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Show LEIII FREE PRESS. LEITI, UTAH A Toast to the New Year j 1 vnchCoEnki Our Government How It Operates By William Bruckart HUNTING THE MARKETS Md VI H; J, h X -- 'lit - ' i i wfe Wla WhH . J:'' MARI6 MAf)M wnTl ! )B JUDSUN went down to 1 breukfast New Tear's morn ing with bis shirt cuffs dangling. He bad watched the old year out and the new year In at his young sister's party and had promised to iN go skating with the "crowd" by nine In the morning. "What In thunder do you mean by wiping my cuff bffltons, Peggy?" he aid to bis sister. "Only thJa,'t tmm a I'eggy. who was !ghtlUtud,4Uncommonly pretty. She t)e)d tip her hands, showing the cuffs if a blouse of masculine cut "I Heeded them, dearie, so before you .were awake I came In and got them. Don't be huffy, sweetheart. It's New Tear's day." "Well, you needn't be so absurdly growled Bob. snld l'eggy. "But "No, dearest it' New Year's day and I've made One's to be very Some resolutions. And I'm beginning on jrotu I have made out some for you. too," she added. Tom read In small, rather childish Writing, these resolutions thought by good-natured- f good-nature- d. Tom and Madgs at No. 26 Bedford 8trt his little sister to cover his besetting Ins: Not to nirt ' Not to be scrappy. Note to be late for dinner "It annoys cook so." Not to be hoggish This had special reference to neckties, fountain pens, cnff buttons, etc Not to get engaged before the next New Year's day. "Because unattached men are scarce and we need you In the bunrb to piece out with." Bobby, dear," resumed Peggy, Tre jta?.s.. :ivv V. JKbUtN 1 . f 4"-JB- wf asked some of the girls to come In this evening to practice a new dance step. We're a man short That is we are a girl extra. Sally's bringing her cousin," she continued. Bob's social engagements in his own and his sister's set kept him until darkness bad begun to settle. But, as he reflected, It was only half past Ave, and with half an hour to get home and dinner at half past six, be would be In good time. He could boast to Peggy that he had kept all his resolutions at least for the day. He was aware of the fact that there was a young woman walking hurriedly beside a mar on the opposite side of the street. Then he saw the young woman qaltkly cross the street She waved her hand and fairly pounced upon him with a "Why, Marmaduke, dear, how glad I am to soe you P Tom remembered the Hrst resolu tlon given by Peggy, "Not to flirt." "I thought It was you, Marmaduke," said the girl, walking beside him and laughing gayly. "Of course, you were We half on your way to our house. expected you, but I didn't know you would come this way." It seemed to Tom that the girl was talking very loudly. And then In an aside she said "Marmaduke Butler's your name." Then Tom realized that the man who had been talking to the girl had caught up with them. "Say, who are you?" said the young man, well dressed, but with his hat drawn over hts eyes. "Why, I'm Marmaduke Butler, ' stammered Tom. believe It," snarled the , "I don't stranger. "We don't neither of us know her. And came alons first." Tom did not wait to know what was coming next He shook off the girl's hold, his fists clenched and his muscles tightened without volition. The next minute he had struck out toward the annoying stranger, and with the third blow the stranger was prone on the path. "Take me home." whispered the girl, hoarsely. "It's CO Bedford street Can you find It?" They hurried on. The man was soon following them again as they proceeded. Tom stood wltb her on the porch of the house marked 2fl until a servant came to the door. "May I see yon again?" "Oh, no," said the girl, "it would seem as If I had been very Impertinent If we ever met again. But I shall al Then the door ways be grateful." closed and Tom In much conruslon traced his steps homeward. It was a quarter to seven when he reached 1 home. "Tom, you have brofien one of yor resolutions the first thing." chirped Peggy. "I've broken more than one," said Tom dismally. "I've flirted with a girl, knocked a man over, I've felt as If I wanted something all to myself, and If I get half a chance I'll be en gaged berore next year. Say, Peggy Sally lives somewhere In Bedford street, doesn't she?" "Twenty-all,- " said Peggy. -- And I shouldn't wonder If you'd better remember that, because you'll have to y ,, : RING OUT, WILD BELLS out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty RING light; year Ii dying In the night; Ring out wild belle, and let him The die. Ring out the old, ring In the new, Ring, happy belli, across the snow; The year Is going, go; Ring out the false, ring true. let him In the Ring out the grief that saps the mind For those that here we see no more: Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring In redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause. And tinclent forms of party strife; Ring Hf nobler modes of life. sweeter manners, purer With laws. Ring out false pride In place and blood. The civic slander and the spite; Ring In the love of truth and right. Ring In the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of'foul disease. Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring In the thousand years of peace. , Ring In the valiant man and free The larger heart the kind Her hand; Ring out the darkness of the land. Ring In the Christ that Is to be LORD TENNYSON see Sally's cousin home. You see. she's the extra girl tonight" Then the telephone bell rang and Peggy was absorbed for many min utes. She burst In upon Tom In the dining room, where he was finishing dinner alone. "Tom, hurry. 1 am afraid you'll have to get Sally and her cousin. Burton James was going t meet them here and they were comlna alone, but the cousin Madge Is her name had the most awful experience, perfectly awful. A man followed her. They walked along and then he took her arm, wanted to make a date with her and everything. Madge didn't know what to do. It was so dark and lonely. But she says the nicest man came along and suw her difficulty and knocked the man down and took her home, then left without letting her know who he was. Wasn't that, splen did? Now the girls are afraid to come alone for fear that other man will meet them." Of course, Tom hastened to 26 Bed ford street, and of course the affair ripened Into a romance, and long he fore the year was out announcements were nmde of the engagement ot Madge and Tom. if IfcCXor(WNU Nrrrr Service) Bradlrate. I , "to say that commerce fT IS untrue must be knows no barriers, yet It no barrier InIt knows that explained and sofar as the ageld law of supply dethe Where demand Is concerned. w.Il mand Is sufficient, there commerce lu seeks water as Cow Just as surely leveL own and In Hence, a great commercial rexa;n to are If they dustrial people. witn acquainted be must kept go Unless they la. demand where that ot are apprised, and apprised quicklyIs a there a market of the existence some enterpns very real danger that become the will elsewhere lng group worm. the catches early bird that I Without fear of contradiction. that fact the think It can be said, American export trade has captured so much of the world trade has been attributable to the ever watchful eye of the bureau of foreign and domestic In this unit of the great commerce. centered Department of Commerce has the work of keeping a finger on the world's business pulse. It has known litthe Intimate heartbeat of many a tle known trade corner; It has been Informed by letter, by cable, by radio, of what those needs are. or are exit has pected to be. The Information to all spread been has quickly gained In this country. Interested parties For Instance, regularly the bureau makes public reports from the rubber estates of Ceylon. With equal reguthe larity, It receives and disseminates wool latest details of the Bradford prices. Again. It receives and passes to the trade here the facts about the newest tariff decrees of every country that occupies a position of importance In our export market, and that Just about covers the entire world. Taking things chronologically, let us examine first Into the methods employed by the government In getting this Information, leaving to other artl cles later an exposition of what Is done with the facts by the bureau and by the citizens of the nation for whom they are gathered. There Is what Is called In a general term, the foreign service of the United States. That corps comprises representatives of the Department of State as well as the Department of Com merce. The Department of Commerce men, obviously, are trade men. Those of the State department may not be so classified, for some of them many of them, In fact have other duties that are more important to the executive department which they serve. In every Important capital, there Is an official attached to the embassy or legation who Is called a commercial attache. In addition, there Is stationed at same post a trade commissioner. The former Is a State department man, while the latter Is strictl what his title Implies. Trade commls sioners are assigned as well to many commercial and Industrial centers. In addition to all of those mentioned, there are consuls and vice consuls galore, literally scores of them. Each of these