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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

but there are no exchanges of that sort
or we should all be noble sinners.
The petty faults are the thorns that
cluster round some of the finest roses
in life's big garden, crowding, Earring,
overlapping one another in their eager
ness to get to the light.
Maybe the old year has been a good
friend in some special instances that
you can recall.
Perhaps it brought you back with
a short, sharp shock from a too AFRO
CANT happiness or an overconfident sue
cess.
Be glad of that jar, even though it
kept you stirred up for awhile.
Perhaps the past IL months have
healed some breach or brought some
ship home, the white sails of which
you have been watching wistfuIly for
months or years far out at sea.
Be glad of that.
Perhaps some milestone has fallen
from you and you stand free at last on
the great highway with long, manacled
arms reached out to the sky
Be glad!
Or peace has settled on a troubled
ocean and you can greet the sunrise
with smile and prayer of thankful
ness for another day.
Maybe there is cradle in one cor
ner of your home this New Years eve
with a most important guest cuddled
in down blankets and rose-leaf palms
upturned for your kisses.
No need to tell you to be glad.
Or success has come to crown some
effort at which you have toiled rather
YEARLY, hardly daring to hope.
Or if it has been withheld, be glad
that you have nevertheless tried. 1t
will all come to you some day.
The old year has taught us lessons.
Let us profit by them and enter into
than plunge into it as though it were
a rose garden.
1t is quite as full of danger and con-
fiict and clouds as the old friend that
is going.
Let us wish it will have even as
much sunshine and gladness and joy.
We can meet it with splendid hope
and lively faith-for those two quail
ties are what make our dreams come
true.
Let us cherish few good hopes that
it may bring us the things we stand
in need of-health, happiness, good
friends success, joy and the clear
vision that will teach us to discern the
false from the true.
May it leave us our beliefs and our
ideals.
Teach us to love more and to hate
not at all.
To be content with the blessings that
we have.
To cultivate sweetness and good ma
ture rather than exclusiveness.
To meet the world with a smile.
To stifie criticism of things and peo-
pie.
Never to make little of our own.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

TFIE Bachelor-How bright the FIRE.
How CHEEKY the cracking logs.
Outside the Dying Year battles with
the raging Storm.
what has the Old Year brought to
me that should mourn its passing2
Loves in plenty. But were they loves
or were they passing fantasies = bright
spots Of blue peeping through the Stormy
sky. It's many sorry trick Dan Cupid
has played me during the past twelve
months. Gould but have him here I'D
review him for his benefit.
''Ah, the bell ringsI What friend or
foe has braved the elements and come to
disturb my reveries Of New Years
Eve?"
ENTER Butler.)
The Bachelor - A wee, small gentle
man to see me, James, you say. But
Just a sweet-faced child. His card -
Dan Cupid Yes, | know him, and you
may show him up. But, James, you're
not Judge Of character. He's not a
child, he's old as time, and as full Of
deviIish pranks as that neighbor's brat Of
whom you so complain.
Oames departs and returns ushering In
Dan Cupid)
Dan Cupid-Ha, ha, dear sir, tbs not
loves night. Business is dull, and so |
come to beg a chat with you and may,
perchance, revile you for the shortcom-
ings of the year that is passing.
The Bachelor Revile me, you imp
Of SatanI Why, twas but a moment
before your ring that wished for you
that might review for your benefit the
times you've played me false. Now sit
you down and let's turn back the pages
of the passing year and see the record.
1t surely will show you up in your true
colors.
(Gets volume from the shelly
"NVe'l start With January, and with
Eleanor. Dan, you rogue, you wounded
me for fair with her. should not have
cared had time and eternity been made
up Of Januarys could but have had
Eleanor to sit beside me beforethe crack
ling fire throughout them all. pleaded
well my case. but she would have none
Of it, and then learned that you had
played me false. Through February,
March and April | nursed the wound
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

SN'T it hard, said the
widow, glancing ruefully
at the holly-wreathed
clock on the mantel-piece,
to know where to begin
reforming yourself?"
Great heavens!" ex-
claimed the bachelor,
you are not going to do
anything like that, are
your"
The widow pointed sol
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
NEW YEARS DAY IN CHINA.
The Breakfast Is Poetic and Re.
licious Rite.

