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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-12-29
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guiled until six, when twinkling street
lights warned the callers to retreat.
Not Il serious way to start the New
Year, No but a friendly one, that left
hostesses and callers with glow of human
friendliness to last as warmth for many
day And IL seriousness were lacking, the
same decade that enjoyed New Years call
ing found itself also at one with the Gus
tom of watch-night service. For, In Our
town." as in yours, mayhap, 1t was the
thing to spend the closing hours of the old
wear in the quiet seriousness of prayer and
sacred song. Children had their share in
this for fathers and mothers had not in
that simpler time learned to fear the giving
of definite religious instruction to their sons
and daughters. 1t was clear and plain that a
child must 5e trained in the way he should
60 and watch night was part of that train
ing.
And indeed, no youngster ever tried to
beg off There was first of all the joy Of doing
the unusual and the fun of sitting up past his
bedtime So you HE'D yourself to the nursery
couch or the sitting-room lounge, after hot
supper an oldfashioned winter supper of sau-
sage and fried potatoes or scalloped oysters
and mullins and took a long, long nap. AT
half-past ten, father walked you, tucked you
into cap and overcoat, and the family party
started out under the cold stars, snow crunch
ing under foot, to the nearby church.
Not so very long ago the writer came
across an old chrome, of the sort that looks,
In a dim and favorable light, like fairly de-
cent oil painting In its day 1t had doubtless
been the chief ornament of a well-furnished,
comfortable parlor. Now 1t cuttered the win
dow of secondhand shop, dingy and out Of
sorts with fate. But even in the unfattering
light of dusty show window, 1t had certain
charm for the one who found 1t. II was the
, picture of watch-night service, such as she
had once known so we'll Bright moonlight
flooded the scene, bringing out In sharpened
detail the snowaden boughs of dropping elms
and the Gothic spire of small stone church.
From stained-glass windows and opened door
came streaming the warm glow OF shaded gas
Jets. From village streets locked men and
women and children, stopping to say word of
greeting as they passed into the vestibule. The
spell of the picture took her with the speed
OF the magic carpet Of the seven-eagued
boots, back to the New Years ewes of her girl
hood.
So she had walked with father and mother
and a sleepy small brother. Just so the treeS
had looked in the frosty moonlight. And just
as warm and softly glowing had been the
stone church, through whose open doors came
the resonant strains of the great organ She
remembered with aching vividness the faces
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-12-29
SEND BATTLESHIpS TO CUBA
President Learns OF Conditions on
Islands and viii Not Permit st
uatlon to Get Beyond Control.

Washington developed Tuesday
that a part of the governments infor-
nation regarding the critical situa-
ton in Cuba--which 1t is expected
will call for intervention this winter
was brought back by President TAFT
himself on his return from Panama
recently.
On his way back the president
stopped at Guantanamo to inspect the
site selected by Secretary Meyer Tor
n naval base to guard the Panama
canal. 1t was learned Tuesday that
on the occasion representatives oil
both President Gomez and the opposi'
ton factions described the conditions
of the island, each from their own
viewpoint, in such detail that the pre-
sident had personal confirmation or
reports that have reached the state
! department of the disrlpted and cor'
rupted conditions in Cuba.
Between January 1 and 8 the entire
| American battleship fleet with one
thousand or more marines aboard VIII
be In Guantanamo waters. 1t was an
nounced at the navy department that
the feet will so direct to Guantanamo
from its European cruise.
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drops Happy New Year" resounded on all
sides. In the course of the afternoon the in
defatigable had seen all their friends, had
sampled the choicest types of Christmas bak-
ing, had toasted again and again the New Year
in punch of varying strength and pungency, or
substituted coffee in homes where temperance
principles were popular They had said pref
ty things to popular danes In the stimulating
atmosphere of holly and green wreaths, and
had matched wits with fascinating damsels In
the dangerous vicinity of mistletoe that still
boosted some berries. 1t was all very gay,
very informal, and very honey. At no other
time or on no other occasion did the holiday
hilarity reach so high pitch.
I'D like to do it all over again. is the tes-
timony of one stately lady, whose home twenty
years ago was the scene of yearly New Years
receptions. mo other social function on my
calendar was such fun for the guests and so
little trouble for the hostess The decorating
had been done week before, and few fresh
flowers were all that were needed. Given
bright lights dozen pretty girls to help en-
terrain the simplest cakes. and plenty OF mild
ly exhilarating punch made from recipe that
my Kentucky grandfather declared harmless,
and success was assured. When six O'Clock
came you had seen all the nice men OF your
acquaintance undisturbed by the usual influx
of other women, and had sent. them away at
peace with the world in general and full OF
the spirit OF neighborliness."
Meanwhile upstairs in the library window
seats carried the family small fry, watching the
procession as it passed, commenting with Ju-
venile frankness on the toilets Of the callers,
counting the visitors as they came listening
to the hum Of voices downstairs, the girls hug
ging close to the sash the boys making daring
detours to peek" through the balustrade, re-
turning to report what young ladies were SIT
ting on the steps with what young men, and
even, in some cases, what they were saying.
Longer tiptoeng prowls down the back stairs
to the lair of friendly cook. led'to quick and
iublant returns with offerings of cake and
claret cup, wherswith the he lrs might be be-
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-12-29
Nevada Corporation Decision.

