED the old year fade, And with its ying yg The gloom, at a Turned into darkest night. And then I sald: " "Tis gone >a The old year is no more, And memori©s now alone Linger along the shore." I watched the old year dle, And with its fading day There came the thought that by Its death a brighter way Opes up, and, all things bright, We'll have surcease at last From specters datk as night. They'll live, but in the past. THR OLD YEAR'S FLIGHT. I watched the old year's flight And then said, with a smile, "Ah, now the new year bright Will bide with us awhile!" But ere my hopefu] dreams Have realized one day Is dead and passed; it seems It starts but to decay. Thus all along the way Gravestones must mark the miles, An epitaph each day, A tomb of tears and smiles. 80 we begin the new (Tis old ere we've begun) To find it's aging, too, With the first setting sun. But "twill not always be. There'll come a living day, And all things new, and we Shall live in endless May. No gravestones then will mark The tombs where dead hopes le, No nights of sorrow dark Creep o'er our changeless sky. --James Daniel Cleaton. BBB ddd de ded de 2 TPT TTRTET TTT NEW YEAR'S DAY. -- HE dawn is gray and chilly with the frost, The old year's puise now flutters, now is still, And all our twelvemonth's deeds, for good or fil, Pass into shadow, silent, one by one, While from the night wherein we 'wander, lost, The new year rises with the rising sup. A 'mew year? Nay; 'tis but the same old year, The same remorseless round of sun and rain, Of seasons In their order, joy and pain-- The old emotions playing upon strings That wax a little older, drawing near The final end of all remembered things. Bede dd TEeTeTYTeT Be ee es le ee eee he ee i i ie TT TTT TTT TTT IIT TIT IIT IOI Ter Tore Ieee T™Y Earth ages, and the very moun- tains nod With years and we who crawl upon their breast Pass at the sliding sands' benign behest. 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