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The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
NEW YEAR PROPHETS
BY GENE MORGAN.

A NYBODY who says the world is
N growing less. superstitious must
be talking through the ear-faps
on his cap. Every year about
January l old Superstition shows it.
self like a hydra-headed monster in
laundry basket.
To be sure, we no longer take out
insurance against ghosts, and If we
saw a hobgoblin we'd want to know
why the hotel bellhop had grown those
whiskers. But there is one kind of su-
perstition which we seem to be giving
more encouragement all the time, and
that is the New Year prophecy.
The true New Year prophet is
cheerful soul. II he ever has any good
news concerning the future, he care
fully nibbles at the hard ground with
a pickax and buries it. Bad news,
calamity, disaster. catastrophe, misfor-
tune, these are the staple groceries
in which he prefers to deal. And he
has such a clever way Of making good,
too.
The New Year prophet wears crepe
to work every morning while he is put
ting his forecast in order. He also
wears long, sad face and murmurs
ever and anon that the worst is yet to
come. He does this in order that the
world may grow pale and weep and
shudder. He just loves to show us
| good time.
The way the New Year prophet
makes good on his predictions Is to
promise every kind Of bad luck there
| is, from famine to earthquake. and
from plague to war. AS this globe OF
ours has been enjoying a steady diet of
| these things since the year one, the
New Year prophet rarely goes wrong,
but just waves his printed predictions
upside down and MARBLES, 81 told you
| So" He is a sure-thing player, and
rarely takes a chance that is not a six
ty-to-one shot.
For instance, he is safe in forecast
ing typhoon in the Pacific ocean.
which will destroy shipping, but he
wouldn't dare to predict that James
Jones will pay me that ten dollars he
owes me before the first of next April.
He finds 1t advisable to foresee fam
ihO III olu iuluG Sdll udp
pen IN China-but under no circum-
stances would he venture the belief
that I will surely keep all the good
resolutions I made on the evening of
December 80.
If thought the pay was steady and
the hours not too long for indoor
work. 1 believe I should like to take
up the work of making New Year
prophecies. For the benefit of enter
prising employers, looking for bright
young men at this kind of work, 1
have made up few sample prophecies
for 1915. 1t makes no difference how
1 did it, whether by crystal gazing or
by scientific methods. However, 1 ac-
complished it without the aid of
medical almanac or other weapons.
For instance predict that:
In January the days will be little
longer, and ice will be cheap. On jan
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

forth, you step out on the right foot,
with your eyes to the front. Decide
that when old Dame Fortune meets
you you'll be plugging along the
she won't have room to sidestep YOU
Be your own prophet and predict n
year Of hard work and square living
for yourself. You should worry while
the professional New Year prophet is
dusting off his shelf-worn stock of
plaques, famines, volcanic eruptions
and crop failures in Helgoland
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Kaiser Wilhelm left Berlin to return
to the battle front over the protests
of his physicians.
In Belgium and northern France the
Germans and the French, British and
Belgian allies are contesting the mud
fields foot by foot.
After two weeks of fighting in an
effort to maintain their hold on the
Belgian coast, the Germans are re-
ported to have evacuated Middlekerke,
north of Ostend.
Fighting continues in Galicia, but
here, as along the East Prussian from
tier, the Russians seem to have been
successful in holding back the Austro-
German forces.
A London report Tuesday says
heavy fighting is taking place on both
eastern and western fronts, but with
out producing any material change in
the positions of the opposing armies.
The Berlin Neuesten Nachrichten
prints a Brussels dispatch estimating
the losses of the allies in the User
campaign at 215,O 900 up to Dec. 1. This
total is made up of $4,000 Belgians,
$4,000 English and $4,000 French.
The German war office gave out a
statement in which it is related that
on Dec. 10 German troops were sue
cessful at Nieuport, occupied certain
Anglo-Indian positions in Belgium and
captured artillery and 27O prisoners,
and that trenches at Notre Dame de
Lorette were taken from the enemy.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

