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Show of those who bad filled the pews, especially that of one man, the governor of the ulate, whose aquiline profile, flashing eyes and straight glossy black hair formed a neverto personality. Watch-nigh- t hymns have a personality of their own, ai thoso of Christmas or Easter, if not so widely known. They are naturally serious and a bit foreboding, with a touch of the melancholy that Is associated with tbe rapid flight of time. V Q HE custom of celebrating the New Year by leaving behind, In theory at leant, one's pet pernicious habit or besetting sin, way be hackneyed, but it certainly la not entirely relegated to tbe limbo of things forgotten or outworn. Some time New Year's day, when a quiet moment In the day's swirl offers time for thought, there will be a hasty taking stock of the year that is gone, a recounting of errors and failures, a silent prom- tee that this or that will not occur again. And does It all amount to, after all, this old custom of revamping threadbare resolutions or selecting new ones? Tbe cynlo will smile and say that it is all a waste of effort a flash In the pan, a glossing over of mistakes by wordy and none too sincere promises of reform. The humorist will have his little fling In cartoon and witty quip and Jest He will gurgle with the sardonic glee of Robin Goodfellow over the folly of mortals and find In every resolve new subject for laughter. From the pulpit on Sunday will sound the admonition of the minister and tbe moralist They will take good resolutions seriously, and set upon them the stamp of divine approval. And whether the wry sneer of the cynic, the mocking grin of the humorist, or the approving smile of the moralist 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 a 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, a yearly Christmas present, you wrote In your best Spencerian hand we knew none better In those days something like this: "During this year I resolve not to lose my temper; not to be saucy at home; not to put off doing the things I dislike; to read my Bible every day." Direct sounding blows were these on the chain mail of your besetting sins of a quick temper, a wickedly sharp little tongue, procrastination, and childish lrrellgion. Behind closed doors, lest ny jne see him in so meek a moment. Brother Dick was scribbling earnestly: "I promise myself not to be late tor dinner, not to forget to wash my neck and ears, not to get in debt to father for my allowance, and not to play hookey a single day." Of course you failed, both you and Dick, iefore the little diary had Its new gilt dimmed' or tbe soft penciling oT the latter had blurred Itself Into unrcproachful Illegibility. But the effort wasn't altogether wasted, and there were fewer fits of temper and cleaner neck and ears than would otherwise have been. Th year U gone, beyond recall With all Its hopes and fears, ' With all Its brlKht and gladdening utiles, With all Its mourner' team, is an old I .at In bymn to a com tnon 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 lenthem out our days; Who spares ua yet another year, And makes us set his goodness here, half-hearte- d A We grown-up- s miss, as we get older, some of the past and gone aids to New Year's resolves. Tbe day was once npon a time more marked by pleasant social customs. Only in officialdom Is New Year's now a stately day of ceremonial, But it is not bard to recall that a decade or two ago there still survived some- - of the dignity and good cheer that bad attached itself to Before the the day. Itr ' sub-"okln- Sir t. Nlilin S7f y-- 7 kv 1X1 it y.sw ji 1 -- a. - m song. - - 3 soW - 1 1 BMESHIPS TO CUB Learns of Conditions on Islands and Will Not Permit S to Get Beyond Control, President It developed Tuesday Washlnglon. that a part of the government's information regnrdlng tho critical situation in Cuba which it is expocteil will call for Intervention this winter-- was brought back by President Tatt himself on his return from I'anama recently. On bis way back tho president stopped at Guantannmo to inspect t!o site selected by Secretary Meyer for a naval base to guard tho Panama canal. It was learned Tuesday tiat on the occasion representatives o! both President Gomez and tho opposi tion factions described the conditions of the island, each from their own viewpoint, In such detail that tho pre sident had personal confirmation or reports that have reached the state department of the disrupted aua corrupted conditions in Cuba. netween January 1 and 9 tho entire American battleship fleet, with one thousand or more marines aboard, will be In Guantanamo waters. It was announced at the navy department that tho fleet will go direct to Quantanama from its European cruise. TEACHERS IN CONVENTION. Meeting of the Utah Teach ers Association Well Attended. Salt Lake City. Mathonihah Thorn as. wresident of the Utah Teachers association not only arraigned unfit school boards in a severe manner but declared that many teachers wen entirely out of place in the school room. In his address at the opening of tbe seventeenth annual conventlor of the association at the Assembly hall, Tuesday afternoon. The attend' ance at tbe meetings promises tc break all other records. Many ol those present favor state organization to govern all athletic contests. West era boys should be educated in th 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. Annual Americans Lashed by Hondurans. New Orleans. A special dispatch to. the Ticayune from Puerto Cortez Honduras, says William Barber ol Kentucky and two other Americani were seized by Honduran police and soldiers, thrown into Jail and brutally lushed. Afterward they wer deported on the Honduran gunboat Tatumpla to Guatemalan terrltorj and landed penniless In the forests. ?! , t)' .rW "i jo'-- ' i' ?f -- ' I I V K I 'I GREAT fWI TO WMtDtR UP AND DOWN THT fWtiCtMLMjieeKrjrKCCTj IK until six, when twinkling street lights warned the callers to retreat. Not a serious way to start the New No. but a friendly one, that left Year! hostesses and callers with a glow of human friendliness to last as warmth for many a day. And if seriousness were lacking, the same decade that enjoyed New Year's calling found Itself also at one with the cus- . JZr pralm, A solemn midnight guiled roads of rapacious children, preparations for New Year's day were well under way. Children were not included In this celebra tion. 