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Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

pine. Virgil compares the golden
Dough in these regions to this mistle-
toe.
An old Druidical tradition was that
the maiden not kissed under the mis-
tletoe would go husbandless all the
year at is under this pagan miste.
toe" says George William Curtis,
chat the Christian youth of to-day
kisses the Christian maiden"
The Romans had two New Years,
the sacred one, which was the LIST of
March, and the civil one of which we
have Just spoken, the LIST of January.
The Jews had a sacred and a civil
year; the former began in March or
April, the latter in September or DC
'tober, varying with the lunar period.
The early Greeks had no settled year;
when one was finally adopted. they
commenced It at the vernal equinox.
The early Christians also consid
cred the vernal equinox the proper
time TO commence the New Year. The
Chinese and most Indian nations com.
tmence the New Year with the first
new moon in March, the Persians in
June and the Egyptians early in the
autumn, or the first day coinciding
xtth the rising Of the Dog Star.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
Found at Last.

Hensley, Ark, Dec. 26th.-{ SpeciaD
That sure cure for Backachc would
30 priceless boon to the people. and
especially the women of America, is
admitted by all interested in medical
matters, and Mrs. Sue Williams of
this place is certain she has :ound in
Dodd's Kidney Pills the long looked
fol cure.
81 am SO years old" Mrs. Williams
says, and I have suffered with the
Backache very much for three
or four years. | have been treated
by good physicians and got no relief,
but thanks TO God, have found a cure
1t last and it is Dodds Kidney Pills
have taken only one box and it has
done me more good than all the doc
tors in three or four years. l want
all sufferers from Backache to know
that they can get Dodd's Kidney Pills
and get we'll"
Backache is one Of the first symp-
toms Of Kidney Disease. Guard against
Bright's Disease or Rheumatism by
curing it with Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

was very prevalent in most of TT,
large cities of the United States for Z
long while, many gentlemen maxim,
as many as forty and fifty calls on
that day. This custom has been gen,
orally discontinued except in Wash.
ington city. Here the presindent and
wife, assisted by the wives of the
cabinet members, hold a reception at
the White House, all the morning. Ii
is most brilliant spectacle, as all
the Diplomatic Corps and the army
and navy are in full uniform. Both
houses of Congress also pay their re.
spects to the chief of the nation, and
then the general public are admitted
Charles Lamb, one of the tenderest
Of English essayists, says: "Of all
sounds, of all bells, the most solemn
and touching is the peal which rings
out the old year They take a per
sonal color. Not childhood alone, but
the young man, till thirty, never feels
practically that he Is mortal" He tells
us that every man hath two birth.
days, two days in every year wlich
set him upon revolving the lapse OF
time as IL affects his mortal duration I;
his own birthday and the birthday OF
the New Year"
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
LOOK BACK, COUNT TIE LOSS
When Energy Has Been Spent, Nerve
and Brain Force Gone.


Just look back over the day and see
where your energy has gone. See how
much of it has leaked away from you
in trifles. Perhaps you have wasted
it in fits of fretting, tuning, grum-
bling, fault-finding or in the little fric-
tons that have accomplished nothing.
but merely rasped your nerves, made
you irritable. crippled you and left you
exhausted. You may have drained on
more nerve and brain force in burst
Of passion than you have expended in
doing your real work. Perhaps you
did not realize that, in going through
your place of business like mad bull
through a china-shop, you pulled out
every spigot and turned on every
faucet of your mental, and physical
reservoir and left them open until all
the energy you had stored up during
the night had run off. Look back and
see whether your scolding, fault-find-
ing, criticising, nagging and what you
call reading the riot act" to your en-
ployes has helped you in any way or
accomplished anything. No; you only
lost your energy and self-control, your
self-respect and the respect and adj
miration of your employes.-Success
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
YoUrHFULNEss OF THE MIND.
Enjoyment and Zest for Life Not Con-
fined TO the Young.