A NYBODY who says the world is
n growing less. superstitious must
be talking through the ear-faps
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

uary 81 the coal bin will be empty,
and father will chop up parlor chair.
The month of February will take
only 20 days to pass given point
The weather will be extremely unset
tied, and when it is not stormy the
air will be quite calm. In spite of the
cold spell cherry trees will bloom
windows.
March will come in like a lamb
afraid of waking the baby, and will go
out like II leonine monster who has
Just overheard someone say he is get
ting fat. Rain checks will be issued
in case this condition is reversed.
There will be some warm weather,
which will cause optimists to throw
aside their overcoats and shed their
thick, prickly underwear. When the
cold spell gets back on the job, fresh,
frozen optimist will be one of the del
icacies of the season.
April will come in with a sore foot,
having kicked an opera hat which COM
pletely surrounded brick. April will
be wet month, and early umbrella
crops will be reported from many re-
gions. Fido will here begin to shed
his fur.
Now there's prophecy which shows
what / can do. To confess up, there
was nothing difficult about it. For any
one can be New Year prophet. Yes.
without any previous training, or ex-
perience in sending spirit messages
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
collect, instead OF paying the boy your

collect, instead or paying the boy your
self.
It's safe to prophecize that in the
year 1915, A. D., you are going to keep
most of your good resolutions if you
made them in an earnest, sincere, try
again spirit, instead of in the usual,
automatic way, like giving a fence it's
annual whitewash. It's safe to fore
cast that you'll keep out of debt, that
you'll increase your bank account and
that you'll get your gilt-edged license
for health and happiness-if, instead
of growing dreamy-eyed and wonder
ing what the New Year may bring
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
A New Yeara WIah

To become an expert at forgetting.
just to forget all the unkind acts, the
deep wrongs. the mean words, the
bitter disappointments-j let them
go. forget them-the memory will be-
come quick and alert to remember the
things worth remembering. the mind
given to beautiful things, worthwhile,
things. and to remember always that
am in the presence OF God, this is
my desire for the New Year.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
Good-by. Old Year

Peace to it's ashes! Peace to it's
embers of burnt-out things; fears,
anxieties, doubts all gone! 1 see
them now as thin. blue smoke hang
ing in the bright heavens of the past
Year, vanishing away into utter moth.
ingness. Not many hopes deceived,
not many Illusions scattered, not many
anticipations disappointed, but love
fulhlled, the heart comforted. the soul
enriched with ffections.-Longfellow
The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26
HeIpi

Gentleman offers to exchange a,
christmas present for something use
full"
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04
ROOSEVELT.

London Saturday Review: The
truth is that "the Colonel" as Amer
ican Journalists love to call him, is
not man to be measured by an inch
tape. He belongs to the tiny minority
for whom our common rules fail to
provide. His type was never very
common, and is now all but extinct
Old Greece and old Rome knew the
breed well. 1t throve in Renaissance
Europe. EliZabethan England pro-
duced some of it's finest examples. It's
main characteristic is an Unsuitable
appetite, an immense gust for life. 1t
wants to taste every experience, and
Is not content with a sip only, but
quaffs the goblet in great satisfying
gulps. 1t finds equal joy in a court
cabal in the sober work of administra-
tion, in the writing of a sonnet, in
the fighting of a duel. In fact, all life
is a duel to a man of this kidney.
lie attacks a Greek philosopher in
the same spirit that he fights a Span
ish galleon, or leads an exploring party
through antres vast and deserts idle.
And he will never lack adventures He
will find them at the capitol, or at the
British local government board in the
twentieth century just as easily as on
the Spanish main in the sixteenth. In
most strange modern guise Mr.. Roose-
Welt is really spiritual brother to
Walter Raleigh. He is gentleman
adventurer to the finger tips. Fight
ing Spaniards in Cuba, or trust bosses
in New York, hunting big game in
East Africa, flourishing the big stick"
of the Monroe doctrine, giving Bull
Moose" election speeches for three
months on end, decreeing the "nu
spelling" or laying down the law to
, race suicides" Mr.. Roosevelt is the
fighting man, with whom the joy of
battle is the main thing, and the
casus belli a matter of secondary i'm
portance. 1t is the tame, home-keep-
ing mans failure to understand the
Roosevelt type that leads him to giggle
over foolish depreciation of the ex-
presidents exploring feats. The Scots,
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04
MY PRoDiGAL.

