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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-09-22
II. w. RANDALL

Cheap excursion to Sioux City &C.
count Woodmen Meeting via the G. M.
& st. P. R'y. Tickets sold Sept. 20-21,
returning Sept. %. 73-4-5-6
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HAPPENINGS.
Hangs Himself.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Sept. 16.-William
Knecht of Blairstown, a thresher about
55 years of age, committed suicide by
hanging himself. No cause is known
for the act,
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ILLINOIS CENTRAL r. r.
EXCURSIONS.
JULY, AUGUST SEP
TENDER, OCTOBER.
rnUTm TheIllinois Central will
\lH run Home-seekers' Elk
Iii cursions to points in the

nnUTlU The Illinois Central will
NTH run Home-seekers' Ex-
cursions to points in the
South on the lines of the Illinois Cen
trail and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley
Railroads from all their stations west of
and including Alden and from points
on the Lyle and Cedar Rapids branches
on July 18TH and 3Ist, August 18th,
September 18th and 18th, and Octo-
Der I'D and 10th. and from all points
east of and including Williams ONE
DAY LATER than the dates named.
The new Southern Home-Seekers
Guide describes in detail the agricul-
tural advantages, the soil and products
at all points south of the Ohio River on
the lines of the above mentioned roads.
For a copy address tho undersigned.
For information concerning Railroad
Lands in the fertile Yazoo Valley of the
Mississippi address E. P. Skene, Land
Commissioner L. G. r. R., at Chicago.
llIrnTI Home,Seekers' Excursion
Nv IN cketS VIII De solo from
vIIOIs stations in Iowa east of
and including Cedar Falls, and from
points on the Lyle and Cedar Rapids
branches, July 18th, August Ist and
18th. September Sth and 10Th, and
October Sd and 18th, to points on the
Illinois Central Railroad to which the
one way rate is $500 or over, in South,
Dakota, Minnesota and in Iowa to
points west of Ackley inclusive, except
points west of LeMars.
Home Seekers Excursions to Points
On Other Lines of Railroads.
The Illinois Central will also sell on
the third Tuesdays in July, August,
September and October, Home-Seekers'
Excursion Tickets to points on foreign
lines of railroads in many of the West
ern, Southwestern and Southern states.
For rates, routes, ETC., inquire of Your
nearest Illinois Central Ticket Agent.
All Home-Seekers Elk .drsion Ticket
are sold at a rate of
ONE FARE. PLUS 50.
flor the round "trip. Tickets limited to
81 days for return. J. f. MERRY,
A. G. p. A., Ill. Cent. R. R.
Dubuque, Iowa.
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VENEZUELAN

Revolution May Make Necessary the
Presence of the Nashville.
WASHINGTON, Sept. ia cablegram
received at the navy department. from
San Juan, Porto Rico, states that the
Detroit sailed from that place for La
Guayra, Venezuela.
United States Minister Loomis is
hurrying his departure from Washing
ton because of the gravity of the situa-
ton in Venezuela. He left today for
New York and will take the first
steamer from that city for Venezuela,
which will not be later than Saturday.
The minister regards the situation as
critical if the newspaper reports of in
%surrection successes are accurate. The
town Of Maracay, where the revolution
lists were reported to be Saturday, is
only about so miles distant from Car
acas, the capital.
No orders have been issued to the
Nashville, now at Gibara, Cuba, to pro-
coed to Venezuela. but it is entirely
probable that she will be needed soon at
Porto Cabello, which is reported here
to have fallen into the hands of the in
surgents.
Fought the Whole Tribe Single-Handed.
MAzATLAN, Mex, Sept. 19.-Twenty-
five Mexican cowboys have been at
tackled i'll Sonora by mounted Yaquis
who opened fire on them and drove the
horses and cattle guarded by the Mexi-
cans away. Seeing themselves outnum.
bered the Mexicans put spurs to their
horses and away, but one vaquero,
a young man of indomitable courage,
remained and fought the whole body of
the Yaquis, killing many Of them, but
he was finally shot and, it is said, his
corpse was shockingly mutilated.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-09-22

Resolutions were read and adopted
approving the administration Of Presi-
dent Mckinley and the governor Of the
Stata as fOlloIve.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30
Tourist Sleeping Cars
THROUGH TO
Portland, Ore,
Via Missouri Pacific Railway
Through Salt Lake City.

