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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-27
GooD-BY, OLD YEAR.
BY Clifford Kane Stout.


Good-by, Old Year. your mission ends
With midnight chimes and all Is done;
The records writ with joy or less,
The deeds fulfilled and guerdons won
Are hung as trophies round thy rime,
And thou are named with olden time.
Forevermore;o fateful past,
That saw SO much no law can change;
Beginning and the end of things
That were to be, the new and strange.
The old and worn and bloom and blight.
Passed to the dark or born to light.
And, oh, for some happy year:
Sweet wedding bells rang joyously;
Old friends clasped hands and strangers
met
And sunshine fell so glad and free
On buoyant youth, and smiles were fair.
And laughter bantered pain and care.
Some tears must fall in every year;
Your portion came when grief had SCI
A badge of mourning on the hearts
OF some whose love could not forget,
And hopefully, without dismay,
They covered friends of yesterday.
Good-by, Old Year; we regret the New;
When we recall your gifts and cost
May then a double portion show
Thy favors won DER which was lost.
Good-by! A hand at parting; then
A benediction and amen.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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of veneration of the Roman god, Janus,
he Of the two faces-the one looking
back in retrospect and the other look
ing forward in hope and anticipation.
Yet the mythology of the new world Of
Father Time, falling and dying and a
newborn personification rising out Of
his decreptitude, is no less pagan in
its essentials. Both are nevertheless
beautiful and expressive and worthy OF
perpetuity.
watch night" is probably the most
distinctive feature of the coming of
the new year. Religious services are
held in almost every church and some
times three or four sermons are
preached. There are also many gath
erings in clubs and homes Ito watch
the old year out" and they are occa-
sions of much revelry and the repeat
Ing In humorous ways the supersti-
lions believed in in olden times. Much
Of the social prestige of the day re-
mains, such as calling and exchanging
gifts, Is due to the early Dutch set
tiers, who kept the old customs alive
until the middle of the last century.
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caught wearing q tall silk hat. The
victim is greeted by the cry, "Hut alb,
Hut abb" and ere he is aware his fine
hat Is smashed down over his ears
by a crowd Of jokers who surround
him. This custom had its origin in the
riots on Sylvester's day, 1848, when
the lower classes resorted to this
method of displaying their hostility to
the bourgeoisie, most of whom wore
the high hat.
The salutation, "Prosit Neujahr,"
however, is more universal and better
characteristic Of the New Year cele-
bration by the Germans. Thus greet
ed, one is made captive by custom
and must pay ransom, not, however.
until he has acknowledged his captor's
sovereignty by the answer, "Meister."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-12-27
Newton MacT
When
The Year q
Begins

One Of the queerest features of the
first day Of the year is the fact that
has been celebrated on many different
dates. With us the year begins on
January 1, according to the calen
dar prepared by order Of julius Cae
sar, and later revised from time to
time as necessity seemed to require
Hardly month in the year but what
has been regarded at some time, by
some people, as the first Of the IL
and consequently the beginning of the
new year. Sometimes the date was
logical, determined by the position Of
the sun in the heavens.
Sometimes it was fixed by agricultu
raj or industrial conditions, sometime.
by great historical event, and coca
sionally it was merely arbitrary, de
termined without any special reason
being assigned. At one time the
Greeks began their year September 1;
at another on the first day of July
the beginning Of the Olympian games
In what is called the Alexandrian era
the year began on August 20. One
Jewish chronology assigns October
as the date on which the creation OF
the world began, and consequently
adopts that New Years day. At one
time the Romans began their year on
April "a, at another on March I, and
finally as we do now.
According to the meteoric cycle, the
year began on July Is. During the pc
riod of Alexander's empire the com
mencement of the year was on Sep
TENDER l.; the era of the Maccabees
was dated from November "a. The
people of Tyre began their year on
October 10, while the so-called Sido.
MAN era commenced on October 1,
and the Augustan era made February
IA the first day Of the new year. The
ancient Egyptians began their year
with the overflow of the Nile, when.
ever that might occur, while in India
the. annual flood of the Gauges fur.
nished a date for popular chronology,
and the Mexicans, although they had
a complicated system Of calculating
time, popularity reckoned their year
to begin with the spring planting.
The Jewish rabbis had four begin.
nings of the year, the first of the
month Nissan, supposed to be the date
of the Exodus; the first of Tishri,
which began the agricultural year;
the first of Flu, the day on which the
cattle were numbered, and the first
of Shebat, which was called the new
year for trees. Christmas day, East
er, the beginning of each solstice and
many other dates have been observed
at different times by various nations;
even now in Russia the day of the
new year is IL days behind that of
our calendar, the Russians having
never adopted the Gregorian calendar,
which, indeed, did not come into gen.
eral use until about the middle of the
eighteenth century.
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Noticed the Omission.

