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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
AJHoppy Nesv Wear.

A happy New Year," How many
people realize the meaning of the
words as they go about with this
familiar greeting upon their lips? Il
wish you a happy New Year," Does
it not seem that the wish carries a
blessing with it? And I believe it
does when spoken by friends whose
words are always true, and sincere.
:. For the benefit of those thoughtless
ones who never read between the lines,
let us analyze this significant greeting.
In the first place we wish our friends
happiness, and the next question which
naturally suggests itself is, what con-
stitutes happiness? A little friend of
mine tells me that it is to eat all the
candy he wants and not to go to bed
until he wants to do so. Another
friend OF more mature years saws that
she would be perfectly happy if she
had all the money she wanted To snend
as she liked. Another desires fame.
another social position. And SO we
might go On asking and finding out
that almost every one has a different
definition for happiness. NJ ~
IT the young lad were allowed to
follow his own sweet will and surfeit
himself with sweets and late hours. I
think the result would be anything but
happy. AS for wealth, who can blame
anyone for wishing for all that one
cares to spend, and especially a WON
an to whom a separate income is the
exception rather than the rule. It is
the spending of it which decides the
happiness or unhappiness OF the
possessor. / do not believe that any
one was ever really happy who used
wealth merely to crafty selfish am
billions.
fame, too, is a good thing to pos
sess, but how many who have gained
this high! pinnacle will tell you that
it brings happiness Social position is
also something after which there is
much striving. Yet when the coveted
place is reached it is so often found
to be barren, and happiness has no
resting place there. Social position
brings heavy responsibilities with it,
and social duties are hard and labori-
Gus without the happy results that
follow labor in more worthy causes. &
1t seems. then, that there must be
Isome special way to happiness not
easily found. There is, but it is easy
enough to be seen by all who care
to follow its winding way. Wiser
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29

New Years Eve, and at home. This
Is coy little den of mine, just as it
looks now, quite eclipses anything I
ever see at the club; books, pipes, easy
chairs, cheerful fire in the CRATE;
pictures, busts, my well-beloved etch-
ings all about the walls.
, What's the matter with you, old
man, tonight? Why are you taking an
inventory of these surroundings ON
this last night of the year? Everybody
thinks you are tired OF them, don't you
know, for you spend very little time
in their midst, says some provoking
little voice. (Wonder if it's my con-
science.)
Dorothy is up stairs, the servants
are out; as soon as she finishes the
sewing of button on Johnnie's re-
fractory trousers she will come down,
she says, and watch the old year out,
being evidently we'll pleased over the
prospect of club night of our own,
a little Home, Sweet Home" sort of
an arrangement.
1t seems that Johnnie is the only
member of our family not a member of
club. Dorothy simply holds on to
the little shaver by the collar, tied to
her apron strings he is, and I am glad
of it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29

1tants. lney think they themselves
were very strong in the water-in fact,
they lived in it. The story goes that
a woman and her children were float
ing around on the, reef, when a man
appeared from the west with basket
of soil on his shoulders He had
started out to make an island with a
mountain on it. One of the children
cried out to him, Give us a little sol!
to make a place for our mother to rest.
for she is, very weak and cannot
SWIM He took out handful of the
earth and. threw it down, making an
island. AS the man was going on his
way over the water, the son slyly
made a hole in the basket; so, as he
proceeded on his way, he left a trail
of land behind. Suddenly he became
conscious that the basket seemed light,
and looking around, he saw the land.
In his anger he turned about and trod
upon it. and thus the islands were
formed. .@t>.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
C5c Metz year -|pirif.