Through Salt Lake City.
Wichita passengers can take this
through sleeper at Geneseo every Wednes-
day evening, $50, arriving at Portland
Sunday morning, 7:20.
Rates for a double berth to Denver,
sl.5o; to Salt Lake City, $500; to Portland,
$500. One berth may be occupied by two
persons without extra charge.
These Tourist cars are of the very latest
design, with upholstered spring seats and
backs; all bedding ana equipment is OF
superior quality; all toilet conveniences,
soap, towels, etc, are provided. They ara
as comfortable as flrst-class sleepers.
City ticket Office, ia North Main street.
z. E. BLECKLEY. P. & T. Ast.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30
FLORIDA.
A Superior Through Sleeping Car
Line Between st. Louis
Snd Jacksonville.

commencing December 25,a. the Louis
vile Air Line has established the great
1hroNSn Sleeping Car Route 70 Florida.
Through sleeping cars arranged 10 leave
s. Louis s.l5 ?. Il daily. passing Louis
vile 40 a. m. Lexington 1875 .. m.
reaching Chattanooga $50 p. m. Atlanta
1910 p m ana Jacksonville $40 q. n. sssc-
onG morning.. Stop-overs allowed THIS
route IS through large cities ana interest
ms country. ana, while s new through
sleeping car route, Is over most superior
and Well-estaa-lshed lines of railway. ina
schedules are fast ard most convenient.
tnis line also affords passengers Tor
toEida trip VIA Ashevlue. y G rae
greatest American all-year-arouna resort
Correspondence solicited and .nfo-ma-
ten promptly furnished. r A. CAMP
SILL. General Passenger Agent s.
LcUs. No
Ta-s is also ;ae best line % n,i,-s .,
Kentucky. Tennessee. Georgia and Nortn
and South Carolina, -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30
PHIL Y. STROHECKER, ID. S.,
Surgeon Dentist,
Boston Dental ParlOrS,
4O5 East Douglas Ave.
Open Evenings Till $780,
We Have Property
For Sale
or Rent

In the following
suit the times. c.
Allerton addition.
Academy add.
Aliens Fourth add.
Allen & Smiths add
Buckeye add.
Butler & Fisher
add.
Brooklyn Height
add.
College Green add.
Central Avenue add
Caswell's sub. o
Mossman's add.
Douglas Avenue adj
Du Bots add.
Dodge's Second add
De Vore's add.
Douglas sub-div. adj
East Wichita add.
Emporia Ave. add.
z. Z. Ford's add.
English's Sixth add.
Eldridge's add.
Firebaugh's Seventh
add.
TT. Scott add.
FerrilPs sub-div.
Fairmount SeconC
add.
GARDENERS add.
Gossard's sub-diy.
Gem City add.
Girard add.
GettO add.
Gardeners sub add.
Hunters Second add
Harris & Hoheld'!
sub add.
Hum ble's sub add.
Hillside sub add.
HodsOn & Stancer':
add.
Indiana sub of Vim
cenneS add.
Jones Second add.
John Mccormick 5
add.
Judson University
add.
Kansas City add.
KeIch's Third add.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30

The company reserves the right TO vary
from the above schedule or to abandon
trains without notice. c. 3. HART,
Traffic Manager.
A. 2. KIDWELL.
Travelling Passenger Agent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30
MISSOURI PACIFTC

