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‘ R, 'ME custom of celebrating the New gm\ Xear by. l'ea\[ing,be,hin(l_in thonr}' ‘, % at least, onels g:ét pernicicus habit B or ' besetting sin, may be hackA g " neyed, but it certainly is not enSR tirely relegated to the limbo -of \"/?l’f things f(*rf-;‘;:f"l:«é:,l or cutworn. Some B' ~:i§} A tole New hoor's day, when a S «dyh & guiet moment in the day's swirl /3N “affers tire for thought, there will E :\\ be a basty |taking stock of the ' - 4 vear that is |zone, a recounting ()r_: : ¥ errors and fgilures, a silent prom-ise-that thisior that will n¢t occur again. . And'what dees it all ampunt to, affer all, this old ‘cgg;é;};gg’iﬁf revamping threadhare reso.hrtimm or seleciing new.ones? The cynic will smile and say that it is all a waste of effort, a flash in the pan..a baif-hearted glossing over of mistakes by wordy' and none teo sincer premises of reform. The Humerist will have his|little fling in cartoon and witi>—quin and jest. He will gurgle with the ;xardonioygh?e of Reobin Gocldfeilow over the~folly of mortals apd find in everf resoive new subject for Taugitfer. From the pulpit on - Sunday will sound the admonition of, the minister and the moralist. Tiey will take good: resolutions seriously, and set upon them |the Istamp of divine approval. ‘And whether the wry: sneer of the cynic. the mccking grin of | the humorist, or the approvihg smile of the morglist prophesy the fate of the resolutions and their jmaker, it will be.true that even the most momentary impulses toward better things will not bs.entirely wasted. . ‘There wasg a time when. |in the simple faith of chiidhood, réu cet down in black and \'vhiteb_vour promises to‘;do better. On the first page of your new diary, a’yearly Christmps present, you wrote in your best Spencerian Hand—we knew Jaone better in those da2ys—something like this: “During this year I resolve not| to lcse my temper; 00l to be saucy at home; [nct to put off doing ihe things I dislize; to read|my Bible every day.” Uirect, sounding blows werg these on the chain mail of vour hLesetting sins|of a quick temper, a wickedly sharp little tongue, procrastination, and :hildis: irreligion. Behind flosed doors, lest any °ne see him in so meek a moment, Brother Dick was scribbling earnestly: “I promise myself not i 0 be late for dinner‘, not o‘f.-')rget to wash my 2éck and ears, not to get [in debt to father fot my allowanece, and “not to play hookey a Smg)([\ day.” Of course you' failed, bo‘t‘l&y‘ou and Dick! BAL i PRGN eo T e e I L &

MM AUA T Lae HLue - qlary had its new gilt_dimmed or .the soft penciling of the latter ‘had blurred ftself into unreproachful illegibility. But the effort wasn’t altegether wasted, and there were fewer fits of temper and cleaner neck an( ears tham— weuld . otherwise 7mave been. . We zrown-ups miss. as we get Qlder_-so'mle of the past ang gone aids to New Year's resolves. The rlzl_\' was once upon & time more marked by Dleasant social customs. Only in officialdom is New Year's now a state. iy day of ceremonial. But 1t is not hard to re. cdll that g decade or two ago thpre-.still sur vived Some of the dig nity and good cheer that had attached itselr te the day. Before the Christmas fruit cake had all been devoured, or the stone ‘jars of small cakes sufferod too severely from the in roads of rapacious children, preparations for New Year’s day were well under way, ° " Children were not included -in “this celebra-

tion. This was essentially the festival of their elders. - Orders te keep from under foot were rigidly enforced, and did [you wish to see the fun no place remained but the second-story landing, which gave som what.inconspicuously upon the hall below, with a strained view of the big parlors, and non of the ‘dining room beyond. That it was there and in full working. order was evidenced |by a keen sense of smell e : e X

