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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
NEW YEAR SOON GROWS OLD
Fades and Passes Just as All Things
EarthIy-Only the Spiritual
Endures and Satisfies.

The heart-breaking thing about the
New Year is that he becomes old. We
run out to meet him today as he ar
rives rosy-cheeked, and rudy, stamp
ing his feet, drawing off his gloves,
unbuttoning his great coat and shak
ing off the snowfiakes.s How buoyant
and hopeful he isl He mas his pockets
full of good things for us, we are sure.
How he wins US How he inspires us
We can do great things with him. He
is so different from the old fellow who
is gone. Poor Old Year! He got pref
ty stale toward the last. And then,
too, we got so we didn't feel just COM
Portable with him. He had seen so
many of our mistakes and failures. 1t
will be easier to make a new start
with him out of the way.
And now for this youngster! We
shall keep the past from him. He shall
not know q word of it. All his things
are new. Ours shall be also, new
words, new thoughts, new ways. Good
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
"Do You Feel a Little Warmer,
MinkyW

that the wind was gong to aim straight
in the direction of the open part OF
their cage.
Minky,' said Winky, we will shield
you from the cold
"T hate to make fuss about my
SELF said Minky, who felt very sick
but hated to admit it.
"You're not making fuss about
YOURSELF said Winky. We're making
a fuss about you, and it's not nearly
as much as you deserve
"'Not nearly agreed Tinky, the
anxious, worried look still in his little
eyes.
"sNot nearly agreed Tinky, the
anxious, worried look still in his little
eyes.
$50 both Wjnky and Tinky put their
arms around Milky and held him close
to them. They were each on either
side, while the cold wind blew around
them and whistled and sighed-oh so
very, very cold were those whistles
aud signs. Winky and Tinky never
said they minded the cold. They new
Ell said that their little bodies were
aching so hard. MOI They thought
only of Minky with the wonderful un-
selfishness which animals so often
have.
"Do you feel little warmer, Min
ky?' asked Wlnky.
'"Oh, do you feel wee scrap bet
terY asked Tinky.
Sand MinlSy, very plucky, though
feeling so sick, said:
eyes, dear little monkey friends, ]
do feel BETTER
'Not long after this the circus pa
rade came back to the circus tent.
"My but it has turned cold! each
one said. And then the circus owner
saw the monkeys. And ne saw that
they were shielding Minky from the
wind while it blew over them. 'Minky's
Sick he said to himself. And he took
the monkeys inside the tent where
the dinner was cooking and they sat
by warm stove and Minky was given
some medicine to make him well for
he had taken very bad cold.
"He was cured quickly and the cir
Gus gave up their performances for the
year, but Minky had been really saved
by his monkey friends, Winky and Tin
ky, who hadn't cared how the wind
seemed to go through them when they
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
NATURE SETS GOOD EXAMPLE
Discard Things That Hinder and Re-
tain Only That Which is Helpful
at Dawn of New Year.

Once again the New Year. opens its
door for us to enter in. The old year
is leaving us, and. If we are wise we
will let him take with him all the i'm
pedimenta that has handicapped us
during his reign. We will dismiss the
old mistakes and troubles and grudges,
and entering blithely into the New
Year, we will begin all over again.
Mother nature has set us an exam
pie which we will do well to follow.
All the good golden grain, the ripe
fruit and all other precious gifts she
has permitted us to garner and retain.
And then she proceeded to do away
with the rubbish. She put her spell
upon it and it withered and died, was
plbwed under and became the needful
fertilizer for another year.
And so all the good and swec+ and
beautiful things that the old year has
given us we are permitted to keep.
We may hold onto our successes, our
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02


by, old things; we greet the New Year.
But even before our New Years
resolutions are all made, the New
Years day grows old. Light the cam
dies; the day is dying. The shadows
deepen Our new New Year already
is taking on age. We cannot keep
him new; can we keep the new that
he brought to us? In the first gloom
of the new year we know that we
cannot. The guests of the day are
gone. The flowers we chose with such
care are whitening. The tempting
feast-fragments. Is there no abiding
thing? The old year was like this.
The old year was like it; the new
year will be and years and years
all alike. Time is their body; their
soul is eternity. And as they come
one after the other they bring to us
the gifts of their body and the gifta
of their soul. The one wakes old and
passes; the other endures and salts
Aes.
Welcome, New Year. Show us your
good gifts and help us to choose
among them such as you and the other
years that come and go can leave with
us until the perfect and amending
day.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02

