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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30

GIFTS TOR tne NEW wear.
If all loves gifts of grace or power
Lay spread before my choice this
hour,
What should claim as life's best
dover?
Dear God, how should ! know7
Unfailing love, from sun to sun?
Unfailing wealth, in honor won?
Unfailing health-all gifts in one?
Nay; all of these may go.
For love, that comes our lives to
bless.
Must evermore be counted less
In grace, and might and tenderness,
Than gifts that from us flow.
And health the tender soul may drain
OF power to share the sufferers pain,
And strength is weakness, power is
vain,
That soothes no human woe.
And wealth of treasure, land or gold,
Is only sweet to have and hold
To those whose mercies manifold
In ceaseless gifts o'erflow.
So, from the dazzling, tempting
three
How can l choose? Choose Thou for
me,
Give or withhold, but let me be
Content Gods will to know.
Give love until l love outpour-
Give pain. that those whose hearts
are sore
May feel for them I suffer more
Than for my own small woe.
Give wealth, but not for selfish
greed
Wealth for the sad worlds pain and
need;
Give Thou Thyself, then, rich indeed,
All else may come or go.
Mary Lowe Dickinson. in Washing.
ton Home Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30

To look back upon the past year,
and see how little we have striven
and to what small purpose; and how
often We have been cowardly and
hung back, or temerarious and rush
ed unwisely in; and how every day and
all day long we have transgressed the
law Of kindness-it may seem a para.
dox, but In the bitterness of these dis
coveries certain consolation resides.
Life Is not designed to minister to a
mans vanity. He goes upon his long
business most of the time with a
hanging head, and all the time like a
blind child. Full Of rewards and pleas
ures as 1t is-so that to see the day
break or the moon rise, or to meet a
friend. or to hear the dinnercall when
he is hungry, fills him with surpris-
ing joys-this world is yet for him no
abiding city. Friendships fall through,
health fails, weariness assails him; /;
year after year he must thumb the
hardly varying record of his own
weakness and folly. 1t is a friendly
process of detachment. When the
time comes that he should go, there
need be few Illusions left about him
self. Here lies one who meant we'll,
tried little, failed much-surely that
may be his epitaph. of which he need
not be ashamed. Nor will he COM
plain at the summons. which calls a
defeated soldier from the feld,-de.
feated. ay, II he were Paul, or Marcus
Aurelius! but. If there is still one inch
of fight in his old spirit, undiscovered.
The faith which sustained him in his
lifelong blindness and lifelong disap.
pointment Will scarce even be re-
quired in this last formality of laying
down his arms. Give him a march
with his old bones. There, out of the
glorious sun-colored earth, out of the
day and the dust and the ecstasy
there goes another Faithful Failure
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30

thusiasm and his evident ambition to
excel At the same time. all of us
know by previous experience that he
Is bound to prove incompetent We
have been fooled so many times be
fore that we really ought to be
ashamed of ourselves now if we
should attempt to expect anything
different
Perhaps 1t is some inherent de
feet in us, however, that we do go
on expecting it, and greet him al
ways with such unfailing clamor,
ringing bells over his advent, and
generally conducting ourselves just
as il we didn't even suspect that we
we're going to be fooled once more.
The worst of the matter is that
he himself doesn't know or realize
his thorough incompetence. He &C.
tually believes in himself really and
honestly believes that he has mis-
sion in life.
Maybe, after all, it is Just the feel
| ing Of kindliness toward him on our
| part which makes us loath to unde-
ceive him; which, out of courtesy
and true politeness. makes us pre-
tend that we like him just because
we don't want him to know the truth
about himself too soon.
He will find that out later on, of
course. He will have certain mo-
ments of humility and discourage
ment himself, when he will come to
weep with us over the mistakes he
is making and we are making. He
will come also to attain some meas
| ure of contrition over the sorry trick
he has, perhaps innocently enough,
played on US. And no doubt also he
| will be of some service to us. His
cruelties may harden our fibre; his
very insincerities may help to deep.
en- our sympathies.
But, after all, when all is said
and done, the most that we may
hope to do with him is to steal an
| hour or so occasionally, when he is
off his guard, and insist upon his
dropping things and having a good
time with us; insist for the time in
| forgetting responsibilities and other
deterrent influences on our spirits.
Let us take these moments when we
can, to make merry with this com.
| panion whom Fate has thrust upon
US, and If, during the rest of the
time. he is forbidding. stern, unyield.
ing and even revengeful, for some
fancied wrong that we have done him,
let US take comfort in the thought
that he is only an impostor after all,
and that in the end we shall triumph
over him.-Thomas L. Mason, in
Lippincott's.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
Ube 9aetp pgear

