f"p^s-vp^v H*#J^I§SS^ i. -3^ W /'_..:3-1'- X-S~'V«--A -i INraRNAWONAL FALLS PRESS. ',' ^_i_r„^." wftat gopaf oneg he used to make nim self. -f§£ N "I know it," said Mehitable "He wanted to make some himself, when we were first married, but I vetoed that I wasn't goin' to have a man messin' round makin' pies, and I wasn't goin* to have him eatin' of 'em after they were made. Pies ain't good for him. But I declare I dunno what does make him act so kind of spiritless. I told him today I thought he'd better make a resolution for the New Year and stick to it, and see if it wouldn't put some spunk into him." Pretty soon she went home. I could see she was real kind of troubled. She always did think a good deal of Lemuel t^ ii'iir«^p» RING OUT. WILD BELLS! in spite of everything. THE DAYS' NEW YEAR PARTY The next day was New Year's, and in the afternoon Mehitable came in by His Coming of Age Marked a Dirv again. She didn't have her sewin* as f. brother Lemuel ner to Which All of the Festivals she generally did, she was a very industrious married Mehitable Are Invited. woman. She jest sat down Pierce when he was and begun twisting the fringe of her q.uite along in years, The Old Year being dead, and the shawl as if she was real nervous. Het Nobody thought he'd New Year coming of age, which he face was puckered up, too. "I dunno ever get married jat does by calendar law as soon as the what to make of Lemuel," said she, all, any more'n my breath is out of the old gentleman's finally. brother Reuben an' body, nothing would serve the young "Why, what's the matter?" said li spark, but he must give a dinner upon Silas. The three had kind of scared. lived together and the occasion, to which all the Daya "He says he's made a resolution foi in the year were invited. The Festivals, kept bachelors' hall the New Year," said she, "and that ever since our mother whom he deputed as his stewards, he's goin* to keep it." were mightily taken with the died. 1 was married "Well, what is it?" said I. •notion. They had been engaged time and away from out of mind, they said, in providing home long before "I dunno," eaid she. good cheer for mortals below, and it she died. I didn't "Well, if it's a good one, you don't was time they should have a taste of know how they care, do you?" said I, "and it couldn't their own bounty.. would get along at be anythin' but a good one if my brother It was stiffly debated among them first but all of the boys had been used made it." whether the Fasts should be admitted. to iielpin' ma a good deal, and they "I dunno what it is," said she. Some said the appearance of sucb were real handy, and when I asked if "Won't he tell?" lean, starved guests, with their mortified they wasn't goin' to have a housekeeper, "No, he won't. I can't get a word faces, would pervert the ends of they wouldn't hear to it. out of him about it. He don't act like the meeting. But the objection was -They said they wasn't goin' to himself." overruled by Christmas Day, who had have no strange woman round in Well, I must say I never saw such a a design upon Ash Wednesday (as ma's place, nohow. So Silas he took change as come over Mehitable and you shall hear),-and a mighty desire holfi and did the waehin' and ironin', Lemuel after that. He wouldn't tell »R to see how the old Dominie would behave and Reuben did the sweepin', and what his resolution was, and she himself in his cups. Only the Lemuel, he was the youngest, next to couldn't make him, though she almost Vigils were requested to come with me, did the cookin'. He could cook a went down on Tier knees. It began to their lanterns to light the gentlefolk dinner, equal to any woman, and his seem as if she was fairly changin' away the tattered page home at night. pies beat mine. My husband said so, ny erstwhile piety, characters with Lemuel, though she All the days came. Covers were and I had to give in they did. and soiled and outraged quite— had a spell of bein' herself more'n provided for 365 guests at the principal :ked of bl&nd satiety Well, they seemed to get along so ever at first, tryin' to force him to 'utlons such as they table, with an occasional knife nice, and none of 'em had ever seemed tell what that resolution was. Then greet the season with aplomb, and fork at the sideboard for the to think much about the girls, not she give that up, and she never asked /hen the year, grown old and grayt Twenty-ninth of February. even when they was boys, that I must ""s'l not a crutch to lean upon him where he was goin', an' he could Cards of invitation had been issued. I that lofty sentiment, say I was astonished when Lemuel he come in my house an' sit jest as long -would close the vexing tale The carriers were the Hours, twelve up and got married to Mehitable as he wanted to, and she bought him et again experiment. little merry, whirling footpages that Pierce. She was a little along in a short-tailed coat and eome store collars went all round and found out the years, too, rather more so than Lemuel, a bloom perennial and shirts, and he looked like another persons invited, with the exception rosy tinted wake the dreams and a dreadful smart piece. She man. He got to stayin' down to the morrows yet to come, of Easter Day, Shrive Tuesday, and was good lookin' and she had property, the store nights, an' talkin' politics life is really what it seems a few other movables,- who had lately but she was dreadful smart and up an' tardltieSs and broken vows, shifted their quarters. comin*. I could never see how Lemuel "**luties shirked for Pleasure's court, A ather Grundy's sad pow-wows, ever got the courage to ask her to "Well, they all met at last, foul ickle Fashion's mad report have him, he was always a kind of Days, fine Days, all sorts of Days, and angers to my righteous heart— mild spoken little fellow. Reuben he a rare din they made of it. There old and frame the new, declared he didn't. He vowed that -ake another start. was nothing but "Hail, fellow Day! —Maude DeVerse Newton Mehitable asked him herself. He. said well met!" only Lady Day seemed a Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sKy, he knew it for a fact, and he said it bit scornful. Yet some said Twelfth The flying cloud, the frosty light. New Year Don'ts Day cut her out, for she came all with the tears rollin* down his cheeke. The year is dying in the night Reuben was the oldest and he'd always royal and glittering and Epiphenous. Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. been .terrible fond of Lemuel. The rest came in green, some in ,nklesalt on the tail of tempta- "That poor boy would never have got white, but old Lent and his family Ring out the old, ring-in the new, In such a fix if that woman hadn't up were not yet out of mourning. Rainy Don't try to get the betterof a man who an.' asked him, an' he didn't have Days came in dripping, and the Sunshinny Ring, happy bells, across the snowi sn't any. spunk enough to say no," said Reuben, Days laughing. Wedding Day Don't snore in church. It's mean to keep The year is going, let him go: and he swallowed hard. was there in marriage finery. Pay sutlers awake. Ring out the false, ring in the true. Day came late, and Doomsday sent Mehitable had a nice house of her Don't be satisfied to pay as you go. word he might be expected. own that her father left her, all furnished Save enough to get back. Ring out the grief that -saps the mind, and everything, so of course April Fool took upon himself to mar* Don't get married with the sole idea Lemuel he went to live with her, and shal the guests, and May Day, with For those that here we see no more that misery loves company. Mehitable's house was pretty near that sweetness peculiar to her, proposed Don't follow the beaten track unless Ring out the feud of rich and poor, where 1 lived, so I could see everything the health of the host. This fou are satisfied to remain beaten. Ring in redress to all manKind. that was goin' on. It wa'n't very being done, the lordly New Year from Don't accept advice from a man who long before I said to Hannah Morse, the upper end of the table returned sever offer* you anything else. Ring out a slowly dying cause, my husband's old maid sister that thanks.. Ash Wednesday, being now Don't •expect Opportunity to come to you And ancient forms of party strifes lives with us and teaches school, that with a letter of introduction. called upon for a song,, struck up a I believed Lemuel was henpecked, carol which Christmas Day had Don't trust to luck. Nine-tenths of the Ring in the nobler modes of life. though I hadn't anythin' against Mehitable. people in the world guess wrong. taught him. Shrovetide, Lord Mayor's With sweeter manners, purer laws. Don't' buy your friends. They never last Day and April Fool next joined in a "I don't see what else anybody that long as those you make yourself. glee, in which all the Days, chiming Ring out the want, the care, the