Individuals has been trained to examine the economic and financial conditions of the territory under his supervision; each has overlooked no opportunity to stndy the trade needs, the market potentialities, and appraise the problems related to the selling of American products and buying for American consumption. They will know, for example, whether the railways of Brazil are going to need additional rubber hose for passenger car cleansing, whether the land tax In Spain Is going to work a hardship on holdings there of American corporations, whether the teak production of Siam Is rising or declining, or whether sgme nation Is promoting an Industry of moment In the production of carbon black or other chemical. To show another phase of their work, let me call to attention a specific Instance. The Spanish throne was tottering. American investments In Spain, while not ns large as they are In some other countries, apThe question proached $2X).(KK),0(K). In the mind of every person Interested either through his own holdings or the holdings of a corporation In which he was stockholder was what effect that political condition would have on his money. The trade commissioner and the consuls were sending daily dispatches to Washington, relating every development on which they could gain Information. When the monarchy fell and a de facto government was set up, those dispatches did not cease. In deed, they came faster than ever. The result was that' officials of the Department of Commerce knew nlmost Instantly what difficulties faced the American Investor, the American exporter or the American Importer, and let It be said here thnt they had a veritable deluge of Inquiries concerning them. Not all of the facts thus gathered are handled with that celerity. More often, the Information Is assembled slowly, methodically, carefully, from all of the sources, public and private, to which an official representative has access. Statistics are quoted fully, and a picture drawn from them to make the Information as accurate and as simple as It Is possible to obtain, that the American In touch with the Department of Commerce may nave available for his guidance all of the details. Any one of them may be vltftl. e. 1MX, Western Newspaper Uelon. VV ) V At lys.-.-- r- ' i. "Vh : - - &V . .V J I i i-- : - , i- S - - . ,f- -J V, v 1 : - J Native Musicians of French Morocco. hv National Geographic Society. Prepared Wasiiiu.-toa- . Ii. C WNU Service. EUTOX HOCK, which was awarded to France by king of Italy, Is a desolate Cl.il'i spot of land G70 miles from the coast and Is France's first possession off the Pacific coast of North America. King Victor Emanuel was the arbiter to whom France and Mexico had submitted their claims of ownership. Clipperton Bock Is one of the loneliest and least visited islands on the globe. It Is about the same distance from the nearest .Mexican port of Acapuico as the Bermuda islands are from New York. Like the Bermudas this lonely island rises sheer from the It is surrounded bed of the ocean. by dangerous coral reefs. Mariners who have sailed near Clipperton Bock say that the Island, which is about two miles In diameter and reaches a height of CO feet, looks like a sail at a distance. Upon closer approach It presents the appearance of a castle rising from the waves. Most ship captains give Clipperton Kock a wide berth. In fair weather It is easy enough to steer clear of Its encircling reefs, but In times of fog a ship could be wrecked before the sounding lead could give any warning of land. Soundings less than a mile off shore give no bottom at lftO. fathoms (900 feet). The Island, destitute of vegitation, has been Inhabited only by a small Mexican garrison. It was annexed by France In 1857. A party of Americans next claimed It and attempted a settlement When France protested to this country in 1S97 the United States But recognized French sovereignty. the same year President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico claimed and seized the island Later Diaz agreed to submit the matter to arbitration of the king of Italy and abide by his decision. Some time ago the Mexican government leased Clipperton Bock to the Pacific Islands company, which expected to exploit the guano deposits of the bird breeding rocks. A wharf 400 feet long was built out to the edge of the reef, but, as the sea breaks beyond it, the wharf will have to be extended before ships can .use it. The concession has not been operated since Mexican 1914. French colonies lie in every Inhabthe North AmerAustralia; and French owned Islands, like Clipperton Rock, are but a short sail from these. A recent