Leave-East Bound:
Train No. l0-"kauSaS and Ne
braska Limited for FIT Scott
and $. Loq us. 2:1o pm
Louis Express ....-..............l $50 p
Leave for South and West.
Train No. 5-For Clearwater
Conway Springs. Anthony. XII
owa, kingman. Norwich on
ford ford, Belle Pain q, and Winfield. 7:25 an
Springs Anthony and kiowa,.l 600 pm
Train No. 9-"kanSss and Ne
braSka Limited fer Hutchn-
son Pueblo, Colorado Springs
r and Denver Der ~: y, $50 Pm
rI Hg5e 5a is1 and Ge f. 7:aS a.
RES passengers between Wich-I
tsa and Genezs2 - $50 an
Train No. 3-"Kansas aud Me-
Arrive from the East
braska Limited" from Fort,
TS Seq5' 2nd - -, L2ui s $50. lis Pm
and +-; 81 Lou louis s., 40 an
Train Ne. 6-From Kiowa. An
thony. Conway Springs and d.
N and A Poin's--..-.....-..,...l $40 Pm
Train Ne. 452-From Anthony
-...--.--.... ass a. n
Arrive from North and West
Train No. le-From Denver. COL
0Tado Springs Pueblo and
TIN " ss, ~ ll.1o O. 7
and NJ Hope daily except
Tan 81 5I,---c ..-...-. $40 Pm
80. .......--f go Qu
For further information c3V ~ ~ =
qless CITY r,ckes ohlCa. Missouri: plr3s.
Railway. ia y AIalr 81. Vsrf-i-s ~ --C,'i
T. F. BLFCN1 icy. p & r i-''
Corner Wichita ana Ss~,--7 3
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North and East.
No. 2-Kansas City, Chi
cago and St. Louis
limited (daily)..........
No. 2-Colorado Springs,
Denver , and Pacific
coast daily ..........
No. kansas City, St.
Louis and Chicago
night express daily
except Sunday).......
No. Accommodation.
daily except Sunday
South and West.
No. Fort Worth. Dal-
Las, Houston and Gal
weston express daily
No. 1-Oklahoma. Fort
Worth. New Orleans
and Pacific coast (dai-
ly) OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
No. 3-Oklahoma, Fort
Worth. Dallas and
New Orleans express
daily except Sunday
No. aft. Worth. Hous-
ton, Galveston and San
Antonio express DAILY
except Sunday $500.
No. Accommodation
daily except Sunday
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30

This line is now running through chair
cars (seats <yee) and Pullman Drawing
dsjIv -zithout change. This is the only
lirls running through Pullman cars from
wichita TO St Louis, where direct con
nerfion is made with all eastern trunk
Iire 1oinfs in the most magnificent rail-
Wav station in the world. Quickest line
to ali points in Southwest Missouri,
Northwest Arkansas. east and southeast.
This company now also have on sale
steamship tickets TO al points on the
For further information address
H O. MORTIMORE,
City Ticket Agent.
Corner Main and Douglas Ave.
L p DELANEY. Agent Union Station.
CHOCTAW, OKLAHOMA & GULF r. r.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30
WICHITA & WESTERN.
Trains.

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC
RAILWAY.
Time Table Effective Nov. q. 1897.
Trains. Arrive Leave
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30

1000 a.ml10:OO am
1000 a.mi1O:OO am
1880 p.m'10:3O pm
$50 ami $3.50 am
6:35 PM 6:4S pm
6:35 pm GAS pm
$40 am $40 am
$40 ami $40 am
5.10nml $40 nm
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30

all ana see US:
Lincoln Street add.
Lees add.
IaMascotte add.
|. McAfee's add.
McCormick's add.
S McBee's add.
MathewsOn & Hoff
S sub add.
Maple Grove add.
Mathewson's Fourth
|. add.
fMiller & Hellar's
dMyer & Snyder's out
lots.
!. Merriman Park add.
n. Lawrence Ave.
4 add.
divers sub-div. add
Orchard Beach add.
Orme & Phillips
add.
Pennsylvania add.
! Park Place add.
Perry's add.
OuincV'S add.
Richmond's add.
] Richmond's Second
add.
Rich's add.
ROsenthaPs Second
add.
Richards Third add
Rosebud add.
Ransom & kay'S
I Third add.
) Rouse's add.
SmithsOn's sub add.
Sherwood's sub add.
Swans add.
5 Sherman's add.
Sites L Smiths
= add.
South University
Place add.
/; Second Sunnyside
add.
: Union add.
Viola add.
Walters add.
Franklin Yike's add
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30