Some dramatic authors seem to re-
gard construction as unnecessary
frills. On the first night of the only
drama that the novelist, Miss Bradden,
wrote, a scene was introduced in which
a child was kidnapped from its mother.
At the end, when all were made happy,
so much had been left to the general
imagination that no pains had been
taken to effect the restoration of the
stolen child. Of course it was all un-
workmanlike lapse on the part of the
dramatist, and it seemed to have
passed unnoticed until a god leaned
over the gallery rail and solemnly in
CURED: eli! What about that kid?"
The piece was swamped in food of
inextinguishable laughter.
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and this song is sung:
Wassail! Wassail over the town
Our toast 1t is white: our ale 1t is brown;
Our bowl 1t is made Of the maplin tree
We be good fellows all: drink to thee
In parts of England the old year is
swept out" by men and boys who
black their faces to resemble sweeps,
and in other places 1t is "rung out" by
mufled bells until the midnight hour,
then allowing the clear notes to sound
thereafter. The "hot pint" Of the was
sail drink at the midnight hour is still
quite common. The front and back
doors are opened at IL o'clock also, to
let the bad spirits out and the good
spirits in, while all peacock feathers
are thrown away before this event lest
III luck follow during the year. Also
bundles of bits of money, bread, wood,
coal and salt, are placed on the door
steps and if any one calls whose ini-
tails may be formed by straight lines,
like A or t. he is admitted, given a
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st. Basils eve. The city Is decorated
and the shops TEEN with toys, sweet
meats and festoons. Women, days be-
fore, squat and joke around low
table making st. BasiTs cake, of which
they bake great quantities. On New
Years eve the Rajah boys in droves
go on the rounds of houses, knocking
at doors, until the master of the
house responds, according to the Gus.
tom:
Let the boys in at once. Give them
money, fruit and all that they can
carry of st. Basil's cake. Come on,
servants, fill their pockets while they
give us their song. The boys then sing
customary song, ending by calling
down blessings upon the household.
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THE NEW
YEAR WHAT WE
MAKE IT
By Ada c. Sweet