sin, married Mehitable- Pierce would expect/': Don't envy the rise of-others. Many a In, made a merry burden. The faithless coldness of the times said .Hannah. She spoke real man (who gets to the top is mere froth. All this while Valentine's Day kept sharp for her. I've always kind of Don't greet Misfortune with a smile courting pretty May, who sat next Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, wondered if Hannah would have had unless you are prepared for a one-sided him, slipping amorous billet-doux under But ring the fuller minstrel in. flirtation*, Lemuel if he'd asked her. "Well," said the table till the Dog Days began I, "I hope poor Lemuel will be happy. Don't make good resolutions unless you to be jealous and to bark and rage Ring out the false pride in place and blood, constantly, carry repair kit with you. He'B always been such a good, mild, exceedingly. Mehitable She Bought All His Clothes. The civic slander and the spite $ willin' boy that it does seem a pity Don't place too much confidence in appearances^ At last the Days called for their Many & man with a red nose for him to be rode over rough-shop, with the other men real loud. heard Ring in the love of truth and right. I cloaks and greatcoats and took their white all. the way through. and have all the will he ever did have him myself one night, and couldn't I leaves. Short Day went off in a deep Ring in the common love of good. Don't forget in times of peace to prepare trodden into the dust." believe it was Lemuel. black fog that wrapped the little gentleman for war. That's about the only use "Well, that is what will happen, or Well, Lemuel he never gave in, and all round. The Vigils—so Ring out old shapes of foul disease lome of us seem to have for peace. IH miss my guess," said Hannah he never told till the next New Year's watchmen are called in Heaven—saw Don't fail to have an object in view. Ring out the narrowing lust of goldi Morse.. For a long while I thought she day, when he'd said he would. He'd Christmas Day safe home they had Many a man leads such an aimless existince was right «It was really pitiful to see Baid all along that he'd tell her then. Ring out the thousand wars of old, that he could fire at random without been used to the business before. Another Lemuel. He didn't have no more liberty I'd got most as curious as Mehitable sitting it—Lippincott's. Vigil—a stout, sturdy patrol, Ring in the thousand years of peace. nor will of his own than a fiveyear-old myself by that time, and New Year's called th8 Eve of St. Christopherseeing boy, and not so much. Mehitable mornin' run over real early—they I DIDN'T OBSERVE NEW YEAR'S Ash Wednesday in condition Ring in the valiant man and free, wouldn't let him do this and that, wasn't through breakfast. knew the I little better than he should be e'en The larger heart, the Kindlier handi andi if there was anythin' he wanted to minute saw them that he hadn't told. I whipped him over his shoulders picka-back Purjtans..Regarded the Celebration as do, She was set against it, and he'd always Ring out the darKness of the land, He said he wouldn't till he was fashion, and he went floating a Heathenish and Un-Chriotian give, right: in, Many's the time through his breakfast. He was most home singing: Ring in the Christ that is to be. Rite Lemuel has run over to my house, and through—was finishing up with a big "On the Bat's Back Do I Fly," —Tennyson his wife come racln' to the fence and piece of mince pie, and he'd made it and a number of old snatches besides. The sole vrecord of the observance screamed after him to come home, and himself, too.. When he'd swallowed Longest Day set off westward in beautiful ji. of the NewYear bythePilgrims in he'd startup as scared as he could be. the last mouthful, he looked up and he crimson and gold the rest, some NEW YEAR'S DAY IN ENGuANO. the new. worlds named rNew England, And manyfs'. the time: I've been in laughed, real pleasant and sweet, and in one fashion, some in another but rf was most prosaiQi iiiost brief: "We there, and he started-to go out, and yet with more manliness than I'd ever Valentine and pretty May took their New Year's day is kept-very curiously want taworkbetimes.'' Many of the she'd tell him to Set down, and.