Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-01

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 And good song ringing clear. "Toasts," at the Yavapai Club yesterday, emphasized the truth of an oft represented assertion, that "The Yavapai Club is the best lit l tie club on Earth"
 President Doyle presided at the function with his accustomed dig nifty and savoir faire. The stope and dining room were embowered with pine and holly. In the former, at the entrance to the drift Merry Christmas" limmed in red lights gave the proper climax to the taste ful scheme of festal decoration, while the young Yavapai turkey and sucking pig garnished the tables of the latter.
 It is very pretty sentiment that the Yavapai Club perpetuates, that of assembling its members around the Yuletide table yearly and yes terday's celebration of the feast was staged with rare discretion and good taste by the House Committee, of which Mir. w. A. Drake is the chairman.
 Notable among the items was the short, terse greeting by President Doyle. Tom Norris" rendered Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" in his best style. It is the only song he is permitted to sing. Ed. Mitchell responded to the toast, Absent Members" as follows:
 q appreciate MT. Postmaster my selection to respond to the Toast to the Absent Members-for I feel that the very highest grace that can be considered as attracting to a gathering of this kind is its positive expression of cherished memories of those who are absent
 "We miss as we look about us those who have contributed so high ly to upbuilding of this institu- tion, and have been so essential to the spirit that pervades it, and be- ing absent today, only temporarily we hope, have left us the charming memories of their good-fellowship | which must last as long as this Club | endures.
 "The greatest charm of men and women receives its most satisfying and endearing expression in the re- on such occasions as this of those who are absent. That | charm is the good-fellowship of | life-embracing within its true defi- milton every attribute that men strive for within themselves in order to attain a position amongst their | fellows that will deserve and re- ceive a fond memory when they are absent.
 "The sentiment of life is its most | powerful moving force-it impels us to love our fellows even their faults | and in their absence to so cloud | those faults as to make them seem to us to be virtues. Who of you who | have read the man as expressed in the tribute our absent soldier mem Der has paid to us in his Moro Purgatorio' do not esteem him, and | all others of his kind, no matter where they may be as much for his faults as his virtues. And so ask you do drink to this Toast to the Absent Members and may the es- teem we hold them in find its ex- pression not on our lips but in our hearts"
 Judge Hawkins was introduced as the correspondent to the toast, "The Ladies" Before he began his witty response, it was evident that the selection of this distinguished jurist met with unanimous approval.
 President Doyle asked Bob Porter to read a Christmas Toast to the Yavapai Club, composed by Colonel Tillson, late Comandant at Whipple Barracks. The toast was accompan- jed by an immense, silver-t trimmed tankard of cocoanut wood, designed as loving cup. Here is the toast of Colonel Tillson, written at Camp Keithley, Mindanao, Philippine Is- lands: A Christmas Toast to the Yavapai
 Club.
 From the land of the wild Moro,
 By the Lake that's called Lanao, Yankee soldiers Purgatoro,
 Comes this Cup, all free of sorrow. Full of cheer for Arizona;