For long time-longer, possibly,
than most Of us would care to admit
at regular intervals new year
has come to us, unchallenged and
unknown, and taken complete charge
of all our affairs.
The New Year Is always an mex
perienced youth. He brings with him
no previous character. He carries no
references nor recommendations. He
Just comes, takes charge Of every
thing with unblushing forehead, and
runs it to suit himself, without con-
sulting our comfort or wishes in the
slightest degree.
The effrontery Of such a proceed
ing is apparent on it's face. But why
we should stand it is quite another
matter
Youth, of course, should always
command our undiminished respect.
So far as this rascally little young
ster himself is concerned, we take
off our hats to him. We greet him
heartily. We admire his robustness,
his rollicking figure. his air of en-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
New Years Shop.

New Years shop.
"Good Resolutions for Sale Here
Today"
This is the sign on the door.
The children come focking in throngs
from their play,
For they know 1t is only upon New
Years day
That these can be found in the
Old Father Time keeps the shop
where they're sold.
And he keeps 1t in such a queer
way.
Not one can you buy. for silver or
gold;
You can take. though, as many as
both arms will hold,
Or but one need you carry away.
There is only one thing that each
buyer must do
Before you can enter the store.
You must leave all bad habits, be
they many or few,
And all things that hinder life good
and true,
Outside, as you go in the door.
Before you come out, all these habits
and things
AS by magic have gone from the
way,
At 30 many good sales old Father
Time sings,
Then the door of the New Year wide
open he filings.
And the children troop gaily away.
-Maude L. Chamberlain.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30

Tho Old Year and tho New.
Why do you mourn that the old
year Is dying?
A new one is coming to take It's
place.
Leave with the old year all sobbing
and sighing
And look to the future with anil
Ing face.
Memory may, with a backward flung
finger,
Point to a page that is blotted
with tears.
Learn well its lesson, then let men,
'ry linger
Long on the page that ennobles
and cheers.
Hist'ry, unwritten, must tell OF your
sorrow.
Unfading letters, your JOY should
record
| Look, with a changeless faith, to-
ward Hopes tomorrow
Trusting the future for ample re-
| Waru.
Time moves more swiftly with each
passing season.
Scarce is it summer, ere autumn
draws nigh.
Soon comes the winter. and that is
| the reason
One cannot live in u vision gone
by.
Life is too brief to he srent in re-
| eretting,
| Ponder the noble the good and the
Practice true kindness at all times,
Forgetting
Every unkinGness another may
Then, in the year that is dawning in
| splendor,
Pure and unstained by a word,
thought or deed
Live SO that Love, with memory
tender,
Meier for a sigh of regret shall
have need.
Mary e. Caswell.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
Welsh Rabbit.

