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Show a.- !;i rTt Wf, ! i S v i .'. ! : TRUTH. 10 .t U : WOMENS CLUBS ', ! t, n viS i J 1 I " s5 i . (, &, i The Reapers club held its meeting on Monday afternoon in the office of The prothe Womans Exponent. in was commemoration of the gramme birth of Joseph Smith. Several of the members gave sketches of his life, and incidents connected with his career. Light refreshments were served by Mrs. C. J. Trescott, Mrs. Minnie H. James and Mrs. R. K. Thomas. W. The Ladies Literary club y.t V 't t V.. II v-'- . i: .9 i is- -. .c J( meeting yesterday afternoon had for the topics, Ring Out the Old, by Mrs. Eugene Lewis. The second paper was given by Mrs. Hancock, the subject, In the Public Eye. The French section held its regular at 10 meeting on Tuesday morning Noted Some the oclock, subject being, Men in Literature. The History section met on Thursday morning, when Mrs. Groo gave a review of the reigns of Charles VIII.. Louis XII. and Francis I. Subject of one minute talks, Marguerite of An-gonle- I T. Miss Corbin entertains the Pan-Hellen- ne. ic club today u i ; V ;.m i y;.. & jjl 4:- - . f :1 t - Parliamentary club met on on MonThursday afternoon instead ofclubhouse. day, at the Ladies Literary The The Scandinavians of the city will give a grand concert, ball and supper in Christensens hall next Tuesday evening for the benefit of the Scandinavian mission house in Copenhagen, Denmark. The affair will be opened by a short address from Gov. H. M. Wells and a fine musical programme. The committees in charge are working diligently to make the entertainment a complete success. ? 6 f i iV t Should my life beone of commonfrom now to my dying day I can Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Kiesel have re- place at .least boast of having one moment turned from California. of joy so wild and intense that years of sorrow could not drive the pleasure Miss Frances Hampton, who is at- of its memory away, said Mr. Raytending the Sacred Heart academy in mond, a New Mexico mining man who Ogden, left for Pocatello to spend the is in the city on his way to the coast. holidays. He is a man somewhat past the middle age, tall and sinewey and looks evHomer Deltrlc left Sunday for his ery inch the prosperous mining man home in Omaha, Neb., to spend Christ- that he is. He wears a pair of specmas. tacles, and a second glance would show that one of his eyes is artificial. It is Miss Breeden returned to Salt Lake not with the glass eye that the story on Monday, after a short visit with deals, but with the spectacles. An orfriends in Ogden. dinary person would not be apt to notice any difference between them and use, but an oculist those in F. M. Day and family of Salt Lake would in general a moment tell you that they are what is known as cataract glasses, Mrs. Days fathspent Christmas with and would also tell you that at one er, James Brown. ' time in his life Mr. Raymond had been that for totally blind. And it is alifefact did not he his of ten years nearly PURELY PERSONAL. His see the light of day. story is, howthe out of ordinary, from ever, entirely J. E. Darmer is around again after the fact that his eyes were never afcataract, and that his a hard siege of typhoid fever. He was flicted with blindness was due to a brace of accito his room for several dents in the mines, in which he has confined months, but is now on the fair way worked since a boy. to recovery. Years ago Mr. Raymond was working as a common miner in Nevada. He had Maj. C. E. Stanton and his clerk worked several years when the first Frank B. Shelby have left Fort Oma- accidentfor occurred. It was the old story ha and assumed their military duties of a missed hole and a belated disat the Presidio. charge. When they dug him out from the debris with which he was beneath P. H. Lannan returned last Sunday covered they found that he was injured from an extended trip in the East. unto death. He recovered, howProf. J. J. McClellan spent Christ- nigh ever, but found that the sight of his mas with members of his family at left eye was gone forever. Like most Payson. miners, the terrible accident did not from again engaging in work H. L. Thomas, superintendent of the deter him under the ground, and he was soon at Kemmerer Coal companys mines, is the drill again. in this city with his wife to spend the After the accident he went to Monholidays with his father. State Coal tana and finally drifted to New Mexico, Mine Inspector Gomer Thomas. Mr. where he became interested in several Thomas reports great activity in Kem- properties. In a little time his dreams merer, the shipments from which place seemed about to be realized, when the second accident plunged him into the average 6500 tons daily. He was superinof C. N. Warwick has gone on a trip depths the despair. work on a tunnel in one of tending to New York. his properties when another missed hole ' Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Kuhl of Chicago exploded. A piece of rock hit him in right eye, totolly blinding him. spent Christmas in the city on their theSeveral oculists were consulted, but wedding trip. were all of the same opinion, that they Secretary J. J. Thomas of the State the case was hopeless, and he gave him. Board of Education made a business self up to despair and darkness. The remainder of the story is best trip to the southern part of the State the early part of the week. told in his own words. It is impossito tell my feelings when one after T. M. Baird of Callentes, Nev., is in ble another passed the same verdict upon the city. my eyes. I could not believe it; it Crestus Tripp is spending the Christ- seemed impossible that I should never mas vacation in Denver. again see the blue sky or the faces of friends. At last the keen edge of A. D. Dickson of Castle Dale is a my despair wore off, and I took up my lifea Salt Lake visitor. of dependence as best I could, in becoming reconciled to my lasts. W. A. Nelden has returned from an measure went on for ten years, and This fate. extended