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New Years IN Manila

To occidental eyes New Years day
in Manila is a strange ola podrida of
Christmas. Easter and Fourth of july,
says the New York Press. The day is
ushered in with early mass. celebrat-
ed in the cathedral, which is attended
by all the women attired in old
clothes, and the poorer class barefoot
ed and the wealthy in somber black.
with black mantillas or shaw}s
shrOuding their heads. But immediate
ly after breakfast everybody begins
to prink and preen for callers. Raven
locks are plastered into elaborate
coiffures with cocoanut oil and crowned
with red or yellow blossoms. or in
the case OF maiden who expects
her lover to pay his respects to her
on the New Year with the sweet star
ry flowers Of the jessamine which are
called throughout the island the flow
ers Of San Paquita, who is the patron
saint of lovers Stiff, trailing skirts of
gay brocade and antebellum cut are
donned, wide flowing sleeves of EN-
broidered pima gauze and ample neck
erchiefs of the same filmy material
are adjusted and there is tinkling of
many bangle bracelets as the fair ones
seat themselves to wait the arrival of
the first caller.
His entrance is the signal for the
jam pot to be brought in. This takes
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Entering the New Year

Take up the ark of the covenant and
pass over.-Joshua, SO.
The long journey in the wilderness
is over. The endless stretches of sand
will haunt the tired eyes of the pill
grims no longer. Beyond the swiftly
gliding river lies Canaan, the Land of
Promise.
Joshua is a born leader of men and
as such knows what they will do. if
appealed to in the right way. The
River Jordan flows between the Prom
Used Land and his followers. It must
be crossed With the same feeling
that afterward animated Douglas to
take from his breast the jeweled heart
OF the dead Bruce and fling it over the
heads Of the advancing foe, shouting:
Fight, my men, for the heart of
Bruce!" so Joshua, with the deep re-
ligiOus consciousness Of a Jew. gives
the order to carry forward the Ark of
the Covenant. No one of his follow
ers will dream of tagging behind when
he sees that sacred symbol in front.
And so, following in the footsteps of
the priests, the people, old and young,
cross the Jordan and enter upon a
new phase of their national life.
The parallel between our case. as we
stand on the threshold of a new wear
and the Jews on the eve of their en-
teriHg Canaan is so apparent that ii
can be seen at once. AS the tired wan
derers from Egypt stood facing the
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though he lived long, long ago, and
though he was but a leader of a mob
OF liberated slaves, can show us the
way. The captain OF the Jewish host
sent forward the Ark of the Covenant.
We, who are the children of the larger
hope, can do nothing better than to
send forward into the new year tbs
Cross of Christ. Why? Because only
by the power of the Cross can we
hope to pass successfully through the
trials and temptations and to over.
come the kings of passion and selfish.
ness which so surely lie waiting for
US in the next II months.
1t must appeal to nearly every one,
this ending of an old year and the be.
ginning of a new one. A man must be
dull indeed if it awakens no thoughts
of larger life, a more consecrated
manhood, more devoted discipleship.
The past, let us remember, is dead;
the future is always alive. 1t holds
aloft in its strong right hand the
morning star of hope and whispers to
each child of man: 1T is never too
late to mend"
Let US face the new year with brave
hearts and better determinations. plac-
ing before us as We advance the Cross
OF Christ, believing that in proportion
as We are loyal to this symbol shall we
have strength given us to endure hard.
ness as good soldiers of the Master
patience to suffer without giving way
to despair sorrow and misfortune.
and spiritual courage. so that we can
come through every temptation tri.
nrnhant and nm n frnid
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-Four Celebrations
Of New Year S Day