In blazer place one tablespoonful
Of butter or one butter ball and add
one-quarter teaspoonful of salt, the
same amount of mustard and dash
Of cayenne pepper. When these are
we'll mixed add half pound of mild.
soft cheese cut in small pieces. Stir
until the cheese Is melted and then
add half cupful of thin cream and
one egg beaten together. Cook until
slightly thickened and perfectly
smooth and serve on hot toast. This
recipe does not call for beer, as most
Welsh rabbits do.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
Spanish Rabbit,

Peel and slice Spanish onion,
Deald 1t five minutes and drain. Melt
two tablespoonfuls of butter In the
esazer, add the sliced onion and cook
sb0wly for ten minutes. Add half q
eapful of milk and one cupful of mild
ehoese crumbled fine. Stir we'll as
eAs cheese melts and season with
eAh and paprika. Beat one egg, add
EMO tablespoonfuls of milk or cream
End Stir It INTO the cheese mixture
@arve on toast as soon as we'll mixed
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
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"a Happy New-year!"
My boy said to me;
"a Happy New-year, mama!"
Then sat himself down,
With a terrible frown,
And found fault with things near
and far.
The toast was "too soft"
The biscuits "too hard"
And nothing was as 1t should be.
The weather was "horrid,"
He hated such days,
And the streets were "just like o
sea-"
"a Happy New-year?"
/ presently said.
"And when is 1t going to begin7"
why, it's started already.
At midnight last night.
How could you help hearing the dinf~
He looked at me once,
Then dropped his eyes low,
And said, 81 forgot, mama, dear.
How can you be happy
II / am so cross?
I'll help mako 1t Happy New-ysar."
Sarah ID. Gannett-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
Welsh Rabbit No. 2.

Put one tablespoonful of butter In
the blazer, adding half teaspoonful
Of dry. mustard. one-quarter teaspoon
ful OF paprika. one tablespoonful of
Worcestershire sauce and one-quarter
cupful OF beor. When the butter is
melted add one pound of soft Ameri-
can cheese. which has been cut into
small dice, stir constantly as the
cheese melts ard add as much more
beer as needed to make the cheese
smooth, about half a cupful in all.
When the cheese is all melted, and
about az thick as thick cream, turn
1t at once over toast or wafers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
THE NEW YE AIRS GIFT.
Tho Story Of Little Boy and Little
Girl and Their Animal Friends,

Tho Story Of Little Boy and Little
Girl and Their Animal Friends.
The little boy and the little girl had
many friends among the animals.
There was the rabbit, the turtle. and
the owl and the proud bluejay and
pretty, CHEEKY robin. The old gray
goose and the speckled guinea hen
and the quacking duck and the strut.
ting rooster and the clucking hens
were their friends, too. So were the
pigeons and the old black crow, and
the little, frisky, scampering squirrel.
These friends all knew that early
New Years morning the little girl and
the little boy would go to the ever
green playhouse for the gift the New
Year brought. Nobody had ever told
the little girl and the little boy that
gift, but all children know a great
many things that nobody tells them.
The evergreen playhouse was a
beautiful circle of evergreen trees
with an opening on one side for a
door. This playhouse had only the
sky for roof, so it was very gay and
cheerful. A stable for play stood in
the center of the house.
All these bird and animal friends
of the little girl and boy thought it
would be nice to bring New Years
gifts and lay them on the table in the
evergreen playhouse-fine, good, New
Years gifts.
So early New Years morning the
little boy and girl went hand in hand
to the evergreen house and stood
quietly inside the door.
Then they looked at the table and
there saw all the beautiful New Years
gifts.
"Feathers!" shouted the little boy
when he saw what some of the birds
had brought. Feathers of all sorts
of colors! | know what | will do.
am going to make an Indian war-bon-
net that is war.bonnet!-a perfect
beauty"
ooh, see the red grains o. corn. and
the yellow grains of corn!" cried the
little girl, as she saw the present the
barnyard fowls had brought, "I'll
string them for necklace!"
"Oh, goody. look at the nuts!"
laughed the little boy, as he saw the
nuts the squirrel had brought; won't
they taste fine!"
"There's my little doll-the one I
lost!" shouted the little girl. The
sharp-eyed crow had brought it back
from his hiding-place.
And there's my lucky penny!"
shouted the little boy. For that ras.
cal of crow had brought that back,
too.
So they laughed over their pres.
ents until all their animal friends
crept in to see.
"Come," cried the little boy, We'll
| all have dance around the tablet"
So around they went; the birds and
chickens, the squirrel and the crow,
| and all the friends, squeaking and
| quacking and Growing and chirping
and cawing while the little girl and
| boy sang ia. la, Ia" to no tune at
all, just because they were so happy.
Mercy, children!" called their
mother, who came out to the ever
green house to see what was going on,
what are you doing!"
Just having fun" answered the
little boy.
"Oh. the mostest fun, mammal"
called the little girl, with all our
friends" !"-Jessie Wright Whitcomb
in January st. Nicholas.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
New Years Novelties,

