BROKEN RESOLUTIONS.' llrB(k Conr to Mk New mlTM Afttr PomM rllri ; ft HMltkfal mmA Hofl llB. A New Ter potability, ft whole new year! It U a fresh beginning time when all that we failed to Uu Init year can really be tried agnin. The itudiea of problems, near, or re mote, that we thought we should pursue, the book we meant to read, the new work we were guing to un dertake, above all, the faults we in tended to conquer, the virtues we meant to cultivate, the growth in character which we both resolve.l and failed to acquire, no we can lake a fresh start aud really accom plish, some vital thing, fur the new year is so rich in promise, so full of hope so alluring in its suggestion of beautiful possibilities! Are we sometime tempted to look a bit cynically at this ever-recurring tide of hope, of belief in our bettor endeavor, oiul better performance'.1 Does It sometimes seem a mere mock cry perhaps hypocrisythat we should so regard the New Year? Are we tempted to say 1 will make no New lenrs resolutions to be again broken and next year again renewed? If this is our experience, let us remember, Buys the Washington Home Magazine, the very fact thai we have the hope and courage to make new resolves, nfUr all our fail ures, is a healthful and hopeful sign. Some wise teacher has pointed out that one of the most diiiieult tiling in the world it to retain our self respect sufficiently to retrieve our selves after a mistake or failure. So long as we keep a clean record we can go on, although the way may be hard. But once having failed, the effect of a broken record paralyzes", and renders it far easier to fall out by the way than to "about face!" and start again. Vet one of the greatest of victories is ours whei realizing and deploring our mistakes our "manifold sins, negligences nn.l ignorances," we yet refuse to simply sit and moan over them, but re solutely rise up, press on, saying I failed that time, but I shall nt always. I can and will learn to be "more than conqueror through Om who loved us. One whose, strerg-1 Is in our weakness perfect" leaning on Ilim, remembering that true re pentance consists not in mere re morse but in regret that bears frnt: in new life; we shall find that om worst failures may become part "" that "stepping stoueM on which we rise to higher things. Washington Home Magazine. HEW YEAR'S CALLS. This Prftotloe of Former Yean Hie tat Bmoim Once More a Cailow II Revived fcy Ike Children. As merry a day a Christmas is for the children, it is usually ratber ipiit-t for the grown people, their prir.vi.al occupation being to watch Ue yminj folk enjoy themselves.. From (iirii mas until New Year, tLoiiifh. tlit grown people make up in g3cty fi.r their Sunday-like quiet on tiie 2."th. but the children Lave just as much fun at the tame time. There are more parties at Christ m a time than there are even during the long summer holidays, nnd they art jollier, because the chikirt-n lYc; c:r r energetic and Dright ai:d Iheiy wiii the cold weather ai.ti the l:cp;y ; ir i of the teason. There are so many delightful ways to entertain, tot; .-, many games and things that are culy suitable for indoors. There is one holiday practice which las almost passed with history, and jet it is a beautiful one which thechil tiren might do well to revive. It U 11 old custom of New Year's calls. In lil a few years ajo it was the uii;,i thing for everybody to call on every body else the fi;-i day of the yrvr. 1'euple who had homes opened their, to their friends, and popular people had a steady Mream of callers all cv who paid their respects, were serve'! refreshment and went on their way to the next friend's home. It wa all very pleasant, but it has passed out, although efforts are being made to renew the practice. Why should net the children help in this revival? They have nothing to do, as a rule, on New Year'sday.and they would doubtless find it delight ful to put on their best bib and tucker and call onU their young friends. It would be a splendid opportunity to