San Francisco.-In decision rem.
dered Tuesday Superior Judge Sea
well directs that all stock and bond.
holders of Miller & Lux recognize
the recognized Nevada corporation OF
the same name and accept stock in it
In exchange for their holdings in the
old company. This disposes of the
opposition of the minority of stock.
holders to President Henry Miller's
reorganization plan and upholds his
management of the corporation.
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italy Confronted With Strike.

Rome.-More than 10000 railroad
employees in Italy have just compIet-
ed the taking of a referendum to de.
termine what attitude they should as
sumo in order to bring about an amel
ioration of their condition. By a great
majority the men declared in favor Of
the instrument of strike, The author
tiles are directing all their efforts to
preventing railway strike, which, it
is feared, might result in a strike of
The employees in all public services.
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New York Bank Closed.

New York.-The Northern Bang
of New York, with deposits in its
nine branches of $6,912,5S2 at thu
time of its last published statement
was closed Tuesday by o. II. Cheney
state superintendent of banks, "foI
the benefit of the depositors." An in
ventory of the banks assets and la
bilities Is now under way, but until
1t is completed no further statement
will be made.
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TEACHERS IN CONVENTION.
Annual Meeting Of the Utah Teach
ers' Association Well Attended.

Salt Lake y.-Mathonihah Thorn
as, president of the Utah Teachers
association not only arraigned unfit
school boards in severe manner
but declared that many teachers were
entirely out of place in the school
room, in his address at the opening
of the seventeenth annual convention
of the association at the Assembly
hall, Tuesday afternoon. The attend
ance at the meetings promises tc
break all other records. Many Of
those present favor state organization
to govern all athletic contests. West
ern boys should be educated in the
east and eastern boys in the west
says DR.. Tyler of Amhert.
The visiting teachers were welcom
ed by Governor William Spry and
Mayor John s. Bransford.
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OF those who had filled the
pews. especially that OF one
man. the governor of the state,
whose aquiline profile, flashing
eyes and straight, glossy black
hair formed Il never.to- be-forgot-
ten personality.
Watch.nlght hymns have a
personality Of their own, as
those OF Christmas or Easter, IL
not so widely known. They are
naturally serious and bit fore
boiling. with touch of the mel
ancholy that is associated With
the rapid flight OF time
The year IL gone, beyond recall
With all its hopes and fears.
with all its bright and gladdenlng
smiles,
With all its mourners' tears,
is an old Latin hymn to COM
mon meter tune that illustrates
the tendency of this branch of
hymnology. Charles Wesley has
been most prolific in voicing
this thought.
Wisdom ascribe, and might, and
praise.
To God who lenthens out our days;
Who spares us yet another year.
And makes us see his goodness
here,
is an old favorite. often just
on the stroke of midnight anoth-
er of his voiced the feelings OF
the congregation, that begin
ming:
Join, all We ransomed SONS OF grace
The holy Joy prolong,
And shout to the Redeemer'i
praise.
A solemn midnight song.
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bit more joyful is the splendid quaint,
irregular
Come let anew journey pursue.
Roll round with the year,
And never stand still till the Master
. appear
1t was easy after this to go home filed with
Hottest aspirations ready to begin the new
diary with ambitious resolves that were bound
to o'erleap themselves because of their very
loftiness. There was watch night when
there drifted into the ken of the child the
poem that has since meant to her. as 1t does