-he's seen in him. Mi Ni/Yeer departure' together in one of the prettiest in some of the old countries. In |ood Puritan ministers: thought the set without a murmur. "S'pose you want to know what that silvery twilights a Lover's Day England the ringing of bells is abont ReSoLosKuJ celebration or even- notice of the day Mehitable she bought all his clothes, New Year's resolution was?" said Lemuel. could wish to set in. the only formal demonstration they In any waysavoredof improper and an' she favored long-tailed coats, and show for the anniversary at the present ILe. Kwit im-6hristlan. reverence for the heathen he bein' such a ehort man never guess can stand it a while longer," "I I timte, though years ago it was as god, Janus. Yet .these English settlers GOOD A3 NEW. GOEiiJ to looked well in 'em, and she wouldn't said Mehitable. Now the time had much of a gala day as Christmas. IftiT came from a land where New 5Arw.e. let him have store shirts and collars, come she didn't want to act too eager, They used to give presents and have Tear's eve and New (Year's day were but made them herself, and she didn't but showed out jest what felt. I I great feasts,, and there was a good second in Importance and domestic have very good patterns, she t^ed her "For the land, sake, Lemuel. Babbit, deal of revelry and drunkenness, more observance only to Christmas. CW1KA- father's old. ones, and he wasn't no what was it?" said than there ought to have been in a I. Throughout every! English county such built manias Lemuel, and. I know Lemuel he laughed again. "Well, it civilized community. On the whole JKew Year's -eve: was always celebrated he suffered everything, both in his wasn't much of anythin'," he said. the new is quite- as good as the old in many it wast called by the pride, an' his feelin'e. Lemuel beggn In his gentle drawlin' way. '1 didn't way, to my thinking. In Denmark the -pretty name of Singing ilffen, from the tojto^ .'Be jlidigt seem make no resolution, ^cannon boomsi as a sound of joy to pustom which obtained of singing the li^e'ljsflf gft&'ti tomn As-he did,'and the really." welcome in the. new* year. Every last-of the Christmaff earols .at that .qye.ergpt .thing.aljout it ^s:..,Mahfc i' "What, Lemuel morning of the firstof January, Copenhagen &bW.fliirt'£ 'peiar '.to lhce tt|& worfe o£ a it is shaken by {his pfeaeeful cannonading. Thls NewrBay. fcer.ofrh hatidfl' so to sp'e&K *.*!'••• Mehitable. The people*? in r^he rural Out of the- tomb of night ta day has One day-she talked to me about it "No," said.he districts go to the farmbou&es and fire ^risent Be aot anxious rthisday is all "I dunno what ^tis,"-said she, "but their muskets under the windows of "I couldn't think ^ousvown.- Do not hurry„?for in time it Lemuel.he. donft seem to have no go the sleeping inmates, to!-inform them "THERE!" of none to make, IsHke all other day* neitherdelay, ahead and no ambition and no will oi .The Past and. the Future. .that anew year is at hand,. The cusr So I made a resolution (or now ie passing. Early turn your his own. He tries to please me, but Carry into the new year only the torn isriot a very ijice one it smacks not to tell it. face .to the dawn and let -its fresh it don't seem as if he had grit enough choicest thoughts and inspirations. As too much of. old time roughness and that hadn't I beams- bathe away all stains of night even for that. Sometimee I think he in' the olden days when men approached rudeness. made any." 3 Uien,ehould the noon be darkwitb ain't well, but I dunno what ails him. the Parthenon they cleansed their i% Rew Year. Resolutions.-v ftorms, your smile, will stlll'twear the jl've been real careful of him. He!s persons and arrayed themselves in I will rtry to be kind. tinta of the mornings Step softly white, robes- before entering that glorious worn thick flannels, and*, he's had mb I will try to find, the good in others. amonghuman hearts, and-leave so "My good man, I hope you've mad« 'wholesome victuals I ain't never let temple,. so cleanse your gar-: nucb ofkindness along life's, pathway I will carry sonshine with me. espea some good resolutions." him have^pie." ments from-transgression, clothe your,jith in to he a a luit«ladness shall apringup, bearing "No, ma'am, not dis year, Ton- sett aspirations. Farewell to the "Lemuel .was. always dreadful, fond I will,.try tomakesomeone happy tribute in the cool eentid»af tbi I've got a bunch of 'em I mado lut Welcome and all hail to the of pie," said I. I felt kind of sorry, for PNidteda* each day—Woman's Pome firnnpfliflpn. I ramAmhArad Cond noor f^iitnoi an' future!!-—Newell Dwiaht Hillla -bow never naad. fern* 5835,