Get car s-sees - ESss Bases. gz.ss.
sA-gsx E15 y.asa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30

Elegant free reclining chair cars on all
trains and Pullman Palace sleepers from
Wichita to Chicago and Kansas City
without change. Also sleepers on all
Antonio and New Orleans. Tickets sold
and baggage checked to all points north,
east, south and west. Steamship tickets
sold to all European points at lowest
rates. Passenger station corner Douglas
and Meade avenues. Telephone 800
T. DRAKE. d. p. A c. r. 7. & P.
z. w. THOMPSON. A. G. P. & T. A,
Topeka Kan.
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&. SOUTHERN r. R. co.
Time Table No. 81.
. Effective Jan. g. 1899.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30

No. l. Passenger, daily. No. ?. Passen-
ger. daily except Sunday.
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NOrthbound
No. .. Passenger, daily. No. T. Passen-
ger. daily except Sunday.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-12-30
JOHN HOBBS ERROR.
How II Helped Him to Break q Cast
Iron Resolution.

UcT was the eve Of the New Year. In
one short hour the bells would
IL IL peal Tor the birth Of 1900.
John Hobbs, lawyer aud notary public,
sat in his office thinking, for he had much
to think Of. Eighteen hundred and ninety.
nine had been what he called a "corker."
In other words, it had been vastly unsstis
factory.
lie was young and handsome, and the
poorest lawyer IN the city, both as 10
finance and legal ability. And he rightly
attributed this dual poverty to a pair Of
brown eyes. Had be devoted NJ much q
1899 to the study u law - be bad 20 those
brown eyes. he would nave Progressed vast
~ IN legal lore.
And, by jove'" be cried. bringing down
his list, u viii not waste ardtler minute
on the little coquette' have 70 Der rsF
hob with me iors erausl. ari nusht {
draw the line and h.u.s o.
Having sd vhf-h. bel ta l. rf-
and wrote the fgiIevrs rral ~
ton:
-ct-.sr ss. -
Il hereby resolve as
this year Just srrfVet 1 r
whatever 70 60 ~tth Aa r AZ
Joss
Having written IA. ID - "a.
following
4. John Hobhs hsF-s a
me. John H.Hts n
county 2 Cook state 90
solcmniy swear trst . u
resolution. JOINS
To this he sEr-i ts r.r .
taking - cents from he rz1t Fsas al
II to himself. and put . 10 "a Ell Fockst
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-12-30