Youthfulness is a quality very diff
icult to describe. AS often as not 1T
proceeds from the mind rather than
from appearance, and one often feels
with middle-aged and elderly people
that they are in reality far more
youthful in ideas, in the keenness OF
their enjoyment and in their fresh
outlook than many Of ones acquaint-
ances who in point of years are mere
girls. II is said that every age has its
compensations and undoubtedly there
are many mothers of families and
grandmothers, too, who own to an en-
joyment and zest for life equal to that
experienced in early years. Youthful
ness is temperament and the capacity
for taking the simple goods that are
to be found in existence rather than in
waiting for superlative joys which
may never arrive. The bored person
or either sex is invariably e weari-
some companion, while one with a
keen sense of enjoyment adds TO the
well-being % others a thousand fold
Exchange.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

Among the Saxons the New Year
was ushered in by friendly gifts.
Later, this custom Of making gifts
was carried to a ruinous excess.
Henry III. of England extorted costly
gifts from his court. Queen Bess car
ried it to such an extreme. says DR..
Drake, that her costly wardrobe and
jewelry was supplied in this way.
When Henry VIII. was receiving
costly presents from his courtiers, we
read that honest old Latimer handed
him Bible, with some pertinent
chapters marked, much to the burly
kings disgust.
DR.. Drake tells us that, in the six.
teenth century, prince and peasant
alike celebrated the New Year with
regularity and parade.
Much was made of the wassail bowl
at this season. 1t was carried from
door to door with loud singing and
merriment. The word is derived from
was halle, the Saxon for Here's to
you!" an expression still in use by
men in pledging each other at SUD-
pers. The present loving cup takes
the place of the ancient wassail bowl
In some of the country districts of
England old customs are still obsery.
ed. On New Years eve, at midnight.
the last Of the Christmas carols is
sung, outside of the house, by the
young people, then there is a rush for
the nearest spring, and the first one
who fills his or her glass gets what
they call the cream of the we'll" and
will be the most fortunate during the
coming year.
In the early hours of the morning, a
funeral is held at some public houses.
over "old Tom" Gas the old year is
called, when the boys parade the
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
Tho Rescue.

Adown the lane on frcnzicd feet
Fled like wind the maiden sweet.
A large dog followed on her trail
With open mouth and ttuncate tail.
Shrek after Shrek the maiden gave;
And would no hero run to save?
Well we should smile? For at her Cry
The hero came in quick reply.
With resolution naught could clog
lie fiercely whistled TO the dog!
And at his masters note the chase
The deg forsook with perfect grace!
They married? All, ca va sans dire,
Elsewise 'twould be a case most queer.
But oftmes. when the lady sleeps.
The husband wakes and weeps and weeps
And drones. as if he'd slipped n cog,
why did l interrupt the dog?"
New Orleans TimesD Democrat
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

New Years day was a great day in
New York with the early Dutch set
tiers. 1t was ushered in by the ring.
ing of bells and firing of guns. Wash.
ington Irving, in his humorous "Knick'
erbocker's History of New York.,
gives a delightfully."- amusing account
of the observance of New Year among
these Netherlandcrs. THE whole com.
munity," he tells us, was deluged
with cherry brandy, pure Holland
and mulled cider; every house was
a temple of the merry god, and many
q provident vagabond was intoxicated
out Of pure economy, drinking liquor
enough to serve him the remainder Of
the year."
Irving dwells especially upon the
great ball given at the Governors, old
Peter Stuyvesant, New Years night.
when the good Peter was devoutly
observant of the pious rite of kissing
all the womenllind for Happy New
Year."
On this day the governor also dis.
tributed fiddles to the old negroes,
who fiddled all night while the young
people danced Under Peter was in.
stituted quilting bees" "husking
bees" and other rural assemblages,
where, under the inspiring influence
of the fiddles. toll was enlivened by
gayety and followed by a dance.
The governor did not approve Of
the short skirts worn by the ladies
and ordered a ruflle put at the bottom
Of them. He likewise disapproved Of
some Of their steps in dancing, and
ordered that no other step should be
taken but the Shuttle and turn" and
the double trouble"
The custom Of New Years calling
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
HiqhWaYman Was Popular.

Jack Sheppard had great hold
upon the imagination of the people of
his time. The fact that 100000 peo-
pie witnessed his execution at Tyburn
on Nov. 16, 1924, upon the tree that
bears twelve times yeare," is some
witness to his grim popularity. But
one Of the strangest tributes ever paid
him was the sermon preached upon
him in a London church. "Oh, that
we were all like Jack Sheppard be-
gan the preacher, to the stupefaction
of his congregation. He went on to
draw a parallel between things of the
flesh and those of the soul, and to
point out that the genius shown in
housebreaking might have been be.
slowed upon picking the locks of the
heart with the nail of repentance"
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
NEW YEAR CUSTOMS
Old Time Rites and the Origin of Some That
Are Still Practiced.