display their new Christmas finery, and at the same time extend to their friends their cordial good wishes for a happy year. Should the children be gin calling, it would be a habit with them and thus as they grow older New Year's calls would become an es tablished custom, as it used to be. Hot Dying-, The old year is not dying. It is sim ply about to go aside into the witness room of God's court, there to await the judgment. Chicago Interior. I)K( KMIlKn 31. K Best day of all the year, cinee I . May iee thfe pass ar.r' krow "That If thou doM r.ot mo &JtfH Thou has not foun! me lew, -1; j ' r,ij' fringe, as- I beho!3 ih'edle, y ' Thou Kavfrn me ih rtrht io a r That 1 to-morrow still may vie With them that keep the upward way. B?Pt toy of all th year to me, filr.ee I iry pt.ar.cl at,d gaze A-ro-s? -he fr:iyUh pfeM aiuitft , tki ni.ii, y tr'.okt-l ways T-at irir:t h-ivt Jc to misery, Or, U-p.y. erit-d at Dl.-jfraoe C-.-t day rnci thou dt leave m fr3 To look the future in the face. Be day of ail flays of the year, " That wh po klr.d. tu godV ' ' i Sir f-e thou Cost t-avi: me siUHhe dftAf Old frith In br(jtr.;rfcood V(?t day rnre J, eti!i Bf riving here, May vifw the- past with (-mall regret, Ai d, -.ir.tHytuifced by tfrubis or fer, Beek paths that sre ur.irod a yet. . a Kigtr, Id rhloago Rnortf-Herald. STARTING RIGHT, $ Tk Cat torn of Maktnc Good FfeW Tear R no I afloat One of ladvN . IsUte rortuaatt Trrmetlr. Unlet thtre hat been a markedl change in humnn nature during th past year, as many people will Ifegin tlie new with a eerie of good, if not actually new, resohnionj us lit nn lhe ; preceding year under s-imilnr condi tio us, ot all of thee will aub scribe to a complete formulotcd con tract fur improved behavior- the ma jority, In fact, will rexdve mbeou seiously. But the yearly making of res'hitiont come? sti pat vith tlie be-! ginning of a fresh calendar on tl-e nrsbi of each euoeeedlng January tlmt th! custom has an indefinite and altogeth-: er fortunate tenacity. , ! It has been often- repeated that thes good resdutiou are like glass balls, in that they are made for the sole purpose of being broken. The! figure shows an inadequate InuwU-rijfB of the uses of glaia trails; before brejiking they are intendtd to serve a more useful purpose in training the eye and hand of a markuin. A good resolution, even when broken, gives mental training very much in the sure fashion. The process of making it and of houetly trying tn carry it out i a (org und nereJary first ?lep to ward the mental strength that n p!;e a human being1 actually master of hia own actions. A faculty f:r comfort, for example, is a pleasant thing to carry on a journey, but iaiineni is a unless piece of luggage, Successful resolutionsy all comic writers to the contrary, are really made on the first of every January, but they depend, like genuinely success ful pclitics, much more on common sense than on emotional impulse. A man who has been intemperate in hit own comfortto keep to the one con crete example of lainrft. or to ita even worse form, proerastinfltion i can hardly leap into activity and hold the pace very long at a time, lie can, i however, diwde hi daily existence into two parts, during one of which he may busily tie up the loose ends of his occupations', and during the other devote himself to doing nothing with all the- success to be expected of hi past experience. Kven if he finis in the, effort the attempt ie something toward a future success aiong th same line of endeavor. There is mucb more reason to respect the man who makes and breaks a yearly jet of res olutions than to respect the discour aged individual who gives up trying after a few failures'. If the whole nation should slnrt out to keep the same resolution the real value of individual eiu.'