Except at the Chinese New Year.
which comes in February, it is very
hard to catch a glimpse of children
in China. Little beggars will run be-
side you for miles to earn one "cash,"
a copper coin with square hole in
the middle of it, worth the twentieth
part of cent; but children who have
parents to care for them seem co be
kept indoors all the time, or only al
lowed to play in walled yards and gar
dens, writes Bertha Runkle in st.
Nicholas. We used to say to each
other: why, where are the chill
dren? Haven't they got any?" But
at New Years we found out that they
had
This is the great holiday of all the
year in China, when everybody hangs
out flags and colored lanterns and sets
off firecrackers. eve borrowed our
custom Of f1recrackers for the Fourth
of July from Chinese New Year's.)
All the people put on their very best
clothes, and the children the best of
all, jackets and trousers of bright blue
or green or yellow or purple, the boys
and girls so much alike that you can
only tell them apart by their hair.
The boys, of course. is braided in a
pigtail, and the girls is done up on
her head with silver pins, or, if she's
very grand little girl, with gold or
jade Thus decked out, the children
go walking with their proud papas and
mammas, and often go to the theater,
which is rare treat for them.
Perhaps Chinese children have romp-
ing plays together, but they al
ways look as if they were born
grown up.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
HAVE you HATED YOURSELF?
Now Is the Time to Turn Over the
New Leaf.

How have you hated yourself dur
ing the past year for doing the mean,
contemplate, questionable thing! Yet
you have tried to console yourself
with the great good you could do with
the money you made by it. 1t is
astonishing how men will play with
the poison of dishonesty which is so
inSidious at first, which intoxicateS
and stimulates one. but paralyzeS and
kills later, says Dr. Marden in Success.
If every youth were only taught that
to be successful man must be great
er than his occupation; that his char
acter must not be for sale at any
price; that he will always be rich SO
long as he retains it. and just in pro-
portion to it's strength and integrity,
and weak and unhappy and failure
no matter how much money he may
have, just in proportion to the weak
ness of his character; if he only
started out with the conviction that
only one real failure is possible, and
that is the loss of self respect, the
barter of ones character, either for
pleasure or for money; if the youth
were only taught that he cannot afford
to deceive even a little bit in the
quality of goods he is selling, or in
the quality of the service he is giving,
what a revolution would come to our
civilization!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

arts. Whence cometh the great ar
lists of the world, such as Raphael,
Dore, Angelo, Tintoretto, Reubens,
Munkacsy, Hoffman, Tissot? Are they
not the products of Chrigtian people?
This is also true in the musical world.
It took a Christ to give inspiration to
the musicians. Take away the great
Christian composers and YOU take
away the productions of Mozart Bee
thoven, Handel, Haydn, Wagner and
hosts of others, and you leave a cry.
ing wilderness.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

caused by your treacherous dart, and il
was not until the flowers of May began
to bloom that it would heal. But three
shorts months and yet they seemed like
years, like centuries, to me,
Dan Cupid-Good sir, the fault was
yours, not mine. Across that page can
you not read the promises you made the
budding year? How did you keep thema
Not at all. Had you but been the angel
you started out to be, fair Eleanor would
have had no grounds for the curt refusal
she meted out to you.
The Bachelor-Ah, well, Dan, | was
but human-that is, to err. She married,
yes, and | suppose believed she had
captured the one real matrimonial prize.
But yesterday twas good to read the
courts had cast asunder the bonds that
bound, and set her free to wound another
heart.
Dan Cupid But you shall credit me
with other opportunities that ! made for
opportunities more in keeping with
your deserts.
The Bachelor Dan, there was
Jessica, Of the yachting party. The wound
she left was not long in healing, but was
painful at first. Then, later, there was
Isabel. How | adored her. Your aim
was sure, and the bow was strong that
send that shaft into my heart. Never can
| forget the tender words with which |
wooed her at the seashore, nor the pull
sations Of my heart when she answered
Eyes" But. Dan, you rascal, you know
her. But once since those summer days
have seen her. She served me coffee
and rolls in a quick lunch room in No
vember. did not ask her where | might
redeem the ring.
Eyes, Dan, there were others. But
why review them9 And Iii forgive you,
you imp. Ill lay not up against you a
single pang or dollar-they have cost
neon one condition you shall
not, for this next year, point your darts in
my direction. Do you agree? Then
well burn the book, and think no more
Of it." (Casts it into the fire.
"And now, then, Dan, the year is dy-
ing. A toast to it and its fond memories;
to your escapades and my escapades; to
the fair girls who caused the heart throbs
Of a season: to the broken promises that
saved me troubles; to the Old Year.
And another, Dan, to the year just
borning;' to the anticipations which it
brings. The bells are ringing; the Old
Year is dead; the New Year lives, and
now, good night, but please remember
that you have promised not to aim your
darts in my direction"
exit Dan Cupid and Curtain.)
Wright A. Patterson.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