New Years Day has been a day of
ceremony and rejoicing for a great
many centuries in the worlds history
aus origin is traced back to the Roman
FESTIVAL of Janus, after the establish
ment OF the empire. The old Romans
divided the year into ten months only
Numa Pompilius added January and
FEBRUARY, and dedicated the former to
Janus, 713 B. C.
lis he! The two-faced Janus comes in
Wild hyacinths his robe adorn,
ana sundrops, rivals of the morn.
de Spurns the goal aside
Sut smiles upon the new-emergng year
And now unlocks, with agate key,
Inc ruby gates of orient day"
On this day the Roman consuls, fol
lowed by the court, went to the cap
ital, all gorgeOusly appareled, where
they sacrificed two white bulls, never
Yoked, to Jupiter Capitolinus.
The Druids observed New Year with
great pomp and ceremony. One fea-
ture of their ceremonies was the dis
tribution of the mistletoe among the
people on New Years eve. The
priests went in annual procession, on
the sixth day of the moon nearest the
New Year, wearing white robes and
bearing n golden sickle with which to
detach the sacred parasite from the
tree. So much did they esteem it that
1t was carried in white cloth. 1t
must be cut from the divine oak. in
the forest dedicated to the gods. The
apple tree mistletoe, used in England.
IS different thing altogether. We
all remember the NEUROLOGICAL story
OF Eneas, who, when descending to
Avernus, was compelled to take with
nina branch of this plant to Proser-
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
Trayclero' Tricks Shown Up.

Many have looked with awe upon
suit cases and steamer trunks covered
with labels of every size and color,
and thought enviously Of the advan-
tages the travelled owners of such bag.
gage had over the poor stay-at-homes
The baggage proclaimed that
its owners had been from
Sydney to San Francisco. from
Copenhagen 10 Colombo, to say
nothing of visiting half the capitals
and health resorts of the continent.
But the iconoclast has found shops
where such baggage is sold, all shat
tered and battered and labeled with
a score of foreign towns, although it
may never have travelled two miles
from New York.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
LEE A e,sVoUT CHRISTIAN.
His Religion Strsng Trait 81 Great
Southern LesI.r.

Southern LeEL1r.
Capt. Robert Z. Lee says that one
of the strongest traits of his fathers
character was his reliance on God as
the supreme arbiter in all the affairs
of men. In this Lee was not different
from other great leaders of the confed-
eracy. Jefferson Davis constantly
called on his people to repair to their
churches and thank God for victory
or implore his favor in their sacred
cause. Often all the churches of the
larger southern cities were crowded
to their utmost capacity at weekday
prayer services. After the first battle
of Manassas Gen. Lee said: "The bat
tie will be repeated there in greater
force. | hope God will again smile
on us and strengthen our hearts and
arms" When he was in the midst Of
the struggle for West Virginia, he
wrote out of the fullness of his heart:
Il enjoyed the mountains as | rode
along. The views are magnificent
the valleys so beautiful, the scetery
so peaceful. What glorious world
Almighty God has given us! How
thankless and ungrateful we are and
how we labor to mar his gifts! CHS
cago News.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
Not Partial to Water.

An old farmer arrived in Glasgow
with a drove of cattle. The beasts
had become leg-wearied, so that he ar
rived late and was reluctantly compell-
ed to stay for the night at a hotel.
The maid on showing him to his bed
room, said: Good night, sir; would
you prefer a hot bath or a cold bath
tomorrow morning?" "Hoots, lassie, -
replied the farmer; gang ava wi
yer nonsense; doe ye TAX me for q
troot?'
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
Value of Character.

Character is one of the best things
o man or woman can be born with or
acquire. That is to say, good charac-
ter. There has never been time and
there will never be a time when char.
acter will count for nothing in the
building of success. 1t is one thing
that no misfortune. no calamity, no
continued run of i'll luck can take
away from a man il he wants to hold
to 1t. 1t is exempt from forced sale
and no man is bankrupt as long as
he holds it
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
| streets, asking for presents, and sing.

StIcClS, dShlHS LOT PRESENTS, anu SluS-
ing:
81 wish you happy New Year,
A pocket full of money
And cellar full of beer,
And "A great fat pig
To serve you all the year.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Sitting by the fire,
Pity we poor boys
out iu the mire.'
The French make a great deal OF
New Year. In 1854 Charles N. of
France decreed that in accordance
with the Roman calendar, the year
should begin on the first day of Janu
airy.
Christmas with them is a religious
festival. but the New Year is a domes-
tic festival and holiday. The day COM
mences at an early hour, with an ex-
change of bonbons and visits among
friends and relatives. ] somewhere
saw an estimate that one hundred
thousand dollars was spent upon bon
bons alone every New Years in Paris.
The French revolution brought New
Years day to this great prominence.
With the first empire it was one Of
the most brilliant festivals of the
court, as it was also of the second en-
pire.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
Beet Culture Attracts Mosquitoes.