The return Of New Years day in
vites many people to the most somber
reflections. Undoubtedly most Of us
can find abundant occasion for these.
but there is such a thing as pushing
self-eAamination and self-condemna-
ton to the point of Encouragement,
The best temper with which we can
enter upon the new year is that OF
faith, faith in God and faith in our
selves through His help. It is about
as certain as anything can be that the
new year will bring US new expert
tences. Our courage, our capacity for
endurance, our steadiness Of character
and power Of resistance is to be tested.
At the end OF the year We are going
to be nobler men and women than we.
are today, OF we shall have deterior-
1ated morally, and forever afterWard
there will be narrowing opportunities
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
DOROTHY IS REALLY ELOQUENT

DOROTHY IS REALLY ELOQUENT.
such diet as slipping frappes, Russian
teas and chocolate to a respectable,
coy dinner with your George Angus
stus; and" (pausing for breath) don't
be angry; couldn't you leave out that
tiresome. quarrelsome card party and.
await my return with unruf1ed nerves
for instance. meet me at the door just
as you used to do, little wife?" grow
ing little more tender).
Why, whatever can be the matter
with you, George Augustus? 1t is
only a case of too many clubs in the
family, that is all; easily remediedr
you know. If this is to be a Home
club tonight, let us invoke the spirit
OF the New Year here, right under
this roof; let us stand here, and with
the right hand uplifted VOW that
naught shall come between thee and
me, George Augustus and Dorothy.
we will reach that land of trust and
confidence that requires no weapon,
not even a club, to create or quell a
disturbance" Dorothy is really elo-
Quent.
Bring down the tin box, Dorothy.
{ we are the Ollapodrida club 1.-THE,
tin box, Dorothy and y in memory,
OF those boys who are trying another
sort OF trapeze swinging high or low
with the wings Of ambition, un to
Greater heights .
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29

We'll, we'll, so this is New Years
day,' said Mr.. Spooner. do you re-
member how We (quarreled this day
one year ago?'
Remember! I think I do" cried
MS wife. why, the cards were order
ed when it happened, and I didn't
know whether could have your name
taken out and Dicks inserted, in case
changed my mind
In case 1 changed my mind, you
mean, dear. Strange that I never sus
pected how much poor Dora cared for
me until that day"
I'm sure she had concealed it very
well-the way she ran after Dick, as
II he ever had eyes for anybody but
me! He never told his love, but wo-
mans intuition was" yE
"A synonym of vanity, dear. OF
course, couldn't help knowing that
she cared for me when / met her in
the boarding house parlor, with her
eyes full of tears, on the very morning
after you had told Marie, her dearest
friend, that we were to be married in
a month";
"Humph, that girl would cry about.
anything. I've known her to cry when
the villain in the play was killed-as if
a villain could expect anything else in
the last act. But as soon as saw Dick
that morning knew that he knew it.
why, his necktie had slipped around
under one ear and his voice, as he
wished me happy New Year, was SO
sad that | felt guilty, though my con-
science told me that had not encour-
aged him."
you've forgotten how you used to
praise the shape of his head
AS If that meant anything! A girl
only praises the shape of a mans head
when she can't find anything else to
Pc Halter him about lit means no
more than it does when she tells a
small man that he resembles Napoleon.
But when l remembered that you had
once gone down on the floor in your
new trousers to pick up Dora's hand
kerchief knew that I had been cruelty
deceived. So when you reproached me
about Dick, T.
Il remember how badly I felt when
she replied to my New Years greet
ing with the remark that happiness
for her was over forever. And before
l could comfort her Miss Marie came
in and 1 could only go sadly away
without telling her that 1 should al
ways be brother to her"
And poor Dick, asked MIN II tner~
was anything I could do for him; he
replied: Yes but just then the maid
came in with q note for him, and he
said he must go at once-I think he
wished to be alone with his sorrow.
Then you came in, and, instead OF
sharing my pity for him, you accused
me Of flirting with him.
"1-er-don't remember that. But
wasn't it odd that before left you for
ever, Miss Marie should come in and
tell us that Dora and Dick were en-
gagged! I've often wondered how it
happened that they decided to console
each other"
And so have I. Why, here is Marie
now-perhaps she can explain. Sit
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
Sc. 40 PER YEAR.