tura non saltat'- nature never made a
break or a pause. 1t shows no chasms any
where in its majestic course.
Man, though, for his convenience or pleas
ure, or profit. establishes times and sea
sons. Thus he says the first day Of Jan
uary shall be termed the beginning of a
New Year. The Romans, with an acute
poetic sense that pervaded all their
work, elected to have the dawn Ut the year
show in March-the first spring month.
when nature kisses new life into everything
and robes the earth in garments Vt many
colOrs.
Man must have his pauses and starting
points. IL is not 50 much a question OF
sentiment as OF necessity that dates and
seasons be fixed. The success OF business
life depends upon it, and a nation with
out a chronology is a people without a his
tory. Each year must hold its own events.
nor may one trench upon the other.
Leaving this line Of suggestion, one is
led to the thought that these year posts OF
mans time offer opportunity for reflection
upon what has been and what may be. Each
New Year day tells not only OF the new
birth. but also OF the year that is sepul
tured. Here are presented IN brave con
trast life and death. As the old passes out,
the new comes in. Sc with man and all
other animate things. The king is dead
live the king"
So one lesson after another may be
learned. If one be but a willing pupil. What
the memories of the just dead year? What
the sins, the errors, the foIliesy What
the good one did, and what progress in the
knowledge that Is iastiugy All! the year is
gone, gone TO one and all of us; but the
impression remains. These years one by one
are character builders, each adding to the
other until the mortal changes to the i'm
mortal.
Looking backward, what is the reckon
ing? Whatever most Of good, or OF III, the
New Year is at hand. Let the accounting
he just, that one may be ADLER to meet
justly and righteously the things that are
before. One should recall the errors Of
the past, not that he may mourn over them,
hut that he may gain strength Tor future
struggles.
Oneneed not give the whole Of New Years
day 20 the forming Of good resolutions Alas
there he many who do vow overmuch 1T
such ines. The hallway Of the New Year,
like that of hell, is paved with good intcu
tons. One may resolve and resolve again.
and swear Justify in confirmation Of such
purpose; yet all wdvai,ing'y, because of the
frailty OF his being lie acts the better part
who reflects, and Is not rash ~ promises.
Not the same to all Is the history of the
past year; and not two shall find the New
Year the same in experience. But each
year is for all, aud has IN abundance riches
of good for every one. The year Just closed
was lavish in gifts; the new offers plenty as
great. cit is but to look for il iearlessly and
the searcher will be- rewarded.
The old was and is not. The new is here
with ITS pOrtents. 4 warm heart for the
year just dead, and a glad hand for the one
hat is newly born.
WILLIAM ROssER COBBE.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-12-30

the very morning after YOU had told Marie,
her dearest friend, that we were O. b, ar
ried 10 a month
"llumph, that grl would cry about any
thing; I've known her TO cry when the yl
ain iu the play was kiiied-a. % a villain
could expect anything else TO- th, last act
But rs soon rs | saw Dick that morning. !
knew that he knew 1t. Why h, u.y,ut
had slipped around under one ear and his
voice, Us he wished me a happy NeN Year,
was 20 sad that | felt guilty, though my
conscience told me that ! had not cuoour
aged him"
You've forgotten how you used TO praise
the shape OF hI, head
AS ii that meant anything \ girl only
praises the shape of r. man, head when
she cannot find anything csc 60 Halter him
about. 1t. mean, up more than 1t does
when she tells "a sma., man that be re
sembies Napoleon. But when | remem.
bored that You had once gone down on the
floor Iu your new trousers 90 pick up Dora.
handkerchief ! knew that had been cruelty
deceived. So when YOU repruached Inc
about Dick, /"
Il remember how badly ! felt when she
replied To- my New Years greeting with the
remark that llppiucs,fo r her wa. over for.
ever, And before | could comfort her Miss
Marie can't iu and | could only 20 sadly
away without telling her that ! should al.
ways bc a brother to her"
And poor Dick, | asked him il there
was anything | could DO for him; he re.
piled Yes, but Just then the maid came
in with a note for him, and he said he mus,
70 at once-l think he wished to be- alone
with his sorrow. Then YOU came IN, and,
instead Of sharing my pity for him, yol.
accused me of flirting with hint
"l-er-dou't remember that. But wasn't
il odd that before | left you forever Miss
Marie should come 10 and tell. us that Dora
and Dick were engaged I've often won.
dered how II happened that they decided
to console each other
And 80 have |. Why, here d, Marie now
perhaps she can explain. SIT down, Marie,
do, Tom and ! are just going over old
times. Do you remember last New Years
day, and"
Indeed | DO. I've just been to see Dora,
and she was talking about II, She and
Dick quarreled last New Years Eve about
the date OF their marriage, and almost
parted forever. They think You both must
have guessed a. | remember that Tom
was iu the parlor with Dora when / ran
in on New Near's morning 90 tpl' her of
your engagement She had been on the
point n asking him aU helm her 90 make mn
with Dick. And when she told me about b..
| wrote him n note telling him that | be.
leyed she would forgive HIM Il be- came at
once. That note found him az your house.
Irene, where he had gone 10 ask your aid
as pescemaker. odd, wasn't its"
ELISA
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-12-30
Polishing Pstria.d wooa.