to many, the very spirit of this day. From the
choir gallery just before the midnight hour,
the softened chorus OF strange melody.
Then into the silence of the vauled church rose
a wonderful message in voice that bore
viction to the listeners. 1t sang to the organ
and the hushed accompaniment of the choir:
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild skies,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out. wild bells, and let him die
Through the whole OF the splendid poem II
swept, on to the triumphant conclusion:
Ring in the Christ that is to be-"
To the child the most dramatic moment oil
the evening came just the stroke of the In.
coming year. While outside whistles blew and
giant crackers exploded, bells clashed and
changed, inside hands clasped hands while to-
gether they sang the good old standby "Blest
be the tie that binds" before the hush of the
benedictlon and the glad chorus of Happy New
Years" that concluded the service.
There is another sort of quiet ushering in
OF the baby year that is conducive to the good
resolve that counts easily under favorable
CONDITIONS There were those in the old days.
as there are In these who felt that after the
gala afternoon the happest way of all was to
sit quietly about the fire, chatting with half a
dozen congenial spirits singing a bit If the
spirit moved, reminiscng as old times came
back In the hush, and ending with the silent
toast and the dash of sentiment that makes
Aud Lang Syne" the fitting song for such a
moment
That some such happy hour may begin little
1918 first appearance is the best wish one
can offer to friends
Let the suspicious morning be expressed
With a white stone distinguished from the
rest
So the stately Dryden has cut tie aans
thought May 1t be true OF as al
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ton. This was essentially the festival of their
elders. Orders to keep from under foot were
rigidly enforced and did you wish to see the
fun no place remained but the second-story
landing, which gave somewhat inconspicuously
upon the hall below, with a strained view OF
the big parlors, and none of the dining room
beyond. That 1t was there and in full work
ing order was evidenced by keen sense of
smell.
1t was always great fun to wander up and
down the principal residence streets as noon
drew near to find out who were to be at
home and who we're not basket tied to the
door knob with gay red ribbons said, for all
the world to hear: 1--WE are not receiving TO-
day." II you were a boy and daring, later in
the afternoon you stole up on the step to peep
in and discover, by the number of cards with
in the respective popularity of village maids
and ,natrons Wherever the door lacked the
basket. you knew that behind the drawn
shades there was the soft glow OF candles OF
the yellow glare Of gas, poor substitute TOT
sunlight on snow but presumably kinder 10
compexions and gowns just a tribe passe.
And YOU knew that In each mousse SUBJECT
only TO trifing variations of background IheIe
world be enacted the same scenes
Into the front door that opened at the hrst
.o,oh ~ the hell passed fiuctuating stream
NJ men in holiday attire. There were eiueily
-, s.nlentv in broadcloth that was brusheu
n the noint of perfection, smart young Dan
dtes snorting the newest fashion III Iies
u,vy, beginners not quite used to the
18th Of their frock coats-we called them
nrInce Alberts in the days when New ieai
naiis were in vogue-and sprinkling OF SUP,
.tantal.looEing business men paying homage 1,,ar"
to the established custom OF society E1e bis
body who was anybody in "our town paia ms ms
5eyoirs to the incoming year by making 'ne
rounds Of his friends homes
once inside, there was the neat ma ma5u and Nd
solemn butler to receive the cailer o% nd them
helm him with overcoat' ma. anu S, and
oasn under the chandeliers with the prism
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win Adds to French Hlstorv.

