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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
A GREETING TO NEW YEAR.
We Can Live 1t but Once, So Let Us
Spend 1t Worthily.

w Can Live 1t but Once, So Let Us
Spend 1t Worthily.
We are on the threshold of a new
year. We do not know what the year
holds for US, but we are not afraid of it.
We nave learned to look for kindness
and goodness in all our paths. and so
we go forward wi1T gt1 hope and ex-
~pectation. Sin NJ
1t is always a serious thing to live.
We can pass through any year but
once. If we have lived negligently we
cannot return to amend what we have
slurred over. We cannot correct mis-
takes, fill up blank spaces, erase lines
we may be ashamed of, cut out pages
unworthily filled. The irrevocableness
of life ought alone to be motive
enough for incessant watchfulness and
diligence. Not a word we write can be
changed. Nothing we do can be can
celed.
Another element of seriousness in
living is the influence of our life on
other lives. We do not pass through
the year alone. We are tied up with
others in our homes, our friendships,
our companionships, u associations,
our occupations. We are always touch
ing others and leaving impressions on
them. Human lives are like the pho
tographer's sensitized plates, receiving
upon them the image of whatever
passes before them. Our careless words
drop, and we think not where they fail,
but the lightest of them lodges in some
heart and leaves its blessing or its
blight. All u acts, dispositions and
moods do something in the shaping
and coloring of other lives.
1t is said that every word whispered
into the air starts vibrations which
will CULVER on and on forever. The
same is true also of influences which
go out from our lives in the common
est ~days-they will go on forever.
This should make us most careful
what we do, what we say and what
quality of life we give to the world.
1t would be sad. indeed. if we should
set going unholy or hurtful influences,
if we should touch ever one life I'M
wholesomcly, If VT should speak even
a word which starts a soul toward
death.-Rev. DIR. j.. II. Miller.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
Some Lucky New Year Ways.


Throughout Europe many delightful
New Year customs prevail. In Scandi-
navia a feast is always prepared for
the little birds, which might otherwise
go hungry on account of the deep
SHOWS.
In Holland, as in Scotland, the wind
is noted with care, because the luck
of the year will be determined by the
direction whence it blows. The south
wind brings heat and fertility. the
west wind milk and fish. the north
wind cold and storm and the east
wind a fruitful season.
In Italy the New Year is a day Of
greeting and good will and special
feasting. Sicilian peasants take ad-
vantage of the fete to drive to town
in their gay carts, so that the country
roads are merry with the music of tin
king bells.
And Swiss folk, practical, industri-
Gus. stop their work for the nonce and
visit friends, even when they have to
carry their babies down the mountain
slopes in cradles on their heads,
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
ANU

'Tis mine to guard the portal of the year,
To close or open to the seasons four
And to the importuning throng of days.
Sometimes I hear the tread of stormy feet,
Hoarse trumpet blasts and loud %assaulting
blows
And threats to pull my ancient fortress
down,
But other times they come with batteries
smooth,
Fntreating, Janus, Janus. let US i'm
l watehful stand; | will not turn the key
Until my glass and fingered dial stern
Declare the moment ripe. Two ways ]
look;
Two faces I present-one scanned with cid
And gray with looking on the frozen past,
One fresh as morn and fronting days to be.
Now, while the surging, deep toned bells
lament
The passed year, e'er tickle, they shall
change
Their solemn burden for a round of joy,
Ginning the praises of the year new
crowned.
Edith Thomas in New Years Masque. -
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
NEW YEARS ALLEGORY
When the Arriving TweIvemonth Walked
the City Streets.

:" CROSS the snowbound earth
= the New Year stepped buoy
IA antly. A splendid youth he
was, with radiant eyes, full,
red lips and the star of hope set SO
proudly above his brows that where he
passed darkness turned to light. For
a whole year the world and the men
thereon were his.
Far away under the frozen sky a
blaze of light shone like a jewel, and
he turned toward the city.
And, though the lights shone boldly
when he entered 1t, most of the streets
were empty.
In n of the streets the New Year
met a woman. A dark veil fluttered
around her, so that he could not dis
tinguish her form, but her face was
very sweet as she bent and clasped a
child to her heart. The New Year gave
her greeting.
"You are Charity, 1 know he said.
Charity laid her hand in his and
smiled. And for all his youth her
smile set him dreaming of green woods
anu SOiuCA ouIsAiuS, VI vague sweet
things that were still unknown to him.
And then he met another woman!
A glittering gas moth this, with q
pert, powdered face. carmined lips and
hard, bright eyes.
"All hail!' she cried mockingly. 81
shall be your constant companion, for
1 am Sin, and where men are there
you will always find me-"
The New Year shrank back, and his
face darkened. But Sin pressed close
to him, laughed loudly and, tearing a
rose from those at her breast, tossed
it to him, as with a rustic of silk she
passed on. The rose fell on the snow
powdered walk, and when the New
Year would have picked it up it was
s~centless, and he saw hat a worm was
hid In it's hearti
Another form came in sight-in the
garb of a monk with a dark hood
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
opippina, on New Years.