said to myself If I were dead,
What would befall these children?
-.. What would be
Their fate, who are now looking I'D
tome
For help and furtherance? Their
lives,
I said,
Would it be a volume wherein I have
read
But the first chapters, and no long
er see
TO readIthe rest of their dear history
81 full of beauty and SO full of dread:
Be comforted: the world is very old.
And generations pass, as they have
passed,
A troop of shadows moving with the
sun;
Thousands of times has the old tale
been told;
The world belongs to those who.
come the last,
They will find hope and strength as
we have done.
Was ever answer sent to mortal
man more clearly?
think I'm sent for; there's some
thing besides old Father Time after
me-. surely. Here is the very answer
to my. dismals as to those boys ane,
their ,doings. But here comes Dorothy,
singing, apparently in a very cheerful
mood.
This. is perfectly lovely, George
Augustus.
"Johnnie's trousers are all right for
tomorrow, and l have been looking.
over my precious tin box, and find.
such lovely bits of literature and all
sorts; suppose we look them over to-
night"
Perhaps Dorothy noticed an unusual
expression on my manly countenance,
for she paused and said: What are
you thinking about? What has this
old year been saying to you2-~Are yon
| having retrospective sort of revival
meeting all by yourself?"
Only few ideas have struck me,
Dorothy. l rather like this Cen OF
mine, especially tonight, and one or
two articles in these books here seem.
to have been written especially for me,
and an uncomfortable little voice.
has been questioning me. A thought
strikes me that we,- you and l. have
drifted apart rather more than I ever
dreamed we could. There has been
a sort of We fellows at the club air
and manner about me, that I really
think now, as l sit here, has been a
foolishness on my part that I shall
endeavor to discontinue; q sort OF
desire to be in with the boys and
/, off with my wife I hope, Dorothy,
that you do not think my past is
really a dreadful one to look back
upon"
20, no." Dorothy replied, with some
thing of a twinkle in her eyes; "but,
then, you know, you might be more
of a saint, if you tried, DEAR
And perhaps, most noble and ador-
able (my temper rising) and twen-
tieth century wife, if I should give up
my Sunday evenings at the club, pos
sibly you may be willing to sacrifice a
few of those insufferable teas and
bring an appetite uncontaminated with
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29

neighborhood took on a sudden quiet?
The question arose, where are those
boys? Dorothy and I knew all about it,
Tor were we not invited to become
honorary members of their club, THE
Ollapodrida?" We helped to foot the
bills. and evinced an interest in the
affairs of the club; we lent them ten
cents to buy material to reseat an old
WORKOUT chair; there was another
item; twenty-five cents for lumber,
ETC., and last, but not least, and that
which caused Dorothy much suffering,
were sundry pieces of rope to be fur
nished with all the paraphernalia of
trapeze arrangement, preparatory to
meanderings aloft, all of which caused
a rush of blood to my head, as I
thought of these venturesome boys,t
three Of them at work daily, expert
menting with the center of gravity,
walking On their heads being the OBJ
jective point apparently.
We are happily rejoicing these days,
however, in more recent occupant of
the family cradle, who so far walks
feet downward after the fashion of
mortals.
AS time goes on, the children's
youthful exploits, with the accom-
panying worries of their elders, fade
into oblivion, as the more serious as
pect confronts us.
The Ollapodrida members of my
family have taken unto themselves a
few extra years; two of these afore-
said members are looking college
ward, and I seem to worry about them
in wonderful way quite unlike my
self. ~ 2--',s -. 49,. ~. o.
The bread and butter question con-
fronts me? What profession will be
theirs? Are they sufficiently strong in
purpose to resist this or that?
The day will come when Dorothy
and cannot shield them or stand be-
meath them and the cold world; we
won't be here to settle the little ac-
counts or encounters, or watch the lit
tie cotillions they are going to have
with the jewellers of this mundane
sphere. b ~ - -.
Then comes the question over again:
We'll, old fellow, what's the matter
now? Can't. you let the boys alone,
and let them fght4it out just as you
did?" Some truth in that, I answer.
II will wait until Dorothy comes and
I'll ask her, just for curiosity, what
she thinks of my past, and the general
outlook"
In part am going to turn over a
new leaf.
Here is volume OF Longfellow be-
side me on the table, lie is SO human.
you know, and l will close my eyes.
open the book "a little game OF
chance. You see), and on the page
where my finger rests will try if by
chance word of comfort come to me.
that would hit my case.
seem to have case OF the blues:
probably staying away from the club
on this convivial occasion is not agree
ing with me.
Shut your eyes, open the book,
says the little exhorter, that unseen
individual.
Presto change o, what meets my
eye? Will it be some dire prophecy
Or Here it is under my forefnger:
"A Shadow. It reads:
I -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
REASONABLE ~ayinGs.