It was alwdys great fun to wander up and down the principal resid nce streets as noon drew near, to find out |[who were to be at home and who were not. A basket tied tc the door knob with zay red|ribbons said, for all the world to hear: “We are not receiving today.” If yon were a boj and daring, later-ip thesafternocn you stole up on the step to peep in and dlscover, by the number of cards within, the respective popuis ity of village maids and matrons. Wherever| the door lacked the bagket, you knew that| behind. the drawn shades there was the. soft :iow of candles. or the yelicw glare of gas poor substitute for sunlight_ ¥n snow, but presumably kinder to complexichs and gcwnas [just a trifle passe. And you Eknew that in|each house, subject only to trifling variations of background, there would be enacted the same scenes. :

laio the front docr that opened at the first touch of the bell passed a fluctuating stream _ of men in holiday attire] There were elderly beaux a-plenty in broadcloth that was brushed to the point- of perfection, smart young danAles, eporilng ths newest fashion in ties: awkward beginners not quita used to the i length of thelr frock copats—we called them Prince Alberts in the days when New Year’s calls were fn vogzue—and a sprinkling of sub-stantial-iooking business| men paying homage to the established custom of society. Rverybody who was anybody ip “our town” paid his devoirs to the incoming vear by making the rounds of his friends’ homes. - .Once inside, there was the neat maid or solamn butler to receive tha caller’'s card and help him with overcoat, hat and cane,;and then a dash for his hostess and her daughters and friends under the chandeliers with the prism

Hunter Who Has Millions

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drops. “Happy New Year” resounded on all sides. 'ln the course of the afternoon the indefatigable had seen all their friends, had sampled the choicest types of Christmas baking, had toasted again and again the New Year in punch of varying strength and pungency, or substituted . coffee in homes where temperance principles were popular. They had said pretty things to popular dames in'the stimulating atmosphere of holly and green wreaths, and had matched wits with fascinating damsels in the dangerous vicinity of mistletoe that still boasted some berries. It was all very gay, very informal, and very homey. -At no other time or an no other occasion did the holiday hilarity reach so high a piteh. “I'd like to do it ali over again,” is the testimony of one stately lady, whose home twenty years ago was the scene of yearly New Year's receptions. “No other social function on my calendar was such fun for the guests and so little. trouble for the hostess. The decorating had been done a week before, and a few fresh flowers were all that were needed. Given bright lights, a dozen pretty girls to help entertain, the simplest cakes, and plenty of mildly exhilarating punch made from a recipe that my Kentucky grandfather declared harmless, and success was assured. When six o’clock came you had seen all the nice men of your acquaintance undisturbed by the usual influx of other women, and had sent them away at peace with the world in general and full of the spirit of neighborliness.”

Meanwhile, upstairs in the library window seats curled. the family small fry, watching the procession as it passed, commenting with juvenile frankness on the toilets of tlie callers, counting the visitors as they came, listening to the hum of voices downstairs, the girls hugging close to the sash, the boys making daring detours to ‘“‘peek” through the balustrade, returning to report what young ladies were sitting on the steps with what young men, and even, in some cases, what they were saying. Lenger tiptoeing prowls, down the back stairs to the lair of a friendly cook, led to quick and Jubilant returns with offerings of cake and claret cup, wherewith the hours might be be-

York with it——-and with “his brother. They spent money in the lavish—bnut not in the foolish-—setyle of Pittsburg millionaires, and Paul, particularly, seemed to get a deal of sane fun out of his. Also he found time to increase that $20,000,000 to $30,000,000, while he was achieving no little fame as a yachtsaman, turfman, polo player, motorist, and all-round athlete, He has shot all over this country,