In the midland counties of England
the "Sortes Sanctorum' obtained great
credit on New Years in the olden time.
A Bible is obtained at random and the
finger of a blindfolded person placed
upon the page. The text so pointed out
refers to events which will happen dur
ing the year. This is called dipping"
An old lady once dipped" into the
book of job and avowed she had trou-
bic to the 31st of December following.
If the dipping is not done before -
o'clock noon the charm win have no
efficacy.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
CELEBRATION UNIVERSAL.
Methods Differ Greatly, but New Years
Is Observed Everywhere.


The commencement Of a new year
has been held in generation by every
nation of antiquity. Notwithstanding
the diversity of opinion as to what is
really the beginning of another year.
all agree in celebrating some day of
joy and festivity.
The ancient Greeks began their year
about the summer solstice, June u.
the Persians also in June, the Chinese
in March, and the Abyssinians begin
their year in August. Among the an
cient MeXicans the beginning of the
new year was in February.
The new years day of the Romans
previous to the age of Julius Caesar
vas vague and uncertain and was held
generally in March or April. Caesar
sent to Egypt for the celebrated as
tronomer, S~osigenes, by whose assist
nee the Julian calendar was regulated.
The last day of the old year and the
first day of the new We're consecrated
to the god Janus by these old Ro-
mans: hence he is usually represented
with two faces docking backward and
forward.
The ceremony of wishing one another
a happy new year originated with the
Romans. as did the custom of present
ing new year gifts.
In northern Europe the druids wen
into the woods OH the last night of the
year and cut the mistletoe with a COLO
en- instrument. This was afterward dis
tributed among the people, who pre-
served it about their persons as an am
ulet against the dangers of battle.
In Scotland New Years eve is called
Hogmenay or Singin cen, because in
certain parts of the country the young
men are in the habit of going about the
country singing a long song suitable to
the season and begging meals and mon
ey. which are generally distributed
among the poor.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
TIN ALL THEY HAVE" WHISPERED LOVE

about his tranquil face. His eyes were
upon the ground, and his lips moved
in prayer for all mankind. So ten
der and pitiful was his face that even
before he cried "Miserere Dominew the
New Year guessed that his name was
Mercy.
Very cold it grew as the New Year
turned into a mean street, so cold
that he sought refuge In the porch Of
a darkened house. Yet there prevail
ed such a grateful warmth that he
pressed back to learn its cause and so
brushed against a boy-a boy with a
wan, beautiful face, tangled hair and
rapt eyes.
"Why are you here alone?' the New
Year asked.
81 am never alone" corrected the
boy, and he stepped aside so that the
New Year caught the fragrance of his
breath and saw that two great wings
shadow of his wings an old man and
an old woman crouched together. How
tired, how poor, they looked! But an
expression of ineffable tenderness shone
on their pinched faces.
81 am all they have" whispered
Love as tears filled his wonderful eyes.
''They have never failed me, n |
shall stay with them until the end"
az am the End" called another voice,
and a grim figure mounted the steps.
mot yet" begged Love, and he tried
to bar the strangers way. But at
sight of the scythe the other bore
Loves great wings dropped.
"Mine is the best gift of ALL" whis-
pered the newcomer as he bent over
the forlorn couple.
Silently the New Year walked alone
with the night and the stars and the
scurrying snow. And as he hurried on
the darkness faded into the eerie pallor
of dawn. He stretched out his arms
and welcomed his first day.
"Charity, Sin, Mercy, Love and
Death" he cried-"all mine! How shall
I choose from among your"
A shadow fell across him. There was
a sound as of wings beating the air,
and Love, rosy, triumphant and eter-
nal, caught his hands. "Let me go
with you all your days" he pleaded,
''for mine is the gift which sweetens
Charity, %vanquishes Sin, gloriies
Mercy and fears not Death"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31