1.-THE only consistent pessimist is a
dead pessimist," but unfortunately
there are a good many of these hap
less brethren of ours alive. Never are
they more active, and happily unhap-
by, than toward New Years day, when
all the rest of the world is looking
hopefully and cheerfully forward, in
expectation Of good luck and kind for
tune during the next 365.
The pessimist delights In derision
of the good resolutions which mark
the celebration of New Year in the
minds of many people. Shame upon
the man or woman who would dull the
bright ambitions and desires for the
better of any human being! But
there is little time to give to habitual
mourners and augurs Of evil. The
new year will be what we make it,
so far as our individual lives are con-
cerned, and the man or woman who
resolves to be happy in healthful,
unselfish way, is taking the first road
toward happiness.
We are all after happiness, in one
way or another. Even the recluse,
even the martyrs of old, were on the
endless search for happiness, though
the Joy of heaven rather than that
Of earth was the goal fixed upon in
the eyes of those who sacrificed the
present for the future. Eternal hap
piness was what they desired.
UIselfish happiness is always wait
ing, right around the corner, if we will
only take our eyes off the far distance
and look nearer home. The resolve
to make next year happy one for
those nearest us will bring good deal
of real Joy and satisfaction to the
maker of the resolution, if he holds
out well.
Silent resolve is good thing, too.
Sometimes ones enthusiasm evapo.
rates when it is much spoken of. But
don't let us allow the enemies of the
race of man to discourage us in max
ing good resolutions; and then don't
let us fail to keep those that we make
to the best of our ability.
There is room for improvement in
all of us, and when we have acknowl-
edged that, and set ourselves to i'm
prove, why, We are on the nearest
road to success and happiness.
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doused with the peas, while they
shower the wheat upon their friends.
A curious custom also is festooning
the handsomest horse in the village
and leading him to the house Ut q
nobleman. The pea and wheat shoot
ers follow in droves. Both guests
and horse are admitted to the parlor
of the lord and the guests receive pres
ents of small coins. The origin of
the custom is not known, but 1t is
interpreted to meaH greeting Of
the peasants to their lord. While
the horse is being entertained in the
parlor, there comes to tho house a
drove Of oxen, goats, hogs, ETC., gayly
decorated and led by the children.
These are not admitted, but admired
from the window by the lord. Next
appear old women with barnyard
fowls, decorated with evergreens and
berries. These are given to the lord
as present.
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in calling on friends and the giving Of
"awabi," a kind of mussel shell, as
emblem of times long ago when their
forefathers were Of necessity very fru-
gal. This is also interpreted as q
warning against luxury. In China the
people meet in the streets on New
Years day and salute each other
with: "Kung-h! Kung-hi!"-T hum.
bly, wish you JOY" or "Sin-hi!"-"May
joy be yours" The cities are gayly
decorated with lanterns and artificial
flowers, with red paper notices on
the houses. Where blue paper is
seen it is a sign that there has been
a death during the year.
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There is, however, striking exception
70 this rule in France. New Years is
the chief festival Of the year, and the
gift" II the chief feature of the festi-
val. 1t is believed that the French OBJ
servance of the day combines the an
cient customs Of the Druids, Romans
and Christians, since it involves the
highest homage to womanhood, q sa-
turnalian effect in liberties to bonds
men, and the gala day of romping free
dom to children. New Years day is
eyerybody's day. Each one Of these
features has its special history which
would require the space Of a special
story to tell.
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Fatteninq the Bride