Small boxes filled with stuffed
dates. a calendar pasted on each GOV
er. are quaint novelties for New
Years. On the calendar may be writ
ten MAY your dates be as full ol
pleasure and prosperity"
Small photographs of hostess her.
self mounted on calendars make an,
other pleasing gift and one that is ap
preciated by ones guests because OF
the personal touch. II used as place
cards the guests names may be writ
ten on the first leaf Of the calendar
pad.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30

Sin is foe that all must fight,
For he's lurking everywhere;
And each must war with all his
might,
Using Good Resolve and Prayer.
For the strongest weapon we can
use
Against our common foe
To make him to our victory yield
Is Righteousness, you know.
Washington Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
Rlk-Tum Rabbit.

Turn into the hot blazer one table,
spoonful of butter. one cupful of to-
matoes. a saltspoonful of soda. y
pinch of salt, little paprika and a
tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce.
Heat these together and add two cup.
fuls of grated cheese. three.quarters
of a cupful of milk and two well-beat.
en- eggs. Cook until the cheese 10
smooth and turn over crackers oe
toast.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30

downstairs again III tell you all
about It," said grandma. Benny
bounded up the steps two at a time.
"Now," began grandma, when he
had perched himself on the arm of
her chair, all out of breath from his
run, suppose we keep accounts for
q while beginning with New Years
morning, and see how things, stand
at the end of week. You must
think over everything that happens,
and decide whether you owe your
pleasures most to your own self or
70 others.
"I'I write at the top of this page:
The other people in the world to
Benny Bolton, debtor and you can
put down the name Of each person
opposite the things you do for them"
Benny was greatly interested. 1t
seemed very much like real book
keeping. And on this other page"
went on grandma, you can enter all
the things other people do for you
and see how the records balance"
At the end of three days Benny
came to grandma with solemn face.
"One account is running pages and
pages ahead of the other" he said.
y "See this" and to his own credit was
placed: "Monday-Errand to store
for mamma" shared my New Years
candy with the boys and let them
ride twice on my sled" TUESDAY
Helped grandma wind yarn and
played with baby till nurse came
back" dnesday-Helped pare
apples to make pies for dinner and
went upstairs twice for mamma"
On the opposite pages were en-
tered Benny Bolton, debtor-To
mamma for breakfast, and specially
for buckwheat cakes and maple
syrup that she wouldn't have had ex-
cept that begged her. To sister
Bessie for mending coat and sewing
ND baseball and gloves. To grand
ma for making thumb stall. To man.
ma for dinner and supper and some
cookies she made specially for me
between times-and let me have all
wanted because it was New Years.
To papa for my new sled and rub
ber boots. To Bob Wilson for lend
hour. To mamma for staying with
roe after l went to bed and telling
me long story" "Tuesday"-"Bu
oh, grandma" sighed Benny, there
as almost page and half Of things
people did for me on Tuesday"
"Well," said grandma, 81 don't be.
Hove we need read any further. But
II were you I'd go on keeping these
accounts for few weeks. / feel
certain you'll make a much better
bookkeeper, or, indeed, better man,
Cor the practice this will give you.
At all events you are sure already,
aren't you, that you'll have to work
pretty hard and be just as obliging
- possible to everybody to get even
With the rest of the world in pleas.
&0tness?"
Benny looked again over his close
u written pages and went to put the
aocount book back on its shelf, with
. thoughtful little face.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
The Years End.