The beet culture aids the null
tiplication of the anopheles mosqui-
toes, which are responsible for mala-
ria, is the opinion held by several
Italian experts, who found that in
places where the anopheles had never
before appeared the cultivation Of
beet sugar attracted them in great
numbers.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
MANY childran Ere Sticky,

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children,
used by Mother Gray nurse in Children's
Home, New York cure everishness, Head
ache, Stomach Troubles, Teothing Dis
orders, Break UP Colds and Destroy Worms.
Atan Druggists Doc. Sample mailed FREE
Address Allen s. Olmstcd, lie Roy, n. Y.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
When Woman Gets the Leae.

No matter how much man may
say against the missionary society or
suffragist question, when he wants
any important matter carried through
he asks for woman's influence.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

The man who acknowledges that he
is a chump has begun to acquire wis
dom.
The man who has no mind Of his
own often has most OF it to give away.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

It takes n strong-mindcd woman To
write a letter and omit the postscript.
Before marriage a man swears to
love; after marriage he loves to swear.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14

Thoughts directed are the forcible
torrent that carries everything resist
lessly before it.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative BrOmO Quinlne Tablets. All drug
Ci>ts refund the money il II fails to cure. l.. "
Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-01-14
The Daily Question

might well be-Am | fair to my face9 Mature
herself often leaves the answer in unrais,skablc
signs on the countcnances Of people using
proniiscuouS soaps.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-10
ALAMEDA COUNTY news

CITY COUNCIL MEETING.-Oakland, April
e.-GeorEe Fitzgerald. president Of the City
Council will announce the standing commit
tees ar q meeting Of the Council tomorrow
night.
ROOM THIEF AT wORK.-oakland. April
a.--Charles Goward's room at the Eureka Ho-
tel. Seventh and Washington streets was en-
tered last night By a thief, who stole two man.
collins and clothing.
ITALIAN RUNS AMUCK oakland Anil
Peter Sesells, an Italian laborer residing az
Third and Myrtle streets. ran wild this after
noon at Seventh and Washington streets. CIV
ing Policeman McSorley hot fight before the
patrolnsn subdued his man. Seseua was ar
rested under suspicion Of being insane.
NE1GHBORs FIGHT AT MELRosE.-oak-
land, April e.-In neigbbors' quarrel over
fence building to-day George Allen a chicken
raiser at Melrose. was, he charges badly
beaten and struck with a hstchet welded BY
A. Cochran Sheriff Bsrner arrested Cochran
no denies he used any weapon other than his
fists Allen sent TO bed by physician
who dressed his injuries.
MfsCREANT RINGS FIRE ALARM.-Oak-
land. April John Cfcerone. Italian baker
residing 1909 Dupont street San Francisco
celebrated his visit 10 Oakland to-day t,y call
ing out the Fire Depa rtrnent this afternoon
Aghsst at the commotion he had raised In the
heart Of the business district John fed His
fight was observed. and Assistant Chief En-
einecr George Mcdonald pursued the miscreant
overhsulng the fugitive and sending him TO
the City Prison Cicerone was at loss to
explain fntellieently why he had thus disturbed
oskiand's Sunday quiet
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-10
ALAMEDA WILL
HOLD ELECTION

ALAMEDA, April s.-Three City
Trustees and three members of the
Board of Education will be chosen at
the municipal election Monday. There
are three tickets in the field, the regu-
lar Republican, the Socialist and the
Taxpayers Non-Partisan. 1t is expect
ed that the race between some of the
Republican candidates and some of the
candidates of the Non-Partisans will
be close.
The Republican nominees for City
Trustees are William ]. Gorhan, Err
nest ]. Probst and Charles E. Naylor,
and for members of the Board of Edu-
cation Brainard G. Brown, William
B. Kollmyer and j. E. Baker.
For City Trustees the Non-Partisan
candidates are H. G. Mehrtens, Fritz
Boehmer and A. B. Tarpey. The Nom
Partisan candidates for members of
the Board of Education are ]. E. Baker,
Harold Ward and DR.. w. r. Hughes.
President J. F. Forderer of the City
Trustees, a holdover member, an
nounees that in the event of the elec-
ton of the Republican candidates for
City Trustees he will not consent to
serve another term as chairman of the
municipal board. Mr.. Forderer is a Re-
publican, but believes 1t would be bet
ter to change the presidency, as he has
served in that capacity for several
terms.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-10
ARSON, " SAY
THE FIREMEN
Department Officials I'm
cover Evidence of Attempt
to Destroy a Paint Shop
TRAIN LAID FOR FLAME
Infiammable Stuff Saturated
With Oils, and Only Timely
Discovery Checks Big Blaze