NEW YEAR, new year, now you
are here,
In We look at you without a fear.
We look at you with eager eyes,
But give you neither tears nor signs.
Though strange Is the new face you
wear,
ris kindness we e written there.
But what is kindness P Buried deer
The answer, o new year, you keep.
You're here with secrets all untold.
Oh, what for us your heart must hold
We dare not dream, we dare not
guess,
How much of gladness or distress,
How much of joy, how much of pain,
How much of loss, how much of gain,
How much of bloom, how much OF
blast,
What skies of blue, what skies DER
cast,
How much will vanish, how much
last,
How much of work, how much OF
rest,
But, o new year, you know what's
besGi
Resale Vanderwater.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
New Year Philosophy.

We never complain about misfortune,
but we'd like to see the chap that stole
our shoes when we got SO happy we
danced 'em off our feet.
Nothin' at all ag'in the old year.
When we get into a corner with our
conscience the verdict is that he done
the best he could with the material he
had to work on.
II we meet the devil in the road this
New Year we'll change our plan en-
urely. Instead of fghtin' him with
nre we'll turn the hose on the warm
old sinner.
On the last day of the year we moved
Ten miles from Tribulation Town and
pitched our tents so close to Hallelujah
nlll that we're keepin' the angels busy
'Hldlng their crowns and harp strings
Atlanta Constitution.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
ON NEW YEARS DAY.
Thoughts on Time and What Its Pass
ing Means.

Thoughts on Time and What Its Pass
ing Means.
All years are not alike in value to the
race or the individual; neither are all
days. There are black days and white
days, weeks that are burdensome and
weeks that are like a merry chime of
bells, months that rumble with the
thunder Of defeat and months that re-
sound with the shouts of victory.
There is no nonotony in time. 1t va
ries as does the landscape. In II Pc
Rod it is as level as a western prairie.
with no special experiences to mark Its
passage; in another changes come and
events occur which make the weeks
resemble the Himalayas, mountain
heights gathered together like a great
company of giants whose shining he'll
NETS are visible, though you have tray
eled far away and stand on your hori-
z0n line; in still another some day OF
week with its wondrous happenings
Veritable Mont Blanc, and. though sev
enty years be counted in your calendar.
you still see its summit and say, THAT
was the hour when my new life be
gan" 1t may mark a great catastrophe
or an unspeakable happiness, but there
1t stands in gloom or grandeur. and
when you are about to close your eyes
In the last sleep they will rest on that
event which made you other than you
were.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
PapaI Bull Against New Years Day.

A papal edict against the celebration
or New Years day is said to have been
ISSUED by an ancient pope in the follow
ing words: IF any one should be SO
audacious as to celebrate the kalends
VI January after the manner of the
pagans or to do anything strange on
account of the New Year, or to lay out
N their houses tables with lights, or TO
nave banquets, or to go singing about
sne streets and squares, or to join in
uanclng parties, then all such persons
should stand communicated and &C
cursed" Probably. however, this
s.rong denunciation was issued mor
directly against the Italians, who i'm
itated the fashions of the ancient Ro-
mans by introducing dancing. singing.
Sports and comedies, ETC., into the holi
DAY festivities.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31

AYEW YEAR! New yearl
Little spirit of the new year!
kV At my portal waiting ! oar, SO
near
My trembling heart says if I speak
That you viii hear, will hear.
New year., now year, what will you
bring to meP
Joy on rainbow pinions wing to me.
Love, with voices sweet, to sing to
me.
New year. new year, I beseech yous
Let my tender longing reach you!
New year., I fear not your morrow
day
Sweetest joys may still strew sor-
rows way.
In December I shall borrow May.
New year, smiling I shall meet you'll
New year, welcoming I greet you!
New year, new year, you and God
alone
Hear my heart thus speak in humble
tone.
Grant me deeper life for living,
Give me greater love for giving.
Mary Cow Walsworth.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31

Trimmyng of the Temples with hang
ynges, floures, boughs and garlands (at
New Year, was taken of the Heathene
people whiche decked their IdOles and
houses with such arraye.-Fifteenth
Century Writer.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
Two New Years DAYS.