own, we have not yet the means nor
the call for children's afternoon on
New Years day"
Still, many of the Greek families
will observe this ancient custom in
this country. They will have their
children's afternoon. They will have
their delicious New Years pudding
known as kings pudding" In fact,
IN many cases the pudding will be
even more delicious than 1t would
have been in old Athens. For one of
the ancient customs among the Greeks
is to hide some gold coin in one por-
ton of the pudding and he who gets
the share of the pudding with the gold
coin in it becomes the favorite as well
as the leader of the two days joy and
sport In this country, where gold is
more plentiful than in Greece and
where il is more easily earned by the
Greek father, the pudding promises to
contain more gold and be much more
delightful to the finder of the same.
Perhaps the most unique Greek dish
on New Years eve is the roast lamb, set
up in Greek style, of which each son
of Hellas must partake. The roasting
of the lamb is attended with a great
deal of pomp. The entire carcass Of
a lamb is set up on a pole and this
is held over fire until it is duly
roasted. Then it is sliced and appor-
toned among the various persons
present at the feast and the roast is
eaten along with the other strictly
Greek dishes and washed down with
Greek wine
Russians Like Our Food.
Russians in this country celebrate
but one day, and they. 400, attempt to
produce a home atmosphere. How
ever, home food is not thought of.
The bread, the meat, and the wine of
the United States are considered as
Sood as and even far better than the
products of their own land.
The Macedonians, Servians and Bull
garians celebrate the New Year, per
haps less deliberately, also on the same
day as their Greek and Russian CO.
The Turks celebrate their first Of
the year with the modesty character
istic of people who have not yet any
hold on place.
The Chinese will have their Gus
tomary celebration of the Chinese
New Year on February 10 with feast
ing and enjoyments with which the
holiday is observed in the Celestial
empire.
In striking opposition to the spirit
Of JOY ana happiness which peryades
the New Year of the Greeks and
Christendom generally is the New
Year Of the Jews. With the Jews.
who also observe the New Year for
two days. the days are not days of
feasting and enjoyment but days of
judgment According to the belief of
every orthodox Jew, every member of
the Jewish race is tried on the New
Year. The books kept in heaven are
opened on that day, the record of each
man for the year just ending is looked
through, and taken under advisement
| for ten days. On the tenth day. the
| day of atOnement, the fate of each
man for the coming year is drawn up.
whether he should live or die. prosper
or be poor. On the day of atonement
the fate is sealed and nothing can
change IL any more.
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pocket sun dial that
we are told counted
all the hours when
the sun shone' made
the perfect record
OF human days. The
noisy clocks and re-
morseless calendars
that told off the
worst and weariest
Of times move
ments litera II Y
spoiled the reckon
ing. History began
to build itself upon
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Hi vi uOHdl New rear CelSDrd-
ton on January l. The
first OF these foreign celebrations will
be that of the Greeks and Russians
and few other nationalities which
adhere to old style dates They will
have New Year on January Il, 10 days
later than the New Year of the new
style. Next in order comes the Chi
nese New Year, on February 10. and.
but day later, February IA, comes
the Mohammedan first day of the year.
The Jewish New Year falls nealy nine
months later, about the middle of Sep
Der, on the first day of the month Of
"Tishri."
The celebrations vary both in ac-
cordance with the religions of the va
rious peoples and their climatic.
racial and national characteristics.
With the Greeks, Russians. Servians.
Bulgarians and Macedonians, all of
whom adhere to the Greek Catholic
church, New Years is one of the most
pleasant if not the pleasantest festival
of the year. With the Jews, on the
contrary, the New Year, Rosh Has
hama, as it is called. is far from being
a pleasant affair. 1t is a day of retri-
button, of judgment. 1t is preceded
by weeks of prayer, fasting and peni-
tence, and is followed by ten days
known as the days of repentance.
which wind up with Yom Kippur. the
day of atonement. most grewsome
and weird day, dreaded by every or
thodox Jew.
Greeks Celebrate Two Days.
The most interesting and Joyous
celebration of the New Year is that of
the Greeks. The Greek New Year
lasts two days. In these two days the
Greek nature with it's unbounded joy
of life comes into its own. The heart
of every Greek thrills on that day with
unbounded joy. Passionately he
awaits the evening. when in his little
Greece, in a genuine Greek restau-
rant, with male cooks and attendants,
he can get his genuine Greek food,
Hellenic dishes, and wash them away
with Greek wine which was purpose
ly imported into this country for the
holidays.
christmas is great holiday with
us said prominent Greek, but it is
after all solemn day. 1t is a relig-
ious holiday. No gifts are exchanged
Oh Christmas and the three days which
the holiday last are given over to
religious meditation How different
it is with the New Year, Next to our
national holiday on March IS, which
commentaries the date of our indie
pendence, just as July 4 commemo-
rates the birth of the American ma
ton, New Years days, for We have
two of them, are our greatest HOLIDAYS
In Greece New Year is essentially a
family holiday. There we have chill
dren's afternoon which is devoted en-
tirely to the young ones. who are Civ
en- the utmost opportunities to enjoy
themselves. In this country, how
ever it is slightly different Out Of
the $4,000 Greeks living in Chicago
only 200 have their families here
There are only between sixty and
eighty children, and as we are only
just planning to build school of our
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Man Has His Choice