OAKLAND. April 9.-Rank incen-
diarism was done last night. according
to the Fire Department officials. in an
attempt to destroy the paint store of
Max Dohrmann & CO., go Seventh
street. Evidence so plain that it was
more than convincing confronted the
department as soon as the locked and
barred doors had been broken down
and the well-kindled fire brought un-
der control. Lucky and timely dis
covery of the fire prevented the de-
struction of the materials that had
been used to sweep the store and con-
tents into a mass of flames. On all
sides the testimony of carefully laid
plans was manifest in so palpable a
manner that Chief Engineer Ball pro-
nOunced the case as one of arson be-
yon question.
Shortly before 6 o'clock a Japanese
keeper. next door to Dohr-
mann's. saw sparks of fire in the rear
of the paint shop as the flames had
slowly worked through a partition.
The Oriental called for help and while
several persons tried TO quench the
brisk fire the department was called.
Breaking in the f1remen found the
flames running through the rear, at
tacking floor. ceiling and studding, while
a mass of oil soaked stuff was
briskly ablaze. Quick work checked
the flames before they were beyond
control. Then began an investigation
that disclosed a train of inhammable
stuff laid the full length of the store
along the floor and close to piles of
oil-f1lled cans, the shoppers of which
had been pulled. The fire train started
at a counter, where a large quantity
-,
floor. 1t ran toward the rear. with
gasoline saturated wall paper and ex-
celsior laid carefully to connect with
opened cans of gasoline. Two open
cans of vernish formed one station on
the line. A few feet back of this was
a pile of oil-sOaked waste paper, hid
ing a kerosene lamp full of oil, with
the receptacle open to feed the fire. A
pyramid of paint oil cans full of the
infiammable fluid set near the train,
while pile of rags and cloths, paint
soaked, offered more food for the
flames.
The fire. which was started, in Chief
Balls opinion. with a slow match, had
burned as far as the pyramid before 1t
was eXtinguished.
Dohrmann told Chief Ball he left
the shop at O'Clock yesterday after
noon. He carried $500 insurance.
There were no explanations concerning
the suspicious train of saturated waste
stuff. The block in which Dohrmann's s
store is located has been the scene of
two fires a short time before that of
last night. One of the fires started at
the rear of a vacant store to the west
of the paint shop. This was sus-
picious blaze. The other was at the
rear of Elliott's furniture store. corner
Brush and Seventh street, but Chief
Ball ascribed that one to carelessness
in storing kerosene oil.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-10
SAY REQUIEM
OVER PIONEER

OAKLAND, April 9.-The remains of
Frederick M. Campbell. formerly City
and State Superintendent of Schools.
were laid at rest in Mountain View
Cemetery this afternoon with full Ma
sonic rites. after services held at the
family residence and the Masonic Tenn
pie. Services at the family residence,
1852 Webster street, at 2 o'clock. were
conducted by the Rev. j. K. Mclean.
president of the Pacific Theological
Seminary, an old friend of the pioneer
educator. The music consisted of Sc
lections by the Masonic Quartet and a
solo by Alfred Wilkie, Come. Ye Dis
consulate"
The body was then taken to the Ma
sonic Temple, where services were con-
Quoted by Oakland Lodge, No. 1888, f.
and A. NJ, of which Campbell was a
charter member. The musical selec-
tiens, rendered by the Masonic Quar-
tet, were Eternal Goodness" Fallen
Asleep" and Good Night, l Am Going
Home" At the cemetery Nearer, My
God, to Thee and Farewell were
sung.
The pallbearers were J. w. Nicely
monds, City Superintendent of Schools:
G. H. Redington, member of the Board
of Education; F. F. Sturges Sr.: Will
liam nellie, former Chief of Police: w.
T. Fletcher and G. r. Gulick. PRINCIPAL
of the Prescott School, all old friends
of the deceased.