Lord Dundas, being wished a happy
new year, replied, 1T had need be
happier than the last. for l never knew
one happy day in it." Wilberforce said,
'"The last year has been the happiest
of my life" Romaine's New Years
wish for his people was. God grant
that this may be a year famous for be-
ieving."
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31

The New Year and the Old Year.
The old year and the new year meet.
And one goes back to God again,
And one stays on for Joy or pain.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-31
What the New Year
Should Mean to You

IT does not seem a very long
time ago that we were talk
ing about the coming of q
new year, with its neces-
sity for the balancing of all ac-
counts, that we might learnjust
how we stood with regard to
the profits and losses of the
twelve months that were about
to be filed away in the archives
of life as ancient history. And
now that that ''new" year, too,
has gone we are face to face
with another New Years day
face to face with the same old
problems.
{ To many of us the year that
I has passed has not been par
: ticularly pleasant. To some of
us, in fact, it may have brought
{ SO many frustrated hopes, so
: many disappointments, that we
{ r more than usually glad to
{ bid it ~godspeed that we may
. hail with joy the advent of a
{ new and, as we fondly hope, a
{ better opportunity. Yet, as a
! matter of fact, if we stop for a
{ moment to look back over the
{ twelve months that are now SO
! rapidly drawing to a close,
{ there are but few of us who
{ will not find that the old year
I has been a pretty good year
{ after all
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-04
Classified
Business Directory

BANKS & TRUST COMPANIES.
Idaho National Bank
BARBER SHOP.
/. D. Q. Barber Shop. 62S Main ST,
Q. " Grisham, Prop.
COAL DEALERS.
Boise Commission Co, 8l4 Idaho
Street. Phone No.
CIGAR STORES & MICS.
John Jedlick, 6l3 Main Street.
CLEANING AND DYEING.
The Pantcrium, c. w. Morris, Mgr.
Oil Main Street, Phone 1925,
The Commercial Tailors, Cleaning,
Pressing and dyeing; suits made
to order l07 So 9TH Yates Bldg.
CLOTHING STORES.
Golden Rule Store.
Make it right store
NJ. Alexander, Ninth and Main St.
The Toggery, 1917 Main Street
EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS.
DR. Fl. A. Grossman, l03 So. 10th
Street.
GROCERIES.
The Peoples commissary, lls N,
9th Street.
HARNESS.
F. H. Riedie & Co, 1921 Main St.
LAUNDRIES.
Idaho Steam Laundry, 10000 Main
Street
Troy Laundry Co., Phone $40.
LIQUORS-RETAIL.
J.. o. d. Bar, c. w. Braguiner.
Banquet Saloon. 7lS Main Street.
Midway Bar go Main Street
Miller & Phelps, 6l0 Main Street.
LIQUORS, Wholesale and Retail.
R. R. Dodge & Co, 6l9 Main Street
MONEY TO LOAN.
Northern Trust and Savings Com
pany, c. B. Coke, Mgr, Yates
Building.
OPTOMETRISTS
Boise Optical Co. DR.. z. S. Owen
Manager, 1908 Main St. Phone PASS
OSTEOPATHS.
DR.. Walter S. Kingsbury, 228 Idaho
Building, Phone 337.
PAINT AND PAINTERS.
Austin Sign Shop, 1910 Main Street
SECOND-H HAND FURNITURE.
Pioneer Furniture Co., o0o-9ll
Idaho Phone l113 M
SECOND HAND GOODS.
Yerrington & Williams, 1890
Main Street.
SHOE STORES.
The Wallace Co, Selz-Royal Blue
Store Shoes for everybody. S04
Main Street.
Riebe & Cooper. 100 Main Street
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-04
l4l8 (arove 90.

say most men when it is question
OF better laundry work. They want
their things done right at any cost.
WE'LL LAUNDER THEM RIGHT
without charging you much for our
services. We have never had COM
plant about our prices any more than
we have had any about our launder-
ing. Both are alright, as you will
know when you give this laundry q
trial
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-04