Last night the boy came back to me
in Dreams
The little lad. with merry eyes OF
Came from far wanderings in stranger
lands;
away!
Unsoullied by the worlds wild strife
he came
just as he went; and with his brave
young eyes
Mocked at the shadows by the great
world flung,
Facing the future with pleased
surprise.
And I. grown old through patient
grief and pain,
Give him sweet welcome to my home
and heart;
Laughed at his laughter as he dried
my tears,
more should part.
SO, binding him with gentle cords of
love,
Lest he grow restive and away
again.
followed where his wayward foot
steps led,
And in his JOY. my heart forgot its
pain. mn
But ali too soon the cold gray dawn
dispersed
The slumber- mists from my sad
eyes away;
My empty, aching arms again out
stretched,
j was too grieved, too desolate to
pray.
For on my shrinking heart, like
thrusts of sword,
The cruel truth beat out this sad
refrain:
''The boy long wandered among men,
Is lost:
Only in dreams win he come back
again.
Helen Watts -Mcyey.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04
SOME MORE PROMISES.
(Billings Journal.)

N6luln&3 JOuf04l.}
At the last session Of the legisla-
tive assembly there was a perfectly
good workmen's compensation meas-
ure introduced. We say perfectly
good advisedly because the measure
was not radical enough to suit the
ultra radicals. while it was not CON
servative enough to suit the other fell
lows consequently. it must have been
all right.
NOW there was no more reason why
e workmen's compensation measure
should not have been enacted by the
legislative assembly at the last ,es-
sion than there was why such meas
ure should not have been enacted By
some other legislative assemblies at
previous sessions. but certain inter-
ests. principally the Amalgamated
Copper company. and its auxiliary
concerns. did not want any work
mems compensation laws. but instead
wanted the old time privilege OF
smashing men up In its mines its
smelters and Its other plants at no
particular expense to itself. The in
terests may not have spent money, lots
OF 1t, to defeat such . relief measure.
but 1t is q fact that someone did, and
no one has yet charged that the money
used for defeating a workmen's com
pensation act was donated out OF their
hard earned wages BY the worker. in
mines, smelters and lumber camps.
That measure which was defeated
by the interests was q perfectly good
measure. but that cannot altopether
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04

the Shackletons, the Seton Karrs-
approved and accredited voyagers in
the inane-these everybody under
stands. But that a man shall one day
be head of a great state. another day
eagerly writing articles and books, and
yet again setting out light heartedly
on a dangerous excursion into the un-
known" Jumping at the chance
this is something quite outside ordi-
nary experience, and the assumption
that the exploration was after all
nothing but mere holiday jaunt is
welcomed by people who feel their
own manhood affronted by Mr.. Roose-
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04
The Way They Take It

be said Of the present bill pending for
determination by the electorate. Ii il
declared to be inequitable BY the biz
employers Of labor, and the other fol-
lows concede that TO nay the least II
is drastic. In other words, It IL tar
from being the bill which the interests
might have had. for when the 1ntsf-
ests defeated the will Of the people
and turned down the demand Tor 4
workmen's compensation law, thS peo-
pie turned around and handed to the
interests a bill which made them
squirm.
The Tribune does not say that the
pending bill is not proper nor does 1t
say that 1t is--that matter the reo-
pie will have to decide for themselves,
but it does say that II the pending bill
is inequitable and II ii should be .en-
acted, the interests will have thefn-
selves alone to blame.
We are solemnly assured that II the
people will turn down the pending
measure, the company will intro
duce perfectly proper bill at the next
session OF the legislature Just what
! the company would call q perfectly
! proper bill we have no means OF know
ing, nor do we know whether In tho
/, light Of past performances "the COM
pany" may be trusted to introduce any
/, sort of workmen's compensation
bill that would meet with the sane
tion OF any considerable number Of
the common people who have no con-
Germ with "the company" other than
to take dictation from 1t in the way Of
politics and OF legislation, at least
who have been forced SO to do in the
past. -
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04

Miss r. Tennyson Jesse. the paet's
brilliant grandniece and the author of
the much discussed milky Way" has
caused her friends some alarm. Since
sailing from New York. July 80. to
Haiti, no word has been had Of her
and many eforts have been made to
reach her. It is thought that she may
have met difficulties on the way.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04
COLD OR SOUR STOMACH
REGULATE YOUR BOWELS 10 Gents