~ coSO00OSe - 0.p11SJ.
The new leaf that very seldom gets
turned over is the one in the diary.
Some men claim that they see the
old year out and the new one in by
getting SO drunk that they can't see
anything.
BY New Year the silver plating
wears off many Christmas present.
A good beginning is nalf the battle
except in the case of keeping a diary.
The new date is as hard to remem-
Der as the new leaf.
Even though the arctic explorer
never discovers the north pole he de-
serves credit, for he always keeps a
diary.
New Year gives us a chance to re-
ciprocate to those who unexpectedly
gave us present, at Christmas.
Seeing the old year out puts a man
in a fit condition to swear off the next
day-N Y. World.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29

idle wish. How much do you mean by
it? It's very easy to repeat the form
ula. It's avery simple matter to buy,
a New Years card and enclose it in
an envelope. But when you send this
greeting, or speak it, do you regard
it as a pledge or promise that you will
do nothing to make the recipient OF
it unhappy, and that you will do all
in your power to relieve his anxieties
and bring gladness to his heart?-
Baptist Union. s.~.z
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
And knows no night.

She clasps the hands of loved ones
waiting there ~. ~. :
On Heavens shore. r. - +.
With them she treads those streets so
Wondrous fair, tt9 ~ -
~. =. In rapture DER.
IN glad surprise, joyous and pure and
" free,
= u Her soul so. blest, +.
Solves the deep mystery of eternity
And perfect rest. -
- Isabel L. Boardman, in N. Y. OBJ.
server. 2sr -. sa..4
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
Washing in Sweden.

The Grand Rapids man who shipped
train load of washboards to London
and cleared q fortunesby their. sale at
25 cents each, would find fair field
in the provinces OF Sweden. The wash
ing is done there by rubbing between
the fists and beating with paddle.
This, however, is not SO uncivilized
IS it ct first appears. There are hun
drcds of thousands Of women in the
backWoods of the United States Of
America Wo do their own washing and
never thought Of using corrugated
board. They wash beside a branch
boiling the clothes in a three legged
pot, rinsing them in the stream, wiring
ing them by hand, rubbing them be-
tween the knuckles and beating them
on a puncheon with fiat oaken pad
dies resembling a cricket bat. Oh, the
buttons, the buttons. New York
Press.
1 There turks in the mind Of man a
longing for something beyond the
,1,c1
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
Coffee Growing In Africa.l

The scoffee-growing industry in trop-.
,ical Africa is developing tremend ously.
The seed was introduced into the
country about five years ago by some
English missionaries with the object
OF ascertaining whether the resources
tof the country were favorable to the
culture Of the article. The ground
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
The Metz Years Greefi7G.

