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A New Amsterdam
New Year
By F. A. MITCHEL
New Year’s day has changed in a gen
eration from what it was for 300 or
more years. Till some thirty years ago
it was devoted to making calls. The
Dutchmen who settled New York, then
called New Amsterdam, early in the
seventeenth century, brought the cus
tom with them from Holland. On the
first New Year’s day in the little town
nestling about the fort on the point of
Manhattan Island probably not a hun
dred. possibly not fifty, men made
calls.
From where the New York cus
tom house now stands east, west and
north, for a distance perhaps of 500
yards, which embraced the town, on
Jan. 1, the good housewives having
spent the previous week in scrubbing,
sweeping, dusting and polishing their
homes, put on all the petticoats they
possessed and in cap and collar sat
themselves down in their parlors to re
ceive callers.
Now, the day before one of the ear
liest of these New Year’s days a bar
gain was struck between Katrina Van
Gaasbeek and her mother. Frau Van
Gaasbeck wished her daughter to mar
ry Diedrich Van Dusen, a rich ship
owner, while Katrina preferred An
thony Van Horn, a young fur trader. 1
have called the former of these men a
rich shipowner, and he certainly was.
for he was the possessor of a sloop
fully thirty feet long, on which he car
ried supplies to the settlers along the
East river as far as Hell Gate and along
tlie North river as far as Spuyteu Duy
vil.
The bickerings between mother and
•daughter had for months past been
embittering the life of the husband
and father. Peter Van Gaasbeck. No
sooner did he come home from his
work in the evening, pour out a cup of
schnapps and light his pipe than the
clatter commenced, and he was driven
distracted. On this day before New
Year’s that has been mentioned when
the turmoil commenced he cried out:
“Settle this matter between you. or.
by St. Nicholas. 1 will go back to Hol
land on the nest ship that sails, leav
i#tg you two here to fight it out!”
“How settle it?” asked mother and
daughter at once.
“Tomorrow will be New Year’s day.
time between morning and even
g Diedrich Van Dusen and Anthony
an Horn will each make a call here
Let it be agreed between you that the
one who calls nearest to the stroke of
The town clock at noon shall be the
favored suitor.”
Frau Van Gaasbeck was loath to ac
cept this arrangement, for she did not
trust her daughter, and Katrina was
loath to accept It because she did not
trust her mother, but each contacted,
thinking herself sufficiently sharp to
toutwit the other.
Peter settled himself to his
[bottle of schnapps and his pipe with
|great contentment
■ Before 9 o'clock that night, when all
New Amsterdarners were in bed. the
suitors had each been informed by the
one who favored him of the arrange
ment and instructed to make his call
at the moment the clock struck 12.
Pledricb Van Dusen arose at cockcrow
and spent the time between then and
noon watching the hands of the town
clock. At Bhe put on a second pair of
breeches, and every half hour after
that he put on another pair, so that
by 11 o’clock he was so Incased that
he resembled a hogshead of gin sel
upon end on a couple of bricks.
At five minutes of 12 he cast a last
glance at the clock and proceeded to
the bouse of Frau Van Dusen lie was
received with smiles by both mother
and daughter, which made him feel
very comfortable, for his rival was not
there, it being a minute or two of 12
o’clock, and he had certainly won He
did not hear the clock strike, for Ka
trir.n talked so loudly that he could not
have heard a gun fired on the Battery,
but a hundred yards distant. When he
had been in the house half an hour he
withdrew, giving jjjace to other callers.
Diedrich Van Dusen went home nnd
was taking off some of his breeches,
laughing gleefully at having got ahead
of his rival, when he heard the town
clock strike 1.
is 1 of the clock.” he said
He had scarcely spoken when there
came another stroke. He stopped, with
of breeches half off. and listen
~■■There was another and another
K. When he b:id counted eleven
Bed. and when the twelfth came
■ s beside himself with anxiety.
18. on the breeches that he had
Bmoved, he went outside and
B,t the clock. The hands stood
a /tunning to Frau Van Dusen’s.
in through a window and
rival with a sausage in one
. A a cup of schnapps in the oth-
Be looked Anthony swallowed
jfaw’)ps
declared that something had
f l-g with the clock, but every-
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YOUNG PEOPLE
Organize Missionary Society at
Midway.
Mr. Editor: Allow me space
in your paper to announce the
organization of a Young Peoples
Missionary Society at Midway.
The society was organized Sep
tember 28th, and we have met
twice. The meetings occur every
second Sunday afternoon at U
o’clock. We cordially invite all
the young people hereabouts to
come and join us, and help a
good movement. Bring someone
with you. Our watchword is:
“Etich one win one.”
llenry Foster
Correspondin g beeretary
The Farmers Cjeed
I believe in a permanent agri
culture a soil that shall grow
richer rather than poorer from
year to year.
I believe in a hundred bushel
corn and fifty bush.el wheat per
acre, and I shall not be satisfied
with anything less.
I believe that the only good
weed is a dead weed, and that a
clean farm is as importnat as a
clean conscience.
I believe in the farm hoy and
farm girl, the farmer’s best crops
and the future’s best hope.
I believe in the farm woman,
and will do all in my power to
make her life eas : er and happier.
I believe in a country seho&l
that prepares for country life
and a country church that teachee
its people to love deeply and live
honorably
I believe in community spirit,
a pride in home and neighbors,
and I will do my part to make
my own community the best in
the state.
I believe in better roads. I
will use the road drag conscienti
ously whenever opportunity of
fers, and I will not shirk whne
working out my road tax.
I believe in the farmer, I
believe in farm 1 fe, I believe in
the inspiration of the open coun
try.
I am proud to be a farmer, and
I will try earnesttly to be worth
of the name.—Ex.
body said:
■’How many calls had yon made.
Dledrich. and how much schnapps had
you drunk?”
So tlie poor man got no satisfaction.
After the wedding between Anthony
and Katrina the bride confessed that
her lover, stationed in the belfry, had
seen Diedrieh call and had then set
tlie clock back. When Dledrich went
away Anthony put the clock at five
minutes of 12. then went down, to ar
rive at ihe Van I-usena' exactly at the
stroke of 12
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cooking utensils to be used in cook
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