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Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
To the New Year

Oh child New Year, on whom the mantle falls
Of the departing year, who leaves to thee,
The EhoSs, tasks, the duties and the eaMs
Which are the heirlooms of the past, to be
A precious trust the heritage Of time,
How will thou face the future all alone?
How front the foes Of sin, and vice, and crime,
Which muster round with force and might IN.
known?
Take courage, child of time, be not ~dismayed,
Equip myself with faith and hope and love,
And seek for strength and wisdom from above:
With these to help thee, never be afraid.
Go forth with %gladness Q. thine untrod way,
And strength will come to thee from day to day.
E. D. ALDER
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
Miss Margaret Mcmillan, London So
biologist, Tells ct Feeding Needy
Pupils at Bradford, England.

ChicagO.-The beneficial influence
derived from furnishing substantial
food to the school children Of England
was demonstrated by Miss Margaret
Macmillan, a prominent sociologist of
London, who is in America Investigate
ing social conditions. Her talk was
given before the Woman's City club.
Education, valuable. Of course, in
all departments of life," she said,
proper distribution in diet of protoids.
glutens, nitrogen, sugars, etc, can only
he determined by expert physicists,
and their influence on the brain ca.
pacity Is most marked. In Bradford.
England, we are daily giving two
meals a day to over 5000 school chill.
dren.
Everything utilized at the nine diff
ferent dining halls, variously distrib.
uted throughout the city, which has a
population Of 100000. is prepared in
n kitchen, and sent to the different
places by wagons.
The cost is a little more than two
cents per head per day, and it is a
crime not to supply children, who 9th,
erwise would be without it, with nour-
ishing foods to prepare them for their
life's work. The children of today are
the mainstay of u governments in
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
RUNNING OUR WOMEN

developed d large. muscular waist and
a large, heavy arm.
1T is not an even training Of all
the muscles that the women are get
ting today. but an acknowledgements OF
some one set which will, in time,
make them look more or less de-
formed.
"Athletic work is making women
Fat chesred. large wasted. small
dipped. This is the figure of a man,
and that is one reason Why man
artists doing work along classical
lines find it difficult to secure a
model
Doctor Sargent's views, which
brought out Mr.. AleXander's are to
the effect that the feminine type is
fast becoming masculine. The
change, Doctor Sargent said, has com
in the last twenty years. Women in
the savage state, he added, were so
like men in form that it was well-nigh
impossible to tell them apart. Then,
as civilization progressed, their espe-
cial feminine characteristics devel-
oped. Now the tendency is back to
the savage type.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31

But this great day of begin
"lnsS tor Japan, with its 'dIins and many pleas
ureS, at last comes to a close. On the second day
of the ycar the duty of work is celebrated. In the
home the children strive to show to their parents
the best they can do in penmanship or in memory
of things to be learned. Girls try their first orna-
mental needlework or piece of music; merchants
open their shops with a show of receiving their
first goods for the year. On the street many pro,
cossions of coolies are seen bearing beautifully or
namerted specimens of the trades of their masters.
Heavily loaded wagons, brilliantly decorated with
lanterns. flags and advertisements, drawn by oxen
covered with many colOred cloths, pass from dis
trict to district, accompanied by singing and dane
ing workmen.
Toward the evening of the second day street
%peddlers, crying Treasure ships for sale" go
about among the crowds. They sell rough draw
ings OF the Seven Gods of Happiness afoat in
a boat. Multitudes buy these caricatures of an
ancient sacred group, much as We might buy a
pictured Santa Claus. That night the Treasure
ship must lie under ones pillow. The dreams
that come then mean much for the rest of the
opening year.
On the third day of the New Year the firemen
Of the towns have their annual parade and give
public exhibitions Of acrobatic skill in many places.
These exhibitions are no mean shows. Some Of
the performers display an agile ability in climbing.
balancing and leaping that is of an extraordinarily
high order.
Indeed. all the days of the first fortnight of the
new year are red letter days, until the fifteenth
day comes, when seemingly a most comical end
ing OF the whole festal season takes place. The
people after that settle down to the commonplace
order of regular daily labor. The Japanese people
at the present time do not take this closing event
more seriously to heart than we of this land now
regard the ride of Tam OShanter; but, theoreti.
cally, the inhabitants of the internal regiOns dur.
ing the first fortnight Of the new year have as
merry a good time as the people of this world. On
the fifteenth day, however, the instruments of tor
ture in hell begin to work again. On this day it
is that the temples Consecrated to Emma O, the
king of Hades, are crammed with devotees and
gather large sums of offerings from fearful sin
ners. 1t is a wonderful sight, a temple of Emma O
in mid in one of the great cities. a Ro-
man carnival could not be more ~jostling, jolly or
%absurdly funny. Japanese fun making is at it's
freest there, and all that is done seems to be for
given the worshipers, il their contributions to the
treasure boxes of his majesty, the regent of the
inferno, are generous. With the festival of this
god the new year on earth and under the earth
has for the Japanese passed away as a feast, and
life's duties fairly begun again.
OF course the japanese New Year is today fast
losing some of it's old-time characteristic fascina-
tions, but enough of its unique quaintness and
charm remain to give it distinctiveness among the
festivals of the nations, and to keep 1t an object
for foreign tourists to enjoy.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
Student at English College Said to Re-
quire a Minimum Of $1,000
for Expenses.