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-storlanding, which gave somewhat inconspicuously upon the hall below, with a strained view of the big parlors,. and none of the dining room beyond. That it was there and In full working order was evidenced by a keen sense of smell. It 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 were not A basket tied to the door knob with gay red ribbons said, for all the world to hear: "We are not receiving toIn day." If you were a boy and daring, later to on the peep stole step up afternoon you the In and discover, by the number of cards withmaids in, the respective popularity of village and matrons. Wherever the door lacked the basket, you knew that behind the drawn or shades there was the soft glow of candles for the yellow glare of gas, poor substitute kinder to sunlight on snow, but presumably a trine Pusu and gowns just complexions m, i vmi knew that in eacn house, subject of background, there only to trifling variations scenes. same the enacted would be at the first that opened door front the Into stream a fluctuating touch of the bell passed were elderly There attire. in holiday of nun in broadcloth that was brushed beaux dan-aleof perfection, smart young to the point fashion in ties newest the sporting used to the beginners not quite called them fengTh of their frock coats-- we New Year s when Stace Alberts in the days g a sprinkling of Eta business men paying homage of society. Every to the established custom town" paid his "our in was anybody the the incoming year by making homes. friends' rounds of his there was the neat maid or and ,DC to receive the caller's card wX overcoat hat and cane, and then and hostess and her daughters .h the with prism chandeliers fifflm Join, all ye ransomed nna of grace, Th holy Joy prolong, And shout to the Redeemer' r llfBf Christmas fruit cake bad all been devoured, or the Btone Jars of small cakes suffered too severely from the In- KJlnto Is an old favorite. Often Just on the stroke of midnight another of his voiced the feelings of the congregation, that begin nlng: SEND service. For, In "our town." as In yours, mayhap, it was the thing to spend the closing hours 'of the old year in the quiet seriousness of prayer and sacred song. Children had their share In this, for fathers and mothers had not In on all that Year" New simpler time learned to fear the giving resounded drops. "Happy definite inreligious instruction to their sons of sides. In the course of the afternoon the and daughters. It was clear and plain that a defatigable had seen all their friends, bad child roust be trained In the way he should sampled the choicest types of Christmas bakgo, and watch night was a part of that training, bad toasted again and again the New Year in punch of varying strength and pungency, or ing. substituted coffee in homes where temperance And, Indeed, no youngster ever tried to br off. . There was first of all the Joy of doing principles were popular. They had said pretty things to popular dames in the stimulating tbe unusual and the fun of sitting up past his bedtime. So you hied yourself to the nursery atmosphere of holly and green wreaths, and had matched wits with fascinating damsels in lounge, after a hot couch or the elttlng-roothe dangerous vicinity of mistletoe that still supper, an old fashioned winter supper of sauboasted some berries. It was all Very gay, sage and fried potatoes or scalloped oysters and muffins, and took a long, long nap. At very informal, and ver'y homey. At no other half-pas- t time or on no other occasion did the holiday ten. father waked you, tucked you into cap and overcoat, and the family party hilarity reach so high a pitch. "I'd like to do It all over again," is the tesstarted out under the cold stars, snow crunching under foot, to the nearby church. timony of one stately lady, whose home twenty Not so very long ago the writer came years ago was the scene of yearly New Year's "No other social function on my across an old chromo, of tbe sort that looks, receptions. calendar vaf such fun for the guests and so in a dim and favorable light, like a fairly delittle trouble for the hostess. Tbe decorating cent oil painting. In its day it bad doubtless had been done a week before, and a few fresh been the chief ornament of a flowers were all that were needed. Given comfortable parlor. Now It cluttered the window of a second-hanbright lights, a dozen pretty girls to help enshop, dingy and out of tertain, the simplest cakes, and plenty of mildsorts with fate. But even in the unflattering ly exhilarating punch made from a recipe that light of a dusty show window, It bad a certain my Kentucky grandfather declared harmless, charm for the one who found It. It waa the and success was assured. When six o'clock , picture of a watch-nigh- t service, such as she came you had seen all the nice men of your had once known so well. Bright moonlight flooded the scene, bringing out in sharpened acquaintance undisturbed by the usual Influx of other women, and Imd sent, them away at detail the snow-ladeboughs of drooping elms peace with the world in general and full of and the Gothic spire of a small stone church. the spirit of neighborliness." windows and opened door From stained-glaswarm glow of shaded gas came the In window streaming