In Tunis, when man wants to take
another wife, he picks out a girl, and
then carries to her father pair of
bracelets and pair of anklets from
one of the other ladies of his house
hold. The bracelets and anklets are
slipped on the young woman, and sew
eral months are allowed for her fatten-
ing. She must fatten until she COM
pletely fills the fo,:r ornaments, or
otherwise the man has right to re-
fuse her. For in Tunis fat is beauty
add a permanently slender girl has no
chance of Observation-Disclosures Bull
lctin.
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in on our souls, we are In a fair way
to improve.
1t is only when we blindly consider
ourselves as right in everything that
we are all wrong.
1t is only when we blindly consider
ourselves as right in everything that
we are all wrong.
So If your look back shows you mis-
takes and errors and misbeliefs, be
glad that the New Year gives you
clean slate to try for the right road
and the true goal.
Be thankful for the mental perspec-
tive when you see it with clear sight
with new true eyes.
There Is no need of making resolu-
tons, for right seeing means right
thinking and right thinking is the
path to right living.
Perhaps your faults are those mean
little ones which you would like to
exchange in bunch for one noble sin,
but there are no exchanges of that sort
or we should all be noble sinners.
cluster round some of the finest roses
in lifes big garden, crowding, Earring,
overlapping one another in their eager
ness to get to the light.
Maybe the old year has been good
friend in some special instances that
you can recall.
Perhaps it brought you back with
a short, sharp shock from too AFRO
CANT happiness or an overconfident sue
cess.
Be glad Of that jar, even though it
kept you stirred up for awhile.
Perhaps the past IL months have
healed some breach or brought some
ship home, the white sails Of which
you have been watching wistfully for
months or years far out at sea.
Be glad Of that
Perhaps some milestone has fallen
from you and you stand free at last on
the great highway with long, manacled
arms reached out to the sky.
Be glad!
Or peace has settled on troubled
ocean and you can greet the sunrise
with smile and prayer of thankful
ness for another day.
Maybe there is a cradle in one cor
ner of your home this New Years eve
with a most important guest cuddled
in down blankets and rose-leaf palms
upturned for your kisses.
No need to tell you to be glad.
Or success has come to crown some
effort at which you have toiled rather
YEARLY, hardly daring to hope.
Or II it has been withheld, be glad
that you have nevertheless tried. It
will all come to you some day. s
The old year has taught us lessons.
Let us profit by them and enter into
the new armed with experience rather
than plunge into 1t as though it were
rose garden.
1t is quite as full of danger and con-
flict and clouds as the old friend that
is going.
Let us wish it will have even as
much sunshine and gladness and JOY.
We can meet it with splendid hope
and lively faith-for those two quail
ties are what make our dreams come
true.
Let us cherish few good hopes that
it may bring us the things we stand
in need of-health, happiness, good
friends success, Joy and the clear
vision that will teach us to discern the
false from the true.
May it leave us our beliefs and our
ideals.
Teach us to love more and to hate
not at all.
To be content with the blessings that
we have.
To cultivate sweetness and good ma.
ture rather than exclusiveness.
To meet the world with a smile.
TO stifle criticism of things and peo-
pie.
Never to make little of our own.
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X-Rays and Pearls.

An interesting application of the x.
rays is for the detection of the pearl
inside the closed shell Of the mullusk.
In paper contributed to the Complies
Rendus of the Biological society of
Paris r. Dubois gives an account of
photographs which he has made, show
ing pearl inside species of pearl.
bearing mussel. He notes also that a
similar photograph of a pearl inside a
shell was made by Auguste Lumiere
and exhibited at the Colonial exhibit.
ton at Marseilles in 1906.
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TURKEY.

QUAINT New Year
custom is observed
in the Turkish ORR
ent, where tn 9
Greek subjects of
the sultan live. It
is the special event
in Caesarea, where
st. Basil was born.
New Years eve
80 v,o0~4 offA- 44II2L
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GERMANY.

N MANY German
cities, and especial
ly in Berlin, New
Years eve, or other
wise known as Syl-
vester's Nacht, is
the occasion of a
rough yet ludicrous
onslaught upon in
nocent and unwary
persons w hO are
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The Happy Man.

Happy is the man who has nothing
to swear off and therefore swears of
nothing. He will not have to invent
reasons for smashing his pledge few
DAYS hence.
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nay" But what this means, no one
seems to know. The application of the
term is in custom of children to en-
robe themselves in a street and go the
rounds of houses on New Years eve,
knocking at the doors and crying
-Hogmanay." In response they al
ways get an oat cake, rich with fruit,
and sometimes, in addition, some
cheese and goodies. This is their
''Hogmanay." Housewives are kept
busy days in advance preparing little
cakes for their ghost-like visitors and
II is regarded as something of a bad
omen to run short and not be able to
supply the demand. While Hog.
manay" is the usual cry it is often sup.
plemented by 'trollolay" and the more
daring will add the privileged rhyme
Rise up, guide wife, and shake your fea-
theirs,
Dinna think that we are beggars;
We are BARNS come to play
And to seek our Hogmanay.
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-@0 EW WEAR

EW YEAR is not
the day in the
United States that
1t is in foreign
countries. In early
New England days
it received quite a
setback by the Pill
grims, who believed
that its observance
was a recognition
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USTOMS in Eng
land are very SINH
lar and in many
cases interchange
able with those of
Scotland. Even to
this day the an.
Gle mt salutation,
"Wass hael," OF
ITO your health, u
Is joVially given
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THE FAR EAST.

n JAPAN the New
Years day of the
Gregorian calendar
Is observed. 1t is
a universal rule
there and in China
that all debts must
be settled at the
end Of the year.
But the feature Of
the day in Janan Ia
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RUSSIA.