pledge, serve him wine with every
course. If you want him to hate
woman, invite her to meet him every
time he calls, and tell him how 'suita-
BILE she would be-
And if you want him to love you"
finished the bachelor, don't ask him
to swear it, but tell him that he really
ought not to- The best way to man
age a donkey-human or otherwise
is to turn his head in the wrong di-
rection and he'll back in the right
one"
"Then," said the widow decisively,
we ought to begin the New Year by
making some PROSECUTIONS"
Somewhat"
Vows that we won't stop doing the
things we ought not to do" explained
the widow.
"All right" agreed the bachelor
thoughtfully, 'I'll make an irresolu-
ton to go on making love to you as
much as l like
'You mean, as much as / like, Mr..
Travers," corrected the widow Sc
verely.
How much do you like?" asked the
bachelor, leaning over to look into
the widows eyes.
The widow kicked the corner of the
rug tentatively.
Il like-all but the proposing" she
said slowly. You really ought to
stop that"
I'm going to stop it-to-night."
The widow looked up in alarm.
ooh, you don't have to commence
keeping your resolutions until to-
morrow morning" she said quickly.
"And are you going to stop refusing
me-to-night," continued the bachelor
firmly.
The widow studied the corner of
the rug with great concern.
And" went on the bachelor, TAX
ing something from his pocket and
toying with it thoughtfully, you are
going to put on this ring leaned
over, caught the widows hand and
slipped the glittering thing on her
third finger. Now" he began, ''you
are going to say that you will"
The widow sprang up suddenly.
ooh, don't, don't, don't!" she cried.
I'm a moment We'll me making prom
ises!'
I'VE don't need to-" said the bache
lor, leaning back nonchalantly, 1--WE
can begin by arrangements.
Would you prefer to live in town or
at Tuxedo? And do you think Europe
or Bermuda the best place for the"
Bermuda, by all means" broke in
the widow, ''and I wish you'd have
that hideous portico taken off your
town house, Billy, and" But the
rest of her words were smothered in
the bachelors coat lapel-and some
thing else.
"Then you do mean to marry me,
after ALI" cried the bachelor tri-
umphantly.
The widow gasped for breath and
patted her hair anxiously.
II meant to marry you all the
time!" she cried, "but l never thought
you were really in earnest and"
"Methinks," quoted the bachelor
happily, that neither of us did pro-
test too much We haven't made any
promises, you know"
Not one rejoined the widow
promptly "as to my flirting"
Nor as to my clubs"
Nor as to my relatives"
"NOr nv cigars"
"And we won't make any vows"
cried the widow, except marriage
VOWS"
and New Years irresolutions,'
added the bachelor
''Listen!" cried the widow softly,
with her fingers on her lips.
A peal of thousand silver bells
rang out on the midnight air.
1.-The chimes!" exclaimed the wild
ow. They're full of promises"
Il thought it sounded like we'd
ding bell" said the bachelor, disap-
pointedly.
Maybe" said the widow, 'it was
only Love-ringing off. Los Angeles
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
Christ the Foundation.