Z. ID. NEW HOUSt,. ~
r. L. CLARK and NELLIE
G. CLARK, husband and
wife, Adelaide Johnson
and Emma J. Lane,
Defendants.
Under and by virtue of an Order Of
Sale issued out of the above named
court on a Judgement and Decree rem
dered in said court in the above en-
titled action on the 18th day of Febru-
ary 1915 in favor Of the above named
plaintiff and against defendants, +. l..
Clark and Nellie G. Clark, husband
and wife. Said writ duly attested the
18th day of February, 1915, and to
the Sheriff of Ada Country directed
and to me delivered for execution,
whereby | am commanded to proceed
to notice Of sale, and sell the mort
gagged premises described in said De-
cree at Public Auction Sale, and APP
ply the proceeds thereof to the pay
ment of the sums decreed to be due
and owing to the Plaintiff, together
with Sheriff's costs and expense of
sale and the commission on the
amount thereof. The mortgaged prem
ises directed to be thus sold are des-
cribed in said Decree as situated in the
County Of Ada, State of Idaho, and as
Lots II and 10 in Block numbered 3
| Ireland Addition to Boise City,
Idaho, as the same are designated on
the official plat now on file in the Of
fee of the County Recorder of said
Ada County, Idaho, together with all
and singular, the tenements. heredita-
ments and appurtenances thereunto
belonging or in anywise apppertain-
ing.
Public Notice is hereby given that
on the 18th day of March, 1915, at the
hour of 3 O'clock in the afternoon of
that day in front of the County Court
House in Boise City, Ada County,
Idaho, will attend. offer and sell at
/ public auction Sale, all the said above
described mortgaged premises or so
much thereof as may be necessary to
pay the sums decreed to be due the
Plaintiff with interest and costs and
the Sheriffs fees and expense OF sale,
and the commission thereon IN Cash,
Lawful money.
Dated the 18th day Of February,
1915.
EMMITT PFOST,
Sheriff, Ada County, Idaho
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-04

The member OF the Musicians Local
No. 537 are rejoicing over the fact
that business conditions are improv-
ing at the local theatres to such an ex-
tent that their members are being
taken back to work Beginning the
first Of the week the Isis Theatre re-
placed their orchestra and the musici-
ans believe that this shows that NOV
ing picture patrons wish good music
as well as good pictures.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-04

Business conditions are undoubted-
ly improving in Boise If we can take
as criterion the crowds which are at
tending the theatres, the first two
weeks Last Monday evening the
Majestic theatre, which is the largest
in Boise and can accommodate close
to one thousand people was entirely
filled all evening and the manager
when asked reported that all Monday
night records Of the last year had been
broken and that over thirteen hundred
persons had paid admission on this
evening.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-04
California Exposition
Excursions
Via Oregon Short Line
Daily
March | to Nov. 80, 1915

You can go via Ogden, Salt Lake
and Los Angeles, and return via san
Francisco, Portland and Huntington
or vice versa at comparatively low
expense and cover
Most Interesting Scenic Points of the
Pacific Coast, including both EXPOSE
tons.
MAKE THIS YOUR BIG VAcA-
TON YEAR AND SEE THE WEST
RIGHT.
Ask agents for rates and further
particulars or write
w. H. MINIELY,
City Ticket Agent
Boise, Idaho.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-04

The congressional subcommittee
Investigating Federal Judge Aston G..
Dayton of West Virginia heard testi-
mony which showed the Judge to be
financially interested in coal, oil, and
gas properties. On February p Judge
Dayton himself took the stand and en-
tered complete denial of all charges.
A letter from former President Roose-
welt, dated May 20, 1914, was put in
evidence in which Mr.. Roosevelt
stated that he had instituted the in
vestigation of Judge (Dayton's pre-
decessor, who had been forced to re-
sign without solicitation from any
one"
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-04


Glib women were out in force last
evening at the night session of the
house andswere greatly delighted with
the approval Of the divorce bill.
Aside from this bill there are two
other measures yet, pending in which
the club women have vital inter-
est. the minimum wage commission
bill which is today on second reading
in the house, having passed the senate.
and the co-guardianship bill which has
passed the house and is in the judici-
airy committee Of the senate.
These with s. b. No 1914, amend
ment to the mothers pension bill
which has passed the senate and is in
the judiciary committee of the house
and the amendments to the anti
gambling bill are the measures which
are being watched the closest at the
closing days of the session by the
women.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-04

After an enforced idleness Of about
five months the members OF the
stonecutters union see an opportu-
nifty Of paying up back board bills
and house rent. D. F. Murphy has
started on the contract for supplying
the cut stone for the Idaho Falls
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-04

A comparison of the cost Of street
lighting through Seattle's plant with
that of other cities has been furnished
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce by
Former Mayor George F. Cotterill,
in answer to the efforts of that body
to discredit municipal ownership. Mr..
Cotterill's figures are as follows;
New York, cost per mile, $1,000;
Philadelphia, cost per mile, $3.50;
Boston, cost per mile, 81 1888; Chicago,
cost per mile, $325; Seattle, cost per
mile, $240, municipal ownership.