Paris.-The lost will of the Duchess
of Angoulemo, the daughter of Louis
XVI, which was supposed to have
been burned, has turned up and was
published Tuesday. The document re.
flutes one of the claims of the Naun
dorff Bourbons. whose partisans al.
ways insisted that the duchess recog-
ni2ed Naundorff, the so-called Prince
Jean de Bourbon, who was asserted
to be her brother the Dauphin.
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Americans Lashed by HOndurans.

New Orleans.--A special dispatch
to the Picayune from Puerto Cortez
Honduras, says William Barber oil
Kentucky and two other Americans
were seized by Honduran police and
soldiers, thrown into jail and brW
tally dashed. Afterward they were
deported on the Honduran gunboai
Tatumpla to Guatemalan territory
and landed penniless In the forests.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-12-29
Must Muzzle Hat pins.

Kansas City.-Women here must
muzzle their hat pins or they win be
come lawbreakers, liable to a fine OF
from 81 to $500. The upper and lower
houses OF the city council pass ed the
hat pin ordinance Tresday
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Increase in conuressmen.

Washington.-The coming congress.
sional reapportionment will provide a
total membership of 1876 in the house
of representatives., according to pre-
sent indications. This would mean
one member to every 211,7OO of popu.
lation,
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Owned orIuiraI site Of civ.

Denver Mrs. Harriet Rudd. widow
OF Anso1 Rudd, who homesteadeu the
Ian" that Is now the site Of non
City, Colo, died at the home of her
son in this city on Tuesday, aged 80
years.
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before the little diary
mad its new gilt dimmed,
or the soft penciling OF
the latter had blurred
Itself into unreproachful
illegibility. But the eff
fort wasn't altogether
wasted, and there were
fewer fits of temper and
cleaner neck and ears
than would otherwise
have been.
We grown-ups miss,
as we get older, some of
the past and gone aids
to New Years resolves.
The day was once upon
q time more marked by
pleasant social customs.
Only in ofncialdom is
New Years now a state
ly day of ceremonial,
But it is not hard to re-
call that a decade or
two ago there still sur
vived some of the dig
nifty and good cheer that
had attached itself to
the day. Before the
Christmas fruit cake
had all been devoured,
or the stone jars of
small cakes suffered too
severely from the in.
roads of rapacious chill
dren, preparations for
New Years day were
well under way.
Children were not in
cluded In this celebra
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And what does it all amount to, after all, this
or selecting new ones? The cynic will smile and
pan, halfhearted Guessing over of mistakes by
wordy and none too sincere promises of reform.
The humorst will have his little fling in cartoon
and witty quip and jest. He will gurge with the
sardonic glee of Robin Goodfellow over the folly
for laughter. From the pulpit Sunday will
sound the admontion of the minister and the
moralist. They will take good resolutions seri-
ously, and set upon them the stamp of divine
approval. And whether the wry sneer of the
cynic. the hooking grin Of the humorst, or the
approving smile of the morast prophesy the fate
of the resolutions and their maker, it will be true
that even tho most momentary impulses toward
better things will not be entirely wasted
There was time when, in the simple faith of
childhood, you set down in black and white your
promises to do better. On the first page of your
new diary, yearly Christmas present, you wrote
In your best Spencerian hand-we knew none
better In those days-somethng like this: Dur
ing this year l resolve not to lose my temper;
not to be saucy at home; not to put off doing
the things dislike; to read my Bible every day"
Direct, sounding blows these the chain
mail of your besetting sins of quick temper, a
wickedly sharp little tongue, procrastnation, and
childish irreligion. Behind closed doors, lest ony
him in meek moment Brother Dick
was scribbng earnestly: II promise myself not
to be late for dinner, not to forget to wash my
neck and ears, not to get in debt to father for
my allowance, and not to play hockey single
day" OF course you failed, both you and Dick,
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-12-29