Y Sick headaches! Always trace them
to lazy liver; delayed, fermenting food
in the bowels or sick stomach. Poi
sonous, constipated matter, gases and
bile generated in the bowels. instead Of
being carried out Of the system, is re-
absorbed into the blood. When this
poison reaches the delicate brain tis-
sue it causes congestion and that dull,
sickening headache. Cascarets will re-
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04

move the cause by stimulating tho
liver, making the bile and constipation
poison move on and out Of the bowels.
Often taken tonight straightens you
out by morning--a 10-cent box will
keep your head clear, stomach sweet.
liver and bowels regular, and make
you feel bright and cheerful for
months. Children need Cascarets. too.
ADV.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04

Sizing UP Uncle Sam" by George
Fitch, is collection OF his we'll known
vest-pocket essays dealing with every
thing American from Niagara Falls to
Connie Mack. The various chapter
headings are State. Leading Citizens.
Political Phenomena, Chief Products,
Fads, Dragging Points, Pastimes.
Drawbacks and others just as good.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04
Words are mems daughters, but
Gods sons are things.
Samuel Madden.
WASTED AMERICA.

There resides in Missoula a little old
lady who learned farming in Den
mark, where intensive methods have
made. a garden spot of the land. This
little old lady owns a local tract,
which she makes to bloom like the
rose. She is disposed to sigh over the
wasteful farming methods employed in
America. In Denmark, she points out.
every inch that is arabic is put to
use; we waste tracts that would be
considered rich elsewhere.
This thought, of course, is not new
with the little old lady who lives in
Nissoula. Among others who have had
1t are the workers in the United
States department of the interior, who
Just now are engaged in campaign
to train Americans to use some Of this
waste land
congress, the United States bureau of
education has just begun the work OF
investigation and promotion of home
and school gardens. The new divi-
sion will be under the direction of a
specialist in school gardening and an
assistant, both Of whom are to be ex-
perts in this form Of educational activ-
ity.
BY means of personal visitation,
correspondence, and publications it Is
the plan of the bureau to CO. operate
with school boards throughout the
United States in school and home gar
den work. Investigation has already
shown that many cities have made
considerable progress in school gar
dens, but practically no information
on. the subject is available. The first
task Of the division will be to supply
this information.
Eventually it is hoped that every
city school will have a teacher en-
ployed IL months in the year who
knows gardening both theoretically
and practically. During the school
year this teacher will give instruction
in nature study, elementary science
and gardening in the morning and in
afternoon direct the gardens at the
homes. Of the children. During the
summer vacation the teacher will de-
vote all the time to directing the gar
den work,
The close supervision that such q
teacher will be able to give will in
sure greater success for the gardens
and will familiarze the children with
the problems of plant production and
utilization. BY a cooperative method
all surplus vegetables and fruits will
either be marketed or canned and pre-
served for sale.
In announcing the new work, DR.
Claxton declares:
School gardening will develop
habits of industry; an apprecia-
ton OF the value of money as
measured in terms of labor:
and realization that every man
and woman must make his or her
own living, and contributs to the
welfare of the community
Experiments already have
shown that with proper direction
an average child can produce in
an eighth Of an acre Of land from
$50 to 800 worth Of vegetables.
This would add more to the sup
port OF the family than could be
purchased with the same childs
wages working in factory. shop,
or mill.
'If children can contribute to
the families support while in
school it will make it possible for
them to attend school three or
four years longer than they now
do. This is thing more and more
desirable. since education for life
and citizenship can not be OBJ
tained before the age Of IL"
.F Ii
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04

velt's extraordinary power OF body
and mind. There is no excuse for
maintaining this grudging and foolish
attitude.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04

The czar has prohibited the sale of
Alcohol at the front. Poor old ]. B.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04
The Latest Books