London.-Lord Curzon's scheme for
q DOOR mans Oxford will send back the
minds of many Oxford men to their
terms bills. 1t is often said that a man
requires a minimum of $1,000 to get
through an Oxford year without con.
Tossing to exceptional poverty. Cecil
Rhodes, who inquired not a little into
Oxford expenses, allotted the Rhodes
scholars $1,000 a year. In this sum
vacation expenses were reckoned. The
1000 covers a period of rather less
than half the year.
There are besides capital expenses,
afterward returned. The freshman is
allotted a room, with the first glimpse
Of which he is probably charmed. To
the poorer the charm yanishes a little
when he finds on the table a valuation
Of $3.50 or so; that is paid on entering
for the furniture. At every turn ex-
benses that were not expected appear.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
John W. Alexander ADDS His les
tmony to Or. Sargent's.
American Woman's Figure Is Becom.
ING More Masculine in Line Every
D~ay-Outdoor Exercises and
Life Blamed.

New lork.-lf the American woman
persists in her undue athletic sports,
there will 500 be little difference be.
tween the masculine and the feminine
figure.
SO says John W. Alexander, presi.
dent of the National Academy of De-.
sign. In this he agrees with DR.. bud.
ley Sargent, of Harvard, who said
about the same thing. Mr.. Alexan.
der, n of Americas foremost Dor.
trait painters has had ample oppor-
tunlty to study women of every coun.
try and cline. In his home, at 116
West SiXty-fifth street, Mr.. Alexander
declared that the American wOman's
figure is becoming more masculine in
line every day.
Just where the beauty of such I'M
natural development comes in, | don't
see, said the painter. Il don't see
why any woman should be proud of
losing that which constitutes her
greatest charm, her womanly bearing
and figure. But that is just what the
American women of all classes seem
determined to do.
In no other country in the world
do you see such masculinelike figures
as the American women have. In
France the woman Is the personifica-
ton OF grace. In Germany the woman
is not so graceful. perhaps, but she
has that motherly bearing which gives
her a lovableness that is not often
found among Jul women. In England
the stateliness and dignities of the
women dissipate the slightest ugg
ton Of the masculine.
1t has only been in the last few
years that this change has been so de-
cidedly marked among our women.
IF she continues her violent exer-
clses and outdoor life, in a few years
she will be so manlike in figure that
she will look ridiculous in woman's
attire.
up to a certain point this outdoor
life and development is excellent. 1t
gives the girl all that women of this
country have been distinguished for
abroad-a free, easy carriage. and an
independence in movement and action
that at once inspires confidence il
her ability to meet a crisis. But this
point has been overstepped and she is
becoming anything but interesting.
Take for instance, a woman who
plays golf to the extreme. She has
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
To the New Year
and the Old Friends

Inc moon wanes pale in the sky,
And the stars all blink for morn:
The old year is to die,
And the new year to be born,
we nave passed through the vale Of tears.
we have trod the journey long,
we have shared our hopes and fears.
We have shared our grief and song;
And we've shared them all with our old prio,ds
Our true friends, our few friends.
ana we'll drain anew to our old friends.
The friends that are always true.
Henry Christopher Christie, in Smart Set
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
WOULD MARRY A "REAL MAN"
Yankee Girl Writes Governor Of Texas.
Stating There Is No Suitable Can.
didate in Jersey.