census show that the French flag flies over some 100,01X1,000 people about 23,000.000 less than the population of the United States, although France Is the third largest national landholder in the world with aggregate holdings nearly double the area of this country. Big African Colonies. The largest slice of the Republic's domain covers almost half the area of Africa Including nearly the whole western shoulder from Italian Libya and the Sudan to the Atlantic and from the Mediterranean to the Belgian Congo. This area consists of the fertile agricultural lands and mountains of the north ; the sandy, sparsely settled wastes of the Sahara ; the French Sudan and Chad with their fertile plains, thick forests and swamps ; and the Jungle land of French Equatorial Africa. The SG.000,000 of these regions run the gamut of human color from the white Berbers to the blackest Senegal and Congo negroes. French Somalllnnd on Africa's opposite shoulder Is about as lt rge as Connecticut Until recent years It was hot desert country but Irrigation has made It habitable for more than 200,-00Arabs, Abysslnlans and Frenchmen who maintain good trade and handle much of Abyssinia's commerce through Its port Jibuti. The Comoro Islands, Madagascar and Reunion off the east coast of Africa are also Included in the French group of possessions. Their subtropical to tropical climate, fertile valleys and thickly wooded hills, make them Island garden spots where 4,000.000 people live under the tricolor. Counted among the Reunion Inhabitants Is the famous Abd the "Rifflan thorn In Eu ited continent except ican mainland and Anglo-Egyptia- n 0 rope's side," who is spendiot forced lifelong "vacation" that Syria, the nearest Asiatic sion, has been French by mat the supreme council of allied; since 11)3. Three million sf Jews and foreigners Inhabit Frequent uprisings have tec success of French colonlzatiot region. French India consists of U? tlve colonies; Mahe on these a short distance north of (i Karikal, Pondicherry and Ta; the east coast. Cliandernas; north of Calcutta, is so surrcus the map by British pink thati raphy student could easily mis it without an apology. Summing up French India,! French "spots" If placed would cover a space no lar?f times the tf one and Philadelphia, Pn; and Roth Y., could more than house Its; tlon, most of which is Hindu. y t; one-hal- French f ludo-Chin- a which mile for mile equal in area Is perhaps the most progress If It French possessions. While ft the nearly 20,000,000 natlvenl eigners here, the census ens traveled through one of the great rice producing areas it! sands of acres of mulberry tree for silk worms, the basis of A a silk Industry. Off the northeast coast of 4j lie the Loyalty islands mi smaller groups, and the New 8 which are governed Joint!; French and British. ManyolS 500 Inhabitants of these IsM pagan natives. Cannibalism openly practiced hut It Is a tribesmen eat the foes the; tribal warfare. With welts H their, bodies, sticks of w through their- - nostrils, bushjla scanty clothing, some of the tr would not be good subjects M ads. Some of the older natM holes In their ears which orj wooden disks but now are pipe racks. South Pacific Islands. i Indo-Chin- Tahiti Is more interesting luring. It Is the center of tbtf Islands and not far off are m ouesas. the Tubual group, ft Archipelago, Gambler and h lands, where singing, dancing.' and all that suggest happiness! mance permeate the It Is a long Journey from! Catideloupe and Martiniquehalf Lesser Antilles with their orif white, mulatto, negro and pwfj Martinique's habitants. n.f rfcnUtxr, tho enintlon o' In 1902 when the city of St M wiped out. tbf French Guiana, one of South pean triplets" of north nnaat has less than dlans and blacks who live hi infested coastal swamps ti forests of the hinterland. diamonds, silver, mercury, tin"; tne per have been found In - "j Is yet to be extensive Frffl Devil's isle, famous wast Island, lies off the Guiana. Napoleon III and Isle the "Dry Guillotine" decades writers of fantastic n, word-pMpainted terrifying Island. With Its neighbors, isie St Joseph's island, PeviliJ5, up the Isles du Saint (W) of tlon). Tier upon tier F to Hoyate Isle on Ings rise Frem other j corrigibles from prisons are sent for disclpl'Jf ; Joseph's are hospital tlon buildings. reifn; Nearly the entire made of French Guiana Is W , and women who have tW French of crimes In the tne f const towns and In W0"5 .' farming and mining I convicts whose days have ended. French North America. a wort Clipperton Rock off two rocky Islands Newfoundland const of 4.0W "Jfc pled by about I of Breton snd Norman - . .J |