You look worried, BroWn,' said
Green.
worried! l should say 1 am, See
those?" And he drew out of his over
coat pocket a great bundle of state
ments of accounts.
'Ha! hal" laughed Green, you will
make Christmas present to your wife,
will you. without counting the cost
.frst?" The lines around Browns eyes
deepened and his mouth dropped sad
ly. NO." he said, "that's not it. These
are not for presents I made my wife -
'Why, what are they for, them"
asked Green, wonderingly. T.
For the presents my wife made
me-
And the men shook hands in tender
mpathy.-Detroit Free Press.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29

While we think Of the latter alterna-
tive it is well to strengthen our hearts
by the former. Let us believe that we,
are not going to fail and we have taken
a long step towards success. When
another New Years day comes around
we are going to be able TO reckon solid
gains in character. won through the
trials and temptations and emergen-
cies of the year s experience. Boston
Waterman.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
The Metz Century.

Loves harmonies flow toward him full
and sweet;
Sins wild, .discordant cries are past
him hurled.
With sad, glad heart and. brave, re-
luctant feet
He steps upon the, threshold OF the
world
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
SHE AND DICK QUARRELED."

down, Marie, do. Tom and are just
going over old times. Do you remem-
Der last New Years day, and"
Indeed I do. I've just been to see
Dora, and she was talking about it..
She and Dick quarreled last New
Years Eve about the date of their
marriage. and almost parted forever.
They think you both must have guess
ed it. I remember that Tom was in
the parlor with Dora when ran in on
New Years morning to tell her Of your
engagement. She had been on the
point of asking him. to help her to
make up with Dick. And when she
told me about it. ] wrote him a note
telling him that I believed she would
forgive him if he came at once. That
note found him at your house, Irene,
W w ne had gone to ask your aid as
peacemaker. Odd, wasn't it?''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
The dnnuaI Gree1i,1f.

a Happy New Year to you'll" This
is the greeting which VIII be heard
on every side as We cross the TIRES
hold of the new year. Is has become
a custom to repeat It. q many cases
it has little meaning, and Is nothing
more than an empty compliment or an
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
None TO Curn Deer.

= thought you were going to turn
over new leaf, john" she said.
7 was" he replied, "but / find I
cam
why not?''
= There won't be any new leaves until
spring. &c Chicago Post.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29

appears peculiarly adapted to the in
dustry, since last year 100 tons of cof-
fee were exported from Uganda alone;
and the result of this years produc-
ton will be even greater.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
Merely On Qffscinr Eorn

Merely an Official Form.
He wished me happy New Year;
The words would have tickled me,
but
knew from his bearing austere
I was booked for a salary cut.
Chicago Record.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29

greets .>.@% ~
The New Years dawn,
While we, with heads bowed low and
dull heartbeats. t..
! Live sadly. on. @>-= ~ .
Visions too grandly bright for mortal
gaze, t@~@s.
To her unfold :@
Blossoms each noble deed OF earthly
days, I'M , -.....
In beautyss mold.
The glory of o fa her eyes have
seen. sF =
-, With undimmed sight,.
Safe in His presence, dear, she dwells
serene -.s....3h..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29

There turks in the mind Of man a
longing for something beyond the
present.--Humbc1dt.
The Florence tribune., 1900-03-10

OUR esteemed Republican contemp- orary, the Arizona Graphic, sees danger for it's party in the rumor that Reppy contemplates removing to Tucson and engaging in the newspaper business, and claims that "Reppy is good natured socialistic Democrat. There is no doubt about his being good natured, nor that he is a socialist, as Webster defines it-one who thoroughly believes in 8 theory of society which advocates more precise, orderly and harmonious arrangement of the social relations of mankind than that which has hitherto prevailed1-but he is in clined to take issue with the Graphic when it classes him as a democrat after sizing up some of the creatures calling themselves democrats who have nc higher conception of democracy than a hog has of Sunday. Our republic is a democracy, pure and simple, or was until recently, and it's citizens are or should be all democrats. If, as the Graphic intimates, there is danger to the Republican party in candid and dispassionate criticism, then God help Ehe party. A man who is so blinded by prejudice that he can see no wrong in his party, when wrong exists, is not good citizen, and certainly does not understand the first principles of run liDg newspaper.