Y T H e country
town Of Russia
New Years is the
great feast day for
the children. Boys
fill their pockets
with dried peas
and wheat and go in
bands from house
to house. People
they have any
grudge against are
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New Year Day
The World Around %.
Copyright, 1907, by Wright A. Patterson.
By DANIEL CLEVERTON.

present and passed out the back door
To admit one having curved initials,
like c or o, means bad luck for a
year.
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) Little {
Jeffrey's
New Year
Luck

TITLE jeffrey was an or
phan lad whose father
was killed in a railroad
accident when Jeffrey
was a tiny baby in his
mothers arms. And the
mother had been made
so i'll by the sudden
death of little Jeffrey's
father that she was no
longer able to care for
her baby and a few
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FRANCE.
CsN EUROPE it was


the custom, until
the time of Oliver
Cromwell, Of ex-
changing presents
on New Years day.
But in the western
world generally the
practice has been
absorbed by the
Christmas festival.
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The Mornina After.

Up to Date Child-Did you and papa
enjoy the party last night, mamma?
Mother-Yes, darling.
Up to Date Child-Which of you
won the most ?-Judge.
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MOTHER year has found
us just as we were getting
comfortably used to the
idea that summer had
really gone.
Busy people never have
time to dwell very much
on the passing Of the sea-
sons.
The days are so full of
tasks and Father Time is
oI--ox,o 4aknLso- $50 .-l
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Tbe Curntng Of the @lass

Tbe Turt1t1g of the @lass
IT has come once more to ae turning Of ae glass.
The sand is all but spent. and 4e days of Ae old
year are as chaff in Ae wake of the wind By
ae gray light in ae western shack. at Ae heaped
tables of Ae rch within ae great places of exchange
and even amongst those who 60 out upon Che high
seas men will give pause. For it is ae time Of
reckoning. and sober thought must 60 to ae balance
against mirth and merymakins. 1t is Ae supreme
hour of resolution. May ae trend Of worship be
not towards ae god of gold. May men not overlean
towards Ae side of materialism. May Aere be
reverence for simple things, for Ae young babe
in ae cradle and ae old man nearing ae valley.
May Ae milk Of human kindness and the good
hand Of common sympathy 60 forth to Ae natal
feast. Then might Ae New Year dawn bright
and Peep he world over could repeat with Ae poet:
Turn again Ae wasted glass.
kinsly and warriors ces,
Are worth Ae blade Of sa..
God fashions for Che swallow nest"
Newton Mac lavish
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SCOTLAND.

S IN France, so in
S C o a n d, N e W
Years is the chief
festival Of the year.
The eve Of the day
and the day itself
are called Daft
Days." or crazy
days. And the eve
separated from its
daft" associate Is
C allie "Hogma-
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ENGLAND.

USTOMS in Eng
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"Turn again Ae wasted glass.
kinsly crown and warrior . crest
Are not worth he blade Of grass
God fashions Tor Che swallow nest.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-17
A Clear Claim.

An official of the pension ofice d Washington offers the following ex. cerpt from an especially amusing let. ter received from claimant for pen. sion:
 The way I got my war ingery was a-ketchin of hog. The hog were SOW hog aud our capten wanted her for forage. He was chasin the SOW and she crawled threw a hoal in rale fense-it were a big hoal and I thot I were about the size of the hog and tried to crawl threw. but I stuck and trying to wigle out I throde the rales on and one hit me on my he'd and hooked my senseless. do not think the SOW had nothing to do with my line for duty for did not ketch the hog. Wich she never were aught"-Lippincott's Magazine