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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-05-13
GEO. l.. PITTS.

hereby announce myself a candidate
for Superintendent Of Education for
Laurens county in the coming Demo
cratic primary, and pledge myself to
abide the result Of said election.
j. G.. BURDETTE.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-05-13
THOMAS p. BYRD.

| hereby announce myself a candi-
date for Superintendent of Education
of Laurens county and promise to abide
by the results Of the approaching Dem
ocratic election.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-05-13
JONES HIGH SCHOOL.
Annual Commencement May 2Ist-.Liter-
airy Address by DR.. W.eW. Daniel.

Annual Commencement May 2lst-.Liter.
airy Address by DR.. WV. Daniel.
The commencement exercises of the
Jones High School will take place
Thursday, May Dist. Following is the
programme:
Prayer.
Music by the Band.
Dialogue, Carolina. ~ Eight little
boys.
Reading, advice to Young Men,
Frank Jones.
Music by the Band.
Reading, "The Wreck of the Hes
pcrus. Miss Lala Jones.
Reading, "South Carolina. John
Frank Hill.
Music by the Band.
Reading, "Mary's Lecture. Miss
Mallory Hill.
Reading, "Do Your Best. Jones
Graham.
Music by the Band.
Valedictory-Miss Lala Jones.
Music by the Band.
Address-Dr. w. w. Daniel, Column
bia.
Music by the Band.
Address Hon. Geo. tombstone, New
berry.
Music by the Princeton Brass Band.
Afternoon, Baseball Ware Shoals
VS.. Greenwood.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-05-13
For Superintendent OF Education.

/ hereby myself as a candi-
date for reelection to the Office Of
County superintendent of Education
for LaurenS county, subject to the
rules and regulations of the approach
ing Democratic primary.
K. W, NASH.
Feeling a deep interest in the cduca-
tional work Of the county and having
given it much thought and study, |
hereby myself a candidate for
Superintendent of Education for Lau-
rens county in the approaching Demo
cratic primary election, and ! believe if
elected | can fill the Office acccptably
and with benefit to the schools through
out the county as | will not let my
farming interests interfere with duties
Of said Office.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-05-13

Artists have no trouble in securing
models. The famous beauties have dis
carded corsets and have become models
in face and form since taking Hollis
ter's Rocky Mountain Tea. Palmetto
Drug Co.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
NEW YEAR IN JAPAN.
Characteristic Festivities of the Mi
=

Characteristic Festivities of the Mi
kado's Capital.
Imagine oneself in Tokyo during
the New Year festivities, . writes Clar-
ence Marshall Phillips in the St Louis
Globe Democrat 1.-The first thing to
attract ones attention would be the
porch decorations Each one is ar
rayed in great ropes twisted and knot
ted into amazing beauty. Pine branch
es, either arched over the doors or
windows, are interspersed with or
anges and bordered with festoons of
flowers, while to symbolic Old Age
on account of his crooked back a lob
Bter occupies a conspicuous position
referring, of course, to the old Year,
In fact, the most unique of displays on
the Gina are those of the Holsters.
which are SO skillfully arranged that
the onlooker can readily guess the
meaning or story the arrangement
was intended to convey.
Rows Of sales booths, tent shows
and those features generally seen at an
oriental street fair occupy two and
half miles of the streets length
Anything from cheap fan to costly
image of Buddha can be bought at
whatever price the moment demands.
Dances categorical of every side Of life
are in profusion, while the fakir is as
common as in any European fair.
The real beauty of the scene is fur
nished by the flower booths which dot
the Gina as far as one can see These
displays are wrought into such phe-
nomenal beauty that one would infer
the designers to be none other than
the tasteful Japanese. Odd it is how
prevalent this power is among this
people. Even the proprietors of the
most humble booths possess the fac
ulty. The whole fair cannot be taken
in in a few hours, but at II we re-
tire to our hotel to pass away the
Witching hour at which time the old
year passes into the new. The friyoli-
ties are now toned down, and in the
spell of the hush we foreigners can
not help but recall the time agone
when we listened while the guns boom
ed farewell and the bells rang out
the old, rang in the new The festiv-
ties continue the remainder of the
night and the next day and until the
Sd of January. The decorations are
taken down on the 18th or the 9th, ac-
cording to local custom. From this
time on to the 18th of January the
business man enjoys his vacation.
which is a quite essential conclusion to
the New Years gayety. After this,
though, he again resumes his work.
and the New Years frolic is jotted
down on memory as thing of the
past"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
Virtue In New Years Ashes.