The Bible is the Christians text
book, and no matter whether man
seeks to examine it's literary excellen-
cies or to comprehend its doctrines
or to explore its mysteries or fathom
it's revelations he cannot fail to have
his mind enlarged and to have his
mental faculties strengthened. The
greatest scholars of to-day are believ-
ers in Christ. The inventive genius
of the world is found among Christian
people. This is also true In the fine
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I EEA your"
&zRhEzzsh8 The widow pointed sol
emily to the hands of the clock,
which indicated 1880, and then to
the calendar on which hung one fut-
.tering leaf marked December 81.
1T is time" she sighed, ito begin
mental housekeeping; to sweep out
our collection of last years follies and
dust off our petty sins and fling away
our old vices and"
That's the troubled" broke in the
bachelor. IT'S so hard to know just
what to throw away and what to keep,
Making New Years resolutions is like
doing the spring housekeeping or
clearing OUT drawer full of old let
tiers and sentimental rubbish. You
know that there are lots of things
you ought to get rid of, and that are
just in the way, and that you would
be better off without, but the minute
you make up your mind to part with
anything, even q tiny, insignificant
vice. it suddenly becomes so dear and
attractive that you repent and begin
to take new interest in it. The only
time | ever had to be taken home in
a cab was the day after l promised to
sign the pledge" and the bachelor
sighed reminiscently.
And the only time l ever overdrew
my bank account" declared the wild
ow. was the day after | had resolved
to economic. l suppose she added
pensively, that the best way to begin
would be to pick out the worst vice
and discard that"
And that will leave heaps of room
for the others and for lot of new lit
tie sins, beside, won't it," agreed the
bachelor cheerfully. We'll" he added
philosophfcally, III give up murder
ing
What" the widow started
Don't you want me to-" asked the
bachelor plaintively, rubbing his bald
spot OR perhaps 1 might resolve not
to commit highway robbery any more
or to stop forging or"
"All of which is so easy!" broke in
the widow sarcastically.
"There'd be. some glory and some
reason in giving up a big vice." sigh
ed the bachelor, IF a fellow had one.
But the trouble is that most of us men
haven't any big criminal tendencies,
merely a heap of little follies and
weaknesses that there isn't any par
ticular virtue in sacrificing or any
particular harm in keeping"
''And which you always do keep, in
spite of all your New Years vows, "
remarked the widow ironically.
'Huh!" The bachelor laughed cyni-
cally. Its our New Years VOWS that
help US to keep EN-. The very fact
that a fellow has sworn to forego any
thing, whether it's a habit or a girl,
makes it more attractive. I've thrown
away a whole box of cigars with the
finest intentions in the world and then
gotten up in the middle of the night
to fish the pieces out of the waste has.
ket And that midnight smoke was
the sweetest l ever had. 1t was
sweeter than the apples | stole when
was a kid and the kisses stole
when"
IF you came here to dilate on the
joys of sin, Mr.. Trayers," began the
widow coldly.
And" proceeded the bachelor,
1--WE made up my mind to stop fiirt
ing with girl, because I found out
that she was beginning to-to-"
Il understand" interrupted the
widow sympathetically
And. by Jovei" finished the bache
Ior, 4 had to restrain myself to keen
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

MOTHER year has found
us just as we were getting
comfortably used to the
idea that summer had
really gone.
Busy people never have
time to dwell very much
on the passing Of the sea-
sons.
The days are so full of
tasks and Father Time is
always catching up and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
Dramatks Personae

Dramahs Personae-
A City Bachelor.
Dan Cupid.
James, the Butler.
Scene-The fvfng room, of a 1'ealhy
bachelors apartments.
Tlme-We1c Years Ebe.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-16
BACK TO THE REVOLUTION.

There can be no doubt about the anti
religious spirit that has prompted the
war upon tho Catholic church In
France The most recent proof has
been supplied by the Minister of Fin
anee who has directed that the motto.
Cod Protect France" be dropped from
French coins. This recognition of the
supremacy Of the Deity is 10 be re-
placed by the old revolutionary battle
cry Liberty, Equality and Frater-
nifty"
The removal of the name OF the SUI
preme Ruler from the coins would not
be Objectionable If II were done IN "a
spirit OF reverence, to remove the dam
ger of profaning the name. But the
substitution OF the slogan that re-
minds of time IN the history
Of France when God was de-
throned and reason revered instead,
and even the expression year of our
Lord" (Anno Domln) was struck from
the calendar. for fear II might direct
the attention of the people to God, is
proof positive OF the prevailing spirit.
Christian rulers generally acknowledge
that they hold their authority by the
grace OF God Dol Gratia, and the peo-
pie of this Republic retain the motto
that certainly expressed the sincere
sentiment of the founders, In God We
Trust ae ..ttse,t M
The Pope. It is said, is receiving
strong expressions OF sympathy from
foreign governments, At the same time
these inform the vatican that It is alb
solutely impossible to interfere In
Frances Internal affairs, even though
the injustice OF the treatment received
by the church were patent TO every
one. The Pope did not. of course, ex-
pect foreign Interference. 1t is limited
that the Vatican authorities will not
make public the answers received to
their official note through diplomatic
channels. because some of them criti-
else severely the actions of French Off
cials In relation To the Holy See, and
their answers might cause internation-
al difficulties II given publicity
A religious war Is on in France. The
| question there now Is not one of sep
araton between church and state, but
| of the dominance of the state over the
church That is the reason why SYM
pathy Is expressed for the Roman
church In France even by some Prot
estants and by many Americans
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-16
MORE CARS.
Collier,s Meekly.