0 what have l to do with tim
For this the day was made.
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time to come
as though that
time should be
of a n o t h e T
make fro m
this" prevails
in the intel
lectual as re-
ligious world,
and promises
to show life
W h o ! G" to
more than a
h a n dful OF
s o g T S a u d
sages.
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Good or bad, the years come out of
the bosom of the infinite bearing some
boon from the eternal for man to Law
hold of if he will. To choose the per
manent from out the mutable and
fleetng is the life secret they carry.
and how much hangs upon the choice
eternity alone can tell. There are
watchmen at the gates who assure us
that each year brings gifts peculiar to
itself, and one year or one world does
not restore the lost offerings of the
other. Long after we have passed
away out of mems sight and out Of
mems memory the world with some.
thing that we have left within it, will
be going on still" says Phillips
Brooks, "and long after the world has
passed away we shall go on some
where, somehow, the same beings
still, carrying into the depths of eter-
nifty something that the world has
done for us that no other world could
do
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wretchedness Of people, and all ere
alton to take note Of time by its loss
instead of its golden gain in the hours
of perfect sunlight
But the reaction has set in. 1t is
the glad hours and not the sad ones
that are to be made to count
Let us tarry awhile
At the sign Of the smile
is the watChwOrd which even pious
pilgrims are sending out to upset the
ancient reckoning. Let the smile
become the Christians rather than the
devils sign" they cry in chorus. and
the joy Of the spirit become the meas
ure of its days Good Isaac Rarrow's
picture Of the child of heaven "smil-
ing always with neverending Sc
renity of countenRnce and Furnishing
in an immortal youth has at last tax
en- hold of the Christian world and
spurred on by the new thought rhap-
sodies, promises to turn back the cal
endar of all our days. Counting time
by heart throbs is no new method to
be sure, but the kind of heart throbs
that always find man young and al
ways keep him so" were rather lost
with the sun and nature worship of
the early world
When men went to nature for their
reckoning it was as Wordsworth tells
US:
They felt
As If the moving time had been
A thing as steadfast as the scene
On which they gazed themselves away.
Centuries young were those children
of the morning, before even the
sun dial had begun to tell them of
the flight of time 1t remains true still
that whether nature or the soul
strikes the joy note in the human
breast, the poets question rises in
stinctively to the lips;
o what have l to do with time,
For this the daV was made
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Alexander Mocked.

New worlds, with each new year,
to conquer, mock the cry of Alexander
and declare indeed a new kingdom
wherein to reign. Closer and closer
comes the promise of that awakening
hour when man shall in truth become
"a living soul" and with an eye
made quiet by the power of harmony,
and the deep power of Joy" shall see
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into the life of things" How many a
rose of morning and ripe fruit of the
golden noon shall then return to him
the science of life, which permits no
lost good, nor wasted atom even. in all
creations bounds. may gloriously de-
clare. Where are the SHOWS of yes
teryear?" whispers the tender poet,
but the green of spring and the bloom
of summer are natures answer to his
yearning cry.
And shall man be less blessed than
nature in garnering the treasures of
the year? Is that evil genius, that the
ancientS beheld standing at the door
Of the new year. forever to give Iethe
TO drink that he may wander blindly
into the unknown way. shorn of the
best boons and talismans of the past?
All, the poets who try life and love
know better.
Each new year is a leaf of our loves
rose:
1t falls but quick another rose leaf
grows;
So is the flower from year to year the
same
But riches for the dead leaves feed the
flame
Thus they read the riddle and the
"milliOn-centuried sweetness that
goes with it to-day. Neither is man
drugged 10y any god or genius but the
one within him, that he may tell no
tales and carry no tokens from the
departing year What he tells to
cheer or depress his comrades. what
he carries to help or hinder both them
and himself, is in the power of his
own open-eyed choice Perhaps the
best hint that was ever offered to
guide him is the brief and pointed one
given by the sage, when he writes
"A man should make life and nature
happier to us, or he had better never
been born" 1t is the one pre-eminent-
ly in the air at the present moment
It would fill all the newspapers in the
land and drive the quotation-abhorring
editors mad if one-quarter of the stout
maXims OF this nature which the times
offer should demand place in their col.
umns. Already their humorous writ
ers are trying to demoralize them and
send some of the cheerful and cheer
in2-up people over to his Satanic
majesty where no doubt they are
needed since the dry season set in,
Lies Logic Quaint.
If there be such a Satanic monarch,
probably he loves the cheerful sinner
just as heaven must love the cheerful
saint Yet the logic of life is against
him. The smile is not legitimately the
devils sign. 1t is the pessimist who
is playing into his hands. treating his
sovereignty as If it could overthrow
heavens and all the power of the
Eternal Goodness. To act as if they
had faith worth smiling over would
seem to be the altitude of men who
believed in a sovereign of love and
omnipotence rather than one of NAL
evidence and black arts, and it may
be that the Christian world is at last
finding it out. Certainly the Gospel
evsngel Rejoice, reioice!" is sound
ing anew through all the realms of
Christendom and becoming a part Of
culture and philosophy every
where Fullers counsel: BE
happy in the present moment
and put not off being so to a
time to come,
as though that N4HS
time should be ~N
Of another III GfS Eh
make from AN CyA&hi\
this" prevails k\H'T%2HRA \
in the intel &E @h MY
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AS the Years Mark
Time for Mankind