In many parts of Wales the ashes of
the fires lighted by each household on
New Years eve are carefully preserv-
ed from year to year Special virtue
is attached to these ashes in the cure
of certain forms of disease For the
falling sickness" (epieptic fts) they
are regarded as a specific. as indeed
they also are for any form of convul-
sions. They are also thought by the
believers in such things to possess
some power as love philters; but, like
all such potions. they must, of course.
be administered without the knowledge
of the person upon whom they are de-
signed to exert their influence 1t is
generally believed by nearly all the
native antiquarians that the great
majority of the superstitions of the
Welsh peasantry associated with New
Years eve. and especially with the
New Years eve fire. are among the
oldest of which we have any knowl-
edge and are chung to more tenaciously
than any others which find favor with
the people of other nations
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
THE CHRISTIAN ERA.
Invented by the Abbot Dionysius In
the Year 525.

Invented by the Abbot Dionysius In
the Year 525.
The Christian era, SO called because
it dates from the person of Christ is
now universally used by the nations
Of Europe and America. but five cen
turtles elapsed before it was invented
and five more before it was generally
adopted.
In 525 the Roman abbot Dionysius
began to count the years alb incarna-
tione Domini from the incarnation of
the Lord. The first year of his Do
nysian era ran from Jan. to Dec. 81
Of the seven hundred and fifty-fourth
year of the city of Rome. He set Dec.
% as the date of Jesus birth, as, ac-
cording to church usage, incarnation
means conception. not nativity This
method of computing time found great
favor and was officially Endorsed by
Charlemagne.
In the tenth century it was widely
accepted. In Spain. however, it did
not displace the so called Spanish era,
beginning with the year 7l6 3. c.. I'M
til the end of the fourteenth century.
In Russia it was introduced by Peter
the Great in 100. The German en-
peror began the year at Dec. % until
the latter part of the sixteenth cen
tury. France at Easter day until 1867.
Jan. l was not fixed upon as New
Years day in Scotland until 1899 and
in England 1862
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
A custot, Worth Copying.

A New Yeats ceremony much more
exacting than BUR custom of Swearing
off, is indulged in in China. On the
last day of the old year the law COM
pels every oneEto settle accounts with
ms creditors so as to begin the new
year with clean account. If any
one cannot pay the debt is Cancelled.
put there is a great deal of feeling
shown It is considered so disgraceful
10 leave a debt unpaid that the un-
lucky debtor who cannot discharge his,
pecunlary obligations at that time is
liable to be treated with insult and in
jury. Among the coarser classes they
oIten break out and smash the furni--
ture of debtor and annoy his family
IN every possible way, and then he
cannot get any protection from the
magistrates. no matter how seriously
he is injured. as the fact of his not
paying up cuts him off from all SYM
pathy.-Chicago Tribune.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01

according 10 tie ancient custom of the
tribe. SO that. according to computation
he had lost eighteen wives.
After having enjoyed the hospital
ity of the chief | left for the vessel,
extending d pressing Invitation to my
host to visit me Oh board ship. The
following afternoon. on New Years
day, the chief. his two sons and eight
cen slaves boarded my vessel in state
[ set them Il New Years dinner, the
best my ship could afford, and when
all was ready l directed the last de.
scendant of royal blood to the seat CT
honor ut the head Of the table To
the visible displeas,lre of his cultured
offspring. he grunted dissent and.
squatting on the floor of the cabin, ate
the food placed before him with his
sole remaining finger and thumb
thought Of the time when these also
would disappear i'll honor of the de-
partures of two more wives, leaving
his remaining wives to feed the rabid
old stiekler for ancient customs with a
spoon.
THE repast finished, his royal high
ness called me aside and pleaded with
me to give him a glass of whisky
was foolish enough to grant his re-
quest and produced a bottle of Scotch
This WAS seized and half emptied be
fore could recover it.
A JelSyll to Hyde transformation
took place His huge form trelnbled
with excitement. Into his eyes came
the wild glare with which thousand
savage fathers had regarded theft
| trembling victims. No tiger tapping
blood i'll the jungle ever spread his
nostrils With Il more cruel curl
would rather face Il hurricane off Cape
Horn than Il drunken Fiji chieftain
He issued orders to his head slaves
which if carried out would have made
slaughter house of my ship. threw
all the whisky on board into the Sc;
and fed for protection 10 the aithori
ties. On hearing my story they sale
81 should receive the usual penalty, q
fine of ESQ. for supplying liquor to J;
native. but thought | had been suffi
GENTLY punished by the antics of ny
royalty intoxicated ex-cannibal cues
and further volunteered the informa
ton that the ehieftafn whom had en-
tertained was the man who erased hu
man flesh FROM theIFiji bill of fare
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
a Worldwide HOLIDAY.