the Meanwhile, upstairs library seats csrled the family small fry, watching the Jets. From village streets flocked men and women and children, stopping to say a word of procession as it passed, commenting with juvenile frankness on the toilets of the callers, greeting as they passed into tbe vestibule. The spell of the picture took her, with the speed counting the visitors as they came, listening of the magic carpet or of the seven-leagueto tbe hum of voices downstairs, the girls hugback to tbe New Year's eves of her girlging close to the sash, the boys making daring boots, hood. rethe to balustrade, detours "peek" through So she had walked with father and mother turning to report what young ladles were sitand a sleepy small brother. Just so the tree' ting on the steps with what young men, and had looked in the frosty moonlight And Just even, in some cases, what they were saying. as warm and softly glowing had been the back the down stairs prowls, Longer tiptoeing stone church, through whose open doors came to the lair of a friendly cook, led 'to quick and the resonant strains of the great organ. She Jubilant returns with offerings of cake and remembered with aching vividness tbe faces claret cup, wherewith the hears might be be tom of watch-nigh- t n s d tfCyfJA A bit more joyful is the splendid, qualntl) irregular, Come, let us anew our Journey pursue. Roll round with the year. And never stand still till the Master appear. It was easy after this to go home filled with loftiest aspirations, ready to begin the new diary with ambitious resolves that were bound to o'erleap themselves because of their very loftiness. There was one watch night when there drifted Into the ken of the child the poem that has since meant to her, as it does to many, the very spirit of this day. From the choir gallery, Just before the midnight hour, came the softened chorus of a strange melody. Then into the silence of the vaulted church rose a wonderful message in a voice that bore conviction to the listeners. It sang to the organ and the bushed accompaniment of the choir: New York Bank Closed. New York.The Northern Ban of New York, with deposits in iu nine branches of $6,912,.'82 at tbt 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 bank's assets and ha bllitles is now under way, but until it is completed no further statement will be made. ' Italy Confronted With Strike. Rome. More than 90,000 railroad employees in Italy have Just completed the taking of a referendum to determine what attitude they should as- sume in order to bring about an amelioration of their condition. By a great majority the men declared in favor of the instrument of strike. The authorities are directing all their efforts to preventing a railway strike, which, it Is feared, might result in a strike of the employees in all public services. Nevada Corporation Decision. San Francisco. In a decision rendered Tuesday Superior Judge Sea-wel-l directs that all stock and bondholders of Miller & Lux recognize the reorganized Nevada corporation ol the same name and accept stock in it In exchange for their holdings in the Ring out, wild bells, to the wild skies. old company. This disposes of the The flying cloud, the frosty light; opposition of the minority of stockThe year Is dying. In the night; holders to President Henry Miller's Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. reorganization plan and upholds bis Through the whole of the splendid poem it management of the corporation. swept, on to the triumphant conclusion: Will Adds to French History. Paris. The lost will of the Duches3 "Ring In the Christ that is to be." of Angoulemo, the daughter of Louis To the child the most dramatic moment ol XVI., which was supposed to have the evening came Just on the stroke of the in- been burned, has turned up and was coming year. While outside whistles blew and published Tuesday. The document regiant crackers exploded, bells clashed and futes one of the claims of the Naun-dorf- f clanged, Inside bands clasped bands while toBourbons, whose partisans algether they sang the good old standby, "Blest ways insisted that the duchess recogbe the tie that binds," before the hush of the nized Naundorff, the Prince benediction and the glad chorus of "Happy New Jean de Bourbon, who was asserted Year's" that concluded the service. to be her brother, the Dauphin. There is another sort of quiet ushering in :' Increase in Congressmen. of the baby year that is conducive to the good TJio coming congresresolve that counts so easily under favorable Washington. conditions. There were those in the old days, sional reapportionment will provide a as there are in these, who felt that after the total membership of 435 in tho house gala afternoon the happiest way of all was to of representatives, according to presit quietly about the fire, chatting with half a sent indications. This would mean dozen congenial spirits, singing a bit if the one member to every 211,700 of popuspirit moved, reminiscing as old times came lation. back in the hush, and ending with the silent Must Muzzle Hat Pins. toast and the dash of sentiment that makes Kansas City. Women here must "Auld Laug Syne" the fitting song for such a muzzle their hat pins or they will moment. lawbreakers, liable to a fine ol That some such happy hour may begin little from $1 to $500. The upper and lower 1911's first appearance Is the best wish one houses of the city council passsed the can offer to friends. hat pin ordinance Tuesday. Let the auspicious morning b Owned Original Site of City. expressed With a white atone distinguished from the Denver. Mrs. Harriet Rudd, widow mt, of Anson Rudd, who homcsteauea the So the stately Dry den baa put the same land that is now the site of Canon thought May it be true of us all City, Colo., died at tbe home of her son in this city on Tuesday, aged 93 (rears. A- - |