Whenever I am starting out
Upon a fresh new year
l always stop to think about
The one no longer here,
The year that's dead l travel back
And let my memory run
In contemplation through the stack
OF things could have zone.
I check the deeds I meant to do
With those 1 did, and find
That 1 neglected quite a few
Real chances to be kind.
I learn the words 1 meant to say
To comfort and to cheer,
And yet postponed them for day,
I didn't speak that year.
And then to my disgrace find
That had I paused to smile
And do those little actions kind
I'd not have lost a mile.
learn now that the chance has gone
That I have missed lot,
For all those. deeds I could have done
AS easily as not.
And when at last life is through
And all my course is run,
In deep regret l shall review
The deeds I could have done.
And l shall wish I had to tell
Where nothing may be hid
The many things I could as well
Have done, vet never did.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
new YEARS DAY
Its Entrance Has Been CeIebrat-
ed for Many Years.
Custom of Calling Originated With
Dutch In New York State-Recep-
ton by President an Annual
Occasion.
"HE celebration of the entrance of
a New Yeaf has been observed


THE celebration of the entrance of
a New Year has been observed
with much ceremony in this
country ever since the beginning of our
Republic. President Washington was
the first to establish the custom, and at
bis Philadelphia residence, during
his first administration, it has been
noted that the day was observed with
appropriate ceremonies, with a light re-
past in the afternoon, including plum
cake baked by Martha Washington her.
self, and some temperance punch, made
chiefly of lemons and sugar, minus any
Intoxicating ingredients.
The custom of New Years calling
originated in this country with the
Dutch in New York state. The nature
of the day, the clearing off of old ac-
counts and the hopeful beginning of the
new trial of life, made New Years day
a day for the interchange of friendly
greetings, and in no country more than
in this has the friendly visiting crystal
lied into such a hard and fast business.
In the South in the early days, that
land where social life is as delightful
and spontaneous in it's growth as is the
flora of the region, New Years day
was formerly observed as the great
time for coming out. The debutante
burst into blossom on that day, the old
social world, like the huge family, met
to exchange greetings and good cheer.
On New Years day the observance
in Washington takes on the form of
: diplomatic and political observances,
when conveyances from all over the
House for their occupants to pay their
respects TO the president and other dig
nitaries of our government.
When the general custom of cele-
brating the first of the year by the
parading of New Year clubs in fan
tastic costumes, and similar jollifica-
tions began, it is difficult to say though
it does not appear to have antedated
the Civil war. AS for shooting in the
New Year, that seems to have been the
cuStom-and strikingly so in Philadel-
phia, ever since the revolution.
When John Adams moved into the
White House it was so incomplete that
there was very little attempt to OBJ
serve New Years day at the mansion,
nor in fact any other elaborate social
affair. The celebration, as now OBJ
served. began with the administration
of President Jefferson. On New Years
day in 1903 it is noted ION Saturday,
New Years day, the president was
waited upon by diplomatic characters,
the officers of the government, the
members of the legislature, and the
citizens generally. There were also
present a large number of ladies'" In
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
First Observed by Romans.