Austin. Text would like to cor
respond with a nice young man."
writes Miss Lillian Allen oS Il. +. y.
No. 9, Millville. N. J., to Governor
Campbell. 4 am a northern girl and
am unable to find what | call = real
man here. | was informed that Texas
is a state that has real men, 80 | have
taken the liberty to write.
Il an a music teacher and a cidu-
ate OF the Millville school. Hoping
YOU will understand this and pass it
to some young mar who is worthy of
its acceptance. am, yours truly"
Miss Allen is one Of the seyerai who
nave advised the governor recently
that they understand real men" cxist
in Texas and that they would go to
Texas ii assured Of a home ard six
foot protector. g.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
Cost of @ Year at Oxford

The scout must have a minimum OF S.
a term and the scouts boy $3.50.
All meals are the more expensive for
the perquisites Of the scouts. His bat
tells or weekly bills for food are with
difficulty kept below SO a week. What
with rent for rooms, tutors fees and
the rest, a terms bill very rapidly ap,
.proaches $3.50 and may easily exceed
it by a considerable sum This sum
does not, of course, include very large
items in the general daily outlay.
1t is unquestionable that Cambridge
is on the whole very much less dear
than Oxford. 1t would be interesting
to see comparative tables Of a years
expenditure at Oxford and Cambridge
and at any good Scotch university.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
FROM .T|'O|:L.SjTQ|
Says War Against Capital Pun
ish'nent Needs No Forcing.
T'na! Article E"titIcd "ETectivc
deans" and Was Written by .ha
Count in Optjna Monastery,
kQvcintCr II.

St. Petersburg. -Erom V.ad!mN
I&&Ae!lEoit, literary agent Of Count
TolatDi, The last article written by
IoI%t0i has been received. 1t is en-.
Nt'2d reflective McanS,' and was
written by ToISt0i in the Opiinu
t:onASt"ry, NoveMhcr II. shortly aft
cr he began his aclfimnosod exile
from home. The article was given
oUt by N. Tschertkoff at The express
wish Of Count T0lStoy for dissemiua.
ton 10 mankind. II says:
y an naturally anxious to do AL I
an against evil, which fortunes the
best spirits Of oar time.
i think the present effective war
against capital punishment does not
nreo forcing; there is no need for an
expression of indignation against it's
immortality, cruelty and absurdity-
every sincere thinking person, every.
body knowing from youth the sixth
vas ICShS iO NplulltlltIl
Oi It's a~hsurdity and immortality:
there Is no need for DESCRIPTIONS OF
The horrors of executions, as 1hev
only affect hanglneM, so men will
more unWiIling.y become execution.
erS II governments will be obliged
10 compensate them more dearly Tor
their service.
"Theretore, | think that neither the
expression Of indignation against tle
murder OF our felloWmen nor the sug
seStlon of its horror is mainly need,
ed, bat something totally different.
AS kantwell says. there are del,l-
slons which cannot be disproyed and
We must communicate to the deluded
mind the knowledge which will en-.
ll&hten and then the decisions will
Danish by themselves.
"What knowledge need We commu.
hi"ate to The dolUded human mind re-
garding the indispensableness, useful.
ness or justice of capital punishment
IN order that said dclusions may de
S1rOy itself?
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
'SUch knowledge, in ny opinion.

'SUch knowledge, in ny opinion. i
this:
9Th" knowledge of what is man,
what his surrounding world, what his
destlny-honce, what man can and
must do and principally what he can
not and must not do.
Wherefore We should oppose cap.
ital punishment BY intoxicating this
knowledge to all men. and especially
to the hangman's managers and sym.
path!zers who w%rongfullv think they
are maintaining their position, thanks
only TO capital punishment.
Il know this is not an easy task.
The employers and approver5 Of
hansmen with the instinct Of self
preservation feel that this knowledge
will make impossible the maintenance
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
1.-THE Matrimonial Egg"

I.OndOn.-A new weekly paper
which has made it's appearance in
London recently and which is ex-
clusively devoted to the interests OF
women has started a novel feature in
English journalism. On II page, en-
titled The Matrimonial Egg" it re-
cords society engagements 'the
wbite) marriages Cthe yolk) and d.
yorces (the she'll. In its first mum
her there are seven of the first. six
OF the second and four Of the third
category-not a bad percentage 10 be-
gin with.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
Shortest Name in the World.