business trip in the East. yielding me though my properties were a living and there was no danger that SMALL DUTIES. I would ever have to work again for Work on the City Creek pipe line is my bread, half the pleasure had gone out of my life. Dont object that your duties are so progressing quite rapidly, and it looks I was visiting my old home in Ohio as if Contractor Moran was making and happened to go to Cleveland, where Insignificant; they are to be reckoned a very good job of it. some of my relatives were living. It of infinite significance and alone important to you. Were it but the more perfect regulation of your apartments, the sorting away of your clothes and trinkets, the arranging of your papers Whatsoever thy hand flndeth to do, do it with all thy might, with all thy worth and constancy. Much more if your duties are of evidently higher, wider scope; if you have brothers, sisters, a father, a mother, weigh earnOur stock is the largest ard most complete in Salt Lake City. estly what claim does lie upon you on behalf of each, and consider it as the It is not run down or depleted. We took care that every one thing needful to pay them more line would be full, and plenty of it. and more honestly and nobly what-yo. i v Mrs. John Tyler entertained at dinner on Christmas day. Covers were laid for fifteen. old-fashion- Miss Pearl Weiler returned to Salt Lake on Monday morning, after a pleasant visit in Ogden. - V Mr. Ed Day came down from Helena to spend Christmas with the family of A. D. F. Reynolds. . Miss May Billings visited Mrs. Heber Scowcroft this week. Fourteen of the society girls of the younger set have invitations out for a reception to be held at the home of Miss Ray Tyler on New Years day. . Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Breeden and family spent Christmas day in Ogden. Mr. Pearl Barnes and Miss Eva Brown were married on Christmas night at the brides Goshen officiating. home. Rev. Mr. Miss Vida Eccles has invitations out for a party on New Years eve. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. F. Reynolds en- X7VI7SS. Dolls Joys, Gaines, Books, the week. ' . iv Plenty of Clerks to Wait on You, and Not Keep You Waiting. CAtH'iOfl BOOK STORE, DESERET NEWS, Proprietors . On New Years eve Mr. Henry Turner, an employee of George A. Lowe & Co., will be married to Miss Ethel Hirst at the home of the brides mother. owe. XmaCards, Calendars And Novelties, . Mrs. E. C. Anderson and Mrs. J. B. Booth were visiting in Ogden during ed e, tertained at dinner on Christmas day. SJ - f old-sty- OGDEN SOCIETY. jj: chanced one day that I was at the home of a friend, when Dr. Jerry Anderson, a noted eye and ear specialist, called. He noted my affliction, of course, in a moment, and asked its cause, and requested me to call at his office the following morning. I had long since given up hope. In fact I had got in that state of mind where it would hurt me to have my affliction pronounced Incurable. More to please my friends than from any other motive I consented to have him make the examination. The next morning, in company with my wife and friend I reported at the doctors office. He placed me on his operating chair and began. He had not been long at his work when I heard him give an exclamation of surprise. I asked him what he had found. The left eye, he said, is gone beyond help. I know it, I said, but what of the other? Of it I am not so sure, he said, guardedly. He left me and opened a drawer, where he busied himself for some time, and then I heard him conversing in a low whisper with my wife and my ' friend. What he said to them I do not know, but a moment later I heard them drawing down the blinds of the room. I began to grow excited, and it was all 1 could do to sit still in the chair.. I heard him come up behind me and felt his hands on either side of my head. And then how shall I ever describe that moment. I saw my wife standing before me. . Yes, saw her. It was no dream, butactually a blessed, unthinkable reality. Then I hugged and kissed the doctor, then my friend. I was crazed with joy. I flew to the window and would have thrown up the blind had they not prevented me. The doctor feared that the bright light of day would hurt my eyes after so many years of darkness and wanted me to become accustomed to the dull light of the room before I ventured into a brighter light. Just think of it blind for ten long rayless years, and then to have sight restored in a moments time. They thought that I would loose my reason. After a time I became calm and did as the dpctor requested, remaining in the room until evening, and walking home under the light of the stars. How was it I regained m sight? Why it seems that the blow from the rock had, In some unaccountable manner, le performed the for cataract. That disease, Ioperation am told, is an effection of the crystalline-lens- e of the eye, which makes It opaque, thus stopping the entrance of to the eye. In all cases they allow light to ripen, it as they call it, and then remove it, supplying its place artificially by the means of glasses. The operation was not to remove the crystalline-lensbut to cut around it, then push it back and allow it to fall down out of the way. Gradually I became accustomed to the strong light of day. But that one supreme moment when I received my sight will be present with me while life A SUPREME MOMENT OE JOY. Miss Ida Roberts, who is attending the University, is in Ogden for the holidays. If and 13 South Main Street J What matters how miser- able one is if one can do that? That is the sure and steady disconnection and extinction of whatever- miseries one has in the world. Carlyle. Man does not "go to heaven' but he creates his own heaven, and enjoys the happiness and harmony associated with the term in exact proportion to the degree in which he has created them during his life on earth. Many a man still dwelling here experiences daily more of the joys of heaven, than many others who have passed through the changes we call death. Margaret Bottome. - so-call- ed, it |