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guiled wuntil six, when twinkling street lights warned the callers to retreat. Not @ serigus. way to start the New ¥Year: NoO; 5m a friendly 'mm, that left hostesses and callers with a glow of humanu friendliness to last as warmth for many a day. And if seriousness were lacking, the csame decade that enjoved New Year’s calling found itself also at one with the custom of watch-night service. For, in “our town,” as in yours, mayhap, it was the thing to spend the closing hours of the old vear in the quiet seriousness of prayer andsacred song. Children had their share .in this. for fathers and mothers had not in that simpler time !ﬁearned to rfear the giving of definite religious instruction to their sons and daughters. It was clear and plain that a child must be trained in the way he should go, and watch night was a part of that training. And, indeed, no youngster ever tried to beg off. There was first of all the joy of doing the unusual and the fun of sitting up past kis bedtime. So you hied yocurself to the nursery couch or the sitting-room lounge, after a hot supper, an old-fashioned winter supper of saugage and fried potatoes or scalloped oysters and mufiins, and took a long, long nap. At half-past ten, father waked you, tucked you into cap and overcoat, and the famiiy party started out under the cold stars, snow crunchtng under foot, to the nearby church. ' Not so very long ago the wyiter came across an old chromo, of the sort that looks, in a dim and favorable light, like a fairly,decent oil painting. In its day it had doubtless been the chief ornament of a well-furnished. comfortable parior. Now it cluitered the window of a second-hand shop, dingy and out of sorts with fate.. Bw even in the unflattering light of a dusty show window, it had a certain charm for the one who fournd it. It was the picture of a watch-night service, such as she had once known so well. Bright moonlight flooded the scene, bringing out in sharpened detail the snow-laden boughs of drooping elms and the Gothic spire of a small stone church. From stained-glass windows and opened door came streaming the werm glow of shaded gas jets. From village streets flocked men and women and children, stopping to say a word of greeting as they paszed into the vestibule. The spell of the picture took her, with the speed of the magic carpet or of the seven-leagued boots, back to the Xlew Year’'s eves of her girlhcod. : ) So she had wajked with father and mother and a sleepy smail brother. Just so the treer had looked in the frosty moonlight. And just as warm and softly glowing had been the stone church, thyough whose open doors came the resonant strains of the great organ. She remembered with aching vividness the faces

‘Canada and Mexico, and to chronicle the animals he has stalked would be to catalogue the wild beasts of this continent. Yet he has never been a “game hog,” and has always “played fair” with bhis brute antagonists. - He Is about to start on a game trail that will take Him nearly around the world, for Paul Rainey, much as he loves the “society end of millionaire business,” never stays in sound of a trolley car more than a few months—he “hikes” for the jungle, the desert, or the forest. The trip he is now

planning will take him across Africa, Australia and up into India. . Paul Rainey is the type of a rich man’s son much more prevalent than many people supposed. Supplied always with more money than most men ever see, he has been called “America's greatest spender,” but he has not wasted his funds or his health in dissipation. . His attitude towards his wealth is th)tt of one who has been fortunate enough to know how to get from it the greatest amount of healthy pleasure for himself and others.

of those who %ad filled the pews, especially that of one man, the governor of the state, whose aquiline profile, flashing eves and- straight, glossy black hair formed a never-to-be-forgot-ten personality. Watch-nicht hymns have a personality of their own, as those of Cheistmas or Easter, if not so wide{y known. They are naturally serious and a bit foreboding, with a touch of the mel: ancholy t.t is associated with the rapid flight of time. . The Year is gone, beyond recall With all its hopes &nd fears, With all its bright and gladdening smiles, With all its mourners’ tears, is an old T.afin hymn % a commen meter tune that illustrates the tendency of this branch of hvimnology. Charles Wesley haw becen most proiifiec in voicing this thought. - Wisd un asiribe, and might, and praise, ' To Cod who lenthens outvour Jays: Wlha spares us vet another vear, And makes us see his goorlness here, is an oid favorite. Often Just on the siroke of midnight anoth- - ’ er of his voiced the feelines ot the congregation, that bugin niug: : Join, all ve yinsamed sons'of grace The holy jov prolong, / i And - shout to the Redeemer’s prajse, A A Solemn midoight sone.