Full happy Is the man who comes at
last
Into the safe completion of his
year;
Weathered the perils of his spring,
that blast
How many blossoms promising and
deari
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30

And Of his summer. with dread pas
sions fraught,
That oft. like fire through the rip
ening corn,
Blight all with mocking death and
leave distraught
Loved ones to mourn the ruined
waste forlorn.
But now, though autumn gave but
harvest slight,
Oh, grateful is he to the powers
above
For winters sunshine, and the length.
ened night
BY hearth-side genial with the
warmth of love.
Through silvered days Of vistas gold
and green
Contentedly he glides away, Sc.
rene.
Timothy Cole in the Century.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30
tMsh3 SONG OF<as9
SSskSA'' EXPECTANCY
SSlSl .~Dy/ohn q. T0h1

Time will tell us: only wait;
He alone the secret knows,
He alone the Delphic gate
Shuts, or open throws.
Time will tell U.S. Kind is he:
Sorrow wins not by delay,
But the wine of Joy to be
Ripens day by day.
New Year Bells.
See the children gayly go,
AS the bells are ringing,
Gross the country. white with snow.
Their happy voices singing.
'Tis New Year morn, and they're
away
To the church beyond the hill.
And there they'll meekly, humbly
pray
To do their Masters will.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-12-30


the fair, unspotted leaf is soiled al
most in the very act of turning it
What then? Shall we give up making
resolutions? Not at all. All effort 10
fragmentary. Because purposes mis-.
carry is no reason why we should
not form them. Were every New
Years resolution to be broken we
would still have lived better for max
ing them. And some of them will be
kept, while the very endeavor will
have lifted us to a higher plane and
increased our self-respect.
We should, most of all, ask our
selves if we have a true life aim.
No man can hit the mark If he is
not aiming at It.
Resolve to break off bad habits.
We all have our defects of disposi-
ton and character. These we cannot
| help. But it is our voluntary self
indulgence that makes them our
| masters. Now Is the hour to fight
them, to resist them unto blood, to
| break them off at once and for all.
Look on the bright side. The world
Is full of beauty and life sparkles
with joy to the unblurred vision. 1t
Is our gloomy spirits that distort our
view. The worst evils are imagined
| ones that never come to pass. Let uB
| look for love and goodness and beau
ty and happiness, and we shall tread
a fragrant, embowered way.
Let us do better in the home. It
| is here, where we are often most
| thoughtless, that we need to do our
very best. More depends on the at
| mosphere Of home than upon all
else. Resolve that those who love
you most and sacrifice the most for
you shall see only your most pleas
Ing side-shall have only respect
| gentleness, love. All, how much OF
the recuperative power needed for
the strain Of life's wearing duties de-
pends upon the tempers, manners
and habits of home!
If, then, you will wear a morning
face and keep the eager, unsullied
heart of child; be strict in the
judgment of yourself and kindly in
your judgment of others; be more
eager to praise than to blame; note
the harmonies Of life rather than itg
discords, and set your aim upon
duty, God and the unfading, this new
year will bring you no sorrow with
out its comfort, and over and over
again it will fill your cup with bless
ing.-Junius B. Remensnyder, St
James Lutheran Church.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-25
TONG WAR BREAKS OUT
 IN CALIFORNIA CITIES Three Chinese Shot and
 Killed: Several Others Wounded.

San Francisco, Jan. 25.-Three Chinese were shot and killed and a number wounded in a tong war which broke out in several California cities last night. Quong Quock Wah, presi- dent of the Sen Suey Yings, and one of his fellow tong men were killed in the fighting here and another met a like fate in Stockton.
 Clashes in Oakland and at a small settlement several miles from Stock ton caused the wounding of two other Chinese.
 More than score of arrests had been made early today at the various points of conflict and the police of all Pacific coast cities are keeping close watch on the Chinese in habitants in efforts to prevent a spread of hostilities
 The war began al a peace meeting here of representative Of Ine Sen Suey Yings, and Four Companies to patch up quarrels which had been smouldering for a year.
 This is the first tong outbreak in the west in many months.