-avor would stand out mere clearly, and the result, one may be opiimhtic emmifh to be lieve, might prove a revelation to those who advance the broken f(!ass theory. TLere U the subject of gord citizenship, for instance. We have re cently seen, writ? H. V. Pergpritri-en. in the Philautlphia Salnrd-fiv Tv t-n it'if Post, in one esse, the ri' ult ti.at fol lows1 when a whole con'imtnity be coine? vitally interet-ied in its polities, and in another the remit that pnmti from a inertly cotivt ntior.al iDterest. Supp'isv ev-.'ry citien u ti:.-country should revive for .ne year to i;n derMunc; p...!iicjl qacatii;ii, to think fiir hitn!.t.if. end to art up lo -4,n-victi:m. Kven ctrrtirg th.-e who fail by the w.iyir'c the re-ult triht bring back tl:e pn'TaTy informed po litical ear:ie?i;H-s ( f i nr f"nt tsatii-n-al ei-ecti'in-; and t h act i: :! pow er felt by each man, in the r-iitiiirtii of his own knowledge, might go far to re affirm that resoh::ion universally on the first of next Jcruarr. SOME FOREIGN CUSTOMS. Ifew Ycfcr'1 the Grea4 limy uf.the Year la FrDC Bofi Mn.trra of tbc BltoatloM la HubmIm. In France New Year's day is the great duy of ihe year. It is to the Trench child what CliriMinus is to the ymir.g people of Anwrii-a tlie day for the giving and receiving of present B. In the gloomy old royal palace of Madrid, also, the first day of the yfar ia a h.-ippy nnl merry f.--ntivnl. The quei'n recent t.'ikea care that all, even to the huinhlcst servantB, have a ihrtre in the fiocnlied aguiualdos, or New Year's hountiea. Hut it is in Russia that the boys fnd themselves inoct completely masters of the situation on New Year's day, says the Youth's Com panion, for in that land the opening day of the year is especially the child, ren's festival. The boys rise with the sun, taking care to fill tlieir pockets with dried peas and wheat. Then they go from house to house in a riot of fun. As doors are never locked it Is easy for them to effect an entrance. The dried peas are to be thrown at their enemies, but the wheat is for their friends. They sprinkle it upon any of their friends whom they may be fortunate enough to find asleep, and hurl the peas with stinging force at their enemies. After breakfast the handsomest horse in the village is brought out, its trappings are decorated with erergreen and berries, and the animal is led to the house of the nobleman of the place, followed by the pea and wheat-shooters of the early morn ing. The lord admits horse and guests to his parlor, where all his family are gathered. This is the greeting of the peasants, old and young, to their lord and master. The origin of the custom is shrouded in mystery, but it is supposed to date from very early times. t Tkt Old, Old Slorr. " Blinks I suppose yon will swear off the first of the year. Jinks )h, yes; off and on, u usual Chicago Daily News. ! Hotel U C. K. McDowell, Prop. Thoroughly Renovated mid Ro- furnislirii Tlirotighout imcricHK I'laii. Kales $1, $1.30 and $3 per day. cooinnnHlntions aru I'tmurpiiKscd in the city. Sample Uooma lor Coiiinicri'iiil Tinvolora, I-oiig Pistnnco Tolephoue Station in tlio liouso Oregon Union Pacific AND mmM v'a i-No a o rsrtl,0r. A"IT Ctifct! kit Use, Iwanr. .'. as. Portland ft Wortti.Onishs, Ifxetal Ksnsu CUT, St. ids a. ss. Uis,Clilntiud Tla HussV Ban. tBton. itlantla salt Lata, nanvtr, 140 a. at. txprSM Ft. wortlvOmaba, law p. as. kaniu CICt at. Tla Haat Lonla,chtcasaaad . Initaa Jtasi ft, Fssjl Walla Walla fowls- 1M a. av t stall un.Bpekana.Mla- M p. am. naapolla,Rt. Paul, Tks Pululh, MUwan- poaaaa kasiCaleaiodlast OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE KOat rORTLAND. IM a.sa. All lalllaf dataa IN a. as. subjael to shaafa For 8ao Franotteo Ball avarr I dars, DaflT Catamals Brar M p.m. Is. Sumtaf IMaaNra. Is. (uadaf t:00 p. m. atnrday Ta Astoria sad Way Mite p. Uadlssa. :0Ca.B WlllaaiaHa tliw. 4:t0p.n. H-iaadsT Ba. snad.r Orafoa CI if, Haw serf, Balaoi: Inla- Kndaim at Wait a11"!1- t :00 a.m. WHIin sad Yasi- l:p.n. raas., Taor. . Mtl lima. Hon., Wad. sad tat, ' tii FW. Ores! Pltf, (,. toa, War Lasi . Ma ss. Wlllmttla (tvar. 4:p.m. ra, Ttjar Hon., Wad. aad fx. rortland lo Corral- aad Frl. lis A Waf It. 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