Practically every race and nation OBJ
serves New Years day by some time
honored custom. The feast is said
to be the oldest of all, having it's origin
in prehistoric times in sun or ma
ture" worship. AS time grew apace
the festival took on curious customs
here and there, SO that now it repre-
sents charming mixture of mythol-
ogy, legend and superstitions expressed
by quaint customs almost as varied as
are the people who observe them In
the United States the day is scarcely
more than holiday. with an unro-
mantle watch night thrown in, but
in Scotland. England. Germany, France,
Russia. Spain, Persia. China and ia
pan it is enriched by tradition. ro-
nance and charming custom-Phila-
delphia Press.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
IN THE FATHERLAND.
Bayard TayIor's Description of New
Years Eve In Frankfort.

!
Bayard Taylor relates that at Frank
fort on New Years eve as midnight
drew near the noise grew louder in the
streets. interrupting them at the games.
In which presents were distributed
from the relighted Christmas trees.
Companies of people. some of them
singing in chorus, passed by on their.
way to the Zeil Finally three-quarters
struck, the windows We're opened. and
every one waited anxiously for the
clock to strike At the first sound such
cry arose as one may imagine when
10000 or 10000 persons all set their
lungs going at once. Everybody in the
house, in the street. over the whole
city shouted 'Prosit Neu Jahr..' In
families all the members embrace each
other with wishes of happiness for
the new year. Then the windows are
thrown open, and they cry to their
neighbors or those passing by.
The streets We're full of people
shouting to one another and to those
standing at the open windows. We
failed not to cry sProsit Neu Jahr!'
whenever we saw damsel at the win
dow. and the words came. back to us
more unsteady than we sent them
Along the Zeil the spectacle was most
singular. The great wide street was
filled with companies Of men march
ing up and down. while from the mass
rang up one deafening, amending shout
that seemed to pierce the black sky
above. The whole scene looked stran-.
ger and wilder from the Pickering light
Of the swinging lamps, and could
not help thinking it must resemble Il
night in Paris during the French reyo-
luton"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
New Years In Rural Russia.

In the country villages of Russia
New Years. celebrated on Jan. 10. is
pre-eminently a children's day when
the little folks are allowed the great
est liberties. Early in the morning
the boys arm themselves with peas
and wheat. Their enemies they sub
iect to a fusillade of peas and their
friends a shower of wheat. After go
ing from house to house with this per
Torrance they accompany a gayly
caparisoned horse or ass to the home
Of the nobeman who is their landlord
and master. Both the beast and the
visitors are admitted to the best room
of the nobleman's house. and the latter
are given presents. Following this re-
ception the old women bring !: drove
of decorated fowls to the lord. The
interchange of gifts is an expression of
good will between lord and peasants
Brooklyn Eagle.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
STRENUOUS SCOTS.
| An Old Time New Years Celebration
That Ended on the GaIows.