Cambridge. Mass.-Harvard has
been inveigled into the short name
contest. Aab, a special student of the
university, hailing from Bangkok,
Siam. is out with a challenge, open TO
the world. that says his Is the short
est OF names. Aab is a nomen. not a
cognomen, for it is his first, last and
middle name. all in one. Aah is salts
fed with his nalne
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
YounQster Travels Far Alone

C0NNMINNs, Mo.As~lS MosrNw, N-
teen years old, arrived in Columbia
the other night, completing the en-.
tire journey from his home in Mace
donia alone.
Attached to his coat was a card
which read: please, Mr.. direct this
little boy to the following address,
Columbia, Mo, L. S. a. He cannot
speak a word of English"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31

Forty years ago. queried Malachi.
Who be ye?"
Don't you remember Micky Doolin?
I'm he said the returned one.
"Micky Doolin as used to live on
the hill, behind Conley's saloon?"
The same Micky Doolin," replied the
newcomer pompously, but with an air
of suspicion.
"Oh, We are, are ye" suddenly yelled
the aged Celt. Then take that. We
s%palpeen," accompanying the remark
with a blow on Doolin's nose that
brought blood quickly.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
$4,000 to His Sixth Wife.

San Bernardino, Cal-Holdilg a
wedding gift of $4,000 IN one hand
and leading his bride, who was his
sixth. with the other, Edward ltlck-
lein, e~ighty-one years old, advanced
briskly to the altar and married his
stepbrother's widow, Mrs. Bette Hick-
lein, aged fifty-fve years. who arrived
an hour before from Texas.
C. l.. Thomas, justice of the peace,
made the couple husband and wife. Il
was his five bundreuth wedding.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
Meals Will Cost One Cent

the future, and it is their right 10 be
given every advantage to make them
competent to take up the vast works
which We will soon leave of"
The older children in the Bradford
are taught to wait upon the smaller
children, teaching them table Ell.
quette, etc. According to Miss Mac
MILAN, the proper handling Of
knife and fork at table are as much
manual training as being able proper
ly to WELD an Ak.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31

What's that for" howled noo,,r
enraged, but holding his hand from the
old man.
Its what l owe We for the rotten
turnlp We fetched me in the eve the
DAY We left for Ameriky," said tho old
lellow. i suppose ye'd forgotten that
en-, rake me word for it, I haven't"
illustrated Sunday Magazine.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
Malachi Delivered Blow to Micky
Doolin for Trick Played, After
Forty Years.

At a recent dinner Richard Croker
told a story of an lrishman who, max
ing his fortune in this country, thought
to revisit his old home in Ireland.
As he strolled about the little place
where he was born, 1t seemed to him
that things had not changed much
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
Old Man Had a Good Memory

since his departure for America. He
even observed al old chap, named Nal
achi Coughlin, sitting outside his cot.
tage, just as he had done in the old
days. 1t occurred to him that Mala.
chi must have attained the age of n
hundred by now. Going up to the old
fellow he said:
Hello, Malachi! You don't look a
day older than when I left this place
50 years ago!"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
Nearer the Ground.

Edwin, aged seven, noticed grandpa
trying to stoop to pick up something
which had fallen to the ground, sud
denly said: 20, wait, grandpa, let me
pick it up for you. l haven't SO far
to stoop."
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31
Not a Mans Excusc.

There may be several good rea>
sons why a man doesn't want to DO
yaccinated. but because they re afraid
that the scar will show when they're
at a party isn't one of them.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31

If you had an eye behind you, Won
might see more detraction at vorr
heels than fortunes before von-
Shakespeare.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31

casts the other end ever a
screen. Hidden players attach
some gift TO the free end Of the
rope, whereby often the best Of
FUN comes, because of the
prizes drawn.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31

nings." that IS. OF
year" Of ''mCnth' and
of day.
When the house
hold aWakens on Janu-
AIRY l every member Of
. the family seeks the
others to say "Omede-
TO" (Congratulation).
And then an exchange
of presents like our
Christmas giving be-
gins. The New Year
breakfast is a feast Of
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31

liz 'iO"NS vi iltl
brothers and sisters in spirit thrOng-
Ing in shops decorated with the most
attractive symbolic Communications
and displaying with great skill the
things most requisite for the coming
holiday time. At night, along the
fhoroughfares. the stranger would see
multltudes crowded about street booths
10 purchase the wares exposed there,
all which are significant Of the New
Year festival, and nothing else. Every.
where the venue and by-ways would
be Illuminated with rows of shining
lanterns, bearing trade devices and
family crests, all suspended from the
low V of stores and houses. Never
are the streets of Japanese cities and
towns so enliyened with gayly dressed
crowds and busy t%raffickers as during
the time of our own alien, yet kindred,
Christmas excitement.
The specific preparations for the
New Year begin about the thirteenth
OF the last month. Then, within every
house in the empire, a general clean
ing up takes place. A fresh, green
Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-31