The old-fashioned sun dial, after all,
was the true time piece. That little
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WIFI ISNSISIl neaII we turn anew
An untouched page Of time.
It's ours to fill with noble deeds
Or stain with sin and crime;
Then ere we mar its surface pure
Ere we begin anew,
lis well that DER our last years work
We take short review.
Alasl we scan through tears the page
We meant should be so fair
The blotted page where records live
OF hope and toll and care;
The page that ends the finished year
OF loss and gain and strife,
OF love and homes sweet happiness,
And peace that blesSes life.
So much there is of pleasantness
Our record has to tell
And so much done unworthily
We might have done so well!
Though mental retrospection shows
That shine exceeds the shade;
Too late we would erase the blots
Of past mistakes we made.
Then turn the new leaf. Look not back
To grieve DER loss and pain,
But view the futures spotless page
Where we begin again;
And here resolve, by Gods own grace,
That we will do our best
To keep lifes record clean and pure
And trust Him for the rest.
- 3llargarrt Srutt Hall.
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EW YEAR is celebrated in
this country at least on
four different dates in ad-
dition to the regular ma
tional New Years celebra-
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-02-05

If any have made, Willingly or
unwittingly, engtangling al
liances, hurtful to themselves, or
the good of of the human family.
we appeal to them to sever their
connection with the "body of this
DEATH" re-assert their freedom
and manhood and enter the con-
test We especially appeal to
those wao have been against us in
the past to forget all differences
for the public good and enter this
contest. 1t is "a contest against
the saloon, distillery and drink
evil, and not against the man
an issue of merit and morals, and
not of men aud politics.
Friends of temperance, organ.
ize, work, watch and pray. If
this is done victory is ours.
JNo. A, OATES,
Chairman Executive Committee.
HERIoT CLAKsoN,
President of State Convention,
R. L. DAVIS,
State Organizer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-02-05
SALOONS AND DIspENsARY TOWNS.
Whiskey Is Now Sold Mostly In Small
Towns. Where.It Is Sold.