The observance of January l as the
beginning of the year we borrow from
the Romans. The first Christian en-
perors kept up the custom of New
Years observance, though it tolerated
and afforded the opportunity for idola-
'trous rites, but later the western
church opposed three days Of penitence
and fasting to the Pagan celebration
of January ca. D. 4S7). BY degrees.
however, the church, in the eighth CEN
fury, abrogated the fast, and the ear
lier and more congenial jovial customs
were gradually resumed and have con-
tinued to the present.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
To the Old Year
b. PATIENCE WORTH

We part, oh comrade, reluctantly;
Long have we trod the winding way,
Troublous, clouded, graysome-
Aye the Swallowed way.
Adieu We part, oh, comrade! Adieu
Upon thy way see thee going,
Bonded low meath thy burden;
Weighted, bowling, tired plodding
Heavy footed out upon thy newsome path
What hand shall welcome thee?
Adieu. oh comrade! We part
Thou upon thy way and upon mine.
l have seen thy brothers slain;
I have watched thine eyes streaming;
have seen thee stop upon thy way
To stanch some bleeding thing;
Smiling wisely, bending tenderly.
But thou art weary now
Bent and weary. Thy steps
Are stepped most falteringly.
Adieu! With thee upon thy path,
Oh. wilt thou take the memory
Of my hands clasp-the touch
OF one brother upon the others flesh?
Oh wilt thou then turn
And smile me back one smile of fellow
ship?
I see my aged form sink low
/ would burdenrthee not, save of my love;
Nor would I hang upon thy brow
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02

the child Of God in this New Year
only furnishes a fresh opportunity for
God to pour out the treasures Of his
unspeakable Gift! The promise to
supply every need of ours accord
ing to his riches in glory in Christ
Jesus" is not a promise for the life
to come, when all sorrow and sick
ness and temptation to evil will be at
an end, but 1t is promise made in
full view of every trial and tempta-
ton that we shall meet today. Let us
then count it all joy when we fall into
our difficulties and trials, confidently
remembering that along with each
of them we have-Jesus.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
Maxine a New Year.

The virtue of a New Year is not in
it's change of name. The first days OF
January are so exactly like the last
days of December that we have to
make a conscious and continued effort
to write the proper date on our letters.
If this is to be a New Year indeed,
we must make it so ourselves, putting
into it new hopes and ambitions, new
resolutions and effect. The virtue OF
the New Year is in the new aspiration
and persistence we bring to 1t.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02

1904 the report contains the informa-
ton that ''the affair was rendered more
agreeable by the accompaniment OF the
Marine and Italian bands."
At this second Jefferson reception
''some time after the company had
assembled, Colonel Burrows, at the
head of the Marine corps, saluted the
president, while the band of music
played the presidents march, went
through the usual evolutions in a mas
terly manner fired sixteen rounds in
platoons, and concluded with a gen
eral feu-de-joie.'
Naturally, with Dolly Madison as hos
tess, the New Year receptions during
her husbands administration were bril-
liant, and at the last one, prior to the
burning of the mansion, guest wrote
as follows: Nothing ever was wit
messed in Washington so brilliant and
dazzling"
Every president since then has cele-
brated the dawn of the new year as
an occasion for diplomatic courtesies,
as well as an opportunity to give the
public a. chance to visit the White
House and shake hands with the presi-
dent.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
THE NEW YEAR.

The New Year-where it leads and whom
concerning
We cannot see,
We scan the path and full our hearts OF
yearning
And mystery
What will it yield, this lane of sudden
turning, E
To you and me?
Grant we may find our share of sunlight
streaming
Come tears-come mirtb;
Where faith in man shall make lifes 5000
deeds seeming
or noble worth; -.
Give days our tell and give our night
sweet dreaming,
God OF the earth.
Give us the heart to tread this way, not
knowing
A vale or height;
Give us cheer that Ged. his grace be-
slowing,
May guide us right;
Grant we may love the others with US
going
Old Year-Good- Night!
Edith Livingston Smith, in Wisconsin
Agriculturist.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02

selves we grow sufficient within our
selves. We may have allowed people
to crowd upon us, have given to them
too much place and time, while we
have forgotten of avoided our own inn
perative concerns by fictitious inter
est in others. Alone in the desert
Christ confronted the struggle. Thus
we must ali do; and the sooner we
fight that crucial battle with self, and
the powers of darkness, the sooner are
we ready to do our life work, to enter
upon a career of service for God and
man.-Ida Ahlborn Weeks.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
Il New Year Reuene
New Year met me somewhat sad:

New Year met me somewhat sad:
Old Year leaves me tired,
Stripped of favorite things | had,
Baked Of much desired;
Yet farther on my road today
God willing, farther on my way.
New Year coming on apace,
What have you to give me?
Bring you seattle, or bring you grace,
Face me with an honest face
You shall not deceive me:
Be it good or i'll, be it what you will,
1t needs shall help me on my road
My rugged road to heaven, please God
-Christina G. Rossetf.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
One Moral Standard.

There is one moral standard for all
Christians-there has never been more
than one. The Commandments and
the Sermon on the Mount have been
always there. 1t was the wickedness
of men that ignored them in the tif'
teenth century-it is the wickedness
of men that ignores them now. Toler-
ate them in the past, and you will
come to tolerate them in present and
future.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02

A garland Of glistening green
That fiasheth scarlet bud.
Nay, 'twould be as skull
Wreathed of victor's laurel
A folly-crown upon thy most venerable
brow.
Adieu, oh comrade! Upon thy path!
The years that come are reckoning me;
But 1 shall recall thy burdens,
Thy sorrows, thy tendernesses.
Aye, and, oh, wilt thou turn upon thy
path
And smile smile of fellowship.
Oh, parting year?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02

zone of my pupils" said Buffalo
teacher, "could not understand why ]
thought that the following paragraph
from his composition on "A Hunting
Adventure lacked animation and eff
fectiveness:
"sPursued by the relentless hunter,
the painting gazelle sprang from Cliff
to cliff. At last she could go no fur
ther. Before her yawned the chasm,
and behind her the hunter."-Pitta-
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
Philosophical Rule the Best.

The world is holding its breath al
its entrance into new year. No one
is wise enough to foresee what that
year is going to hold. 1t will be a
year of surprises, and the only rule
for its conduct will be the old phil
Osophical one of hoping for the best
and preparing for the worst
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
Ruth Was Watching.

Mamma (sternly)-Harry, did You
eat the cake 1 left on the table?
Harry-No, mamma; did ], Ruth?
Ruth Gagged three)-Deed him didn't.
mamma. I saw him didn't.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
Findino Ourselves.

There are times when we need TO
be thrust back upon ourselves, to go
"apart into a desert place" Isolation
bios US find ourselves, and finding oEv-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
FIyino Away VIII Not Help.

Men sigh for the wings of a dove.
that they may fly away and be at rest.
But flying away will not help us. The
kingdom of God is within you.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
No Grounds for This.

Teacher-Your answer is about as
clear as mud.
Pupil-Well, that covers the ground
doesn't it?-Boys' Life.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
Finest of Fine Arts,

Life is the finest of the fine arts !:
it has to be learned with lifelong pa
thence; and the years of our pilgrim
age are all too short to master it tri-
umphantly.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
BEING Happy.

He that would be happy, let him
remember that there is but one way
it is more blessed, it is more happy,
to give than to receive.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
MoraI-pon,t BE Too Good.

1t certainly is embarrassing, with
New Years day coming around year
after year, to have no bad habits to
swear off,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
One Drawback. /.

One of the drawbacks of New Years
resolutions is that it cuts down the
batting average for the season.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
start Life Anew.

If your life was not what it should
have been last year, leave the old life
behind with the old year and start
anew.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
Keen a Few.

Reserve few good resolutions for
January thirty-first. You may need
them.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
Must Learn to obey

No man doth safely rule but he that
hath learned gladly to obey.-Th0mas
Kempis.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02


And gazed with wondering surprise
Upon a sight so fine and new,
He scarcely could believe it true.
He gazed again, and still that sight
Remained to fill him with delight,
Until he asked what might this be,
This thing of shining mystery.
what can it be?'' he eager asked,
AS still in that strange thing he basked
(Which is so bright and big and fine,
And feeling brings can't define.
But which my very heart makes glad,
The greatest feeling I've yet had;
And braces up my spirit Sc
With all it's warmth and shine and glow?
81 never saw such sight before,
And will see it Ger and DER?
Or will it vanish like a dream,
And not again upon me beam?
What is this rare and radiant thing
Which makes me want to dance and
sing?''
The one he questioned answered: "Son,
Don't you know what? Why, that's the
SUM-"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
Flower of Good Sense.