New Years calling is in Scotland de
nominated first footing" the idea be-
ing that good or evil fortune is brought
to the house by the character of him
who first sets foot within it's doors after
the new year begins. During the last
century first footing began on the last
stroke of II, eager lovers stationing
themselves at or near the door of their
inamoratas in order to be the first to
enter after the church bells announced
the hour. The streets of Edinburgh
from midnight until morning were
crowded with first footers, for Hog
manay day was the greatest of the
Scottish year. How it came to be
called Hogmanay day is mystery the
antiquarians have never been able to
solve.
In the year 1911 first footing received
a severe check in Edinburgh, for a
band Of local toughs took advantage of
the opportunity to hold up large
number of citizens and beat those who
resisted. Three or four persons were
killed and a large number severely in
jured. The government exerted itself,
arrested most of the robbers and recap
tured the rich booty they had taken
Three were hung and the remainder
transported for life. but first footing
by night fell temporarily into disfavor.
1t is still practiced in the country
towns and rural districts, but in the
large Scottish cities most of the calling
is done by daylight.-New York Trib-
une
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01

r
Col
~ AS rheumatism twinged at his
- back as he stopped to take an
lei armful of wood from the pile
The winter wind blew about
the thin fringe of white hair beneath
his old fur cap and brought tears to
his still fiery black eyes. He groaned
as he went with his burden toward
the neat little farmhouse He was
laboriously filing the wood box after
doing the morning chores, and he was
very tired
Ma opened the door and closed it
after him. but she did not speak He
avoided her gentle blue eyes. 1t had
been almost six years since he could
talk to her without disagreement. Ma
went back to her piemaking on the
table near the window and looked past
the scar cornstalks, half buried in
snow. to a little brown house from
whose chimney the smoke seemed to
rise almost gayly into the dead gray
day. There was red barn near the
little house, and to and fro in the yard
ran a small figure in red coat and
cap. Mas heart yearned toward her
daughter Molly's four-year-old Jimmy.
Then she sighed and looked around at
her husbands obdurate face.
John Davis was what is called a
good man, but he was hard He boast
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
Persia's New Years Is In March.


In Persia New Years is celebrated
IN March. Among other ancient Gus
toms Still observed. worshiping at the
tombs is universal. On New Years
eve everybody takes bath. dyes the
hair and finger nails and on the first
day Of the new year goes to the tombs
to mourn and pray. Sometimes the
people become SO crowded at the toni
that they have to make their prostra-
TONS in turn. all the while filing the
air with a pathetic wall The ceme-
terry of Yezd-i-khas containing the.
remains OF Imam Ria of holy mem
DRY, IS particularly noted for this an
nual demonstration. The devout sun.
piement their mourning by kissing the.
walls of the Ria tomb
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01

ed that his great-grandfather was an
gave an injury. He had wanted Molly
to marry Peter Andrews and had
therefore considered himself hopeless
~ injured when she insisted on loving
and marrying Richard Burns, though
he had no real objection to Richard in
himself Molly was as stubborn as he,
and there had been no visiting be-
tween the two households by his own
command. He was master in. his own
house, and ma obeyed, though under
protest for their two sons were out
west, and Molly was all she had. She
had long since ceased to argue with
pa about it, and, though she did not
go to Molly's house, she made the
most of any chance meetings with her
or the small Jimmy. She had not been
in her daughters house since the time
Jimmy was born. Pa had not tried to
stop her then.
And now it was the day before the
new year began. Ma went on with
her pies, big and rich and thick with
as she had always done since Molly
had been tiny girl-made one pie in
a little yellow saucer-Molly's little
pie. Each year she continued to do
this, her husbands contempt notwith-
standing. This time she did it oSten-
tatiously, holding it high OH her hand
as she trimmed the crust off around
the edge. She intended to attract his
attention.
He had removed his mittens and had
taken down his old gun from the rack.
He sat cleaning the gun, with his feet
on the hearth and his teeth set He
was in torture from rheumatism and
SO weak he could scarcely get through
with what work must be done out of
doors, but he carefully hid his condi-
ton from his wife. Ma would put him
to bed and dose him and tell him he
had to forgive Molly and have Richard
over to relieve him of the heavy work.
Richard wanted to do this too. Ma
would be scared and say he was too
old to be alone and too old to be I'M
forgiving. He was only sixty, and he
never had forgiven any one, and he
did not intend to begin now, and he
had said he would never see Molly's
baby, and he never would either!
Then he looked up and saw Molly's
little pie balanced on her mothers
hand. 1t was the last straw.
Ma" he said, you're worse idiot
every year. Quit maxim that little
fool pie! Molly III never come over
here to eat it, and you can make up
your mind to that You've had time
enough! And l forbid you to be ever
lastin'ly meetin' her and Burns like /
know you do! I'll--I'll lock you up, old
as you be, it you can't have any sense,
don't want to have to say this ag'in
next year. You throw that pie into
the Stop bucket this minute or I'll come
over there and do it myself. . He rose
oue ms rheumatism made him pause
ana then ma did what she had NOT
cone once before in the forty wears of
sheif marriage. She faced him with
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01