w YEARS day among
the Japanese is not
only the day that be,
gins a year, but it is,
in the highest sense Of
the words, lie jour de
Ian day of the
year" Preparation for
it begins early in De,
cember. The Ameri,
can Christmas shopper,
if landed in Tokyo in
mid-December, would
find crowds 0f her
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-24
Nebraska
Mrs, Jane Douglass
is Dead at Seward
Woman Who Was Prominent Figure
in Financial and Philanthropio
Work Passes Away.

SEWARD, Neb.. Nov. 2S.-(special Mrs.
Jane Douglass, one Of the oldest ana
wealthiest women in Seward county and
one OF the directors OF the First National
bank Of Seward, died Of pneumonia at her
home here at p. m. today She was 81
years OF age. Funeral arrangements have
not yet been made.
Mrs Douglass was the widow Of the late
Stephen Ralph Douglass. For nearly a
half century the couple we're powerful IN
Nebraska banking and business circles.
They located first in Milford Neb and
later moved to Seward. They built the
Congregational church OF Seward and were
it's chief contributors
Since her husbands death Mrs. Douglass
had continued her charitable, philanthropic
and religious work. She rebuilt the Con-
gregauonal church, bought for It a 81 800
pipe organ and gave II an 5000 parsonage.
Up TO the time of her death she retained
title to the parsonage, but its use was free
to the church and her will gives the church
the title Mrs. Douglass heavily endowed
Gaes college at Neigh, Neb., and was one
Of the chief contributors to its support.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglass were childless.
Mrs. Douglass leaves a will which, II is
understood, bequeaths practically all her
estate to relatives in New York state and
New Jersey. Her husbands will left his
estate TO these relatives, subject to his
Widows life interest.
Mrs. Douglass took an earnest interest in
banking matters. She rarely missed a d.
rectors' meeting and her opinions were
highly respected by her fellow directors.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-24
OSBORNE CASE BEFORE JURY
Testimony introduced at Fremont "a
show Hector Was Last seen
with Him.

FREMONT Neb., Nov. Especial y
Some strong circumstantial evidence was
introduced in the district court yesterday
George W. Osborne. who is charged with
the murder OF John Hector, q peddler, I'm
this city last August Two witnesses were
introduced who identified Osborne as a
man whom they saw with Hector in front
Of the Brunswick restaurant between seven
and eight o'clock the night Of the murder.
One OF them talked several minutes with
osborne. The defendant told him that he
was waiting for Hector. that he had hit
the pike with him before, and had known
''the old geezer'' for some time. When
Hector came up the two had a few minutes
conversation. after which Hector went into
a saloon and brought out a half pine OF
whiskey, which he gave to Osborne. The
latter put 1t into his pocket and the two
men started south across the tracks. This
was the last time Hector was ever seen
alive.
This morning Sheriff Bauman was on
the stand. He testified to having had a
number Of conversations with the defend
ant at which County Attorney Cook and
Deputy Condit were also present, and that
Osborne finally on the Thursday following
the murder wrote out a confession. He was
cross-examined at great length by John
Graham for tho defense on the circum-
stances attending the confession. The de-
PENDANT objected on the ground that the
purported confession was obtained by
coercion.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-24
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
FOR GOOD ROADS FORMED
National Organization VIII Cooper
ate VITA Numerous state and
County Bodies.

WASHINGTON, Nov, 23.-The nation
wide movement for the harmonious devel-
opment OF the highway systems OF the
country was launched today In the forma-
tion OF the American Association for
Highway Improvement. The organization
win cooperate with the numerous county
and state associations for road improve
ments already In existence A general
plan will be drafted for the systematic
Improvement Of roads and efforts will be
made To secure uniform state legislation.
Logan Waller Page, director Of the United
States bureau OF public roads, was elected
president The other officers elected were:
W. o. Brown. president OF the New York
Central railroad. vice president; Lee Nc
Chung treasurer OF the United States,
treasurer. ana J. Il. Pennypacker IT.,
chief or road management In the depart
ment OF agriculture, secretary. Head
quarters have BEEN established here.