Good taste is the flower of good
sense.-A. Poincelot.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02
Make Several.

One good New Year resolution de.
serves another.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-01-02

what have you thereY
Merely a few New Year resolu-
tions."
s.I presume you wrote them down
so you wouldn't forget them?"
s"No. My wife made me write then
down so she wouldn't forget them"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-18
cHlcKAsHA WINS OVER ENID
TEAM BY SCORE t4-t.
(contlnued from PAGE one,l

Waite was knocked ont and the other
was for holding.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-18
RonfIres as warnlna sIanaI.

A little over a hundred years ago
bonfires on Scottish hiltops were the
recognized warning signal for The
threatened invasion Of the French.
There was no more enthusiastic vol
untecr than Sir Walter Scott The
great novelist writes that "thc neccs-
sity Of the present occasion (S0O
has kept almost every Individual,
however Insignificant at his post. God
has left us entirely to our own means
OF defense for we have not above
ono regiment Of the line in all our an
cient Kingdom In the meanwhile we
are doing the best we can to prepare
ourselves for contest which is not
far distant A beacon light communi-
cating with that Of Edinburgh castle.
Is just erected in front Of our quiet
cottage. My field equipage is ready,
and I want nothing but a pipe and
scnur bartch6n to convert me into
a complete hussar."
While Sir Walter and his lady were
on a short excursion to the lake dis
trict. in 1905, the beacon fires were
needlessly lighted. He rode fully 100
miles within - hours to the place Of
rendezvous, only to find ulat the alarm
had bown over. 4
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-18

on TIE deiensiye, So hard was tho
tackmg that the speed of the Enid
lachiield was decraa ed twenty-five
pcr cent after the first quarter. The
Grady county lads far excelled the
Enidites in tack,ing. Enid excelled
however, in running Interference,
their Interference being equally as
good at the Interference used by the
Oklahoma City team
The effect Of low. hard tackling
was seen during tho last half of the
same, when Enid made three co tiy
fumbles which were recovered byethe
locals coryell. Orchard ana wash,
burn were especially taetful In The
recovering Of Enid fumblos two Of
which We're in punts.
Chickasha suffered the loss of 30
Yards in penalties. The 10 yard pen
atty was imposed in a critical mo-
ment when Enid was threatening toI
score The locals tightened, however
and gained possession Of the ball.
Enid was not penalized one yard
although Coach Powers and his men
complained several times Of ru'o yio-
iations.
It was oyerconlidence that gave
Enid the second touchdown Their
aerial attack had the locals been
going il normal form, would have
been easily broken up, as Enid show
ed weakness in passing.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-18

some birds are awfnlly curious and
want " know what is going on. SO
II they see n human being in their
neighborhood they viii come close to
investigate and perhaps TO scold, and
ono of these birds is he Kentucky
warbler says The American Forestry
association, Washington This bird
has a preference for woods which are
low and damp, and ordinarily keeps
well within the depths OF tangled
thickcts. This bird, which ranges
throughout the eastern United States,
spends its winter in northern South
America
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-18

4 mlserly landlord was going round
collecting his rents The other day, At
one house he was greatly Interested in
little girl who watched open-mouth-
ed ana open-eyed the business Of pay
ing over the money and accepting the
receipts.
He patted her on the head and
started TO search his pockets saying !:
Il must see what ] have got for you"
After searching his pockets for some
time he nt last brought out from .rc-
mote corner a peppermint
AS he handed II TO the girl he said !;
"And now what will You do with
thatg'
The little girl looked at IT. then AT
him, and replied: "Wash a."