Years yarns.
Il will tell you little experience of
mine,' said one of them ION New
Years day. 1856. / shared my plum
pudding with an ex-Fiji cannibal This
is how it came about: | was off Fiji
on Dec 80. and. desiring to spend
Christmas in port. made for Lathala
bay, as no pilot WAS in sight. / steered
between the dangerous reefs with their
eternal waves splashing to tie yards.
We went through like a rocket and
anchored in the placid waters beyond
I disembarked and made for shore
with some trepidation. having heard
blood curdling stories of the ferocity
Of the aborigines.
ION reaching the nearest village
was destined to be agreeably disap-
pointed. In q large bamboo edifice a
band of Presbyterians We're conducting
service. The mission house was filled
with natives, and as listened heard
the strains of hymn had learned as
a child:
From Greenland's icy mountains.
From Indias coral strands
My senses We're thrilled. Thousands
of miles from home in this strange
land. as heard once more the grand
old hymn from the lips of converted
cannibals said God bless the mis-
sionares who are corralling these
black sheep and rounding them up in
the Christian fold.'
''In contrast to this peaceful picture
l visited the chief of the tribe in that
locality He was as barbaric and
fendish looking a man as it was pos
sible to imagine. A short WOODEN shirt
was his only garment His massive
rotund body was hideous with tattooed
scenes of cannibaI feasts and dances
with the exception of one finger
and a thumb on his right hand, all the
digits had been chopped off, as we'll as
the toes of both feet. subsequently
learned that this individual struck off
a finger or toe a the loss of each wife.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
No lPars,mony In PhiIadeIphia.

Philadelphia opens its purse strings
wide Oh New Years day and blows
ITSELF Extensively on its great parade.
Some Years ago the leader of a down
Gown organization, which presented
something like $4,000 in costumes
alone. had a suit which took several
months to make. The design alone he
had BEEN thinking out for two years
ahead, Sand be had secured the service
OF highly priced and secret costumer.
The material in this mammoth suit.
for it pok some fifty pages to carry it.
was Of the finest texture. He showed
it to few friends at his home about
month before the day on which he
was Il don it IT was 50 large that it
took Up two rooms in the upper story
of thehouse.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
The WassaiI Bowl.

The "Wassail bowl" or. as the Mid
summer Nights Dream calls it. the
gossip,s bowl, was a heterogeneous
mixture of spiced ale. nutmeg. sugar.
toast. roast apples and sometimes roast
crabs and was the browning achieve
ment of the feast at New Years eve
and the promoter of friendship. when
all resentments and strife were laid
aside.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
In France and Spain.

In France and Spain New Years is
quite similar to the Christmas of this
country. only it is the occasion of ex-
cessive mendicancy in the streets and
the Spanish custom of dancing in the
thoroughfafes in hope of receiving
"aguinaldos'' or small gifts in money
or sweets from the householders and
spectators enjoying the performance.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-01
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beY outhful 7 earl
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old castle stair,
The youthful year stands sweetly
smiling,
But he tells not the joys that he holds
for our share
Nor the gloom of the room where may
Turk our despair,
Though we follow his beckon be
quilting.
Will he labor to bless as, the gallant
young page,
And conduct us through gardens of
pleasure2
Will he lead to the shrines of the good
and the sage?
Will he help US to honor our glorious.
age
And to give forth our hearts richest
treasure?
Need we fear that he smiles at our
credulous haste
To discover the fate he's conceaIine?
Will he jeer if before him our hopes
should lie waste?
Will he prove, like fair fortune,
friend double faced?
Will he open old wounds that are
healing?