Prosperity cries: More cars" And
the beseechment receives only helpless
echoes from the building compa-
MES. These are months behind their
orders. The shipper clamors at the
railroad, the railroad clamors at the
car-builder; the car-builder does his
best, but that best does not keep up
with Prosperity, In the west there are
not cars enough to carry coal to those
who need It, nor TO move the grain to
the -four mills. In the Pennsylvania
manufacturing districts millions of tons
OF freight await cars to carry them to
market 1t all reads magnificently-
something like a man so rich that hG
can't invest his money as fast as II
accumulates. But he is fatuous who
secs In this merely a temporary incon-
venience flowing from abundance. Pros
perlty without cars is no prosperity.
Coal at the mouth of the mine is not
heat or power or light; wheat in the
barn, unable to reach the MILL is not
fiour or bread, And, moreover. manu-
facturers mineowners, all producers
do business on cedit. To pay their bills
they depend on prompt marketing OF
their output. Goods clogging the fac
tories, and no cars TO carry them TO
purchasers--if this does not spell po-
tential panic what handwriting is
clear?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-16
RAISED FROM THE DEAD.

The case of a child brought back TO life
special dispatch from London to the
Chicago Record Herald. Instances of
miraculous headings are not uncommon
in the history OF the Church and even
cases Of rescue from the very grip OF
death are testified TO by witnesses
But the world is given TO skepticism.
and even soothing, when such apparent
violations OF natural laws are declared
possible. II is therefore not without
interest 10 read Of this case as reported
by the press, which. by the way. is not
the only one on record,
The dispatch gives the name OF the
child as Ruth Geoffrey. eight years OF
age, and says she was virtually raised
from the dead at Farnham Isolation
Hospital. she was taken TO the instltu-
ton IN a dying condition and appar-
entity ceased TO breathe while prepara-
lions for the operation We're going on.
Artificial respiration was employed and
In twenty minutes she commenced
breathing again. The report says
THE child. who has twice had pneu-
monla WIS brought IN apparently IN a
hopeless condition, suffering from dlph-
iberia. She was really AZ her last gasp.
She was removed TO the operating room
whore two doctors and three nurses
were I'm attendance. No sooner had
the chloroform been given than the
ohild's breathing ceased, Her heart
certainly did not beat The chlld's COLI
on was WaSen.
zone Of the nurses left the room. say =
Ing. II Is All over
But the doctors determined 10 pro-
coed with the operation. Tracheotomy
waa performed, though tho child was
apparently dead. Tho operation took
exactly twenty minutes. Then, as u
last hope. artificial respiration. aided
by suychnlne, brandy ana hot bottles,
was employed.
TO everyone'a amaacment the child
began TO breathe again. The STAFF was
delighted as Wen as astonlshed."
This resusctatlon is not represented
as miraculous and yet It must he
cassod among the miracles Of science
Of which our age is so replete. II sug-
gests tho thought that what is possible
through natural means scientifically
applied should not be deemed mpossl-
bio 10 Him whose knowledge is perfect,
even after stlll longer absence OF the
usual signs OF life,
The case proves perhaps. how indis-
tlnct sometimes is the boundary line be-
tween life and death, The partition be-
tween this world and the neSi Is indeed
thin The difficulty OF asoertaining the
extinction OF life beyond doubt has