The polishing works OF this city are
now engaged on the %stupendous job OF
getting out 100000 worth OF polished
chslcedony. or petrihsd wood, to be taken
to the Paris exposition. This petriaed
wood Is hauled from its native heath In
Arizona, a distance Of siIty.avs miles to
a railroad. and then shipped to this city
to be cut and polished, this being the
only place Ia the world having facilities
for treating the petrshcatioD, which Ia
seven tenths ~ hard NJ diamond II Ia
shipped here In great logs and stumps.
weighing many tons each. just a. they
have lain for many ages during the pro-
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-12-30

The clock struck twelve. John Hobbs i'm.
mediately underwear a revulsion Of feei
ing. lie felt that life itself would be worth
less without Anita.
But have sworn it," he said, "and II
would be perjury to think Of her now!"
But suddenly a CLEAN Of Joy lightened hi,
face.
by Jove!" he cried, this resolution i.
rull and void There is a technical error in
It! | have succumbed to the inevitable
force Of habit, and dated it 1892. instead o,
1900 Anita, my darling, ! am uee,'
With a cry OF JOY he coilod the sworn
resolve into a lighter, and lighted his pipe
with it,
Some people swear when they date every
thing incorrectly on the first day Of a new
year. Az for John Hobbs, he only smiles
They will be married IN June.
ELLIS PARKER BUTLER.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-12-30
The GLAD NEW YEAR.
It's Advent Is Marked by Various
Customs in Many Lands.

MI oREattentioni !, paid to New Year.
gyl IN our national capital, Washing.
ton, than IN any other city in the
United States, The state .cyee at the
white house is but the beginning OF tho
calling that continues throughout the aft
ernoon and well into the night IN official
and private houses. In fact, the socia.
season 10 formally ~inausurated on New
Years day. 1t is grand ~rallying day, and
men call then who never emerge from then
shell again during the year. Lists arc
published in the newspapers Of the house,
where receptions will be held, with the
names Of the assisting women. The latter
often attract more callers than the hostess
and newly arrived families are on the .ooh
out for popular women tor their reception,
The affairs are conducted with lavish south
ern hospitality. Tables are loaded with
vlands-real southern eggHog or bowl, cot
Fish House punch mixed by a wei guarded
formula, an heirloom in the family, Is
served, 1t Is a gala day for Washington, and
It "a well 1t comes but once a year.
New Years day is made much Of in
Europe, and in some countries it's celebra.
ton 10 on a more elaborate scale than
Christmas. Gifts are exchanged with reck
less abandon, recalling the days of feudul
ism, when every landlord presented his ten.
ant with a fat capon. An orange stuck with
cloves was the common gift Of poor people.
Among the rich, gloves were a popular pres
ent, and often a sum Of money, called glove
money, served as a substitute. When pins
were invented they took the place Of gloves,
ana every woman WAS proud Of her cOllec
uon OF pins made from thorHs, bone, silver,
gold or steel. Tit expression, pin money,
was originally used to designate the money
often presented IN lieu Of the pins for their
purchase, Under good Queen Bess the
custom OF giving presents on New Years
was at its high water mark, and the most
eNtravagant packages were distributed an.
onymously with no inscription but a verse
expressing greetings,
According to an old superstition, one's
luck for the year is dependent on the com.
pleIlon OF the first man who calls. If he
Is a blonde, fate will be kind, but if a
dark compleGioned man steps over the
threshold FIRST, sickness, trouble and fnan.
ciaI disaster are apt 10 step with him. So
hrmly was tins superstition implanted in
the mind Of an elderly woman that she
made arrangements every year by which
her first caller was sure TO be Of a light
complexion.
The holiday revels in England end with
Twelfth Night, In America they are
drawn to a close with the New Year
celebration. The stripping Of the Christ.
ma, tree, which properly takes place New
Years Eve, is frequently made the ex.
euse for . jolly party, There is very
likely to be a package on the tree for
each one present, containing a joke that viii!
be as good natured as it is amusing.