"Bambi," by Marjorie Benton Cooke,
is dedicated in the characteristically
sprightly manner of the author to
"Bambi. with thanks for being her
self" Which somehow or other seems
to sum the whole thing up. Bambi 10
one Of the most lovable. delightful and
altogether engaging young persons
quite a long while. There is ever a
radiance Of loveliness and cheer about
her. One feels that there must be
somewhere in real life just such a
person. and that perhaps she even
wrote the book herself. To relate her
Iactivities would hardly show the books
charm, though she does many wonder
fully, absurd and clever things. She
| marries a young genius while he is in
an ecstacy Of temperamental abstrac-
ton and he is later astonished to find
| that he Is married and that Bambi Is
his wife. Her father, the distrait old
professor, is excellent1y done. Bambf
wins prize with a lovely story she
writes all about herself and 1t Is re-
| markably successful, growing into a
serial. When it is proposed that the
novel be put on the stage she arranges
that Jarvis, her temperamental hus-
band, shall do the dramatization, but
| she conceals from him her authorship.
| Annoyed at Bambi's friendliness for
her editor, Jarvis turns to the author
ess whose novel he Is dramatizing, a
lady he has never seen and little sus-
poets to be Bambi. A warm affection
springs up between Jarvis and the
specter lady and Bambi very cleverly
contrives to sustain her end of it. The
| book is chiefly remarkable for the vi
tality of the author, who has filled
| it with a wonderful measure Of love
and cheer and wisdom. The story has
| appeared serially in one Of the current
magazines and has found such great
popularity that it will be eagerly
sought In book form. doubleday,
Page & Coz
Between the Old World and the
New" by Guglielmo F'errero. a moral
and philosophical contrast" Is a study
OF the variances and antagonisms be-
tween old day civilizations and the
newer civilization with It's quite diff
ferent aims and ideals. There are
problems dealt with and profound
ones, but 30 gracefully handled in
dialogue form as to give them an easy
informality and make most readable
what might otherwise have been too
scholarly for general reading. The
book is of great Interest for its travel
and romance as well as for historic
fact and philosophy. (G. P. Putnam's
sons.)
/ ~ O. D7 ~
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-10-04

Mr.. Fitch's humor is just as American
as anything he discusses. II we have
a national sense Of humor 1t is dis
played in this book. "Sizing Up Uncle
Sam" contains some information, but
1t would be tactless to take It too
seriously. There are many smiles and
boisterous laughs in its pages (Fred-
erick A. Stokes Coz
The Spring Lady, who is the heroine
In the book OF that name by Mary
Brecht Pulver. finds 4 real happiness
i In the quiet contentment OF the pleas
ant little village OF Sweethills. The
wearying monotony of vain and arti-
ficial life. with q business engrossed
husband had SO distracted her that che
determined to break away and try and
find mode Of life more to her liking.
In an old fashioned, abandoned DWELL
ing she makes her home and as 1t was
at that season that she first appeared
among them the natives call her the
Spring Lady. There is pretty little
love affair In the village and our hero
Inc plays pleasant part In 1t. The
| many typical village characters are
introduced and every one OF them u
quite satisfactory. The Spring Lady
discovers in the end that from the
pampered and fretting wife Of q hard
working business man she has become
a real happy woman and one Of some
usefulness. While the general theme
Of the book reveals no great original
ity. 1t has fresh charm and offers a
wholesome sort Of philosophy. It is
highly preferable to many books that
are being rushed off the press today
and should find many readers. (Bobbs-
Merrill company ~
G. p. Putnam's Sons have recently
published Philosophy What Is 1T"
a volume from the pen Of F. B. Jevons,
Lift. d. In the clearest and most un-
technical terms the author has dis
cussed his theme and in such way
as to be readily understood by the
most unscholarly OF readers. The
five essays in the book were originally
delivered by the author as lectures and
are for the first time put into book
form. As pointed out In the preface,
philosophy is a concern Of the aver
age man and is of serious Importance
not SO much to answer the question In
the title as to bring out the meaning
Of the question.
In his recently published autobi-
ography, s. S. Mcclure tells Of uni
versity professor who upon. seeing In
McClures Magazine an account Of
Marconi's discovery OF wireless teleg-
raphy wrote to Mr.. Mcclure in this
wise: avoid announcing such absur-
dities and thereby save your magazine
from appearing ridiculous"
Dancing" say The Kinneys in
their book on The Dance is, in ef-
feet. music of the eye. The
equivalent OF long and short notes 10
found in steps of varying length, musi-
! cal phrases are to the mind the same