We hear it frequently stated
that 95 per cent. of the State il
now under prohibition; that is to
say, presumably, that pecentage
OF the popula tion. A prominent
Asheville prohibitionist stated
5yesterday that he understood
there are about dozen saloons
left in the State. There are few
saloon towns Of any size, but from
data which. We believe, was COM
piled by the Anti-Saloon League,
1t appears that there are today 46
saloon towns and rs dispensary
towns We have not at hand the
number of saloons and dispen-
saries. Following are the coun-
ties and towns in which liquors
are sold without a DOCTORS pre-
scription:
Saloons: Beaufort county, at
Washington; CasHell, at Milton
and Yanceyville ;-- Craven, at
Vanceboro; Edgecombe, at Tar
boro, Pinetop, Macclesfeld, Old
Sparta, Leggetts, Lawrence,
Whittiker, Battleboro, Rocky
Mount, Sharpesburg, st. Louis,
Conetoe and Oakley; Forsyth, at
Wiaston- Salem; Greene, at Snow
Hill, Jason; and Halifax, at En-.
field, Halifax and Tillery; Mar
tin, at Williamsburg, Hamilton,
Hassell, Everette, Parmele, Gold
Point and Robersonville; Nash,
at Rocky Mount and Battleboro;
New Hanover, at Wilmington and
Wrightsville; Pitt, at Farmville,
Oakley, Stokes, Pactolus, Grimes
land and Fountain !; Rockingham,
at Madsioh and Reidsville;
Rowan. al Salisbury; Wilson, at
Black Greek, Wilbanks and
Bridgerville.
Dispensaries Alamance county
at Graham; Beaufort, at Ed
wards; BERTHE, al Windsor and
Coleraine; Franklin, at Louis
burg; Granville. at Oxford and
creedmore; Halifax, at Weldon;
Harnets, Dunn; Haywood, at
Waynesvllle; Johnston, at Pine
Lavel; Jones, at Trenton; Lenoir.
at Kinston; Person, at Roxboro;
Pitt, at Greenville, Bethel, Ayden
and Falkland; Rockingham, at
Ma; ;odan; Vance, at Henderson !;
Wayne, at Fremont and Eureka ;
Wilson, at Wilson, Elm City and
Lucama.-Asheville Gazett e.
News.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-02-05
CONCORD and CABARRUS COUNTY,.
Some More Deaths. A Marriage. New
PastorIArrives. II -

Concord Times. Jan 1881.
P.B. Bost, of Flows, was taker
to the hospital at Salisbury Tues.
day. He has been in poor health
for some time, and went to Sails.
bury with the hope that he would
be benefited. ,,
Miss Belle Stirewalt, a pupil at
Mont Am@na Seminary, at Mt.
Pleasant, died there Monday
morning. She had been sick sever
al days with typhoid pneumonia,
and wasabout IS years of age. She
was a daughter of NJ. A. Stirewalt,
who lives in Rowan county,. near
lEbensssr church, and = sister Of
Miss Ada ssirewalt, the music
teacher at Mount Ammna.
The employe who has not the
best interest of his employer at
i heart, is not apt toprove success
in life. A mere time-server is
good for nothing except to draw
his wages. He who puts his whole
mind, body and strength into what
he does certainly can do the best
work.
A marriage license was issued
Wednesday to Geo. M. Shipping
and Miss Mary Goodman. Both
the parties live in Rowan county.
Rev. J. M. Grier, the Few pastor
of the First Presbyterian church, >.
will arrive tonight with his fam,
lily, and begin his pastorate Of
this church Sunday.
Mrs. Alfred Peoples, of Forest
Hill, died last Monday night, aged
" years, of dropsy of the heart.
Berry E. Rimer diediat his home
Oh East Depot street last Friday
morning after a long Illness of
consumption, aged 80 years. He
leaves wife and fonr children.
John s. Isenhour, a prominent
farmer of No. Il. township, died
last Friday morning after a long
illness. Mr.. Iseuhour fisst had asss
attack of typhoid fever, which
was followed by pneumonia, and
for some time before his death his
life was dispaired of. Mr.. Isen-
hour was 81 years Of age, and
leaves his wife and four children,
the youngest only few weeks o d
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-02-05
Keeping to the Right.

Although one is taught from
the first school books that the law
of the road is to keep to the right,
it has become necessary in several
of the larger state towns to pass
strict ordinances and tack up
signs and station policemen to
make vehicles keep to the right in
crowded thorcughfares. In Char
lotte, after the first few days, the
new law went smoothly and has
proved very popular with every
body. Congestion of traffic is re-
lieved, confusion abolished and
dangers eliminated, while business
is expedited.
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life he came to America and later
to North Carolina. Thirty nine
years ago Oh the 9TH of last Dec
ember he was married in Salisbury
to Miss Caroline Lowensteln.
Alex, Williamson. a well-known
negro, is in Jail awaiting trial on
a serious charge. He was arrest
ed on the streets Tuesday after
noon by Deputy Sheriff Gilbert on
a warrant sworn out by J. S.
Kerr. charging him with burglar
izing the Kerr home on Bell street
and stealing pistol from a table
in Mr.. Kerr's room.