A bit mere joyful is the splendid, quaintly rregular, - . Come, let us anew our :imlrrwy pursue, Roll round with the vear, . A never stand still till the Master » - 5 u[ﬁ?ar. . , 1 It was easy after this to go home filled with - loftiest aspirations, ready to begin the. new diary with ambitious resolves that were bound to o'erleap themselves because of their very loftiness. There was one watch night when there drifted into the ken of the child the poem that has since meant to her, as it does to many, the very spirit of this day. From the choir gallery, just before the midnight hour, came the softened chorus of a strange melody. Then into the silence of the vaulted churcl: rose a wonderful message in a voice that bore conviction to the listeners. It sang to the organ and the hushed accompaniment of the choir: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild skies, The flying cloud, the frosty light; ) The vear is dying, in the night; - Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. ) Through the whole of the splendid poem it swept, on to the triumphant conclusion: ‘ - “Ring in the. Ckhrist that is to .bo." ' To the child the most dramatic’ moment of the evening came just on the stroke of the incoming year. While outside whistles blew and giant -crackers exploded, bells clashed and clanged, inside hands clasped hands while together they sang the good old 'lstandby, “Blest be the tie that binds,” before the hush of the benédiction and the glad choras of “Happy New Year's” that concluded the service. There is another sort of quiet ushering in of the baby year that is conducive to the good resolve that counts so easily under favorable conditions. There were those in the old - days, as there are in these, who felt that after the gala afternoon the happiest way of all was to sit quietly about the fire, chatting with half a dozen congenial spirits, singing a bit if the ' spirit moved, reminiscing as old times came back in the hush, and ending with the silent toast and the dash of sentiment that makes “Auld Lang Syne” the fitting song for such a moment. That some such happy hour may begin little 1911’s. first appearance is the best wish one can offer to friends. ) . Let tl{e auspicious morning be expressed 'With a white stone distinguished from the rest. . So the’ stately Dryden has put the same thought. May it be true of us all,

Mr. Rainey is considered the best polo player in America—and that means nerve, strength.and quickness. He is a devotee of other sports, a big game hunter royal, and able business man, and a type of the “good fellow” at his best. He is 23 and single.— Hampton's Magazine, ' Mixed Dates." “Are you going to wait til} the last ts buy your holiday gifts?” : “Oh, it’s too early' to think about late shopping.”

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{4 VN in earliest tinies the R IKagle was known as the king B of birds, and this proud title @ has rightly clurg to him throughout the ages. He is a true king, and indeed would seem aware of his exalted positicn. FHe is seen at his best perched upon some prominent rock where he scans the corrie below with stern and noble gaze, or sagling on motionlgss wings in the teeth of a gale. On a calm day, especially when rising from the ground, the eagle presents an almost ungainly appearance, but he seems to revel in the gale, no matter how fiercely it may blow. Few, if any, of our birds are so independent of the weather as the eagle. No matter how severe the snow or frost, he can always prey on the luckless grouse or ptarmigan in the vicinity, or capture the mountain hare, and bear it screaming aloft. As far as our experience goes, however, the eagle will not take ptarmigan when there are grouse in the vicinity—probably the grouse is to him as well as to mankind a more tasty morsel than its mountain relative. As is natural to a bird to a large extent independent of the weather, the Golden Kagle is a very early nester, and the hen bird lays her eggs before the other birds of the highlands are thinking cf domestic duties, The eagle resorts Ww two different kinds of nesting sites—an ancient Scots pine on the edge of some outlying forest. or a ledge on a rock. When the nest is in the former situatiorr, the hen bird can sit through the hcaviest snowstorm with little inconvenience, but on a ledge of rock she Liay be forced. from her eyrie by an accumulation of snow drifted in from zbove. The writer visited ‘an eyrie situated in ore oi the stormiest dis(ricts of the Highlands, and, when the hillside near the eyrie was reached, it- wes found that the ground was covered with quite thirty inches of fresh snoY, consequent on an exceptionally lieavy storm for the time of vear. The eyric was situated on a ledge of rock in a small gorge, at a height of considc rably over 2,000 feet, and was built against a voung Ihouutzzin ashtrce. Approaching the nesting site from below, we had the pleasure, when some 400 yvards from the cyrie, of seeing the cock bird rite from a ledge and soar out over the cliff. Not long afterwards the hen was also observed to rise from the nest, and to join her mate in the distance. Tt seemed almost impossible, from the depth of snow on the ground, to imagine that any bird could have succeeded in protecting her eggs from the storm, so we eagerly scaled the rock—-a matter of some considerable difficulty. and dangéx‘ on account of the snow covering the ledge, and at fength—from a very preearious {oothold—looked into the eyrie. 1t was empty! The eagle was evidently. about to lay and was sheltering her nest from the snowfall which must have been the most severe in her experience. This explained the presence of the cock bird in the vicinity, for once the hen has commenced to brood the cock is never found in the neighborhood of the evrie. :