He custom of celebrating the New
Year by leaving behind, in theory
at least, ones pet pernicious habit
or besetting sin, may be hack
neyed, but it certainly is not en-.
tirely relegated to the limbo of
things forgotten or outworn. Some
time New Years day, when
quiet moment in the days swirl
offers time for thought, there will
be hasty taking stock of the
year that is gone, a recoun,!ng Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-30

land is cheaper and the soil more pro- ductive. The insetting tide creates new markets. One of these is market for money at very high rate of interest.
 "The American farmers who go down to Texas have a cash capital" continued MT. Burroughs, who Is banker. They buy to the limit of their capital and bor- rowing capacity, because the land is cheap, Is increasing In value, and the more acres they cultivate the quicker they can retire. The demand for farm mortgages on ample security is unpre- cedented It is in direct ratio to the in flow of resolute, orderly men with capf- tai, their experience and their industry.
 Texas has more wheat lands than North and South Dakota combined, more corn lands than Illinois. more fruit lands than California, more timber lands than Michigan, more marble than Vermont more granite than New Hampshire, more petroleum than Pennsylvania, more iron than Alabama, more rice lands than all the other states. It's coal fields cover 3o,000 square miles and in richness riva' those of Pennsylvania. It has more miles of railroad than any other state. The cotton belt of Texas contains 120,0O0,0o0 acres. It has hardly been scratched, less than 100000 900 acres being planted, and even on this limited basis Texas produces one-fourth of the worlds cotton crop and one-third of the crop of the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-30
MILLINERY
The Ethic. of ogIins

From the New York World
 The quarrel between prominent res idents of Greenwich due to the alleged ogling by one of the wife of the other on suburban train brings up anew a delicate question of masculine department toward the fair sex in public regarding which opinions differ. In the present in stance the difference reached such pass that the angry husband, unable to con- trol himself'' after the offender had re peatedly turned about and looked at his wife" arose and punched him.
 According to Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was an authority on other things be- sides literature and medicine
 Pretty faces framed in pretty bonnets are meant to be seen. All males have the right of at least two distinct looks at every comedy female countenance with out infraction of the rule of courtesy or the sentiment of respect.
 And If two loows are permissible in Puritanic Boston are not few more all lowable for good measure in New York and its environs? For what purpose are Chantecler hats and Dutch necks or open-work waists but to be seen of men, and if the masculine glance strays to the fact of the wearer, what Is the offense?
 What the eye takes Is not stealing, and 1t would appear indeed that pretty woman who is not the object of visual attention by the men about her has a just reason of complaint at the omission. Speaking generally. women possess per fectly effective weapon of defense against unwelcome ogling. They have merely to ignore 1t to accomplish the end which only in rare instances of offensive att tention necessitates the use of hus- bands or brothers fist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-30
Library Fright

From an ExcndnBe.
 Library fright Is an awful feeling.'' said the librarian. Tt attacks people who go into a strange library to look around or rest for a few minutes and are told that in order to enjoy the hospitality of the reading room they will have to ask for book and make at least a pretense of reading.
 q have had library fright twice my self. My first attack was in the con- gressional library in Washington. ] wanted to read there for a few min utes. just to be able to say afterward that I had read there. Used as I was to handling books, I couldn't think or even the dictionary when 1t came to making a choice. After few minutes Of hopeless floundering 'Taine's History of English Literature came into my mind. I had no desire on earth to look at 'Taine's English Literature' then or at any other time, but I give you my word couldn't think of any other book to save my life.
 Another time in library right here in town I was stricken with similar panic and after stumbling through the catalog in ad dazed sort of way asked for David Copperfield'--C -Copperfield. mind you, that I had read forty eleven times and knew by heart A person who has never experienced library fright cannot imaginel how foolish and helpless the sufferer feels."