It was Interesting to.note the hollow in the snow where the eagle had been sitting. The snow was piled deep on the edges of the nest, and the hollow in the center seemed small indeed for a bird as large as a Golden Kagle. The nesting season of the Golden Eagle is early—exceptionally early when the arctic weather obtaining in their haunts in early spring is taken into consideration. We have seen an eagle carrying ncsting. material to her eyrie as early as January 27, and, if the nesting site is at all sheltered, the eggs are laid before March is out. Incubation is a lengthy matter, the eagle sitting for close on six weeks before the chicks are hatched out—the earliest date we have seen them is April 29. The altitude at which the eagle nests varies considerably. One nesting site that we know of is barely 1,500 feet above sea-level, while on the wild Cairngorm -mountfains an eyrie has been found at a height of between threer and four thousand feet. Amongst stalkers a great diversity of opinion exists as to when the eagle nests, some holding that it is late June before she commences the duties of incubation. This misconception has arigsen, we imagine, from the fact that the eagles are constantly carrying fresh material to the eyrie even when their voung are well grown. To one eyrie which we have been in the habit of visiting this season the eagles used to bring small' and leafy raspberry shoots, which they scattered aboit the eyrie. We have_also seen them carry juniper brauyches to their nest, and have found o red rubber ring and

‘humboo stick, amongst other things, iat various eyries we “thave visited. When the eagles -nest on a ledge of rock, it sometimes happens that the voung lose their balance-at the edge ‘of the eyrie and are precipitated to [ the ground below. We had such a ' case under observation a few lseasons | ago, and were interested to find' that }rhe parent birds constructed a new nest around the chick at the foot of { the rock. This was in all prohability } to warn foxes or other marauders that 't‘.n'o caglet was still"-under parental protection. _ 1 The eyrie of the Golden Eagle is a most substantial structure, and: when I one is built in a tree it mu_v'rem:;in i intact, though untenanted, on' a great { number of vears.. It is usudlly the l case that a pair of eagles have two or three eyries within .a comparatively Ishort distance of each other. and rei pair them all -more: or loss_. o:;ch seai son, though, ol course, only using one Eto nest in. We have seen, in one of | these secondary eyvries, the remains kof mountain hares, so that they may ‘ possibly be used as larders during the tnesting season. , The eagle, when | brooding, is often exceedingly tame, !and refuses to leave the nest even:

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FIGHTING THE WHITE PLAGUE Number of - State Institutions Is Double During the Past ‘ Two Years. , Sixteen state sanatoria, 28 county hospitals and 21 municipal hospitals for tuberculosts have Leen erected and. provided for since January 1, 1909, says a recent bulletin of the Natlonal Assoclation for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculesis. ) Within the last two yveurs the nume‘ber of state instituticns for tuberculosis has doubled. and the number of county and municipal-institutions has fucreased from about 20 to &9, The @ipenditures of public. money for the treatment of tubercnlosis al<o hag - more than doubled. Not lsss .than $3.600 000 of state money was appre priated for tuberenlesis institutions in 1809, when 43 legiclatur niet, and over $BOO,OOO in 1810, whon only 11 lecizlitures were in cession. Thelap--propriations of connties and cities.for tuberculosis hospiials and sanatoria in the last two years will aggregate fully 22,500,000, lII‘II.YI;.':I‘.L’ the total of official :*:;)zi(>z*r'inriox‘.s for tubereculosiz hospitals up to over 80,000,000 in the past two years. ‘ In” spite. however, of this good showirg, the National Asscciation for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis states that not one-tenth’ of the pube Hic provision for tuberculosis that is needed has been made. More .than 206000 tuberculosis patients are constantly without proper institutional treatment, - IN SCIENTIFIC DAYS (%j: ' Sy e _ 7 \{T:’;ﬁ:_ / ALY (\*\(\E\«\\ ’ '\\\\\\\\ 'l({ \ o . v ‘- S &/\lf j . }b e i Y S Marjorie—wihy are« we® stopping | here, Haro!d? Harold—Ah, the anchor's caught on g wirefess. SKIN BEAUTY PRCMOTED - In the treatment of affections of the skin and scalp which torture, disfigure, itch, burn, scale and destroy the hair, as well as for preserviang, purlf : fying and beautifying the complexion, fallibie. Millions of women throughout the world rely on these pure, sweet and gentle emollients for all purposes of the toilet, bath and-nursery, and for the sanative, antis: ptic cleans* ing of ulcerated, inflamed mucous sur‘aces. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Boston, Mass., scle Proprietors of the Cuticura Remedies, ¢ill mail free, on request, their latest 32-page Cuticura Book on the skin’and hair. Stepmecether of Mint Julep. Romance and poetry have delighted to weave garlands with which to celebrate and perpetuate the. glory of the blve grass in old Kentucky, famed for its fine horsés, beautiful women and mint. C I ntucky has been designated as the bhome of the mint julep, and its coloneis have.become famous all over the world for the easy and graceful waviin which tli('}' drink whisky with a little dash of S!{gzir and a sprig or two of mint in order, ‘chiefly, to overcome the necessity for a large amount of water in the beverage. The true Kentuckian doesn’'t want his whisky drowned. - It transpires, however, that the real home of the mint and the mint julep fs right here in Missouri, whose crop of mint last year amounted to 7,653 pounds, or encugh to make 1,224,320 juleps. This amount inciudes the marketed product only. no account having been taken of the countless thousands -of juleps which were compounded during the year with a base_ of the undiluted moonshine whisky ~ that - never paid a cent of tax.—St. Louis Star. - The Way of Life. It i 5 being said of an elderiy man in business in Atchison: “He can’t-stand punishment as he formerly could.” And- there {s punishment to be endured. in making a living; don’'t.forget lt. Look over vour own experience, * and you will detect punishment every hour of the day. If it isn't at home, it Is on the street car or on the road. How many ways there are to punish 1 man who tries his best to get along and behave himself. And after a man gets old it is more evident every year that the poor fellow can't stand punishment as he could when he was younger.—Atchison Globe. ' WONDERED WHY.' Found the Answer Was “Coffee.” Many pale, sickly persons wonder for years why they have to suffer so, and eventually discover that the drug—cafe {eine—in cofiee is the main cause of the trouble. “I was always very fond of coffee and drank it every day. 1 never had much flesh and often wondered why I was always so pale, thin and weak. “About five years ago my health completely broke down and I was confined to my bed. My stomach was in such condition that I could hardly take sufficient nourishment to sustain life. “During this time I was drinking cofe fee, didn’t think I could do without it. ‘““After awhile I came to the conclusion that coffee was hurting me, and decided to give it up and try Postum. [ didn’t like the taste of it at first, but when it was made right—boiled until iark and rich—l soon became fond of it. “In one-week I began to feel better. [ could eat more-and sleep better. My sick headaches were less frequent; and within five months I looked and felt like a new being, headache spells entirely gone. ) ) “My health continued to improve and today I am well and strong, weigh 148 pounds. I attribute my present health to the life-giving qualities of Postum.” Read “The Road to Wellville.” in pkgs. ‘“Thére's a Reason.” : Ever read the above letter? A mnew one appears from time to time, They are genuine, true, and full of humamn interes’ ¢ v